Ohio gov. freezes agencies' lunch tab
565309
Gov. Ted Strickland told all state agencies Tuesday to stop ordering coffee, lunch and other meals while his office reviews nearly $4 million in food-related expenses in the past two years.
674639
According to Dorchester County Health Department Communicable Disease Director, Lisa Lee CRNP, &quot;We are unable to schedule flu clinics at this time, due to the recent notification of a major flu vaccine shortage.
584104
A law called the Ohio Patriot Plan, which Gov. Bob Taft was expected to sign Tuesday, is meant to spare Ohio families such stress. The legislation would make it illegal to evict financially struggling immediate family of military service members who have been deployed.
732110
SALINAS, California - A congressman who tried to stage a public spinach-eating news conference to demonstrate that the leafy greens are safe following a nationwide E. coli outbreak scrapped his plan after he could not find any in local grocery stores. Rep.
75401
The U.S. Treasury Department on  Friday ordered banks to freeze any assets of the militant group  led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, which has claimed  responsibility for a series of bombings, kidnappings and  killings in Iraq.
535623
Those $70 lunches and $14 "Death By Chocolate" desserts are gone from the executive menu at the government's legal aid program for the poor. Expensive hotels, limousine services and first-class travel will become rare or disappear, too.
126284
The Energy Department will hold off purchases of oil for the government's emergency reserve through the upcoming winter, the department said Monday.
547979
Getting information from the government under the Freedom of Information Act can take longer than waiting for ketchup to flow from a new bottle. Much longer.
261352
More than 250 people have reported becoming sick after eating at an Indianapolis Olive Garden restaurant, a county health official said on Friday, a day after an outbreak of E.coli at Taco Bell restaurants was declared over.
566768
Off-campus eating may undermine school nutrition efforts.
173809
EL FASHER, Sudan  - Tribal clashes, banditry and  troop movements are blocking crucial deliveries of food aid in  North Darfur state despite recent peace agreements, African  Union and United Nations officials said Sunday.
295360
Gov. Jon S. Corzine shut down the state government Saturday after a deadline to adopt a new balanced budget expired, bringing road construction projects to a halt and furloughing tens of thousands of state employees indefinitely.
438223
The U.S. Department of Transportation has halted any upgrades to Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) "until further notice," according to a memo from  DOT CIO Daniel Mintz.
109636
Lawmakers on Thursday moved to block the Food and Drug Administration from closing more than half its field laboratories, acting out of concern the plan could weaken the safety of the nation's food supply.
174610
U.S. health officials said on Monday they were not ready to declare an end to an E. coli outbreak, linked to Taco Bell, that sickened at least 64 people, saying they could not confirm that green onions were the source of the bacteria.
281807
ARTFORD, Aug. 19 - Before Gov. John G. Rowland resigned amid an ethics investigation, he was in political trouble for laying off more than 2,000 state employees during a budget crisis last year.
102361
Snow and ice spread across wide sections of the Ohio Valley on Tuesday, closing schools, littering roads with cars that had spun out and canceling an appearance by first lady Laura Bush.