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Today’s headlines
Tourism board keeps ad agency
ST. PETE BEACH -- Visit Florida Inc. rehired its advertising agency for another year Wednesday, rebuffing a rival company's bid for the $10-million account.

Southwest: Paper, not plastic
Numbered plastic cards will be replaced today by paper boarding passes at Tampa International Airport.

M&Ms fans pick purple as candy's newest color
TRENTON, N.J. -- The results are in: Purple reigns.

Tech troubles pull Nasdaq to 2002 low
Negative news keeps wary investors away. The Nasdaq slides 46 points to 1,496; the Dow drops 144 to 9,561.

Business digest
CHIPMAKERS UNDER SCRUTINY: Antitrust officials are investigating whether semiconductor manufacturers manipulated prices in the $11.9-billion memory-chip market. A 53 percent drop in spot prices of so-called dynamic random-access memory chips, to $2.03 in early May from $4.36 in early March, led some investors to speculate that semiconductormakers may have sold products at below-market prices to try to drive out smaller rivals. Regulators have subpoenaed at least three of the world's largest chipmakers: Micron Technology Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and Infineon Technologies AG, which control 60 percent of sales.