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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 March 2005:
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Sheriff: Couey admits abducting, killing girl
Convicted sex offender John Evander Couey has admitted to abducting and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, the Citrus County sheriff said Friday. Investigators are searching the area around the home where Couey was staying when Jessica disappeared three weeks ago...
CNN - March 18, 2005
Schiavo's feeding tube disconnected
The feeding tube that has kept Terri Schiavo alive for 15 years has been disconnected, said the attorney for the woman's husband. The move comes amid a flurry of legal activity focusing on the brain-damaged woman Friday, including two very different orders handed down by two judges...
CNN - March 18, 2005
Judge rejects House plea
Doctors removed Terri Schiavo's feeding tube Friday, her sister said, despite an extraordinary, last-ditch effort by the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress to use its subpoena powers to keep the brain-damaged woman alive...
CNN - March 18, 2005
Schiavo's Feeding Tube Removed at Judge's Order
Doctors removed the feeding tube of a severely brain-damaged woman today despite extraordinary, last-minute efforts by Washington lawmakers to prolong her life...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Former Connecticut Governor Sentenced to Year in Prison
NEW HAVEN, March 18 - Former Gov. John G. Rowland of Connecticut was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison, a punishment ordered after the fallen Republican star pleaded guilty in December to a felony conspiracy charge involving his acceptance of $107,000 in gifts that he did not pay taxes on...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Wal-Mart Settles Illegal Immigrant Case
Wal-Mart Stores has agreed to pay $11 million to settle federal allegations it used illegal immigrants to clean its stores...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
New US court setback for Yukos
Embattled Russian oil giant Yukos loses another round in its attempt to secure US court protection against the Russian state...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
Bishop sacked in abortion dispute
Argentina effectively sacks a bishop who said the health minister should be thrown into the sea for backing abortion...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
Cuba criticised over dissidents
Amnesty International accuses Cuba of holding 71 prisoners of conscience, often in inhuman conditions...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
Judge blocks removal of Schiavo's feeding tube
A state judge in Florida today temporarily blocked removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, The Associated Press reported. The action came soon after a House committee issued a subpoena for Schiavo, her husband and three others to appear before Congress next week...
CNN - March 18, 2005
Schiavo subpoenaed
With the deadline for removing her feeding tube fast approaching, a House committee today issued a subpoena for a brain-damaged Florida woman to appear before Congress next week. The panel said it has issued five subpoenas, including one for Terri Schiavo and one for her husband Michael, who has been leading the fight for removal of her feeding tube...
CNN - March 18, 2005
Congress Moves to Halt Feeding Tube Removal in Florida
Hours before doctors are scheduled to remove a feeding tube from a severely brain-damaged woman, the Senate majority leader said today Congress is inviting her to testify...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Wal-Mart to pay immigrants fine
The world's largest retailer is to pay $11m to the US government after an inquiry into the use of illegal immigrants...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
US consumer confidence shows dip
US consumers are worried about gasoline prices, as a report shows consumer confidence down...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
American Cold War architect dies
George Kennan, the American career diplomat who helped shape the US' Cold War policy, dies aged 101...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
Woman to lead Muslim prayers
A US professor is to be the first Muslim woman to lead a mixed group of men and women at Friday prayers...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
Bush invites Israeli PM to ranch
Ariel Sharon has been invited to the US president's Texas ranch on 11 April, the White House says...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
'Extraordinary' action taken in Schiavo case
Employing an "extraordinary congressional" maneuver, House Republican leaders early today made a last-ditch effort to keep doctors from removing the feeding tube of a brain damaged Florida woman. A House panel plans to issue a subpoena requiring doctors to "preserve nutrition and hydration for Terri Schiavo" until Congress understands her case...
CNN - March 18, 2005
Israel welcomes Palestinian truce deal
Israel welcomes a temporary truce declared by Palestinian militants and promises to hold its fire, but it demands that the Palestinian Authority eventually dismantle the armed groups...
CNN - March 18, 2005
Last-ditch bid in Schiavo case
Employing an "extraordinary congressional" maneuver, House Republican leadership early Friday made a last-ditch effort to keep doctors from removing the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo...
CNN - March 18, 2005
EU warns on Microsoft behaviour
Software giant Microsoft seems to be falling short in its compliance with an anti-trust punishment, the European Commission says...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
Bolivia leader to stay in office
Bolivian President Carlos Mesa confirms he is to stay on in office, ending political deadlock within the country...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
Beef row looms on Rice Japan trip
The US Secretary of State will discuss Japan's ban on US beef, North Korea and China as she visits Tokyo...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
'Kidnap plot' over Letterman baby
A painter who worked at the home of US talk show host David Letterman is charged with plotting to kidnap his son...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
Right-to-die woman's fate unclear
The fate of a brain-damaged US woman remains unclear after Congress fails to agree legislation to keep her alive...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
Freed China prisoner reaches US
A prominent Uighur woman imprisoned in China since 1999 arrives in the US, after being freed from jail early...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
Cricket: Offer may see Lara recall
A finance company offers to resolve a sponsorship dispute which led to seven players being dropped by West Indies...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
Supreme Court rejects Schiavo appeal
Less than 18 hours before Terri Schiavo was scheduled to have her life-sustaining feeding tube removed, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal by her parents to stop the procedure...
CNN - March 18, 2005
Senate, House budgets clash over cuts
The Senate passed a $2.6 trillion dollar budget that erases President Bush's plans to cut Medicaid, community development and school aid. This sets up a battle with the House, which approved a spending plan with far deeper cuts...
CNN - March 18, 2005
In Blow to Bush, Senators Reject Cuts to Medicaid
The vote, a rebuke to both the White House and the Senate leadership, put the House and Senate on a collision course...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
McGwire Offers No Denials at Steroid Hearings
Mark McGwire was among 10 players and baseball executives who testified before a House committee investigating steroid use...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
A Haircut in Iraq Can Be the Death of the Barber
Islamic militants have killed as many as 12 barbers for shaving men's beards or doing Western-style haircuts...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Youth and the Market: Love at First Sight
The youth-besotted, cheerful and modestly disappointing jumbo survey of contemporary art has opened to the predictable mobs at P.S. 1 in Queens...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
George F. Kennan Dies at 101; Leading Strategist of Cold War
George F. Kennan was the U.S. diplomat who did more than any other envoy of his generation to shape U.S. policy during the cold war...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Leading Indicators Rise; Jobless Claims Fall
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Partnership to Invest in Bankruptcies
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Viacom Still Plans to Offer Mixed-Media Ad Packages
When Viacom acquired CBS in 1999, one expectation was that the company would be able to sell packages of advertising across an expanded range of properties: billboards, radio stations, cable channels like MTV and, of course, the CBS network...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Bertelsmann Profit Up Sharply on TV Results and Cost Cuts
Bertelsmann reported sharply higher profit in 2004, propelled by best sellers like Bill Clinton's memoir "My Life," and deep cost-cutting at its music division, BMG...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Brazil Plane Maker Getting Big Orders for Smaller Jets
Workers in Brazil are assembling a new kind of plane that JetBlue Airways is betting will let it take its low-fare philosophy to dozens of previously ignored destinations...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
When It Comes to Managing Retirement, Many People Simply Can't
Farther down the income scale, a number of workers have been unable to handle money intended for their old age successfully...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Fannie Mae to Delay Filing Annual Report
WASHINGTON, March 17 (AP) - Fannie Mae, the nation's largest buyer of home mortgages, said Thursday that it would miss the regulatory deadline for filing its financial report for 2004 and might have to record an additional loss of some $2.4 billion. A discovery of falsified signatures raised the possibility of criminal activity by company employees...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
A.I.G. Executive on Leave
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Shares Stabilize Despite Gyrations in Crude Oil Prices
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Profit Off 50% at King Pharmaceuticals
By Reuters...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Citigroup Told to Fix Problems Before Any Mergers
By Reuters...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Barnes & Noble Issues a Warning on Profits
The bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc., hurt by the spinoff of its Game- Stop division, reported an 11 percent drop in its fourth-quarter profit...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Nike's Profit Jumps 36%
PORTLAND, Ore., March 17 (AP) - Nike posted a 36 percent increase in third-quarter profit on Thursday in the first quarterly report since the co-founder of the company, Philip H. Knight, stepped down as chief executive...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Westlaw to Curtail Access to Personal Data
Three weeks after publicly chiding the data search service Westlaw for lax management of the Social Security numbers in its databases, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, announced yesterday that executives at Westlaw had agreed to new restrictions on the release of information...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Retirement, the Federal Way
The experiences of federal employees enrolled in the Thrift Savings Plan show how giving investors control over their retirement savings can have varying results...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Interpublic Delays the Release of Some Financial Results
Interpublic is still "not able to announce a date" for reporting its 2004 results and will also postpone the release of data for the first quarter of 2005...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
New Yorker Again Dominates Magazine Award Nominations
For the eighth year in a row, The New Yorker dominated the nominations for the National Magazine Awards, which were announced on Thursday...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
New Board for Surgeons Denied Again
The battle for an independent board has been waged by vascular surgeons who no longer want to be overseen by the American Board of Surgery...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Europeans Doubt Microsoft Is Obeying Antitrust Order
The European Commission has "strong doubts" that Microsoft is obeying an order issued a year ago in a landmark antitrust ruling against the company...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
DreamWorks Animation Posts Profit on 'Shrek 2' DVD Sales
DreamWorks Animation SKG posted a fourth-quarter profit of $192 million on sales of "Shrek 2," last year's best-selling DVD...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Ann Taylor Selects a New Chief
Ann Taylor, the 50-year-old chain that sells medium-priced career clothes, said yesterday that it planned to replace its chief executive - the same day that it reported disappointing quarterly earnings...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Two Wall St. Companies Post Strong Quarterly Profit
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley followed their Wall Street peers Lehman Brothers and the Bear Stearns Company in reporting strong first-quarter earnings, fueled by continued strength in trading, most specifically bond trading and its subsidiary businesses...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Ebbers Case Adds Luster to Rising Star
The conviction of Bernard J. Ebbers on Tuesday for his role in the WorldCom fraud was only the latest in a string of victories for a young federal prosecutor named David B. Anders...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
KitchenAid Shifts Roles Among Publicis Units
KitchenAid Shifts Roles...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
New Editor of Paris Review Is Writer for The New Yorker
Philip Gourevitch, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, was appointed as editor of The Paris Review, the esteemed literary quarterly...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Martha Stewart Attends Court Hearing
Martha Stewart brought her campaign to clear her name to an appeals court, where questions were raised over whether a juror lied to be selected for Ms. Stewart's case...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Did Qwest Use Fraud to Arrange a Disastrous Merger With U S West?
A place of dishonor should be reserved for the bosses of good companies who agreed to exchange their company's stock for shares in a company inflated by fraud...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Quarterly Profit Rises 53% at FedEx
By Reuters...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Viacom Fights Against Its Own Size
Viacom chief Sumner Redstone spent a decade building one of the biggest media companies in the world, but is now considering a breakup of that empire...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
Congressman From Ohio Is Chosen for Trade Post
President Bush selected Representative Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican who is one of his closest friends in Congress, to be the next U.S. trade representative...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
At A.I.G., It Seems Chief's Departure Was Exaggerated
Just days after Maurice Greenberg stepped down as chief executive of the American International Group, he continues to hold a powerful sway over the insurance giant...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
When OPEC Speaks, Not Everyone Listens
Hours after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries decided to increase its production ceiling, prices in New York spiked to a new high...
New York Times - March 18, 2005
McGwire grilled on steroid use
Retired Major League Baseball star Mark McGwire refuses to identify players who use steroids...
BBC News - March 18, 2005
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