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Wedding moved to hospital after groom fall

ERIE, Pa., June 29 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania couple said their wedding had a last-minute change of venue when the groom took a tumble down a flight of stairs and had to be hospitalized.

Derek and Cassy McBride said they had been scheduled to wed Saturday on Beach 7 at Presque Isle State Park but their plans changed abruptly when Derek fell down a flight of stairs Saturday morning and was hospitalized with three broken ribs that punctured and collapsed his lung, the Erie Times reported Tuesday.

However, the couple would not be deprived their happy day and held the wedding later Saturday in the chapel at the Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie. Derek McBride, 26, was pushed down the aisle in a wheelchair with his tuxedo on over his hospital gown and his tubes taped to his back. However, he was able to stand from the chair during the ceremony.

"We only had a half-hour," Derek McBride said. "It turned out beautiful."

The couple, who hadn't planned a honeymoon, said they have spent their nights since the wedding together in Derek's hospital room.

DNA, Facebook pic lead to robbery suspect

FORT WORTH, Texas, June 29 (UPI) -- Texas police said an alleged robber was arrested thanks to DNA from clothes abandoned after a crime and a Facebook photo of her in clothes from another robbery.

Fort Worth police working with the FBI said Jazzmyne Dunlap, 21, handed a threatening note to a teller at the Wells Fargo bank on Brown Boulevard in Arlington in October and abandoned her clothes in the bushes at a nearby daycare after fleeing the bank with an unspecified amount of cash, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Tuesday.

Investigators said Dunlap also is suspected in bank robberies March 10 at the BBVA Compass Bank in Fort Worth and April 19 at a Wells Fargo bank in Haltom City.

DNA testing from the abandoned clothing matched Dunlap, who had previous convictions for theft of property and auto burglary, and a search for her name on Facebook turned up a profile picture of the suspect allegedly wearing clothing from the April 19 robbery, police said.

Dunlap was arrested May 31 and indicted June 15 on a count of bank robbery in the April 19 holdup.

Zoo elephant taking to motherhood role

ST. LOUIS, June 29 (UPI) -- An elephant at the St. Louis zoo has given birth to her second calf and is much more comfortable in her motherhood role, zoo officials said.

After giving birth to a female calf Friday, Rani the Asian elephant is teaching the calf how to nurse and curl up beneath her, keepers said.

"That is what we wanted to see and what we expected to see," Martha Fischer, mammal curator at the zoo, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "They're still in a bonding period.

"The first time Rani gave birth, she wasn't entirely comfortable but now that she knows more about motherhood, it shows."

Rani's delivery of her first calf in 2007 did not go as smoothly, with her rejecting her calf, Jade, who had to be nursed by Ellie, Rani's mother, who was also nursing her own year-old calf.

The unconventional arrangement worked and Rani eventually accepted Jade, zoo officials said.

"That practice with Jade really helps," Fischer said. "She is a little clumsier than Ellie at motherhood but she's doing a great job guiding the calf to her to nurse.

"She covers her up with hay. Since the birth to now, she's gotten much better at a lot of mothering techniques."

Escaped monkey may not have gone far

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., June 29 (UPI) -- Officials at a Georgia primate research facility said a monkey missing since June 15 may be hiding somewhere in the facility or on the grounds.

Lisa Newbern, spokeswoman at the Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center Field Station in Lawrenceville, said the female rhesus monkey has not been seen by staff since escaping June 15, but there is a strong possibility she is still somewhere nearby, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday.

"Given that she is a social animal and she'd want to be with her family, our focus has now been that she would still be inside the facility," Newbern said.

The 117-acres of land housing the facility neighbors suburban homes and schools including Walnut Grove Elementary School and Collins Hill High School.