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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 2006:
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Bush releases leaked war report
The key conclusions of a document assessing the state of global terrorism have been declassified. One assessment is the war in Iraq is shaping a new generation of terror leaders. Earlier, President George W. Bush angrily lambasted a media report that said the document asserted that the Iraq war increased the terrorist threat to the United States...
CNN - September 26, 2006
Leaked terror report declassified
Key conclusions of a report ordered declassified by President Bush state the U.S. war on terror has damaged al Qaeda, but the terror group has spawned other groups and is still "the greatest threat to the homeland and U.S. interests."...
CNN - September 26, 2006
Tension not harming bin Laden hunt, Bush says
President Bush says he does not accept the idea that perceived Pakistan-Afghanistan tension is undermining the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The Asian neighbors have each said the other is not doing enough to capture bin Laden, who is thought to be hiding along their shared border...
CNN - September 26, 2006
Parts of intelligence report declassified
The Bush administration declassified a portion of an intelligence document on terrorism after an angry President Bush said the leak of the report was meant to "create confusion in the minds of the American people."...
CNN - September 26, 2006
Abe Is Elected Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, who has vowed to make Japan more assertive, named a cabinet packed with conservatives...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Vatican Excommunicates Zambian Archbishop
Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, 76, had installed four married men as bishops in a breakaway Catholic sect...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Byron Nelson, Golf Champion, Is Dead at 94
Emerging as a pre-eminent golfer during the late 1930’s, Byron Nelson won 11 consecutive tournaments in 1945...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Gotti Jurors Say They’re Deadlocked
If the jury is unable to reach a verdict, it would be the third mistrial in the past year for John A. Gotti...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Supreme Court Takes Case on Union Fees
Among nine cases the court selected today for the coming term is a dispute over “paycheck protection” laws...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Bush Makes Public Parts of Report on Terrorism
Excerpts released this afternoon show that intelligence agencies found that the “Iraq conflict has become the ‘cause célèbre’ for jihadists.”...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Worldcom's Ebbers enters prison
Former Worldcom boss Bernard Ebbers starts his prison term for his role in the company's collapse...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
American golf legend Nelson dies
Byron Nelson, one of American golf's greatest-ever players, has died at the age of 94 in his native Texas...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Baseball: Twins in play-offs
Minnesota seal a berth in the play-offs as World Series champions the Chicago White Sox see their hopes ended...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Rice hits back at Clinton claims
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denies President Clinton's claim that he did more to stop al-Qaeda...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
'Mermaid' girl takes first steps
A girl born in Peru with "Mermaid syndrome" takes her first steps after surgery to separate her fused legs...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Blair: 'It's right to let go'
British Prime Minister Tony Blair addresses Labour delegates for the last time as leader but infighting continues over who will replace him...
CNN - September 26, 2006
Vaccine aims to wipeout ear, sinus infections
U.S. researchers said Tuesday that they are starting trials of a new vaccine aimed at wiping out childhood ear and sinus infections and many cases of bronchitis in adults...
CNN - September 26, 2006
Bush to declassify parts of intelligence report
An angry President Bush Tuesday said he would declassify an intelligence document that reportedly finds that the Iraq war increased the terrorist threat to the United States, saying the American people should come to their own conclusions...
CNN - September 26, 2006
Broken Bench: Small-Town Justice, With Trial and Error
An unfamiliarity with basic legal principles is remarkably common in New York’s small-town courts...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Vatican Excommunicates Zambian Bishop
Emmanuel Milingo, 76, has caused dismay in the Vatican by using rites from traditional African ceremonies...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Thai Junta to Stay After Appointing P.M.
The leader of the military junta said today that it would remain in an advisory role after naming a civilian prime minister...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Europe Makes Progress in iTunes Negotiations
European officials said they made “surprising progress” in talks today with Apple over easing the restrictions it imposes on iTunes users...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
US loses top competitiveness spot
The US is no longer the world's most competitive economy, according to the World Economic Forum...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Boost to US consumer confidence
US consumers have become more optimistic in September, thanks to a sharp slide in the cost of energy, a report says...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Officials zero in on possible source of tainted spinach
Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials focus on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista processing plant that may be the source of a nationwide outbreak...
CNN - September 26, 2006
Hussein again ejected from trial
For the second day in a row and the third time in a week, former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was ejected from the courtroom for disrupting his genocide trial. A second defendant was also removed by the chief judge...
CNN - September 26, 2006
Saints 23, Falcons 3: An Emotional Recovery for the New Orleans Saints
The Louisiana Superdome reopened to a full house in New Orleans on Monday night, with fans cheering the opening of the front gates as if the Saints had already won...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Bolivian Leaders Find Their Promises Are Hard to Keep
Just nine months into President Evo Morales’s term, heightening tension is once again threatening to tip Bolivia into turmoil...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
World Business Briefing | Australia: Buyout Firm Makes Deal for Hospital Operator
CVC Asia Pacific, a buyout firm, said it had agreed to buy the DCA Group for 1.7 billion Australian dollars ($1.3 billion) to gain control of an Australian provider of hospitals for the elderly. CVC will pay 3.50 Australian dollars for each share of DCA, 35 percent more than the stock’s price on Sept. 8, when DCA said it had received takeover offers. DCA owns 229 X-ray clinics and 6,000 nursing home beds, mostly in Australia. CVC Asia is owned by Citigroup and CVC Capital Partners of London...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
World Business Briefing | Americas: Brazilian Mining Company Extends Bid for Inco
Companhia Vale do Rio Doce of Brazil said it had extended its 19 billion Canadian dollars ($17 billion) tender offer for the Canadian mining company Inco to give regulators time to approve the deal. Rio Doce said it extended the deadline to Oct. 16 from Sept. 28. Rio Doce, the world’s largest iron ore miner, has obtained regulatory approval from the Canadian Competition Bureau and from authorities in the United States, but must still get clearance from the European Commission and Investment Canada...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
World Business Briefing | Europe: Germany: Pharmaceutical Company Is Acquired
UCB, a Belgian drug maker, said it had agreed to buy Schwarz Pharma of Germany for 4.4 billion euros ($5.6 billion) to gain experimental medicines for Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy and bladder control. Schwarz investors will get 91.10 euros a share in cash and stock, 20 percent more than the closing price on Friday, UCB said. The Schwarz-Schuette family, which owns 60 percent of the company, backed the offer. Schwarz, based in Monheim, Germany, is the third European family-owned drug maker to sell in less than a week as the cost of developing new products rises. UCB, which faces patent expirations on its top sellers starting next year, will get three drugs that may provide more than 2 billion euros in annual revenue...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
World Business Briefing | Europe: Spain: Bank Acquires American Auto Lender
Banco Santander Central Hispano, Spain’s biggest bank, agreed to buy 90 percent of Drive Financial Services of Dallas for $651 million, gaining a presence in 35 states with what is its first consumer finance move into the United States. The bank will buy the unit from HBOS, a British mortgage lender, and the management of Drive Financial. Santander will also pay as much as $175 million to some of Drive Financial’s management if the company meets goals in the next two years. Drive Financial offers financial services through 10,000 car dealers and had $2.4 billion of loans in August...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
World Business Briefing | Europe: Spain: Builder Buys 10% Stake in Utility
Acciona, a Spanish builder, bought 10 percent of Endesa, the country’s biggest power company, for 3.4 billion euros ($4.3 billion), throwing a new twist into a takeover battle for Endesa. Acciona said it did not plan to make a takeover bid, but it did not rule out increasing its stake. The 10 percent share matches that of Endesa’s largest shareholder, Caja Madrid. Endesa is the target of competing takeover bids from E.On of Germany and Gas Natural of Spain. The price Acciona paid for its stake, 32 euros a share, is 26 percent more than E.On’s bid, a factor that might force E.On to raise its bid or to withdraw because of the high price, analysts said...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Tycoon Ebbers to begin jail term
Former Worldcom boss Bernard Ebbers will start his prison term on Tuesday for his role in an $11bn fraud case...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Guatemala seizes control of jail
Guatemalan security forces storm a jail that has been under prisoner control for 10 years, killing seven inmates...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Shinzo Abe takes reins in Japan
Nationalist Shinzo Abe, 52, was elected Japan's prime minister Tuesday, making him the youngest leader since World War Two of the world's second largest economy. Abe won 339 votes out of 475 counted in the lower house and 136 out of 240 in the upper house...
CNN - September 26, 2006
Among the Stars, the Met Opera Brings a Little Punch to Its Puccini
The Met hosts a season-opening gala, dripping with wealth and celebrity, that nearly upstages its own opera...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Shanghai’s Party Leader, Mistrusted by Hu, Is Purged
President Hu Jintao has become determined to break up entrenched local fiefs and install officials who answer only to him...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
2 Ex-Acquaintances of Senator Allen Say He Used Slurs
Two acquaintances of Senator George Allen of Virginia said he had used racial slurs in the 1970’s and 1980’s...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Broken Bench: Delivering Small-Town Justice With a Mix of Trial and Error
In New York's small town courts, part-time judges with little or no qualifications are the final word in law...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Europe Panel Faults Sifting of Bank Data
A European Union panel has doubts about the legality of a Bush administration program that monitors international financial transactions, the group’s leader said...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Baseball’s Oldest Old-Timer Opens a Window on the Past
Silas Simmons, 110, pitched and played outfield in the equivalent of the black major leagues from about 1912 until at least 1929...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Stricter Voting Laws Carve Latest Partisan Divide
Democrats say Republicans are trying to suppress the votes of minorities, the poor and the elderly by requiring documentation at the polls...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Saints 23, Falcons 3: An Emotional Recovery
The Louisiana Superdome reopened to a full house in New Orleans Monday night, with fans cheering the opening of the front gates as if the Saints had already won...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Advertising: Aiming to Be the Truck of Patriots
Starting this weekend, General Motors will run ads that tap into patriotism, positioning the Chevrolet Silverado as America’s truck...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
On the Road: Gun or Bug Spray Not Needed, but You Do Make Your Own Bed
A new kind of extended-stay hotel, Value Place, is aimed at the business traveler who is usually on a strict per diem limit...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Ex-Paper Chief Gets 15-Year Term in Fraud
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Not Guilty Plea to Illegal Short Selling
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Revlon to Cut Jobs and Cancel Products
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Europeans Favor Admitting Romania and Bulgaria, Then Retooling
Reflecting “expansion fatigue,” the bloc will warn that enlargement must halt until the organization makes needed structural changes...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Atlas Squeaked: A Complete Map of the Brain of a Mouse
Scientists now have access to a genetic atlas of mouse neurons, courtesy of a $41 million project financed by the co-founder of Microsoft...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Strong Prescription Sales Help as Walgreen Profit Rises 25%
CHICAGO, Sept. 25 (Reuters) — The Walgreen Company, the drugstore chain, posted a 25 percent increase in quarterly profit on Monday driven by strong sales of prescription medications, but its shares declined as earnings before unusual items fell short of expectations...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Wachovia Must Pay Broker It Fired $3.8 Million
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
When the Bad Buzz Arrives Before the Movie Does
The studio behind "All the King's Men" ignored one of the harshest realities of movie marketing today: It’s almost impossible to recover from bad buzz...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Plush Toys Out. Weary Adults In.
With business travelers filling rooms again, some hotels appear to be having second thoughts about their emphasis on families...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Frequent Flier: Packing Knives and Trailing Crawfish
Transportation Security Administration agents didn’t know what to do with a knife-packing chef from New Orleans...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Nasdaq Leads a Rally as Benchmark Rates and Oil Prices Fall
By Reuters...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
TV Sports: With All Due Respect, ESPN Shows Its Softer Side
ESPN reminded viewers Monday that football in a repaired Superdome can inspire for a few hours at a time, but cannot rebuild a city...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Panel Urges Basic Coverage on Health Care
A federal advisory panel said that Congress should take immediate steps to guarantee that all Americans have access to affordable health care by 2012...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Two Involved in H.P. Spying Are Summoned by Congress
The employees have been subpoenaed by a House committee to appear at a hearing after refusing invitations to testify...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Defendant in Pellicano Wiretap Case Acquitted
The acquittal dealt a sharp setback to federal prosecutors in the case against the private detective Anthony Pellicano...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Google to Push for More Electrical Efficiency in PC’s
Google is calling on the computer industry to create a simpler and more efficient power supply standard...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Hoping to Be a Model, I.B.M. Will Put Its Patent Filings Online
I.B.M., the nation’s largest patent holder, will publish its patent filings on the Web for public review as part of a new policy...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Study Says U.S. Has Lead in Nanotechnology
The report cautioned that the potential risks of manipulating matter on such a small scale deserved more study...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Wireless Networking May Soon Get Faster. Will Anyone Care?
While companies are promoting fourth-generation wireless as the next wave in Internet access, its future is far from certain...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
U.S. Eases Rules on Gels and Liquids in Carry-Ons
Passengers can carry three-ounce bottles of liquids and gels onto planes, as long as all items fit into a single quart-size zip-top plastic bag...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Oil Contract Dips Briefly Below $60 a Barrel, as Speculators Bet on Lower Prices
Crude oil prices dropped below $60 a barrel for the first time in six months on Monday before rebounding a bit...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
G.M. Said to Be Wary of Alliance
General Motors has raised doubts about a three-way alliance with Renault and Nissan Motor, a senior executive at Renault said...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Redstone Takes a Cut in His Salary
Viacom said Sumner M. Redstone was restructuring his pay to more clearly align it with shareholder interest...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
High Winds, Then Premiums
Along the coast from Texas to Maine, insurance costs are doubling or tripling as part of continuing fallout from Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Tobacco Makers Lose Key Ruling on Latest Suits
The decision raises the possibility that cases involving light cigarettes will become a major legal threat to the tobacco industry...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Homes Post Price Drop for August
The last time prices fell from their year-earlier level was in April 1995, but the market slide might be beginning to ease...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
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