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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 September 2007:
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Bits Blog: Amazon Launches a Music Store
Amazon waited to offer digital music until it could sell unrestricted MP3 files, rather than songs with digital rights management. It may force Apple to compete on price and terms...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Bloggers Like Richardson?s Message
Gov. Bill Richardson?s seeks to draw a distinction between his position on Iraq and that of the other Democraticcandidates, but the subtext of the spot is almost more important than the primary message...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
The Lede Blog: This Is Only a (Text Messaging) Test
An duel of emergency alert systems at Purdue University...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Leader of Polygamist Sect Guilty in Rape Case
The polygamist leader Warren S. Jeffs was convicted in Utah of being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year-old girl in his church...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Scores Show Mixed Results for Bush Education Law
Students are doing better in math since the No Child Left Behind law, but reading has not shown similar gains...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Iran?s President Says Nuclear Issue Is Closed
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran told the United Nations General Assembly this afternoon that his government would disregard calls by ?arrogant powers? to end its uranium enrichment...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Economic Scene: He?s Happier, She?s Less So
Two new research papers offer evidence that there is a growing happiness gap between men and women...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
EchoStar to Acquire Sling Media
Satellite television provider EchoStar Communications has agreed to acquire Sling Media in a deal that values the maker of the Slingbox device at $380 million...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Stocks End Mixed Amid Economic Concerns
As investors grappled with concerns about consumer spending in some parts of the economy, technology stocks showed broad gains...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Amazon Spins Up Digital Music Store
Web retailer Amazon.com launched its much-anticipated digital music store with nearly 2.3 million songs, none of them protected against copying...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Home Sales Slip; Builder Reports Loss
Existing home sales in August dropped 4.3 percent and the homebuilder Lennar posted its largest quarterly loss...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Halo 3 Arrives, Rewarding Gamers, and Microsoft
Microsoft hopes that the new version of Halo, which is exclusive to the Xbox 360, will persuade more consumers to choose its game machine over others...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Talks Continue in G.M. Strike
With the strike by 73,000 U.A.W. members in its second day, bargaining resumed today in Detroit as workers walked picket lines outside G.M. plants across the country...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
City Room: Councilman Accepts Diet Challenge
Councilman Leroy G. Comrie Jr., a Queens Democrat, has signed up for the 50 Million Pound Challenge, a health campaign aimed at getting African Americans to collectively lose weight...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
The Caucus Blog: The Caucus: ?$9.11 for Rudy? Comes Under Fire
One of the house parties sponsored by the Republican candidate uses the Sept. 11 date for fund-raising...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Well Blog: The (Past) Perfect Waistline
Why you won't find your ideal weight on a BMI chart...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
The Lede Blog: A New Reason to Fear Space Germs
NASA grows super salmonella in space...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Bush Announces Tighter Sanctions on Myanmar
?Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma,? President Bush told the U.N. General Assembly today...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Voter ID Law
The Supreme Court agreed today to consider whether voter-identification laws unfairly keep poor people and minority groups from going to the polls...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Stocks Pare Early Losses
Some investors appeared to be betting that more rate cuts would be needed after reports provided fresh evidence that consumer spending is slowing and confidence is ebbing...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Home Sales Slip and Builder Reports Big Losses
Existing home sales in August dropped 4.3 percent and the homebuilder Lennar posted the largest quarterly loss in its history as fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis continued...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Further price drop for US homes
The price of existing homes in the 10 largest US cities fell by 0.6% in July, the biggest fall in 16 years, a survey says...
BBC News - September 25, 2007
UN chief calls for global action
UN chief Ban Ki-moon opens the 2007 general assembly by warning world leaders of "daunting challenges" ahead...
BBC News - September 25, 2007
Iraq to end contractor 'immunity'
Iraq's interior ministry says it has drafted legislation for security contractors amid the Blackwater controversy...
BBC News - September 25, 2007
US court reviews lethal injection
US Supreme Court agrees to consider challenges to lethal injection filed by two death row inmates...
BBC News - September 25, 2007
Music Review: A Grand Opening at the Opera
Natalie Dessay thrived under pressure in the title role of ?Lucia di Lammermoor? at the Metropolitan Opera...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Burmese Monks Protest, Defying Junta?s Warning
Despite an order from Myanmar?s junta to stay out of politics, Buddhist monks returned to the streets today...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
In G.M. Strike, Both Sides See a Crossroads
The length of the walkout may hinge on two crucial questions: How long can the union afford to stay out? And how long can General Motors endure a strike?...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Golf: Woods backs tough stance
World number one Tiger Woods says he hopes any golfers found guilty of doping are punished heavily...
BBC News - September 25, 2007
Iran bails last US dual national
Iran releases on bail the last of three US-Iranian dual nationals detained on security charges, reports say...
BBC News - September 25, 2007
US marks 1957 integration crisis
Ex-US President Bill Clinton helps mark the 50th anniversary of the integration crisis at Little Rock Central High...
BBC News - September 25, 2007
World leaders set to address UN
Speeches by the US and Iran will be closely-watched when world leaders address the UN general assembly...
BBC News - September 25, 2007
Congress Set for Veto Fight on Child Health Care
President Bush and Congress prepared for a showdown over renewing and expanding a health insurance program that covers millions of children...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Magna Carta Is Going on the Auction Block
The only copy of the Magna Carta, the document that laid the foundation for fundamental principles of English law, in the United States is about to go on sale...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
M.T.A. Proposes Off-Peak Discounts
The proposal was included as part of one of two options for a 6.5 percent overall increase in fares and tolls...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
D.E.A. Exposes a Steroid Web With China Tie
Federal authorities said that they had exposed a sprawling underground distribution of performance-enhancing drugs supplied by 37 companies in China...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Frequent Flier: Cramped in Coach With No Peanuts Can Look Good
Domestic travel is so unpleasant I have given up flying from my base in Des Moines to anywhere that can be driven in one day. But I can?t drive to Africa...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Advertising: The View From Your Airplane Window Was Brought to You by ...
A start-up called Ad-Air said it had created the ?first global aerial advertising network? ? giant, billboardlike ads that will be visible from the air as planes approach runways...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Memo Pad
AIRLINES ADDING SOME WORKERS Domestic airlines had 2.6 percent more employees in July than in the previous July, the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics said. This July, domestic airlines reported 413,700 full-time employees. Work forces are still down after five years of sharp cost-cutting; in July 2003, 433,200 worked full time for airlines. Even cuts were made across the board, passenger volume rose to record levels, and many flights now are nearly full. The bureau estimated that more than 765 million people would fly on domestic airlines this year, breaking last year?s record of 745 million...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Shoe Retailer Replies to Suit
The shoe retailer Finish Line, responding to a lawsuit brought by Genesco, said yesterday that Genesco had breached their merger deal by not providing certain information or access to its executives that Finish Line requested...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Shares of American Airlines? Parent Tumble 14%
FORT WORTH, Sept. 24 (AP) ? Shares of the AMR Corporation, parent of American Airlines, dropped 14.3 percent Monday after the company gave a tepid third-quarter outlook and several analysts cut their profit estimates...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Altered iPhones at Risk of Failure
Apple warned that iPhone owners who have used unauthorized programs to unlock the cellular service feature of their handsets may end up with a phone that does not work...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
General Mills Chief Quits Abruptly
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn., Sept. 24 (AP) ? The chief executive of General Mills, Stephen W. Sanger, is stepping down effective immediately, the company said Monday...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Lowe?s Tempers Its Profit Forecast
The home improvement chain warned that dry conditions in some parts of the United States were hurting sales of outdoor products...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
A Pullback After a Global Credit Warning
Wall Street retreated Monday as investors nervously awaited fresh economic data to be published later this week...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Security Provider at Reactor to Be Fired
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 25 (AP) ? The Exelon Corporation said Monday that it would end its contract with a company that provides security at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in south-central Pennsylvania after security officers were caught on videotape nodding off or sleeping on the job...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
On Strike at G.M., Resolute but Anxious About Future
Workers at the General Motors pickup plant in Pontiac, Michigan said they were preparing themselves for the possibility of spending months out of work...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
New York Investigating Facebook?s Safety Rules
An investigation is probing whether Facebook misleads users by advertising itself as a place where students and younger children are safe from adult sexual predators...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Dell Agrees to Sell PCs at Retailer in China
The company will sell computers in 50 stores operated by Gome Electrical Appliances Holding in major Chinese cities, starting early next month...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Bristol-Myers to Buy a Biotech Company
Bristol-Myers Squibb said yesterday that it would pay $430 million for Adnexus Therapeutics, a privately held biotechnology company whose lead product is a cancer drug in the earliest stages of human trials...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Flying for the Holidays? Brace Yourself.
Expect absolutely full flights, making it next to impossible to quickly get on another flight if you are bumped, miss your flight or otherwise have to make new arrangements...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Few Welcome Mats for Smokers
If you think the biggest pariah in the travel industry is an overzealous airport security screener, clearly you do not travel with a pack of cigarettes in your carry-on bag...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
On The Road: The Rest of the World Discovers the Business Jet
International buyers will account for slightly over half the purchases in business jets over the next five years, according to Honeywell Aerospace...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Overcrowded Heathrow Pins Hopes on Terminal 5
Travelers, angry at the long security lines, flight delays and baggage problems at Heathrow Airport in London, have been flocking to smaller regional airports instead...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
If You Have Money, Trump Knows How to Use It
Not sure how to decorate your Gulfstream? Wondering which continent to golf on next? Then Donald J. Trump has a magazine for you...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Johnson & Johnson?s Risky Tactic Fails in Patent Fight
The company?s lawyers had attempted to gain the upper hand in a patent case by highlighting safety concerns about the company?s own product...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
A Plan to Let S.E.C. Accept Foreign Rules Is Opposed
American investors and European companies are opposing a proposal to allow foreign companies to use international accounting standards in filings with United States regulators...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Movie Director Sentenced for Lying About Detective
A federal judge sentenced director John McTiernan to four months in prison for lying to an F.B.I. agent about hiring private investigator Anthony Pellicano...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Prying Open European Pharmacies
For the first time in many European countries, nonprescription drugs are being sold over the counter at outlets other than pharmacies...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Gas Emissions Rarely Figure in Investor Decisions
Corporations have become better about disclosing their greenhouse gas emissions, but few investors are using that information to decide where to put their money...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
The Loan That Keeps on Taking
Hundreds of lawsuits are being filed on behalf of borrowers who legal advocates say were shoehorned into homes beyond their means with creative and onerous mortgages...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
World Bank Faces Doubt From Donors
Wealthy countries are balking at financing World Bank projects because of their own budget problems and lingering questions over the bank?s relevance...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Approval Is Sought for Reactors
In a bid to take the lead in the race to revive the nuclear power industry, NRG Energy will ask federal authorities Tuesday for permission to build two reactors in Texas...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Microsoft Is Said to Consider a Stake in Facebook
The company is considering an investment of between $300 million and $500 million for less than 5 percent of Facebook...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Indian Outsourcing Comes Full Circle
Indian outsourcing companies are hiring workers and opening offices in other developing countries...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
In G.M. Strike, Both Sides See Defining Moment
The length of the walkout may hinge on the answers to two crucial questions: How long can the U.A.W. afford to stay out? And how long can G.M. endure a strike?...
New York Times - September 25, 2007
Rugby: Canada face Japan
Japan are struggling with injuries as they go into their final Pool B game against fellow minnows Canada...
BBC News - September 25, 2007
Gamers scramble at Halo 3 launch
Halo 3, one of the most heavily marketed games in history, goes on sale at thousands of stores in the US...
BBC News - September 25, 2007
Guantanamo inmate loses appeal
A Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee must face a military commission after a previous ruling is overturned...
BBC News - September 25, 2007
Mike Tyson admits drugs charges
Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson pleads guilty to drug possession at a US court...
BBC News - September 25, 2007
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