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VIRGINIA

Hundreds join search for missing student

Hundreds of volunteers fanned out from the University of Virginia campus Saturday to search for a sophomore who disappeared a week ago.

Volunteers met at the university's basketball arena before forming teams to go throughout Charlottesville to search for Hannah Graham, 18.

City police continue to investigate. They said Friday that they have spoken with a man they believe was with Graham in a bar the night she went missing, but after searching his car and apartment did not have enough information to arrest him.

Police have focused on Graham's movements the night of Sept. 12 and into Sept. 13. She met friends at a restaurant for dinner, stopped by two parties at off-campus housing units, and left the second party alone, police have said.

Graham's disappearance has sent a ripple of fear through the quiet college town. - AP

NEW YORK

Tour ship gets stuck

A 120-foot-tall schooner ran aground and got stuck in shallow waters near the Statue of Liberty on Saturday afternoon, officials said. No injuries were reported and the 121 tourists on board were ferried in small boats to a Lower Manhattan marina. The Clipper City, a 158-foot-long steel-hulled boat, "hit something soft, like mud or a shoal" and ran aground just after 1 p.m., said Thomas Berton, owner of Manhattan by Sail, which operates the ship. He said the ship was not damaged and was to be brought back to port by a tugboat after high tide. - AP
CALIFORNIA

Escapees sought

Authorities were on the hunt Saturday for five men who escaped from a central California jail. The men broke out of the Madera County lockup late Friday, sheriff's spokeswoman Erica Stuart said. The inmates were gone for about an hour before corrections officers discovered they were missing around 9:15 p.m., she said. - AP