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Sea lion found on Calif. highway

OAKLAND, Calif., June 23 (UPI) -- Authorities said it was surf meets turf in California when a wandering young sea lion meandered onto a busy highway.

California Highway Patrol Officer Peter Van Eckhardt said Oakland police were called to Highway 880 about 5:45 a.m. Monday to investigate reports of a sea lion waddling south on the center divider of the northbound lanes, KTVU-TV, Oakland, reported.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported the sea lion is believed to be about a year old.

"We were getting gas and heard it come over the radio that there was a sea lion on the freeway," Oakland Police Officer Naomi Johnson told KTVU. "We thought it was a joke but we went for a look and there was actually a sea lion blocking traffic. So we opened the door and he climbed right in. So we put him in the back of the car as our new prisoner.

"When I saw the sea lion, I just started laughing. I just thought -- 'Man, I love this job.'"

The nearby Marin Marine Mammal Center sent a truck to pick up the sea lion, but the police officers said it was reluctant to go inside the truck after jumping down from the car. The mammal hid beneath the police car and had to be coaxed out and into the transportation cage.

The sea lion was taken to the center for evaluation.

Pilot, 83: Highway landing 'perfect'

MIAMI, June 23 (UPI) -- An 83-year-old pilot who landed his damaged single-engine Hummelbird plane on a busy South Florida expressway said it was a "perfect landing."

Ralph Squeglia said he aimed for the Sawgrass Expressway near Miami after clipping the homemade plane's left wing on a light pole Sunday and guided the aircraft to the ground while carefully dodging cars, WTVJ-TV, Miami, reported.

"It was a perfect landing," said Squeglia, who has been flying planes since 1944.

However, he said there were some complications on the ground.

"I was rolling straight and my tail wing broke, causing me to veer right," he said. "Then the wing hit a light pole and I ended up here."

A Florida state trooper on the scene said Squeglia will not be charged with any traffic violations. The Federal Aviation Administration sent investigators to the scene and has yet to comment on the incident, WTVJ said.

Couple first to wed in zero gravity

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla., June 23 (UPI) -- The New York couple who became the first to marry in zero gravity said the high altitude ceremony was "beautiful."

Saturday's wedding of Noah Fulmor, 31, and Erin Finnegan, 30, was broken into 30-second segments as the Zero Gravity Corp.'s modified Boeing 727-200 aircraft made parabolic arcs high in the atmosphere to simulate moments of weightlessness, WKMG-TV, Orlando, Fla., reported.

"When you're floating, and it's under control, it's beautiful," Fulmor said after returning to Earth at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. "When you're twisting, all of a sudden someone has to grab you and steady you. There were moments that were absolutely as I had imagined them. The bouquet toss was as though it was staged in a movie, and we were watching it. It floated out and was caught effortlessly by one of the bridesmaids."

Richard Garriott, an investor in Zero Gravity Corp. and the son of an astronaut, officiated during the ceremony.

"It was a bit tricky," he said. "They had planned their own ceremony quite well. They broke it up into 30-second episodes of the wedding. For each parabola, we did one small exchange."

Garriott said it was the couple's love of space that led him to agree to officiate at the first zero gravity wedding.

"If there's a couple who should be doing this first, they're clearly the ones," he said. "Noah and Erin are huge space fans."

200+ gather for yoga in Times Square

NEW YORK, June 23 (UPI) -- More than 200 yoga enthusiasts gathered in New York's newly car-free Times Square for a massive early-morning workout session.

The "Levitate Yoga" class, which began at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, is one of five workshops planned by the Times Square Alliance to celebrate the dawning of summer, the New York Post reported.

"It's amazing to be in the middle of Times Square and feel yourself actually get calmer," yoga aficionado Daniela Vargas, 22, said of participating in the massive class. "You look up at the buildings and just say, 'Wow.'"