Search ongoing for missing swimmer off Point Pleasant

POINT PLEASANT BEACH -- Authorities on Sunday continued a search for a swimmer who was reported missing in the early morning hours. Point Pleasant Beach police notified the United States Coast Guard at 2:27 a.m. that a 24-year-old woman went missing after she went swimming with a friend off the beach in Point Pleasant, said David Micallef, a spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard's Mid-Atlantic station.