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In brief: Several missing after regatta boats capsize

From Wire Reports

MOBILE, Ala. – A powerful storm capsized several sailboats participating in a regatta, and crews searched late Saturday for at least four people missing in the waters, the Coast Guard said.

The storm rolled through the area about 4 p.m. and a man was plucked from the waters by the Coast Guard around 9 p.m., Petty Officer Carlos Vega said. He said crews would search through the night.

More than 100 sailboats and as many as 200 people were participating in the Dauphin Island regatta in Mobile Bay. Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier told Al.com that at least one person was confirmed dead, but he did not know the cause.

“It’s been a very tragic day,” Michael Smith, with the Buccaneer yacht club, told WSFA-TV. “We’ve had a lot of breakage, missing people, fatalities.”

Susan Kangal, who was on a boat, told WSFA it was the worst storm that she has seen.

“We were probably an inch from capsizing; everybody was ready to jump. I didn’t have a life jacket on,” she said.

The boats were part of the 57th iteration of the race.

Coyote captured in downtown NYC

NEW YORK – A wily coyote is no match for the NYPD.

Police collared the creature near a sidewalk cafe in downtown Manhattan on Saturday morning.

The coyote was spotted shortly after 7:30 a.m. in the Battery Park City neighborhood. Officers tailed her up and down a marina and a Hudson River park for about an hour before using a tranquilizer dart to subdue her.

She is being cared for at the Center for Animal Care and Control. Police said there were no injuries to humans or animals.

It is unclear if the coyote was the same one that was spotted in Riverside Park on Wednesday. At least four coyote sightings have been reported in Manhattan this year.

White House plans tribal youth gathering

WASHINGTON – The White House is planning what it says will be the first-ever gathering of tribal youth in Washington.

The July 9 event will give American Indian and Alaska Native youth from across the U.S. a chance to meet with senior members of President Barack Obama’s administration, along with members of the White House Council on Native American Affairs.

The gathering is part of an initiative Obama launched last year to improve the lives of American Indian youth nationwide.

Last summer, Obama became only the third sitting U.S. president in eight decades to set foot in Indian country when he and his wife, Michelle, visited the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota.