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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 2005:
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Ohio governor fined
Gov. Bob Taft, great-grandson of the 27th president, pleaded no contest Thursday to charges that he broke state ethics law by failing to report golf outings and other gifts. He was fined the maximum $1,000 for each of four misdemeanor counts. As expected, no jail time was ordered. The charges had carried a maximum sentence of six months on each count...
CNN - August 18, 2005
Israel: Biggest Gaza settlement cleared
Israeli troops and police have completed the evacuation of the largest Jewish settlement in Gaza, the scene earlier in the day of emotional protests against the pullout, the Israeli military announced late Thursday...
CNN - August 18, 2005
BTK killer gets life times 10
Confessed BTK serial killer Dennis Rader Thursday was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms after the court heard emotional statements from his victims' families and heard Rader himself express some remorse...
CNN - August 18, 2005
Ohio Governor Tells Court He Violated Ethics Law
Gov. Bob Taft of Ohio admitted in court today that he had failed to report nearly $6,000 in gifts and apologized four times...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Shuttles Won't Return to Space Until at Least 2006, NASA Says
NASA had hoped to launch the next shuttle as early as September after suspending all flights until a foam problem is fixed...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
B.T.K. Serial Killer Gets Life in Prison
A judge today sentenced Dennis L. Rader to 10 consecutive life sentences for the murder of 10 people from 1974 to 1991, and said he is not eligible for parole for at least 40 years...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
2 Former Top Executives of Hollinger Charged With Fraud
F. David Radler was indicted on criminal charges of fraud along with another former executive of the newspaper company...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Passed Over for Top Post, Head of Mercedes-Benz Will Resign
Eckhard Cordes, the head of the Mercedes-Benz car division who last month lost the race to become DaimlerChrysler's chief executive, will resign at the end of the month...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
French to aid Venezuela jet probe
French experts will help study flight data recorders from a jet that crashed in Venezuela, killing 160 people...
BBC News - August 18, 2005
Families to confront BTK killer
Relatives of BTK serial killer Dennis Rader's victims will have a chance to confront him Thursday in court, after hearing witness after witness describe his crimes at his sentencing hearing...
CNN - August 18, 2005
Protesters forced from synagogues
Israeli troops enter the Neve Dekalim synagogue in Gaza after 2,000 protesters inside refused to leave. In the hard-line settlement of Kfar Darom, troops sprayed a water cannon on protesters on a synagogue rooftop...
CNN - August 18, 2005
Israeli troops enter synagogue
Israeli troops enter the Neve Dekalim synagogue after the estimated 2,000 protesters inside -- many of them young people from outside the area -- refuse to leave. Earlier Israeli officials said that more than half of 21 Jewish settlements in Gaza had been cleared...
CNN - August 18, 2005
Ohio governor fined $4,000
Gov. Bob Taft pleaded no contest Thursday to charges that he broke state ethics law by failing to report golf outings and other gifts. He was fined the maximum $1,000 for each of four misdemeanor counts. As expected, no jail time was ordered. The charges had carried a maximum sentence of six months on each count...
CNN - August 18, 2005
Public or Private School? In Campaign, It's Personal
The reluctance of Gifford Miller to commit to public or private education for his children mirrors a struggle familiar to many upper-income parents in New York City...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Google to Sell Up to $4 Billion in New Stock
Google offered few details on what it would do with the cash other than to hint at possible acquisitions...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Families to face US serial killer
Families of victims of the notorious "Bind, Torture, Kill" serial killer are preparing to speak at his sentencing hearing...
BBC News - August 18, 2005
Menezes family seek rapid probe
Lawyers for the family of a Brazilian man shot dead by police call for a fast inquiry into the shooting...
BBC News - August 18, 2005
Housewives actress injured on set
Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria is hit on the head by a falling pole while filming the US series...
BBC News - August 18, 2005
Singer Cohen sues ex-manager
Singer Leonard Cohen alleges his former business manager defrauded him of $5m (£2.7m) in the 1990s...
BBC News - August 18, 2005
Benedict XVI returns to Germany
Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in his original homeland of Germany to thunderous applause and cheers from thousands of followers at the start of his first foreign trip as pontiff. Pilgrims from around the world crammed onto the airport tarmac to greet the pope, who is attending World Youth Day, a Roman Catholic youth festival...
CNN - August 18, 2005
Israeli troops move into Kfar Darom
Israeli troops and police officers marched Thursday into the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom in Gaza, where about 2,000 pullout opponents are barricaded inside a synagogue...
CNN - August 18, 2005
The mind of a 'monster'
Chilling details of the BTK killer's reign of terror are being presented during his sentencing hearing in Wichita, Kansas. One investigator said the killer, Dennis Rader, strangled a neighbor in 1985 and then took the woman's body to the Lutheran church he attended. There, he snapped photographs of her in bondage positions. The killer admitted to one investigator that he was a "monster."...
CNN - August 18, 2005
Candlelight vigils protest Iraq war
Hundreds of candlelight vigils calling for an end to the war in Iraq were held Wednesday in a national effort spurred by one mother's anti-war demonstration near President Bush's ranch...
CNN - August 18, 2005
Russia, China test military might
China and Russia have begun their first ever joint military exercises between the two nations on and around a peninsula in the Yellow Sea...
CNN - August 18, 2005
Roberts gets top ABA rating
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts has received the American Bar Association's highest rating for professional qualifications, an important legal and political benchmark, as he prepares for Senate confirmation hearings...
CNN - August 18, 2005
Health Mystery in New York: Heart Disease
Death rates from heart disease in New York City are among the highest recorded in the country, and no one quite knows why...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Bad Iraq War News Worries Some in G.O.P. on '06 Vote
Some Republicans said the perception that the war in Iraq was faltering was providing a rallying point for dispirited Democrats...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
A Good Report on AIDS, and Some Credit the Web
Health officials have been scrambling to explain a significant decline in new H.I.V. infections among gay men in San Francisco...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Pope to Sound Theme of Non-Christian Ties at Festival
Pope Benedict XVI's trip to World Youth Day, a festival of young Roman Catholics in his native Germany, is notable for the attention he will pay to non-Christians...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Furrier Mice Offer Discovery on Active Adult Stem Cells
Researchers have discovered that an enzyme known to serve as a last-ditch defense against cancer also activates adult stem cells...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Progress Reported in Chinese Trade Talks
Negotiators are close to a comprehensive agreement that would limit imports of Chinese clothing and textiles into the United States...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Grey Worldwide Fills Chief Executive Post
Grey Worldwide Fills...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Soda Makers Widen a Ban on School Sales
Soda companies will extend their ban on soft drink sales to include middle schools, ceding to pressure from health advocates to reduce obesity in children...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Six Flags Faces Proxy Fight
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Dow Jones/AP) - The owner of the Washington Redskins, Daniel M. Snyder, a critic of the management of Six Flags, began a proxy fight on Wednesday to gain three of seven seats on the board...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Two Choices for Xbox
When Microsoft's new Xbox video game console comes out this fall, consumers will be able to choose between a fully loaded system and a more basic version...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Maytag Delays a Meeting
NEWTON, Iowa, Aug. 17 (AP) - The Maytag Corporation said on Wednesday that it had postponed a meeting of shareholders to Sept. 9, from Aug. 30, to allow the company time to distribute proxy information...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Seller of AOL Data Is Sentenced
A former employee of America Online was sentenced to a year and three months in prison for selling the screen names and e-mail addresses of 92 million subscribers to spammers...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Johnson to Increase Output of Cypher Stent
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Icahn and Time Warner Meet
Carl C. Icahn, who has demanded that Time Warner buy back $20 billion of its stock and spin off its cable division, met with top executives but won no immediate changes...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Sharp Decline in Oil Prices Spurs Modest Rise in Shares
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Wholesale Prices Increased Sharply in July
Wholesale prices in July rose more sharply than expected and at a faster rate than consumer prices, indicating that businesses were still shielding consumers from the full brunt of higher energy costs...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
China Lets U.S. Executive Out on Bail
An American executive detained in China since October while his company fought debt claims was released on bail on Wednesday...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Circling a Decision
Northwest Airlines and its mechanics' union are bracing for a fight over wage and benefit cuts that many in the industry thought would have come long before now...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Report Clears U.S. Officials in Loan Vote
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (AP) - Treasury Department investigators have determined that no improper political pressure was applied to members of a board that rejected a request by UAL's United Airlines last year for a loan guarantee...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Elder Care Company Sold for $1.9 Billion
By Reuters...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Arab Bank Agrees to Settle U.S. Claims
Arab Bank will pay $24 million to settle American claims that its New York branch failed to scrutinize transactions for money laundering and terrorist financing...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Qwest and Union Agree on Contract
Qwest Communications and its biggest union have agreed on a new contract for 25,000 workers that includes a 7.5 percent wage increase and averts a strike...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Defibrillator Maker Says Profit Fell 39%
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Germany Investigates Trading of DaimlerChrysler Shares
Germany's securities regulator has opened an investigation into possible insider trading in shares of DaimlerChrysler...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Gazprom Preparing Battle for Oil Producer
Gazprom is lining up more than $10 billion in financing to try to get control of Sibneft, the oil company owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
U.S. Allows Continued Sale of Abbott Weight-Loss Drug
The Food and Drug Administration has decided that Abbott Laboratories can continue to sell its weight-loss drug Meridia, ruling against a consumer group...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Fuel Shortages Put Pressure on Price Controls in China
Gasoline shortages in China are reigniting a debate: Is pressure from state companies driving China to accept market forces faster than it may have wanted?...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
U.P.S. Orders 8 Boeing Jets Worth Up to $1.9 Billion
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Fair? Balanced? A Study Finds It Does Not Matter
A new study by economists found that Fox News Channel had no detectable effect on which party people voted for, or whether they voted at all...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Higher Sales and Cost Cuts Bolster Nestlé
Nestlé said that first-half earnings increased 32 percent as it cut costs and sold more ice cream and Purina pet food...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
The Immigrants' Legacy: A Taste for Opportunity
The investment community is on the alert for promising start-ups that can tap into the lucrative Hispanic market...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Jurors in the Vioxx Trial Hear Closing Arguments
The lawyer for survivors of a man who died after taking Vioxx said that Merck had lied to the public about the medicine's dangers and should be punished...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
KPMG Strikes Back on Ex-Clients' Tax-Shelter Suits
The accounting firm KPMG is taking on former clients who have sued it over what the Internal Revenue Service says are bogus tax shelters...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Discover Card to Stay at Morgan Stanley
In a reversal of a strategic decision made during a time of management turmoil last spring, Morgan Stanley said that it would keep its Discover card business...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Madison Avenue Seems Calm in August. It's Not.
Although summer hours have thinned the ranks of office workers at agencies, the accounts of major advertisers are continuing to change hands at a brisk pace...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Clear Channel Promotes President of Concert Unit
Clear Channel Communications said that it would name the president of its live-music unit, Michael Rapino, to head its global entertainment division...
New York Times - August 18, 2005
Peru spy chief faces abuse trial
Jailed ex-Peruvian spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos goes on trial for allegedly ordering massacres during the 1990s...
BBC News - August 18, 2005
Brazil rally urges Lula to resign
Thousands of left-wing protesters in Brazil march in the capital to demand embattled President Lula steps down...
BBC News - August 18, 2005
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