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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 June 2005:
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City Council Yields to Bloomberg on Trash Plan
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg got a major political victory in what had become a test of wills with City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, who is also running for mayor...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Chemotherapy Research Leads to Shifts in Lung Cancer Treatment
Research showed that chemotherapy can significantly lengthen life in many patients in whom it was previously thought to be useless...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Panel Finds No Overt Religious Intolerance at Air Force Academy
But a military panel looking into complaints of religious intolerance did find that the academy failed to accommodate the diverse religious needs of cadets and staff...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Marat Safin Finally Finds His Feet on Grass at Wimbledon
Marat Safin beat another former top 10 player and Wimbledon finalist, Mark Philippoussis, in straight sets today...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Scrushy Jury, With New Member, Must Begin Deliberations Anew
The protracted jury deliberations in the fraud trial of the former HealthSouth chief hit another snag today...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
CNOOC Said to Plan Bid for Unocal
China's state-run oil firm CNOOC has reportedly made a preliminary decision to bid for U.S. producer Unocal...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
EU sugar reform splits exporters
African and Caribbean states fear the impact of plans to slash EU sugar subsidies but the reform is hailed by Brazil...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
UN boosts Haiti peacekeeper force
The UN Security Council votes to send more than 700 extra peacekeepers to Haiti for elections later this year...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
Morgan Stanley Posts Bigger-Than-Expected Drop in Earnings
Morgan Stanley reported lower quarterly profits today than it had predicted only last week when its embattled chairman and chief executive, Philip J. Purcell, said he would step down...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Boy safe after Utah forest ordeal
A Boy Scout is found safe miles from the area of Utah being searched after he went missing four days before...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
Rap shooting civil trial begins
The trial for wrongful death trial brought by the family of rapper Notorious BIG begins in Los Angeles...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
NBA: Pistons force decider
Detroit force a final-game decider after a 95-86 victory over San Antonio levels the NBA finals series at 3-3...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
Tennis: Canas in dope probe
Guillemro Canas says he is being investigated over a positive doping test...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
Peru to tolerate coca cultivation
The Peruvian government says it will allow the limited growing of coca despite earlier opposition...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
US senator regrets Nazi remarks
A US senator apologises for comparing interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to those under Hitler...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
Injured DiCaprio reports attack
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio contacts police after being slashed in the neck at a Hollywood party...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
US Church defends bishop move
Anglican leaders hear why the American arm of the Church decided to ordain an openly gay bishop...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
Ecuador hits 'Hezbollah drugs'
An international drugs ring which was sending funds to Hezbollah is broken up in Ecuador, authorities say...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
Governor in Peru lifts coca curbs
A regional governor issues a by-law lifting restrictions on the cultivation of coca, the raw material for cocaine...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
Taught at Home, but Seeking to Join Activities at Public Schools
Parents are pushing schools to open their extracurricular activities to the nation's more than 1 million home-educated students...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Pistons Keep Pumping, Taking Finals to Finale
The Pistons seized a 95-86 victory over the Spurs with an all-around effort on the boards, a typical stifling defense and timely shooting...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Social Security Opened Its Files for 9/11 Inquiry
The Social Security Administration has relaxed its privacy restrictions and searched thousands of its files at the F.B.I.'s request...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Former Klansman Guilty of Manslaughter in 1964 Deaths
Edgar Ray Killen was convicted on the 41st anniversary of the deaths of three civil rights workers...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
3-Year Federal Study of 9/11 Urges Rules for Safer Towers
A panel will call for changes in the planning, construction and operation of skyscrapers, according to officials and draft documents...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Taking Chances on Two Sides of a River
PENNS GROVE, N.J. - Standing on the east bank of the Delaware River in this depressed town, next to boarded-up commercial buildings and an abandoned ferry pier, it is hard to imagine the time when the waterway was a playground for the rich and famous. But developers on both sides of the river are now hoping to turn back time with new projects that depend, in part, on an expansion of gambling in Delaware...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
A Hot 2005 for Offices So Far
The demand by investors seeking to acquire office space in Manhattan remains intense, especially for properties in Midtown...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Second Inquiry by Big Board
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Appeals Court Tells S.E.C. to Reconsider Directors Rule
A federal appeals court said yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission must produce a cost-benefit analysis to justify a rule that boards of mutual funds must have an independent chairman and at least 75 percent of directors who are independent...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Krispy Kreme Fires 6 Executives in Overhaul
Krispy Kreme, the doughnut maker, announced the departure of six top executives yesterday, as the struggling company looks to clean up its operations and turn itself around...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
China Oil Giant Expected to Vote Wednesday on Unocal Bid
The Chinese oil and gas giant CNOOC will probably decide at a Wednesday board meeting whether to make a cash bid of around $18 billion for Unocal...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
A.M.A. to Study Effect of Marketing Drugs to Consumers
The American Medical Association will study whether consumer drug advertising leads to unnecessary prescriptions, potentially harming patients...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Foreign Makers, Settled in South, Pace Car Industry
Foreign carmakers are redefining the auto industry in America by aggressively building new factories and expanding plants in Southern states...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Grocery Store Chain to Cut 22,000 Jobs and Close 326 Stores
Winn-Dixie Stores, a supermarket chain centered in the South, said yesterday that it would cut 22,000 jobs, or 28 percent of its work force, and close 35 percent of its stores in an effort to fend off rivals like Wal-Mart Stores...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Kroger Profit Rose 12% in First Quarter
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Officers Appointed at A.I.G.
By Reuters...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Two to Leave Toys 'R' Us if Investors' Takeover Is Completed
Toys "R" Us said yesterday that its chief executive, John H. Eyler Jr., and its chief operating officer, Christopher K. Kay, would step down if the company is acquired by private investors, as is expected...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
An Executive Demurs, Then Tells All Anyway
Steven Florio insisted in the past that he was not writing a memoir about his exploits as chief executive at Condé Nast, but now he is writing just such a book...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Lawmakers, Including Republicans, Criticize Pentagon on Disputed Billing by Halliburton
Republicans berated the Pentagon for withholding information about the Halliburton Corporation's disputed billing for Iraqi oil site repairs...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Chief of Havas Agency Quits After Clash With Big Investor
The chairman and chief executive of the French advertising group Havas is stepping down, after a public clash with a big investor, Vincent Bolloré...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Warner Venture With Investors
Warner Brother Pictures has a tentative agreement to co-produce 25 movies with Legendary Pictures, a new production company financed by Wall Street investors...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Ford Plans to Cut 5% of Salaried Work Force
DETROIT, June 21 - The Ford Motor Company said Tuesday that it would cut 5 percent, or about 1,700, of its white-collar jobs in North America. It also said it would no longer give bonuses to managers or make matching contributions to the 401(k) plans of salaried employees...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
United's Tentative Pact With Machinists Cuts Pay
CHICAGO, June 21 (Reuters) - A tentative five-year labor deal for ground workers at United Airlines would cut employee pay by 3 percent to 5.5 percent and guarantee a company contribution to a multi-employer pension plan, according to details of the plan disclosed Tuesday...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Anxiety Over Oil Prices Keeps Shares Largely in Neutral
By Reuters...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Jack S. Kilby, an Inventor of the Microchip, Is Dead at 81
Jack S. Kilby, an electrical engineer whose invention of the integrated circuit gave rise to the information age, died Monday in Dallas...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Judge Unseals Notes From Kozlowski Jurors
By The New York Times...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Johnson & Johnson Wins One Round in Stent Battle
Delaware jury said that Boston Scientific's major stent models had infringed patents owned by Johnson & Johnson...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
F.D.A. Warns Medtronic On External Defibrillators
Regulators have warned Medtronic that it has failed to complete legally required steps to deal with reported flaws in one of its best-selling external defibrillators...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Alabama Is Said to Win Out as Site for Aircraft Maker
The European military contractor EADS has selected Mobile, Ala., as the location for its plant as it competes to supply refueling tankers to the U.S. Air Force...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Green Tinge Is Attracting Seed Money to Ventures
The alternative energy sector is resonating with venture capitalists in the Silicon Valley, where growing rich through doing good is considered the ideal...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Regulators Start Inquiry in Data Loss
Regulators are investigating CardSystems Solutions, the payment processor where a security breach has put millions of American cardholders at risk for fraud...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
From China, a New Bid for Maytag and Status
Haier Group's bid to acquire the Maytag Corporation could transform Haier into one of the world's most powerful appliance makers...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Blank Tape Confounds Grasso Case
Lawyers in the case against Richard Grasso, the former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, sparred over a taped interview with the head of a compensation committee...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
No. 2 and No. 3 Movie Theater Chains Plan to Merge
AMC Entertainment is merging with the Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corporation, in what some analysts described as a show of faith in moviegoing...
New York Times - June 22, 2005
Malfunction fear for 'solar sail'
Scientists monitoring a spacecraft designed to travel on solar power are encountering problems after launch...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
Brazil's Lula defies his accusers
Brazil's President Lula warns opponents accusing him of involvement in bribery that he still retains "moral authority"...
BBC News - June 22, 2005
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