Drive- By Drop- Off: We are collecting non-perishable food items TODAY during our WBFJ VBS Express stops in Winston-Salem and Greensboro...all to help fill the shelves at Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina. www.hungernwnc.org
What food items are needed most?
http://www.hungernwnc.org/events-campaigns/Healthy_Bag%5B1%5D.pdf
With more people turning to the Internet to send messages and pay bills, the Postal Service is considering consolidating or closing hundreds of local facilities. The agency has sent a list of nearly 700 potential candidates for closing or consolidation to the independent Postal Regulatory Commission for review. The post office is facing a $7 billion dollar loss this year despite a 2-cent rate increase. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090804/D99S11NG0.html
U.S. Postal Service: http://www.usps.com
Use of anti-depressant drugs in the US doubled between 1996 and 2005.
More than 164 million prescriptions were written in 2008 for antidepressants, totaling $9.6 billion dollars in U.S. sales. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536540,00.html
Health officials confirmed on Monday that mold was discovered at Colfax Elementary school…the school where the county had planned to send Oak Ridge students this fall. A spokesperson for Guilford County Schools telling Fox 8 News that Oak Ridge students (K-first grade) will still attend Colfax Elementary until their ‘so-called mold problem’ is fixed.
http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-story-mold-concerns-guilford-090803,0,816467.story
Former President Bill Clinton is in North Korea today to negotiate the release of two American journalists (Laura Ling and Euna Lee) held there since March. The two women were arrested after allegedly crossing the North Korean border while filming a documentary in China earlier this year.
Three Americans who strayed across the border from Iraq into Iran over the weekend are now under arrest and charged with ‘illegal entry’ into Iran. The three American friends -- seasoned travelers who are former students at the University of California, Berkeley -- had been hiking along with a fourth companion through parts of Iraq's Kurdistan region last week.
PayPal service was disrupted for more than four hours yesterday afternoon. PayPal was unable to process any transactions worldwide between 1:30 and 2:30pm. That’s when the main outage occurred.
A poster showing President Barack Obama as Heath Ledger's "Joker" character from "The Dark Knight" is creating a stir on the streets of Los Angeles where the image began appearing over the weekend. It's unclear who created the image and who is posting it across the city. No one has taken credit so far. The Obama-Joker poster shows President Obama with white face paint, dark eye shadow and smudged red lipstick and also has the word "socialism" printed in bold, dark letters under the image of his face.
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-obama-posters,0,940643.story
THE CASE OF A TEN COMMANDMENTS DISPLAY AT A COURTHOUSE IN OKLAHOMA IS BEING APPEALED TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. Last month a three judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it was unconstitutional. The Alliance Defense Fund is handling the case.
A recent college graduate is suing her alma mater for $72,000 dollars…the full cost of her tuition and then some…because she cannot find a job. 27 year old Trina Thompson, of the Bronx, graduated from New York's Monroe College in April with a bachelor of business administration degree in information technology. On July 24, she filed suit against the college in Bronx Supreme Court, alleging that Monroe's "Office of Career Advancement did not help her with a full-time job placement. In her complaint, Thompson says she seeks $70,000 in reimbursement for her tuition and $2,000 to compensate for the stress of her three-month job search.
As Thompson sees it, any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/03/new.york.jobless.graduate/index.html
North Carolina Tax Free Weekend is happening this weekend: Aug 7 – 9th.
Details: http://www.dornc.com/taxes/sales/salestax_holiday.html
New CD projects out in stores TODAY:
Phillips, Craig and Dean "Fearless" / Aaron Shust “Take Over”
(NASCAR) Denny Hamlin snapping a 50 race winless streak…with a win at Pocono Raceway yesterday. Hamlin dedicated the win to his late grandmother. Miss Thelma Clark passed away last week. She was 91.
