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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 August 2005:
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Robertson sorry for killing call
After two days of criticism, Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has apologized for his controversial suggestion that the United States should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. "Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement," Robertson said...
CNN - August 24, 2005
Airline: Wind shift may have hit Peruvian jet
Officials believe a plane crash in Peru that killed at least 31 people may have been caused by a sudden change in wind speed or direction, the airline says. It was the fifth major airline accident this month...
CNN - August 24, 2005
Sound Files Ease Doubts on Elusive Woodpecker
The public can hear online what scientists say are the calls and rapping on wood of living ivory bills in Arkansas...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Robertson Apologizes but Says He Was 'Misinterpreted'
The Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson issued a statement today apologizing for his televised remarks calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Venezuela signs Jamaica oil deal
Venezuela signs a deal to supply Jamaica with oil at preferential prices, as part of a regional oil initiative...
BBC News - August 24, 2005
AOL pays out after Spitzer probe
Internet service provider AOL is to reform its customer service after agreeing to settle a US lawsuit...
BBC News - August 24, 2005
Peru crash site search continues
Rescuers are searching a marsh in Peru's Amazon where a plane crash-landed on Tuesday, killing at least 36 people...
BBC News - August 24, 2005
Kill Chavez call 'misconstrued'
A US TV evangelist who seemingly called for the death of Venezuela's president says he was misinterpreted...
BBC News - August 24, 2005
Airline: Wind shift may have hit Peru jet
Officials believe a plane crash in Peru that killed at least 41 people may have been caused by a sudden change in wind speed or direction, the airline says. It was the fifth major airline accident this month...
CNN - August 24, 2005
Panel decides fate of bases
Overruling the Pentagon on two of its biggest requests, a commission reviewing base closings voted to keep open a shipyard and a submarine base in New England that military planners wanted to shut down. But lobbying efforts to save other major bases failed...
CNN - August 24, 2005
Pitched battles in Baghdad kill 5
Insurgents strike Iraqi police checkpoints in Baghdad, sparking fierce firefights in the capital that have killed five people and wounded 31, police say...
CNN - August 24, 2005
Taking sides on Roberts
Two influential Washington lobbying groups announced Wednesday their positions on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Ralph Neas of the liberal People for the American Way said Roberts had worked to narrow the rights of Americans while the U.S. Chamber of Commerce came out in support of Roberts...
CNN - August 24, 2005
Panel Rejects Pentagon Plan to Close Connecticut Base
The panel voted to close several major army bases, including Fort Monmouth, N.J., as it began its deliberations today...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
New Home Sales Rise for July, Fueled by West
Sales of new homes rose at an unexpectedly brisk pace in July, appearing to contradict signs of a slowdown in another housing report released Tuesday...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Can't Cancel a Service? AOL Settlement May Show Why
A settlement agreed to today by AOL showed that sales representatives received incentives to keep consumers from leaving...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Europe Is Looking to Ease Chinese Textile Quotas
After months of complaining about a surge of textiles from China, officials in Europe now say they may not be able to live without them - at least not in the short term...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Security upgrade for NY subway
New York announces a high-tech security system for the transport network to counter the threat of terrorist attack...
BBC News - August 24, 2005
'Homeless' Chinese held by US
Concern grows for 15 Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay despite apparently being cleared for release...
BBC News - August 24, 2005
Foetus 'feels no pain till 29 weeks'
A foetus cannot feel pain until the last few weeks of pregnancy, a US review of medical evidence concludes...
BBC News - August 24, 2005
Chirac honours plane crash dead
The French president attends a service in Martinique to remember victims of last week's plane crash in Venezuela...
BBC News - August 24, 2005
Bush to defend war on terrorism
US President George W Bush is to interrupt his summer holiday to give a speech on the war on terror...
BBC News - August 24, 2005
Death at the Wal-Mart
Police in Glendale, Arizona, say they don't know why a gunman killed two young Wal-Mart employees in the parking lot of a supercenter on Tuesday. The victims, ages 18 and 19, were gunned down as they gathered shopping carts. A 53-year-old man is in custody...
CNN - August 24, 2005
Dozens die in Peru plane crash
A Peruvian passenger plane carrying 100 people split in two after making an emergency landing in a jungle, killing at least 41 people. It was the world's fifth major airline accident this month...
CNN - August 24, 2005
SEC charges two Kmart ex-bosses
The US market watchdog charges two ex-top executives of Kmart with fraud in the lead up to the retailer's bankruptcy...
BBC News - August 24, 2005
Dozens die in Peruvian plane crash
A Peruvian passenger plane carrying 100 people has crashed in a jungle a few kilometers short of its planned destination at Pucallpa's airport, killing at least 37 people, according to Peruvian officials...
CNN - August 24, 2005
New Cameras to Watch Over Subway System
The transit security plan in New York City also enables cellphone service in 277 underground stations for the first time...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Police Chief Sees Drug Toll With Father's Eyes
The new police commissioner in drug-plagued Baltimore has struggled for years with his stepdaughter's addiction to heroin...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
9 States in Plan to Cut Emissions by Power Plants
The action came after the White House decided not to regulate the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Shares Drift Downward on Oil and Housing Concerns
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Amid Tight Oil Markets, Protests Cut Back Output in Ecuador
With protests that virtually halted oil production in the country now quelled, Ecuador has begun the task of getting production levels back to normal...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
When the Pentagon Wants to Cut
The Pentagon's efforts to close military bases around the country mean that 102 office buildings could lose Defense Department tenants...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
People
People...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Google to Offer Instant Messaging and Voice Communications on Web
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23 - Google, the Internet search innovator, will make its first direct challenge to the broader communications industry on Wednesday when it introduces an instant-messaging and voice communication service for personal computers...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Pottery Barn Sales Lift Williams-Sonoma
By Reuters...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Verizon to Sell High-Speed Net Connections for $14.95 a Month
Verizon said that it would start selling the connections to attract customers with slower dial-up connections and to compete with cable companies...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Ex-Kmart Leaders Accused of Misleading Investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil fraud complaint yesterday against two former executives at Kmart, accusing them of misleading investors about the company's financial conditions in the months before the company filed for bankruptcy protection in early 2002...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Ford's Top Executive Hints of Overhaul
DETROIT, Aug. 23 (Reuters) - The Ford Motor Company will soon announce a revamping plan to try to return its North American vehicle operations to profitability, the company's chairman and chief executive, William Clay Ford Jr., said Tuesday...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Pier 1 Expects Wider Loss
FORT WORTH, Aug. 23 (AP) - The home furnishings retailer Pier 1 Imports warned Tuesday of a widening loss in the fiscal second quarter because of falling sales...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Cigarette Company to Appeal a Ruling
RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 23 (AP) - The Lorillard Tobacco Company said Tuesday that it would appeal a Delaware judge's decision that antismoking ads from a foundation did not vilify the tobacco industry and did not violate a litigation settlement with 46 states...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Boston Scientific Receives Warning on Stents
BOSTON, Aug. 23 (AP) - Federal regulators sent the Boston Scientific Corporation a warning letter this month identifying "serious regulatory problems" in medical devices shipped from a distribution plant in Quincy, Mass., including heart stents sent to hospitals despite a quality control problem...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Westcorp in Talks About Combining
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
The Replacement Mechanics
The 1,900 replacement workers deployed by Northwest Airlines are at the center of the airline industry's most significant labor dispute in more than a decade...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
For Boutique Financiers, Office Space to Match
To a degree not seen in years, financial firms dominated commercial office leasing activity in Manhattan for the first half of 2005...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Gap's New Chain Store Aims at the Fashionably Mature Woman
Gap Inc., the nation's largest chain of clothing stores, is introducing a new chain aimed at that unwieldy and indefinable category known as grown-ups...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
A Big Test for 2 Drugs, and a Maker
Executives at Bristol-Myers Squibb are frenetically preparing for the Food and Drug Administration's reviews of its two new drug applications...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
July Slowing of Home Sales Stirs Talk of Market Peak
Sales of existing homes fell more than expected in July and prices were virtually flat compared with the previous month...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Intel Outlines Shift Toward Saving Energy in Processors
Intel's chief executive sketched out a new plan to move the company forward on energy-saving computing, based on new multicore processors...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Daimler and Volkswagen Planning a Minivan
Germany's two largest carmakers are in advanced talks about jointly building a new minivan for the American market...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
CarMax Raises Quarterly Forecast
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Chief of Saks Unit Resigns
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
'Housewives' Is a Big Hit on Madison Ave., Too
Advertisers seeking endorsers for campaigns are making belles of the ball of the actresses appearing on the ABC series "Desperate Housewives."...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Morgan Director Has Ties to Hedge Fund
By Dow Jones...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain
Many in Silicon Valley are skittish about Google's size and power, and fret that its strengths are transforming it into a threat...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
Slight Shift for S.U.V. in New Rule on Mileage
The White House released a plan to overhaul fuel economy regulations for sport utility vehicles. Environmental groups responded with harsh criticism...
New York Times - August 24, 2005
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