A cover story in Thursday’s Washington Examiner may kill your appetite if you’re a fan of dining out. The newspaper surveyed three months of restaurant food safety inspections in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia and found more than 1,900 restaurants were cited for some type of violation.
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Food Safety Violations at DC Restaurants (FOX 5 Washington D.C.)
The Gazette-The Star Prince George’s County Spelling Bee will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Students to compete Friday in county spelling bee (Lanham Gazette)
Health officials say that despite fewer reports of swine flu cases and fatalities in recent weeks, another wave of H1N1 may be on the horizon for Maryland and the United States.
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Officials: Next wave of H1N1 on its way (Damascus Gazette)
Competing with Maryland and the District of Columbia to lure the corporate headquarters from California, McDonnell proposed legislation Friday that would increase money for Virginia’s economic development incentive grants to $30 million over five years, or $6 million in one year. The current economic development grants also total $30 million, but they have been used up, the House Appropriations …
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General Assembly Briefs for March 9 (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Novavax, Inc. announced today that the enrollment of over 3,500 subjects in Mexico has been completed in Stage B of its pivotal 2009 H1N1 virus-like-particle (VLP) pandemic influenza vaccine study. With the 1,000 subjects already enrolled in Stage A of the trial, the enrollment in this pivotal trial is now complete with over 4,500 subjects.
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NOVAVAX’ Stage B 2009 H1N1 VLP pandemic influenza vaccine study in Mexico: Enrollment complete (News-Medical-Net)
Surprisingly, there is good news in cancer, from research to innovations in screening, diagnosis and treatment. That message will be spread this weekend at a cancer forum sponsored by the Oncology Foundation of Maryland and the District of Columbia.
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Cancer forum aims to share ‘good news’ (The Capital)
The big pre-Christmas snowstorm that struck the Washington region was formally declared a disaster Thursday, putting the District, Virginia and Maryland in line to recoup millions of dollars from the federal government.
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Early snowstorm in Washington region declared natural disaster (Washington Post)
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—-Middle school Mathletes® from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania will compete this month for the right to represent their state in the 2010 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS National Competition in Orlando this May.
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Mathletes Compete for State MATHCOUNTS® Titles in March (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
The study authors also plan to review compliance for 2009, when BJC required employees to obtain both the seasonal flu vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine. … Related Articles: Flu blamed for deaths of Maryland teens Flu shot use relatively low Q…
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Mandatory staff flu shots get results at Midwest hospital system
Ninth-ranked Florida State cruised to its eighth straight victory Sunday, getting 15 points apiece from Courtney Ward and Christian Hunnicutt in a 94-61 rout of Maryland.
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No. 9 Florida State coasts past Maryland 94-61 (AP via Yahoo! News)