RALEIGH, N.C.– A North Carolina teenager fighting a rare flesh-eating bacteria is out of the hospital.

The Colorado Springs Swim School will offer free swimming lessons for up to 150 people Wednesday at Doherty High School. Learn the basics of swimming, or refine your skills. Two sessions: noon to 12:45 p.m.

Beaches will be closed Mondays through Wednesdays until Sept. 7 at Castaic Lake State Recreation Area, Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park and Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area

DINGMANS FERRY, Pa. A young man from New Jersey drowned Friday in a swimming hole in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

The area’s beaches will be brimming this Independence Day weekend — all but one. The Courtney Campbell Causeway beach will be barren because health officials say swimming there could be hazardous to your health.

The Clemson’s Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving teams were named to the Collegiate Swim Coaches Association of America All-American Teams for the Spring 2009 semester, according to collegeswimming.com. Teams had to have a GPA of 3.0 or above to be considered. The Women’s Swimming and Diving team ranked eighth in the nation with a 3.48 GPA, the highest GPA at Clemson for the spring semester …

Safety advocates are recommending that parents enroll their kids in swimming lessons this summer because it only takes a second for a small child to become lost and fall in a pool.

The controversy over revolutionary bodysuits in swimming is threatening to overshadow the world championships.

Highland graduate and local swimming standout Hannah Ross has transferred to Arizona after Washington eliminated its swimming program at the end of the school year.

SOUTH Koreans Chang Gyu Cheol and Yoo Kyu Sang, both 17, face off regularly when they represent their schools at swimming meets. And it is Incheon Physical Education High School’s Kyu Sang who usually has the upper hand in their duels.