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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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Military says US troops killed Iraqi editors son
The U.S. military said Friday that bullets fired by American soldiers killed the 14-year-old son of the chief editor of a U.S.-sponsored newspaper during a gunbattle a day earlier in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cooperation hurts inmate at Gitmo trial
An al-Qaida driver who gave detailed, insider knowledge of the terror network with U.S. agents is seeing his words used against him at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Unexplained explosions kill 5, wound 20 in Gaza
A powerful explosion ripped through a car on a busy Gaza City beach Friday night, killing a Hamas field commander and three other people, security officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Karadzic interviewed about details of his arrest
A prosecutor interviewed war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Friday about the details of his arrest, his lawyer said, amid efforts by the ex-Bosnian Serb warlord to fight his extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Hot, impatient crowd vies for Olympics tickets
A crowd of 30,000 people, baking in the heat and waiting for up to two days, swarmed a ticketing center Friday as the final batch of Olympic tickets went on sale. Police shoved and kicked them and used metal barricades to prevent a stampede...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 49
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday from ethnic Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 46 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage
A Qantas jumbo jet carrying 345 passengers made an emergency landing Friday with a gaping hole in its fuselage after a mysterious "explosive decompression," officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Halle Berry pushes back against backyard paps
Halle Berry says a paparazzi photographer went too far to get a shot of the actress holding her infant daughter, trespassing onto her private property and snapping them hanging out in the backyard...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ed McMahon pitching back into his work
Ed McMahon has a job.The former "Tonight Show" sidekick is reprising his role as pitchman with several comical commercial segments during "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The first of the four spots, which were filmed Thursday evening and feature McMahon and Jimmy Kimmel together, will air Monday during the late-night ABC talk show...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Williams Jr. to continue Monday Night Football
Hank Williams Jr., who has sung the opening theme for "Monday Night Football" since 1989, will continue the tradition this season...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McMahon works as pitchman for Kimmel in-show spots
Ed McMahon has a job. The former "Tonight Show" sidekick is reprising his role as pitchman with several comical commercial segments during "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The first of the four spots, which were filmed Thursday evening and feature McMahon and Jimmy Kimmel together, will air Monday during the late-night ABC talk show...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
FDA Avoid jalapenos from Mexico, not US
The government is narrowing its warning to hot pepper lovers, saying only Mexican-grown jalapenos now are linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak _ clearing the U.S. crop...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Hermidas pinch-hit homer lifts Marlins past Cubs
Jeremy Hermida hit a pinch-hit home run to lead off the ninth inning to help the Florida Marlins to a 3-2 win over the Chicago Cubs on Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Marlins edge Cubs
Jeremy Hermida hit a pinch-hit home run to lead off the ninth inning to help the Florida Marlins to a 3-2 win over the Chicago Cubs on Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Alfredsson sets Evian record, Park leads
Helen Alfredsson shot a course-record 9-under 63 Friday to pull within a shot of leader Angela Park after the second round of the Evian Masters...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Renters go downtown to save on gas, commuting
Sick of filling up the tank for sixty bucks? Considering a place near work downtown and tossing the car keys? Prepare to pay higher rents as more like-minded apartment dwellers flock to urban digs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
OSHA fines Imperial Sugar $8.7M in deadly blast
Federal officials said Friday that Imperial Sugar Co. should face fines of more than $8.7 million for violations at two plants, including a Georgia facility where an explosion killed 13 people...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama camp cites Pentagon in scrapping troop visit
An aide to Sen. Barack Obama said Friday the Democratic presidential contender believed he could visit wounded troops at a military hospital in Germany without involving them in a campaign controversy and scrapped his plans after the Pentagon raised concerns...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama urges Iran to accept EU nuke proposal
Democrat Barack Obama says Iran should promptly accept an international call to freeze its uranium enrichment program, which some nations see as a potential step toward obtaining nuclear weapons...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McCain rejects audacity of hopelessness for Iraq
Republican presidential candidate John McCain, ridiculing Barack Obama for "the audacity of hopelessness" in his policies on Iraq, said Friday that the entire Middle East could have plunged into war had U.S. troops been withdrawn as his rival advocated...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Stan Lee to make a cameo in new X-Men movie
The creator of "X-Men" bumped into Wolverine at Comic-Con...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Okla. crane fall kills man watching construction
Firefighters say a crane fell while putting a steeple on an Oklahoma City church, crushing a car and killing an 80-year-old man who was watching the construction...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police 1 killed in India blasts
Police say a series of explosions have rocked the southern Indian city of Bangalore, killing at least one person...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued
T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Lawmakers NJ legislator focus of child porn probe
Two New Jersey state lawmakers say a veteran Democratic colleague with whom they share legislative office space is being investigated for possibly possessing child pornography on his office computer...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
3 shot at Phoenix community college 2 critical
Officials say three people have been shot at a community college in Phoenix...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Dolly weakens to depression over Texas
Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical depression with 35 mph winds as it moves north over Texas. Dolly was expected to break up by Friday, and was centered about 35 miles south of Eagle Pass at 5 p.m. EDT...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
3 shot at Phoenix college suspect arrested
A long-standing dispute between two men turned violent when authorities say a former student shot three people in a computer lab at a community college, injuring one of them critically. The suspected gunman was arrested nearby...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Beating at N.Y. bar strains US-Serbia relations
It started as a bar fight in a college town in upstate New York...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
OSHA to give report on blast at Ga. sugar refinery
Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor said there may be "significant" penalties proposed when federal workplace safety regulators released their findings after investigating a dust explosion that killed 13 workers at a company sugar refinery...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Texas begins cleanup after Dolly
Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Community college shooting stemmed from fist fight
A man suspected of shooting three people in a community-college computer lab lost a fistfight to one of the victims months ago and had been feuding with him ever since, a police detective said Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Miss. River will open to some traffic after spill
The Coast Guard says the Mississippi River has reopened to limited ship traffic following a massive oil spill...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Power outages widespread in Texas after Dolly
Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Texans filter through Dollys mess
South Texas was getting back on its feet Friday as residents filter through the soggy mess left by Hurricane Dolly despite thousands still being without power...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Struggling college students turn to food banks
Just blocks from the University of Washington, a line of people shuffle toward a food pantry, awaiting handouts such as milk and bread...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Grandmother pleads guilty in Texas child porn case
A woman prosecutors say helped make a graphic videotape of her two visiting grandchildren has pleaded guilty in a Texas child pornography case...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police kill man who threatened Pa. radio station
A man who had threatened a Christian radio station was shot and killed by police Friday after he fired at officers with a rifle and tried to run them over with his sport utility vehicle, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Phoenix police College shooter was punched first
One of three people wounded in a computer lab at a community college had punched the gunman in the face before he opened fire, police said Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pa. teens charged in fatal beating of immigrant
Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town. Brandon J. Piekarsky, 16, and Colin J. Walsh, 17, were charged as adults with homicide and ethnic intimidation in the July 12 attack on Luis Ramirez...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Agents arrest immigrants smuggled in tanker truck
Border Patrol agents have arrested 49 alleged illegal immigrants who were discovered being smuggled into the U.S. inside the tank of a water truck...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
California wildfires nearly fully contained
Nearly all the wildfires sparked by a lightning storm in California last month have been contained...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Judge OKs custody plan for girls of slain NC woman
The two young daughters of a woman slain in North Carolina will remain with her parents in Canada but visit their father at least twice in coming months...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Long-missing soldiers remains arrive in Mass.
A procession of veterans on motorcycles and state police in their cruisers blocked parts of two interstates Friday as it finally brought home the body of an Army staff sergeant who was missing for months after being seized by insurgents in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Marine pleads innocent to murder of comrade
A Marine has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of a Camp Pendleton comrade who prosecutors say was killed in a dispute over stolen drug money...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Manager Cops shot man after threat on Pa. station
An official at a Christian radio station in central Pennsylvania says police shot and killed a man who had threatened the station...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
CMU prof whose last lecture moved millions dies
Randy Pausch said obstacles serve a purpose: They "give us a chance to show how badly we want something." Confronted with incurable cancer, he devised a last lecture that became an Internet sensation, a best-selling book and a celebration of a life spent achieving his dreams...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Karadzic interviewed about details of his arrest
A prosecutor interviewed war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Friday about the details of his arrest, his lawyer said, amid efforts by the ex-Bosnian Serb warlord to fight his extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military says US troops killed Iraqi editors son
The U.S. military said Friday that bullets fired by American soldiers killed the 14-year-old son of the chief editor of a U.S.-sponsored newspaper during a gunbattle a day earlier in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cooperation hurts inmate at Gitmo trial
An al-Qaida driver who gave detailed, insider knowledge of the terror network with U.S. agents is seeing his words used against him at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage
A Qantas jumbo jet carrying 345 passengers made an emergency landing Friday with a gaping hole in its fuselage after a mysterious "explosive decompression," officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Unexplained explosions kill 5, wound 20 in Gaza
A powerful explosion ripped through a car on a busy Gaza City beach Friday night, killing a Hamas field commander and three other people, security officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Hot, impatient crowd vies for Olympics tickets
A crowd of 30,000 people, baking in the heat and waiting for up to two days, swarmed a ticketing center Friday as the final batch of Olympic tickets went on sale. Police shoved and kicked them and used metal barricades to prevent a stampede...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 49
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday from ethnic Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 46 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McMahon works as pitchman for Kimmel in-show spots
Ed McMahon has a job. The former "Tonight Show" sidekick is reprising his role as pitchman with several comical commercial segments during "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The first of the four spots, which were filmed Thursday evening and feature McMahon and Jimmy Kimmel together, will air Monday during the late-night ABC talk show...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police kill man who threatened Pa. radio station
A man who had threatened a Christian radio station was shot and killed by police Friday after he fired at officers with a rifle and tried to run them over with his sport utility vehicle, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
FDA Avoid jalapenos from Mexico, not US
The government is narrowing its warning to hot pepper lovers, saying only Mexican-grown jalapenos now are linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak _ clearing the U.S. crop...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Phoenix police College shooter was punched first
One of three people wounded in a computer lab at a community college had punched the gunman in the face before he opened fire, police said Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pa. teens charged in fatal beating of immigrant
Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town. Brandon J. Piekarsky, 16, and Colin J. Walsh, 17, were charged as adults with homicide and ethnic intimidation in the July 12 attack on Luis Ramirez...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Alfredsson sets Evian record, Park leads
Helen Alfredsson shot a course-record 9-under 63 Friday to pull within a shot of leader Angela Park after the second round of the Evian Masters...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Halle Berry pushes back against backyard paps
Halle Berry says a paparazzi photographer went too far to get a shot of the actress holding her infant daughter, trespassing onto her private property and snapping them hanging out in the backyard...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ed McMahon pitching back into his work
Ed McMahon has a job.The former "Tonight Show" sidekick is reprising his role as pitchman with several comical commercial segments during "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The first of the four spots, which were filmed Thursday evening and feature McMahon and Jimmy Kimmel together, will air Monday during the late-night ABC talk show...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama camp cites Pentagon in scrapping troop visit
An aide to Sen. Barack Obama said Friday the Democratic presidential contender believed he could visit wounded troops at a military hospital in Germany without involving them in a campaign controversy and scrapped his plans after the Pentagon raised concerns...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama urges Iran to accept EU nuke proposal
Democrat Barack Obama says Iran should promptly accept an international call to freeze its uranium enrichment program, which some nations see as a potential step toward obtaining nuclear weapons...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McCain rejects audacity of hopelessness for Iraq
Republican presidential candidate John McCain, ridiculing Barack Obama for "the audacity of hopelessness" in his policies on Iraq, said Friday that the entire Middle East could have plunged into war had U.S. troops been withdrawn as his rival advocated...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Hermidas pinch-hit homer lifts Marlins past Cubs
Jeremy Hermida hit a pinch-hit home run to lead off the ninth inning to help the Florida Marlins to a 3-2 win over the Chicago Cubs on Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Marlins edge Cubs
Jeremy Hermida hit a pinch-hit home run to lead off the ninth inning to help the Florida Marlins to a 3-2 win over the Chicago Cubs on Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Renters go downtown to save on gas, commuting
Sick of filling up the tank for sixty bucks? Considering a place near work downtown and tossing the car keys? Prepare to pay higher rents as more like-minded apartment dwellers flock to urban digs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
OSHA fines Imperial Sugar $8.7M in deadly blast
Federal officials said Friday that Imperial Sugar Co. should face fines of more than $8.7 million for violations at two plants, including a Georgia facility where an explosion killed 13 people...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police 1 killed in India blasts
Police say a series of explosions have rocked the southern Indian city of Bangalore, killing at least one person...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued
T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Stan Lee to make a cameo in new X-Men movie
The creator of "X-Men" bumped into Wolverine at Comic-Con...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Okla. crane fall kills man watching construction
Firefighters say a crane fell while putting a steeple on an Oklahoma City church, crushing a car and killing an 80-year-old man who was watching the construction...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scott Dixon on schedule for another title
Everything is right on schedule for Scott Dixon _ for now...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Family Missing Fort Bliss soldier found alive
A Fort Bliss soldier considered missing and endangered has been found hurt but alive, her sister said Monday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Search continues for missing Fort Bliss soldier
A missing Fort Bliss soldier sent a text message about leaving her husband two days before she vanished, her sister said Saturday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Minimum wage going up, little help as costs soar
About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ship-barge crash closes Mississippi at New Orleans
A stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans could be closed for days as crews clean a 12-mile oil slick caused Wednesday when a tanker and barge collided, officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
AP IMPACT Traffic deaths fall as gas prices climb
Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Federal minimum wage rises to $6.55 today
About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Minimum wage going up, but so does inflation
About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
2 eagles named by Miley, Billy Ray to be set free
Two 14-week-old American bald eagles named by Disney star Miley Cyrus and her country singer father, Billy Ray Cyrus, will be released into the wild Thursday at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Williams Jr. to continue Monday Night Football
Hank Williams Jr., who has sung the opening theme for "Monday Night Football" since 1989, will continue the tradition this season...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Another courtroom victory for religious colleges
A federal appeals court ruling that a Christian university in Colorado can receive state scholarship money is the latest in a string of legal victories for religious schools seeking public dollars...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
At a glance
The highs and lows of the past week in the US election...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Rising demands threaten wetlands
Wetlands risk conversion to farmland as demand for food and biofuel grows, a conference in Brazil is told...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Chad rebels release US missionary
Chadian rebels free an American missionary after holding him hostage for more than nine months, his organisation says...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 49
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday from ethnic Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 46 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage
A Qantas jumbo jet carrying 345 passengers made an emergency landing Friday with a gaping hole in its fuselage after a mysterious "explosive decompression," officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Watchmen aims to answer typical superhero films
Zack Snyder is standing inside a 9,000 pound, tanklike metal pod in the center of the crowded Comic-Con floor. He nonchalantly points out the features of the Owl Ship, a real-life version of the flying vehicle from the award-winning graphic novel "Watchmen."...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
One of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. is teaching the food industry the truth of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might get it."...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday
The Senate has cleared the last hurdle to passing a massive housing rescue bill...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Brewers stay hot behind Braun and Hardy
No team in baseball is playing as well as the Milwaukee Brewers and no hitter is on a tear like Ryan Braun...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ochoa leads Evian Masters with bogey-free 65
Lorena Ochoa shot a 7-under par 65 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Evian Masters...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Blancos goal, assist help MLS stars top West Ham
Chicago midfielder Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored one goal and helped set up another, and Houston midfielder Dwayne DeRosario snapped a tie with a penalty kick to give the MLS All-Stars a 3-2 victory over English Premier League team West Ham United 3-2 on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Wolfgang Wagner opens his last Bayreuth festival
Veteran opera director Wolfgang Wagner welcomed guests to his last Bayreuth festival Friday, walking on the arm of his youngest daughter _ a leading contender to replace him after a 57-year reign and a prolonged struggle over his successor...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Miss. River spill idles 200 ships near New Orleans
About 200 ships were stacked up Friday and more were expected to join them at a bottleneck along the Mississippi River caused by a massive spill of heavy fuel oil at New Orleans...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Stocks advance on upbeat economic reports
Upbeat economic data lifted stocks Friday, placating a market pummeled a day earlier by concerns about housing and the financial sector...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama urges Iran to accept EU nuke proposal
Democrat Barack Obama says Iran should promptly accept an international call to freeze its uranium enrichment program, which some nations see as a potential step toward obtaining nuclear weapons...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obamas brief stop in Paris belies his popularity
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama expected to spend just enough time in Paris on Friday for talks with the French president and a joint news conference, not a rousing speech like the one he delivered in Berlin...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Analysis Bushs policy shifts affect Obama
Barack Obama wants to sound like the voice of reason on U.S. foreign policy _ the guy who would abandon Bush administration policies he sees as shortsighted, self-defeating or just plain wrong. Problem is, George Bush keeps beating him to it...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Samsungs second-quarter net profit surges
Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Stan Lee to make a cameo in new X-Men movie
The creator of "X-Men" bumped into Wolverine at Comic-Con...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Miss. River reopens to limited ship traffic
The Coast Guard reopened the Mississippi River to limited ship traffic Friday, but port officials say it will take days to clear up to 200 ships idled by a massive oil spill near New Orleans...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
OSHA to fine Imperial Sugar $8.7M in deadly blast
A Georgia lawmaker says federal officials are proposing $8.7 million in fines against Imperial Sugar for violations at a plant near Savannah where an explosion killed 13 people and at another plant in Louisiana...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police 1 killed in India blasts
Police say a series of explosions have rocked the southern Indian city of Bangalore, killing at least one person...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued
T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ohio man gets 8 years in $8M armored-car co. heist
A man received eight years in prison Thursday for masterminding an $8 million armored-car heist, a crime he said was born of financial desperation...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Another courtroom victory for religious colleges
A federal appeals court ruling that a Christian university in Colorado can receive state scholarship money is the latest in a string of legal victories for religious schools seeking public dollars...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ark. man accused in 4 boat deaths pleads guilty
One of two men accused of killing four people aboard a fishing charter last year pleaded guilty Thursday in exchange for an agreement that prosecutors will not seek the death penalty...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
3 shot at Phoenix community college 2 critical
Officials say three people have been shot at a community college in Phoenix...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Dolly weakens to depression over Texas
Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical depression with 35 mph winds as it moves north over Texas. Dolly was expected to break up by Friday, and was centered about 35 miles south of Eagle Pass at 5 p.m. EDT...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Feds say Utah mine operator courted danger
The operator of a collapsed Utah mine violated safety protocols by cutting coal pillars that should have been left standing to prevent cave-ins, federal regulators said Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
OSHA to give report on blast at Ga. sugar refinery
Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor said there may be "significant" penalties proposed when federal workplace safety regulators released their findings after investigating a dust explosion that killed 13 workers at a company sugar refinery...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Texas begins cleanup after Dolly
Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Lawmakers NJ legislator focus of child porn probe
Two New Jersey state lawmakers say a veteran Democratic colleague with whom they share legislative office space is being investigated for possibly possessing child pornography on his office computer...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Texans filter through Dollys mess
South Texas was getting back on its feet Friday as residents filter through the soggy mess left by Hurricane Dolly despite thousands still being without power...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
3 shot at Phoenix college suspect arrested
A long-standing dispute between two men turned violent when authorities say a former student shot three people in a computer lab at a community college, injuring one of them critically. The suspected gunman was arrested nearby...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Beating at N.Y. bar strains US-Serbia relations
It started as a bar fight in a college town in upstate New York...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ex-AC mayor gets probation in war lies case
Former Atlantic City mayor Robert Levy was given probation and a $5,000 fine for lying about his Vietnam War service to pad his benefits check...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obituaries in the news
Eugene DahlFARGO, N.D. (AP) _ Eugene Dahl, who helped found the company now known as Bobcat and served as a North Dakota state lawmaker, has died. He was 83...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Racial issue raised in Atlantic City prosecution
As one notorious Atlantic City corruption case nears its end, another is heating up...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Teen gets jail for coaxing toddlers to smoke pot
A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Miss. River will open to some traffic after spill
The Coast Guard says the Mississippi River has reopened to limited ship traffic following a massive oil spill...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Power outages widespread in Texas after Dolly
Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pamela Anderson starring in new reality show
Pamela Anderson is shacking up with Tommy Lee again _ but not like that...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
N.Y. jury convicts ex-Haitian strongman of fraud
A once-feared Haitian paramilitary leader has been convicted in a New York mortgage fraud scheme to cheat lenders out of $1.7 million...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
3 Pa. teens charged in fatal beating of immigrant
Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage
A Qantas jumbo jet carrying 345 passengers made an emergency landing Friday with a gaping hole in its fuselage after a mysterious "explosive decompression," officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Miss. River will open to some traffic after spill
The Coast Guard says the Mississippi River has reopened to limited ship traffic following a massive oil spill...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
One of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. is teaching the food industry the truth of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might get it."...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Power outages widespread in Texas after Dolly
Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday
The Senate has cleared the last hurdle to passing a massive housing rescue bill...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Texans filter through Dollys mess
South Texas was getting back on its feet Friday as residents filter through the soggy mess left by Hurricane Dolly despite thousands still being without power...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 49
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday from ethnic Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 46 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ochoa leads Evian Masters with bogey-free 65
Lorena Ochoa shot a 7-under par 65 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Evian Masters...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Blancos goal, assist help MLS stars top West Ham
Chicago midfielder Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored one goal and helped set up another, and Houston midfielder Dwayne DeRosario snapped a tie with a penalty kick to give the MLS All-Stars a 3-2 victory over English Premier League team West Ham United 3-2 on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Wolfgang Wagner opens his last Bayreuth festival
Veteran opera director Wolfgang Wagner welcomed guests to his last Bayreuth festival Friday, walking on the arm of his youngest daughter _ a leading contender to replace him after a 57-year reign and a prolonged struggle over his successor...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Watchmen aims to answer typical superhero films
Zack Snyder is standing inside a 9,000 pound, tanklike metal pod in the center of the crowded Comic-Con floor. He nonchalantly points out the features of the Owl Ship, a real-life version of the flying vehicle from the award-winning graphic novel "Watchmen."...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obamas brief stop in Paris belies his popularity
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama expected to spend just enough time in Paris on Friday for talks with the French president and a joint news conference, not a rousing speech like the one he delivered in Berlin...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Analysis Bushs policy shifts affect Obama
Barack Obama wants to sound like the voice of reason on U.S. foreign policy _ the guy who would abandon Bush administration policies he sees as shortsighted, self-defeating or just plain wrong. Problem is, George Bush keeps beating him to it...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Brewers stay hot behind Braun and Hardy
No team in baseball is playing as well as the Milwaukee Brewers and no hitter is on a tear like Ryan Braun...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Stan Lee to make a cameo in new X-Men movie
The creator of "X-Men" bumped into Wolverine at Comic-Con...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Miss. River reopens to limited ship traffic
The Coast Guard reopened the Mississippi River to limited ship traffic Friday, but port officials say it will take days to clear up to 200 ships idled by a massive oil spill near New Orleans...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
OSHA to fine Imperial Sugar $8.7M in deadly blast
A Georgia lawmaker says federal officials are proposing $8.7 million in fines against Imperial Sugar for violations at a plant near Savannah where an explosion killed 13 people and at another plant in Louisiana...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Miss. River spill idles 200 ships near New Orleans
About 200 ships were stacked up Friday and more were expected to join them at a bottleneck along the Mississippi River caused by a massive spill of heavy fuel oil at New Orleans...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Stocks advance on upbeat economic reports
Upbeat economic data lifted stocks Friday, placating a market pummeled a day earlier by concerns about housing and the financial sector...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama urges Iran to accept EU nuke proposal
Democrat Barack Obama says Iran should promptly accept an international call to freeze its uranium enrichment program, which some nations see as a potential step toward obtaining nuclear weapons...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued
T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Samsungs second-quarter net profit surges
Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police Missing Texas soldier may be in danger
Police say a Fort Bliss soldier is considered in danger after she did not report for work Friday and evidence of foul play was found in her apartment...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police 1 killed in India blasts
Police say a series of explosions have rocked the southern Indian city of Bangalore, killing at least one person...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Family Missing Fort Bliss soldier found alive
A Fort Bliss soldier considered missing and endangered has been found hurt but alive, her sister said Monday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Search continues for missing Fort Bliss soldier
A missing Fort Bliss soldier sent a text message about leaving her husband two days before she vanished, her sister said Saturday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scott Dixon on schedule for another title
Everything is right on schedule for Scott Dixon _ for now...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Minimum wage going up, little help as costs soar
About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ship-barge crash closes Mississippi at New Orleans
A stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans could be closed for days as crews clean a 12-mile oil slick caused Wednesday when a tanker and barge collided, officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
AP IMPACT Traffic deaths fall as gas prices climb
Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Federal minimum wage rises to $6.55 today
About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Minimum wage going up, but so does inflation
About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
2 eagles named by Miley, Billy Ray to be set free
Two 14-week-old American bald eagles named by Disney star Miley Cyrus and her country singer father, Billy Ray Cyrus, will be released into the wild Thursday at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Another courtroom victory for religious colleges
A federal appeals court ruling that a Christian university in Colorado can receive state scholarship money is the latest in a string of legal victories for religious schools seeking public dollars...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Oil prices slip to seven-week low
Oil prices tumble to seven-week lows amid concern that the slowing US economy will weaken demand...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Oil traders face US civil action
The US energy regulator takes civil action against a Dutch-based oil trading firm and its boss for manipulating crude oil prices...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Fresh US sanctions for Zimbabwe
President Bush signs an order expanding US sanctions on Robert Mugabe's "illegitimate" government in Zimbabwe...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Fate of Obama note alarms rabbis
Rabbis are outraged after a newspaper publishes a private note apparently left by Barack Obama in the Wailing Wall...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
The deadline for Radovan Karadzic to appeal extradition to a United Nations war crimes tribunal expires Friday, a court spokeswoman said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cyprus reunification talks on Sept 3
The rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have agreed to start negotiations on Sept. 3 to reunify the ethnically divided island...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Korea struggles to probe tourist death
South Korea said Friday it cannot determine whether the shooting death of a South Korean tourist at a resort in North Korea was accidental...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 45
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday by Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 42 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Russell Brand to host the MTV Video Music Awards
MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
One of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. is teaching the food industry the truth of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might get it."...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Brewers stay hot behind Braun and Hardy
No team in baseball is playing as well as the Milwaukee Brewers and no hitter is on a tear like Ryan Braun...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ochoa leads Evian Masters with bogey-free 65
Lorena Ochoa shot a 7-under par 65 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Evian Masters...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Blancos goal, assist help MLS stars top West Ham
Chicago midfielder Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored one goal and helped set up another, and Houston midfielder Dwayne DeRosario snapped a tie with a penalty kick to give the MLS All-Stars a 3-2 victory over English Premier League team West Ham United 3-2 on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
New markets spur Honda to record quarter
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
New market demand spurs Honda to record quarter
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
N.M. researchers hope to cultivate calming herb
The plant has been described by local residents as magical, its qualities almost mythical...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Analysis Bushs policy shifts affect Obama
Barack Obama wants to sound like the voice of reason on U.S. foreign policy _ the guy who would abandon Bush administration policies he sees as shortsighted, self-defeating or just plain wrong. Problem is, George Bush keeps beating him to it...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio
Republican John McCain chose to go to a German restaurant as rival Barack Obama toured Berlin...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Samsungs second-quarter net profit surges
Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Honda reports record 1Q profit
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Giulianis son sues Duke over golf team dismissal
The son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is suing Duke University, claiming his golf coach manufactured accusations against him to justify kicking him off the team to whittle the squad...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so... | | | | |
