Sailing

LOS ANGELES - The family of a 16-year-old California girl rescued from the Indian Ocean as she tried to sail solo around the world abandoned plans for a reality show before the girl set sail and has no interest in revisiting them now, Abby Sunderland's mother told The Associated Press on Monday.

NEW YORK - By all accounts, Walter Cronkite would have loved the war stories swapped and memories rekindled at his memorial service.

CROWN POINT, N.Y. - The sculpture of Samuel de Champlain gazes up the lake he explored 400 years ago this summer, opening the way for Europeans who made extensive use of the waterway during their 200-year struggle for control of North America.