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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 June 2007:
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Kevorkian Is Released From Prison
The advocate for assisted suicide walked out of a prison this morning after serving eight years...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Summer Rituals | Asphalt Dreams: Playing Hardball in the Projects Is More Than a Pastime
A tattered patch of asphalt in West Harlem is home to a new middle school baseball league that is as much a social experiment as it is boys at play...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Education Department Issues Rules for Student Loans
The action was a change in direction for the department, which had failed to respond to calls for it to be more aggressive in policing the industry...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Wal-Mart Scales Back Expansion Plans
Wal-Mart executives announced on Friday that they would reduce the number of new supercenters to be opened this year by 35 percent to hold down the chain?s mounting expenses...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Your Money: More Advice Graduates Don?t Want to Hear
Divert 10 percent of your income to savings; ignore raises and put them into savings, too; learn to cook; and skip the lattes...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Rice trip 'restores' Spanish ties
The US secretary of state visits Madrid for the first high-level US visit since Spain's Socialists came to power...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
Bush urges Iran to free US four
President Bush condemns the detention of four US citizens in Iran and calls for their immediate release...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
Wall Street surges to new record
Positive employment data, as well as takeover activity, help push the Dow Jones to its 26th record close this year...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
Top Bush Aide Is Leaving the White House
As counselor to President Bush, Dan Bartlett has been at the center of White House decision-making...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Video of Captive BBC Reporter Emerges
It was unclear when the video, the first evidence that the BBC reporter was still alive, was recorded...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Man With TB Apologizes for Putting Others at Risk
The lawyer who flew on airplanes while infected with tuberculosis apologized to his fellow passengers today...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Dow Jones Says It Will Consider Options for Sale
Shares of Dow Jones were up today after the family that controls the company announced it would consider selling the company...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
May Jobs Growth Unexpectedly Strong
The Labor Department said today that 157,000 new jobs were created last month, compared with 80,000 in April...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Fifa altitude ban: Your views
BBC News website readers across Latin America react to Fifa's controversial decision to ban international games at high altitude...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
The next Ronald Reagan?
Actor and former senator Fred Thompson says he is giving up Hollywood for a return to politics in the 2008 presidential race...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
New jobs stimulus for US economy
The US economy adds 157,000 new jobs in May as firms continue to recruit people despite the sluggish economy...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
Tennis: Jankovic beats Venus
Jelena Jankovic underlines her title credentials by beating former world number one Venus Williams to reach the French Open fourth round...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
Football: Brazil warns England
Gilberto says England must try to stop all of Brazil's players - not just Ronaldinho and Kaka...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
Panama 'to blame for fatal syrup'
China says Panamanian traders passed off a Chinese solvent for medical use, leading to dozens of deaths in Panama...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
Dow Jones jumps on bid war hopes
Shares in the Dow Jones media group surge in US trade amid hopes a bidding war may break out for the firm...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
Trusted Bush adviser stands down
Dan Bartlett, one of President Bush's longest-serving aides, resigns citing family reasons...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
Speller Loses Publicity Bid for Parents
Kunal Sah had dreamed that a triumph at the Scripps National Spelling Bee would spotlight the plight of his parents, who were deported to India after years of immigration processing and appeals...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Agent at Border, Aware, Let In Man With TB
A customs agent let the infected man re-enter the country despite knowing that he was being sought by authorities...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Cavaliers 109, Pistons 107: James Puts on Scoring Clinic in Overtime
LeBron James scored 29 of the Cav?s last 30 points in a double overtime victory that put his team one win away from its first trip to the N.B.A. finals...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Defence case opens in Black trial
The defence case in Conrad Black's trial begins with his former secretary defending his actions over alleged removal of evidence...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
World Bank offers 'vulture' aid
The World Bank is to extend its debt reduction facility to help poorer nations avoid so-called "vulture funds"...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
Canada native death inquiry
Official racism and cultural insensitivity contributed to the 1995 killing of a Canadian native protester, a report says...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
'Dr Death' to be freed from jail
Jack Kevorkian, the man known as Dr Death for helping the terminally ill to die, is to be freed from a US jail...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
U.S.-Russia friction intensifies
Tensions between the United States and Russia have ratcheted up another notch, with accusations flying over ballistic missiles and human rights...
CNN - June 1, 2007
Spammer Arrested and Charged With Fraud
A 27-year-old man described as one of the world?s most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Genome of DNA Discoverer Is Deciphered
The sequencing of James D. Watson?s genome could be the gateway to an era of personalized genomic medicine...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Senate Panel Questions C.I.A. Detentions
The Senate Intelligence Committee rejected by one vote a proposal that would have cut money for the C.I.A.?s secret interrogation program for terrorism suspects...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Columbia Settles Student Loan Case
Columbia University will also submit its student loan operation to monitoring by the attorney general of New York State...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
One Place Where Obama and Elbows Still Meet
Senator Barack Obama is a wily player of pickup basketball, a game with unspoken rules and lots of elbows...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
A Growing Demand for the Rare American Imam
Some Muslim congregations are seeking native imams who can discuss issues that seem relevant to young people...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Rodriguez Keeps Straddling Baseball?s Foul Line
Alex Rodriguez?s behavior on Wednesday was clever or childish, cunning gamesmanship or borderline cheating, or maybe something in between...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
TB Patient Identified as Lawyer; Border Agent, Aware, Let Him In
The man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis re-entered the country when a customs agent let him pass despite knowing that he was being sought by health authorities...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
World Business Briefing: Britain: Alliance Boots Approves Deal
Shareholders of Alliance Boots, the British pharmacy chain, approved an £11 billion ($21.8 billion) takeover bid from its deputy chairman and a private equity firm. It expects the takeover to be complete in July, although the deputy chairman, Stefano Pessina, and the equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, remain in talks with pension trustees about financing the pension plan. Mr. Pessina and Kohlberg Kravis raised their offer three times, to 1,139 pence ($22.53) a share, to secure their bid for Alliance Boots after a consortium led by Terra Firma Capital Partners made a rival bid. Alliance Boots has about 3,000 Boots drugstores in Britain, seven other European countries and Thailand, and supplies 125,000 pharmacies, health centers and hospitals...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
World Business Briefing: Canada: Growth Beats Estimate
The Canadian economy grew more than twice as fast in the first quarter of 2007 as in the previous quarter, setting the stage for the Bank of Canada to begin raising interest rates soon. Statistics Canada said that gross domestic product grew an annualized 3.7 percent, up from 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter, and topping analysts? estimate of a 3.5 percent gain. It was the fastest rate of quarterly growth since the third quarter of 2005. Steady consumer spending and output of goods and services offset weakening exports and slower growth in domestic demand, resulting in an accumulation of inventories...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
The Churn: People
People...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
World Business Briefing: Estonia: Settlements in S.E.C. Case
An investment bank in Estonia, Lohmus Haavel & Viisemann, and a former worker agreed to pay $15 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that they had made illegal trades based on information from stolen news releases. The former employee, Oliver Peek, will forfeit $13 million in profit and will pay a $1.35 million fine. The bank will pay a $650,000 penalty, the S.E.C. said. They neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing in agreeing to the sanctions. The S.E.C.?s lawsuit accused Lohmus Haavel, which is based in Tallinn, of using a computer program to retrieve information on more than 200 United States companies from Business Wire?s secure Web site before announcements were made public from January to November 2005...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
World Business Briefing: BHP Billiton Selects a Chief Executive
BHP Billiton, the mining company, chose the head of its copper and aluminum division, Marius Kloppers, to succeed its American chief executive, Charles W. Goodyear, when Mr. Goodyear steps down Oct. 1. Mr. Goodyear has overseen a wave of record-setting earnings since taking charge of the company in 2003 as the company benefited from a China-led boom in demand for iron and other metals. But in the last two years, soaring prices for copper have fueled BHP?s results. Mr. Kloppers, a 44-year-old South African, played a crucial role in BHP?s merger with Billiton in 2001 and in the $7.6 billion takeover of WMC Resources in 2005...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Jazz Lowers Offering Price
The biopharmaceutical company raised $108 million in an initial public offering that priced below a reduced forecast range...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
World Business Briefing: India: Expansion at Two-Decade High
India?s economy grew at the fastest rate in almost 20 years in its last fiscal year as companies lifted production to meet surging consumer demand. The economy expanded 9.4 percent in the year, which ended March 31, the biggest gain since 1989 and more than the government?s initial estimate of 9.2 percent, the Central Statistical Organization said. India?s economy grew 9.1 percent in the three months to March 31, according to the report, averaging a quarterly pace of 8.8 percent in the last two years compared with 5.7 percent in the 1990s. Manufacturing gained 12.4 percent while mining rose 7.1 percent and electricity output climbed 6.9 percent in the quarter. Agriculture, which accounts for a fifth of the economy, grew 3.8 percent...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
2 Companies Settle Charges of Backdating
Brocade Communications Systems and Mercury Interactive became the first two companies to pay fines to settle federal accusations of civil fraud in connection with backdated stock options...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Dow Slips on Report of Weak First Quarter
A weak reading on the nation?s gross domestic product muted enthusiasm over a new spate of acquisitions...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Heinz Earnings Rise Almost 8%
Higher prices and increased marketing helped sales, and it raised its full-year 2008 forecast...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Offering Few Specifics, WellPoint Forces Out Its Financial Chief
The biggest U.S. health insurer ousted its chief financial officer after an external investigation found that he violated the company code of conduct...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Experimental Stroke Drug Fails Late-Stage Trial
The German biotechnology company Paion and its American partner, Forest Laboratories, announced the outcomes of the trial of its drug, desmoteplase...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Cardinal Health Settles Shareholders? Suit
The medical products and services company agreed to pay $600 million to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders accusing it of accounting irregularities and inflated earnings...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
A Wobbly Quarter for Sears and Costco
Sears reported profit that trailed analysts? estimates while earnings at Costco Wholesale fell 4.9 percent on the cost of a new return policy...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
5 Companies Win U.S. Telecom Contract
AT&T, Level 3 Communications, Qwest Communications, Sprint Nextel and Verizon ? were awarded a federal telecommunications contract worth $20 billion...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
YouTube to Offer EMI Music Clips
The Google video-sharing site has agreed to a deal with the EMI Group to give YouTube users broad access to music videos by EMI artists...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
ChoicePoint Settles Data Security Case
ChoicePoint has settled with 44 states over a data breach that potentially gave criminals access to personal information from more than 145,000 consumers...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Northwest Exits Bankruptcy and Begins to Trade Shares
Shares of Northwest Airlines newly emerged from bankruptcy protection, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Justice Dept. Approves Monsanto Deal With Conditions
The Justice Department approved Monsanto?s $1.5 billion acquisition of the cotton company Delta and Pine Land...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
China Says 2 of Its Companies Played a Role in Poisonings
Chinese regulators acknowledged for the first time that two Chinese companies had ?engaged in some misconduct? in the way they labeled and sold a poisonous ingredient...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Detroit Finds Agreement on the Need to Be Green
Labor and management in the auto industry agreed that Detroit must act to reduce its vehicles? impact on the environment...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Chief Says G.E. Aims to Match the Growth Pace Set by India
G.E. plans to participate in the country?s ?massive focus? on energy and will create a fund for infrastructure that could reach $1 billion...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Lawyer Files Bias Suit Against G.E.
Lorene F. Schaefer has accused G.E. of systematically discriminating against women in both pay and promotions...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
New Jersey High Court Hands Wal-Mart a Setback
The court ruled that a lawsuit claiming off-the-clock violations could proceed as a class action on behalf of nearly 80,000 Wal-Mart employees...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Advertising: Agencies and Networks Ponder Nielsen Ad Ratings
It is unclear how the Nielsen Company?s new standardized ratings of commercials will affect billions in advertising deals...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Congress Wants to Define Exactly What Abusive Tax Shelters Are
Efforts to raise the legal hurdle that determines whether a shelter is legitimate are again gaining traction in Congress...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
First-Quarter Revision Shows Economy at Slowest Pace Since Late 2002
The major culprits were the trade deficit, which swelled even more than first estimated, and slower business production...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Sales Barely Up, Book Trade Yearns for Next Blockbuster
The publishing industry struggled to sell more copies last year than it did the year before, according to a new report...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
[TS] What Seller Wants a Low Price?
The S.E.C. is now considering whether a different kind of auction will be allowed to set values on company income statements...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
The Energy Challenge: Where Now, for the Wind?
The staying power of wind energy companies is dependent on tax benefits from the capricious hands of lawmakers in Congress...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Google Photos Stir a Debate Over Privacy
A new online feature of Google Maps called Street View is stirring up a debate over privacy concerns on the Web...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Big Investors Jumping Back Into Shaky Home Loans
Private equity is swooping in and taking over the subprime mortgage business, seeing opportunity amid the wreckage...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Dow Jones Says It Will Consider Options for Sale
The decision represents a remarkable turnaround for both the company and for Rupert Murdoch?s bid and could end more than a century of family control over the company...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Wachovia in Deal to Acquire A.G. Edwards
The deal will form the second-largest retail stock brokerage firm in the U.S. after Merrill Lynch...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Top Lawyer, Under Fire, May Depart
William S. Lerach, one of the most powerful securities class-action lawyers in the nation, is considering plans to leave the law firm he founded three years ago...
New York Times - June 1, 2007
Dow Jones family to consider sale
The family that controls the Dow Jones media group says it will consider selling the firm to Rupert Murdoch...
BBC News - June 1, 2007
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