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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 June 2005:
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Murder defendant goes to hospital
The accused mastermind in the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers left a Mississippi courtroom Thursday on a stretcher. Judge Marcus Gordon declared a recess on the first day of testimony in a case that revisits the state's haunted segregationist past...
CNN - June 16, 2005
Ford document: Millions of vehicles have fire risk part
Several fire investigators hired by insurance companies and auto engineers consulted by CNN say a $20 switch is causing some Fords to ignite. Ford has issued two separate recalls to replace the switch in more than 1 million vehicles. But a Ford document obtained by CNN shows the same or similar switch was installed in a total of 16 million vehicles...
CNN - June 16, 2005
Senate Calls for More Renewable Energy
The vote calls for the United States to commit itself to reducing oil imports by 40 percent over the next 20 years...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Massachusetts Governor to Back Gay Marriage Ban
More than a year after gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts, Gov. Mitt Romney said that he would support a newly proposed constitutional amendment that would overturn that right...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Bush Assails Iran's Coming Election as Undemocratic
On the eve of the Iranian vote, President Bush declared today that Iran failed to meet "the basic requirements of democracy."...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Ill Defendant Halts Trial for Civil Rights Killings in '64
The victims tied to Edgar Ray Killen, a reported Ku Klux Klan member, were helping blacks register to vote in Mississippi...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Browne Sticks With It and Reaps Reward: U.S. Open Lead
Olin Browne shot a three-under-par 67 after nearly withdrawing from a sectional qualifier for the championship...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
US and China to revisit textiles
The US and China are to hold fresh talks on a trade dispute centred on a surge in Chinese textile exports...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
Snow backs extra hedge fund rules
US Treasury Secretary says US authorities are working on increased monitoring of hedge funds...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
US backs UN council expansion
At least two new countries should become permanent members of the UN Security Council, the US says...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
Nancy Reagan recovers after fall
Former US first lady Nancy Reagan is taken to hospital after a fall at a London hotel...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
U.S.: Al Qaeda leader in Mosul captured
The U.S. military today said it has captured al Qaeda's leader in Mosul, Iraq -- a man identified as Abu Talha. "Numerous reports indicated he wore a suicide vest 24 hours a day and stated that he would never surrender. Instead, Talha gave up without a fight," Air Force Brig. Gen. Donald Alston said...
CNN - June 16, 2005
Jet crashes into neighborhood
A Marine Harrier jet carrying four 500-pound bombs crashed Wednesday in a residential neighborhood, forcing the evacuation of 1,300 people...
CNN - June 16, 2005
Al Qaeda leader in Mosul captured
The U.S. military reports the capture of a man described as al Qaeda's leader in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Air Force Brig. Gen. Donald Alston identified him as Abu Talha -- whose actual name is Muhammad Kalaf Shakar...
CNN - June 16, 2005
King Tut, Museum Trailblazer, Begins Encore
Despite flaws, a new exhibit of objects from his tomb is often powerful, sometimes provocative and always worth seeing...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
'Deep Throat' Sells Story
Universal Pictures and PublicAffairs have agreed to pay close to $1 million to buy the film and book rights to the life story of W. Mark Felt...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Bristol-Myers in $300m settlement
US drugs company Bristol-Myers Squibb is to pay $300m into a shareholders' fund after distorting its true sales performance...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
KPMG admits to past tax misdeeds
US federal prosecutors have built a criminal case against KPMG and are debating whether to file charges, the Wall Street Journal reported...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
US airports get bomb test devices
US transport officials approve a machine to detect passengers trying to carry explosives on board airliners...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
Wolfowitz mourns Rwanda victims
World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz says the international community bears enormous responsibility for the Rwanda genocide...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
Forbes murder pinned on Chechens
Russia names a fugitive Chechen rebel as the mastermind behind the murder of journalist Paul Klebnikov...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
US runaway bride sells her story
A New York agent reportedly pays $500,000 for the story of a woman who faked her abduction before her wedding...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
5 Marines, 1 sailor killed
Five U.S. Marines have been killed by a bomb near Ramadi, according to a U.S. military source. The Marines died when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle during a combat operation, according to the military. Also, a U.S. sailor was killed by small-arms fire in Ramadi, the U.S. military said...
CNN - June 16, 2005
Bomb near Ramadi kills 5 Marines
Five U.S. Marines are killed by a bomb near Ramadi, a U.S. military source says. The Marines were killed when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle during a combat operation, the military said...
CNN - June 16, 2005
Lobbyists' Role for Public TV Is Investigated
Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are examining payments to two Republican lobbyists that were not disclosed to the corporation's board...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
House Blocks a Provision for Patriot Act Inquiries
The House voted to block a provision that makes it easier for federal investigators to review the records of libraries and bookstores on national security grounds...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Arsenal found in Chilean commune
A huge weapons cache is found at a German-founded religious commune in Chile said linked to the ex-dictatorship...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
Ex-hostage tells of rescue
Freed Australian hostage Douglas Wood thanks Iraqi troops for helping to free him from insurgents who had held him for six weeks. From his hospital bed, Wood, 64, said: "The Iraqi forces did a very good job of saving me."...
CNN - June 16, 2005
Lawyers Fought U.S. Move to Curb Tobacco Penalty
Officials ordered lawyers running the government's tobacco racketeering trial to reduce the penalties by $120 billion...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Magnet for Iraq Insurgents Is a Crucial Test of New U.S. Strategy
Tal Afar is becoming a test case: using U.S. forces to clear out the insurgents and then leaving behind Iraqis to keep the peace...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
City Emerges as Model in China's Effort to Reverse AIDS Record
Gejiu is carrying out China's new policies, including needle exchanges and making condoms available in hotel rooms...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Bronx Is Up as Yankees Unveil Plan for an Old/New Stadium
The Yankees' new ballpark will have a look that would be recognized by Babe Ruth but with amenities that will enrich them...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
King Tut, Museum Trailblazer, Begins an Encore
Despite its flaws, a new exhibition of objects from Tutankhamen's tomb is often powerful, sometimes provocative and always worth seeing...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
House Blocks Provision for Patriot Act Inquiries
The House voted to block a provision that makes it easier for federal investigators to review the records of libraries and book stores on national security grounds...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
William Sword, 80, Ex-Director at Morgan, Dies
PRINCETON, N.J., June 15 (AP) - William Sword, a former managing director of Morgan Stanley who helped start the Wall Street firm's mergers and acquisitions department, died on Thursday at his home in Princeton. He was 80...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Device Maker Being Bought by Chip Maker
Integrated Device Technology Inc., a maker of semiconductors, agreed to acquire Integrated Circuit Systems Inc., a maker of devices used in computerized communications...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
The Trillion-Dollar Bet
American homeowners have made a trillion-dollar bet that mortgage rates will remain low, but economists worry that the bet could turn bad...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
One Possible Cure for the Common Criminal
Increases in the terrorism alert level gave economists an idea for how to examine a tough social science question: Do more police officers in fact reduce crime?...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Net Income More Than Triples at Lazard
The newly public investment bank Lazard more than tripled its net income during the first quarter, helped by higher revenue from mergers and acquisitions...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
3 Accused of Fraud in Newspaper Circulation
Three former circulation employees of Newsday and Hoy were arrested in connection with schemes to inflate circulation figures...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Report Card Says Auditing Still Needs Improvement
The state of American accounting is better than it was before the Enron scandal, the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday in a report to Congress and President Bush. But, according to the report, accounting still needs much improvement...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Appeals Court Rules Investors Can't Sue Seller of Tax Shelter
A federal appeals judge has ruled that wealthy investors cannot sue a big accounting firm over the sale of an illegal tax shelter, saying that they must seek arbitration instead...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Tommy Hilfiger to Delay Financial Statements
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Earnings Beat Expectations at Bear Stearns
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Shares Increase Modestly; Higher Oil Prices a Concern
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Plan to Connect Rural India to the Internet
An international consortium is planning to establish thousands of rural Internet centers in India to bring services to isolated villages...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Not-Giants Seek Relief From Cost of New Audit Rules
It seems that Sarbanes-Oxley, enacted to clean up corporate accounting after the collapse of Enron, could instead clean out many small publicly traded companies...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Merrill and Citadel to Buy Stakes in Regional Exchange
Merrill Lynch and Citadel Derivatives Group, a subsidy of the Citadel Investment Group, a hedge fund group in Chicago, will each buy 10 percent of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and an option for an additional 10 percent stake, two people briefed on the plan said yesterday...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Saks, Struggling to File Annual Report, Gets Notice of Default From Debt Holder
Saks Inc., the department store owner under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department, said yesterday that a hedge fund holding a portion of its $230 million in convertible notes sent it a notice of default because the company has delayed filing its 2004 annual report...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
New Boeing-Airbus Rivalry: Tanker Contracts
A deal between Boeing and the Air Force to build tankers may be coming back to life, but this time Airbus has elbowed itself into the competition...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
France and Japan Seek Concorde Alternative
France and Japan are hoping to develop a commercial jet that could cut the flight time between Tokyo and New York by more than half...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Philips Shares Fall on Demand Forecast
Royal Philips Electronics said Wednesday that consumer demand in the region is slowing this quarter...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
U.S. Says Drug Seems Effective Against Heart Failure in Blacks
The drug BiDil by NitroMed seems effective in treating black people with heart failure, federal regulators said on Wednesday...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Bank Pays $1.5 Million to Settle S.E.C. Case
WASHINGTON, June 15 (AP) - Two securities brokerage units of the Bank of America Corporation agreed to pay a total of $1.5 million to settle federal regulators' charges that they violated record-keeping rules by failing to preserve e-mail messages, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Vodka Goes Beyond Plain Vanilla
Absolut vodka is introducing an elaborate and extensive campaign to promote its flavored varieties, exhorting drinkers to "Find your flavor."...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Tough Line by Union to G.M.
The president of the United Automobile Workers union said that he would not agree to change G.M.'s labor contract before it expires in 2007...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Fraud Case Filed Against Ex-Officers of Bristol
Two former executives of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company were indicted on conspiracy and securities fraud charges related to artificially inflating revenues...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
Consumer Prices Decline for First Time in 10 Months
The core rate of inflation was almost flat for a second consecutive month and lower than Wall Street analysts had expected...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
OPEC Increases Quotas by the Expected Number
OPEC agreed on Wednesday to lift its oil production quotas by 500,000 barrels a day, a sign of its unease with soaring worldwide energy demand...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
In a World of Car Builders, Thailand Relies Heavily on a Pickup
Thailand's bid to become the Detroit of the East may be at a turning point, with the one-ton pickup truck at the center of its efforts to succeed...
New York Times - June 16, 2005
US sees growth as inflation dips
The US economy continued to grow and inflation is coming under control, reports suggest...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
US senators debate Guantanamo
US senators debate the treatment of suspects held at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay...
BBC News - June 16, 2005
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