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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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Ex-Klansman, 80, Gets 60 Years in Prison for 1964 Killings
Edgar Ray Killen received the maximum 60 years for masterminding the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
G.E. Revamps Businesses and Names 3 New Chiefs
The General Electric Company announced today that it would reorganize its 11 businesses into six broader units, in its largest sweep of changes since 2001...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
US bank agrees to Parmalat payout
US bank Morgan Stanley agrees to pay a multi-million pound settlement to Italy's Parmalat over legal action relating to its collapse...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
Alcoa axes thousands to cut costs
Alcoa, the world's largest aluminium producer, announces plans to axe 6,500 workers worldwide to cut costs...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
Dead rapper was 'revenge target'
Murdered rapper Notorious BIG was a target of retaliation for the death of Tupac Shakur, a US court hears...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
Relatives mark Air India bombing
Families who lost relatives during the Air India bombing 20 years ago mark the anniversary of the attack...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
Report slams Bush space vision
President Bush's vision for human space exploration is doomed to fail, says a report by two influential experts...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
Zapatista rebels deny attack plan
Mexico's Zapatista rebels do not plan to resume attacks despite putting their forces on red alert, a statement says...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
Ex-Klansman, 80, Gets 60 Years in Prison for '64 Killings
Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison Thursday for masterminding the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Justices, 5-4, Back Seizure of Property for Development
The Supreme Court today ruled that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses - even against their will - for private economic development...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
US House passes flag-burning ban
The US House of Representatives approves a constitutional amendment allowing a ban on flag burning...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
'Religious left' launched in US
A group of progressive Christians in the US launches a new political movement to counter the religious right...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
Senators Hear of a Wink-Wink Lobbyist Move
Officials are investigating whether Jack Abramoff, a Republican lobbyist, defrauded several Indian tribes while charging them more than $80 million in fees and expenses...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
U.S. Audit Faults Speech Therapy in City Schools
New York City schools misspent $870 million in Medicaid payments on speech therapy programs, according to a scathing federal audit...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
US spy plane crash in Gulf state
An American U-2 spy plane crashes while returning to its base in the UAE, killing the pilot, Pentagon officials say...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
China oil firm in Unocal bid war
China National Offshore Oil offers $18.5bn in cash for US firm Unocal to try to outbid Chevron's merger plan...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
Flight 15 to Basra: Few Perks, but No Bombs. No Complaints.
An Iraqi Airways flight between Baghdad and Basra is perhaps the most significant in-country transportation development since the war...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Senators Hear of Wink-Wink Lobbyist Move
Officials are investigating whether Jack Abramoff defrauded several Indian tribes while charging them more than $80 million in fees and expenses...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
U.S. Audit Faults Use of Funds in Speech Therapy in City Schools
Auditors recommended that Albany return $435 million to the federal government for money it spent on unneeded speech therapy...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Studies Lead to Big Changes in Lung Cancer Treatments
Research proved that chemotherapy can lengthen life for many patients for whom it was previously thought to be useless...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Law Backfires, Stranding Orphans in Romania
A new child welfare law in Romania forbids international adoptions, leaving families without children they had counted as theirs...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Heart Device Maker to Consider Changes
By Reuters...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Sony Buys Warner Brothers' Matrix Game
Three months after Warner Brothers Entertainment started Matrix Online, the company said that the game would be acquired by a rival, Sony Online Entertainment...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
TD Waterhouse USA Is Sold to Ameritrade
The Toronto-Dominion Bank agreed to sell its TD Waterhouse USA brokerage unit to the Ameritrade Holding Corporation in a deal valued at about $3.3 billion...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Classic Icons Seek Fresh Fame
Companies are seeking to profit from marketers who are rushing into properties that were once hot with baby boomers, such as Underdog and Clark bars...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Pools of Angels Make the Money Hunt Easier
Private investors known as angels, who sink money into new companies, are often the best hope for start-ups that are high on promise and low on cash...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Microsoft Will Pay Legal Costs if Technology Partners Are Sued
Microsoft plans to announce that it will pay the legal costs for any computer maker or software company that may be sued over patents based on claims against it...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Court Overturns HealthSouth Pleas
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 22 (Reuters) - A United States appeals court overturned the sentences of two former HealthSouth Corporation executives who had pleaded guilty to fraud, saying a lower court gave no reason for imposing probation and home detention after prosecutors asked for prison time...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
A Choice for the Heart
Patients are receiving less information on products that are implanted in their bodies than on the safety of their cars...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Inquiry Into French Insurer
AXA, a French insurer facing scrutiny over its role in a reinsurance deal with MBIA, said that the Justice Department was examining the transaction...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
S.E.C. to Revisit Fund Rule
WASHINGTON, June 22 (Dow Jones/AP) - The Securities and Exchange Commission will meet next Wednesday to reconsider a rule requiring mutual funds to have an independent chairman, the commssion said Wednesday...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Europe's Plan on Subsidies Aims to Cut Sugar Prices
The European Commission on Wednesday announced a plan to overhaul its sugar subsidy system that would cut prices by 39 percent...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
S.U.V.'s Improve Their Safety Ratings in Latest Rollover Tests
DETROIT, June 22 - Sport utility vehicles are becoming less prone to roll over as automakers redesign them to be more stable, federal regulators said Wednesday in a report...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Shell's Chief Reaffirms Goal of 30% More Output by 2015
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group will spend more on research, focus on big technology-driven projects and possibly acquire other oil producers to increase production...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Shares Flat as Profit Worries Overshadow Big Bond Gains
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Are Collectibles the New Real Estate?
Are collectibles a sound financial investment? If the past is any guide, the answer is no...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Bank in Utah Says Its Data Was at Risk in Intrusion
A Utah bank is the latest company to become entangled in the controversy over a security breach that has put the information of 40 million cardholders at risk for fraud...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Citigroup and Legg Mason Said to Be Near a Deal to Swap Assets Worth $4 Billion
Citigroup is expected to announce today an agreement to swap its asset management business for Legg Mason's brokerage business as well as cash and stock, in a deal worth a total of about $4 billion, one person close to the talks said yesterday...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
A U.A.W. Chief Awaits a G.M. Showdown
The president of the United Auto Workers faces the fight of his union life as General Motors' chief executive presses him to accept major benefit cuts...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
KPMG Trying to Cut Deal on Liabilities, Filing States
KPMG, the accounting firm under scrutiny over tax shelters, has been quietly working to limit its liability from civil suits...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Name Seems Familiar at Morgan
Morgan Stanley's board may offer its chief executive position to John J. Mack, the company's former president...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
New Scrutiny on Auditing of Pensions
The body that writes the accounting rules for American business is now preparing an overhaul of how companies calculate the financial impact of their pension plans...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Sony's Chief Pledges to Halt Company Slide
The head of Sony, Sir Howard Stringer, on Wednesday promised shareholders a fresh plan to revamp the company and halt the long slide in its stock price...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Yields on Treasuries Plunge; Slower Global Growth Is Seen
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Bear Stearns Could Face S.E.C. Fines
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Chinese Oil Giant in Takeover Bid for U.S. Corporation
CNOOC's bid for Unocal signals the first big takeover battle by a Chinese company for an American corporation...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Fraud-Trial Jury Is Told to Restart for an Alternate
The jury in the fraud trial of the former HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy will have to start deliberations all over again...
New York Times - June 23, 2005
Online brokers seal $2.9bn merger
Ameritrade is buying rival online share trader TD Waterhouse USA for $2.9bn in a move seen as likely to prompt further tie-ups...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
China oil firm bid to buy Unocal
China National Offshore Oil offers $18.5bn in cash for US firm Unocal to try to outbid ChevronTexaco's merger plan...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
Two die in Trinidad tanker fire
An explosion and fire on a tanker undergoing repairs off Trinidad kill two, with two more missing...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
US officer school told to improve
The US air force tells an officer school to allow equal religious rights after reports of bullying by evangelical Christians...
BBC News - June 23, 2005
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