Week in review

Crashed

Federal regulators have shut down East Coast discount bus service SkyExpress after a crash in Virginia that killed four people and sent more than 50 others to hospitals Tuesday. A SkyExpress bus headed to New York City swerved off northbound Interstate 95 early Tuesday, hit an embankment and overturned about 30 miles north of Richmond. The driver, Kin Yiu Cheung, was charged with reckless driving and 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter. Police say his fatigue was a factor in the crash. Federal documents show the company has a particularly poor safety record.

Baaa-d idea

Customs officials at Dulles International Airport arrested an Ethiopian man last Wednesday for trying to take nearly 90 pounds of sheep meat into the country. According to the New York Daily News, the meat was neatly bagged and cooked in red curry. The man admitted that he was trying to transport food into the country, upon which authorities searched his suitcase and confiscated the meat. The man was allowed to enter the country, but the sheep meat wasn't so lucky: it ended up in an incinerator.

Manure mess

State and local officials are investigating the spill of about 40,000 gallons of manure into a tributary of the New River. The Virginia Department of Health says in a news release that the manure spilled from a holding tank into Eagle Bottom Creek on Monday.

The agency says state officials are working with the city of Galax and Carroll, Grayson and Wythe counties to assess the spill's impact. Health officials are advising residents to avoid contact with both waterways until further notice.

Deployed

About 825 members of the Virginia National Guard are being deployed to Iraq for more than a year. Officials say the units held departure events Wednesday to mark the start of their federal active duty. Units based in Hampton Roads, Fredericksburg and Christiansburg will train for 45 to 60 days at Camp Atterbury, Ind., before heading to Iraq. The units are part of the 116th Brigade Combat Team. Officials say it is the largest single unit mobilization in the Virginia Army National Guard since World War II. While in Iraq, the National Guard says the soldiers will conduct convoy security and base defense operations.

Questionable quote

A Chesapeake schools spokesman says a quote attributed to Adolf Hitler by a student that appeared in a high school yearbook slipped through. Spokesman Tom Cupitt tells The Virginian-Pilot that steps will be taken to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future.

The newspaper reports that a quote, "The more, the merrier- Adolf Hitler," appeared next to a senior's picture in the Oscar Smith High School yearbook. The student wasn't identified. Chesapeake seniors are given space in the yearbook to write a quote. Cupitt says the student may have thought the quote was a joke. He says school officials are shocked that it appeared in the yearbook. Mercedes Malion, whose daughter's grandparents are Holocaust survivors, says the quote is offensive.

PBS hacked

Hackers cracked the PBS website and apparently posted a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand Monday. The Virginia-based network confirmed early Monday morning on its official Twitter account that the website had been hacked and removed the phony story from the site of the "PBS Newshour" program. A group calling itself LulzSec claimed responsibility and posted links to other hacks, including a video apparently taunting the network. Taunting messages were also posted on the group's Twitter page.

Voter backup

The Peruvian presidential election this weekend could produce traffic gridlock in the northern Virginia city of Falls Church. Peruvian expats living in the U.S. can cast ballots in the runoff election Sunday at the city's high school on Leesburg Pike. Thousands are expected because Falls Church will draw voters from several mid-Atlantic states.

The first round of voting in April, which produced a runoff between leftist military man Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori, caused huge traffic jams on city streets.

Attack foxes

A Suffolk spokeswoman says foxes were involved in two separate Memorial Day weekend attacks. Debbie George says a fox bit a 67-year-old man on the leg as he sat in his back yard about 1 a.m. Saturday. The fox also attacked a cat at the home. The man is being treated. George says the second attack occurred Monday, when a fox got into a fight with a dog. A trap has been set for the first fox, while the second has been caught and will be killed and turned over to the health department.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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