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Family shock at Florida web death
BBC News - 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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Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Rwanda protocol chief says shell prove innocence
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Lame-duck US, Israeli leaders to meet a final time
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Suspected US missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan
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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Kanye Wests new album to debut on MySpace Music
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for Octomber 2006:
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Bush's Iraq war mantra changes
In an about-face, the Bush administration has announced it is tossing out its rallying cry for the Iraq war. Repeatedly since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush has said the U.S. will "stay the course" in the war-torn nation. But no more of that from the president, says White House press secretary Tony Snow...
CNN - October 24, 2006
Hackers prey on online stock trades
It's high-tech robbery. No gun needed. Just a computer and a criminal mind. And it can be perpetrated from anywhere, with the money disappearing into offshore accounts. Hackers have hit some of America's top online brokerage houses. A number of federal agencies have responded to the online crime wave, including the SEC, the Secret Service, and the FBI...
CNN - October 24, 2006
Hastert urges panel to work quickly on Foley matter
House Speaker Dennis Hastert said ethics investigators should work quickly to find out who knew about Rep. Mark Foley's come-ons to congressional pages and what was done about it. After his three hour, closed-door testimony to the House ethics committee, the speaker said, "I answered all the questions they asked to the best of my ability."...
CNN - October 24, 2006
New Yorker Wins Best Cover of the Year
The illustration shows the flood from New Orleans engulfing the White House...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Bush Seeks to Reverse G.O.P.'s Declining Fortunes
With Election Day just two weeks away, the president called for Republicans in a G.O.P.-leaning district in Florida to get out and vote...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Hastert Testifies About Foley Before House Panel
The speaker testified today about when he first learned of concerns about ex-Representative Mark Foley’s behavior around Congressional pages...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
World Series, Game 3 - 8:33 p.m. ET: The Talk of (Almost) Two Baseball Towns
Columnists and fans in the World Series cities are divided on Kenny Rogers’s dirty hand...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Europe Warns China on Trade Practices
The European Union authorities warned China today to open up a “two-way street” for global commerce or face action at the World Trade Organization...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Success possible in Iraq says U.S.
Iraqi forces should be able to take full control of security in the country within the next 12 to 18 months with minimal U.S. support, Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, says. At a joint news conference, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said "success in Iraq is possible and can be achieved on a realistic timetable."...
CNN - October 24, 2006
Report: Humans stripping away planet's resources
Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the WWF conservation group said on Tuesday...
CNN - October 24, 2006
Dems fight historical labels
On the cusp of an election that could overturn the Republican majority on Capitol Hill, CNN correspondent Candy Crowley jokingly asked a senior Democratic aide whether he had ordered new business cards to reflect majority status. "Don't underestimate our ability to blow it," he said...
CNN - October 24, 2006
World Series, Game 3 - 8:33 p.m. ET: With Smudge and Streak, Rogers Has Left Imprint
Kenny Rogers is the central figure of the 102nd World Series after pitching eight shutout innings Sunday and causing an uproar over suspected pine tar...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
No Major Shake-Ups in Michelin’s N.Y. Ratings
Alain Ducasse at the Essex House was dropped from the guide this year because it plans to close and relocate in early January...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Lieberman’s Words on War Show Some Shifts
An examination of Joseph I. Lieberman's statements on Iraq shows that while he repeatedly praised President Bush, he was far more likely to criticize him...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Brazilian miner buys Canada rival
Brazilian firm CVRD becomes the world's second-biggest miner after securing a $17bn takeover of Canada's Inco...
BBC News - October 24, 2006
U.S. soldier feared kidnapped
A search is under way for a U.S. soldier who went missing in central Baghdad last evening, amid fears the soldier might have been kidnapped. U.S. forces raided the headquarters of Al-Furat TV and briefly seized some weapons, according to CNN correspondent John Roberts, embedded with troops conducting the search...
CNN - October 24, 2006
Poll: No one winning in Iraq
Nearly as many people polled in the United States say insurgents are winning in Iraq as say U.S.-led coalition forces are. The poll also shows that nearly two-thirds of respondents say they now oppose the war in Iraq. The findings are reinforced by polls in Britain...
CNN - October 24, 2006
Self-Portraits Chronicle a Descent Into Alzheimer’s
William Utermohlen’s paintings of his descent into dementia will be exhibited through Friday in Manhattan...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Gletsch Journal: Frozen in Memories, but Melting Before Their Eyes
The vast Rhone glacier in Gletsch, Switzerland, the source of the Rhone River, is rapidly shrinking by 12 to 15 feet a day...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Royal Dutch Shell Seeks to Buy the 22% of Shell Canada It Doesn?t Own
Royal Dutch Shell is seeking to streamline its businesses and increase reliance on unconventional sources of fuel...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
A TV Comedy Turns an Unconventional Weapon on Iraq’s High and Mighty: Fake News
An Iraqi parody newscast, “Hurry Up, He’s Dead,” fires barbs at everyone from the American military to the Iraqi government...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Bush Aide Laments Turndown in Housing Market
The housing slump was a heavy burden for the economy in the late summer, a top adviser to President Bush said on Monday...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
3 Saks Executives Will Resign
Saks Inc., owner of the luxury Saks Fifth Avenue department stores, said its chief financial officer, Douglas E. Coltharp, and two other executives will resign next year as the company consolidates operations in New York City...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Chrysler Reports It Has an Unsold Inventory of About 50,000 Vehicles
The Chrysler Group said Monday that it had not yet accounted for tens of thousands of cars in its inventory numbers...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
U.S. Asks Namibia to Extradite Former Comverse Chief
The United States has requested that Namibia extradite the former chief executive of Comverse Technology, Jacob Alexander...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Medco to Pay $155 Million in Kickback Case
Medco Health Solutions, a manager of employee prescription drug benefits, agreed to pay $155 million to settle allegations that it accepted kickbacks from drug makers and submitted false claims to the government...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Man Who Leaked Business Week Column Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading
A former printing-plant employee admitted leaking copies of the “Inside Wall Street” column from Business Week magazine as part of a guilty plea to insider trading charges...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Parent of Keefe Bruyette Plans to Go Public
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (Dow Jones/AP) — KBW Inc., the investment bank, is gearing up to hold its initial public offering early next month at a price that could give it a market valuation of about $638 million...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Xerox Quarterly Earnings Rise on Tax Gain, Sales of Color Machines
Xerox said quarterly earnings rose to $536 million, aided by a tax refund and strong sales of color machines and supplies for commercial and office use...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
After Weak ‘Flags’ Debut, Studio May Face Costly Oscar Battle
Clint Eastwood’s World War II movie “Flags of Our Fathers” lumbered ashore over the weekend weighted with the expectations of a studio needing to win big...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Coca-Cola Is Donating Land for Proposed Rights Museum
The two and a half acres of prime land in Atlanta would be given to a proposed civil rights museum that would hold, among other exhibits, the papers of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Times Is Ordered to Reveal Columnist?s Sources
A judge ordered The New York Times to disclose the identities of three confidential sources used by Nicholas Kristof for pieces he wrote about the investigation of the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Lipitor Patent Ruling
Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company, won an appeals court ruling yesterday that will keep generic copies of its best-selling drug Lipitor off the market until 2010...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Profit Rises 11% at Chip Maker
Texas Instruments said yesterday that third-quarter profit rose 11 percent on increased sales of chips for the newest cellphones. It also said sales would miss analysts’ estimates this quarter...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
T-Mobile Tests Dual Wi-Fi and Cell Service
T-Mobile began selling service that allows a single handset to communicate over both cellular networks and Wi-Fi hot spots...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Kellogg Executive Is Promoted to Chief
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Oct. 23 (AP) — Kellogg, the cereal company, has named its president and chief operating officer, David Mackay, to succeed James M. Jenness, the chief executive, when he steps down on Dec. 31...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Amex Reports Profit
American Express said yesterday that its third-quarter profit exceeded Wall Street projections, reflecting robust returns from its credit-card business...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Kimberly-Clark Cites High Costs
Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers, said yesterday that third-quarter profit rose nearly 12 percent, but the results failed to impress Wall Street and its shares fell...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Slack Sales of Dressing and Drinks Slow Kraft
Kraft Foods yesterday posted lower-than-expected sales growth due to weak sales of salad dressing and bottled beverages...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
2 Plead Guilty in Plot to Sell Coke Secrets
ATLANTA, Oct. 23 (AP) — Two men accused this year of plotting with a secretary at the Coca-Cola Company to steal trade secrets and trying to sell them to PepsiCo each pleaded guilty Monday to one count of conspiracy...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Stocks & Bonds: Dow Goes Over 12,100 and Stays There
Wall Street extended its October rally yesterday as investors grew more confident about coming earnings reports and as a decline in oil prices bolstered hopes for higher consumer spending. The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 12,100 for the first time and reached a record high close...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Fannie Mae Files Restitution Plan With Regulator
The report outlined any plans the company may have to seek restitution from executives involved in an $11 billion accounting scandal...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Frequent Flier: How to Tell One Plane From Another
When I was a frequent business traveler, I developed what some people might consider an odd pastime: I recorded the tail numbers on planes...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Memo Pad
FIRST OF THE VERY LIGHT JETS Eclipse Aviation said it expected to deliver the first so-called very light jet as early as this week to David Crowe, the co-owner of Magnum Aviation in California. Eclipse has more than 2,500 orders for its $1.52 million Eclipse 500 jets and expects to deliver 10 of them this year and 515 in 2007. The Federal Aviation Administration has predicted that 5,000 very light jets will be operating within 10 years. Besides Eclipse, which has booked the highest number of orders, other manufacturers making their own versions of the jets include Cessna, Adam Aircraft, Embraer and Honda. Some very light jets will be used to supplement corporate fleets for short-haul trips; others are being bought by companies that expect to operate them as on-demand air taxis, and some are being bought by individuals as entry-level private jets...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Extended Stay, Extended Pampering
Resorts have been making a special effort to cater to their long-term guests, learning their likes and introducing unusual amenities...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Market Place: Canada Wonders Why It’s the Bought and Not the Buyer
Cash-rich corporate Canada could be on a hunt for commercial prey, but the list of prominent Canadian companies now under new and foreign ownership goes on...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
On the Road: At U.S. Borders, Laptops Have No Right to Privacy
Employers have a new worry — that business travelers’ laptops will be seized at United States customs and immigration checkpoints...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
AT&T Profit Rises 74% on Wireless Growth
Strong growth at Cingular Wireless and savings from the merger of the old AT&T with SBC Communications spurred the increase...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
A New Twist in a Russian Cellphone Caper
Moscow prosecutors say they are investigating whether 30,000 handsets that were supposedly destroyed were, in fact, sold at knockdown prices in stores in the Russian provinces...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Advertising: Seeing Promotion Possibilities in the Tick of the Population Clock
Johnson & Johnson and Gerber Products are sponsoring campaigns celebrating the arrival of the 300 millionth American...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
New Chief at Wrigley Is Outsider
The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, purveyor of all things minty fresh, named William D. Perez its chief executive Monday...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
This Time, It’s Not the Economy
Gas prices are down and the Dow Jones industrial average is up, but Republican candidates do not seem to be getting any traction...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
I.B.M. Sues Amazon.com Over Patents
Five I.B.M. patents were cited, including technologies that govern how the site recommends products to customers...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Like Yahoo, Google Adds Customized Search Engine
Google introduced a tool Monday that allows Web sites and blogs to offer visitors a customized version of its search engine...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
BHP output hit by copper strike
BHP Billiton's copper output fell 19% in the third quarter of 2006 after a month-long strike at its Escondida mine in Chile...
BBC News - October 24, 2006
Iran condemns US exercises
Iran criticises planned US exercises in the Gulf, while Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls for Muslim unity...
BBC News - October 24, 2006
Mexico hurricane loses strength
Hurricane Paul is downgraded to a tropical storm but Mexican authorities remain on alert...
BBC News - October 24, 2006
Giants cruise past hapless Dallas
New York make it four wins from six games with an impressive 36-22 victory over the Cowboys...
BBC News - October 24, 2006
Transport strike cripples Uruguay
Lorry and taxi drivers striking in protest at increased diesel prices bring Uruguay to a standstill...
BBC News - October 24, 2006
US jails Egypt pair for slavery
A California court sends an Egyptian couple to prison for enslaving a 10-year-old girl as their servant in the US...
BBC News - October 24, 2006
American soldier missing in Iraq
US forces in Baghdad are looking for a soldier who went missing in the city on Monday night, the military says...
BBC News - October 24, 2006
Brazil 'serial killer' on trial
A man whom officials believe to be one of Brazil's worst serial killers goes on trial for killing a 15-year-old boy...
BBC News - October 24, 2006
Skilling: 'I believe I'm innocent'
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who gained infamy as the man who oversaw one of the largest corporate frauds in history, is sentenced to more than 24 years in prison...
CNN - October 24, 2006
Hunt for missing comrade
Fifteen tired U.S. soldiers were on a routine mission when the call came in that a U.S. soldier was missing and had possibly been kidnapped. The commander of the unit was given coordinates where the soldier might be. The troops raced to a neighborhood and began to search homes...
CNN - October 24, 2006
Giants 36, Cowboys 22: After Bizarre Turn, Giants Hold on to Win
Giants linebacker LaVar Arrington sustained a season-ending torn left Achilles’ tendon in the Giants’ Monday night victory...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Offering Perks, Lenders Court Colleges? Favor
With rising tuition making private student loans a big business, lenders are courting universities in hopes that they will steer students their way...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
In Southwest, a Shifting Away From Party Ties
A growing number of voters are going independent, especially in the Southwest, a trend that could lead to more competitive races...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Medical Views of 9/11’s Dust Show Big Gaps
The debate about the relationship between toxic particles and disease will be a central issue in a flood of Sept. 11-related lawsuits...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Doctors Debate Safety of Stents for Heart Patients
The question of stent safety is a prime topic here at a trade show for medical equipment makers and thousands of doctors who use stents to treat heart patients. And there seem to be no easy answers...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Enron’s Skilling Is Sentenced to 24 Years
A restitution order will send as much as $45 million of Jeffrey K. Skilling’s money to the victims of the Enron fraud...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Meat Labels Hope to Lure the Sensitive Carnivore
A growing number of retailers are making animal-welfare claims on meat and egg packaging...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Ford Posts Loss of $5.8 Billion, Worst Since ‘92
Ford’s new chief executive said the automaker would require a transformation in the way it thought about consumers...
New York Times - October 24, 2006
Transport strike cripples Uruguay
Lorry and taxi drivers striking in protest at increased diesel prices bring Uruguay to a standstill...
BBC News - October 24, 2006
Venezuela hit by Coke dispute
More than 10,000 former workers at a Venezuela Coca-Cola subsidiary strike over unpaid beneifts...
BBC News - October 24, 2006
Peru president had son in affair
Peruvian President Alan Garcia admits he has a one-year-old son from an extra-marital relationship...
BBC News - October 24, 2006
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