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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 August 2006:
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JonBenet Ramsey suspect working as teacher
Authorities in Boulder, Colorado, are being very careful about what they say about the new suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey case. John Mark Karr, a schoolteacher, was arrested in Thailand...
CNN - August 17, 2006
Ramsey suspect: 'I loved JonBenet'
John Karr, 41, arrested on suspicion of murder in the 1996 killing of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, was working in Thailand as a teacher, according to a U.S. prosecutor in Boulder, Colorado. Earlier in Bangkok, Karr told reporters the child's death was "an accident," adding: "I loved JonBenet."...
CNN - August 17, 2006
Judge Allows Northwest Attendants to Strike
The ruling potentially paves the way for a crippling labor disruption at the nation’s fifth-largest airline...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Ex-C.I.A. Employee Guilty in Assault of Afghan
David A. Passaro is the first civilian to be convicted as a result of numerous allegations of prisoner abuse...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Mel Gibson Gets Probation for D.U.I. Charge
Mel Gibson agreed to spend the next year in an alcoholism rehabilitation program and pay $1,300...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Suspect in Ramsey Case Says Death Was an Accident
John Mark Karr, an American teacher, has been charged with murder, kidnapping and sexual assault in the 1996 death of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Fewer Cases of Stress Seen in Vietnam Vets
A report found that fewer than one in five developed a diagnosable stress disorder that could be linked to war...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Federal Judge Orders End to Warrantless Wiretapping
A federal judge in Detroit ruled today that the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program is illegal and unconstitutional...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Filing Sheds Light on Drug Executive’s Side Deal
Dr. Andrew G. Bodnar was accused of a secret deal to preserve a monopoly over an anti-clotting drug...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Judge Sides With U.S. in Big Tobacco Suit
A federal judge ordered tobacco companies today to admit they lied about the harmful effects of smoking cigarettes...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Jury Faults Merck for Failing to Warn Doctors
The company was ordered to pay a retired F.B.I. agent who suffered a heart attack while taking the drug $51 million in damages...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
US man guilty of Afghan abuse
A former CIA contractor is found guilty of assaulting an Afghan prisoner who later died...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
Boeing exits in-flight broadband
Boeing is to scrap its in-flight broadband service after getting insufficient interest from leading airlines...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
Caution urged in JonBenet case
The district attorney in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case warns against speculation about the suspect's guilt...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
US tobacco firms lose civil suit
A US judge finds a number of top tobacco firms guilty of conspiring to defraud the public about smoking risks...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
Ramsey suspect 'was teaching'
John Karr, 41, arrested on suspicion of murder in the 1996 killing of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, had been working in Thailand as a teacher, U.S. prosecutor Mary Lacy tells a news conference Boulder, Colorado...
CNN - August 17, 2006
Eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional
A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the U.S. government's warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered it ended immediately...
CNN - August 17, 2006
Suspect Says He Kidnapped Ramsey, but Calls Her Death ‘An Accident’
John Mark Karr confessed to the crime less than 24 hours after being arrested at his apartment in Bangkok, according to Thai and American authorities...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
New Orleans Jury Rules Against Merck
The company was ordered to pay a retired F.B.I. agent who suffered a heart attack while taking the drug at least $50 million in damages...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Mexico candidate senses history
Supporters of Mexico's defeated presidential candidate remain determined to have the result overturned, reports Duncan Kennedy...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
Product placement 'set to triple'
Advertising in films and TV shows will triple by 2010, according to researchers in the US...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
Fresh boost for Brazil's economy
Brazil's current account surplus swelled to a record $3.04bn in July, indicating that exports are growing strongly...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
Anti-Bush remark denied
Deputy PM John Prescott denies saying that President Bush's efforts on the Mid East road map were "crap"...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
Suspect speaks on JonBenet death
A US man admits he was with child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey when she died in 1996 - but denies killing her...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
NY releases new 9/11 phone calls
New tapes of emergency calls made from the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 are heard after relatives sued...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
Police: JonBenet confession
In a twist to a bizarre and riveting mystery, Thai police said the man arrested in connection with the 1996 slaying of JonBenet Ramsey has confessed and says he loved the six-year-old and didn't mean to kill her...
CNN - August 17, 2006
Police: Ramsey suspect confesses
In a shocking twist to an already bizarre and riveting mystery, Thai police today said the man arrested in connection with the 1996 slaying of little JonBenet Ramsey has confessed to the crime. The suspect, John Mark Karr, 41, was arrested in Thailand on Wednesday...
CNN - August 17, 2006
Fundamentalists: Hungry for Fresh Recruits, Cult-Like Islamic Groups Know Just When to Pounce
Extremist Muslim groups try to recruit those who have converted to Islam, especially young, impressionable men...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Golf: US rivals set for Medinah
Phil Mickelson will go head-to-head with world number one Tiger Woods when the USPGA gets under way on Thursday...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
Tennis: Blake ousted in Cincinnati
Sixth seed James Blake and third seed David Nalbandian crash out at the Cincinnati Masters...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
Chilean miners cut pay demands
Striking workers at the world's largest privately-owned copper mine in Chile have cut their salary demands...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
Lebanese troops deploy in south
Lebanese troops have begun deploying south of the Litani River as part of the U.N.-brokered cease-fire to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants, wires report...
CNN - August 17, 2006
Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan Ex-Dictator, Dies
Gen. Stroessner’s 35-year hold on power made him South America’s most enduring dictator during the cold war...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Steinbrenner Retreats From the Spotlight
George Steinbrenner has made a nearly total retreat from his pugnacious and aggressive public persona...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Schoolteacher Arrested in JonBenet Ramsey Case
The suspect, an American, was arrested in Bangkok in the death of JonBenet Ramsey, the 6-year-old found strangled in 1996...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Breaking Through Adoption’s Racial Barriers
A growing number of white couples are pushing past longtime cultural resistance to adopt black children...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Foreign Briefs : Venezuela’s Chávez on Asia Tour
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela said he would leave this weekend for a two-week tour of China, Angola and Malaysia to sign a series of energy deals...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Foreign Briefs : Houston Refinery Sold
The Lyondell Chemical Company said it paid about $2.1 billion for Citgo Petroleum’s minority stake in a Houston refinery the two companies have jointly operated for 14 years. Lyondell’s announcement ends its troubled partnership with Citgo, the United States refining subsidiary of Venezuela’s national oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela. The two companies came together to create an American market for heavy, sour crude oil, now the foundation of record refining margins, but the partnership suffered as Venezuela’s government veered left under President Hugo Chávez. Lyondell said it had become the sole owner of the refinery, which produces 270,000 barrels a day...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Foreign Briefs : Jobless Claims Rise in Britain
Britain’s unemployment rose the fastest in more than four years in July as factories shed workers and migrants swelled the work force. The number of people claiming benefits rose by 2,000 from June, to 957,000, the most since January 2002, the Office for National Statistics said. The jobless rate held at 3 percent for a fifth month, in line with economists’ forecasts. The gain in unemployment prompted one of the Bank of England’s seven policy makers, David G. Blanchflower, to vote against this month’s interest rate increase to 4.75 percent, according to published minutes of the meeting. Investors are betting on one more rate increase before the end of the year after inflation held above the bank’s 2 percent target for a third month in July. “The rise in unemployment is strong evidence of ample spare capacity in the U.K. economy, and should over the medium term restrain pay growth,” said Gavin Redknap, an economist at Standard Chartered Bank in London.’’...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Foreign Briefs : An Appeal in Lipitor Case in India
Ranbaxy Laboratories, India’s biggest drug maker, asked a United States appeals court to reconsider a ruling that would keep a generic version of Pfizer’s cholesterol medicine Lipitor off the market until 2010. On Aug. 2, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington upheld a patent on the drug that expires on March 24, 2010, and invalidated one that expires on June 28, 2011. Ranbaxy, which was challenging both patents, filed papers asking the appeals court to reconsider the ruling on the 2010 patent. Lipitor had sales of $12.2 billion last year, making it the world’s best-selling drug. Analysts had projected that the drug, which accounts for about 40 percent of Pfizer’s profit, would not have competition from cheaper generic versions until June 2011. Wednesday was the deadline for the companies to ask the court to reconsider any aspect of the ruling that did not go their way. A Pfizer spokesman, Bryant Haskins, said: “We have not yet filed anything with the appeals court.” He declined to comment further on Pfizer’s plans...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Foreign Briefs : Bid for Australian Gaming Company Rejected
Tabcorp withdrew its hostile bid for Unitab, valued at 1.9 billion Australian dollars ($1.5 billion), after it was rejected by Australia’s antitrust regulator. Tabcorp, Australia’s biggest gaming company, said it would not challenge the ruling. The decision leaves Tattersall’s, the country’s biggest lottery company, as the only bidder for Unitab with an offer of 1.8 billion Australian dollars in stock. Tattersall’s, based in Melbourne, may still need to raise its bid, which values Unitab shares at 3.7 percent less than Wednesday’s closing price. Buying Unitab would reduce Tattersall’s dependence on lotteries and allow it to bid for Tabcorp’s wagering license in Victoria state when it expires in 2012. Unitab is based in Brisbane...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Court Backs Nonresidents’ Right to Obtain Delaware Documents
A federal appeals court ruled that it was unconstitutional for Delaware to deny public documents to nonresidents under the state’s Freedom of Information Act...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
McDonald’s Shares Sold
Pershing Square Capital Management said it had sold its shares in the McDonald’s Corporation after pressuring the company to repurchase stock...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
BetOnSports Chief Freed
David Carruthers, the former chief executive of the online gambling company BetOnSports, was released on a $1 million bond with strict curbs on his movements...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Foreign Briefs : Support for Canadian Lumber Deal
The premier of British Columbia endorsed a softwood lumber accord with the United States, potentially bringing the two countries closer to settling their dispute...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Card Takeover Deal Called Korea’s Largest
Shinhan Financial Group agreed to buy credit card company LG Card, in what was said to be the biggest takeover in South Korean history...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
S.E.C. Broadens General Re Inquiry
Officials examining Berkshire Hathaway’s reinsurance units are also looking into a predecessor of St. Paul Travelers and former subsidiaries of Prudential Financial...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Swiss Company Will Compete With J.& J. in Spinal Disks
Synthes, a Swiss orthopedic devices company, said it received approval to sell its Prodisc lumbar disk replacement in the United States...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Satellite TV Providers End Bid for Airwaves
The DirecTV Group and EchoStar Communications bowed out of a multibillion-dollar auction of licenses for advanced wireless services...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Signs of Subdued Inflation Lift Market
Tame inflation data pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to its highest level in three months...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Cablevision Says Stock Options Are Being Investigated
Shareholder derivative lawsuits have also been filed against some of Cablevision’s current and former executives...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Lawyers Seek to Throw Out Lay Conviction
The request comes under federal law that says a defendant’s criminal indictment and conviction can be thrown out if the person dies before exhausting appeals...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Economic Scene : What Baseball Can Teach Those Who Dream of Creating the Next Silicon Valley
States all over the country are trying to turn their universities into engines of regional economic development...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Rules Delayed on Foreign Control of Airlines
The delay jeopardizes chances for a broader aviation deal with the European Union this year...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Vanity Fair Publisher Out; Editor’s Ally Named
Condé Nast removed Alan Katz as publisher and replaced him with Edward Menicheschi, president of WWD Media Worldwide...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Inco Is Left With Two Suitors as a Hostile Bid Is Abandoned
Canadian mining company Teck Cominco abandoned its bid for Inco less than a day after unveiling an unusual plan to enhance its hostile offer...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Internet Domain Agency Renews U.S. Contract
Icann renewed its contract with the U.S. Department of Commerce, despite complaints that the relationship politicizes what should be a neutral global computer network...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Icahn Has a New Strategy for Time Warner
Carl C. Icahn, the billionaire financier, is planning to increase his stake and influence in Time Warner through a new fund that he is developing...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Market Place: After Spinoff, Sprint Nextel Finds Still More Is Needed
Sprint Nextel’s stock has slid by one-third since April because of poor execution after the Nextel merger, weaker subscriber growth and heavy marketing pushes by competitors...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Advertising: Hey, Just Because He’s Divorced Doesn’t Mean He Can’t Sell Things
The divorced father may be in the midst of an image overhaul as advertisers try to reflect the changing nuclear family...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Eye on Election, Democrats Run as Wal-Mart Foe
The focus on Wal-Mart is part of a broader strategy of addressing what Democrats say is general economic anxiety...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
DAVID POGUE: Old Records Go In, CD's Come Out
Are you over 30? Sorry to hear it. That makes you part of the Transition Generation, those who have witnessed the world’s shift from analog to digital recordings...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Peltz Is Seen With 2 Seats at Heinz
Investor Nelson Peltz won seats on the board of the H. J. Heinz Company, setting up a showdown over its future...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Science Haven in Singapore
Singapore is emerging as a hotbed for stem cell research, thanks to liberal laws in the field and equally liberal government financing...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Entrepreneurial Edge: Parking-Lot Dentistry Is Finding Its Niche
In the parking lots of 11 casinos in Las Vegas, mobile dental offices combine technology and the American penchant for saving time...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Hewlett-Packard Nears Goal of Overtaking I.B.M.
Hewlett-Packard’s revenue rose to $21.9 billion in its third quarter, growing at a pace that will enable it to usurp I.B.M.’s title as the world’s largest technology company...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Inflation Gives Signs of Slowing
The latest report on consumer prices appears to support the Federal Reserve’s decision to halt its interest rate increases...
New York Times - August 17, 2006
Woman held over plane diversion
A woman is arrested over an on-board disturbance which forced a flight from London to Washington to divert...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
Colombia paramilitaries arrested
Colombian police arrest 10 senior leaders of a right-wing paramilitary group for breaching the terms of a peace accord...
BBC News - August 17, 2006
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