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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 June 2005:
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Spending More, Mayor Refines Voter Strategy
Michael R. Bloomberg's re-election drive mimics many of the techniques used by the 2004 Bush presidential campaign...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
3 Boys' Deaths Are Called an Accident
The three missing boys who were found dead on Friday after an enormous two-day search died accidentally, suffocating in a car trunk that the police had failed to check...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Football: Brazil in final
Adriano scores twice and earns a penalty as Brazil beat Germany 3-2 in the semi-finals of Confederations Cup...
BBC News - June 25, 2005
Athletics: Gatlin gets reprieve
Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin wins the US Championship 100m to qualify for the World Championships...
BBC News - June 25, 2005
Two Years After Killings, Painful Search Is Revived
Two years after her children were shot to death by their father, Teresa Knight is starting her own search for their bodies...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Helping Inmates Kick Drugs (and the Prison Habit)
Illinois recently opened the nation's largest dedicated drug treatment prison, a recognition by the state that drug addiction is a major reason inmates are ending up back behind bars...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Tennis: Davenport beats Safina
Kim Clijsters will face top seed Lindsay Davenport in the last 16 after both record easy wins...
BBC News - June 25, 2005
Chile 'helped UK over Falklands'
A new book says Chile helped Britain during the Falklands war in return for half-price military aircraft...
BBC News - June 25, 2005
On Autism's Cause, It's Parents vs. Research
Despite evidence to the contrary, more parents are blaming mercury in vaccines for their children's autism...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
A Vision of Stars, Grounded in the Dust of Rural India
A 17-year-old who dreams of a career with NASA tempers his aspirations with hard work...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Hillary book divides readers
A new book collecting old and new claims about former First Lady Hillary Clinton even has her detractors divided...
BBC News - June 25, 2005
Gatlin reprieve after false start
Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin handed a semi-final place at the US Championships despite a false start...
BBC News - June 25, 2005
Billy Graham leads 'last' rally
Thousands gather in New York to hear Christian evangelist Billy Graham at what may be his last mass prayer rally...
BBC News - June 25, 2005
U.S. Court Backs Bush's Changes on Clean Air Act
The decision will allow plant operators to modernize without installing expensive new pollution control equipment...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
A Simple Message With an Invitation to the Faithful to Be Born Again
The Rev. Billy Graham opened his three-night crusade at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens last night with a brief and simple sermon...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Martínez Quiets Yanks' Bats and Fans
Pedro Martínez worked eight innings, allowing two runs on six hits and two walks, striking out three and improving his record to 8-2...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Age 80 in Guernsey? Forget About Renting a Car
If you are that intrepid 80-year-old visiting other countries, upper age limits may prevent you from renting a car...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Bill Gates as Anthropologist
Grouping the founder of Microsoft among great anthropologists is not as strange as it first sounds, according to the current issue of Fortune Small Business...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
A Broadband Beat-Down
A Foreign Affairs article says that the U.S. was firmly entrenched as the world's leader in Internet innovation - until the Bush administration...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
House Votes to Block UAL Pension Default
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Friday voted to block United Airlines, which is trying to reorganize in bankruptcy court, from defaulting on its pension plans and shifting them to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the federal agency that guarantees benefits...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Shark Soup Is Off the Menu at Hong Kong Disneyland
After weeks of criticism from environmentalists, Hong Kong Disneyland announced that it was canceling plans to serve shark's fin soup in the park...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Ex-Officials Urge S.E.C. to Postpone a Vote
Several former Securities and Exchange Commission officials have sent letters to the commission's members urging the agency to put off a vote scheduled for Wednesday on a rule covering mutual fund directors...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Next Wave From China: Exporting Cars to the West
In China's debut as a volume exporter of cars to the industrialized world, Honda Motor loaded cars onto a ship in China bound for Europe on Friday...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Citigroup and Legg Mason Release Details of Asset Swap
Citigroup and Legg Mason announced a $3.7 billion asset swap that would catapult Legg Mason to the ranks of the nation's largest money managers...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Boston Scientific to Pay $74 Million to Settle U.S. Stent Case
Boston Scientific has agreed to pay $74 million to settle a civil complaint by the Justice Department that it illegally continued to make and sell systems for implanting stents in 1998 even after learning that a significant percentage of them were defective...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
China Decides to Show It Can Buy as Well as Sell
Chinese companies are outbidding rivals in takeover battles by undercutting competitors on price...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Computer Breach at U. of Connecticut
STORRS, Conn., June 24 (AP) - University of Connecticut officials have discovered a 20-month-old security breach of a computer server that holds Social Security numbers and other personal information for about 72,000 people associated with the university, the school said Friday...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
To Catch a Thief
In an age when credit and other account information seems to easily fall into the hands of thieves, merchants are fighting back against credit card fraud...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Shareholders Approve Symantec-Veritas Software Merger
Despite Wall Street's widespread skepticism about the merger of Symantec and Veritas Software, shareholders of the two companies approved the deal...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Good News for Oil Producers, Not So Good for Shares
Is a rise in the price of oil bad news for stocks?...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Orders for Durable Goods Off, When Planes Are Excluded
Orders for business equipment stumbled last month, the government reported yesterday, but sales of new homes sprinted to an annual pace just shy of last October's record...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Life in Energy, After Enron
Bruce Williamson, who joined Dynegy as president and chief executive at the worst possible time, recently discussed the company's future...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Brazil to Copy AIDS Drug Made by Abbott
Brazil announced that it would start copying an AIDS drug made by Abbott Laboratories to provide a cheaper version for its AIDS treatment program...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Group of Democrats Back Pact on Central American Trade
The backing by Democrats reveals a rift in the seemingly solid block of Democratic opposition to the deal signed last year by the Bush administration...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Icahn Wins Bidding War for Textile Maker
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Morgan in Talks to Bring Back Ex-President
John J. Mack, the former president of Morgan Stanley who left after a power struggle in 2001, is in discussions with the board over his return as chief executive...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Guidant Says Flaw Is Found in More Types of Heart Units
Guidant has urged doctors to stop implanting its most sophisticated heart devices because of flaws in some of the 40,000 already implanted...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Chevron Criticizes Rival Suitor
A top executive at Chevron sharply criticized the $18.5 billion bid by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation for American oil company Unocal...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Teenagers and Their Plastic, the Rites of Passage
Teenagers are a fickle bunch: first they wanted credit cards of their own and now it seems they don't...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Auditors: Too Few to Fail
The Justice Department will probably not indict the accounting firm KPMG, because it is afraid of further shrinking the number of major accounting firms...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Shifting Gears, and Funds, Into Equities
ALAN GREENSPAN says he does not understand why yields on government bonds are so low. He is not alone. Market watchers who try to determine the relative valuations of stocks and bonds are puzzled, too...
New York Times - June 25, 2005
Fire engulfs US industrial plant
A huge fire engulfs an industrial gas plant in St Louis, Missouri, but there are no reports of casualties...
BBC News - June 25, 2005
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