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• ‘JEOPARDY!’ HOST TREBEK SUFFERS MILD HEART ATTACK: LOS ANGELES  (AP) — “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek is in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from a mild heart attack.

Sony Television spokeswoman Paula Askanas said Sunday that Trebek was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Saturday. She says the 71-year-old Trebek is expected to fully recover and be back giving answers when “Jeopardy!” resumes production on a new season in July.

While he was in the hospital on Saturday, “Jeopardy!” won a Daytime Emmy award for best game show.

Trebek has been hosting “Jeopardy!” for 28 years.



• 2 MEN DIE AFTER BOAT CAPSIZES IN LAKE: ORANGE AP) — The bodies of two fishermen have been recovered after their boat capsized in a Southern California lake overnight.

Orange County Sheriff’s Lt. Jim England says divers found the men Sunday morning after several hours of searching in Irvine Lake in Orange.

A security guard was on a patrol shortly after midnight when he spotted a small fiberglass boat upside down in the water. The guard saw two heads in the water and went to rescue the two men.

Those men said two of their friends were still in the water, so divers were called in to look for the missing men.



• SACRAMENTO MAN RESCUED AT SEA RETURNS HOME: SACRAMENTO (AP) — A 67-year-old Sacramento  man rescued after his sailboat was hit and sunk by a whale is back home just in time to take his wife out to dinner for their 23rd wedding anniversary.

Max Young was sailing his 50-foot boat on the final leg of a journey from the East Coast to Emeryville  when just after dark on June 12 his boat was slammed by a whale he believed to be about 55-feet long.

The impact from the breaching whale was so powerful that it severely damaged the boat.

Young activated an emergency beacon, which was alerted the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard directed a merchant ship to the Once Young was rescued by the freighter’s crew, he spent six days on board. He finally made it home to Sacramento Friday, just two days before he and his wife, Debra, celebrate their anniversary.



• POLICE: WOMAN HITS 3, KILLS GIRL IN SANTA ANA: SANTA ANA  (AP) — A 5-year-old girl was killed and her mother and sister were critically injured Saturday after they were struck by a driver who attempted to flee before being stopped by a driver who witnessed the crash, police said.

The driver, Jessica Louise Cowan, 33, was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run, driving under the influence and manslaughter, police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said.

The girl, Osmara Mesa, died at the scene. Her 6-year-old sister and mother were taken to the hospital with head trauma.

A preliminary investigation indicated that Cowan was driving 60 mph on a neighborhood street and ran over the victims who were on their way to a store, Bertagna said.