Giving nature a hand

Giving nature a hand
VALLEJO, Calif. -- At Six Flags Marine World, an unidentified animal care trainer bottle-feeds a nutritional milk supplement to Koa, a 3-week-old sea lion pup. Marine World's staff and veterinarians are acting as foster parents for the newborn male because his mother was unable to provide proper nutrition.
Car injures 27 at festival
NEW LONDON, Conn. -- An elderly man drove his station wagon into a crowd at a summer festival, injuring 27 people, city officials said. Mayor Elizabeth Sabilia said two people had serious injuries. The rest were non-life-threatening injuries. The accident happened about 3:30 p.m. near the Amtrak station during the city's Sailfest summer festival.
Repair maneuver succeeds
HOUSTON -- A key test of a daring yet wobbly spacewalking technique that could be used someday to repair space shuttle heat shields worked well Saturday and got good reviews from two of Discovery's astronauts who may have to put it to work for real Wednesday. The repair simulation put them at the end of an oscillating, 100-foot combination of a robotic arm and an extension pole that astronaut Piers Sellers said made him feel "like a bug on the end of a fishing rod here." In a 71/2-hour spacewalk, the first of three orbital excursions planned for this mission, Sellers and Michael Fossum said they could do most of the mock tasks they were assigned with only moderate difficulty.
Transplant disappoints
LITTLE ROCK -- Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller returned home to Arkansas on Saturday after a second bone marrow transplant for a life-threatening blood disorder failed to produce encouraging results, a spokesman said. Rockefeller, 57, returned to Little Rock from Washington state, where he had the two transplants for a condition that can lead to leukemia, his spokesman Steve Brawner said. Rockefeller cut short his plans last summer to campaign for the Republican nomination for governor, saying he had myeloproliferative disorder.
No fine for jaywalker, 82
LOS ANGELES -- An 82-year-old woman who was given a jaywalking ticket for taking too long to cross a busy street won't have to pay the $114 fine. Mayvis Coyle had become something of a sensation after her case was publicized in April. Last week, Coyle received a mailed notice that a court commissioner had found her guilty of jaywalking but suspended the fine.
N.J. casinos reopen
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- New Jersey's 12 casino-hotels, closed since Wednesday because of the state's budget impasse, rumbled back to life hours after lawmakers finished a $30 billion budget during an all-night session in Trenton. Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed an executive order Saturday morning that ended the weeklong state government shutdown. The shutdown furloughed 45,000 state workers, including the state casino inspectors who by law must be present in New Jersey's 24-hour casinos. That forced the gambling halls to close, idling about 36,000 casino employees.
Tank reports disputed
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Palestinian witnesses said Israeli tanks moved into an abandoned Israeli settlement in northern Gaza early today, a day after pulling back. An Israeli military spokesman denied the claim, saying there were no Israeli forces in any part of the northern Gaza Strip. Witnesses said in telephone interviews that the tanks crossed the border into Dugit, a settlement on the Mediterranean coast.
Associated Press