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Bermuda leaders son, a doctor, faces sex charges
About two months ago, Dr. Kevin Antario Brown was hobnobbing with guests at a celebrity poker tournament at the Playboy Mansion, his disaster-relief medical charity the beneficiary of the lavish event...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Halle Berry pushes back against paparazzi
Halle Berry said a paparazzi went too far to get a shot of her infant daughter, alleging that the shooter trespassed on her private property and snapped them hanging out in the backyard...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NASA uses remote sand dunes as stand-in for moon
Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Avon Products 2nd-quarter profit more than doubles
Avon Products Inc. says second-quarter profit more than doubled as the cosmetics company recorded strong sales abroad...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Police defuse 18 bombs near another Indian market
Police defused 18 bombs found Tuesday near the main diamond markets in the city of Surat and issued a sketch of a young man believed to be linked to one of two explosives-filled cars discovered there...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Bin Ladens driver denies making loyalty oath
A former driver for Osama bin Laden denied Wednesday that he had sworn a loyalty oath to the al-Qaida leader, contradicting potentially damaging testimony of a Defense Department interrogator...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Top UK court allows extradition of hacker to US
Some call it the biggest hack of military computers; perhaps it was just a big embarrassment...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Official Palestinian boy killed by live round
Israeli troops trying to repel rock-throwing Palestinians did not have permission to use live rounds, Israeli officials said Wednesday, but a Palestinian autopsy showed that a 10-year-old boy killed in the clash was shot by an assualt rifle...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
McCain spokeswoman Stevens woes linked to pork
Presumptive GOP nominee John McCain distanced himself from Sen. Ted Stevens Wednesday, a day after his longtime rival was indicted on charges of lying about more than $250,000 in gifts he got from an oil services company...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Abreu hits 2 homers, Yankees finally beat Orioles
Bobby Abreu hit a pair of homers while getting a day off from the field, Alex Rodriguez also went deep and the New York Yankees pounded the Baltimore Orioles 13-3 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Pena homers to help Rays beat Blue Jays 3-2
Carlos Pena homered, Edwin Jackson won back-to-back starts for the first time since April and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Cheech and Chong reunite as feud goes up in smoke
Now that their feud is up in smoke, Cheech and Chong are high on plans to reunite for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Political Play Obama claims link to the Wild West
Barack Obama is claiming a link to the Wild West _ Wild Bill Hickok, to be precise...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Details sometimes fall away as McCain campaigns
Details can bedevil any presidential candidate...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Guillens sacrifice fly lifts Royals past As
Jose Guillen drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and the Kansas City Royals beat the Athletics 4-3 on Wednesday to complete their first three-game sweep in Oakland in 20 years...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Carlos Pena homers to help Rays beat Blue Jays 3-2
Carlos Pena homered, Edwin Jackson won back-to-back starts for the first time since April and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Abreu hits 2 homers as Yankees rout Orioles 13-3
Bobby Abreu hit a pair of homers while getting a day off from the field, Alex Rodriguez also went deep and the New York Yankees pounded the Baltimore Orioles 13-3 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Monkey from Mars a Ga. crime labs museum oddity
Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Analysts blame easy credit for restaurant woes
Restaurant companies may have depended too much on easy-to-borrow money to back aggressive expansion plans, industry experts say _ a move that may lead to more bankrupt chains and fewer new eateries opening in the months to come...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Shoppers to face higher prices on holiday goods
Christmas in July? Maybe not a bad idea this year...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Office supply retailers struggle in North America
Office supply retailers felt no relief from the pinch of weaker spending by consumers and small businesses, with both Office Depot and OfficeMax citing the struggling economy as they reported losses for the second quarter...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Oil jumps $3 after report says gas supplies fell
Oil prices shot up Wednesday, jumping more than $3 a barrel after the government reported a surprise drop in U.S. gasoline supplies. But analysts said the market, despite the big advance, is still concerned that high prices are choking off demand...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
India, Pakistan continue trading fire at Kashmir
Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded fire across the heavily armed Kashmir frontier for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday in what the Indian army called the worst violation of a 2003 cease-fire agreement between the nuclear-armed neighbors...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
FDA finds salmonella strain at second Mexican farm
Federal health officials say the salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and a serrano pepper at a Mexican farm...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Air Force officer in Alaska dies in likely suicide
The officer who commands an air force wing in Alaska has died of a gunshot wound that likely was self-inflicted, authorities said Monday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Weather better but 75 await rescue from N.M. flood
More than 75 people stranded by massive flooding in and around this mountain resort town still awaited rescue Tuesday, but spirits rose as missing people were accounted for and the region made it through a day without rain, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
5 polygamist sect men arraigned in abuse case
Five followers of jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs were arraigned Tuesday on charges relating to child abuse and ordered to avoid their alleged victims when they post bond...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Fisherman survives cold night stuck in Utah creek
Dean Ririe had a fish on the line, then made one wrong step that led to a terrifying night trapped up to his waist in a frigid mountain stream...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Moderate Calif. quake a drill for the Big One
Despite shaking a large swath of Southern California, a magnitude-5.4 earthquake was not the "Big One" that scientists have long feared. Still, it rattled nerves, causing people to vow to step up their emergency preparations...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Earthquake shakes buildings in Southern California
The strongest earthquake to strike a populated area of Southern California in more than a decade rattled windows and chandeliers, made buildings sway and sent people running into the streets on Tuesday. But there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or major damage...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Questions remain in slaying of pregnant soldier
Even with a suspect in custody, there are still plenty of questions surrounding the death of a pregnant soldier found in a motel bathtub in Fayetteville more than a month ago...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Prosecutor Ill. woman drowns newborn, burns home
Prosecutors say a woman drowned her newborn boy, hid the body in a wooded area near her home, then later burned down the residence...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NM rescuers building bridge to reach 70 stranded
Rescuers cleared debris and worked on building a temporary bridge Tuesday to get closer to about 70 people stranded for a third day by massive flooding...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Arrest made in slaying of pregnant N.C. soldier
A Fort Bragg soldier was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in the death of a pregnant colleague whose partially decomposed body was found in a motel bathtub more than a month ago, police said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Suspect in NC soldiers death was babys father
Police say the Fort Bragg soldier charged in the death of a pregnant soldier was the father of her unborn child but married to someone else...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Minn. officers shoot bear with jar stuck on head
Minnesota wildlife officials tried for six days to capture a bear that had a plastic jar stuck over its head, but ended up killing the animal after it wandered into a city during a festival...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Fire near Yosemite park hurts tourist business
Vendors along one of the main roads leading to Yosemite National Park this summer were finally seeing business turn around following a rock slide that kept tour buses away for the previous two years...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Crane dismantling Texas bridge collapses 1 dead
A crane removing steel beams while dismantling an old bridge over a central Texas river became overloaded and toppled Wednesday, killing one worker and injuring another, officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
AP IMPACT Little progress since bridge collapse
A year after the worst U.S. bridge collapse in a generation brought calls for immediate repairs to other spans, two of every three of the busiest problem bridges in each state _ carrying nearly 40 million vehicles a day _ have had no work beyond regular maintenance...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NY gov. seeks hiring freeze, spending cuts
Gov. David Paterson said Wednesday he wants to freeze hiring and cut state spending by an additional 7 percent to shore up a state economy that his budget director said is officially in recession...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
GOP stalwart, ex-ambassador Anne Armstrong dies
Anne Armstrong, a longtime powerful Republican who served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday, her office said. She was 80...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Police Dad who kidnapped daughter may have lied
A man accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter and posing as a member of the Rockefeller clan may have planted false clues that he planned to flee the country in a yacht, authorities said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Massachusetts to allow out-of-state gay marriages
State lawmakers have voted to let gay couples from other states get married in Massachusetts as soon as Gov. Deval Patrick signs the bill into law...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Suspicious package causes scare in Princeton, N.J.
Officials on Wednesday were trying to determine what caused government workers to feel ill after a letter from a Louisiana nursing-home resident to a New Jersey mayor was opened...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Former surgeon general, Head Start director dies
Dr. Julius Richmond, the U.S. surgeon general in the Carter administration who issued a massive report labeling cigarette smoking "slow-motion suicide," has died. He was 91...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Navy cites smoking as cause of fire aboard carrier
Navy officials say smoking appears to have sparked a fire that caused $70 million in damage to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Amber Alerts issued in Mass., NY for 4 children
Police in two states issued Amber Alerts on Wednesday for four children taken with their mother from an apartment near Boston where another woman was found fatally stabbed...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Bush signs bill to triple AIDS funding
President Bush signed legislation Wednesday that triples U.S. funding to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NYC police hold man accused of taking 4 kids, mom
New York City police have arrested a man accused of abducting his wife and four young children from a Massachusetts apartment where another woman was found fatally stabbed...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Mass. state senator charged with groping woman
A court clerk-magistrate on Wednesday charged a state lawmaker with groping a woman in a case the district attorney declined to prosecute because it lacked evidence...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Road to Yosemite reopens as fire crews gain ground
The main western highway into Yosemite National Park reopened Wednesday after firefighters kept flames from leaping across a steep river canyon and drawing perilously near the park...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Strict building codes credited after Calif. quake
The latest in plywood-reinforced walls, tied-down foundations, strengthened concrete and stronger welds _ if an earthquake had to hit somewhere in densely populated Southern California, this relatively new suburb of 80,000 people was about the best place possible...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Bermuda leaders son, a doctor, faces sex charges
About two months ago, Dr. Kevin Antario Brown was hobnobbing with guests at a celebrity poker tournament at the Playboy Mansion, his disaster-relief medical charity the beneficiary of the lavish event...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Halle Berry pushes back against paparazzi
Halle Berry said a paparazzi went too far to get a shot of her infant daughter, alleging that the shooter trespassed on her private property and snapped them hanging out in the backyard...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NASA uses remote sand dunes as stand-in for moon
Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Avon Products 2nd-quarter profit more than doubles
Avon Products Inc. says second-quarter profit more than doubled as the cosmetics company recorded strong sales abroad...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Police defuse 18 bombs near another Indian market
Police defused 18 bombs found Tuesday near the main diamond markets in the city of Surat and issued a sketch of a young man believed to be linked to one of two explosives-filled cars discovered there...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Bin Ladens driver denies making loyalty oath
A former driver for Osama bin Laden denied Wednesday that he had sworn a loyalty oath to the al-Qaida leader, contradicting potentially damaging testimony of a Defense Department interrogator...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Top UK court allows extradition of hacker to US
Some call it the biggest hack of military computers; perhaps it was just a big embarrassment...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Official Palestinian boy killed by live round
Israeli troops trying to repel rock-throwing Palestinians did not have permission to use live rounds, Israeli officials said Wednesday, but a Palestinian autopsy showed that a 10-year-old boy killed in the clash was shot by an assualt rifle...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Amber Alerts issued in Mass., NY for 4 children
Police in two states issued Amber Alerts on Wednesday for four children taken with their mother from an apartment near Boston where another woman was found fatally stabbed...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
McCain spokeswoman Stevens woes linked to pork
Presumptive GOP nominee John McCain distanced himself from Sen. Ted Stevens Wednesday, a day after his longtime rival was indicted on charges of lying about more than $250,000 in gifts he got from an oil services company...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Abreu hits 2 homers as Yankees rout Orioles 13-3
Bobby Abreu hit a pair of homers while getting a day off from the field, Alex Rodriguez also went deep and the New York Yankees pounded the Baltimore Orioles 13-3 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Abreu hits 2 homers, Yankees finally beat Orioles
Bobby Abreu hit a pair of homers while getting a day off from the field, Alex Rodriguez also went deep and the New York Yankees pounded the Baltimore Orioles 13-3 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Pena homers to help Rays beat Blue Jays 3-2
Carlos Pena homered, Edwin Jackson won back-to-back starts for the first time since April and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Cheech and Chong reunite as feud goes up in smoke
Now that their feud is up in smoke, Cheech and Chong are high on plans to reunite for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Political Play Obama claims link to the Wild West
Barack Obama is claiming a link to the Wild West _ Wild Bill Hickok, to be precise...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Details sometimes fall away as McCain campaigns
Details can bedevil any presidential candidate...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Guillens sacrifice fly lifts Royals past As
Jose Guillen drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and the Kansas City Royals beat the Athletics 4-3 on Wednesday to complete their first three-game sweep in Oakland in 20 years...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Carlos Pena homers to help Rays beat Blue Jays 3-2
Carlos Pena homered, Edwin Jackson won back-to-back starts for the first time since April and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Weather better but 75 await rescue from N.M. flood
More than 75 people stranded by massive flooding in and around this mountain resort town still awaited rescue Tuesday, but spirits rose as missing people were accounted for and the region made it through a day without rain, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Monkey from Mars a Ga. crime labs museum oddity
Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Analysts blame easy credit for restaurant woes
Restaurant companies may have depended too much on easy-to-borrow money to back aggressive expansion plans, industry experts say _ a move that may lead to more bankrupt chains and fewer new eateries opening in the months to come...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Shoppers to face higher prices on holiday goods
Christmas in July? Maybe not a bad idea this year...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Office supply retailers struggle in North America
Office supply retailers felt no relief from the pinch of weaker spending by consumers and small businesses, with both Office Depot and OfficeMax citing the struggling economy as they reported losses for the second quarter...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Oil jumps $3 after report says gas supplies fell
Oil prices shot up Wednesday, jumping more than $3 a barrel after the government reported a surprise drop in U.S. gasoline supplies. But analysts said the market, despite the big advance, is still concerned that high prices are choking off demand...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Prosecutor Ill. woman drowns newborn, burns home
Prosecutors say a woman drowned her newborn boy, hid the body in a wooded area near her home, then later burned down the residence...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
India, Pakistan continue trading fire at Kashmir
Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded fire across the heavily armed Kashmir frontier for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday in what the Indian army called the worst violation of a 2003 cease-fire agreement between the nuclear-armed neighbors...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
FDA finds salmonella strain at second Mexican farm
Federal health officials say the salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and a serrano pepper at a Mexican farm...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Air Force officer in Alaska dies in likely suicide
The officer who commands an air force wing in Alaska has died of a gunshot wound that likely was self-inflicted, authorities said Monday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 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 30, 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 30, 2008
T.O. gets best of Pacman in Cowboys camp
With Terrell Owens lined up opposite him, Adam Jones was waving his arms in the air to spur on the already energized crowd before the ball was snapped...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Gunman opens fire in Tennessee church, 2 killed
A gunman opened fire at a church youth performance Sunday and killed two people, including a man who witnesses called a hero for shielding others from a shotgun blast...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
2nd victim dies in Tennessee church shooting
A Tennessee city official says a second victim has died from injuries suffered in a shooting at a church youth performance...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Gunman opens fire in Tennessee church, 1 killed
Police say one person has been killed and eight others wounded after a gunman entered a church in Knoxville, Tenn., and opened fire with a shotgun...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Indians acquire RHP Reyes from Cardinals
Anthony Reyes, who won Game 1 of the 2006 World Series for St. Louis, was traded by the Cardinals on Saturday to the Cleveland Indians for minor league pitcher Luis Perdomo...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Pistons agree to deal with former No. 1 pick Brown
Kwame Brown and the Detroit Pistons agreed to terms on a deal potentially worth $8 million over two seasons, team president of basketball operations Joe Dumars told The Associated Press on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Pujols, Looper carry Cards to 12-3 rout of Braves
Albert Pujols drove in three runs, Braden Looper won for the first time in six starts and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the injury-riddled Atlanta Braves 12-3 Monday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Pacman Jones still on the field with Cowboys
On the field, he is still "Pacman" _ and embracing the nickname he seemed to be wanting to shed not so long ago. That is what his new Dallas Cowboys teammates and coaches call Adam Jones at training camp...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
6-legged deer gets new home after dog attack
A six-legged deer found in north Georgia after being attacked by a dog has a new home. An Athens woman with a permit to keep unique animals in captivity has agreed to take the unusual deer. The animal was found July 18 near Armuchee and underwent surgery to repair its minor injuries...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Man charged in Tenn. church shooting that killed 2
A man suspected of opening fire on a roomful of people during a church youth performance was in custody Monday after being tackled by witnesses...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Luol Deng, Bulls agree to new deal 6-year deal
Restricted free agent forward Luol Deng and the Chicago Bulls have agreed to six-year contract that could be worth as much as $80 million. The Bulls e-mailed a news release Wednesday afternoon announcing the "contract signing of Luol Deng."...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Ron Artest to be traded to Rockets
The Houston Rockets are close to an agreement to acquire Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NBA source says Ron Artest to be traded to Rockets
The Houston Rockets are close to an agreement to acquire Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Tenn. church shooting victims improving
Three people wounded in a fatal shotgun rampage at a Unitarian church were in serious condition Tuesday, a day after a candlelight vigil tried to comfort congregation members and others attempting to "make sense of the senseless."...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
People wounded in Tenn. church shooting improving
Three people wounded in a fatal shotgun rampage at a Unitarian church were in serious condition Tuesday, a day after a candlelight vigil tried to comfort congregation members and others attempting to "make sense of the senseless."...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Theme parks animate Disney profit
Walt Disney shakes off concerns about slowing attendance at its theme parks, reporting a 9% rise in quarterly profits...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Shops closures see Starbucks loss
Starbucks sees its first quarterly net loss in more than 15 years - blaming costs linked to closing 600 underperforming stores...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Palestinian boy killed by live round official
Israeli troops trying to repel rock-throwing Palestinians did not have permission to use live rounds, Israeli officials said Wednesday, but a Palestinian autopsy showed that a 10-year-old boy killed in the clash was shot by an assualt rifle...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NASA uses remote sand dunes as stand-in for moon
Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Nintendo reports jump in quarter profit on hit Wii
Nintendo saw its profit for the first fiscal quarter jump 34 percent from a year earlier as sales of its hit Wii video game consoles shot up...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Reuters loses right to use crucial IM technology
Thomson Reuters Corp. must remove a crucial layer of software from its instant messaging service beginning Friday under a federal court order that threatens to disrupt communications within dozens of stock brokerages and banks...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Police defuse 18 bombs near another Indian market
Police defused 18 bombs found Tuesday near the main diamond markets in the city of Surat and issued a sketch of a young man believed to be linked to one of two explosives-filled cars discovered there...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Cambodian, Thai wait for other to redeploy first
An agreement to end a tense border standoff between Cambodian and Thai troops near an ancient temple stalled Tuesday as both sides waited for the other to make the first move and redeploy their forces...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
House panel votes to cite Rove for contempt
A House panel Wednesday voted to cite former top White House aide Karl Rove for contempt of Congress as its Senate counterpart publicly pursued possible punishments for an array of alleged past and present Bush administration misdeeds...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Internet sites still blocked for Olympic reporters
Olympic organizers are backtracking on another promise about coverage of the Beijing Games, keeping in place blocks on Internet sites in the Main Press Center and venues where reporters will work...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Cheech and Chong reunite as feud goes up in smoke
Now that their feud is up in smoke, Cheech and Chong are high on plans to reunite for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Obama says hell order review of executive orders
Barack Obama told House Democrats on Tuesday that as president he would order his attorney general to scour White House executive orders and expunge any that "trample on liberty," several lawmakers said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Buck, Aviles homer in Royals 5-2 over Athletics
John Buck and Mike Aviles hit home runs, Gil Meche allowed five hits over seven innings and the Kansas City Royals won their fourth consecutive road game, beating the fading Oakland Athletics 5-2 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Jason Johnson pitches Dodgers past Giants 2-0
Jason Johnson pitched six sharp innings in his first big league start in nearly two years, James Loney singled in the go-ahead run and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 2-0 Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Nations grapple with WTO talks failure
The United States, Europe and other commercial powers grappled Wednesday with the magnitude of their failure to reach a new global trade pact, and traded blame for the collapse of seven years of talks...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Sen. Inhofe sweeps into November re-election race
Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe looks strong in his bid for a third term. The Democratic nominee, on the other hand, has a lot of work to do if he wants to pull off an election upset in November...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
John McCain says he wont raise taxes
After upsetting some conservatives by signaling an openness to higher payroll taxes for Social Security, Republican John McCain gave the simplest of answers Tuesday when asked if he would raise taxes as president...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Analysis McCain tries to soothe tax-hike fears
Republican Ronald Reagan raised taxes and survived to serve another presidential term. His successor, George H.W. Bush, raised taxes and did not...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
McCain says he wont raise taxes
After upsetting some conservatives by signaling an openness to higher payroll taxes for Social Security, Republican John McCain gave the simplest of answers Tuesday when asked if he would raise taxes as president...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Air Force officer in Alaska dies in likely suicide
The officer who commands an air force wing in Alaska has died of a gunshot wound that likely was self-inflicted, authorities said Monday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Monkey from Mars a Ga. crime labs museum oddity
Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Weather better but 75 await rescue from N.M. flood
More than 75 people stranded by massive flooding in and around this mountain resort town still awaited rescue Tuesday, but spirits rose as missing people were accounted for and the region made it through a day without rain, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Davis, 2 others combine on 2-hitter for Arizona
Doug Davis gave up a single with two outs in the seventh inning to break up his bid for a perfect game and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Diego Padres 3-0 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Oil jumps $3 after report says gas supplies fell
Oil prices shot up Wednesday, jumping more than $3 a barrel after the government reported a surprise drop in U.S. gasoline supplies. But analysts said the market, despite the big advance, is still concerned that high prices are choking off demand...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
India, Pakistan continue trading fire at Kashmir
Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded fire across the heavily armed Kashmir frontier for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday in what the Indian army called the worst violation of a 2003 cease-fire agreement between the nuclear-armed neighbors...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Judge Adult trial for Md. teen in family slayings
A teenager accused of shooting his father, mother and two younger brothers will be tried as an adult, a judge ruled Tuesday after a psychiatrist testified the teen was physically and verbally abused by his parents...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Moderate quake shakes buildings, nerves in Calif.
The strongest earthquake to strike a populated area of Southern California in more than a decade rattled windows and chandeliers, made buildings sway and sent people running into the streets on Tuesday. But there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or major damage...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Strong quake rattles buildings, nerves in S. Calif
The strongest earthquake to strike a populated area of Southern California in more than a decade rattled windows and chandeliers, made buildings sway and sent people running into the streets on Tuesday. But there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or major damage...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Prosecutor Ill. woman drowns newborn, burns home
Prosecutors say a woman drowned her newborn boy, hid the body in a wooded area near her home, then later burned down the residence...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NM rescuers building bridge to reach 70 stranded
Rescuers cleared debris and worked on building a temporary bridge Tuesday to get closer to about 70 people stranded for a third day by massive flooding...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Arrest made in slaying of pregnant N.C. soldier
A Fort Bragg soldier was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in the death of a pregnant colleague whose partially decomposed body was found in a motel bathtub more than a month ago, police said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
5 polygamist sect men arraigned in abuse case
Five followers of jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs were arraigned Tuesday on charges relating to child abuse and ordered to avoid their alleged victims when they post bond...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Fisherman survives cold night stuck in Utah creek
Dean Ririe had a fish on the line, then made one wrong step that led to a terrifying night trapped up to his waist in a frigid mountain stream...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
LA blocks new fast-food outlets from poor areas
City officials are putting South Los Angeles on a diet...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Fire near Yosemite park hurts tourist business
Vendors along one of the main roads leading to Yosemite National Park this summer were finally seeing business turn around following a rock slide that kept tour buses away for the previous two years...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Moderate Calif. quake a drill for the Big One
Despite shaking a large swath of Southern California, a magnitude-5.4 earthquake was not the "Big One" that scientists have long feared. Still, it rattled nerves, causing people to vow to step up their emergency preparations...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Earthquake shakes buildings in Southern California
The strongest earthquake to strike a populated area of Southern California in more than a decade rattled windows and chandeliers, made buildings sway and sent people running into the streets on Tuesday. But there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or major damage...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Questions remain in slaying of pregnant soldier
Even with a suspect in custody, there are still plenty of questions surrounding the death of a pregnant soldier found in a motel bathtub in Fayetteville more than a month ago...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Ships moving despite new oil leak on Mississippi
More oil leaked from a disabled barge into the Mississippi River at New Orleans on Wednesday, but the spill did not hamper ship traffic, the Coast Guard said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Doomed NY boaters 911 calls save other passengers
A man who died after a boat overturned in a Hudson River marsh helped save his fellow passengers by making 911 calls from his cell phone while they were trapped beneath the hull...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NY gov. seeks hiring freeze, spending cuts
Gov. David Paterson said Wednesday he wants to freeze hiring and cut state spending by an additional 7 percent to shore up a state economy that his budget director said is officially in recession...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
GOP stalwart, ex-ambassador Anne Armstrong dies
Anne Armstrong, a longtime powerful Republican who served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday, her office said. She was 80...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Suspect in NC soldiers death was babys father
Police say the Fort Bragg soldier charged in the death of a pregnant soldier was the father of her unborn child but married to someone else...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Minn. officers shoot bear with jar stuck on head
Minnesota wildlife officials tried for six days to capture a bear that had a plastic jar stuck over its head, but ended up killing the animal after it wandered into a city during a festival...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Crane collapses on bridge in Central Texas
Rescue workers in Central Texas are at the scene of a reported crane collapse on a bridge about 40 miles east of Austin...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Armored van guard shot outside Fla. bank
An armored van guard is in the hospital after being shot several times in an attempted robbery outside a bank in suburban West Palm Beach, Fla...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Amber Alert issued in Mass. for 4 children
Authorities in Massachusetts have issued an Amber Alert for four children who are missing from a home where homicide is suspected...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Judge upholds gun charges against Drew Peterson
A judge in Illinois has refused to dismiss gun charges against former police officer Drew Peterson...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Delta Body of woman, 61, found in plane bathroom
Delta flight attendants found the body of a 61-year-old woman in the restroom of a plane that landed in Atlanta early Wednesday morning, a spokeswoman for the company said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Avon Products 2nd-quarter profit more than doubles
Avon Products Inc. says second-quarter profit more than doubled as the cosmetics company recorded strong sales abroad...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Bermuda leaders son, a doctor, faces sex charges
About two months ago, Dr. Kevin Antario Brown was hobnobbing with guests at a celebrity poker tournament at the Playboy Mansion, his disaster-relief medical charity the beneficiary of the lavish event...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Halle Berry pushes back against paparazzi
Halle Berry said a paparazzi went too far to get a shot of her infant daughter, alleging that the shooter trespassed on her private property and snapped them hanging out in the backyard...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Bush blames Congress for not acting on gas prices
President Bush, on a campaign to open offshore waters to oil drilling, said Wednesday that the Democratic-run Congress was letting down the American people by refusing to allow votes on the matter...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Palestinian boy killed by live round official
Israeli troops trying to repel rock-throwing Palestinians did not have permission to use live rounds, Israeli officials said Wednesday, but a Palestinian autopsy showed that a 10-year-old boy killed in the clash was shot by an assualt rifle...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NASA uses remote sand dunes as stand-in for moon
Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Nintendo reports jump in quarter profit on hit Wii
Nintendo saw its profit for the first fiscal quarter jump 34 percent from a year earlier as sales of its hit Wii video game consoles shot up...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Reuters loses right to use crucial IM technology
Thomson Reuters Corp. must remove a crucial layer of software from its instant messaging service beginning Friday under a federal court order that threatens to disrupt communications within dozens of stock brokerages and banks...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Police defuse 18 bombs near another Indian market
Police defused 18 bombs found Tuesday near the main diamond markets in the city of Surat and issued a sketch of a young man believed to be linked to one of two explosives-filled cars discovered there...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Cambodian, Thai wait for other to redeploy first
An agreement to end a tense border standoff between Cambodian and Thai troops near an ancient temple stalled Tuesday as both sides waited for the other to make the first move and redeploy their forces...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
House panel votes to cite Rove for contempt
A House panel Wednesday voted to cite former top White House aide Karl Rove for contempt of Congress as its Senate counterpart publicly pursued possible punishments for an array of alleged past and present Bush administration misdeeds...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Internet sites still blocked for Olympic reporters
Olympic organizers are backtracking on another promise about coverage of the Beijing Games, keeping in place blocks on Internet sites in the Main Press Center and venues where reporters will work...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NY gov. seeks hiring freeze, spending cuts
Gov. David Paterson said Wednesday he wants to freeze hiring and cut state spending by an additional 7 percent to shore up a state economy that his budget director said is officially in recession...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Suspect in NC soldiers death was babys father
Police say the Fort Bragg soldier charged in the death of a pregnant soldier was the father of her unborn child but married to someone else...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
GOP stalwart, ex-ambassador Anne Armstrong dies
Anne Armstrong, a longtime powerful Republican who served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday, her office said. She was 80...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Minn. officers shoot bear with jar stuck on head
Minnesota wildlife officials tried for six days to capture a bear that had a plastic jar stuck over its head, but ended up killing the animal after it wandered into a city during a festival...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Buck, Aviles homer in Royals 5-2 over Athletics
John Buck and Mike Aviles hit home runs, Gil Meche allowed five hits over seven innings and the Kansas City Royals won their fourth consecutive road game, beating the fading Oakland Athletics 5-2 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Jason Johnson pitches Dodgers past Giants 2-0
Jason Johnson pitched six sharp innings in his first big league start in nearly two years, James Loney singled in the go-ahead run and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 2-0 Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Cheech and Chong reunite as feud goes up in smoke
Now that their feud is up in smoke, Cheech and Chong are high on plans to reunite for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Sen. Inhofe sweeps into November re-election race
Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe looks strong in his bid for a third term. The Democratic nominee, on the other hand, has a lot of work to do if he wants to pull off an election upset in November...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
John McCain says he wont raise taxes
After upsetting some conservatives by signaling an openness to higher payroll taxes for Social Security, Republican John McCain gave the simplest of answers Tuesday when asked if he would raise taxes as president...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Analysis McCain tries to soothe tax-hike fears
Republican Ronald Reagan raised taxes and survived to serve another presidential term. His successor, George H.W. Bush, raised taxes and did not...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
McCain says he wont raise taxes
After upsetting some conservatives by signaling an openness to higher payroll taxes for Social Security, Republican John McCain gave the simplest of answers Tuesday when asked if he would raise taxes as president...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Obama says hell order review of executive orders
Barack Obama told House Democrats on Tuesday that as president he would order his attorney general to scour White House executive orders and expunge any that "trample on liberty," several lawmakers said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Monkey from Mars a Ga. crime labs museum oddity
Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Weather better but 75 await rescue from N.M. flood
More than 75 people stranded by massive flooding in and around this mountain resort town still awaited rescue Tuesday, but spirits rose as missing people were accounted for and the region made it through a day without rain, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Earthquake shakes buildings in Southern California
The strongest earthquake to strike a populated area of Southern California in more than a decade rattled windows and chandeliers, made buildings sway and sent people running into the streets on Tuesday. But there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or major damage...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Davis, 2 others combine on 2-hitter for Arizona
Doug Davis gave up a single with two outs in the seventh inning to break up his bid for a perfect game and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Diego Padres 3-0 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Oil jumps $3 after report says gas supplies fell
Oil prices shot up Wednesday, jumping more than $3 a barrel after the government reported a surprise drop in U.S. gasoline supplies. But analysts said the market, despite the big advance, is still concerned that high prices are choking off demand...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Nations grapple with WTO talks failure
The United States, Europe and other commercial powers grappled Wednesday with the magnitude of their failure to reach a new global trade pact, and traded blame for the collapse of seven years of talks...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Prosecutor Ill. woman drowns newborn, burns home
Prosecutors say a woman drowned her newborn boy, hid the body in a wooded area near her home, then later burned down the residence...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
India, Pakistan continue trading fire at Kashmir
Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded fire across the heavily armed Kashmir frontier for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday in what the Indian army called the worst violation of a 2003 cease-fire agreement between the nuclear-armed neighbors...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Air Force officer in Alaska dies in likely suicide
The officer who commands an air force wing in Alaska has died of a gunshot wound that likely was self-inflicted, authorities said Monday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 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 30, 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 30, 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 30, 2008
T.O. gets best of Pacman in Cowboys camp
With Terrell Owens lined up opposite him, Adam Jones was waving his arms in the air to spur on the already energized crowd before the ball was snapped...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Gunman opens fire in Tennessee church, 2 killed
A gunman opened fire at a church youth performance Sunday and killed two people, including a man who witnesses called a hero for shielding others from a shotgun blast...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
2nd victim dies in Tennessee church shooting
A Tennessee city official says a second victim has died from injuries suffered in a shooting at a church youth performance...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Gunman opens fire in Tennessee church, 1 killed
Police say one person has been killed and eight others wounded after a gunman entered a church in Knoxville, Tenn., and opened fire with a shotgun...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Indians acquire RHP Reyes from Cardinals
Anthony Reyes, who won Game 1 of the 2006 World Series for St. Louis, was traded by the Cardinals on Saturday to the Cleveland Indians for minor league pitcher Luis Perdomo...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 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 30, 2008
Pistons agree to deal with former No. 1 pick Brown
Kwame Brown and the Detroit Pistons agreed to terms on a deal potentially worth $8 million over two seasons, team president of basketball operations Joe Dumars told The Associated Press on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Pujols, Looper carry Cards to 12-3 rout of Braves
Albert Pujols drove in three runs, Braden Looper won for the first time in six starts and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the injury-riddled Atlanta Braves 12-3 Monday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Pacman Jones still on the field with Cowboys
On the field, he is still "Pacman" _ and embracing the nickname he seemed to be wanting to shed not so long ago. That is what his new Dallas Cowboys teammates and coaches call Adam Jones at training camp...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
6-legged deer gets new home after dog attack
A six-legged deer found in north Georgia after being attacked by a dog has a new home. An Athens woman with a permit to keep unique animals in captivity has agreed to take the unusual deer. The animal was found July 18 near Armuchee and underwent surgery to repair its minor injuries...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Man charged in Tenn. church shooting that killed 2
A man suspected of opening fire on a roomful of people during a church youth performance was in custody Monday after being tackled by witnesses...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Ron Artest to be traded to Rockets
The Houston Rockets are close to an agreement to acquire Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NBA source says Ron Artest to be traded to Rockets
The Houston Rockets are close to an agreement to acquire Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Tenn. church shooting victims improving
Three people wounded in a fatal shotgun rampage at a Unitarian church were in serious condition Tuesday, a day after a candlelight vigil tried to comfort congregation members and others attempting to "make sense of the senseless."...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
People wounded in Tenn. church shooting improving
Three people wounded in a fatal shotgun rampage at a Unitarian church were in serious condition Tuesday, a day after a candlelight vigil tried to comfort congregation members and others attempting to "make sense of the senseless."...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Caught in the net
Guyana rainforest trek turns up new fish species...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Bush approves housing rescue bill
US President George Bush signs a rescue bill designed to help Americans at risk of having their homes repossessed...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
UN forces 'stretched to limits'
The outgoing head of United Nations peacekeeping says its forces are stretched to their limit...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Iraq 'should fund reconstruction'
A senior US auditor says a rise in oil prices means Iraq no longer needs US funds for reconstruction projects...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Nintendo reports jump in quarter profit on hit Wii
Nintendo saw its profit for the first fiscal quarter jump 34 percent from a year earlier as sales of its hit Wii video game consoles shot up...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
50,000 Iraqi troops in Diyala operation
Nearly 50,000 Iraqi police and soldiers were involved in a U.S.-backed operation against al-Qaida in Iraq in one of its last major strongholds near the capital, a senior provincial official said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
UK hacker loses appeal against US extradition
A British hacker accused of breaking into Pentagon and NASA computers has lost his appeal against extradition to the U.S...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NASA uses remote sand dunes as stand-in for moon
Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Indonesia Asian militants sought al-Qaida funds
Two alleged Indonesian terror leaders were headed to Iraq to seek help from al-Qaida, according to a seized laptop that indicates regional militants are cash-strapped but determined to rebuild international links, security officials say...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Police defuse 18 bombs near another Indian market
Police defused 18 bombs found Tuesday near the main diamond markets in the city of Surat and issued a sketch of a young man believed to be linked to one of two explosives-filled cars discovered there...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Cambodian, Thai wait for other to redeploy first
An agreement to end a tense border standoff between Cambodian and Thai troops near an ancient temple stalled Tuesday as both sides waited for the other to make the first move and redeploy their forces...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Internet sites still blocked for Olympic reporters
Olympic organizers are backtracking on another promise about coverage of the Beijing Games, keeping in place blocks on Internet sites in the Main Press Center and venues where reporters will work...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Jason Johnson pitches Dodgers past Giants 2-0
Jason Johnson pitched six sharp innings in his first big league start in nearly two years, James Loney singled in the go-ahead run and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 2-0 Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Authorities LaBeouf not at fault for wreck
Shia LaBeouf was not to blame for an early-morning car wreck in Los Angeles, authorities said Tuesday, pinning fault on the other driver for apparently running a red light...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
John McCain says he wont raise taxes
After upsetting some conservatives by signaling an openness to higher payroll taxes for Social Security, Republican John McCain gave the simplest of answers Tuesday when asked if he would raise taxes as president...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Analysis McCain tries to soothe tax-hike fears
Republican Ronald Reagan raised taxes and survived to serve another presidential term. His successor, George H.W. Bush, raised taxes and did not...
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