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It is principally into selecting, procuring, buying, processing,packing, storing, supplying, shipping tobacco to manufacturers of consumer tobacco products.

Wednesday's Times-Dispatch carried a happy headline: "State Fair to be held this fall." Louis Llovio reported that "at an auction Tuesday, Universal Fairs LLC, a Tennessee-based fair and festival operator, bought the assets of the now-defunct nonprofit that had put on the annual State Fair." The show will go on! On Thursday, WTVR reported that ... (more)

Mitt Romney received a less-than-amicable welcome to west Philadelphia yesterday, where he visited the Universal Bluford Charter School to highlight his education agenda: Obama campaign volunteers organized a protest outside the school, and Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter and district attorney Seth Williams spent the morning railing against the ... (more)

Universal Corp.'s profit declined in the company's fiscal fourth quarter as revenue dropped on lower tobacco leaf prices and reduced processing volumes.

Video of a day at the 2011 edition of the Virginia State Fair. Because of financial problems, there might not be a state fair in 2012.

A naval ship is attacked by an invader in Battleship. The movie is short on logic and big on explosions, and it's occasionally funny.

While liberal journalists continue to claim that Agenda 21 is just a 'conspiracy theory' being advanced by right-wing crackpots, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the International Council for Environmental Law have released their fourth Draft of the International Covenant on Environment and Development.