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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 December 2005:
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Last-minute shoppers hunt for bargains
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the malls the shoppers were frantically wrapping up their gift lists. With shoppers delaying buying longer than last year, merchants are depending even more on the final hours before Christmas to salvage the season...
CNN - December 24, 2005
Professors' Politics Draw Lawmakers Into the Fray
In Pennsylvania, lawmakers are examining whether the political climate at 18 state-run schools requires legislation to ban bias...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
He Loves New York, and It Loves Him Right Back
Yuki Endo, born with a rare disorder, has formed an extended family with people he meets on his explorations...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Officials: Muslims sites monitored for radiation
The FBI has been covertly monitoring mosques and Muslim homes and businesses in U.S. cities for abnormal radiation levels since 2002, several government officials confirmed Friday...
CNN - December 24, 2005
Wall St. Bets on Gambling on the Web
Internet casinos are illegal in the U.S., but they look like solid investments to many of Wall Street's largest firms...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
US film institute picks Penguins
Documentary film March of The Penguins is branded a "moment of significance" by a US movie body...
BBC News - December 24, 2005
Rapper handcuffed in court fracas
Rapper Foxy Brown was threatened with jail after she stuck her tongue out at a New York judge...
BBC News - December 24, 2005
Carey grabs US festive number one
Singer Mariah Carey has this year's American Christmas number one single, the 17th of her career...
BBC News - December 24, 2005
Tsunami victims remembered
Survivors launch a boat laden with flowers, candles and incense in the first ceremony marking one year since the Indian Ocean tsunami swept away at least 216,000 lives in one of the world's worst natural disasters in memory...
CNN - December 24, 2005
Egypt's Nour jailed for 5 years
A court sentences leading government opponent Ayman Nour to five years' imprisonment for forgery at the end of a year-long judicial process that has drawn international criticism and strained Egypt's relations with the United States...
CNN - December 24, 2005
Reporter's Notebook: Issues and Egos Contend in Congress's Rush to Leave
Nobody beat anybody over the head with a cane, as in 1856, but there were plenty of fights...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
FBI monitors Muslims for radiation
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has been covertly monitoring mosques and Muslim homes and businesses in U.S. cities for abnormal radiation levels since 2002, several government officials have confirmed...
CNN - December 24, 2005
Ethiopia troops leave tense border
Ethiopian troops began moving back from the tense border with Eritrea as a United Nations deadline for both sides to pull soldiers back by the weekend drew near, a U.N. source said...
CNN - December 24, 2005
Being a Patient: Doctors' Delicate Balance in Keeping Hope Alive
Efforts are being made across the medical community to grapple with the language and ethics of hope...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Capitol's Pariah on Immigration Is Now a Power
Representative Tom Tancredo has become a symbol of the ascendancy of extreme conservatives in the immigration debate...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Homeless for Over a Century, a Tribe Awaits U.S. Redemption
Government recognition would help the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians secure land in Montana, and to win back a measure of dignity...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
School That Gave Easy Grades to Athletes Is Closing
University High School, a correspondence school in Miami accused of giving high grades to help high school athletes, is going out of business Dec. 31, its founder says...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report
The volume of information harvested, without court warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Transit Strike Reflects Nationwide Pension Woes
Many budgetary experts predict a wave of painful fights over efforts to scale back government retirement programs...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
[TS] Offering Up an Even Dozen Odds and Ends
You know those columns sportswriters dash off as they're heading to vacation? I wonder what a business version of that kind of column would be like ...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Ghosts in the Department Store
Shoppers are responding to the loss of local department stores with little more than a yawn and a collective shrug...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Ford Puts Up More Money to Aid Jaguar
The Ford Motor Company has invested 2.1 billion in its unprofitable Jaguar unit to help pay for a reorganization at the luxury-car division...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Google Will Have the Right to Sell Its 5% Stake in AOL by 2008
Google will have the right to sell its new 5 percent stake in America Online as soon as July 1, 2008, according to regulatory filings...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Bristol-Myers Squibb Receives U.S. Approval for Arthritis Drug
Bristol-Myers Squibb received federal clearance for its new drug Orencia as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, the company said...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
States Concerned on Vehicle Roof Proposal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (AP) - Twenty-six state attorneys general, concerned about a federal proposal to strengthen the roofs of vehicles, urged the government on Friday to abandon language that could prevent people from suing automakers...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Rejected Bidder Raises Offer for a Canadian Steel Maker
The steel maker Arcelor said Friday that it will raise its hostile bid for the Canadian company Dofasco Inc. to $4.17 billion...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
The Saturday Interview: House Prices: The State of the Bubble
Richard A. Smith figured out how to make to make money in the real estate business early in his adult life. He bought his first home for $39,000 in the Atlanta area in 1979, selling it a year later for $43,000, the first of several transactions that he said made him "nothing more than a good student of the industry."...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Market Values: The Popular Isn't Always the Profitable
WHEN stock pickers are asked to name the big winners of the future, they often name winners from the recent past, whose strength makes them obvious choices. Portfolio managers tend to feel safer when they are wrapped snugly in the consensus, and they can grab a piece of the glory that comes from owning a hot stock, even if they bought it 10 minutes ago...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Buying Birds for a Song? Well, Not This Year
Modern-day woes like avian flu and energy prices are making it more trying and costly than ever to please one's true love with gifts from the classic holiday carol "12 Days of Christmas."...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Short Cuts: For Some, Just Reading a Column Isn't Enough
FOR my last column of the year, I'm letting a few readers have their say. Every column has elicited reaction; however the ones I assume are going to generate the biggest fuss aren't always the ones that do. Somewhat to my surprise, the strongest responses have been to my columns on computers (we can thank the Mac users for that), on hiring private nurses and on the Do Not Call registry (mainly those begging for information on a similar Do Not Fax registry.)...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
China Indicts Times Researcher, Saying He Disclosed State Secrets
Zhao Yan was indicted in China on charges of disclosing state secrets to The New York Times and fraud...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
What's Offline: R.& D. Under the Microscope
THE idea that the more you spend on research and development the more breakthroughs result is accepted in boardrooms and executive suites, heralded in Washington - and wrong...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
New-Home Sales Dropped Last Month
Sales of new homes fell in November from a record-setting pace, and the number of homes for sale touched a new high...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Pricing of Downloaded Songs Prompts Antitrust Subpoenas
The New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, is investigating whether four record companies have violated antitrust laws in the pricing of songs that are sold by Internet music services...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Home Builders and Energy Shares Put Damper on Rally
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Biotech Company Closes After Running Out of Cash
The Large Scale Biology Corporation, which led the way in trying to produce pharmaceuticals in genetically modified crops, ran out of money and shut its doors Friday...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Five Days: Corporations Tidy Up as the Year Ticks Away
STRIKING transit workers may have brought subways and buses to a stop in New York this week, but the news kept flowing. Much of it was driven by the time of year, as corporate chiefs and government officials scrambled to tidy up things before the new year...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Taking the Party Approach Far Beyond Tupperware
Move over Tupperware and Mary Kay. Items from food to toys are now crowding kitchen tables of home-based entrepreneurs...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
What's Online: Insider Editing at Wikipedia
Supporters of Wikipedia, the user-edited online encyclopedia, are pitted against traditionalists who call the site inaccurate and irresponsible...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Files Show Guidant Foresaw Some Risks
Company officials projected that some patients might die as a result of short circuits in a company heart device, but it did not publicize the flaw, records show...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Microsoft Quits MSNBC TV, but Web Partnership Remains
Microsoft and NBC announced that they would dissolve their joint ownership of the cable news channel MSNBC, with NBC taking control...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
Retailers Try, Try Again After Slow Season
Many retailers are looking past the holiday weekend and planning an aggressive Monday marketing blitz...
New York Times - December 24, 2005
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