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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 January 2007:
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Iraq: Raids net 400 militants
Iraqi authorities say they have been quietly taking a bolder stance against Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia, and the United States says it has uncovered evidence that Iran is involved in attacks inside Iraq...
CNN - January 18, 2007
Killer at 11, he's free at 21
Nathaniel Abraham was just 11 when he killed an 18-year-old man with a rifle. He was the first Michigan youngster convicted of an adult murder charge. On Thursday, Abraham was released from state custody a day before his 21st birthday...
CNN - January 18, 2007
Gale-Force Storm Hits Europe, Leaving 7 Dead
A howling winter gale, dubbed Cyril by German meteorologists, churned through Europe today...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Gonzales Testifies on Eavesdropping Changes
Senators questioning Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales were only partly mollified by a new concession...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Fed Chief Sends Warning on Budget
Ben S. Bernanke warned today that looming deficits in the Social Security and Medicare programs posed long-term threats to the nation?s economy...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
House Votes to Rescind $14 Billion in Oil Tax Breaks
The money would be channeled into a fund that would finance renewable energy projects and new technologies for conserving energy...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Time Inc. Lays Off Nearly 300
The cuts come as Time Inc. seeks to expand its presence on on the Web, where the company sees its future...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Apple shares slide on forecasts
Apple shares fall amid investor concern about the outlook for the iPod and Mac computer maker...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Computer giant IBM profits rise
Computer giant IBM reports an 11% rise in quarterly profits, boosted by recent software company acquisitions...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
US anger at China 'space weapon'
China faces international criticism over what the US says was the use of a ballistic missile to destroy a satellite...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Bid to rescue NY dolphins fails
Rescuers attempting to coax six dolphins stranded in a shallow cove off New York's Long Island fail to move them...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
US people-smuggler gets life term
A lorry driver escapes the death penalty for one of the deadliest attempts at people-smuggling in the US...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
US congressmen seek Iran block
A bipartisan group of US congressmen propose a new law to block an attack on Iran without congressional approval...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Rule by decree passed for Chavez
Venezuela's parliament grants initial approval to a plan allowing President Hugo Chavez to rule by decree...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
TV boss: 'Race row' show stays on
The boss of a British television channel has said "Celebrity Big Brother" will stay on the air despite a row over the alleged "racist" treatment of Indian actress Shilpa Shetty. Earlier mobile phone giant Carphone Warehouse suspended its sponsorship. In Thursday's program both Shilpa and her main critic, Jade Goody, said the exchanges were not racism...
CNN - January 18, 2007
Rice: Whole of Mideast wants peace
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has met German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after the two sides announced a revival of peace talks...
CNN - January 18, 2007
DA: Suspect 'confessed' he took Ben
Pizza manager Michael J. Devlin admitted to police that he snatched a 13-year-old Missouri boy, a prosecutor said Thursday. Devlin, 41, pleaded not guilty via video link from jail to kidnapping a child under age 14...
CNN - January 18, 2007
House Democrats target Big Oil with higher taxes
Newly empowered House Democrats are optimistic they can push through an energy package of $15 billion in fees, taxes and royalties on oil and gas companies to promote renewable fuels...
CNN - January 18, 2007
Retired Generals Criticize Bush?s Plan for Iraq
A panel of retired generals told a Senate panel that sending 21,500 additional troops to Iraq will do little to solve the underlying political problems...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Bank of Japan Decides to Hold Rates Steady
In an intensely scrutinized decision, the central bank concluded that the economy was too weak to bear an interest rate hike...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Time Inc. Lays Off More Than 250
Time Inc. began laying off more than 250 people today at its top magazines, including its most profitable title, People, which said it was shutting down its Washington, Miami and Chicago bureaus entirely...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Trial may lift lid off White House
The trial of a former top aide to Vice-President Dick Cheney is set to reveal the inner workings of the White House...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Energy costs push US inflation up
US inflation rose at its fastest rate in eight months during December as energy costs increased...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
US 'to halve' no-fly watch list
The US hopes to halve the number of names on the list it uses to bar suspected terrorists from air travel...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
US must reform benefits 'soon'
The head of the Federal Reserve warns US growth could be at risk if the benefits system is not reformed...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Artist laments theft of US icon
A statue based on the iconic US image of ironworkers having lunch on a skyscraper loses a figure to thieves...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Sex-change chemicals in Potomac
A study of rivers feeding Washington's Potomac River reveals the presence of sex-changing chemicals...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
US satirist Buchwald dies
Pulitzer Prize-winning satirist Art Buchwald dies at the age of 81, his son announces...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Operating Costs Are Imperiling Disaster Fund
The federal government?s biggest program to help people rebuild after natural disasters will have to shut down unless Congress acts, a memorandum says...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Regulators Fault Con Ed Over Queens Blackout
New York regulators said failures by the utility led to the nine-day blackout that affected 174,000 people last July...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
NY dolphin rescue bid to resume
Rescuers are to resume attempts to save six dolphins stranded in a shallow cove off New York's Long Island...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Colombia seizes $54m drugs cash
Colombian authorities seize $54m in cash as well as gold ingots from the country's largest drugs cartel...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Pizza manager's links to third abduction probed
Authorities are examining similarities between the disappearances of Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby and the 1991 disappearance of 11-year-old Arlin Henderson. They are also looking into whether Michael Devlin, 41, joined a 2005 search for another missing child to learn police techniques. Devlin's bond Wednesday was set at $3 million, cash only...
CNN - January 18, 2007
Partisan dispute derails ethics legislation
Democrats' hopes of starting off in the Senate with ethics changes received a jolt when a dispute sidetracked a bill previously hailed as a model for bipartisan cooperation. Republicans voted against a motion to proceed to protest the exclusion of a line-item veto amendment...
CNN - January 18, 2007
Bloomberg Seeks Further Reform for City Schools
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's plan would give principals more power and autonomy...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Political Memo: As the Skeptics Ask Why, Obama Asks Why Not?
Senator Barack Obama?s presidential campaign promising change follows a long line of candidates whose freshness faded before the elections...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Expert Ties Ex-Player?s Suicide to Brain Damage
Andre Waters suffered brain damage from playing football and that led to his depression and death...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Bills on Climate Move to Spotlight in New Congress
Democrats are increasingly determined to impose mandatory controls on carbon-dioxide emissions...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Court to Oversee U.S. Wiretapping in Terror Cases
The decision capped 13 months of bruising national debate over the reach of the president?s wartime authorities and his claims of executive power...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Disaster Fund Faces Financial Shortfall
The fund is running out of operating funds because of problems at the agency that runs it, the Small Business Administration...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Iraqis Answer Global Critics by Tackling Troubling Issues
Iraqi leaders highlighted crackdowns on militias, progress on a national oil law and new examples of reconciliation with former Baathists...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
World Business Briefing: U.S. to Renegotiate Labor Rights
The Bush administration said it would renegotiate the language covering labor rights in free trade agreements it has reached with Peru, Colombia and Panama, in order for the new Democratic Congress to approve the deals. John K. Veroneau, deputy United States trade representative, said that the three countries had been notified and predicted that an agreement on revised language could be reached without a lengthy delay. The announcement was the strongest signal to date that the administration was prepared to modify its trade policies in light of Democratic control of the House and Senate. Democrats, backed by American labor unions, have long complained that the free trade deals negotiated by the administration do not include enough protections for American workers...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
World Business Briefing: Russia: Sakhalin Production Increases
Exxon Mobil said output from its $17 billion Sakhalin Island development in the Pacific off Russia jumped 40 percent in the last month. Oil and natural gas production from the Sakhalin-1 development has risen to the equivalent of more than 200,000 barrels of crude a day, according to Stuart McGill, senior vice president. Exxon, which operates and owns a 30 percent stake in the project, expects output eventually to reach the equivalent of 317,000 barrels a day. Production at Sakhalin-1 was about 160,000 barrels a day in early December, a Bear Stearns analyst, Nicole Decker, said in a Dec. 13 note to clients after an analysts? lunch with Exxon?s chief executive, Rex W. Tillerson. Exxon began producing crude from the Chayvo field off Sakhalin Island?s ice-choked coastline in October 2005. Exxon?s partners in Sakhalin-1 are a Japanese group known as Sodeco, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India and the state-run Russian oil company Rosneft...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Entrepreneurial Edge: The Route From Research to Start-Up
Many universities now have offices of technology transfer looking to turn research into commercial ventures...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Barclays Pays Record Price to Put Name on Nets? Arena
The British bank Barclays has agreed to pay nearly $400 million over 20 years to put its name on the Nets? planned future home in Brooklyn...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
World Business Briefing: The Netherlands: Chip Supplier Soars
ASML Holding, maker of the most expensive machines in chip fabrication, said fourth-quarter profit quadrupled on demand for semiconductors used in iPod music devices and mobile phones. Net income jumped to a record 205.5 million euros ($265.7 million), or 0.42 euro a share, from 51.6 million euros, or 0.11 euro a share, a year earlier, ASML said. Sales surged 95 percent, to a record 1.07 billion euros. The company said orders would be ?healthy? in the first quarter and revenue would gain this year. Demand for Apple iPods and Motorola phones has spurred shipments of ASML?s $18 million machines to clients like Samsung Electronics, Intel and Texas Instruments. ASML is based in Veldhoven, the Netherlands...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
World Business Briefing: Sweden: Sony Ericsson?s Ambitions
Sony Ericsson, the Japanese-Swedish cellphone manufacturing venture, posted record fourth-quarter earnings on strong demand for music and camera phones and said it aimed to pass Samsung to become No. 3 in sales, behind Nokia and Motorola. Sony Ericsson?s pretax quarterly profit rose to a record 502 million euros ($649 million), and full-year 2006 pretax profit was 1.3 billion euros, more than double the 512 million of 2005. In the quarter, Sony Ericsson increased market share by a percentage point, to 9 percent, on sales of its Cyber-shot camera phone and its Walkman phones, based on Sony?s brand of music players...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
World Business Briefing: Japan and Switzerland to Talk Trade
Japan and Switzerland will soon start free trade talks in Tokyo?s first attempt at a bilateral trade agreement with a European country, officials said. Japan is arranging for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, to start the talks in a phone conversation with President Micheline Calmy-Rey of Switzerland, according to Hajime Ueda of the economic treaties division of the Japanese Foreign Ministry. A bilateral trade pact with Switzerland that lowers tariffs will greatly benefit Japan because 70 percent of its exports to the European country are taxed, Mr. Ueda said. He did not give a timetable for the phone call or the start of talks, but said they would occur soon...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Cost of Fuel Skews Earnings at Airlines
AMR, parent of American Airlines, earned a surprise fourth-quarter profit while Southwest Airlines said that net income fell...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Shares Dip on Worries Over Interest Rates
A Fed report deflated hopes for an interest rate cut that had already been diminished by a larger-than-expected rise in the Producer Price Index...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
New Jersey Court Revives a Merck Suit
A lawsuit against Merck sought medical monitoring for former users of the painkiller Vioxx...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
McDonald?s Expects Sales to Surpass Estimates
Strong demand in the U.S. for breakfast items and the chicken snack wrap helped generate better-than-expected December results...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
A Fed Adviser Plans to Leave
Vincent Reinhart, a top adviser on interest rates, is planning to leave the central bank...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Ex-Cendant Chairman Sentenced for Fraud
Walter A. Forbes, was sentenced to 12 years and 7 months in prison and ordered to pay $3.275 billion in restitution...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Curb Sought on Fannie Mae Regulator
Fannie Mae?s former chief executive is seeking to bar the company?s regulator from ruling on a lawsuit seeking more than $84 million in penalties against him...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Homebuilder?s Shares Rise Despite Reporting a Loss
Lennar Corporation reported a fourth-quarter loss but the company?s stock rose as it discussed 2007 earnings goals...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
F.C.C. Chairman Says Rules Bar Satellite Radio Merger
Kevin Martin said that Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio would not win approval of a merger under current regulatory rules...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Grasso Weighs in on Cost of Spitzer Suit
Richard A. Grasso said that the costs involved in a lawsuit challenging his compensation might have exceeded $100 million...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Delay Denied on Tax Accounting Rule
The rule would have required companies to take a more stringent approach to reporting uncertain tax positions on their financial statements...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Mellon Financial Reports 14% Higher Profit
Mellon Financial said earnings roseon an increase in fees for overseeing hedge funds and mutual funds...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Digital Music Up 80% but Shy of Lost Revenue
Sales of digitally distributed music rose about 80 percent worldwide in 2006 but failed to make up for falling sales of compact discs...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Owner of Outlet Malls Agrees to a Buyout
The Mills Corporation said it had agreed to be acquired for $1.4 billion by Brookfield Asset Management...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Payday Loans Are a Scourge, but Should Wrath Be Aimed at the Lenders?
Outrage directed at payday lenders cannot prevent the hardships it has created. A more deserving target would be legislators who have steadfastly resisted campaign finance reform...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
JPMorgan Chase Posts 68% Rise in Earnings
Record profits for its investment banking advisory businesses and vast improvement in its trading results contributed to the gain...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
ReganBooks to Shut Down After Firing of Its Creator
HarperCollins announced it will close ReganBooks, the imprint created by the controversial editor Judith Regan...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Democrats Say House Energy Bill Will Pass
The bill would eliminate $14 billion in subsidies and tax breaks for oil companies and channel the money to renewable-energy projects...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Bank of Japan, in a Split Vote, Decides to Hold Rates Steady
The nation?s central bank apparently concluded that the economy was too weak to bear a rate increase...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
G.E. May Buy Abbott?s Diagnostic Unit
General Electric is said to be near a deal to buy Abbott Laboratories? medical diagnostics unit for as much as $5 billion...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Airbus Predicts Operating Loss for 2006
Airbus warned that major production delays would probably push it to an operating loss for 2006, despite a record number of deliveries...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Grand Jury Looking at Katrina Insurer
A grand jury in Mississippi began hearing testimony on possible criminal charges against State Farm for its handling of claims after Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Appeals Court Rules for Wal-Mart in Maryland Health Care Case
The ruling throws into doubt the concept that states can compel companies to offer more generous health care...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Universal Plans to Hire Top Executive of Film Rival
Universal Pictures hired Christopher Meledandri, the president of 20th Century Fox Animation to make both animated and live-action films...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
State of the Art: Purging Bloat to Fashion Sleek Software
After a radical redesign, Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications are almost totally new programs...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Some Signs of Economic Resilience Seen
The latest Fed survey offered further evidence that the economy is expanding at a slower pace, but one that has so far defied predictions of a sharper slowdown...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
TJX Says Customer Data Was Stolen
The retailer that operates the T. J. Maxx said that sensitive customer financial data was pilfered by identity thieves...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Advertising: Don?t Like the Dancing Cowboys? Results Say You Do
The surprising success of the ubiquitous Web banners by LowerMyBills.com has led to a significant payday for the company...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Rivals Offer $38 Billion for a REIT
The $38 billion offer has set off the biggest buyout battle since the landmark fight for RJR Nabisco nearly two decades ago...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Fraternal Twins in the Showroom
Foreign carmakers are offering look-alike models at the high and low ends of their respective brands that may cause some unintended double-takes...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Two Seek Large Stake in Tribune
Eli Broad and Ronald W. Burkle made a $500 million offer to become the largest shareholder in the Tribune Company...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Apple Profit Rose 78% in Quarter
Apple delivered $1 billion in profit for its first quarter, based largely on the Christmas performance of its iPod music player business...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Hondurans die in coffee collapse
Six workers in Honduras are crushed to death by sacks of coffee beans after a warehouse wall collapses...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
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