StandUP Paddle Planet

MICHAEL VIRTANEN Associated Press BOLTON LANDING, N.Y. Whitewater guide Jaime Iadicicco ran rapids in the lower Adirondacks last week, only it wasn't in a raft or a kayak. She was actually standing up, most of the time at least, on a paddleboard, becoming one of the first to bring water sports' latest craze to New York's northern whitewater. In the decade since paddleboarding re-emerged from the ...

Seal Beach lifeguards treated nearly 500 victims of stingray hits last year, the largest amount in a decade and making up about a third of the nation’s estimates of stingray treatments. Seal Beach lifeguard captain Joe Bailey gave a report to the city this week, as inquiries of why the number has increased have come to his office. The 2008 number is nearly double of that of 2006, when there were only 265 people hit by the ocean-dwelling creatures. In the report, Bailey said there were abo