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THE VETERANS AFFAIRS/LEGIONELLA MESS: IT GROWS AND GROWS Just when you thought the Legionella scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs' hospitals in Pittsburgh couldn't get any worse, it explodes. As the Trib reported on Sunday, the bacteria that can lead to Legionnaires' disease were running rampant at the VA's ...
Charlie Trotter accused of selling bogus $46K wine
Award-winning chef Charlie Trotter is being sued by two New York wine collectors who say he sold them a bottle of wine for more than $46,000 that wasn't what it said on the label. The federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Chicago accuses Trotter and one of his wine experts of ...
House passes bill that would exempt foreign trades
The House passed legislation Wednesday that would exempt the trading of derivatives from federal oversight if it occurs outside the United States. A bipartisan group of lawmakers supported the carve-out on a 301-124 vote. Supporters say the exemption is necessary to allow U.S. firms to remain competitive in foreign markets. ...
DA: Brockovich to face misdemeanor boat DUI charge
Environmental activist and movie namesake Erin Brockovich will face a misdemeanor charge of operating a boat while intoxicated at Lake Mead, the district attorney in Las Vegas decided Tuesday. Brockovich, 52, has an Oct. 7 court date in Henderson Justice Court stemming from her arrest Friday evening at a marina ...
Study sheds light on origins of French winemaking
Scrapings from the bottoms of 2,500-year-old pottery containers have shed new light on the origins of French winemaking. A team of archaeologists led by the University of Pennsylvania's Patrick McGovern used biomolecular analysis to confirm that fifth-century B.C. Etruscan amphorae found near Montpellier in southern France once contained a type ...
Spirit Airlines starts serving wine in cans
Spirit Airlines is thinking outside of the bottle. The low-cost carrier known for extra fees and cheeky ads is now pouring wine out of aluminum cans. Starting this week, passengers can purchase white moscato or strawberry moscato wine from Friends Fun Wine, an Aventura, Fla. company. Spirit will continue to ...
SPOTLIGHT: Quincy woman living life post-addiction
Tears streamed down Maria Buchanan's face and dripped into the pile of crack cocaine in her lap. She'd finally hit bottom. Her addiction spanned two decades, numerous jobs, significant others and jail stays. Buchanan, 49, previously had tried to clear her mind and quit using drugs, but she caved to ...
AS GREEK AS THE SEA
c.2013 New York Times News Service The white wine grapes of Greece — with names like moschofilero, roditis and assyrtiko — sound a bit scary, like alien beings. But I think of them as the constituents of a parallel universe in which people embrace these wonderfully refreshing, intriguing whites, rather ...
AS GREEK AS THE SEA
c.2013 New York Times News Service The white wine grapes of Greece — with names like moschofilero, roditis and assyrtiko — sound a bit scary, like alien beings. But I think of them as the constituents of a parallel universe in which people embrace these wonderfully refreshing, intriguing whites, rather ...
Are nutritional labels coming on alcoholic drinks
Alcoholic beverages soon could have nutritional labels like those on food packaging, but only if the producers want to put them there. The Treasury Department, which regulates alcohol, said this past week that beer, wine and spirits companies can use labels that include serving size, servings per container, calories, carbohydrates, ...
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