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Capsized canoeist in Long Island Sound saved

A Brooklyn man whose canoe capsized in the Long Island Sound was rescued Sunday by Suffolk police officers, authorities said.

Zura Doletza, 42, was holding onto a floating lobster pot buoy about 200 yards from shore when police arrived in a 40-foot rescue boat at 3:34 p.m. Semiconscious and speaking incoherently, he was taken to John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson and treated...

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