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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 January 2007:
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Kidnap suspect is 'viable lead' in 1991 case
Authorities are examining similarities between the disappearances of Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby and the 1991 disappearance of 11-year-old Arlin Henderson in 1991. Both Shawn and Arlin were last seen riding bicycles, and Arlin bears a physical resemblance to Ben...
CNN - January 17, 2007
'Big Brother' racism denied
Channel 4 attempts to cool an escalating row over alleged bullying of Indian Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on TV's "Celebrity Big Brother," saying there is no clear evidence of racism. As the number of complaints to the media regulator topped 19,000 and police became involved, the broadcaster called the row "a cultural and class clash between her and three of the British females."...
CNN - January 17, 2007
Rice: Quartet will meet on Mideast
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday she expects the "quartet" of EU, Russia, the U.N. and the U.S to meet in the week of January 29 in Washington to discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts...
CNN - January 17, 2007
Sen. Clinton: Bush has 'losing strategy' in Iraq
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that President Bush is following a "losing strategy" in Iraq and she will introduce a bill to cap troop levels there...
CNN - January 17, 2007
Antiques Dealer Sues Vagrants for $1 Million
The dealer hopes the suit will force the city to remove a group of homeless people from outside his posh business...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
?Mermaid? Approaches, So ?Beauty? Will Close
When it closes in July, ?Beauty and the Beast? will be the sixth-longest-running show in Broadway history...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
White House Says Judiciary Will Monitor Spy Program
The Bush administration, in what appears to be a concession to its critics, said today it will allow an independent court to monitor its eavesdropping program...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Bloomberg Proposes Overhaul of City Schools
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said today he would focus new energy on reforming the city?s school system...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Cancer Deaths Decline for Second Straight Year
The finding suggests that a small drop reported last year for 2003 ? the first in more than 70 years ? was no fluke...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Square Feet: The Zoning Policy That Worked Too Well
Vancouver wanted more downtown residents. Now it needs places for them to work...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Airbus Warns of Operating Loss for 2006
The company?s resources were drained by delays in producing the new A380 super-jumbo jetliner...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Court Rules for Wal-Mart in Maryland Suit
Maryland violated federal law when it required Wal-Mart to increase spending on health insurance, a court ruled...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
HarperCollins to Close Regan?s Imprint
The publisher announced it will close ReganBooks, the imprint created by the controversial editor Judith Regan...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Battle to save NY pod of dolphins
Marine biologists struggle to rescue a pod of dolphins trapped in a cove off New York's Long Island...
BBC News - January 17, 2007
US aid worker killed in Iraq
A US aid worker is among three
foreigners killed during an ambush on their convoy in Baghdad...
BBC News - January 17, 2007
US to end warrantless wiretaps
President Bush decides not to renew a scheme allowing domestic spying on terror suspects without a warrant...
BBC News - January 17, 2007
'Big Brother' protests spread
Bollywood is up in arms about what it called the racist bullying of Indian film star Shilpa Shetty on British TV show "Celebrity Big Brother." India's foreign ministry said it is probing the accusations while in Patna, fans burned an effigy of "Big Brother" executives. In Britain Tony Blair spoke out in parliament against racism "in all its forms."...
CNN - January 17, 2007
California cold snap shrivels $1B citrus crop
From Valentine's Day bouquets to Superbowl spreads, shoppers soon will be feeling the sting of higher prices from California's deep freeze. Gov. Arnold Scwarzenegger seeks federal disaster relief with as much as 75 percent of the citrus crop destroyed...
CNN - January 17, 2007
Democrats to press GOP on troop increase
President Bush summoned Republicans skeptical of the war to the White House on Wednesday as Democrats won support from a GOP senator for a resolution expressing opposition to a 21,500-troop buildup in Iraq...
CNN - January 17, 2007
Bombers kill 26 in Baghdad, Kirkuk
A day after 70 people were killed in a massive car bomb attack on Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, explosions in the capital and in the northern city of Kirkuk claimed 26 more lives Wednesday...
CNN - January 17, 2007
Commanders in Afghanistan Request More Troops
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said that he was ?sympathetic? to the request...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
J.P. Morgan?s Income Soared in 4th Quarter
Record-high profits in its investment-banking advisory businesses and trading were said to be the main factors...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
U.S. and North Korean Envoys Hold Talks
The United States was seeking to revive stalled negotiations to end North Korea?s nuclear weapons program...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Inflation Slowed in December
But inflation at the wholesale level was still fast enough to be a potential worry for Wall Street and policymakers at the Federal Reserve...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Clinton urges US Iraq troops cap
Likely presidential contender Senator Hillary Clinton urges a limit on US Iraq troops and more forces for Afghanistan...
BBC News - January 17, 2007
Official 'sorry' for lawyers jibe
A Pentagon official apologises for criticising US law firms for representing Guantanamo detainees...
BBC News - January 17, 2007
New dishes boost McDonald's
McDonald's sees its best sales growth in Europe for more than 15 years as new dishes prove a hit with customers...
BBC News - January 17, 2007
Botched op 'was Castro's choice'
Cuban leader Fidel Castro personally made the decision to undergo a type of operation that subsequently went wrong instead of a more routine surgery, according to new details published by Spain's El Pais newspaper on its Web site today. Castro, 80, has been undergoing treatment for intestinal problems...
CNN - January 17, 2007
Bloomberg Plans to Cut New York?s Property Taxes
The mayor?s proposal would cut property taxes by about 5 percent and also eliminate the city?s sales tax on clothing...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
As Trial Begins, Cheney?s Ex-Aide Is Still a Puzzle
Paradox seems to define I. Lewis Libby Jr., who is charged with lying about leaks to the news media in the battle over Iraq war intelligence...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
King Cole, a Grimy Old Soul, Heads for a Cleaning
The Maxfield Parrish painting, from which the St. Regis Hotel?s King Cole Bar took its name, will receive its first restoration in five decades...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Freeze to drive orange price rise
Prices of oranges and other citrus fruits have been pushed sharply higher, following a severe freeze in California...
BBC News - January 17, 2007
Legend Ali reaches 65th birthday
The boxing world pays tribute to legendary heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, who is 65 on Wednesday...
BBC News - January 17, 2007
Bush defends boost to Iraq troops
President Bush defends his decision to send more US troops to Iraq, after 70 people die in twin blasts in Baghdad...
BBC News - January 17, 2007
US water contest radio sacks 10
A radio station dismisses 10 of its staff after a woman who took part in a water-drinking contest dies...
BBC News - January 17, 2007
Head of Israeli military quits
The Israel Defense Forces' chief of staff has resigned, the Israeli Defense Ministry said early Wednesday. Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz has been under pressure since the end of Israel's 34-day war against Hezbollah last year, which failed in two of its named objectives -- recovering two captured soldiers and crushing Hezbollah...
CNN - January 17, 2007
Obama Starts '08 Bid, Reshaping Democratic Field
Senator Barack Obama said he would formally declare his intention to run on Feb. 10 in Springfield, Ill...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Bloomberg to Propose Cutting Property Taxes
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg plans to outline his proposals Wednesday in his annual address to the City Council...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Anti-Buildup Measure to Have Bipartisan Stamp
Republican Senator Chuck Hagel will join two Democrats in introducing a resolution against an Iraq troop buildup...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
As Trial Begins, Cheney's Ex-Aide Is Still a Puzzle
Paradox seems to define I. Lewis Libby Jr., who is charged with lying to a grand jury about his leaks to the news media in the battle over Iraq war intelligence...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
A City?s Violence Feeds on Black-Hispanic Rivalry
Civil rights advocates say that ethnic and racial violence in Los Angeles grew at an alarming rate last year...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: China: Music Deal for Emi and Web Site
The EMI Group, which lost a copyright infringement lawsuit against Baidu.com, a Chinese Internet search site, will drop its appeal of the case and work with the company to win advertising by offering free online samples of its music. Baidu, based in Beijing, will sell online ads for a section of its Web site featuring streaming samples of EMI?s Chinese-language music, the company said. EMI and Baidu will share the ad revenue, they said, without providing details. EMI is planning to drop out of an infringement lawsuit brought against Baidu by record companies on claims the Web site violated copyright by offering links to illegally copied music on nonaffiliated sites...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Germany: Investor Confidence Rises
German investor confidence rose more than forecast, reaching a six-month high in January, despite a higher sales tax and a slowdown in export markets. The index of investor and analyst expectations for economic growth in six months, compiled by the ZEW Center for European Economic Research, rose to minus 3.6 from minus 19 in December. The report adds to signs that cooling growth in the German economy may be limited even after the country raised the value-added tax, a sales tax, to 19 percent from 16 percent. The confidence indicator has shown a negative reading, with pessimists outnumbering optimists, in every month since August...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Dow Struggles to a High as Oil Prices Fall
Wall Street ended mixed yesterday after an erratic session with the Dow Jones industrials reaching a third consecutive record close despite concerns about corporate profits and falling oil prices...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Spain: Snag in Utility Merger Is Cleared
A Madrid-based regional court said that it had removed the final legal injunction that was blocking the $47.5 billion takeover deal made by the German utility E.On for Endesa, the biggest electricity company in Spain. The chief executive of E.On, Wulf H. Bernotat, described the Madrid court?s decision as an important breakthrough. The takeover battle for Endesa, between E.On and Gas Natural of Spain, began more than a year ago and has been delayed by numerous legal and regulatory procedures. ?All legal hurdles in the takeover process have now been cleared,? Mr. Bernotat said in a statement...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: South Korea: Hyundai Case Nears Verdict
Prosecutors asked for a six-year prison term for the chairman of the Hyundai Motor Company, Chung Mong-koo. Mr. Chung, 68, has been on trial since June on charges of illegally raising a slush fund from affiliates. The authorities say he spent 69.3 billion won ($74 million) of the money raised for private and other purposes, including payments to lobbyists for government favors. ?The crimes in this case are grave,? the lead prosecutor, Lee Dong-ryol, said. Defense lawyers for Mr. Chung called for leniency and asked for a suspended sentence. The verdict is scheduled for Feb. 5...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Homebuilder Expects to Report a Loss
Homebuilder Expects to Report a Loss...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Lower Quarterly Profit at a Mining Company
Lower Quarterly Profit at a Mining Company...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Antidepressant Sales Bolster Profit at Forest Laboratories
Antidepressant Sales Bolster Profit at Forest Laboratories...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Profits Rise at Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp
Wells Fargo & Company and U.S. Bancorp reported higher fourth-quarter profits yesterday, helped by growth in business lending and fee-generating units...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Profit Up 69% at TD Ameritrade Holding
Profit Up 69% at TD Ameritrade Holding...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Hostile Bid for Caremark Spurs an Offer by Drug Rival
Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefits manager, began a $24.8 billion hostile takeover attempt yesterday for a rival, Caremark Rx, prompting the competing bidder, the CVS Corporation, to sweeten its bid with a one-time dividend of $2 a share...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Genesis HealthCare to Be Sold and Taken Private for $1.25 Billion
The Genesis HealthCare Corporation, which runs long-term care centers, said Tuesday that it would go private in a $1.25 billion deal...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
G.M. Discloses Talks for Deal in Malaysia
The General Motors Corporation has been in talks with Proton Holdings, the Malaysian carmaker that is looking to sell a stake...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
John W. Simpson, 92, Dies; Pioneer of Nuclear Power
John W. Simpson, was a former top executive and engineer for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and played a major role in developing the nation?s first commercial nuclear power plant...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Chicago Journal: Loss of a Beloved Department Store Breeds a New Kind of Superfan
Four months into Chicago?s wary acceptance of Macy's, the outcry over the demise of Marshall Field & Company continues to rage...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Man Convicted Under Antispam Law
A California man who defrauded users of AOL by sending e-mail messages requesting credit data became the first defendant found guilty by a jury under a 2003 federal law barring Internet ?spam.?...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Offer for Restaurants
Landry?s Restaurants said yesterday that it had offered to buy the restaurant chain Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group for about $64.4 million...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Two Charged in Payments From Wagers on Internet
Two founders of a company that processes Internet gambling transactions were arrested and charged with laundering billions of dollars in gambling proceeds...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
The Football Is Fine, but the Saints? Finances Aren?t So Bright
The Saints? 2006 season has been, by some measures, a rousing success. Still, Forbes magazine?s estimate of the team?s worth ($738 million) ranked the Saints 27th out of 32 N.F.L. teams...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
2 Years in Prison for Ex-Software Executive
The former general counsel at Computer Associates, Steven Woghin, was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison for his role in a scheme to increase the company?s quarterly revenue artificially through backdated sales contracts, prosecutors said...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Ex-Fund Trader Sentenced to Probation
A former Millennium Partners mutual fund trader who pleaded guilty to improper trading in 2003 avoided a prison term after cooperating with a New York State investigation of the mutual fund industry...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Ex-Owner at Refco Charged in Fraud Case
A former owner of Refco, the commodities brokerage firm, was charged yesterday in a fraud that cost investors more than $1 billion in losses, prosecutors said as they also added charges against the former chief executive and chief financial officers of the firm...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Wall Street ?Matchmakers? Under a New York Inquiry
The New York State attorney general?s office is investigating whether employees at Best Buy, Circuit City and the credit card processor First Data improperly provided nonpublic information to hedge fund traders...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Goldmans Sachs Agrees to Acquire Insurance Brokerage Firm
The Goldman Sachs Group?s buyout unit has agreed to acquire the insurance brokerage firm USI Holdings for about $1.4 billion including debt...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
New Warning on Earnings From Maker of BlackBerry
Research in Motion gave investors no better sense of the size of the earnings restatement the company will make after a review of its stock option grants to employees...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Symantec Shares Fall on Profit Warning and Lowered Forecast
Symantec Shares Fall on Profit Warning and Lowered Forecast...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Icahn Takes Aim at Drug and Housing Companies
The billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn has built up stakes in two companies, according to regulatory filings yesterday, because he believes the shares are undervalued...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Goodyear to Pay $925,000 to Settle Job Bias Case
ROANOKE, Va., Jan. 16 (AP) ? The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company has agreed to pay $925,000 to hundreds of women who were denied tire-building jobs at its Virginia plant, the Labor Department announced Tuesday...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Verizon to Sell Phone Assets to FairPoint in 3 States
Verizon Communications is selling its residential telephone business in three New England states for $2.72 billion, shedding more of what the company sees as noncore assets as it invests billions to upgrade its wired and wireless networks for next-generation services...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Gay Lawyer?s Suit Accuses Firm of Bias
An associate at Sullivan & Cromwell filed a state lawsuit accusing the firm of a systematic campaign of discrimination and retaliation against him because of his sexual orientation...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
A DVD Copy Protection Is Overcome by Hackers
A loose-knit coalition of hackers around the world defeated the antipiracy software protecting several high-resolution movies in the HD DVD format and began distributing copies of the films...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Square Feet: The Zoning Policy That Worked Too Well
Vancouver wanted more downtown residents. Now it needs places for them to work...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
NBC?s ?Today? Is Expected to Add a Fourth Hour
The expansion of the channel?s morning-program empire, and the most profitable program on television, is a bid to attract the midmorning female viewer...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Is Live Sex On-Demand Coming to Hotel TVs?
In the world of on-demand viewing of sexually explicit material, the next step could be the ability to watch live performers from the privacy of a hotel room...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Checkered Flag, or Red Flag?
Toyota is pushing into Nascar in the same year it expects to challenge G.M. as the world?s biggest automaker...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Advertising: In a Battle of Toothpastes, It?s Information vs. Emotion
In a bid to regain the sales lead from its rival Colgate-Palmolive, Procter & Gamble has introduced Crest Pro-Health, which claims to deliver everything a consumer could possibly want in a toothpaste...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Saudi Dismisses Call for an OPEC Meeting
Saudi Arabia?s oil minister said Tuesday that he saw no reason for OPEC to hold an emergency meeting in response to declining prices...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Even Free, the Price Wasn?t Right
Yum Brands, the fast-food conglomerate, turned down a property in Norfolk, Va., owned by the PETA Foundation...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Regulators Examining Commerce Bank
Commerce Bancorp rattled investors after it disclosed that federal regulators were investigating the bank?s real estate deals with executives...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Cablevision Board Rejects Offer by the Dolans
The board of Cablevision rejected an $8.9 billion offer to sell the company to the Dolans, its founding family...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Inquiry Faults Management at BP in Blast That Killed 15
The report painted a picture of recurring neglect and avoidance that culminated in the fatal explosion at the refinery in 2005...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Intel?s Fight for Market Cuts Margins
Intel reported that fourth-quarter profit fell 39 percent as the company continued to fight for market share and to absorb the high cost of its corporate overhaul...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Oil Lease Chief Knew of Error, Report Asserts
A top Interior Department official was told nearly three years ago about a problem with oil and gas royalties...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy
Medical research, tackling poverty and education, and reconstruction of New Orleans would all be ways to spend $1.2 trillion. Here?s another: The war in Iraq...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Issues Left Unresolved on Pensions
The Supreme Court?s decision not to hear arguments that I.B.M. discriminated on the basis of age when it changed its pension plan resolves little for other companies that made similar changes...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
Atop TV Sets, Basic Black Boxes Face Competition
As consumers stray, the traditional cable box is getting a high-tech overhaul...
New York Times - January 17, 2007
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