Shark attacks spur advisory at beach

OAK ISLAND, N.C. — A North Carolina town is advising against ocean swimming after two youths were mauled by at least one shark over the weekend — but beaches remain open.

A 12-year-old girl lost her left arm below the elbow and suffered a leg injury Sunday afternoon; then about an hour and 20 minutes later and 2 miles away, a shark bit off the left arm above the elbow of a 16-year-old boy. Both had been swimming about 20 yards offshore, in waist-deep water.

Tim Holloman, town manager of Oak Island, one of two barrier islands off the North Carolina coast where the attacks happened, said the town has no ordinance authorizing officials to order the surf cleared even if sharks present a threat. And a state law guarantees public access to beaches.

Most beachgoers Monday seemed to voluntarily stay out of the water.

Search continues for escaped inmates

DANNEMORA, N.Y. — Two escaped murderers remained at large as a woman charged with helping the killers flee from a maximum-security prison by providing them hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools made a second appearance in a New York court.

More than 800 law enforcement officers on Monday kept up a search for Richard Matt and David Sweat, who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility near the Canadian border on June 6.

Prosecutors say Joyce Mitchell, a prison tailoring shop instructor who had befriended the inmates, had agreed to be the getaway driver but backed out because she still loved her husband and felt guilty for participating.