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US News Archive for March 2005:
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Court shooting suspect evades dragnet
Law enforcement agencies across the Southeast are searching for a man they say shot and killed the Atlanta judge presiding over the suspect's trial on rape and kidnapping charges Friday. Brian Nichols also is accused of fatally shooting two others at the courthouse and critically injuring the deputy who was escorting him to the courtroom...
CNN - March 11, 2005
Britain Grants Home Detention to 8 Jailed Terror Suspects
Eight foreign terror suspects who have been held in prison without charge or trial were granted bail by the British authorities today...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
Health Insurers and F.B.I. Say Doctors' Scheme Cost $1 Billion
Thousands of patients from 40 states were transported to California to undergo unnecessary procedures, the groups said...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
Miller Wins Super-G Title as Austrians Falter
Bode Miller now stands on the verge of becoming the first American to win the overall World Cup title in 22 years...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
Senator Sarbanes Won't Run for Re-election
Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, the longest-serving U.S. senator in Maryland history, said today that he would not run for a sixth term...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
China's soya needs lift Argentina
Argentina's economy has bounced back - and one of the biggest factors has been China's demand for soya...
BBC News - March 11, 2005
US textile firms want China limit
American textile and clothing makers urge Washington to stem what they see as a tide of Chinese imports...
BBC News - March 11, 2005
Italian rescue 'kept from US'
An Italian general in Iraq says US forces were only partially informed of a slain agent's mission to free hostage Giuliana Sgrena...
BBC News - March 11, 2005
NHL and players back at the table
The NHL and its Players' Association have met in a bid to save the 2005/2006 season...
BBC News - March 11, 2005
Miller seals world title triumph
Bode Miller captures the World Cup super-G title in Switzerland...
BBC News - March 11, 2005
Cali cartel boss extradited to US
The ex-head of Colombia's Cali drug cartel is extradited to the US, where he faces a maximum life sentence...
BBC News - March 11, 2005
3 killed in courthouse shooting
A Fulton County Superior Court judge, a sheriff's deputy and a court reporter were killed and another deputy was wounded Friday when a defendant grabbed a gun from a deputy sheriff and opened fire at the downtown Atlanta courthouse, officials said...
CNN - March 11, 2005
Gunman hunted after courtroom killing of judge
Police are hunting a gunman who shot and killed a judge, a sheriff's deputy and a court reporter after grabbing a gun from a deputy inside a downtown Atlanta courthouse. Suspect Brian Nichols was reportedly facing a retrial in a rape and kidnapping case before seizing the gun, officials say...
CNN - March 11, 2005
Bush touts private accounts
Facing skepticism over private Social Security accounts from the right and left, President Bush on Friday argued that allowing them for younger workers would help ensure that future generations have a secure retirement system...
CNN - March 11, 2005
Syrian troops quit north Lebanon
Almost all Syrian troops leave north Lebanon, ending an unbroken 29-year presence and underlining Syria's diminishing role in its small neighbor...
CNN - March 11, 2005
Man Flees After Killing Judge and 2 Others at Atlanta Court
A defendant who was on trial for rape grabbed a sheriff's deputy's gun, opened fire and then kept shooting as he fled...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
Spain Pays Solemn Tribute to Victims of Train Blasts
Spain paused today to pay a quiet and solemn tribute to the 191 people who were killed in the attacks...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
Trade Deficit Surged in January, Reaching $58.3 Billion
The trade deficit in goods and services rose sharply to the second-highest figure ever, prompting a fall in the dollar...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
Bracing for a Bankruptcy Rush
Many are expected to file for bankruptcy soon, before legislation takes effect that will make it harder for people to walk away from their debts...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
US trade gap expands to $58.4bn
The US's trade deficit widens to its second-highest level yet in January, forcing the dollar lower...
BBC News - March 11, 2005
US plan to transfer Cuba captives
The Pentagon is looking to halve the number of detainees at its controversial Guantanamo Bay centre, say officials...
BBC News - March 11, 2005
NYPD cops 'were Mafia hitmen'
Two retired New York City detectives are arrested and charged with murder on behalf of the US Mafia...
BBC News - March 11, 2005
Warner seeks to raise $750m
Warner Music - whose artists include Madonna - is to raise up to $750m in an initial public offering...
BBC News - March 11, 2005
Did revenge spur killings?
While Chicago authorities insist that their probe of the slayings of a judge's husband and mother remains open, more evidence is pointing to Bart Ross, a man who committed suicide after leaving a note confessing to the killings. The judge had dismissed a medical malpractice lawsuit that Ross had filed...
CNN - March 11, 2005
Spain marks anniversary of Madrid train massacre
Church bells tolled in Spain today as the nation marked the first anniversary of what some have called "3/11," the March 11 train bombings that hit Madrid a year ago, killing 191 people and injuring more than 1,500. Hundreds of church bells rang for five minutes at almost every church in Madrid to mark the first of the 10 explosions aboard the four commuter trains...
CNN - March 11, 2005
Spain Is Riven by the Sorrows of March
A year after the deadliest terrorist attack on European soil since World War II, political infighting is still raging in Spain...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
US held youngsters at Abu Ghraib
A US general in charge of the of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq says children as young as 11 were held there...
BBC News - March 11, 2005
Mosul suicide bomb kills 47
A suicide bombing at a Shiite Muslim funeral procession killed at least 47 people Thursday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, hospital officials said...
CNN - March 11, 2005
Accuser details how Jackson touched him
Michael Jackson's teenage accuser said Thursday that the pop star manually stimulated him on two separate occasions -- and tried to get the then-13 year old to do the same to him during overnight sleepovers at Jackson's Neverland Ranch two years ago...
CNN - March 11, 2005
E.P.A. Sets Rules to Cut Pollution
The E.P.A. announced new rules to cut air pollution in the eastern half of the U.S., in one of its most ambitious efforts to control soot and ground-level ozone...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
Detectives Used Badges to Kill for the Mob, Indictments Say
Two former detectives were charged by federal prosecutors with taking part in eight murders on behalf of the Mafia...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
How to Unite Congress: Spend Billions on Projects for Roads
Fractious House members found something they nearly all shared: an appetite for home-state road, bridge and transit projects...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
Peacefully, Lebanese Recapture Their North
A small unit of Lebanon's Army was busy erasing all signs of the occupation along what was for 29 years the northern front of the Syrian Army...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
How Long Can G.M. Tread Water?
Since the Depression, General Motors has reigned as the world's largest automaker, but now the company is struggling and may be displaced by Toyota at the top...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
Talk in Japan Shakes Dollar And Treasuries
The dollar fell Thursday after the Japanese prime minister implied that the country may move some of its huge reserves out of dollars and Treasury securities...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
Oregon Regulators Reject Utility's Sale to Buyout Firm
Oregon's utility regulators voted unanimously to reject a $2.3 billion bid by a private equity firm for the state's largest utility...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
Intel Brightens Sales Forecast as Companies Start Buying
Intel, the largest semiconductor maker, raised the low end of its sales forecast for the first quarter on Thursday, citing stronger demand and reduced manufacturing costs...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
Microsoft Acquires PC Pioneer's Company
Ray Ozzie, creator of the popular Lotus Notes software program in the early 1990's, has gone to work for the PC software king, Bill Gates of Microsoft...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
China Reports Trade Surplus of $11 Billion in 2 Months
The prospect of growing trade imbalances with China is likely to heighten calls for Beijing to move more quickly to loosen its currency peg against the dollar...
New York Times - March 11, 2005
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