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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
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Mexico recovers 929 pre-Columbian pieces
Mexico recovered more than 900 pre-Columbian artifacts seized from smugglers in the U.S. and Canada, including 800-year-old fiber sandals, spears and hunting bows looted from nomadic caves, officials said Friday...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Monet painting fetches $80 million at London auction
A water lily painting by impressionist master Claude Monet was sold for more than $80 million at auction Tuesday, kicking off a week of modern-art sales expected to reach records that defy the global economic downturn...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Rockets fired at Israel from Gaza shake truce
Palestinian militants fired three homemade rockets into southern Israel on Tuesday, threatening to unravel a cease-fire days after it began, and Israel responded by closing vital border crossings into Gaza...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Broadcom exec pleads guilty to lying to SEC
Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli has pleaded guilty to lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission as it probed stock option backdating at the chip maker...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
N.M. school tries to reach students via podcast
Students at a rural New Mexico school made a unique pledge last winter: Right hands raised, they promised to take care of their Zunes...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Italian accused of cashing in on fake Vatican ties
An Italian businessman who once dated actress Anne Hathaway was arrested Tuesday on charges he posed as a representative of the Vatican to fleece wealthy investors in a real estate company that sought to buy and redevelop Roman Catholic Church property...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Move to renew Colombia-Ecuador ties collapses
Moves to renew relations between Ecuador and Colombia collapsed on Tuesday as part of a smoldering feud between South American neighbors of the left and right...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
House aims to stop price gouging at the gas pump
House Democrats resurrecting a measure to punish price gouging and curb oil market speculation said Tuesday they will block Republican calls for expanded offshore drilling, an idea gaining popularity with gasoline costing $4 a gallon...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Texas governor trying to slash ethanol production
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, supported by livestock producers concerned about rising feed prices, stepped up his effort Tuesday to pressure the federal government to cut ethanol production requirements in half...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
China quake lake to be tourist spot
China plans to turn a huge lake formed from the Sichuan earthquake disaster into a tourist destination, a state news agency reported Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Man in India jailed for caring for orphaned bear
It was supposed to be a heartwarming tale of a man who brought an orphaned bear cub home from the forests of India to console his 6-year-old daughter, who had just lost her mother...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Divers find bodies in ferry that capsized in storm
A coast guard diver searching for survivors Tuesday inside a ferry that capsized in a typhoon found bodies and a bit of comfort _ a plastic rosary floating in the water...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Pandas evacuated from earthquake area
Pandas living in earthquake-hit southwest China are facing a food shortage and some have been evacuated to temporary shelters because of the threat of landslides and other hazards, an official said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Beijing gets ground-to-air defense
China has stationed a battery of ground-to-air missiles just 300 yards from a Beijing Olympic venue, the latest sign of tightening security with the games just 6 1/2 weeks away...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Avery in Vogue NHLs No. 1 pest is mag intern
Sean Avery squeezes between two tables full of diners, careful to avoid jostling anyone. He quickly skims the menu at a favorite SoHo eatery and orders: the pizza with black truffles, please...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Jacob the Jeweler gets 2 12 years in US prison
The New York businessman known in the hip-hop world as "Jacob the Jeweler" was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for lying to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
House fails to move gas pump price gouging bill
House Democrats failed Tuesday to resurrect a bill to punish price gouging at the gas pump, while maneuvering to block Republican attempts to expand offshore drilling, an idea gaining in popularity amid $4-a-gallon gas prices...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
McCain to visit Colombia next month
Sen. John McCain is taking another foreign trip, this time to Colombia...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Clinton returns to Senate after presidential race
She came, she saw, she hugged.Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to Congress Tuesday for the first time since suspending her presidential campaign, to a loud round of applause and hugs from Democrats as they try to bridge the rifts left by a long, bruising presidential primary...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
No. 2 Nadal advances to 2nd round at Wimbledon
No. 2-ranked Rafael Nadal has started his Wimbledon campaign with a 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (0) win over German qualifier Andreas Beck...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Roddick beats Schwank to take Wimbledon opener
Sixth-seeded Andy Roddick has beaten Eduardo Schwank 7-5, 6-4, 7-6 (0) to advance to the second round at Wimbledon...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Venus opens Wimbledon title defense with easy win
Defending champion Venus Williams scraped through a tight first set and then pulled away for a 7-6 (5), 6-1 victory over British teenager Naomi Cavaday to begin her bid for a fifth Wimbledon title...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
New book coming from Marley & Me author
"Marley & Me" author John Grogan is working on a prequel to the million-selling memoir about his dog...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Deliberations continue in Ky. diet drug fraud case
A northern Kentucky jury will continue deliberating Wednesday in the case of three lawyers charged with defrauding clients in a $200 million diet drug settlement...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Obama dismisses Dobson criticism about Bible
Barack Obama said Tuesday evangelical leader James Dobson was "making stuff up" when he accused the presumed Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Stars hit the red carpet for Obama, Democrats
The campaign trail is taking a detour down the red carpet...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Philippines typhoon capsizes boat, 700 missing
Rescuers battled huge waves and strong winds Sunday to reach a ferry that capsized during a deadly typhoon in the Philippines a day earlier, but found no immediate signs of the more than 740 passengers and crew...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Venus Williams starts title defense with victory
Venus Williams has started her title defense with a 7-6 (5), 6-1 win over British wild card Naomi Cavaday on Centre Court...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
800 missing after Philippines typhoon
Philippine officials say divers have managed to get inside an upside-down ferry but have found only bodies and no survivors...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Ky. diet drug fraud case deliberations to continue
Jurors deliberated a full day Tuesday without reaching a verdict in the case of three lawyers charged with defrauding clients in a $200 million diet drug settlement...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
NHRA driver Kalitta killed in horrific crash
Scott Kalitta died Saturday when his Funny Car burst into flames and crashed at the end of the track during the final round of qualifying for the Lucas Oil NHRA SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Vegas police make arrest in Javon Walker robbery
Las Vegas police have made an arrest in the robbery and beating case involving NFL player Javon Walker...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Texas town reels from horrific abuse in its midst
In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
"Star Trek" star George Takei is ready to "live long and prosper" with his partner of 21 years. Takei will marry 54-year-old Brad Altman on September 14th in Los Angeles...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Wildfires were scattered around Northern California on Sunday in the heart of wine country and in remote forests, the latest in what has become an unusually destructive year...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
800 missing after Philippines typhoon
Philippine officials say divers have managed to get inside an upside-down ferry but have found only bodies and no survivors...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Residents keep fighting rising Mississippi River
With three days to go before the bloated Mississippi River reaches its crest, people toiled around the clock Monday to reinforce levees already strained and saturated from the pressure of the rising water...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Dad of 2 slain Texas children charged with murder
A man who led police to the charred remains of his two children has been charged with capital murder...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Charges filed in shooting of pregnant bank teller
A man accused of shooting a pregnant teller during a bank robbery and causing her to lose the twins she was carrying was charged Monday with two counts of killing a fetus, among other charges...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Defense claims murder-suicide in Britons trial
A defense attorney for a British man accused of killing his wife and 9-month-old daughter told a jury Monday that his wife shot the baby and committed suicide, and that he covered up her actions to "protect her honor."...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Residents keep fighting rising Mississippi River
With three days to go before the bloated Mississippi River reaches its crest, people toiled around the clock Monday to reinforce levees already strained and saturated from the pressure of the rising water...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Flood victims say FEMA is doing a heckuva job
When floodwaters knocked out the water treatment plant in Mason City, Iowa, FEMA rolled into town and promptly set up an account with a Pepsi bottler to supply bottled water. Then FEMA officials moved into a vacant store and began handing out the stuff...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Lightning sparks 800-plus fires in California
Firefighters from neighboring states arrived to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 wildfires, from Big Sur to wine country to Humboldt County...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Researchers seek health aid for Rainbow youth
They are a mysterious, almost mythical group, the Rainbow Family of Living Light, gathering again this summer to party and pray for peace, many appearing wild and unwashed, barefoot and bearded, secretive and standoffish...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Swollen Mississippi defeats another levee
The swollen Mississippi River burst another levee Tuesday, submerging farmland and threatening a residential area whose occupants had already moved out in anticipation of a flood...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Next battle over border fence may be Texas
A U.S. Supreme Court decision paving the way for a 670-mile federal fence along the U.S.-Mexico border drew swift criticism from environmentalists, who promised to make another legal stand in Texas...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Lightning sparks 800-plus fires in California
Firefighters from neighboring states arrived to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 wildfires, from Big Sur to wine country to Humboldt County...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
More than 800 wildfires burning in California
Fire officials say there are 800 wildfires burning around California, sparked by an unprecedented lightning storm...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Autistic man recovering after 7 days in Wis. woods
An autistic man who could barely speak and had wandered off without medicine for his transplanted kidney likely had just hours to live when he was found after a week in the woods, a doctor said...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
There was definitely no pact, says pregnant teen
One of the girls who became pregnant at Gloucester High School this year denied Tuesday there was any pact among them to have children, saying instead they decided to help each other make the best of their situations...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Pregnant Mass. student says there was no pact
A pregnant high school student disputed the notion Tuesday that girls in this New England fishing town made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Waterlogged levee under pressure from Mississippi
The weakest spot left along the swollen Mississipi River may be the Pin Oak levee, a barrier so tenuous that soil slides down its slope. Only National Guard soldiers and firefighters in life vests are allowed to stack sandbags, because volunteers and heavy equipment could sink. A single muskrat recently created a geyser of riverwater by digging into the berm...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Crews battle lightning-caused California wildfires
Fire crews joined aircraft from neighboring states Tuesday to battle hundreds of lightning-caused wildfires across Northern California...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
No new evacuations as another levee fails
The swollen Mississippi River burst through yet another levee Tuesday, not endangering any towns but proving to anxious Midwesterners that the high water is still a threat...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Columbia professor accused of plagiarism dismissed
A Columbia University professor who drew widespread attention when a noose was discovered hanging from her office door has been fired over allegations of plagiarism...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Florida teen loses arm in alligator attack
A Florida teen who was attacked by an 11 1/2-foot alligator lost his arm, but managed to escape with his life after poking the animal in the eye...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Suspect wounded in Minn. govt. office standoff
Authorities say a hostage situation at a county courthouse complex in Little Falls, Minn., has ended with a suspect being wounded...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Fla. investigators look into husbands death in 65
Authorities said Tuesday they will re-examine the shooting death of a man in the Florida Keys more than four decades ago, after learning he was the third of five husbands to a serial widow charged in the death of one of them...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Pregnant Mass. teen says there was no pact
One of the girls who became pregnant at Gloucester High School this year denied Tuesday there was any pact among them to have children, saying instead they decided to help each other make the best of their situations...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Judge issues gag order in Texas swingers club case
A judge has issued a gag order leading up to the next trial involving an East Texas swingers club that allegedly forced children into sex shows...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Father, son killed in Calif. road rage shooting
San Francisco police are searching for as many as three men who were riding in a car involved in a road rage shooting that killed a father and his son...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Documents cite contractor gifts to Baltimore mayor
Mayor Sheila Dixon accepted fur coats and airplane tickets from a prominent Baltimore developer and took several lavish trips with him in 2003 and 2004, according to court documents made public Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Settlement reached in NY lake cruise disaster
A settlement has been reached in lawsuits filed by the families of 20 tourists killed when a tour boat overturned on a lake in upstate New York...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Ex-con found guilty of torturing NYC grad student
An ex-convict has been found guilty of raping and torturing a Columbia University graduate student over 19 nightmarish hours...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
N.M. school tries to reach students via podcast
Students at a rural New Mexico school made a unique pledge last winter: Right hands raised, they promised to take care of their Zunes...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Mexico recovers 929 pre-Columbian pieces
Mexico recovered more than 900 pre-Columbian artifacts seized from smugglers in the U.S. and Canada, including 800-year-old fiber sandals, spears and hunting bows looted from nomadic caves, officials said Friday...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Monet painting fetches $80 million at London auction
A water lily painting by impressionist master Claude Monet was sold for more than $80 million at auction Tuesday, kicking off a week of modern-art sales expected to reach records that defy the global economic downturn...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Rockets fired at Israel from Gaza shake truce
Palestinian militants fired three homemade rockets into southern Israel on Tuesday, threatening to unravel a cease-fire days after it began, and Israel responded by closing vital border crossings into Gaza...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Broadcom exec pleads guilty to lying to SEC
Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli has pleaded guilty to lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission as it probed stock option backdating at the chip maker...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Beijing gets ground-to-air defense
China has stationed a battery of ground-to-air missiles just 300 yards from a Beijing Olympic venue, the latest sign of tightening security with the games just 6 1/2 weeks away...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Italian accused of cashing in on fake Vatican ties
An Italian businessman who once dated actress Anne Hathaway was arrested Tuesday on charges he posed as a representative of the Vatican to fleece wealthy investors in a real estate company that sought to buy and redevelop Roman Catholic Church property...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Move to renew Colombia-Ecuador ties collapses
Moves to renew relations between Ecuador and Colombia collapsed on Tuesday as part of a smoldering feud between South American neighbors of the left and right...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
House aims to stop price gouging at the gas pump
House Democrats resurrecting a measure to punish price gouging and curb oil market speculation said Tuesday they will block Republican calls for expanded offshore drilling, an idea gaining popularity with gasoline costing $4 a gallon...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Texas governor trying to slash ethanol production
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, supported by livestock producers concerned about rising feed prices, stepped up his effort Tuesday to pressure the federal government to cut ethanol production requirements in half...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
China quake lake to be tourist spot
China plans to turn a huge lake formed from the Sichuan earthquake disaster into a tourist destination, a state news agency reported Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Man in India jailed for caring for orphaned bear
It was supposed to be a heartwarming tale of a man who brought an orphaned bear cub home from the forests of India to console his 6-year-old daughter, who had just lost her mother...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Divers find bodies in ferry that capsized in storm
A coast guard diver searching for survivors Tuesday inside a ferry that capsized in a typhoon found bodies and a bit of comfort _ a plastic rosary floating in the water...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Pandas evacuated from earthquake area
Pandas living in earthquake-hit southwest China are facing a food shortage and some have been evacuated to temporary shelters because of the threat of landslides and other hazards, an official said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
New book coming from Marley & Me author
"Marley & Me" author John Grogan is working on a prequel to the million-selling memoir about his dog...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Avery in Vogue NHLs No. 1 pest is mag intern
Sean Avery squeezes between two tables full of diners, careful to avoid jostling anyone. He quickly skims the menu at a favorite SoHo eatery and orders: the pizza with black truffles, please...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Jacob the Jeweler gets 2 12 years in US prison
The New York businessman known in the hip-hop world as "Jacob the Jeweler" was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for lying to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
House fails to move gas pump price gouging bill
House Democrats failed Tuesday to resurrect a bill to punish price gouging at the gas pump, while maneuvering to block Republican attempts to expand offshore drilling, an idea gaining in popularity amid $4-a-gallon gas prices...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Fla. investigators look into husbands death in 65
Authorities said Tuesday they will re-examine the shooting death of a man in the Florida Keys more than four decades ago, after learning he was the third of five husbands to a serial widow charged in the death of one of them...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
McCain to visit Colombia next month
Sen. John McCain is taking another foreign trip, this time to Colombia...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Clinton returns to Senate after presidential race
She came, she saw, she hugged.Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to Congress Tuesday for the first time since suspending her presidential campaign, to a loud round of applause and hugs from Democrats as they try to bridge the rifts left by a long, bruising presidential primary...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
No. 2 Nadal advances to 2nd round at Wimbledon
No. 2-ranked Rafael Nadal has started his Wimbledon campaign with a 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (0) win over German qualifier Andreas Beck...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Roddick beats Schwank to take Wimbledon opener
Sixth-seeded Andy Roddick has beaten Eduardo Schwank 7-5, 6-4, 7-6 (0) to advance to the second round at Wimbledon...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Venus opens Wimbledon title defense with easy win
Defending champion Venus Williams scraped through a tight first set and then pulled away for a 7-6 (5), 6-1 victory over British teenager Naomi Cavaday to begin her bid for a fifth Wimbledon title...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Deliberations continue in Ky. diet drug fraud case
A northern Kentucky jury will continue deliberating Wednesday in the case of three lawyers charged with defrauding clients in a $200 million diet drug settlement...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Obama dismisses Dobson criticism about Bible
Barack Obama said Tuesday evangelical leader James Dobson was "making stuff up" when he accused the presumed Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Stars hit the red carpet for Obama, Democrats
The campaign trail is taking a detour down the red carpet...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Philippines typhoon capsizes boat, 700 missing
Rescuers battled huge waves and strong winds Sunday to reach a ferry that capsized during a deadly typhoon in the Philippines a day earlier, but found no immediate signs of the more than 740 passengers and crew...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Venus Williams starts title defense with victory
Venus Williams has started her title defense with a 7-6 (5), 6-1 win over British wild card Naomi Cavaday on Centre Court...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
800 missing after Philippines typhoon
Philippine officials say divers have managed to get inside an upside-down ferry but have found only bodies and no survivors...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Dad of 2 slain Texas children charged with murder
A man who led police to the charred remains of his two children has been charged with capital murder...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Ky. diet drug fraud case deliberations to continue
Jurors deliberated a full day Tuesday without reaching a verdict in the case of three lawyers charged with defrauding clients in a $200 million diet drug settlement...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
NHRA driver Kalitta killed in horrific crash
Scott Kalitta died Saturday when his Funny Car burst into flames and crashed at the end of the track during the final round of qualifying for the Lucas Oil NHRA SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Vegas police make arrest in Javon Walker robbery
Las Vegas police have made an arrest in the robbery and beating case involving NFL player Javon Walker...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Texas town reels from horrific abuse in its midst
In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
"Star Trek" star George Takei is ready to "live long and prosper" with his partner of 21 years. Takei will marry 54-year-old Brad Altman on September 14th in Los Angeles...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Wildfires were scattered around Northern California on Sunday in the heart of wine country and in remote forests, the latest in what has become an unusually destructive year...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
800 missing after Philippines typhoon
Philippine officials say divers have managed to get inside an upside-down ferry but have found only bodies and no survivors...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Residents keep fighting rising Mississippi River
With three days to go before the bloated Mississippi River reaches its crest, people toiled around the clock Monday to reinforce levees already strained and saturated from the pressure of the rising water...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Stamkos, Doughty, Bogosian go 1-2-3 in NHL draft
Steven Stamkos was selected with the No. 1 pick in the NHL draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday night. The Lightning made no secret how much they liked the speedy, offensive-minded 18-year-old forward from suburban Toronto and chose him just minutes after they went onto the draft clock...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Home of Pacman Jones up for foreclosure sale
A foreclosure sale has been published involving the home of former Tennessee Titan Adam "Pacman" Jones...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Knee surgery for Woods creates headache for others
Tiger Woods was must-see TV at the U.S. Open, making birdie on the final hole to force a playoff, another clutch birdie the next day to extend the playoff and winning his 14th major on what amounted to one good leg...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Knee surgery for Woods creates a headache for others
Tiger Woods was must-see TV at the U.S. Open, making birdie on the final hole to force a playoff, another clutch birdie the next day to extend the playoff and winning his 14th major on what amounted to one good leg...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Analysis Obama chose winning over his word
Barack Obama chose winning over his word.The Democrat once made a conditional agreement to accept taxpayer money from the public financing system, and accompanying spending limits, if his Republican opponent did, too...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Lightning sparks 800-plus fires in California
Firefighters from neighboring states arrived to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 wildfires, from Big Sur to wine country to Humboldt County...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Cink extends lead at Travelers
Stewart Cink birdied the final two holes Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Travelers Championship...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Cink extends lead at Travelers, 1st Ld-Writethru
Stewart Cink birdied the final two holes Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Travelers Championship...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Cink takes 2-stroke lead into Travelers finale
Stewart Cink birdied the final two holes Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Travelers Championship...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Troy Dumais is 1st to earn Olympic diving berth
Troy Dumais has become the first diver to make the U.S. Olympic team. Dumais completed a dominating performance in 3-meter springboard Saturday at the trials in Indianapolis. The Californian will be making his third trip to the Olympics. He was sixth on springboard at Sydney and Athens...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Obama raps McCain on flood prevention programs
With communities in the Midwest still under water, Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday criticized Republican John McCain for opposing federal spending on flood prevention programs and opened a new debate in the White House race...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Obama, McCain spar on levees
With communities in the Midwest still under water, Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday criticized Republican John McCain for opposing federal spending on flood prevention programs and opened a new debate in the White House race...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Land lost, Ky., Tenn. families fight for heritage
First, they lost their land. Now the people whose families were evicted in the 1960s to create a vast nature preserve in western Kentucky and Tennessee are wrangling with the U.S. Forest Service over how to present their history to visitors...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Strained states to make cuts felt by everyone
With a new fiscal year beginning in most states next week, budget cuts are about to bite...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Cink finally closes 1 out, wins Travelers Championship
Stewart Cink won the Travelers Championship by one shot Sunday after weathering a thunderstorm, an early bogey and late charges from defending champion Hunter Mahan and Tommy Armour III...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Candace Parker wins college athlete of year award
Candace Parker threw down a dunk on one coast and picked up an honor on the other...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Imus faces new questions over on-air race remarks
Don Imus is finding himself in a familiar position on his morning radio broadcast: facing questions over what he meant by on-air remarks about race...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Dollar millionaire club 'expands'
The number of members of the global US dollar millionaires 'club grew in 2007, a wealth report says...
BBC News - June 24, 2008
Gatlin suffers new Olympic blow
Suspended Justin Gatlin's bid to compete in the American trials for the Beijing Games has been blocked...
BBC News - June 24, 2008
Developer 'used Vatican in scam'
An Italian-born businessman invented Vatican connections as part of a property fraud, New York authorities allege...
BBC News - June 24, 2008
US rates expected to stay at 2%
US interest rates are expected to remain at 2% as the housing market slows and consumer confidence slides...
BBC News - June 24, 2008
Israeli kills himself at ceremony for Sarkozy
An Israeli police officer fatally shot himself Tuesday at an airport departure ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, sparking fear of an assassination attempt and prompting bodyguards to whisk away Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, officials said...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Group files suit over I Believe plates in SC
A group that advocates separation of church and state filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to prevent South Carolina from becoming the first state to create "I Believe" license plates...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Housing aid bill clears key Senate hurdle
A massive foreclosure rescue bill has cleared a key Senate test, drawing broad support from Democrats and Republicans alike...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Senate plans vote today on anti-foreclosure plan
A plan to help hundreds of thousands of homeowners avoid foreclosure is drawing bipartisan support in the Senate, setting the stage for high-stakes negotiations among congressional Democrats...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Man in India jailed for caring for orphaned bear
It was supposed to be a heartwarming tale of a man who brought an orphaned bear cub home from the forests of India to console his 6-year-old daughter, who had just lost her mother...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Divers find bodies in ferry that capsized in storm
A coast guard diver searching for survivors Tuesday inside a ferry that capsized in a typhoon found bodies and a bit of comfort _ a plastic rosary floating in the water...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Pandas evacuated from earthquake area
Pandas living in earthquake-hit southwest China are facing a food shortage and some have been evacuated to temporary shelters because of the threat of landslides and other hazards, an official said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Beijing gets ground-to-air defense
China has stationed a battery of ground-to-air missiles just 300 yards from a Beijing Olympic venue, the latest sign of tightening security with the games just 6 1/2 weeks away...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Jacob the Jeweler gets 30 months in US prison
The New York businessman known in the hip-hop world as "Jacob the Jeweler" was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for lying to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Nelly, Scott among guests at BET Awards pre-party
Beneath towering arches in an old cathedral downtown, a 20-member choir welcomed guests at the BET Awards pre-party with a rousing gospel tune...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
London police seize mayors cigar case
Scotland Yard has a new mystery: the case of the London mayor and the red leather Iraqi cigar box...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Don Imus says he was making a sarcastic point
Don Imus is defending a remark he made about the arrests of suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam Jones, saying he was trying to "make a sarcastic point."...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Imus faces new questions over on-air race remarks
Don Imus is finding himself in a familiar position on his morning radio broadcast: facing questions over what he meant by on-air remarks about race...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Nadal advances into second round
No. 2-ranked Rafael Nadal has started his Wimbledon campaign with a 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (0) win over German qualifier Andreas Beck...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Sharapova through to 2nd round
Third-seeded Maria Sharapova has advanced to the second round at Wimbledon with a 6-1, 6-4 win over French qualifier Stephanie Foretz...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Venus Williams wins Wimbledon opener
Defending champion Venus Williams scraped through a tight first set and then pulled away for a 7-6 (5), 6-1 victory over British teenager Naomi Cavaday to begin her bid for a fifth Wimbledon title...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Venus Williams wins her opener at Wimbledon
Venus Williams has started her Wimbledon title defense with a 7-6 (5), 6-1 win over British wild card Naomi Cavaday on Centre Court...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Kroger 1Q profit rises 15 pct, shares jump
Kroger Co. said Tuesday that food, gas and drug discounts helped draw budget-conscious consumers into its stores for one-stop shopping, boosting its first-quarter profit by 15 percent...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
US home prices tumble in April at record rate
U.S. home prices tumbled in April at the fastest rate since a widely followed index was begun in 2000 with all 20 metropolitan areas surveyed posting annual declines for the first time...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Consumer confidence skids more than expected
U.S. consumer confidence fell unexpectedly sharply in June, sinking to the fifth-lowest level ever, according to a private industry group...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Stocks fall sharply after consumer confidence data
Stocks are falling sharply after a report that consumer confidence has fallen sharply this month...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
S&P US home prices fall in April at record rate
A closely watched index shows U.S. housing prices dropped in April at the fastest rate ever, with prices tumbling to levels not seen in nearly four years...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
McCain calls for energy efficient government
Republican John McCain said Tuesday the federal government should practice the energy efficiency he preaches, pledging as president to switch official vehicles to green technologies and do the same for office buildings...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Bill Clinton offers support to Obama
Former President Clinton is making his first comments in support of Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
NHRA driver Kalitta killed in horrific crash
Scott Kalitta died Saturday when his Funny Car burst into flames and crashed at the end of the track during the final round of qualifying for the Lucas Oil NHRA SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
800 missing after Philippines typhoon
Philippine officials say divers have managed to get inside an upside-down ferry but have found only bodies and no survivors...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Texas town reels from horrific abuse in its midst
In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Guards whisk away Israeli, French leaders
Israeli security guards have whisked French President Nicholas Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert away during an airport departure ceremony...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Venus Williams starts title defense with victory
Venus Williams has started her title defense with a 7-6 (5), 6-1 win over British wild card Naomi Cavaday on Centre Court...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Philippines typhoon capsizes boat, 700 missing
Rescuers battled huge waves and strong winds Sunday to reach a ferry that capsized during a deadly typhoon in the Philippines a day earlier, but found no immediate signs of the more than 740 passengers and crew...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
"Star Trek" star George Takei is ready to "live long and prosper" with his partner of 21 years. Takei will marry 54-year-old Brad Altman on September 14th in Los Angeles...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Wildfires were scattered around Northern California on Sunday in the heart of wine country and in remote forests, the latest in what has become an unusually destructive year...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
800 missing after Philippines typhoon
Philippine officials say divers have managed to get inside an upside-down ferry but have found only bodies and no survivors...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Residents keep fighting rising Mississippi River
With three days to go before the bloated Mississippi River reaches its crest, people toiled around the clock Monday to reinforce levees already strained and saturated from the pressure of the rising water...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Strained states to make cuts felt by everyone
With a new fiscal year beginning in most states next week, budget cuts are about to bite...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Some searchers still expect to see rare woodpecker
For the last three years, researchers in camouflage and waders have slogged through the east Arkansas woods hoping to spot a rare bird that so far seems unwilling to be seen...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Forecaster End is near to Mississippi River rise
The water is still well above the banks of the upper Mississippi River, but residents of both flooded towns and those protected by levees and sandbags can see an ending: The river is cresting...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Comedian George Carlin dead at age 71
A publicist for George Carlin says the legendary comedian has died of heart failure at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Lightning sparks 800-plus fires in California
Firefighters from neighboring states arrived to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 wildfires, from Big Sur to wine country to Humboldt County...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Defense claims murder-suicide in Britons trial
A defense attorney for a British man accused of killing his wife and 9-month-old daughter told a jury Monday that his wife shot the baby and committed suicide, and that he covered up her actions to "protect her honor."...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Residents keep fighting rising Mississippi River
With three days to go before the bloated Mississippi River reaches its crest, people toiled around the clock Monday to reinforce levees already strained and saturated from the pressure of the rising water...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Flood victims say FEMA is doing a heckuva job
When floodwaters knocked out the water treatment plant in Mason City, Iowa, FEMA rolled into town and promptly set up an account with a Pepsi bottler to supply bottled water. Then FEMA officials moved into a vacant store and began handing out the stuff...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
L.A. seeing more people living out of their cars
Having lost her job and her three-bedroom house, Darlene Knoll has joined the legions of downwardly mobile who are four wheels away from homelessness...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
U of California president talks about his new job
Mark Yudof took office last week as president of the 10-campus University of California system, perhaps the highest-profile job in all of public higher education...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Next battle over border fence may be Texas
A U.S. Supreme Court decision paving the way for a 670-mile federal fence along the U.S.-Mexico border drew swift criticism from environmentalists, who promised to make another legal stand in Texas...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Lightning sparks 800-plus fires in California
Firefighters from neighboring states arrived to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 wildfires, from Big Sur to wine country to Humboldt County...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
More than 800 wildfires burning in California
Fire officials say there are 800 wildfires burning around California, sparked by an unprecedented lightning storm...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Autistic man recovering after 7 days in Wis. woods
An autistic man who could barely speak and had wandered off without medicine for his transplanted kidney likely had just hours to live when he was found after a week in the woods, a doctor said...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Dad of 2 slain Texas children charged with murder
A man who led police to the charred remains of his two children has been charged with capital murder...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Charges filed in shooting of pregnant bank teller
A man accused of shooting a pregnant teller during a bank robbery and causing her to lose the twins she was carrying was charged Monday with two counts of killing a fetus, among other charges...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Police say DUI suspect went to bar instead of jail
A woman charged in the drunken-driving death of her son went to a bar after his funeral instead of reporting back to jail, state police said...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
No new evacuations as another levee fails
The swollen Mississippi River burst through yet another levee Tuesday, not endangering any towns but proving to anxious Midwesterners that the high water is still a threat...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Researchers seek health aid for Rainbow youth
They are a mysterious, almost mythical group, the Rainbow Family of Living Light, gathering again this summer to party and pray for peace, many appearing wild and unwashed, barefoot and bearded, secretive and standoffish...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Swollen Mississippi defeats another levee
The swollen Mississippi River burst another levee Tuesday, submerging farmland and threatening a residential area whose occupants had already moved out in anticipation of a flood...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
NY Columbia professor accused of plagiarism is dismissed
A Columbia University professor who drew widespread attention when a noose was discovered hanging from her office door has been fired over allegations of plagiarism...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Correction Duquesne-Players Shot story
In a June 23 story about lawsuits filed by two former Duquesne University basketball students shot outside a school dance, The Associated Press erroneously described a person staffing a door at the 2006 dance as a security guard. The person was student volunteering as a doorman, not a security guard, according to the school...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Ga. sex offenders challenge church volunteer ban
Five sex offenders filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming that a tough new Georgia law that bans them from volunteering at churches also robs them of their right to participate in religious worship...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Ohio man repays borrowed gasoline after 34 years
An Ohio couple has been repaid for a liquid asset they shared 34 years ago...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Italian businessman Follieri arrested in NYC
Manhattan prosecutors say an Italian businessman who has been romantically linked to movie star Anne Hathaway has been arrested on wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering charges...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
2 missing hikers make it safely off Mount Shasta
Two missing hikers have made their way off Mount Shasta safely, showing up in a town more than 10 miles from the mountaintop and two days after requesting help, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Group files suit over I Believe plates in SC
A group that advocates separation of church and state filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to prevent South Carolina from becoming the first state to create "I Believe" license plates...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Israeli kills himself at ceremony for Sarkozy
An Israeli police officer fatally shot himself Tuesday at an airport departure ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, sparking fear of an assassination attempt and prompting bodyguards to whisk away Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, officials said...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Officials Israeli kills self at Sarkozy ceremony
An Israeli police officer fatally shot himself Tuesday at an airport departure ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, sparking fear of an assassination attempt and prompting bodyguards to whisk away Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, officials said...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Pandas evacuated from earthquake area
Pandas living in earthquake-hit southwest China are facing a food shortage and some have been evacuated to temporary shelters because of the threat of landslides and other hazards, an official said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Beijing gets ground-to-air defense
China has stationed a battery of ground-to-air missiles just 300 yards from a Beijing Olympic venue, the latest sign of tightening security with the games just 6 1/2 weeks away...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Divers find bodies in ferry that capsized in storm
A coast guard diver searching for survivors Tuesday inside a ferry that capsized in a typhoon found bodies and a bit of comfort _ a plastic rosary floating in the water...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
No new evacuations as another levee fails
The swollen Mississippi River burst through yet another levee Tuesday, not endangering any towns but proving to anxious Midwesterners that the high water is still a threat...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Researchers seek health aid for Rainbow youth
They are a mysterious, almost mythical group, the Rainbow Family of Living Light, gathering again this summer to party and pray for peace, many appearing wild and unwashed, barefoot and bearded, secretive and standoffish...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Housing aid bill clears key Senate hurdle
A massive foreclosure rescue bill has cleared a key Senate test, drawing broad support from Democrats and Republicans alike...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Swollen Mississippi defeats another levee
The swollen Mississippi River burst another levee Tuesday, submerging farmland and threatening a residential area whose occupants had already moved out in anticipation of a flood...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Senate plans vote today on anti-foreclosure plan
A plan to help hundreds of thousands of homeowners avoid foreclosure is drawing bipartisan support in the Senate, setting the stage for high-stakes negotiations among congressional Democrats...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Man in India jailed for caring for orphaned bear
It was supposed to be a heartwarming tale of a man who brought an orphaned bear cub home from the forests of India to console his 6-year-old daughter, who had just lost her mother...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Venus Williams wins her opener at Wimbledon
Venus Williams has started her Wimbledon title defense with a 7-6 (5), 6-1 win over British wild card Naomi Cavaday on Centre Court...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Jacob the Jeweler gets 30 months in US prison
The New York businessman known in the hip-hop world as "Jacob the Jeweler" was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for lying to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Nelly, Scott among guests at BET Awards pre-party
Beneath towering arches in an old cathedral downtown, a 20-member choir welcomed guests at the BET Awards pre-party with a rousing gospel tune...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
London police seize mayors cigar case
Scotland Yard has a new mystery: the case of the London mayor and the red leather Iraqi cigar box...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Don Imus says he was making a sarcastic point
Don Imus is defending a remark he made about the arrests of suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam Jones, saying he was trying to "make a sarcastic point."...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Bill Clinton offers support to Obama
Former President Clinton is making his first comments in support of Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Nadal advances into second round
No. 2-ranked Rafael Nadal has started his Wimbledon campaign with a 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (0) win over German qualifier Andreas Beck...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Sharapova through to 2nd round
Third-seeded Maria Sharapova has advanced to the second round at Wimbledon with a 6-1, 6-4 win over French qualifier Stephanie Foretz...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Venus Williams wins Wimbledon opener
Defending champion Venus Williams scraped through a tight first set and then pulled away for a 7-6 (5), 6-1 victory over British teenager Naomi Cavaday to begin her bid for a fifth Wimbledon title...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Guards whisk away Israeli, French leaders
Israeli security guards have whisked French President Nicholas Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert away during an airport departure ceremony...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Kroger 1Q profit rises 15 pct, shares jump
Kroger Co. said Tuesday that food, gas and drug discounts helped draw budget-conscious consumers into its stores for one-stop shopping, boosting its first-quarter profit by 15 percent...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
US home prices tumble in April at record rate
U.S. home prices tumbled in April at the fastest rate since a widely followed index was begun in 2000 with all 20 metropolitan areas surveyed posting annual declines for the first time...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Consumer confidence skids more than expected
U.S. consumer confidence fell unexpectedly sharply in June, sinking to the fifth-lowest level ever, according to a private industry group...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Stocks fall sharply after consumer confidence data
Stocks are falling sharply after a report that consumer confidence has fallen sharply this month...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
S&P US home prices fall in April at record rate
A closely watched index shows U.S. housing prices dropped in April at the fastest rate ever, with prices tumbling to levels not seen in nearly four years...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
McCain calls for energy efficient government
Republican John McCain said Tuesday the federal government should practice the energy efficiency he preaches, pledging as president to switch official vehicles to green technologies and do the same for office buildings...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Philippines typhoon capsizes boat, 700 missing
Rescuers battled huge waves and strong winds Sunday to reach a ferry that capsized during a deadly typhoon in the Philippines a day earlier, but found no immediate signs of the more than 740 passengers and crew...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
NHRA driver Kalitta killed in horrific crash
Scott Kalitta died Saturday when his Funny Car burst into flames and crashed at the end of the track during the final round of qualifying for the Lucas Oil NHRA SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
800 missing after Philippines typhoon
Philippine officials say divers have managed to get inside an upside-down ferry but have found only bodies and no survivors...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Texas town reels from horrific abuse in its midst
In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults...
Southern Ledger - June 24, 2008
Dad of 2 slain Texas children charged with murder
A man who led police to the charred remains of his two children has been charged with capital murder...
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