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Welcome to Media General News Service THE DAY'S BEST BODY WAS IN CLEARWATER STORAGE UNIT SINCE 1995, POLICE SAY: (The Tampa Tribune) By: JOSÉ PATIÑO GIRONA Media General News Service When a manager at a Clearwater, Fla., storage business told a family they were going to have to auction off the contents of a rented unit for back rent, the family said there would be just one problem: a relative's body was in storage there. The woman's body had been stored there since 1995, the family said. VA., U.S. REACH $2 BILLION SETTLEMENT ON DISABLED: (Richmond Times-Dispatch) BY OLYMPIA MEOLA Virginia will shutter four of its five institutions for people with intellectual disabilities and provide community-based services to thousands of people over 10 years as part of an estimated $2 billion settlement with the Justice Department announced Thursday. In what an assistant U.S. attorney general described as a "landmark agreement" that will serve as national model, Virginia will add 4,170 waiver slots to help move people from state training centers to community-based care, and to prevent the institutionalization of people on a waiting list for services. The agreement follows a years-long Justice Department investigation that started in 2008 by looking into the state's training centers and expanded in scope in 2010. In February 2011, the Justice Department issued a damaging report that found, among other things, that hundreds of mentally and physically challenged people were languishing in state facilities. SENATE PANEL BACKS BILL TO REQUIRE ULTRASOUND BEFORE ABORTION: (Richmond Times-Dispatch) BY JIM NOLAN Women seeking abortions would be required to have an ultrasound first under a bill that narrowly cleared the Senate Education and Health Committee Thursday. Senate Bill 484, sponsored by Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel, R-Fauquier and its companion, Senate Bill 279, sponsored by Sen. Ralph K. Smith, R-Botetourt, passed along party lines, with the committee's eight Republicans supporting the measure and its seven Democrats casting "no" votes. It marked the most significant example to date of the impact of Republican control over the committee, which Democrats had led for the previous four years. MEGABUCKS AD WAR WAGED IN TIGHT RACE: (The Tampa Tribune) BY WILLIAM MARCH AND MIKE SALINERO TAMPA New polls confirm that Newt Gingrich has surged to a tie with Mitt Romney in Florida at the same time the comparatively cash-strapped Gingrich is being boosted by a $6 million Florida ad buy from an independent political committee. A simultaneous $4.5 million ad buy by a super-PAC supporting Mitt Romney means both candidates will have saturation ad campaigns running through Tuesday's Florida presidential primary. |