Washington, D.C.
Obama on Father’s Day: Being a dad takes courage
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is urging fathers to get more involved in their kids’ lives and to serve as mentors for children who don’t have fathers around.
Obama reflected on Father’s Day in his weekly radio and Internet address. He said he knows how important dads are because his own father was absent. He said he tries to be the father and husband his family didn’t have. Being able to have a child doesn’t make you a man, he said but having the courage to raise one does.
Arizona
McCain pushes plan to manage park bison
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Arizona Sen. John McCain is pushing an amendment in Congress that would allow anyone who kills bison at the Grand Canyon to keep the meat.
Hunting is prohibited at the national park, but land managers are trying to find ways to control hundreds of bison roaming the northern reaches of the Grand Canyon to preserve water resources, vegetation and fragile cliff dwellings. One of the options raised during a public comment period was lethal removal.
The National Park Service has the authority to kill animals that harm resources, using park staff or volunteer shooters. But the shooter cannot keep the meat. Instead, it is handed over to wildlife agencies, tribes or charities to distribute.
New York
Hidden Cash craze hits New York City’s Central Park
NEW YORK – Dozens of New Yorkers are finding $50 bills hidden by a California real estate investor who announces his cash drops on Twitter.
The Twitter account Hidden Cash said money would be left in Central Park and Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Saturday.
The same Twitter account directed people last week to envelopes with $50 and $100 inside them in San Francisco and 36 cash-filled Angry Birds orbs in Hermosa Beach, California.
Bay Area real estate investor Jason Buzi went public as Hidden Cash in a CNN interview.
Wisconsin
Uncertainty for gay couples who married in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE – A federal judge’s order for Wisconsin officials to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses didn’t address the legal status of the more than 550 gay marriages conducted in the last week, and subsequent statements by state officials have not removed the uncertainty.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb on June 6 ordered county clerks to stop enforcing the state’s gay marriage ban, but she put that ruling on hold Friday while an appeal from Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is pending.
Van Hollen said Thursday that same-sex couples with marriage licenses aren’t legally married because Crabb had not told county clerks how to interpret her ruling striking down the ban.
Minnesota
Sanofi and Medtronic join on diabetes drugs, devices
MINNEAPOLIS – U.S. medical device manufacturer Medtronic Inc. and French drugmaker Sanofi have joined in a project to develop new combinations of drugs and devices for diabetes care.
The two major companies announced Saturday the “global strategic alliance,” which they said was aimed at improving experience and results for people with diabetes around the world.
Associated Press
