Girl, 9, spends a night alone in calif. woods
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — A 9-year-old New Mexico girl who got lost after she wandered away from her family’s campsite in a northern California park was found uninjured and in good spirits Saturday after spending the night alone in the woods, authorities said. Two people on mountain bikes who had joined the intensive search for Ida Rothschild, of Santa Fe, located the girl after hearing her calls for help from a hillside. The girl was found about 2½ miles from the campsite.
Father killed trying to stop drunken daughter from driving •RIVERSIDE, Calif — Authorities in Southern California say a 69-year-old man who was trying to prevent his daughter from driving drunk was run over and killed by the woman in her driveway.
Riverside police Sgt. Dan Reeves said Saturday that 37-year-old Soukvilay Barton ignored her father’s pleas not to drive and backed her BMW convertible out of the garage, striking him. Bounmy Rajsombath was rushed to a Riverside hospital, where he was pronounced dead Friday night.
Wis. gay couples face uncertainty •MILWAU- KEE — 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 Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is pending.
Obama intervenes in Pa. transit strike •PHILADEL-PHIA — President Barack Obama intervened to end a strike that halted service this morning on commuter trains in and around the Philadelphia region.
Obama on Saturday issued an executive order creating a Presidential Emergency Board, a directive similar to one he signed in March involving the Long Island Rail Road in New York.
The order restarts labor negotiations and train service which came to a halt at midnight, after union workers and transit officials with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority failed to reach a new contract agreement.
A surprise visit from Sotomayor •ARLINGTON, Va. — You never know who’ll show up at a Hillary Rodham Clinton book event. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor dropped by Clinton’s book signing at a Costco warehouse in suburban Virginia, surprising the former secretary of state.
Clinton shouted that she couldn’t believe it.
Sotomayor told reporters she was “just shopping” and decided to get a signed copy of Clinton’s new book, “Hard Choices.”
Watergate-related garage to be razed. One of the most historic journalism sites of the past half-century will soon vanish, following a decision by the Arlington County Board on Saturday to demolish the building and parking garage where FBI official Mark Felt secretly met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward during the Watergate investigation.
