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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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Dubai parties at hotel gala despite economic gloom
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Warsaw marks borders of former ghetto
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Pakistan protests to US over deep missile strike
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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Dems delay auto bailout vote, seek plan from Big 3
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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US News Archive for March 2005:
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Authories seek man in missing girl case
Florida investigators said Wednesday they are looking for a convicted sex offender -- John Evander Couey -- for questioning in last month's disappearance of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford...
CNN - March 16, 2005
Actor Robert Blake cleared
A California jury today acquitted actor Robert Blake of murder and solicitation to murder in the 2001 slaying of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Leaving court, Blake said he never lost hope but was grateful he would now be able "to be a part of his grandbaby's life."...
CNN - March 16, 2005
Scott Peterson Sentenced to Death for Killing Pregnant Wife
A judge in California today formally imposed the death sentence that was recommended by jurors in December...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Senate Votes to Allow Drilling in Arctic Reserve
The Senate endorsed oil-drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge today, giving President Bush a major victory...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Rush-Hour Subway Service Restored After Power Failures
Power failures shut down parts of the Lexington Avenue subway line in Manhattan during the morning and evening rush hours today...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Republican Skilled in Art of the Deal Is Elevated to F.C.C. Chairman
President Bush named a commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin J. Martin, as the next chairman of the agency...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Current Account Deficit Hit Record $665.9 Billion in 2004
The broadest measure of U.S. international trade soared to an all-time high, showing the speed with which the country is becoming indebted to the rest of the world...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Jets Sue Cablevision as Stadium Battle Intensifies
The suit accuses Cablevision of abusing its ownership of cable services and spectator venues in New York City to impede the development of a stadium...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
OPEC Agrees to Raise Ceiling, but Oil Surges Above $56 a Barrel
OPEC said today that it would increase its production ceiling by half a million barrels...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
J.P. Morgan Chase Settles WorldCom Suit for $2 Billion
J.P. Morgan Chase will pay to settle investors' claims that it did not adequately investigate WorldCom's financial condition...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
G.M. Stock Plunges on Greatly Reduced Forecasts
General Motors sharply lowered its earnings guidance today, citing lower North American sales and a tougher pricing environment...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Injury threatening O'Neal season
Indiana Pacers forward Jermaine O'Neal may miss the rest of the NBA season because of injury...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
US detainee death toll 'hits 108'
At least 108 people have died while in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the AP news agency...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
JP Morgan settles Worldcom case
JP Morgan Chase agrees to pay $2bn to settle a class action lawsuit connected to collapsed telecoms giant Worldcom...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Senate backs Alaska oil drilling
The US Senate votes to allow a plan that opens up an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Scott Peterson sentenced to death
Scott Peterson is sentenced to death in California for killing his wife Laci and their unborn son...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Guatemalans to step up protests
Protesters in Guatemala say they will step up demonstrations against a trade deal with the US unless their demands are met...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Hundreds targeted over child porn
Spain leads an operation to seize more than 500 suspected paedophiles in Europe and Latin America...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Police to name 'person of interest'
Florida authorities on Wednesday will release the name of a man they want to question in the disappearance of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, a spokeswoman for the Citrus County Sheriff's Department said...
CNN - March 16, 2005
Bush reports progress in Social Security debate
President Bush today said his efforts to inform the American people about future problems with Social Security are having an impact. Bush said, "I believe we're making progress of convincing the American people of two things: one, nothing will change for seniors ... and we must work together to make sure the system works for younger Americans."...
CNN - March 16, 2005
Bush: Progress being made on Social Security debate
At a wide-ranging news conference Wednesday, President Bush talked about his efforts to inform the American people about future problems with the Social Security program, rising oil prices and Iraq...
CNN - March 16, 2005
Jericho returned to Palestinian control
Israel transferred security control of the West Bank city of Jericho to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, but not without a brief delay in a formal signing ceremony...
CNN - March 16, 2005
Jets Sue Cablevision as Battle Over West Side Stadium Intensifies
The New York Jets filed suit today against the Cablevision Systems Corporation, saying the company had abused its ownership of cable services and spectator venues in New York City to impede the development of a stadium on the West Side of Manhattan that the Jets would use...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
OPEC Agrees to 2 Percent Raise in Oil Production
OPEC said today that the oil exporting group had agreed to increase supplies by 2 percent in an effort to help bring oil prices down from their current highs...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Bush Throws Support Behind Wolfowitz for World Bank Post
The nomination of Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, is virtually certain to stir debate, especially in Europe...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
China Raises Home-Loan Rate in Bid to Slow Soaring Growth
The move comes amid more signs that the country's economy may be growing at an unsustainable pace as property prices soar...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
US current account gap hits high
The US current account deficit hits a record $665.5bn in 2004 driven by rising oil imports and consumers' appetite for foreign goods...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Blackberry maker settles dispute
Shares in Research In Motion rise by 15% after the maker of the Blackberry e-mail device said it would settle a patent infringement dispute...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Jackson police called to testify
Police who investigated Michael Jackson on child abuse charges return to the witness stand...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
US report maps terror scenarios
A new US report is revealed, outlining a series of frightening scenarios for terrorist attacks and other disasters...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Staff slam Harvard president
The president of Harvard University loses a confidence vote after remarks he made about women...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Italy opposition hails Iraq move
Italy's center-left opposition hails Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's announcement that his country's 3,000 troops could start pulling out of Iraq in September...
CNN - March 16, 2005
Iraq assembly meets amid blasts
Calling for democracy and freedom, the leaders of Iraq's interim government today challenged the country's new National Assembly to strive for unity. The 275-member assembly was sworn in as about half a dozen explosions rattled the area around the Baghdad convention center where the members were meeting...
CNN - March 16, 2005
Tests end Pentagon anthrax scare
Anthrax tests at two US defence department mail offices prove negative, officials say...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Pinochet 'stowed $13m in banks'
Former Chilean dictator Pinochet hid more than $13m in 125 US bank accounts, the US Senate reveals...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Judge to give Air India verdict
A Canadian judge is to give his verdict on two men accused of involvement in the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
McCartneys to meet Kennedy
The family of murdered Belfast man Robert McCartney will meet Senator Ted Kennedy at the start of their US visit...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Jury out in hip-hop perjury trial
The jury in the New York trial of rapper Lil' Kim - who is accused of perjury - begin their deliberations...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Family films boost US box office
Family films - such as Shrek 2 - beat action films at the US box office for the first time in 20 years...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
'My brother isn't a monster'
The brother of Brian Nichols, the man accused of shooting a judge and three other people, remembers his younger sibling as the stable one who excelled intellectually and athletically -- and the last person he'd have expected to soon face murder charges...
CNN - March 16, 2005
Italy plans Iraq troop withdrawal
Italy will begin a partial withdrawal of its roughly 3,000 troops from Iraq in September, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says, making Italy the latest member of the U.S.-led coalition to announce plans to leave...
CNN - March 16, 2005
A Longtime Pataki Confidant Is a Highly Paid Lobbyist, Too
A trusted adviser of Gov. George E. Pataki has also played another, more profitable role as a potent lobbyist...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Some Like It Cool
Many pianists of the new generation, including Leif Ove Andsnes and Christopher Taylor, favor a cooler interpretive approach in their artistry...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Case Stirs Fight on Jews, Juries and Execution
A former prosecutor contends that Jews and black women were excluded from juries in capital trials in Alameda County as "standard practice."...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
U.S. Report Lists Possibilities for Terrorist Attacks and Likely Toll
The Department of Homeland Security has identified a dozen possible strikes it views as most plausible or devastating...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Lehman Earnings Jump 31% on Strength in Fixed Income
By Reuters...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Redmond A. Simonsen, 62, Maker of Strategic Board Games, Dies
Redmond A. Simonsen, an early maker of strategic board games that scaled some of history's great battles down to table size and helped propel the amateur war games craze of the 1970's, died last Wednesday in Garland, Tex. He was 62 and lived in Richardson, Tex...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Rosneft Seeks $11 Billion in Yukos Suit
The Russian energy company Rosneft has sued Yukos, seeking $11 billion for what it said were questionable oil pricing practices at the Yukos unit that Rosneft now owns...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
ESPN and Sports Illustrated Ready to Publish in Spanish
Two of the nation's biggest sports magazines, Sports Illustrated and ESPN The Magazine, are both going after Hispanic sports fans with new publications...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Data Broker Executives Agree Security Laws May Be Needed
WASHINGTON, March 15 - Under sometimes heated questioning Tuesday from members of a House subcommittee, the chief executives of ChoicePoint and LexisNexis, two of the country's largest commercial compilers of personal information on ordinary Americans, sought to explain their previously obscure industry, which has come under fire recently for what critics call lax handling of consumer data...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Foreign Capital Inflows Rise (But Read the Small Print)
There was good news and troubling news in the new data on foreign inflows into American stocks and bonds...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Wall Street West Recuperates From 9/11
JERSEY CITY - The once-decrepit warehouse district along this city's waterfront acquired the nickname Wall Street West about a decade ago. It houses the back offices for some of Manhattan's largest financial institutions and is a job destination for about 100,000 every weekday. But the area stood still for a long time after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as various companies dropped plans to move or expand here and vacancy rates rose...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Consultant Named by EMI
Roger Ames, who was chairman of Time Warner's worldwide music unit before the company sold it, will become a consultant to the rival music company EMI Group...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Pinochet Held 125 Accounts in U.S. Banks, Report Says
A report suggested that ties between the former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet and American financial institutions were deeper than previously disclosed...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
In a High-Profile Trial, Quick Rulings and the Leavening of Humor
Under the firm hand of Judge Barbara S. Jones, the eight-week trial of Bernard J. Ebbers in United States District Court was surprisingly orderly, with few heated showdowns, legal or otherwise...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Liberty Media Is Planning Spinoff of Two Subsidiaries
The chairman of the Liberty Media Corporation said that the company would spin off Ascent Media and Liberty's 50 percent stake in Discovery Communications...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
When the Top Seat Is the Hot Seat
Another one down. How many more to go?...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
William Lester, Innovator in the Plastics Industry, Dies at 97
William M. Lester revolutionized the plastics industry 70 years ago with his design for an automatic molding machine...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Ebbers, on Witness Stand, May Have Lost His Case
On trial for perpetrating one of the biggest corporate frauds ever, Bernard J. Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom, helped to convict himself...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Questions About Earnings Manipulation Weigh on A.I.G.
The American International Group has long declined to let much light shine on the way it runs its business, but now one deal has come into the spotlight...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Europe Ends Deal Inquiry
The European Commission ended its inquiry into the joint acquisition by Microsoft and Time Warner of ContentGuard, an antipiracy software company...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Pepsi One Goes on a Television-Free, Celebrity-Free Commercial Diet
A big campaign to reintroduce Pepsi One diet cola will be different in one big way from the campaigns that came before: no television commercials...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Declines in Chip Shares and in A.I.G. Pull Indexes Lower
By Reuters...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
European Softens China Stance
The European trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, tried to ease tensions with China on Tuesday over a recent surge in textile imports...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Philadelphians Take In Rare Sight: A Tower Rising
A dazzling glass office tower is being built in Philadelphia, a city that has not witnessed the construction of a skyline-altering office tower in 15 years...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Cable Giant to Offer TiVo Video Recording
Comcast said that it would offer its customers a video recorder service from TiVo, news that helped send TiVo's shares up nearly 75 percent...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Microsoft Preparing Challenge to Google and Yahoo for Ads
Microsoft's new advertising system on the MSN search engine is part of the company's effort to match the success of Google in the paid Internet search business...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
In Europe, Cost of Returning a Hertz Car Late Is Going Up
The Hertz Corporation is slashing its grace period for late vehicles in Europe to 29 minutes from 59 minutes...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
S.E.C. Brings Fraud Suit Against Ex-Qwest Officials
The Securities and Exchange Commission sued seven former Qwest Communications executives, accusing them of orchestrating a sweeping $3 billion accounting fraud...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
OPEC Weighing Oil Production Increases
Bowing to pressure from consuming nations, the president of OPEC said that the oil exporting group was considering an increase in its production ceiling...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Even Buffett Can't Avoid Dark Clouds Settling Over Insurance Industry
An investigation into insurance practices has ensnared one of Warren Buffett's businesses, possibly tarnishing the most gleaming reputation in corporate America...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
A Grasso Suit Is Dismissed; New One Aims at McCall
Another actor was added yesterday to the courtroom struggle surrounding Richard A. Grasso, the former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, who is being sued by the New York State attorney general for a compensation package worth more than $200 million...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Vodafone Buying Mobile Assets in Eastern Europe
Vodafone, the world's largest mobile telecommunications company, is buying $3.5 billion worth of Romanian and Czech mobile assets...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Ex-Chief of WorldCom Is Found Guilty in $11 Billion Fraud
Bernard Ebbers is the highest executive yet to be convicted in a corporate fraud case, but other executives face similar charges...
New York Times - March 16, 2005
Ronaldo to own A1 racing team
Real Madrid forward Ronaldo buys Brazil's entry into the new A1 Grand Prix series...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Bolivia leader seeks early poll
Bolivian President Carlos Mesa calls for early elections to replace him as opponents step up protests...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
US soldier jailed over assaults
A US soldier is jailed for 45 days for his role in forcing three Iraqi civilians into the River Tigris...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
Major League Baseball preview
MLB's 2005 season begins on 3 April, with 30 teams embarking on a 162-game bid to claim a place in the play-offs...
BBC News - March 16, 2005
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