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Madonna, Ritchie get preliminary divorce decree
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Astronauts step out for longest, hardest spacewalk
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Zimbabwe rejects Carter, Annan, Machel
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Nepals Buddha boy returns to jungle to meditate
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Romes chaos and crime meets its would-be Giuliani
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Jetliner plot suspect believed killed in Pakistan
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Economy, not rights, rules the new China-US world
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Gulf states rise higher on oil boom
Gulf countries swimming in oil wealth are using the money to build huge industrial cities and gleaming financial centers to sustain them when the wells run dry...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sports goes country at Snyders ACM show
Sports fans can thank Dan Snyder for making some of the Academy of Country Music Awards spectacle relevant for them...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Dinosaur tracks found on Arabian Peninsula
Scientists say they have found dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula, a discovery they say may shed more light on where dinosaurs lived, their migration patterns and how they evolved they way they did...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
2 arrested in bomb scare at Swedish nuclear plant
Swedish police arrested two maintenance workers on suspicion of plotting sabotage after they tried to enter a nuclear power plant Wednesday with traces of a powerful explosive like that used in the 2005 London transit bombings, officials said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Israel engages in indirect peace talks with Syria
Israel and Syria unexpectedly announced Wednesday the resumption of peace talks after an eight-year break, saying they have been speaking indirectly through Turkish mediators "in order to achieve the goal of comprehensive peace."...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside SoCal church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside California church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cyclone Nargis survivors ousted from shelters in Myanmar
With few places to seek refuge, the wooden schoolhouse seemed as good as anywhere...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Prosecution witness in R. Kelly trial IDs alleged victim
A childhood friend of the alleged victim in the R. Kelly child pornography case said she recognizes her longtime friend as the one in the explicit video at the center of the case...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Prosecution witnesses in R. Kelly trial ID alleged victim
A childhood friend of the alleged victim in the R. Kelly child pornography case testified Wednesday that she recognizes her longtime friend as the one in the explicit video at the center of the trial...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Manchester United wins Europeans Champions League
Manchester United beat Chelsea 6-5 in a rain-soaked penalty shootout to win the European Champions League title Wednesday night following a 1-1 tie...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Manchester United wins European Champions League
Manchester United beat Chelsea 6-5 in a rain-soaked penalty shootout to win the European Champions League title Wednesday night following a 1-1 tie...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Clinton may take delegate fight to convention
Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is willing to take her fight to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to the convention if the two states want to go that far. In an interview with The Associated Press, Clinton was asked whether she would support the states if they continue the fight...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Giants rally late for 3-2 win over Rockies
Omar Vizquel doubled to start a game-tying rally in the ninth and then drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 3-2 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama, Clinton chart an endgame
Two weeks before the final primary in their marathon battle, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were campaigning hard Wednesday. Both were in Florida, but their goals could hardly have been more different _ or said more about how each one hopes to bring their historic race to a close...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Prices soar for Memorial Day fixins for barbecues
Hamburgers and hot dogs? Check. Lighter fluid? Check. Beer? Check. More money?...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil prices near $133 after report of supply drop
Runaway oil prices blew past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday and kept going, while gasoline prices persisted in their own relentless climb, rising above $3.80 a gallon. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car _ and paying for just about everything else _ a growing burden for Americans...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil prices pass $133 after report of supply drop
Runaway oil prices blew past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday and kept going, while gasoline prices persisted in their own relentless climb, rising above $3.80 a gallon. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car _ and paying for just about everything else _ a growing burden for Americans...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil prices pass $134 after report of supply drop
Runaway oil prices blew past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday and kept going, while gasoline prices persisted in their own relentless climb, rising above $3.80 a gallon. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car _ and paying for just about everything else _ a growing burden for Americans...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
US to let Americans send cell phones to Cuba
President Bush announced Wednesday that Americans soon will be allowed to send cell phones to Cubans _ a move that he hopes will push the communist regime to increase freedom of expression for Cuban citizens...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Eastwood says he wont be back as Dirty Harry
Clint Eastwood will not be back as Dirty Harry, but Angelina Jolie might want to give it a try...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Bush vetoes farm bill, saying it is irresponsible
President Bush vetoed the $300 billion farm bill on Wednesday, calling it a tax increase on regular Americans at a time of high food prices in the face of a near-certain override by Congress...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama inching ever closer to nomination
Barack Obama is inching ever closer to locking up the Democratic presidential nomination despite another resounding loss to Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time in Kentucky...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
12 die in South Africa anti-foreigner violence
Emmerson Ziso fled hunger and repression in neighboring Zimbabwe, but now he wants to go back. Even his violent, chaotic homeland seems a haven compared to Johannesburg, where weekend attacks on foreigners left at least 12 dead...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Wholesale inflation slows in April after March increase
Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Relatives outside sect seek custody in Texas case
Two men excommunicated by a polygamist sect went to a west Texas courtroom Tuesday to offer themselves as guardians for their children, who were seized from a church-run ranch, if the state deems their custodial parents unfit...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Ted Kennedy has cancerous brain tumor
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor Tuesday in what could be the grim final chapter in a life marked by exhilarating triumph and shattering tragedy. Some experts gave the liberal lion less than a year to live...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
NY governor undergoes emergency eye procedure
Gov. David Paterson on Tuesday underwent an emergency procedure for glaucoma, a condition that did not threaten his already extremely limited sight but caused agonizing "migraine-like symptoms."...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Gas leak blamed for San Diego construction blast
Construction was suspended on a downtown hotel after a gas explosion injured 14 workers, but the Hilton tower still may open on schedule, the builder said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Ted Kennedy is found to have cancerous brain tumor
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor Tuesday in what could be the grim final chapter in a life marked by exhilarating triumph and shattering tragedy. Some experts gave the liberal lion less than a year to live...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Former White House aide Hamilton Jordan dies at 63
Hamilton Jordan, a political strategist from south Georgia who helped propel Jimmy Carter to the White House and served as his chief of staff, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Investigators dig for bodies at Manson refuge
Investigators delicately dug with shovels in the desert heat Tuesday in a painstaking hunt for possible victims of Charles Manson and his followers at a ranch where they hid after a 1969 killing spree...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
NY gov. spends birthday undergoing eye procedure
Gov. David Paterson spent his 54th birthday in the hospital undergoing an emergency procedure for glaucoma, but his physician said he could likely resume normal activity on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Ted Kennedys family deals with a real curveball
The grim diagnosis that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has an almost certainly fatal brain tumor was "a real curveball" that left his family stunned even as he joked and laughed with them, his wife told her friends...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sen. Kennedys family realing after grim diagnosis
The grim diagnosis that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has an almost certainly fatal brain tumor was "a real curveball" that left his family stunned even as he joked and laughed with them, his wife told her friends...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sen. Kennedys family reeling after grim diagnosis
The grim diagnosis that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has an almost certainly fatal brain tumor was "a real curveball" that left his family stunned even as he joked and laughed with them, his wife told her friends...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kennedy being released from hospital, returning to Cape Cod
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is being released from the hospital, one day after being diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor that experts say is almost certainly fatal...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cheney to grads War will not drag on indefinitely
Vice President Dick Cheney told newly minted Coast Guard officers Wednesday that the war on terror would be won on their watch and dismissed fears that fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan would drag on indefinitely...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Nebraska boy, 11, wins National Geographic Bee
Quick: Cochabamba is the third-largest conurbation in what country?...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kennedy leaves hospital, returns to Cape Cod
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy gave a thumbs up to well-wishers and kisses to relatives as he walked out of the hospital Wednesday, a day after learning he has a cancerous brain tumor...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
American Airlines to charge for first checked bag
For some time now, cash-strapped airlines have been doing away with once-complimentary perks such as earphones, meals and extra legroom in exit rows...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Texas CPS returns to sect ranch rebuffed at gate
Child Protective Services workers returned to the west Texas ranch of a polygamist sect Wednesday in search of children they believe might have arrived since more than 460 others were seized in a raid last month...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Groups try to stop circus from chaining elephants
A coalition of animal welfare groups says it has evidence that Ringling Bros. circus elephants are sometimes chained for days at a time, and the groups asked a judge Wednesday to halt the practice while a lawsuit comes to trial...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Drew Peterson charged with weapons violation
Former police Sgt. Drew Peterson turned himself in Wednesday on a weapons charge unrelated to the disappearance of his wife, a high-profile case in which he has been named as a suspect...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Carter chief of staff Hamilton Jordan was master strategist
President Jimmy Carter says his former chief of staff was a master strategist with a great understanding of American politics...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Gay ex-NJ gov says divorce costs left him bankrupt
Former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey on Wednesday said he owes a quarter-million dollars to his boyfriend but wants to pay child support for the daughter he has with his estranged wife, as well as for a child from an earlier marriage...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Authorities return to polygamous sects ranch
Child Protective Services workers have returned to the West Texas ranch of a polygamist sect after learning that there may be more children living there...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Deputy shoots big, black cat not the pet variety
A deputy shot and killed a 50-pound feline _ a jaguar or leopard that may have been dumped by its owner _ after a woman reported the animal pawing at her door...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sri Lanka loses bid for UN human rights panel seat
Sri Lanka, which has been strongly criticized for its human rights record, lost its bid Wednesday for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, but four other countries with poor records won spots _ Pakistan, Bahrain, Gabon and Zambia...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Central Florida residents told to flee brush fire
Authorities have told residents of about 140 homes in central Florida to evacuate ahead of a fast-moving brush fire...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Governor says Alaska will challenge polar bear listing
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says the state will sue to challenge the listing of polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Commander Al-Qaida in Iraq is at its weakest
The al-Qaida terror group in Iraq appears to be at its weakest state since it gained an initial foothold in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion five years ago, the acting commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Wednesday in an Associated Press interview...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sports goes country at Snyders ACM show
Sports fans can thank Dan Snyder for making some of the Academy of Country Music Awards spectacle relevant for them...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Gulf states rise higher on oil boom
Gulf countries swimming in oil wealth are using the money to build huge industrial cities and gleaming financial centers to sustain them when the wells run dry...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Dinosaur tracks found on Arabian Peninsula
Scientists say they have found dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula, a discovery they say may shed more light on where dinosaurs lived, their migration patterns and how they evolved they way they did...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Israel engages in indirect peace talks with Syria
Israel and Syria unexpectedly announced Wednesday the resumption of peace talks after an eight-year break, saying they have been speaking indirectly through Turkish mediators "in order to achieve the goal of comprehensive peace."...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
2 arrested in bomb scare at Swedish nuclear plant
Swedish police arrested two maintenance workers on suspicion of plotting sabotage after they tried to enter a nuclear power plant Wednesday with traces of a powerful explosive like that used in the 2005 London transit bombings, officials said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside SoCal church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside California church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cyclone Nargis survivors ousted from shelters in Myanmar
With few places to seek refuge, the wooden schoolhouse seemed as good as anywhere...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Gay ex-NJ gov says divorce costs left him bankrupt
Former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey on Wednesday said he owes a quarter-million dollars to his boyfriend but wants to pay child support for the daughter he has with his estranged wife, as well as for a child from an earlier marriage...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
American Airlines to charge for first checked bag
For some time now, cash-strapped airlines have been doing away with once-complimentary perks such as earphones, meals and extra legroom in exit rows...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Prosecution witnesses in R. Kelly trial ID alleged victim
A childhood friend of the alleged victim in the R. Kelly child pornography case testified Wednesday that she recognizes her longtime friend as the one in the explicit video at the center of the trial...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Prosecution witness in R. Kelly trial IDs alleged victim
A childhood friend of the alleged victim in the R. Kelly child pornography case said she recognizes her longtime friend as the one in the explicit video at the center of the case...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Manchester United wins Europeans Champions League
Manchester United beat Chelsea 6-5 in a rain-soaked penalty shootout to win the European Champions League title Wednesday night following a 1-1 tie...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Giants rally late for 3-2 win over Rockies
Omar Vizquel doubled to start a game-tying rally in the ninth and then drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 3-2 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Manchester United wins European Champions League
Manchester United beat Chelsea 6-5 in a rain-soaked penalty shootout to win the European Champions League title Wednesday night following a 1-1 tie...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Clinton may take delegate fight to convention
Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is willing to take her fight to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to the convention if the two states want to go that far. In an interview with The Associated Press, Clinton was asked whether she would support the states if they continue the fight...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama, Clinton chart an endgame
Two weeks before the final primary in their marathon battle, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were campaigning hard Wednesday. Both were in Florida, but their goals could hardly have been more different _ or said more about how each one hopes to bring their historic race to a close...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Prices soar for Memorial Day fixins for barbecues
Hamburgers and hot dogs? Check. Lighter fluid? Check. Beer? Check. More money?...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil prices near $133 after report of supply drop
Runaway oil prices blew past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday and kept going, while gasoline prices persisted in their own relentless climb, rising above $3.80 a gallon. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car _ and paying for just about everything else _ a growing burden for Americans...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil prices pass $134 after report of supply drop
Runaway oil prices blew past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday and kept going, while gasoline prices persisted in their own relentless climb, rising above $3.80 a gallon. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car _ and paying for just about everything else _ a growing burden for Americans...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil prices pass $133 after report of supply drop
Runaway oil prices blew past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday and kept going, while gasoline prices persisted in their own relentless climb, rising above $3.80 a gallon. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car _ and paying for just about everything else _ a growing burden for Americans...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Investigators dig for bodies at Manson refuge
Investigators delicately dug with shovels in the desert heat Tuesday in a painstaking hunt for possible victims of Charles Manson and his followers at a ranch where they hid after a 1969 killing spree...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
US to let Americans send cell phones to Cuba
President Bush announced Wednesday that Americans soon will be allowed to send cell phones to Cubans _ a move that he hopes will push the communist regime to increase freedom of expression for Cuban citizens...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Bush vetoes farm bill, saying it is irresponsible
President Bush vetoed the $300 billion farm bill on Wednesday, calling it a tax increase on regular Americans at a time of high food prices in the face of a near-certain override by Congress...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Eastwood says he wont be back as Dirty Harry
Clint Eastwood will not be back as Dirty Harry, but Angelina Jolie might want to give it a try...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama inching ever closer to nomination
Barack Obama is inching ever closer to locking up the Democratic presidential nomination despite another resounding loss to Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time in Kentucky...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
12 die in South Africa anti-foreigner violence
Emmerson Ziso fled hunger and repression in neighboring Zimbabwe, but now he wants to go back. Even his violent, chaotic homeland seems a haven compared to Johannesburg, where weekend attacks on foreigners left at least 12 dead...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Wholesale inflation slows in April after March increase
Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
NBAs losing teams hope for big score in lottery
Lucky Lefty and Larry Legend are the latest characters looking for a big score in New Jersey...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Retired Univ. of Tenn. professor accused of passing secrets
A retired University of Tennessee professor is accused of conspiring to provide military secrets to a Chinese graduate student...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Naked pilot, flight attendant arrested in woods
An airline pilot was found hiding behind a shed wearing only flip-flops and a wristwatch as a nighttime romp in the woods with a flight attendant ended with both under arrest, police said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
With 6 ACM noms, Rodney Atkins joins country elite
Rodney Atkins is still surprised when people recognize him in the grocery store nowadays. But give it time...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Perry survives wet day, shares AT&T Classic lead
Kenny Perry sloshed through the water-logged fairways, ducking under an umbrella every chance he got...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Parker leads Sparks to 99-94 victory over Mercury
Candace Parker scored 34 points, the most ever in a WNBA debut, and added 12 rebounds to help the Los Angeles Sparks beat the defending champion Phoenix Mercury 99-94 on Saturday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Bean takes 1-shot lead into final round of Regions
Andy Bean birdied the final hole to take a one-shot lead over Mike Goodes on Saturday heading into the final round of the Regions Charity Classic with two of the top Champions Tour players in close pursuit...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Chesney, Atkins up for country music awards
Kenny Chesney leads all nominees at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards with 11 and can tie Garth Brooks by winning his fourth straight entertainer of the year trophy...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sugarland, Swift take early ACM honors
Sugarland took single record of the year honors for their mellow hit "Stay," and Taylor Swift won top new female vocalist Sunday at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Lambert wins best-album ACM Sugarland wins twice
Miranda Lambert won album of the year and Sugarland took single record and song of the year honors Sunday for their mellow hit "Stay" at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Youth serves Pens, experience paces Red Wings
While the Detroit Red Wings count postseason victories on the tentacles of octopi, both they and the Pittsburgh Penguins can chart their playoff losses on the fingers of one hand _ and still have some left over...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil nears $134 on weak inventory
Oil prices hover near $134 a barrel, on increased worries about inventory, supply and the weak dollar...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
US Fed cuts growth estimate
The US Fed slashes its growth forecast for the country's economy and predicts higher jobless rates...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Colombia hostage siege man seized
Police arrest a man who had taken people hostage in an office in Colombia's capital, demanding pension payments...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Sports goes country at Snyders ACM show
Sports fans can thank Dan Snyder for making some of the Academy of Country Music Awards spectacle relevant for them...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Gulf states rise higher on oil boom
Gulf countries swimming in oil wealth are using the money to build huge industrial cities and gleaming financial centers to sustain them when the wells run dry...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Experts find combined gold toothpick, earwax spoon
Experts found a tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Divers find combined gold toothpick, earwax spoon
Experts found a tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
TV boxes let Netflix users bypass mail delivery
Preparing for the eventual extinction of its DVD-by-mail rental service, Netflix Inc. on Tuesday is introducing its first solution for subscribers who want entertainment delivered directly to their television sets with just a few clicks on a remote control...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
US guards drag Afghan detainee to war-crimes court
An Afghan detainee is in a war-crimes court in Guantanamo for a pretrial hearing after U.S. military guards dragged him from his cell...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Zimbabwe inflation now over 1 million percent
Weary Zimbabweans are facing a new wave of price increases that will put many basic goods even further out of their reach: A loaf of bread now costs what 12 new cars did a decade ago...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside SoCal church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside California church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cell phone users may get break on fees
The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kennedy leaves hospital and returns to Cape Cod
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy gave a thumbs up to well-wishers and kisses to relatives as he walked out of the hospital Wednesday, a day after learning he has a cancerous brain tumor...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kennedy released from hospital, heads to Cape Cod
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has been released from the hospital and is heading to his Cape Cod home after being diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Big Oil defends profits before Senate panel
Top executives of the five largest oil companies tried to shift anger over high prices to a debate over supplies Wednesday, leading a senator to accuse them of acting like "hapless victims" while racking up record profits...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Pink Floyd, Renee Fleming win Polar Music Prize
Pink Floyd and soprano Renee Fleming were named winners of the 2008 Polar Music Prize on Wednesday for their contributions to their musical genres...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Lee Eastwood omitted black troops in WWII films
Spike Lee is slamming Clint Eastwood over his two recent Iwo Jima movies, saying the filmmaker overlooked the role of black soldiers during World War II...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kouzmanoffs homer leads Padres past Cardinals, 3-2
Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, a rare clutch hit for San Diego that carried the Padres to a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals but came too late to give Greg Maddux the victory Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Rays take advantage of error to beat As 3-2
Scott Kazmir scraped out another impressive win thanks to one clutch hit...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Chad Billingsley shuts down Reds in Dodgers 4-1 win
Chad Billingsley pitched seven scoreless innings and singled home a run, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over Cincinnati on Tuesday night and sending the Reds to their eighth straight loss at Chavez Ravine...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Analysis Race draws to end, time for legacies
The Democratic presidential race is all but over...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama closes in on Democratic nomination
Sen. Barack Obama pulled within shouting distance of the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, though he still needs help from superdelegates to claim the prize...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
American to charge for 1st checked bag,Delta balks
American Airlines will start charging $15 for the first checked bag, cut domestic flights and lay off workers as it grapples with record-high fuel prices...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
American to begin charging for first checked bag
American Airlines said Wednesday it will start charging $15 for the first checked bag, cut domestic flights and lay off workers as it grapples with record-high fuel prices...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
American to charge for 1st checked bag, cut flights
American Airlines will start charging $15 for the first checked bag, cut domestic flights and lay off possibly thousands of workers as it grapples with record-high fuel prices...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Groups rush to help attacked migrants in S. Africa
Aid groups struggled Tuesday to feed and shelter thousands of immigrants chased from their homes by attacks on foreigners, while critics said the government must shoulder some of the blame for the eruption of violence...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Time Warner to reap $9.25 billion in cable spinoff
Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday it would formally split off its cable TV business, giving the media conglomerate a $9.25 billion windfall and allowing it to focus on cable network, entertainment and publishing operations...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil settles above $129 for first time
Just in time for the start of the summer driving season: Oil near $130 a barrel and gas up nearly 20 percent over last year. It may be worth packing some extra cash along with the picnic supplies this Memorial Day weekend...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Eastwood says he wont be back as Dirty Harry
Clint Eastwood will not be back as Dirty Harry, but Angelina Jolie might want to give it a try...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama inching ever closer to nomination
Barack Obama is inching ever closer to locking up the Democratic presidential nomination despite another resounding loss to Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time in Kentucky...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
12 die in South Africa anti-foreigner violence
Emmerson Ziso fled hunger and repression in neighboring Zimbabwe, but now he wants to go back. Even his violent, chaotic homeland seems a haven compared to Johannesburg, where weekend attacks on foreigners left at least 12 dead...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Wholesale inflation slows in April after March increase
Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Investigators to dig for bodies at Manson refuge
Decades after law enforcement raided the ranch where Charles Manson hid following a 1969 killing spree, detectives and scientists are returning to hunt for undiscovered graves...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Okla. prison locked down day after deadly melee
The Oklahoma State Reformatory remained on lockdown Tuesday morning as prison officials began a comprehensive search of the facility one day after two inmates were killed and a dozen injured in a recreation yard melee...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
NY Gov. Paterson in hospital for migraine symptoms
Gov. David Paterson was taken to a hospital in Manhattan on Tuesday after experiencing migraine-like symptoms...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
NY Gov Paterson undergoes glaucoma procedure
New York Gov. David Paterson has been diagnosed with acute glaucoma in his left eye and is undergoing an outpatient laser procedure...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
San Diego hotel construction blast caused by gas leak
Leaking natural gas caused an explosion that injured 14 construction workers and damaged four floors of an unfinished 30-story hotel, authorities said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Official Spitting sparked Okla. prison melee
A melee that left two prison inmates dead was a battle between blacks and American Indians sparked by a spitting incident three days earlier, a prison official said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Relatives outside sect seek custody in Texas case
Two men excommunicated by a polygamist sect went to a west Texas courtroom Tuesday to offer themselves as guardians for their children, who were seized from a church-run ranch, if the state deems their custodial parents unfit...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Worker charged with vandalizing military chopper
An assembly line worker upset about a pending job transfer has been charged with vandalizing a military helicopter at a Boeing factory, prosecutors said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Ted Kennedy has cancerous brain tumor
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor Tuesday in what could be the grim final chapter in a life marked by exhilarating triumph and shattering tragedy. Some experts gave the liberal lion less than a year to live...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Gas leak blamed for San Diego construction blast
Construction was suspended on a downtown hotel after a gas explosion injured 14 workers, but the Hilton tower still may open on schedule, the builder said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
NY governor undergoes emergency eye procedure
Gov. David Paterson on Tuesday underwent an emergency procedure for glaucoma, a condition that did not threaten his already extremely limited sight but caused agonizing "migraine-like symptoms."...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Ted Kennedy is found to have cancerous brain tumor
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor Tuesday in what could be the grim final chapter in a life marked by exhilarating triumph and shattering tragedy. Some experts gave the liberal lion less than a year to live...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Former White House aide Hamilton Jordan dies at 63
Hamilton Jordan, a political strategist from south Georgia who helped propel Jimmy Carter to the White House and served as his chief of staff, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Investigators dig for bodies at Manson refuge
Investigators delicately dug with shovels in the desert heat Tuesday in a painstaking hunt for possible victims of Charles Manson and his followers at a ranch where they hid after a 1969 killing spree...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Ted Kennedys family deals with a real curveball
The grim diagnosis that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has an almost certainly fatal brain tumor was "a real curveball" that left his family stunned even as he joked and laughed with them, his wife told her friends...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
NY gov. spends birthday undergoing eye procedure
Gov. David Paterson spent his 54th birthday in the hospital undergoing an emergency procedure for glaucoma, but his physician said he could likely resume normal activity on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sen. Kennedys family realing after grim diagnosis
The grim diagnosis that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has an almost certainly fatal brain tumor was "a real curveball" that left his family stunned even as he joked and laughed with them, his wife told her friends...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sen. Kennedys family reeling after grim diagnosis
The grim diagnosis that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has an almost certainly fatal brain tumor was "a real curveball" that left his family stunned even as he joked and laughed with them, his wife told her friends...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Charges filed in Los Angeles church fair shooting
A man accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend and two other people at a church carnival was charged Tuesday with attempted murder...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kennedy being released from hospital, returning to Cape Cod
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is being released from the hospital, one day after being diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor that experts say is almost certainly fatal...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Carter White House aide Hamilton Jordan dies at 63
Hamilton Jordan, a political strategist from south Georgia who helped propel Jimmy Carter to the White House and served as his chief of staff, has died after a long battle with cancer...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Ark. judge who sought free speech voted off bench
An appeals court judge who successfully battled an ethics panel for the right to criticize President Bush and the war in Iraq was voted off the bench Tuesday, six years after his remarks first attracted controversy...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Low-cost prom gains popularity among some teens
Maya Thomas and her mother arrived at 6 a.m. on a recent Saturday to wait in a school gym with hundreds of other young women. They were there on a mission _ to find a free dress so Maya, whose mother is unemployed, could attend her senior prom...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Report Money woes may have led to bridge collapse
A new report says money worries may have led to bad maintenance decisions for the Minneapolis bridge that collapsed and killed 13 people last August...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Judge OKs exit polling near S.D. voting places
A federal judge has approved a legal settlement that allows exit polling within 100 feet of voting places in South Dakota...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sports goes country at Snyders ACM show
Sports fans can thank Dan Snyder for making some of the Academy of Country Music Awards spectacle relevant for them...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Gulf states rise higher on oil boom
Gulf countries swimming in oil wealth are using the money to build huge industrial cities and gleaming financial centers to sustain them when the wells run dry...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Experts find combined gold toothpick, earwax spoon
Experts found a tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Divers find combined gold toothpick, earwax spoon
Experts found a tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
TV boxes let Netflix users bypass mail delivery
Preparing for the eventual extinction of its DVD-by-mail rental service, Netflix Inc. on Tuesday is introducing its first solution for subscribers who want entertainment delivered directly to their television sets with just a few clicks on a remote control...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
US guards drag Afghan detainee to war-crimes court
An Afghan detainee is in a war-crimes court in Guantanamo for a pretrial hearing after U.S. military guards dragged him from his cell...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside SoCal church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Zimbabwe inflation now over 1 million percent
Weary Zimbabweans are facing a new wave of price increases that will put many basic goods even further out of their reach: A loaf of bread now costs what 12 new cars did a decade ago...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside California church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cell phone users may get break on fees
The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kennedy released from hospital, heads to Cape Cod
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has been released from the hospital and is heading to his Cape Cod home after being diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kennedy leaves hospital and returns to Cape Cod
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy gave a thumbs up to well-wishers and kisses to relatives as he walked out of the hospital Wednesday, a day after learning he has a cancerous brain tumor...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Big Oil defends profits before Senate panel
Top executives of the five largest oil companies tried to shift anger over high prices to a debate over supplies Wednesday, leading a senator to accuse them of acting like "hapless victims" while racking up record profits...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Pink Floyd, Renee Fleming win Polar Music Prize
Pink Floyd and soprano Renee Fleming were named winners of the 2008 Polar Music Prize on Wednesday for their contributions to their musical genres...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Lee Eastwood omitted black troops in WWII films
Spike Lee is slamming Clint Eastwood over his two recent Iwo Jima movies, saying the filmmaker overlooked the role of black soldiers during World War II...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kouzmanoffs homer leads Padres past Cardinals, 3-2
Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, a rare clutch hit for San Diego that carried the Padres to a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals but came too late to give Greg Maddux the victory Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Rays take advantage of error to beat As 3-2
Scott Kazmir scraped out another impressive win thanks to one clutch hit...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Chad Billingsley shuts down Reds in Dodgers 4-1 win
Chad Billingsley pitched seven scoreless innings and singled home a run, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over Cincinnati on Tuesday night and sending the Reds to their eighth straight loss at Chavez Ravine...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Analysis Race draws to end, time for legacies
The Democratic presidential race is all but over...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama closes in on Democratic nomination
Sen. Barack Obama pulled within shouting distance of the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, though he still needs help from superdelegates to claim the prize...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
American to begin charging for first checked bag
American Airlines said Wednesday it will start charging $15 for the first checked bag, cut domestic flights and lay off workers as it grapples with record-high fuel prices...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
American to charge for 1st checked bag,Delta balks
American Airlines will start charging $15 for the first checked bag, cut domestic flights and lay off workers as it grapples with record-high fuel prices...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Time Warner to reap $9.25 billion in cable spinoff
Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday it would formally split off its cable TV business, giving the media conglomerate a $9.25 billion windfall and allowing it to focus on cable network, entertainment and publishing operations...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
American to charge for 1st checked bag, cut flights
American Airlines will start charging $15 for the first checked bag, cut domestic flights and lay off possibly thousands of workers as it grapples with record-high fuel prices...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Groups rush to help attacked migrants in S. Africa
Aid groups struggled Tuesday to feed and shelter thousands of immigrants chased from their homes by attacks on foreigners, while critics said the government must shoulder some of the blame for the eruption of violence...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil settles above $129 for first time
Just in time for the start of the summer driving season: Oil near $130 a barrel and gas up nearly 20 percent over last year. It may be worth packing some extra cash along with the picnic supplies this Memorial Day weekend...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Investigators dig for bodies at Manson refuge
Investigators delicately dug with shovels in the desert heat Tuesday in a painstaking hunt for possible victims of Charles Manson and his followers at a ranch where they hid after a 1969 killing spree...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama inching ever closer to nomination
Barack Obama is inching ever closer to locking up the Democratic presidential nomination despite another resounding loss to Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time in Kentucky...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Eastwood says he wont be back as Dirty Harry
Clint Eastwood will not be back as Dirty Harry, but Angelina Jolie might want to give it a try...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
12 die in South Africa anti-foreigner violence
Emmerson Ziso fled hunger and repression in neighboring Zimbabwe, but now he wants to go back. Even his violent, chaotic homeland seems a haven compared to Johannesburg, where weekend attacks on foreigners left at least 12 dead...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Wholesale inflation slows in April after March increase
Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
TV show recounts teenage girls strikeout of Ruth, Gehrig
Jackie Mitchell, the minor league pitcher facing Babe Ruth at a 1931 exhibition game was no ordinary ballplayer. She was a 17-year-old girl...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
NBAs losing teams hope for big score in lottery
Lucky Lefty and Larry Legend are the latest characters looking for a big score in New Jersey...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Today in History - May 20
Today is Tuesday, May 20, the 141st day of 2008. There are 225 days left in the year...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Naked pilot, flight attendant arrested in woods
An airline pilot was found hiding behind a shed wearing only flip-flops and a wristwatch as a nighttime romp in the woods with a flight attendant ended with both under arrest, police said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Retired Univ. of Tenn. professor accused of passing secrets
A retired University of Tennessee professor is accused of conspiring to provide military secrets to a Chinese graduate student...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
With 6 ACM noms, Rodney Atkins joins country elite
Rodney Atkins is still surprised when people recognize him in the grocery store nowadays. But give it time...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Perry survives wet day, shares AT&T Classic lead
Kenny Perry sloshed through the water-logged fairways, ducking under an umbrella every chance he got...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Bean takes 1-shot lead into final round of Regions
Andy Bean birdied the final hole to take a one-shot lead over Mike Goodes on Saturday heading into the final round of the Regions Charity Classic with two of the top Champions Tour players in close pursuit...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Parker leads Sparks to 99-94 victory over Mercury
Candace Parker scored 34 points, the most ever in a WNBA debut, and added 12 rebounds to help the Los Angeles Sparks beat the defending champion Phoenix Mercury 99-94 on Saturday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sugarland, Swift take early ACM honors
Sugarland took single record of the year honors for their mellow hit "Stay," and Taylor Swift won top new female vocalist Sunday at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Chesney, Atkins up for country music awards
Kenny Chesney leads all nominees at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards with 11 and can tie Garth Brooks by winning his fourth straight entertainer of the year trophy...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Lambert wins best-album ACM Sugarland wins twice
Miranda Lambert won album of the year and Sugarland took single record and song of the year honors Sunday for their mellow hit "Stay" at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Weak inventories send oil to $132
Oil prices push past $132 a barrel for the first time, on increased worries about inventory, supply and the weak dollar...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Cocaine use 'destroys rainforest'
The British and Colombian governments launch a drive to highlight environmental damage caused by cocaine...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
US 'stuck' with Guantanamo
The US is "stuck" with the Guantanamo Bay prison as it cannot send some inmates home, its defence chief says...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Colombia gunman 'takes hostages'
A armed man demanding pension payments takes people hostage in an office in Colombia's capital, police say...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
US lifts Cuba mobile phone ban
President Bush announces that Americans will soon be allowed to send mobile phones to family members in Cuba...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Senator Kennedy leaves hospital
US Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy leaves hospital after being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Experts find combined gold toothpick, earwax spoon
Experts found a tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Divers find combined gold toothpick, earwax spoon
Experts found a tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
TV boxes let Netflix users bypass mail delivery
Preparing for the eventual extinction of its DVD-by-mail rental service, Netflix Inc. on Tuesday is introducing its first solution for subscribers who want entertainment delivered directly to their television sets with just a few clicks on a remote control...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Rival Lebanese factions reach agreement
Rival Lebanese factions reached a deal Wednesday to resolve an 18-month political crisis that pitted Hezbollah against the Western-backed government and pushed the country to the brink of a new civil war...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside SoCal church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside California church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
State media Myanmar shuns aid from US warships
Myanmar shunned a U.S. proposal for naval ships to deliver aid to cyclone victims on Wednesday, according to state-run media, dimming hopes that the vessels could provide a major boost to relief efforts...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
China orders budgets cut to feed $10B relief fund
A woman trapped in a tunnel at a power plant was rescued nine days after an earthquake struck central China _ the only person found alive Wednesday _ while the government ordered budgets slashed to free money for relief efforts...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Indian rights activist to remain in jail
Indian authorities insisted that a controversial case against a jailed human rights activist will go forward, with one official saying Wednesday that a group of Nobel laureates pressing for his freedom have no respect for the law...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
APNewsBreak Cell phone users may get break on fees
The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
First contestant axed during Dancing finale
And then there were two on the "Dancing With the Stars" finale...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cowell Archuleta wins Idol in a knockout
The Arch triumphed on "American Idol," but this is still a democracy, after all...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Rays take advantage of error to beat As 3-2
Scott Kazmir scraped out another impressive win thanks to one clutch hit...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kouzmanoffs homer leads Padres past Cardinals, 3-2
Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, a rare clutch hit for San Diego that carried the Padres to a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals but came too late to give Greg Maddux the victory Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Chad Billingsley shuts down Reds in Dodgers 4-1 win
Chad Billingsley pitched seven scoreless innings and singled home a run, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over Cincinnati on Tuesday night and sending the Reds to their eighth straight loss at Chavez Ravine...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Ky., Ore. voters choose US Senate candidates
The speaker of the Oregon House held a narrow lead over a fiery political activist Tuesday in the race for a chance to unseat the sole GOP senator on the West Coast...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
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