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Kayakers and canoeists have the right to paddle on any navigable waterway even if the shore is private, the state Department of Environmental Conservation asserts in a legal brief filed Thursday in support of a canoeist being sued for paddling through private land in the Adirondacks.

Back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin has been released from jail, sources have said.

As dusk settled in, authorities called off the search for today for the body of a college student missing since his canoe capsized on Smith Lake Saturday evening.

An experienced canoeist died after becoming trapped under his boat while riding a flooded river, police said.