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Welcome to Media General News Service THE DAY'S BEST RESEARCHERS HEADING BACK INTO GULF SATURDAY: (The Tampa Tribune) By: ROB SHAW Media General News Service The R/V Weatherbird II is about to head back out into the Gulf of Mexico again for more research on possible effects of the gigantic BP oil gusher. It will be the fourth such voyage for the ship. Ten scientists and six crew members will be on board for the seven-day mission, which will focus on marine life in the area where vast plumes of underwater oil were previously discovered by USF scientists. FLU SHOT SEASON STARTS EARLY THIS YEAR: (The Tampa Tribune) By: MARY SHEDDEN Media General News Service Last year's swine flu frenzy is long over, but a massive government and commercial push to vaccinate continues. In the last few weeks, shoppers visiting retail pharmacies and grocery stores have been barraged with no-time-like-the-present seasonal flu vaccine offers aimed at everyone 6 months and older. It used to be that flu shots weren't available before Oct. 1. But drug makers, who last year struggled to supply enough of the special-order swine flu, or H1N1, vaccine, produced this year's seasonal vaccine far earlier. More than 150 million doses of a single vaccine that fights the H1N1 flu and two other strains are expected to be made this year. AMERICAN LEGION JOINS OPPOSITION TO STALIN BUST AT D-DAY MEMORIAL: (The (Lynchburg) News & Advance) By Justin Faulconer Media General News Service The American Legion adopted a resolution Thursday that formally declares a bust of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., as inappropriate for display. About 3,000 delegates voted on the resolution at the legion's national convention in Milwaukee. The group claims more than 2 million members. The Stalin piece is among other busts of Allied leaders present at the D-Day memorial. BARS COULD FACE NEW TAX UNDER MCDONNELL PLAN FOR LIQUOR SALES: (Richmond Times-Dispatch) BY MICHAEL MARTZ Media General News Service Restaurants and bars that buy liquor from state stores now would have to pay for the privilege of buying directly from private wholesalers under a privatization plan being prepared for unveiling by Gov. Bob McDonnell next week. McDonnell is counting on restaurants and bars for as much as $38 million a year as part of a complex package of taxes and fees designed to make up the revenue now generated by Virginia's state liquor monopoly. NORTHROP GRUMMAN EXPRESSES REGRET; DMV ADDS HOURS: (Richmond Times-Dispatch) BY JEFF E. SCHAPIRO AND PETER BACQUE Media General News Service More than a week after the collapse of computer systems it runs for Virginia, Northrop Grumman is saying it "deeply regrets" the outage that paralyzed some of the basic work of state government for days. With service largely restored, Gov. Bob McDonnell Thursday formally announced a Northrop Grumman-financed investigation of the failure by a state-hired firm. CUCCINELLI VIGOROUSLY DEFENDS HIS TENURE: (Richmond Times-Dispatch) BY JIM NOLAN Media General News Service ROCKY MOUNT — The overflow crowd of more than 200 showed up to hear Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli discuss the impact of federal cap and trade legislation and the role his office played representing ratepayers in litigation against Appalachian Power. But they also heard the conservative Republican vigorously defend his eventful first eight months in office. |
