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Invasive mussel confirmed in Utahs Electric Lake
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Astronauts end spacewalk to repair gummed-up joint
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie get preliminary divorce decree
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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UN expects new peacekeepers in Congo in weeks
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Warsaw marks borders of former ghetto
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Afghanistan markets its brand of pomegranates
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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China says 19,000 students died in May earthquake
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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US News Archive for Octomber 2006:
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Fiery N.Y. crash kills pitcher
• Two die when small plane hits New York high-rise...
CNN - October 11, 2006
Yankee pitcher feared dead in NYC crash
A small airplane crashed into a residential building on Manhattan's East Side on Wednesday, killing at least two people, the New York City Fire Department said. New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was the pilot, authorities said...
CNN - October 11, 2006
Fed Minutes Show Concerns About Inflation
Several members asked whether the Fed’s credibility would be called into question if prices did not stabilize...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Yankee Dies in Plane Crash, Official Says
Cory Lidle, a pitcher for the New York Yankees, was killed today when a plane crashed into a residential high-rise building on New York City’s Upper East Side, a city official confirmed...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
'Toxic ship' firm in Jamaica row
The Dutch company involved in Ivory Coast's "toxic waste" scandal is linked to the resignation of a Jamaican minister...
BBC News - October 11, 2006
Study: 655,000 Iraqis dead in war
War has wiped out about 655,000 Iraqis or more than 500 people a day since the U.S.-led invasion, a study reports...
CNN - October 11, 2006
Prosecutor: Escape plot signed in blood
A man charged with killing four people in a shooting rampage that began in a courthouse used his own blood to sign letters that detailed his plot to escape from a county jail with another inmate, prosecutors said Tuesday...
CNN - October 11, 2006
Bush: N. Korea must face 'serious repercussions'
President Bush, during a Rose Garden news conference Wednesday, again called on the U.N. Security Council to punish North Korea for its reported nuclear test...
CNN - October 11, 2006
Sectarian Violence Continues in Baghdad
At least five bombs exploded in different sections of the Iraqi capital today, killing at least six people and injuring more than a dozen...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Police Arrest Man in Possible Hate Crime in N.Y.
A Brooklyn interior designer was lured to a desolate meeting place on Sunday night, robbed and forced onto the Belt Parkway, where he was stuck by a car and critically injured...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Bush Says No Plans to Attack North Korea
The president repeated earlier assurances that he will give diplomacy “every opportunity” to resolve the crisis...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
OPEC Approves Cut to Output by 1 Million Barrels
The members of OPEC are still negotiating over how the cut will be divided among them...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Tax funds help cut US deficit
Bumper tax revenues helped the US trim the 2006 federal budget deficit to a four-year low, the US Treasury says...
BBC News - October 11, 2006
Aide to testify in US e-mail row
A top aide to disgraced ex-Congressman Mark Foley is to testify before a House of Representatives inquiry...
BBC News - October 11, 2006
US eases weapons embargo on Haiti
The US announces a partial end to its arms embargo on Haiti, to allow the country to equip its police force...
BBC News - October 11, 2006
N.Korea warns of U.S. 'act of war'
North Korea says increased U.S. pressure against its regime would be considered an act of war. "If the U.S. keeps pestering us and increases pressure, we will regard it as a declaration of war and will take a series of physical corresponding measures," the North's Foreign Ministry said...
CNN - October 11, 2006
Disputed study claims 655,000 Iraqi deaths
A controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates...
CNN - October 11, 2006
Indonesia revokes Exxon gas deal
Indonesia revokes a contract with US energy giant Exxon Mobil to develop the Natuna offshore gas field...
BBC News - October 11, 2006
Gibson staying sober since arrest
Mel Gibson says he has not touched alcohol since his drink-driving arrest and anti-Semitic outburst...
BBC News - October 11, 2006
Detroit get off to winning start
Detroit Tigers beat Oakland in the opener of the best-of-seven World Series play-offs...
BBC News - October 11, 2006
Blasts rock US army base in Iraq
The US military says that a fire at a Baghdad arms store was caused by an insurgent mortar attack...
BBC News - October 11, 2006
Lennon killer fails in parole bid
John Lennon's murderer, Mark Chapman, is refused parole because of the "bizarre nature" of his crime...
BBC News - October 11, 2006
Rice: U.S. talks with NK don't pay
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has defended the Bush administration's refusal to hold bilateral talks with North Korea in the face of Pyongyang's claim of a successful nuclear test. She told CNN the U.S. tried direct dialogue with the North in the 1990s...
CNN - October 11, 2006
110 bodies found in Baghdad
Two blasts hit the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Dora on Tuesday, killing 11 people, and authorities found dozens of bodies believed to be the victims of sectarian attacks around the capital...
CNN - October 11, 2006
A Cross-Cultural Saga Wins the Booker Prize
At 35, Kiran Desai is the youngest woman ever to win the prize, for her novel “The Inheritance of Loss.”...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
[TS] Our Towns: 3rd Iraq Death Has One Town Shaken to Core
For an Ulster County, N.Y., town, the loss of a third son in Iraq went beyond pain and grief...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Far From Big City, Hidden Toll of Homelessness
Rural homelessness has always taken a back seat to the more glaring problems in cities...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Test Byproduct: Quick Scramble to Point Fingers
A bitter row broke out between Republicans and Democrats over who was responsible for allowing North Korea to achieve nuclear capability...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
New York City Acts to Add Low-Cost Homes
A proposed change to a popular tax break could steer more developers toward creating affordable housing...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
In the Congressional Hopper: A Long Wish List of Special Benefits and Exemptions
For all their gains, some advocates for religious freedom say government must do more to protect religious institutions from the hostile environment of modern America...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Agency Expects Lower Costs for Gas Heat
Families using natural gas can expect their heating bills to drop an average of $119 this winter, the government predicted Tuesday...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
World Business Briefing: Europe and Americas
EUROPE...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Raymond Noorda, 82, Novell Founder, Dies
Raymond J. Noorda was a a co-founder of Novell Inc., a software company that helped pioneer computer networking...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Teachers to Benefit From ING Settlement
ALBANY, Oct. 10 (AP) — As many as 66,000 teachers in New York State and about 5,000 state workers in New Hampshire will get an average of $450 each from a settlement with the investment company ING, which paid fees to unions to steer business its way...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Skilling Asks Judge to Overturn Conviction
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Bed Bath & Beyond Will Take Charge Related to Option Grants
By Reuters...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Advertising: Not Getting Older, Just More Scrutinized
As baby boomers age out of the prime 18-49 demographic, their sheer numbers and spending power dictate that companies keep them in their sights...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
A Pro-Business City Policy Backfires on a Few
A city plan to sell three Brooklyn buildings to a private company to be rehabbed could raise rents and force the current tenants out...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Fired Analyst Accused of Online Vendetta
The analyst is accused of creating Web sites that use Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group trademarks and executives’ names to settle scores with an old employer...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
2 Ex-Comverse Officials Said to Be Talking About Guilty Pleas
The two were charged in an Aug. 9 complaint with backdating stock options so employees could buy shares at low prices...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Embezzler Sentenced
LUBBOCK, Tex. Oct. 10 (AP) — A former executive who admitted to embezzling millions of dollars from Patterson-UTI Energy Inc., the oil and gas drilling company, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Judge Rules Qualcomm Infringed a Patent
A judge said Tuesday that Qualcomm had infringed on a Broadcom Corporation patent, but did not ban the sale of phones with Qualcomm chips in the U.S...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Wholesale Inventories Rose 1.1% in August, and Sales Kept Pace
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Hershey Altering Pension Plan, Closing It to Some New Hires
Hershey is closing its traditional pension plan to new nonunion hires and reducing its future pension benefit for thousands of current employees to cut costs...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Genentech Profit Rises
By Reuters...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
With Demand Up Sharply, Alcoa Posts 86% Profit Rise
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Ex-Cendant Chief’s 3rd Trial Starts in Securities Fraud Case
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
New Venture for Ex-Star of GLG Fund
A former star manager with GLG Partners, one of Europe’s biggest hedge funds, is setting up a new hedge fund of about $2 billion in Geneva...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Sprint Nextel’s Chairman to Step Down Early
The departure is the latest shake-up at a company that has lost ground to its larger rivals Cingular and Verizon Wireless...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Magazines for the Superrich Are No Longer Up for Sale
The publisher of The Robb Report has canceled an auction of the company after failing to attract an offer deemed rich enough...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Stocks & Bonds: Dow Sets Record, Barely, as Earnings Data Is Awaited
By Reuters...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Square Feet: Soon a Home to Flying Pucks and Balls
Next month, the sound of athletics is expected in a $38 million sports entertainment complex built on a corner of Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Low-Sulfur Diesel Fuel Is Reaching Market
The new low sulfur fuel will pave the way for new generations of diesel engines that experts say will eventually cut lethal particulate pollution...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Copper Plant Illegally Burned Hazardous Waste, E.P.A. Says
A bankrupt copper giant facing billions of dollars in pollution claims across the nation pretended for years to recycle metals while illegally burning hazardous waste, according to an E.P.A. document...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Union Disrupts Plan to Send Ailing Workers to India for Cheaper Medical Care
Questions about the quality of overseas health care and the issue of medical liability should anything go wrong caused the union to stop the first test case...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Airbus Chief Says Layoffs Lie Ahead for Managers
The new chief of Airbus warned Tuesday that job cuts would be unavoidable as the company worked to streamline management and increase productivity...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Economix: Philanthropy From the Heart of America
The middle of the country has developed a culture of philanthropy that the coasts and the Southwest, for all their wealth, do not yet have...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Icahn Looms as ImClone’s Chairman Resigns
The resignations of the chairman and another director move the billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn closer to his goal of gaining control of ImClone’s board...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
H.P. Could Be a Finger-Pointing Case
Lawyers say the five defendants might wind up turning on one another in an attempt to shift blame away from themselves...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Hard Math in Oil Cuts Splits OPEC
OPEC ministers have been debating for nearly a week how to put a brake on falling oil prices, which have dropped nearly 25 percent since their high in mid-July...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
BMW Has Maxi Expectations for Its Next, Slightly Larger Mini Cooper
BMW is hoping the new Mini’s 372 different interior options and 319 exterior options, like wide racing stripes on the hood, will help the brand keep its buzz...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Equity Firms Raise Bid for Harrah’s
Harrah’s board has not formally responded to the offer, but the company has signaled that the offer will need to be even higher...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Equity Deals Attract Eye of Justice
The Justice Department has begun a preliminary inquiry into possible anticompetitive behavior in the clubby private equity industry...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
Yahoo Feels Breath on Neck
In recent months Yahoo has suffered some embarrassing setbacks in its sales of both display and Web search advertising...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
In God’s Name: Religion-Based Tax Breaks: Housing to Paychecks to Books
Churches and ordained clergy of all faiths get a series of tax exemptions that secular organizations and workers do not...
New York Times - October 11, 2006
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