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US News Archive for September 2005:
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Indicted top Republican steps down
Republican Tom DeLay says he will step aside as House majority leader after a Texas grand jury indicts him on a conspiracy charge. DeLay says he is blameless and calls the charge an act of "political retribution."...
CNN - September 28, 2005
Returning to the 'house from hell'
Residents returning to St. Bernard Parish, just east of New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico, are finding near total destruction. Most of the parish -- including the interiors of homes and businesses -- is covered in a thick layer of dried, cracking mud...
CNN - September 28, 2005
Typhoon Damrey deaths reach 74
The regional death toll from flash floods spawned by Typhoon Damrey has more than doubled to at least 74, as hardest-hit Vietnam said it had recovered the bodies of 33 people swept away in the northern mountains on Wednesday...
CNN - September 28, 2005
DeLay indicted, steps down as majority leader
Rep. Tom DeLay said Wednesday that he will step aside as House majority leader after a Texas grand jury indicted him on a conspiracy charge. Rep. David Dreier of California will take on the leadership responsibilities while DeLay is under indictment...
CNN - September 28, 2005
DeLay Is Indicted and Forced to Step Down as Majority Leader
Representative Tom DeLay was accused by a Texas grand jury of criminal conspiracy in a campaign fund-raising scheme...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Arctic Ice Cap Shrank Sharply This Summer, Experts Say
The floating cap of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer to what is probably its smallest size in a century...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Oil rises as refineries stay shut
Crude oil prices rise as many US refineries stay shut in the wake of Hurricane Rita...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
Gold fever grips Chilean island
An epidemic of gold fever sweeps a Chilean island after the claimed discovery of an 18th Century treasure trove...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
Rural hurricane victims beg for help
Four days after Hurricane Rita roared ashore along the Texas-Louisiana state line, officials are pleading for essentials such as shelter, electricity, water and gas...
CNN - September 28, 2005
Texas grand jury indicts Tom DeLay
The Texas grand jury investigating House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's state political organization was completing its term Wednesday after demonstrating a recent interest in conspiracy charges...
CNN - September 28, 2005
Study Finds Immigration in U.S. Peaked in 2000
In New York, the historic gateway to the nation's newcomers, immigration is lower than it has been for more than 15 years...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Supreme Court Takes On Spending Limits for Candidates
The justices agreed to decide whether Vermont's laws on campaign spending and contributions are constitutional...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Orders for Durable Goods Show Sharp Increase for August
Orders for durable goods showed a surprisingly robust recovery as computers and primary metals lead the rise that followed a sharp dropoff in July...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Iraq abuse woman jailed
US soldier Lynndie England, found guilty of abusing Iraqi prisoners, is sentenced to three years in jail...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
War reporting daft, tribunal told
War reporting is a "daft" career with journalists facing "abduction, torture and execution", a veteran BBC reporter says...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
Oil slips again on stockpile data
Crude oil prices slip from early highs as many US refineries stay shut in the wake of Hurricane Rita...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
Venezuela firm challenges seizure
One of Venezuela's biggest food firms says it will appeal against an order to expropriate one of its plants...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
US concern at Saudi 'hate works'
US envoy Karen Hughes tells Saudi editors that hate writings from Saudi extremists have been found in US mosques...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
Cricket: Windies 'need courage'
West Indies cricket coach Bennett King says he wants his players to show plenty of spirit on their Australia tour...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
Katrina contracts under scrutiny
A U.S. House of Representatives panel is to hear pledges from U.S. government auditors that they will closely examine millions of dollars in contracts the Bush administration awarded to politically connected companies for Hurricane Katrina relief...
CNN - September 28, 2005
England gets 3 years
Army Pfc. Lynndie England, who said she was only trying to please her soldier boyfriend when she took part in detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, was sentenced late Tuesday to three years behind bars...
CNN - September 28, 2005
Suicide bomber kills 5 in Tal Afar
At least five people were killed and 25 wounded Wednesday when a suicide bomber detonated outside of a Tal Afar center where people had gathered seeking compensation following a recent U.S. and Iraqi military offensive, an Iraqi army official told CNN...
CNN - September 28, 2005
Clouds, Silver Linings and a Mall in the Sky
Malls in Manhattan have not had the best track record. But the Time Warner Center was going to be different...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Music case reopens in Cuba
A British High Court judge hearing a case over vintage Latin music travels to Cuba to hear evidence...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
Katrina: 'It was bound to happen'
Residents returning home one month after Hurricane Katrina feel too little was done to prevent the flooding, the BBC's Verity Murphy reports...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
Baseball: Wins for Braves, Angels
The Atlanta Braves take the National League East title, while the Los Angeles Angels win American League West...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
Lula's party to hold run-off vote
The two leading candidates to head Brazil's ruling Workers Party will face a run-off vote against each other, officials said...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
US clinic halts liver transplants
A US hospital suspends liver transplants saying doctors arranged an operation for a Saudi who was not a priority...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
No deportation for Cuban militant
Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles cannot be extradited to Venezuela, a US judge rules...
BBC News - September 28, 2005
Rita victims 'living like cavemen'
Nearly four days after Hurricane Rita hit the Texas Gulf Coast, many of the storm's sweltering victims are still waiting for electricity, gasoline, water and other relief, prompting one top emergency official to complain that people are "living like cavemen."...
CNN - September 28, 2005
Nightmare for African Women: Birthing Injury and Little Help
New cases of fistulas, unknown in the West for nearly 100 years, are far outpacing corrective surgeries...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
As Bodies Mull Retirement, 2 Aging Baseball Stars Play On
As Mike Piazza and Bernie Williams play out the final days of their contracts, each is enduring a more personal coda...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Two Visions of the Man Who Would Become Pope
Two movies on Pope John Paul II are in the works — and both ABC and CBS have chosen different angles to portray the first Polish pontiff...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Justices Take On Spending Limits for Candidates
The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Vermont's strict limits on campaign spending and contributions are constitutional...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
When Storm Hit, National Guard Was Deluged Too
When floodwaters swept into their base, Louisiana National Guard commanders had their hands full just saving themselves...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Harry Heltzer, 94, Inventor of Reflective Signs, Dies
Harry Heltzer, who began at the 3M Company as a $12-a-week manual laborer, invented one of the company's most profitable products and rose to be its top executive, died on Sept. 21 at his home in Lenoir, N.C. He was 94...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Hollywood Writers Union Fires Its Executive Director
A week after new leaders swept into office at the Writers Guild of America West, the guild has fired its executive director...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Two-Year-Old Mall Fetches a Premium Price
WHITE PLAINS, Sept. 22 - Barely two years after it opened, the Source at White Plains, a gleaming four-story shopping center that cost $96 million to build and is home to Fortunoff, Whole Foods Market and Cheesecake Factory, has been sold...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Greenspan Reassurance Helps Shares Close Mostly Higher
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Cleveland Pulls Back From the Edge
The long, slow decline of Cleveland has galvanized both the public and private sectors to address the downtown commercial district's plight...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Inquiry Into Taser Upgraded, Giving S.E.C. Subpoena Power
The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a formal investigation into Taser International's contentions about the safety of its electric stun guns and into a company statement about a large order that it received late last year, Taser said yesterday...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
As Natural Gas Prices Rise, So Do the Costs of Things Made of Chemicals
Hurricane Katrina left barely a physical mark on the chemical industry, but soaring natural gas prices could be a thornier problem...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Texas Tea From a Russian Sea
A consortium is about to start drilling off the lonely shores of a former Soviet-era prison colony that is being called this decade's Alaska North Slope...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Senate Committee Agrees to Tighten Pension Rules
Senate committee leaders reached agreement yesterday on a bill to tighten the rules for companies that run pension plans - an effort aimed at preventing more of the big pension collapses that have occurred in recent years...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
$360 Million Deal to Buy Party City
By Reuters...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Seeking Unlimited Success From Providing a Market for Restricted Stock
While there are markets to buy and sell everything from weather derivatives to sneakers, there has not been a market dedicated solely to trading restricted stock, a market estimated to be worth more than $1.2 trillion...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Juan Valdez and the Gecko Are Consumer Favorites
Juan Valdez and the Gecko...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Shop Owners See Where a Storm of Scavenging Left Its Mark
Most business owners in the French Quarter of New Orleans were lucky...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Pepsi Bottling Profit Rises
By Reuters...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Dreaming of Bras for the Modern Woman
The dream around Maidenform's headquarters is that women will happily pay $32 for the "Dream Bra" the company has introduced...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Fairchild Says It Will Close 2 Magazines
Fairchild Publications announced that it would close its luxury lifestyle magazines Vitals Man and Vitals Woman, after just over a year of publication...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
New Home Sales Fall as Consumer Confidence Hits 2-Year Low
Consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in more than two years this month, hurt by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and by high energy prices, while new home sales fell sharply in August, according to two reports released yesterday...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Winemaker Bids for Rival
Constellation Brands, the world's largest wine company, made an unsolicited bid to buy Vincor International, a Canadian rival, for about $900 million...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
G.M. and Canadian Union Reach a Deal
General Motors of Canada and the Canadian Auto Workers reached a three-year contract late Tuesday, narrowly avoiding a strike...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Income Down From 1999, Tax Data Show
The total income of Americans in 2003, adjusted for inflation, was 4 percent smaller than in 1999, new tax return data showed yesterday...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
A Deal for DreamWorks Unravels Over Price
DreamWorks, the studio whose founders include Steven Spielberg, ended talks to be acquired by NBC Universal...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Morgan Strategist to Join Hedge Fund
By Reuters...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Dell, a Mass Marketer, Seeks the Luster-Prone Customer
Dell, which has beaten its competition by slicing profit margins and turning low-price computers into a commodity, is now turning to the high end...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Supreme Court to Determine Fate of Business Tax Credits
The Supreme Court will decide whether a popular tax credit, which most states use to encourage businesses to make capital investments, violates the Constitution...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
US Air Picks Its Path; Two Airlines Still Looking
The ranks of airlines operating under bankruptcy protection thinned when US Airways merged with America West to form the country's largest low-fare airline...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
WellPoint's Blue Period May Be Over
With its deal to buy the owner of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield in New York, WellPoint's period of acquiring state Blue Cross providers could be in for a lull...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
Mississippi May Move Its Casinos Ashore
Just a month after Hurricane Katrina smashed Mississippi's casino gambling boats, the state Legislature is looking at how to salvage the industry...
New York Times - September 28, 2005
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