New York
Nancy Pelosi, Betty Ford join Women’s Hall of Fame
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, the late former first lady Betty Ford and Title IX advocate Bernice Sandler are among the nine women set to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame on Saturday.
The ceremony is being held in Seneca Falls, the western New York village where the first known women’s rights convention was held in 1848.
Also being honored are “Sexual Politics” author Kate Millett; horse racing’s most successful female jockey, Julie Krone; Ina May Gaskin, who is known as the “mother of authentic midwifery”; and monetary scholar Anna Jacobson Schwartz, who collaborated with Nobel laureate Milton Friedman on “A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960,” published in 1963. She died last year.
The inductees also include the late Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, who in 1912 founded Maryknoll Sisters, the first U.S.-based Catholic missionary congregation of religious women, and 19th-century educator Emma Hart Willard, who advocated for equal education for women in higher education in the early 1800s.
Parents of 2 kids slain in bathtub welcome son
NEW YORK – A New York City couple who lost two of their children in an attack police blamed on their nanny has welcomed a baby boy.
Kevin and Marina Krim announced the news Friday on the Facebook page for the Leo and Lulu Fund.
The Krims say Felix Harrison was born weighing 8 pounds, 10 ounces. Everyone is healthy and happy.
The fund was created in memory of their 6-year-old daughter, Lulu, and 2-year-old son, Leo, who were found dead in their apartment Oct. 25, 2012. Their 4-year-old daughter, Nessie, wasn’t home at the time.
The fund raises money for children’s education. The family has also posted numerous memories of their children and described their grief there.
The nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges.
Gabrielle Giffords to attend gun with husband
ALBANY, N.Y. – Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt in 2011, is set to tour a New York gun show, the first such visit since she was shot.
Giffords and husband Mark Kelly, a former combat pilot and astronaut, are scheduled to be with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at the Saratoga Springs Arms Fair on Sunday to highlight a voluntary agreement to monitor gun show sales and stricter state gun control law.
It will be latest event by Giffords and Kelly in their national campaign for expanded background checks for gun sales.
A state law enacted earlier this year with a push by Gov. Andrew Cuomo expanded a ban on military-style weapons, requires mental health professionals to report threats, limits magazines to seven bullets, taxes bullets and creates a registry to keep guns out of the wrong hands. It was approved a month after the Newtown, Conn., school massacre.
Separately, Schneiderman worked closely with all 35 gun show operators in New York to adopt stringent new rules to track sales.
Kelly said the system could be a national model.
Ohio
Giraffe celebrates turning 1 with cake
CINCINNATI – Lulu the giraffe is celebrating her first birthday with a special cake at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Lulu was born Oct. 12 of last year with an audience on social media closely following regular updates. Ever since, she’s been a big draw at the zoo.
The name Lulu is Swahili for “precious.” She was named in a public contest that saw more than 5,000 submissions
Lulu began the birthday celebrations early by enjoying a cake with her parents, Tessa and Kimba.
The cake was made of frozen gelatin, pureed produce, bamboo stalks and other vegetation.
Lulu is the second giraffe born at the zoo in more than 25 years. The first, Zuri, was euthanized last year at 3 months old after suffering a debilitating leg injury.
Associated Press
