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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 2004:
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Bryant prosecutors: DNA might be contaminated
Crucial DNA evidence tested by defense experts in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case might have been contaminated, prosecutors said in a court filing released Wednesday, just two days before jury selection is to begin...
CNN - August 25, 2004
Dueling letters
Vietnam veteran and former Sen. Max Cleland said that attack ads questioning John Kerry's combat record were "scurrilous", "dishonest and dishonorable." The Texas land commissioner, in turn, had a message for the Kerry camp...
CNN - August 25, 2004
New York Judge Rules City Can Ban Protesters From Park
A State Supreme Court judge ruled today that New York City can ban protesters from using the Great Lawn in Central Park...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Campaigns Continue to Focus on Kerry's War Record
There was no Texas showdown at high noon, although there were dueling letters at the gate to President Bush's Crawford ranch today, as the battle over what John Kerry did in the Vietnam war continued to dominate the political theater of the 2004 presidential campaign...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Oil Below $45 as Gasoline Prices Slide
Oil prices were dragged down today by heavy losses on U.S. gasoline as summer driving demand failed to meet expectations...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Cuba win baseball gold
Cuba beat Australia 6-2 to win baseball gold while Japan rout Canada 11-2 in the bronze medal match...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Canadian police kill gunman
Police shoot and kill an armed man who had taken a woman hostage in a dramatic stand-off in the Canadian city of Toronto...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Cameras barred from Bryant trial
The judge in the rape case against basketball star Kobe Bryant bans TV cameras for most of the trial...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Jamaica's Campbell wins 200m
Jamaica's Veronica Campbell holds off the challenge of 18-year-old Allyson Felix to win the 200m Olympic title...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Johnson crashes out of hurdles
American Allen Johnson fails to reach the 110m hurdles semi-finals after falling...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Officials: No signs of terror in Russian crashes
Russian officials say they have not found any signs of terrorism in the crashes of two passenger jets. The two planes crashed within minutes of each other Tuesday night after departing Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, killing all aboard. A spokesman for the Federal Security Service said that while a preliminary investigation of the crash sites has not revealed evidence of a terrorist act, terrorism still is on the table as a possible cause...
CNN - August 25, 2004
A plank on gay marriage?
Republican leaders are pushing for a constitutional ban on gay marriage in the GOP platform, opening a new point of contention between social conservatives and outnumbered but vocal factions fighting to give the party's statement of principles a more moderate tone...
CNN - August 25, 2004
Bush Campaign's Top Outside Lawyer Resigns
An election lawyer for President Bush also has been advising a veterans group running TV ads against John Kerry...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Crazy Horse Writ Large and Dream to Match
A granite monument of Chief Crazy Horse, the enigmatic Sioux warrior, located near Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, is 56 years in the making...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Reports Show a Mixed View of Economy
Orders for costly manufactured goods in July posted the biggest gain in four months. New-homes sales, meanwhile, slid, according to a pair of reports...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Oil Prices Halt Three-Day Losing Streak
Oil prices rose modestly today, halting a three-day losing streak on profit-taking from record highs near $50 a barrel...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Singapore Air Sets $7.35 Billion Boeing Order
Singapore Airlines, the world's second most valuable airline, said today it planned to buy up to 31 Boeing planes worth about $7.35 billion...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Pinochet to testify in Jara case
Chile's ex-leader Augusto Pinochet is told to give written testimony in the 1973 murder of singer Victor Jara...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Baseball: Japan thrash Canada
Japan thrash Canada 11-2 in third place match to win baseball bronze medal...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Basketball: US women into semi
USA women trounce Greece to reach the basketball semi-finals, where they will play Russia...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Europe starts new Microsoft probe
The European Commission opens a probe into Microsoft and Time Warner's plans to buy anti-piracy firm ContentGuard...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Russians investigating after 2 jetliners go down
Russian search and rescue officials have found the crash sites of two Russian jetliners that went down in mysterious circumstances after leaving Moscow, Russia's Emergency Ministry says...
CNN - August 25, 2004
Aide: Al-Sistani returns, urges march on Najaf
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has returned to Basra and a spokesman says he is urging all Iraqis to "march to Najaf in order to rescue the city." Meanwhile an aide to renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr says he is ready to leave the Imam Ali mosque...
CNN - August 25, 2004
Dozens Charged in Crackdown on Spam and Scams
Federal and state law enforcement agencies have quietly arrested or charged dozens of people with crimes related to junk e-mail, identity theft and other online scams...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Single-Family Home Sales Decline
Sales of previously owned homes fell 2.9 percent in July, the first drop in seven months...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Cheney rejects gay marriage ban
US Vice-President Dick Cheney opposes a federal ban on gay marriage - seemingly contradicting George Bush...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Loan targets Brazil's environment
The World Bank agrees to a $1.2bn loan, repayable over 17 years, to help Brazil protect its diverse environment...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Jackson 'not hurt' during arrest
Michael Jackson's was not manhandled during his arrest on child abuse charges, an official investigation says...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Australian at Guantanamo hearing
Australian terror suspect David Hicks is due to appear before a US military
tribunal at Guantanamo Bay...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Report: Russian jet sent 'hijack' alert before crash
Russian officials are investigating whether terrorism was involved in the nearly simultaneous crashes of two passenger jetliners. As many as 94 people are feared dead in the crashes. The Russian news agency Interfax is reporting that the second airliner transmitted a "hijack" alert before it went down...
CNN - August 25, 2004
Abu Ghraib was 'Animal House' at night
Abuses photographed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq represented "deviant behavior and a failure of military leadership and discipline" at the facility, but direct and indirect responsibility for those acts and others elsewhere went higher up the chain of command, an independent panel reported Tuesday...
CNN - August 25, 2004
Cheney describes same-sex marriage as state issue
Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday he believes the question of same-sex marriage is best handled by the states -- a position that puts him at odds with President Bush who proposed amending the Constitution to ban such unions...
CNN - August 25, 2004
A Trail of 'Major Failures' Leads to Defense Secretary's Office
In tracing responsibility for what went wrong at Abu Ghraib, the abuse panel drew a line that extended to Donald H. Rumsfeld...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Russian Passenger Plane Crashes; Another Plane Is Missing
The Russian news agency Interfax reported that a hijacking signal was activated on the second plane before it went missing...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Bush Campaign's Top Outside Lawyer Advised Veterans Group
Benjamin L. Ginsberg said the veterans attacking John Kerry's Vietnam War record asked for his help and that he agreed...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Vast Force Is Deployed for Security at Convention
The largest armada of land, air and maritime forces ever assembled to provide security at a national political gathering is being deployed for the Republican convention...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Tribe, Claiming Whites' Land, Confronts Kenya's Government
Angry Masai tribesmen have begun claiming ranches held by white settlers in Kenya, but the authorities are rebuffing the trespasses...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
OIl Prices Fall for 3rd Day as Fears Ease
Oil prices fell for the third day in a row, retreating from the record highs of near $50 a barrel set last week...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Will This Idea Fly? Charge Some Travelers $10 for Showing Up
Northwest Airlines said it would begin charging a $10 fee for issuing a ticket at its airport check-in desks...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
A Bank Takeover in Japan Breaks Tradition
The biggest takeover battle in Japanese history got even bigger as the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group sought to disrupt a rival's expansion plans with a $29 billion hostile bid for UFJ Holdings...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
It's Monday in Germany. Time for Social Protest.
Demonstrators in Germany have been taking to the streets in increasing numbers every Monday to protest a controversial law that would cut benefits for thousands of jobless...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Some Light Shed on Panel Decision to Deny Aid to United
Members of a federal loan board said they felt United Airlines’ bid for $1.6 billion in assistance was based on a faulty business plan...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Shell Settles Oil Reserve Fraud Case for $150.7 Million
Shell agreed today to finalized settlements with U.S. and UK regulators over its mis-statement of proven oil reserves...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Verizon and Qwest Ask Court to Block New F.C.C. Rules
The two local telephone carriers asked a federal court today to block temporary rules forcing the companies to lease phone lines to rivals for at least another six months...
New York Times - August 25, 2004
Vital rights ruling in Argentina
Argentina's top court says there is no time limit for prosecuting crimes against humanity, in a landmark decision...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
US trial of El Salvador murder
A US court hears evidence against a man accused of conspiring to murder the archbishop of El Salvador 24 years ago...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
Cigarette firm acts in tax row
One of Canada's biggest cigarette firms seeks creditor protection as Quebec's government claims C$1.4bn(US$1bn) tax over alleged smuggling...
BBC News - August 25, 2004
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