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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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US News Archive for January 2007:
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CNN debunks false report about Obama
Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a "madrassa" are not accurate, according to CNN reporting...
CNN - January 22, 2007
Parcells Announces His Retirement From Coaching
Bill Parcells announced his retirement from the Cowboys and said he was also retiring from ?coaching football.?...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Gap?s Chief Executive Resigns
Paul S. Pressler stepped down after the clothing retailer?s third dismal holiday shopping season...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Three More Senators Say They Oppose More Troops in Iraq
The resolution, put forth by two Republicans and a Democrat, comes on the eve of the president?s State of the Union speech...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Court Rules Against Sentencing Rules in Calif.
The Supreme Court said California?s system gives judges some authority that belongs to jurors, depriving defendants of a fair trial...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Pfizer to Lay Off 10,000 Workers
The world?s largest drugmaker is seeking to cut costs by up to $2 billion a year amid fierce competition...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Illinois Seeks to Privatize Its State Lottery
The state hopes to attract as much as $10 billion from private investors interested in operating the system...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Ex-Chilean leader 'was murdered'
The family of ex-Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva say he was killed under the Pinochet regime...
BBC News - January 22, 2007
Canada serial murder trial begins
A Canadian pig farmer goes before a court in what is being called the country's biggest ever murder trial...
BBC News - January 22, 2007
Market bombings kill 100 in Iraq
Marketplace bombs killed dozens Monday in Iraq. At least 88 people died and 160 were wounded in Baghdad in a pair of nearly simultaneous car bombings. Hours later an explosion ripped through a market in Khalis, northeast of Baghdad -- killing 12 and wounding 29...
CNN - January 22, 2007
Kids' deaths lead to L.A. gang crackdown
Soaring violence is prompting police and politicians to promise one of the toughest crackdowns against gangs in Los Angeles' history. Children are getting caught in the crossfire, prompting action from city and federal officials...
CNN - January 22, 2007
Poll: Bush faces sour mood
Americans seem sour on the state of the union in advance of President Bush's address on the subject. A poll finds most believe the country is on the wrong track -- a complete flip from five years ago...
CNN - January 22, 2007
Boeing wins $5bn GE plane order
US aerospace giant Boeing wins a $5.34bn order for 39 planes from the aircraft leasing arm of General Electric...
BBC News - January 22, 2007
Wolseley set to axe 2,000 US jobs
Building material supplier Wolseley axes about 2,000 US workers because of an American housing market downturn...
BBC News - January 22, 2007
Boxer Tyson denies drug charges
Mike Tyson has pleads not guilty to charges of drug possession and driving under the influence of drugs...
BBC News - January 22, 2007
Madrid clashes over Latino gangs
About 1,000 Spanish youths angry about Latin American gangs clash with police on the outskirts of Madrid...
BBC News - January 22, 2007
Cowboys coach Parcells quits NFL
Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells, a two-time Super Bowl winner, opts to retire at the age of 65...
BBC News - January 22, 2007
Downed US chopper missile hint
A US helicopter that crashed in Iraq killing 12 soldiers may have been shot down by insurgents, US officials say...
BBC News - January 22, 2007
Car bombings kill 75 in Baghdad
At least 75 people were killed and 160 wounded in a pair of nearly simultaneous car bombings in central Baghdad's Bab al-Sharqi district, an Interior Ministry official said Monday...
CNN - January 22, 2007
Obituary: Art Buchwald
Pulitzer Prize-winning satirist Art Buchwald who has died at the age of 81, was one of the most read columnists of his age...
BBC News - January 22, 2007
Tennis: Gonzalez crushes Blake
Fernando Gonzalez produces a superb display to shatter James Blake's title dreams at the Australian Open...
BBC News - January 22, 2007
Colts to meet Bears in Super Bowl
Indianapolis sink New England and set up a Super Bowl showdown with the Chicago Bears...
BBC News - January 22, 2007
25 U.S. troops killed in 1 day in Iraq
Attacks in Iraq and the crash of a Black Hawk helicopter brought to 25 the number of American troops killed in Iraq on Saturday, making it one of the deadliest days for the U.S. military since the war began almost four years ago...
CNN - January 22, 2007
Winter storm causes road and runway accidents
The latest in a series of winter storms battered Colorado on Sunday, dumping several inches of snow and whipping up strong wind that created whiteout conditions on the state's eastern plains. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a plane with 104 people on board skidded off a runway...
CNN - January 22, 2007
Speechwriters for Bush Seek Perfect Pitch
With the State of the Union address coming Tuesday, President Bush?s speechwriters are dealing with their editor in chief...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Faith in Quick Test Leads to Epidemic That Wasn?t
Experts say tests that led to a false alarm at a New Hampshire hospital are coming into increasing use...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Taking Middle Schoolers Out of the Middle
Schools debate whether to extend the nurturing cocoon of elementary school or push students into a high school setting earlier...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Rush of Entries Gives ?08 Race Early Intensity
The contest for the White House is off to a breathtakingly fast start, exposing an ever-growing field to longer, more intensive scrutiny...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Unabomber Wages Legal Battle to Halt the Sale of Papers
Theodore J. Kaczynski is fighting to reclaim more than 40,000 pages of his writings so he can preserve them for the public to read...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Colts 38, Patriots 34: Manning Finally Overcomes the Patriots
The Colts rallied from an 18-point deficit, then traded scores in a thrilling second half to stun the Patriots and send Peyton Manning and Coach Tony Dungy to the Super Bowl for the first time...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Addenda
Agency That Harbored ?Saatchi 17? to Close...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Advertising: Using the Newsroom to Represent Honesty
Some recent Madison Avenue ads have rewritten the role of the newspaper editor into that of a hero...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Looking Ahead
DAVOS, ANYONE? The annual World Economic Forum will take place Wednesday through Sunday in Davos, Switzerland, drawing political and business leaders ? plus a celebrity or two ? to brainstorm solutions to world problems. Among the top issues on the agenda are climate change and the role of emerging markets. Klaus Schwab, right, the founder and executive chairman of the forum, said he hoped that this year?s conference would address a ?schizophrenic world? in which there are both broad prosperity and tremendous risks from many directions...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Stock Offerings This Week
The following equity and convertible debt offerings are expected this week:...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Treasury Bills Scheduled for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week includes today?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Buyout for Truck Company
The founder of the Swift Transportation Company plans to buy the company for $2.74 billion...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Bush Expected to Make Call for Improved Fuel Economy
One idea said to be under consideration is to do away with the existing system of fleet averages and set a standard for each vehicle...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Drilling Down: Free Content Dominates Video Downloads
More than four times as many households downloaded videos from file-sharing networks as they did from centralized services like iTunes in the third quarter of 2006...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
A Reporter and Potential Juror Says She Can Be Impartial, to a Point
A reporter for The Washington Post said she could not set aside her personal feelings about Vice President Dick Cheney in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
A Single Securities Regulator Is Approved
The NYSE Group and NASD won approval from brokerage firms to form a single regulator for the U.S. securities industry...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
BA Cabin Crews Plan Brief Strike
The move comes after the Transport and General Workers? Union failed to reach an agreement over sick leave, pay and staffing...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
New Agency Seeks to Promote Indie Music Labels
Merlin, a new agency that seeks to represent the world?s independent music sector, has agreed to a deal that will allow music from Merlin clients to be sold from Web sites like MySpace...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Tribune Co. May Reject Outside Bids
The Tribune Company indicated over the weekend that it might reshape its future without outside help...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
An Internet Video Partnership From 2 Lions of Old Media (Eisner and Jann Wenner)
A partnership between Usmagazine.com and Veoh.com will create a celebrity entertainment channel on Veoh...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
A Red Cat?s Journey, Enhanced by iTunes
Ry Cooder is most likely the first well-known musician to master his album using iTunes, but other producers have also noticed its effect...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Bulletin! Washington Post Decides to Go for the Satirical
The Washington Post will sell local advertising for the humor weekly The Onion and print and distribute it in the Washington area...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
?60 Minutes? Alumni to Lead a CNBC Monthly Magazine
The financial news network CNBC is introducing an hourlong monthly newsmagazine, ?Business Nation.?...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
A Boss Takes to His Blog to Deny, Then Confirm
Some chief executives pull blogging off with aplomb. Others, like Jason Goldberg of Jobster, have had more difficulty...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
I.B.M. to Introduce Workers? Networking Software
I.B.M. plans to announce a set of social software tools typically associated with sites like MySpace and Facebook to the corporate world...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
China to Revamp 4th Bank in Preparation for Offering
China said the last of four big state-owned banks would be financially restructured to prepare it for a public stock listing...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
U.S. Financial Sector Is Losing Its Edge, Report Says
A report warns that the U.S. could lose 4 to 7 percent of the global financial services market over the next five years...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Industrial Bank of China Plans Sizable Share Sale in Shanghai
The sale would be the second-largest domestic initial public offering by a mainland Chinese bank...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
In Raw World of Sex Movies, High Definition Could Be a View Too Real
Pornographic movie studios have found that the high-definition format is accentuating physical imperfections in actors...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Big Labels Offer Free Music to College Students
Ruckus Network will offer free music downloads ? with some substantial restrictions ? to any college student...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Group Formed to Support Linux as Rival to Windows
Major technology companies are consolidating their support into the Linux Foundation to help the operating system compete more effectively against Microsoft...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Gambling Subpoenas on Wall St.
Four investment banks have been issued subpoenas in an investigation into the multibillion-dollar online gambling industry...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Cracking Down on Mixtape CDs
A recent crackdown on rap music mixtapes highlights the recording industry?s awkward relationship with what has long been an integral element of rap culture...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
E-Commerce Report: An Insurance Policy for Low Airfares
Farecast, which predicts airline ticket prices, will now guarantee its forecasts for a fee...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
The Media Equation: M dot Strange Finds a Way at Sundance
M dot Strange?s success on the Web has proved that if you produce something the consumer wants, a business model might follow...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
In Live Bacteria, Food Makers See a Bonanza
More food makers are scrambling to offer products with special live microbes that boast health benefits...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
Showdown Looms in Congress Over Drug Advertising on TV
Drug advertising will face hard scrutiny in the new Congress as it considers the renewal of fees that manufacturers pay to speed reviews of new drugs...
New York Times - January 22, 2007
NFL: Bears reach Super Bowl
The Indianapolis Colts come from 18 points down to sink the New England Patriots and set up a Super Bowl showdown with the Chicago Bears...
BBC News - January 22, 2007
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