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toon docking area, according to the Argus Leader.
• Divers searched the water until around midnight Friday and started again at 9:15 a.m. Saturday. They found the boy at 9:30 a.m., according to KELO-TV.
• "There was no foul play. It's an unfortunate event," Minnehaha County Sheriff's Capt. James Hoekman told the Leader.
• The boy had gone to the park with friends at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Hoekman said, but they returned home without him at noon. When his family searched for him, his mother found some of her son's clothing on the loading dock for pontoon rides at the park.
• The family called authorities at 7 p.m. Friday.
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AP News in Brief
Hagel says White House moved quickly on prisoner swap because captive's life was in danger
• BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Sunday the military operation to free Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from the Taliban in exchange for the release of five Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees was not relayed to Congress because officials believed the soldier's life was in danger.
• In his first extensive public comments about Saturday's operation, Hagel said intelligence the U.S. had gathered suggested that Bergdahl's "safety and health were both in jeopardy, and in particular his health was deteriorating."
• Taliban members handed Bergdahl over to special operations forces in eastern Afghanistan, and later in the day the detainees were flown from the Guantanamo detention center to Qatar.
• The Pentagon did not give Congress the required 30-day notice for the release of detainees.
• Hagel said it was the administration's judgment the military had to move quickly to get Bergdahl out, "essentially to save his life."
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After 5 years in captivity, US solider released by Taliban as part of prisoner trade
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly five years after his capture by insurgents, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl climbed into an American helicopter. He took out a pen and wrote on a paper plate, "SF?" -- asking the troops who had come to find him in eastern (Continued on page 21)
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