Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Mix of sun and clouds. Breezy…High 82. Showers with isolated thunderstorms possible overnight…Low 52
Hope du Jour: eating out for a good cause TODAY in Forsyth County. 10% of proceeds from over 100 area participting restaurants will benefit Crisis Control Ministry of Forsyth). List of restaurants: www.crisiscontrol.org/hopedujour/
RECALL: A Florida tomato grower is voluntarily recalling its grape tomatoes after a sample tested positive for salmonella. The grape tomatoes were distributed to 10 states including North and South Carolina. Six L's Packing Company says that the recalled product was packed on April 11 under the Cherry Berry lot code DW-H in clam shells or 20-pound cardboard containers. The tomatoes also were used in deli salads made byTracy-based Taylor Farms Pacific Inc. The salads were sold in Albertsons, Raley's, Safeway, Savemart, Sam's Club and Walmart.
A car belonging to a missing Page High School student was found in the lake at Country Park in Greensboro yesterday afternoon. 18 year old Brooks Ferrell Jr has been missing since last Wednesday. A body, found in the car, was sent to the medical examiner's office in order to get a positive identification. www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-car-in-lake-110502,0,5215136.story
How would you like to see the first document to use the word “America” or the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence or the original 1962 drawings for the comic book that introduced Spider-Man to the world? The Mobile Library of Congress will be on display in Lexington this Tuesday and Wednesday (May 3 and 4) from 10-6pm daily at the Davidson County Government Center upper parking lot. The interactive exhibit is FREE and open to the public. Verne’s interview with Abigail (MLOC): www.wbfj.fm/interviews.html
Watch a video about the exhibit: www.gomra.com/?id=84
Details: www.co.davidson.nc.us/
More information about the tour and schedule www.loc.gov/gateway
Educational Resources are available www.loc.gov/gateway/resourcesU.S. intelligence officers are digging through a collection of computer equipment and data taken in the US Navy Seals raid that fatally wounded Osama bin Laden on Sunday, in hopes it will unveil more leads on other al Qaeda leaders and possible terror plots. President Obama will travel to New York City on Thursday to visit ground zero and meet with the families of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. CNN
Evelyn and Sam Harris from Lexington react to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden (front page of the Winston-Salem Journal). Their son, Josh Harris, was a Navy Seal who died in the line of duty in Afghanistan back in 2008. www.journalnow.com/news/2011/may/03/wsmain01-a-late-night-phone-call-tips-mother-of-af-ar-999122/
The use of mammograms has dipped since a medical task force made ‘controversial’ recommendations that women in their 40s may not need to get breast cancer screenings every year. A new study suggests that women getting mammograms in their 40s would translate into fewer breast cancer deaths. www.wxii12.com/health/27740210/detail.html#ixzz1LHdMBpdh
It’s business as usual with the acquisition of AirTran by Southwest Airlines on Monday. AirTran aircraft will be converted to the Southwest brand starting in 2012. http://www.airtran.com/
Officials with Sony are now saying that hackers may have taken personal information from an additional 24 million PlayStation user accounts. The data breach, including credit card numbers, debit card numbers and expiration dates, comes on top of the 77 million PlayStation accounts it has already said were jeopardized by online hackers. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110503/D9MVLOBG0.html
