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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 June 2005:
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Dutch rejection a blow to euro constitution
The Dutch people today voted against the Netherlands adopting a proposed constitution for the European Union, three days after the French also rejected the charter, leaving the EU in disarray over how and whether to push forward with the project...
CNN - June 1, 2005
Dutch vote 'no'
Voters in the Netherlands soundly rejected the proposed European Union constitution Wednesday, three days after France gave it a thumbs-down...
CNN - June 1, 2005
California Landslide Sweeps Away Several Luxury Homes
A large landslide destroyed at least 15 expensive hillside homes in Laguna Beach, Calif...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
50 Years Later, Emmett Till's Body Is Exhumed
The body was exhumed from a gravesite in suburban Chicago today, 50 years after his murder helped spur the civil rights movement...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Donaldson Announces Resignation as S.E.C. Chairman
William Donaldson expanded the agency's staff and budget, helping to restore morale. Still, his tenure has been controversial...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Pace of Manufacturing in May Is Weakest Since June 2003
Activity at the nation's manufacturers slowed in May to the weakest pace in almost two years, an industry group reported today, as new orders lagged and prices fell...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
FBI exhumes black lynch victim
Forensic experts exhume the body of a black teenager murdered by racists in Mississippi in 1955...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
Madrid suspect heard in 9/11 case
A Madrid train bombing suspect appears as a witness in the trial of three men accused of helping to plan 9/11...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
UN veteran fired over oil scandal
Kofi Annan sacks the first UN official in connection with Iraq's scandal-ridden oil-for-food programme...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
California landslide sends homes crashing
A landslide sent at least six expensive homes crashing down a hill in Laguna Beach, California, today and may have damaged many others. The earth was still moving beneath the homes. Some fell nearly intact, while others were ripped apart and left trails of debris. There was no immediate word on whether there were any injuries...
CNN - June 1, 2005
Landslide sends homes crashing
A landslide in Laguna Beach, California, sent at least five expensive homes crashing down a hill Wednesday and may have damaged many others...
CNN - June 1, 2005
'Deep Throat' ID confirmed
The legendary source "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon has been identified as W. Mark Felt. Felt, now 91, was the No. 2 official at the FBI in the early 1970s...
CNN - June 1, 2005
Tennis: Puerta sinks Canas
Mariano Puerta beats fellow Argentine Guillermo Canas to reach the French Open semis...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
Doctors hail 'mermaid' operation
Doctors in Peru say they have successfully operated to separate a one-year-old girl's fused legs...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
Haiti faces 'explosive' situation
Haiti is in a 'deep political, social and economic crisis', says a report by think tank the International Crisis Group...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
Wolfowitz begins World Bank job
Paul Wolfowitz, the new head of the World Bank, repeats his plan to focus primarily on reducing poverty in Africa...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
'Deep Throat' ID confirmed
The legendary source "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon has been identified as W. Mark Felt. Felt, now 91, was the No. 2 official at the FBI in the early 1970s...
CNN - June 1, 2005
Dutch Are Expected to Vote No on European Charter Today
Polls predict nearly 60 percent of Dutch voters will reject the European constitution, albeit for different reasons than the French...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Microsoft meets Brussels deadline
US software giant Microsoft says it has met a deadline to submit a response to EU's landmark antitrust ruling against the firm...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
Protests derail Bolivia Congress
Angry protests in Bolivia force lawmakers to abandon a key session of Congress...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
'Mermaid' begins major operation
A Peruvian baby girl is undergoing a four-hour operation to begin separation of her legs, fused together since birth...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
'Deep Throat' ID confirmed
The legendary source "Deep Throat," whose leaked information led to President Nixon's downfall, was confirmed on Tuesday as the No. 2 man in the FBI at the time -- W. Mark Felt...
CNN - June 1, 2005
French Leader Ousts Premier Over Lost Vote on Europe
The French cabinet shift came on the eve of a similar referendum on the European Union constitution in the Netherlands...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Neighbors Saw Anger in Girl, 9, Accused in Killing
Neighbors say the 9-year-old girl who police say stabbed a playmate in the heart with a steak knife was prone to fits of anger...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
'Deep Throat' Unmasks Himself as Ex-No. 2 Official at F.B.I.
W. Mark Felt, 91, helped The Washington Post unravel the Watergate scandal and the presidency of Richard M. Nixon...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Song Plans to Add Flights to West Coast
Song, the low-fare subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, will announce plans today to offer new nonstop cross-country service between New England and California...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
New Urbanism in Denver
A development at the former Stapleton airport in Denver is believed to be the largest project ever undertaken to fill in vacant or underused urban land...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Ann Taylor Fabricates Its New Headquarters
Fully-loaded garment racks are not particularly svelte. In Ann Taylor's former 143,000-square-foot headquarters, they choked the corridors, hemming designers and merchandisers into cramped, dark cubicles already brimming with swatches, mannequins and accessories. Employees lacked a neutral backdrop for creating clothes and the physical space to collaborate across product lines...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Bain Buys School Firm
By Reuters...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Decision Rekindles Debate Over Andersen Indictment
For Randy D. Robason, a former tax partner at Arthur Andersen, news that the Supreme Court had thrown out the accounting firm's nearly three-year-old conviction was too little and too late...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Fund-Raiser Says Investor Donated Space
Alberto W. Vilar, the philanthropist and investor arrested on fraud charges last week, not only gave away tens of millions of dollars to arts institutions, but he also donated office space to at least five of his favorite charities...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
2 Founders Are Arrested: A Fund Firm's Next Move
THE clock has started ticking for investors with Amerindo Investment Advisors, just days after the firm's founders, Alberto W. Vilar and Gary A. Tanaka, were charged with theft of client assets...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Brazilian Growth Slows, Restrained by 19% Interest Rates
Brazil's economy grew at its slowest pace in more than a year last quarter, as soaring interest rates began to discourage consumer spending and investment...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Web Brokers Are Talking About Merger
The Toronto-Dominion Bank confirmed that it is in talks about a potential transaction involving its online brokerage, TD Waterhouse USA, and the Ameritrade Holding Corporation...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Director of Offshore A.I.G. Unit Was Cited in Australian Inquiry
One of the directors of an A.I.G. entity in Barbados is a German executive whom Australian regulators have linked to the collapse of a large insurer...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Justices Reject Auditor Verdict in Enron Scandal
The Supreme Court overturned Arthur Andersen's federal conviction for shredding accounting documents of Enron as it was collapsing...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Old Lions of Banking, Out on Their Own
Former deal makers are cashing in on Wall Street's latest fad: boutique investment banks run by bankers who made their fame more than 20 years ago...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Andersen Ruling Could Aid Appeal of Former Banker
The Supreme Court's decision yesterday to overturn the conviction of Arthur Andersen may be a significant development for a different defendant: Frank P. Quattrone, the former investment banker who was convicted of obstruction of justice and witness tampering last year...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Some Big Companies Failed to Add to Pensions in 1990's
More than half of the nation's biggest companies with pension plans sailed through the boom of the late 1990's and the bear market that followed without putting any cash into their pension funds, using loopholes in federal law to skirt a requirement for annual contributions, according to a new study by the investigative arm of Congress...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Scrushy Jury Adds an Hour to Its Workday
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 31 (Reuters) - The jury has agreed to work an extra hour each day to try to break an impasse in the corporate fraud trial of Richard M. Scrushy, the HealthSouth Corporation's former chief executive, a federal court official said Tuesday...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
G.M. to Offer Big Discounts Just for June
DETROIT, May 31 - General Motors will announce a major sales promotion for June that will offer customers the same discounts as G.M. employees for most of the company's 2005 model cars and trucks, people with knowledge of the plan said...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Court Refuses to Hear Case on European Drug Pricing
The case involved the practice of buying drugs in low-priced countries within the European Union and diverting them to nations that set higher prices...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Broker Saw Late Trades as Legal, Court Told
By Reuters...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Citigroup to Pay $208 Million in Funds Case
Citigroup will pay $208 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it shortchanged mutual fund investors by denying them certain discounts, instead reaping $100 million in profit at the funds' expense over five years...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Consumer Confidence Bounced Back in May
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Dollar Is Up Sharply Against Euro and Gains on the Yen
The dollar rose against the euro and climbed against the Japanese yen on Tuesday, as the yield of the Treasury's 10-year note dropped to 3.98 percent...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
New World Bank Chief Says Aiding Africa Is His Top Goal
When he becomes president of the World Bank on Wednesday, Paul D. Wolfowitz says, Africa will be his top priority...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Europe Strikes Back in Plane Dispute
The European Union will countersue the U.S. at the World Trade Organization in the dispute over government subsidies to their respective aircraft makers...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Russia Tycoon Given 9 Years on Tax Charge
A court convicted Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the founder of the Yukos oil company, ending the most closely watched trial in Russia since the Soviet Union collapsed...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Agreements Reached With United, Averting a Strike
United Airlines dodged the possibility of walkouts by two unions, in a reflection of the reality of bargaining with a company under bankruptcy protection...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Japan's Unemployment Rate Fell to 6-Year Low in April
Japan's unemployment rate fell to a six-year low in April while shoppers spent more freely, both signs that the country's recovery may be gaining traction...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Reversal of Andersen Conviction Not a Declaration of Innocence
The Supreme Court's reversal of Arthur Andersen's conviction in the Enron case caused rumblings that the firm should never have been indicted. Not so fast...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
A.I.G. Profit Is Reduced by $4 Billion
The American International Group reduced its profits by nearly $4 billion over five years, laying much of the blame at the feet of its former chief executive...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
ABC's Sales for the Fall Nearly Done
ABC seems anything but lost or desperate when it comes to selling commercial time ahead of the fall season...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Unions Struggle as Communications Industry Shifts
Even as unions struggle nationwide, they face a particularly bleak future in the telecommunications industry...
New York Times - June 1, 2005
Pumped-up Pistons square series
A superb all-round display gives Detroit a 106-96 win over Miami to level the Eastern Conference Finals at 2-2...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
Protests rattle Bolivia Congress
Lawmakers meet in Bolivia's capital La Paz as thousands hold angry protests over gas reserves...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
Secret Falklands fleet revealed
A Royal Navy flotilla was secretly sent to the Falklands in 1977, papers reveal...
BBC News - June 1, 2005
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