Passengers plucked off cruise boat

SAN FRANCISCO— A boat carrying nearly two dozen people on a winetasting cruise started sinking near Alcatraz island in San Francisco Bay, but the U. S. Coast Guard says everyone aboard was safely rescued.

Petty Officer Pamela Boehland says the 40- foot boat the Neptune hit an unknown object in the bay Friday night, leaving it with a 1- foot gash.

Boehland says the boat began taking onwater and sinking. But a Coast Guard boat happened to be nearby, taking on board most of the Neptune’s 22 passengers and crew and summoning another Coast Guard vessel that picked up the rest.

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and three other employees were charged in September for allegedlywaiting twoweeks to notify authorities of the reported rape of a 13- year- old girl by a former employee in a stairwell on the campus of the 17,000- member church. All have pleaded not guilty.

The motion, filed Friday in Tulsa County District Court, states that state lawdefines child abuse as an act committed “by a person responsible for the child’s health safety orwelfare.”

The document says that 20- year- old Chris Denman, who is chargedwith first- degree rape of the girl and other sex crimes, was not a church employee at the time of the Aug. 13 assault, was not responsible for the girl and cannot under state lawbe charged with child abuse. in a parking lot on campus in Durham.

SethMazzaglia, 29, of Dover, was charged with second- degreemurder, but Vara declined to say what led to his arrest.

Authorities were searching for a body on Peirce Island in Portsmouth, on the New Hampshire coast, about 12 miles southeast of Dover, since Friday night.