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June 29, 2009

NEW: Search to resume for missing swimmer

PONCA CITY, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the search will resume today for a Ponca City man who disappeared while swimming in a flooded rock quarry.

Troopers say 56-year-old Franklin Otis Conner apparently drowned Sunday in the rock quarry east of Ponca City in Osage County.

Investigators say Conner had been fishing when he decided to go swimming and disappeared under the water.

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