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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 April 2007:
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Student gunman described as a troubled loner
Cho Seung-Hui, 23, the senior English major police say is responsible for the deadliest mass slaying in U.S. history, foreshadowed Monday's violence at Virginia Tech in two plays he wrote. Cho, a loner, also reportedly left a vitriolic note in his dorm room that scolded, "You caused me to do this."...
CNN - April 17, 2007
Analysis: Gun control unlikely to get on agenda
Is the Virginia Tech tragedy likely to put gun control on the political agenda? Don't bet on it. In recent years, gun control has been an issue most politicians prefer to stay away from...
CNN - April 17, 2007
Referee Suspended for Incident With N.B.A. Star
Joey Crawford, the veteran referee who officiated 38 N.B.A. finals games, will miss the remainder of the regular season and the playoffs for his behavior toward the Spurs? Tim Duncan...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Corzine?s Vehicle Reached 91 M.P.H. Just Before Crash
Gov. Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey was riding in the front passenger seat and was not wearing a seat belt...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Virginia Gunman Identified as a Student
Officials said the gunman who killed 32 people and himself yesterday was Cho Seung-Hui, a student who lived in a dormitory on the Virginia Tech campus...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Victims of Shooting Are Remembered
An amiable senior, a world-class researcher and an avid dancer were among those killed in Virginia...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Kmart Hires Agency That Lost Wal-Mart Account
Draft FCB will create advertising campaigns for television, radio and magazines...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
ABN Amro and Barclays Extend Talks
The banks said that they are continuing their exclusive takeover talks until the end of Friday. A rival bid looms...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Owner of Bell Canada in Talks to Go Private
BCE, Canada?s largest telecommunications company, is in discussions with KKR and three Canadian pension funds...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Economix: The Advisers Are Writing Our Future
The early economic advisers to presidential candidates can leave a big imprint if their candidate prevails...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Yahoo?s Earnings Are Down 11 Percent
Revenue and income were below expectations, suggesting that an overhaul of the search advertising system has yet to deliver...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Yahoo's latest profits disappoint
Yahoo's latest profits fall 11% as it continues to struggle to catch up with search engine market leader Google...
BBC News - April 17, 2007
Price cuts continue to hurt Intel
Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, sees its latest revenues fall 1% as it continues a bruising price war...
BBC News - April 17, 2007
Student gunman described as a loner
The student who shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech before turning the gun on himself was a senior English major, President Charles Steger said. He was identified as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a South Korean who lived on campus...
CNN - April 17, 2007
World mourns Virginia's victims
Families in India and Israel mourn two professors among the 32 people killed in a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, while the leader of Australia slammed U.S. gun culture...
CNN - April 17, 2007
Clinton out-raised but still sits atop largest war chest
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York, has raised less money so far in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination than her chief opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, but she still sits atop the largest cash reserves of any White House hopeful, according to campaign finance reports filed Sunday...
CNN - April 17, 2007
Victims of Shooting Are Remembered
An amiable senior, a world-class researcher and an avid dancer were among those killed in Virginia...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Virginia Gunman Identified as a Student
Federal officials today said that the gunman who killed 32 people and himself yesterday was Cho Seung-Hui, a student who lived in a dormitory on the Virginia Tech campus...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Housing Slump Takes a Toll on Illegal Immigrants
Many immigrant workers who rode the construction boom now find few jobs on building sites...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Rising Energy Prices Push Up March Inflation Rate
But gains excluding food and energy slowed, as falling apparel prices, along with slower increases in housing and medical care costs, kept core inflation tame...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Overseas sales lift Coke's profit
Coca-Cola's latest profits rise 14% after international growth offsets a decline in sales in North America...
BBC News - April 17, 2007
US inflation fears ease in March
Concerns about the pace of US inflation ease slightly after figures showed a decline in a key gauge of price growth...
BBC News - April 17, 2007
Iraq professor, dean killed
Gunmen killed the dean of the Political Science College and a professor at Mosul University's College of Arts on Monday, authorities said, topping a series of violent incidents...
CNN - April 17, 2007
Gunman believed ID'd
Police have a preliminary identification of the man who methodically shot and killed at least 30 people on the campus of Virginia Tech, but they are not yet ready to release it. The gunman killed himself. It was the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history...
CNN - April 17, 2007
?Horror and Disbelief? at Virginia Tech
Questions were immediately raised about whether university officials had responded adequately to the shootings, in which the gunman killed himself...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Memo Pad
MORE TRANS-ATLANTIC COMPETITION Zoom Airlines, based in Ottawa, plans to begin service between Kennedy International Airport and London Gatwick Airport on June 21, with round-trip coach fares starting at about $510, including taxes and fees. Zoom says it will offer both economy and premium- economy cabins with meals. EOS ADDS SERVICE Eos Airlines, the discount all- business-class carrier, expanded its schedule to add a third flight between Kennedy International Airport and Stansted Airport in London. The additional flight will leave from Kennedy on Sundays, Mondays and Fridays and from Gatwick on Sundays, Mondays and Fridays. AMERICAN AIRLINES PROTEST Flight attendants for American Airlines will be picketing at domestic airports today to protest $180 million in bonuses the carrier is preparing to pay to about 1,000 top managers, according to the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents nearly 20,000 flight attendants at American. In 2003, the flight attendants at American agreed to significant cuts in pay as the airline and others in the industry faced serious financial strain...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Frequent Flier: Karma, Karma, Karma Comes and Goes
It?s all about karma. And you have to have some good karma when you travel like I do...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Novelist McCarthy wins Pulitzer
US author Cormac McCarthy gets the Pulitzer prize for fiction, while Ornette Coleman is honoured for music...
BBC News - April 17, 2007
Student: I pretended to be dead
Gunman massacres 32 at two Virginia Tech sitesOfficials wrongly thought 1st incident was isolatedAt 2nd site, killer chained doors then opened fireSurvivor: He fired at professor first, then studentsIt is the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history...
CNN - April 17, 2007
Boston Marathon: Cheruiyot and Grigoryeva Win Boston Marathon
Robert Cheruiyot won his third Boston Marathon on Monday. Lidiya Grigoryeva won the women?s race...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Revolving Door for Addicts Adds to Medicaid Cost
New York State spends $50 million a year on drug and alcohol treatment for the 500 most expensive patients...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Storm Leaves a Toll of Flooding and Hardship
The northeaster continued to wreak havoc on Monday, but forecasters said it had lost its punch and would churn into oblivion over the Atlantic by Tuesday...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
32 Shot Dead on Virginia Tech Campus
Police officials would not identify the gunman, who killed himself, or say whether one person was behind two shootings on the sprawling campus...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Drumbeat of Shots, Broken by Pauses to Reload
Students said the gunshots went on for what seemed like 10 or 20 minutes, an eternity with punctuation...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Nacchio Jury Ends 3rd Day
Jurors went home after a third day of deliberations in the $101 million insider trading trial of Joe Nacchio, the former head of Qwest Communications...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Six Kraft Foods Brands Being Shifted From JWT
Six Kraft Foods Brands...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Rexford Tompkins, 90, Who Helped Shape City?s Rent Stabilization, Dies
Rexford E. Tompkins was a former chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York who was one of the industry?s leading voices in creating a rent stabilization system...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Fremont General to Sell Loan Business
The struggling lender said it had found a buyer for most of its home loan business, suggesting that it might have found a way out of the troubled subprime mortgage industry...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Bid in Hand, IntelSat Looks for More
IntelSat, which runs the world?s largest network of communications satellites, has been put up for sale by the private equity funds that own it...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
$5.4 Million for US Airways? Chief
Executives are reaping the benefits of an industry turnaround, angering airline workers...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Ex-Dow Officer Disputes Firing
A former senior adviser has denied the company?s accusation that he was involved in a clandestine buyout effort...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Mattel?s Profit Down 60%
The company still beat Wall Street expectations with strong sales, despite a decline in demand for Barbie dolls in the United States...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
U.S. Approves Improvements for Implants
Federal regulators approved revised quality controls for Guidant?s pacemaker and defibrillator operations...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
March Retail Sales Up 0.7%; February Data Revised Higher
Retail sales rose slightly more than expected in March, but February sales were much higher than first estimated...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Charges Depress Earnings at Lilly
First-quarter earnings fell 39 percent, hurt by charges related to corporate revamping and an acquisition...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
McCain Says Fellow Republicans Spent Too Much While Running Congress
Senator John McCain said that as president he would rely on low taxes, greater fiscal restraint and free trade to lift the nation?s economy...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Tyson Foods and ConocoPhillips to Produce Diesel Fuel From Animal Fat
The alliance was yet another sign that farmers and agribusinesses will be playing a large part in the country?s energy future...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Unusual Trip to Iraq in ?03 for Wolfowitz Companion
The Defense Department directed a private contractor to hire the companion of Paul D. Wolfowitz to study issues related to setting up a new government in Iraq...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
House to Vote on Bill to Ban Web Site Names That Resemble Those of U.S. Agencies
The vote would clarify a 1994 law that bars ?any? use of the name of the Treasury and the I.R.S. to solicit business...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Advertising: Opening Eyes to a Slowly Dimming World
The Alzheimer?s Association?s is introducing its first paid campaign, intended to educate the American public about the disease...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Shares Rally on Strong Earnings Reports
Better-than-expected profits at Citigroup and a healthy increase in consumer spending renewed the optimism of investors...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Tax Credit Seen as Helping More Parents
More than one in six taxpayers in 2004 received the Earned Income Tax Credit, highlighting its growing role in bolstering the incomes of struggling low-income parents, a report found...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
AARP Says It Will Become Major Medicare Insurer While Remaining a Consumer Lobby
The group said it would offer a health maintenance organization to Medicare recipients and several other products to people 50 to 64...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
On the Road: Maybe a Lavender Web Site Wasn?t How to Attract Women
A new American Airlines Web site just for female travelers has hit a nerve with many businesswomen...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Yahoo Strikes Ad Deal With More Papers
Yahoo announced a broad deal with publishers representing 264 newspapers to sell national advertising across their Web sites...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
AT&T Drops Offer to Invest in Italian Phone Company
AT&T is said to have been dissuaded by the intense political pressure in Italy against a sale to a foreign company...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Profit Off 11% at Citigroup on Expenses of Overhaul
Despite the decline, Citigroup showed progress in its expense management and strength in investment banking...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
The Biggest Little-Noticed Hazard
The biggest threat to the health of business travelers isn?t crime, terrorism or even bad food. It?s traffic accidents...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
The Energy Challenge: A Renewed Push for Ethanol, Without the Corn
Pressure is building to sort out the myriad production problems preventing cellulosic ethanol from becoming a reality...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Market Place: Amgen Seeks to Reverse Its Bad News
A series of setbacks at the pharmaceutical giant pose the greatest challenge to its previously charmed 27-year history...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Fight Seen for ABN; Stock Soars
The prospect of a bidding war for ABN Amro is making it difficult for the bank to seal a merger deal with its preferred partner, Barclays...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Wall Street Journal Wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes
The paper won the prestigious Public Service medal. The New York Times and The Boston Globe also won awards...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Deal to Make Sallie Mae a Big Debtor
The $25 billion buyout has the potential to not only transform Sallie Mae but shake up the entire lending industry...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
For Illegal Immigrants, Housing Slump Takes Toll
Many immigrant workers who rode the construction boom now find jobs on building sites few and far between...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Home Depot to Display an Environmental Label
The new environmental initiative would become the largest green labeling program in American retailing...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
Managers Use Hedge Funds as Big I.R.A.?s
Some hedge fund managers have discovered a way to avoid paying taxes on their huge fees for up to 10 years...
New York Times - April 17, 2007
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