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BOSTON (AP) – The captain of a charter fishing boat died Sunday after his disabled vessel capsized while it was being towed back to shore, the Coast Guard said.

Coast Guard emergency responders were unable to revive Ken Murry of Fairhaven, the captain and owner of the charter vessel Last Call out of New Bedford.

Coast Guard Group Woods Hole received a call at 11:43 a.m. that the Last Call was disabled and being towed by another vessel when the boat capsized. Other boaters in the area pulled Murry and four passengers from the water.

Yale cyclist dies in Kentucky crash

HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) – A cyclist traveling across the country with four Yale classmates was hit by a car and killed Sunday on U.S. 60 in Henderson County, police said.

Rachel Speight, 21, of Houston, Texas, lost control of her bicycle in the westbound lane of the highway, crossed the center line and collided head-on with an eastbound car driven by Kathy Foster, 40, of Henderson, police said.

The impact sent Speight and her bicycle into a cornfield adjacent to the road, said Kentucky State Police Sgt. Terry Whittaker. Speight, who was wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead at the scene.

No one else was injured.

The five cyclists were traveling from Yale University, in New Haven, Conn., to California, Whittaker said.

Company adds jobs in Vermont

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) – Specialty Filaments, which makes bristles for a range of products, will add more than 30 jobs at its Middlebury plant as part of a consolidation plan that also calls for the company to close its factory in Burlington.

“The company has decided to put all of its manufacturing processes in its Middlebury plant,” Specialty Filaments spokesman Reggie Hockenberry told the Addison Independent. “(Middlebury) was the logical place to go.”


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