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Former NFL star Larry Csonka, the host of a cable television outdoors show, pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegal filming on national forest lands. As part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Csonka pleaded guilty to knowingly conducting work activity in a national forest without obtaining a special use permit. Csonka agreed to pay $3,887 in restitution for filming about 10 shows on U.S. Forest Service land, said assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Goeke. At sentencing April 19, Goeke said, prosecutors will request a sentence of probation for one year and a $5,000 fine. Csonka could not be reached for comment...

Mayday. In the home of Scott Kerr, on the island village of Nikolski, Alaska, (pop. 36), smack-dab in the middle of nowhere, the radio call came at 8 p.m. last Thursday. Mayday. (snip) And so began the rescue of Larry Csonka, Johnson and four others. It would take 14 hours. It would involve two Coast Guard flight crews traveling 600 miles. It would put Csonka & Co. in the frigid Bering Sea, in survival suits, fighting 10-foot seas and 50-knot winds, on an overnight trauma they feared was their final night. It also would end happily, with the Coast Guard...

ALASKA - Larry Csonka, a bruising fullback for the Dolphins' Super Bowl-winning teams, was rescued by the Coast Guard in the sea off Alaska. As a fullback for the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins, Larry Csonka was known for his toughness. He needed all that toughness when he was lifted in a basket into a rescue helicopter during a storm that threatened to capsize his boat in the Bering Sea off Alaska. Csonka, 58, and five others, including a film crew from his television show on the Outdoor Life Network, were not hurt, but the boat was abandoned. ''We might very...

Video Release Coast Guard rescues NFL Hall of Fame star, 5 others KODIAK, Alaska - A Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk crew from Air Station Kodiak here, rescued NFL Hall of Fame star Larry Csonka and five others from a 28-foot charter vessel near Nikolski on Umnak Island in the Aleutian Islands.