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Man dies during East River swim competition

A 59-year-old California man participating in an annual Manhattan-to-Brooklyn swim across the East River died apparently of a heart attack shortly after the competition began Saturday morning, officials said.

Richard Harley, of San Rafael, north of San Francisco, began having problems about three minutes into the Brooklyn Bridge Race, which began 9:45 a.m., officials said. He was pronounced...

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