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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 March 2005:
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Motion: 'Significant change' in Schiavo condition
A state court judge said he would rule by noon Saturday on a motion to give Terri Schiavo minimal fluids until new information on the brain-damaged woman's responsiveness is examined. The motion contends her family heard her try to verbalize "I want to live."...
CNN - March 25, 2005
Scrambled politics
Should Congress guide the nation's morals, or just make its rules? Micromanage the states, or let them govern themselves? Terri Schiavo's right-to-die case has scrambled the positions of some of Congress' staunchest partisans...
CNN - March 25, 2005
U.S. Moves to Sell F-16's to Pakistan Over Indian Objections
The sale of the fighter planes is a policy shift meant to reward Pakistan for its help in combating terrorism...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Attacks Kill 15 in Iraq, Including 5 Cleaning Women at U.S. Base
The attacks, ending a week of relative quiet, included three suicide car bombs and the assassination of a police official...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Doctors debate Schiavo's condition
An affidavit filed this week that questions whether Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state is not the first time that diagnosis has been challenged in court. But the last time doctors fought it out in front of a judge, the diagnosis was upheld...
CNN - March 25, 2005
Dad: Terri Schiavo 'down to her last hours'
The father of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman whose feeding tube was removed a week ago, said today his daughter is "down to her last hours." Bob Schindler, Schiavo's father, said, "Terri is weakening. ... Something has to be done, and has to be done quick."...
CNN - March 25, 2005
Parents file new appeal
Terri Schiavo's parents have appealed this morning's federal court ruling against reconnecting their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube. Attorneys for Bob and Mary Schindler filed the appeal with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta...
CNN - March 25, 2005
Few Options for Schiavo's Parents as U.S. Judge Denies Request
The severely brain-damaged woman's parents today appealed the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Opposition Scrambles to Combat Looting in Kyrgyzstan
Also, President Askar Akayev denied he had resigned, describing his absence from the country as temporary...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Attacks Kill 6 Policemen and 5 Women in Iraq
A car bomber killed at least six policemen and attackers killed five women as they drove home after work at a U.S. base...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
School killer 'made violent film'
The teenager behind the US school shootings is said to have created a violent animated film...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Schiavo parents await federal judge's ruling
As Terri Schiavo begins her seventh day without food or water, her parents are continuing their desperate fight to keep the severely brain-damaged woman alive. A federal judge is deliberating their latest plea, but earlier this week he refused to order Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is under growing pressure to intervene, but he says he "cannot go beyond what my powers are."...
CNN - March 25, 2005
Parents' options dwindling
As Terri Schiavo begins her seventh day without food or water, her parents are continuing their desperate fight to keep the severely brain-damaged woman alive. A federal judge is deliberating their latest plea. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is under growing pressure to intervene, but he says his hands are tied...
CNN - March 25, 2005
U.N. report points finger at Syria
A fact-finding team investigating last month's assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri blames Syria's government for the political tension that preceded the killing, according to a U.N. report...
CNN - March 25, 2005
Contagion: Popular Risings in Former Soviet Zone
In the last year and a half, popular uprisings have claimed the sclerotic leadership of three former Soviet republics...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Dwindling options
Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected pleas to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo on Thursday, her parents again asked a federal judge in Florida to order the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube restored...
CNN - March 25, 2005
Kyrgyz opposition grab power
Protesters in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan have seized the seat of government and forced the long-time president to flee his office, political observers tell CNN...
CNN - March 25, 2005
Dinosaur Find Takes Scientists Beyond Bones
A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex has apparently yielded soft tissues, including blood vessels and possibly cells lining them...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Oil Prices Rise Again After Explosion at Texas Refinery
It seems that oil markets can expect little relief these days...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Insider-Trading Conviction of Soros Is Upheld in France
A French appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction of George Soros, the former fund manager, on insider trading charges...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear the Schiavo Case
A state judge also rejected Gov. Jeb Bush's attempt to intervene, prompting a last-ditch legal scramble by Terri Schiavo's parents...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Protests Force Leader to Flee in Kyrgyzstan
It was the third time a government of a former Soviet republic has been toppled in a popular uprising in a year and a half...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Pentagon Sees Antidrug Effort in Afghanistan
The U.S. military will significantly increase its role in halting the production and sale of poppies, opium and heroin in Afghanistan...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
In a Polarizing Case, Jeb Bush Cements His Political Stature
Gov. Jeb Bush's intervention in the case of Terri Schiavo may have so far failed in a legal sense, but it has helped cement his conservative and religious credentials...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Consumers Are Looking Past Commercials to Study Prescription Drugs
Consumers appear to have taken note of the recent troubles among prescription drug makers, according to an annual survey on direct-to-consumer advertising...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
U.S. Collects $3.2 Billion in Tax Shelter Case
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Tax Errors Force ConAgra to Restate Earnings
OMAHA, March 24 (AP) - ConAgra Foods, one of the nation's largest food companies, said Thursday that it would restate its financial results for 2004 and the first half of fiscal 2005 because of income tax errors that could cost it up to $200 million...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
General Electric Raises First-Quarter Forecast
By Reuters...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
New-Home Sales Jump as Buyers Seek to Beat Rate Rises
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Companies in Radio Tag Business Broaden Legal Dispute
A skirmish over patents between suppliers of gear that uses radio signals instead of bar codes to identify commercial goods has expanded into a broader legal battle...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Fox Entertainment Names a Chief of Programming
Peter Liguori, who helped propel the FX cable channel to success, was named the new president of Fox's entertainment division on Thursday...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Mortgage Rates Rise Again
WASHINGTON, March 24 (AP) - Rates on 30-year mortgages climbed this week to their highest point since late July, rising just above 6 percent...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Citizens' Group Wants Hyperactivity Drug Taken Off the Market
A 30-year-old drug to treat hyperactivity made by Abbott Laboratories should be banned immediately because of its toxic effects on the liver, a citizen's group said...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Too Much Capital: Why It Is Getting Harder to Find a Good Investment
There is too much capital in the world. And that means that those who own the capital - investors - are in for some unhappy times...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Fraying of a Latin Textile Industry
Shifting global trade rules threaten to reverse El Salvador's industrial revolution by destroying its garment industry...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Adelphia Offers $725 Million to Settle Fraud Claims
Adelphia Communications, the country's fifth-largest cable provider, offered to pay the government $725 million to settle claims related to a fraud investigation...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Plot Thickens in Japan's Hostile Takeover Battle
A Softbank affiliate emerged as the biggest shareholder in the Fuji Television Network in a move apparently intended to fend off a possible takeover by the Internet start-up Livedoor...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Large British Insurer Ousts Chief After Long Slide in Share Price
Prudential P.L.C., one of Britain's largest insurers, has ousted its chief executive, Jonathan Bloomer, who presided over a 50 percent drop in the company's stock...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Higher Oil Prices Wipe Out Earlier Gains in Markets
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Putin Seeks to Ease Fears of More Business Audits
President Vladimir Putin said that he favored a change in the law that would effectively end investigations into the privatizations of the 1990's...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Radio Host Criticizes Report on Charity
Don Imus, the combative radio talk-show host who relishes skewering his enemies, used his program on Thursday to take on The Wall Street Journal...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Trading Places: Real Estate Instead of Dot-Coms
Real estate-crazed Americans have started behaving in ways that eerily recall the stock market obsession of the late 1990's...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Just Past Midnight, the Game Is in Hand
With the release of its PlayStation Portable, Sony has engaged in a favorite marketing tactic: hyping a new product by making it available when most people are in bed...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
At Paramount, the New Chief Spends Freely
Brad Grey, who only recently took charge of Paramount Pictures, is not wasting any time shaking up Hollywood by spending money on splashy new projects...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Dubious Deals May Lead A.I.G. to Restatement
The American International Group used a much larger number of questionable transactions than was previously disclosed, a review by the company has found...
New York Times - March 25, 2005
Golf: Jones takes Sawgrass lead
Steve Jones leads from Lee Westwood after round one of the Players' Championship at Sawgrass...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Tennis: Clijsters on winning run
Kim Clijsters follows victory in Indian Wells with an opening win at the Nasdaq-100 Open...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Grenada hails VC hero
Grenada is to hold a national day of celebration in honour of a soldier who won the Victoria Cross...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
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