Canoe accident kills Ripley man
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A 46-year-old man has died in a canoe accident in Morrison County's Ripley township.
Sheriff Michel Wetzel says Richard Allen Leblanc of Ripley township fell into the water when his canoe capsized on a private pond Saturday evening. Witnesses pulled him from the pond, but their efforts and those of paramedics couldn't revive him.
The sheriff says Leblanc apparently was not wearing a life jacket and couldn't swim.
An autopsy is planned.
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