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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 August 2006:
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Top Mexican cartel leader captured
A reputed Mexican drug lord who tops the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Most Wanted List has been captured in an offshore operation in the Pacific Ocean, federal law enforcement sources said...
CNN - August 16, 2006
Terror plot suspects stay detained
A British judge has allowed police to continue holding 23 of the 24 suspects in an alleged plot to blow up commercial jetliners over the Atlantic through next week, Metropolitan Police said late Wednesday...
CNN - August 16, 2006
Lebanese troops to head south Thursday
The Lebanese Cabinet on Wednesday unanimously approved the deployment of 15,000 troops to southern Lebanon beginning Thursday, a minister told CNN...
CNN - August 16, 2006
31 Arrested in Human-Trafficking Case
Officials said they had taken 67 possible victims of trafficking — all young Korean women — into protective custody...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Officials and Yankees Break Ground on Stadium
Gov. George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg dismissed complaints by protesters who oppose the 51,000-seat replacement stadium...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Stroessner, Paraguay’s Enduring Dictator, Dies
South America’s most enduring dictator during the cold war was 93...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Suspect Is Arrested in JonBenet Ramsey Case
The suspect was arrested in Thailand and a security official says the man is a United States citizen...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
D.E.A. Arrests Mexican Drug Ring Leader
The ring smuggled tons of cocaine, heroin and other drugs into the U.S. and has terrorized its foes with unbridled cruelty, the Justice Department said today...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Iraqi and British Forces Battle Shiite Militias
The violence underscored the tenuous grip the Iraqi government maintains even in regions not under the sway of Sunni Arab insurgents...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
An Official Puts Focus on Children at AIDS Talks
The official estimated that 800,000 children under the age of 16 needed drugs to stay alive...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
European Nations Plan New Anti-Terror Efforts
New measures could include blocking Web sites, iris-scanning jet passengers and training Muslim preachers to fight radicalism...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Heinz rebels claim board victory
The rebel investment group demanding change at food giant Heinz says it has won seats on the firm's board...
BBC News - August 16, 2006
US holds top Mexico drug suspect
The US says it has crippled a major Mexican drugs gang with the arrest on a boat of Javier Arellano Felix...
BBC News - August 16, 2006
Woman held over plane diversion
A woman is arrested after a London-Washington flight is diverted to Boston following an on-board disturbance...
BBC News - August 16, 2006
Flight diverted on mid-air panic
Fighter jets are scrambled to escort a trans-Atlantic flight is diverted after the pilot declares an emergency because of a passenger disturbance. The alert comes amid heightened security following a foiled air terror plot...
CNN - August 16, 2006
Fighter jets escort diverted United flight
United Airlines Flight 923 from London to Washington, D.C., declared an emergency Wednesday because an apparently claustrophobic passenger caused a disturbance, a federal official said. Fighter jets escorted the aircraft to Boston's Logan airport, the official said, although there was no indication of terrorism...
CNN - August 16, 2006
Ex-football star's political drive stalls
Former Pittsburgh Steelers star Lynn Swann didn't put so much as a dent in Gov. Ed Rendell's lead among Pennsylvania voters over the past two months, despite his stepped-up campaign in the race for governor, a new poll released Wednesday shows...
CNN - August 16, 2006
Stroessner, Enduring Dictator of Paraguay, Dies
Gen. Alfredo Stroessner’s 35-year hold on power made him Latin America’s most enduring dictator during the cold war. He was 93...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Iran Say It Is Open to Enrichment Halt
The foreign minister also said that Iran was still planning to give a formal response to a U.N. proposal by Aug. 22...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Disturbance Triggers Big Security Response
A United Airlines flight from London that was heading to Washington’s Dulles Airport was diverted to Boston this morning after authorities reported that a “disruptive” woman on board had caused a disturbance...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Europe Seeks to Unify Airport Security Rules
Since the terrorist plot was uncovered, European countries imposed a patchwork of makeshift rules with varying levels of security restrictions...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
In New 9/11 Tapes, Glimpses of Struggles, Loss and Valor
More than 1,600 phone calls made to emergency services that morning were released, offering only the barest hints of the dramas that would follow...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Israel Plans to Remain in Lebanon Until Force Arrives
Israel will keep troops in the area “until the multinational force arrives, even if that takes months,” the Israeli general said...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Agency That Supervises Internet Domain Names Renews Contract
Icann has won a contract renewal with the Department of Commerce, despite complaints that the relationship politicizes what should be a neutral global computer network...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Consumer Prices Rise With Energy Costs
The consumer price index, which measures what everyday Americans pay for goods and services, rose 0.4 percent in July...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Petrol prices fuel US inflation
US inflation rises in July, driven by a sharp increase in the price of petrol and other energy bills...
BBC News - August 16, 2006
YouTube aims for music videos
Video sharing website YouTube is in talks with record labels about offering commercial music promos...
BBC News - August 16, 2006
Senator sorry for 'monkey' slur
US Senator George Allen apologises for calling a man of Indian descent by a name that means monkey...
BBC News - August 16, 2006
Agency to monitor tri-border area
Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay set up a joint intelligence centre to monitor the area where their borders meet...
BBC News - August 16, 2006
Katrina damage ruling
A federal judge Tuesday rejected a couple's insurance claim for Hurricane Katrina-related flood damage in a case sure to resonate with homeowners ravaged last year by the storm...
CNN - August 16, 2006
Israel: Troops stay to await U.N.
Israel's forces will not leave Lebanon until a U.N.-led multinational force arrives, "even if it takes months," the chief of Israeli Defense Forces says. The U.N. is rushing to send 3,000 and 3,500 troops within 10 to 15 days into southern Lebanon as a "vanguard force."...
CNN - August 16, 2006
Israel: Troops to await U.N.
Israel's forces will not leave Lebanon until a U.N.-led multinational force arrives, "even if it takes months," the chief of Israeli Defense Forces says...
CNN - August 16, 2006
New Jersey Attorney General Quits
An investigation found that Zulima V. Farber violated her own department’s code of ethics by helping her companion during a traffic stop...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
More 9/11 Emergency Calls to Be Released
The city plans to release a new avalanche of documentary records from Sept. 11, including more than 1,600 phone calls made to emergency services that morning...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
For Now, Pluto Holds Its Place in Solar System
A committee has proposed a new definition of the word “planet” that would expand at a stroke the family of planets from 9 to 12...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Journeys to Realm of Militancy Began in Places Most Ordinary
A number of the suspects arrested in last week’s antiterrorism raids had become more devout in their faith or converted to Islam within the last few years...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Grasso Moves to Reinstate a Jury Trial
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Market Share Gains Lift Profit at Staples’
By Reuters...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
BP faces shareholder legal action
BP bosses face legal action by investors, accusing them of poor maintenance of a US pipeline, according to a report...
BBC News - August 16, 2006
Golf: Woods plays down 'feud'
Tiger Woods plays down talk of a feud between himself and Phil Mickelson ahead of the USPGA Championship...
BBC News - August 16, 2006
Stroessner remains critically ill
Paraguay ex-President Alfredo Stroessner has pneumonia and remains critically ill in hospital in Brazil, doctors confirm...
BBC News - August 16, 2006
US criticised for HIV aid effort
US policy is undermining the efforts of African countries to fight the HIV epidemic, a leading UN figure has said...
BBC News - August 16, 2006
Air terror: Asia quake link?
British investigators believe some of the money raised to help victims of last year's earthquake in Pakistan may have been used to fund the alleged airliner terror plot. Officials say money was collected by a front group for a Pakistani charity that supports Islamic militants...
CNN - August 16, 2006
Katrina damage ruling
A federal judge rules an insurance company's policies do not cover damage from wind-driven water in a decision that could affect hundreds of upcoming cases related to property damage from Hurricane Katrina...
CNN - August 16, 2006
Husband Takes Schiavo Fight Back to Politicians
Michael Schiavo, whose wife was the focus of a national debate about life and death, has emerged as a political weapon...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
State Fairs, Sagging, Arrive at County Crossroads
Attendance at state fairs in the nation’s midsection has dived, prompting leaders to question if they are worth operating...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Medicare Sees No Increase in Premium for Drugs
Federal officials announced that the average premium for Medicare prescription drug coverage next year would be about $24 a month...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
New Lieberman Retooling Race as Independent
A week after his defeat in the Democratic primary, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman appears emboldened running as an independent candidate...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
For SAT Maker, a Broader Push to the Classroom
The College Board is marketing new products in an effort to reach more deeply into American classrooms...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Destruction: As Cease-Fire Holds, Lebanese Dig for the War’s Victims in the Rubble of Many Towns
On Tuesday, Lebanese Red Cross workers, health workers and Hezbollah members began retrieving bodies buried in the ruins of southern Lebanon...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Deal to Create Biggest U.S. Sock Maker
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Advanced Micro Is Updating Its Key Chips
Advanced Micro Devices is updating the Opteron server chips that have driven the company’s market-share gains against Intel...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Office Tenants Eager for Early Renewals
Manhattan’s office market has been so robust this year that some real estate brokers said firms are renewing their leases early to lock in rents...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Sprint Nextel Loses a Ruling
An Illinois judge ruled Tuesday that Sprint Nextel must shed its Nextel operations in Illinois, Michigan, Iowa and parts of Nebraska...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Satellite TV Companies Lag in Airwaves Bidding
A partnership of EchoStar Communications and the DirecTV Group had all but dropped out of the auction by the close of bidding Tuesday...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Auto Parts Supplier Reports a Big Loss
DETROIT, Aug. 15 (AP) — The Delphi Corporation, the auto parts supplier, said Tuesday that it lost $2.6 billion in the first half of 2006, mostly as a result of employee buyout and early retirement packages that are part of the company’s bankruptcy reorganization...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Deere Profit Rises 13% on Cost Cuts and Sales
MOLINE, Ill., Aug. 15 (AP) — The farm and lawn-care equipment maker Deere & Company said Tuesday that its quarterly profit rose 13 percent, helped by cost-cutting and an 8 percent increase in sales...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
3M Will Expand Buyback
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Private and Investment Banking Help Profit Rise by 47% at UBS
UBS said on Tuesday that its second-quarter profits were helped by its private banking and investment banking operations...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
A Sweetened Bid Expected for Canada Mine Company
The three-way scramble continued on Tuesday among companies trying to acquire Inco, the nickel mining company based in Toronto...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Google Says It Has No Plans for National Wi-Fi Service
Even as it rolls out a local wireless Internet service in Mountain View, Calif., Google says it will not be a national provider of such services...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Saks Says Sale of Unit Took Toll on Revenue
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Home Depot 2nd-Quarter Profit Exceeds Forecasts by Analysts
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Some Airlines in Britain May Seek Compensation
Some carriers worry that they might be asked to bear the brunt of the financial burden for delays and cancellations that they see as beyond their control...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
British Airport Operator Faulted for Not Hiring Temps
Critics said that because of BAA’s limited ability to pass any additional costs on to the airlines, it had no real incentive to spend money to hire more workers...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
For Venezuela, as Distaste for U.S. Grows, So Does Trade
While the two countries seem to be growing ever farther apart, trade between Venezuela and the United States is surging...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Monsanto Buys Delta and Pine Land, Top Supplier of Cotton Seeds in U.S.
Monsanto will acquire the Delta and Pine Land Company, the nation’s leading supplier of cotton seeds, in a move that would add to Monsanto’s commanding position in the business of biotechnology crops...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Its Future Uncertain, a Mall Developer Pulls Back
The Mills Corporation’s dream of becoming the first American shopping mall company with a large presence in Europe has proved elusive...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
F.B.I. Calls Ex-Comverse Chief a Fugitive, and Casts a Wide Net
Jacob Alexander was charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud in relation to a suspect stock options scheme. He did not show up for his arraignment...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Pfizer’s New Leader Realigns Top Positions
Pfizer’s new chief executive, Jeffrey B. Kindler has moved to put his stamp on the drug maker with a wide-ranging executive reorganization...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Wal-Mart Profit Falls 26%, Its First Drop in 10 Years
Wal-Mart Stores, the world’s largest retailer and a bellwether for the industry, blamed trouble in foreign markets for the financial slip...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Advertising: A Column on (Your Product Here) Placement
Consumers who prefer their entertainment unbranded are in for a disappointing decade, according to a new report...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Market Place: With Its Stock Still Lackluster, G.E. Confronts the Curse of the Conglomerate
Investors seem to have trouble understanding that General Electric’s wildly disparate units march to the same corporate tune...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
A Food Web Site, Spiced With Attitude
Chow.com hopes to inject a hip sensibility into its smorgasbord of recipes, restaurant reviews, party hints, video tutorials and coverage of the marketing and culture of food...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
David Leonhardt: Rank Colleges, but Rank Them Right
Do we spend too much time worrying about college rankings? Or not nearly enough?...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Judge Rules for Insurers in Katrina
The decision could affect hundreds of upcoming cases related to property damage from Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Stocks Rally as Inflation Eases Off
A government report said wholesale inflation is softening, raising investor hopes that the Federal Reserve might stop increasing interest rates...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
Need for Battery Power Runs Into Basic Hurdles of Science
Researchers are working on better batteries, but they must work around problems rooted in basic chemistry and physics...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
British Arms Merchant With Passport to the Pentagon
BAE says it is neither British nor American, but a new breed of military contractor — a trans-Atlantic supplier...
New York Times - August 16, 2006
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