Pet Food Recall…
www.menufoods.com
Consumer hotline: 1-866-895-2708
Menu Foods -- a major manufacturer of dog and cat food sold under Wal-Mart, Safeway, Kroger and other store brands – is recalling 60 million containers of wet pet food after reports of pets experiencing kidney failure. 10 pets have died.
Some of the recalled brands include…Iams and Eukanuba.
Recall information and details on the News Blog…wbfj.fm.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/17/petfood.recall.ap/index.html
Still no sign of Michael Auberry… a 12 year old Boy Scout from Greensboro who has been missing since Saturday around lunch-time .
Over 100 people were out searching for Michael since Saturday.
Temperatures dipping into the 20’s the past two nights at Doughton Park located at Stone Mountain State Park in Wilkes County.
Michael is part of Boy Scout Troop 230 based in the Greensboro.
Michael does have a year of Boy Scout training.
It was four years ago today that President Bush announced the start of the Liberation of Iraq. Thousands held prayer vigils and peaceful protests in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, San Diego and Hartford, Conn. On the eve of the 4th Anniversary of the war in Iraq. http://www.wxii12.com/news/11289510/detail.html
Blame it on the latest winter weather over the weekend…US Airways trying to handle thousands of air passengers stuck in New York and stranded in Philadelphia and Charlotte.
JetBlue, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines all reported cancellations.
http://www.usaradio.com/news_details.php?catid=1&storyid=1167
A 15-year-old girl from St Petersburg, Florida who hiccupped for 5 weeks…has the hiccups again.
Jennifer Mee, who hiccupped close to 50 times each waking minute for more than five weeks starting January 23, began hiccupping again late last week after a nose bleed. It occured during Mee's second day back at school since her first bout of hiccups stopped Feb. 28.
According to the National Institutes of Health, hiccups can be triggered by anything from spicy foods to stress, and they can start for no reason at all.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0316Hiccups16-ON.html
YouTube…the video-sharing Web site will hold its first
YouTube Video Awards to recognize the best-user created videos of 2006.
You can vote for your favorite nominees through Friday.
The awards will be handed out in seven categories…and the winners will be announced March 25. http://www.youtube.com/YTAwards
Sports:
NC-AA Tournament time: Sweet 16…UNC is the only ACC team left.
Tarheels will play USC on Friday (at the Meadowlands)
6 ACC teams in the BIG Dance
-ACC Women’s teams going to the second round include UNC, NC State and Duke
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- Both directions of Highway 158 at the Yadkin River Bridge (Detour in place)
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Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast:
Today: Mostly sunny and warmer. Breezy…High 61
Tonight: Partly cloudy…Low 45
A chance of rain Tuesday – Wednesday
Tuesday: Partly cloudy…High 67
Wednesday: Cloudy…High near 50
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