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Alleged 911 plotters due in Gitmo court
Almost seven years after terrorists hijacked airliners and used them as missiles to kill 2,973 people, five men who allegedly plotted the attacks face a military tribunal Thursday...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Vatican excommunication for female priests
The Vatican is slamming the door on attempts by women to become priests in the Roman Catholic Church. It has strongly reiterated in a decree that anyone involved in ordination ceremonies is automatically excommunicated...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
French police recover 4 paintings stolen in August
Police on Wednesday recovered a Monet landscape and three other paintings that were stolen by masked gunmen from a museum on the French Riviera last August, judicial officials said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Haitians march against kidnappings
Thousands of protesters rallied outside government buildings in the Haitian capital Wednesday, demanding officials crack down on a four-year kidnapping scourge that has terrorized the Caribbean country...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Electricity outages anger, frustrate Pakistanis
Pakistan is experiencing its worst electricity shortages in years, and the signs are everywhere...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Indonesian police detain 59 after attack
Fifty-nine members of a hard-line Muslim group were taken in for questioning Wednesday following a bloody attack on an interfaith rally in the Indonesian capital, lawyers and police said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
NATO commander to revive Pakistan talks
The new U.S. commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan said Wednesday that he plans to visit Islamabad to revive a stalled cross-border security dialogue with Afghan and Pakistani military leaders...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
X-Files star Gillian Anderson is pregnant
Gillian Anderson and her boyfriend, Mark Griffiths, are expecting their second child this fall, her manager, Connie Freiberg, said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
George Takei and partner plan to wed in September
George Takei, best known for playing Sulu on "Star Trek," will never forget the first time he saw Brad Altman, the man he plans to marry, more than two decades ago...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Iraqi lawmakers wary of US security agreement
Iraqi lawmakers told Congress on Wednesday that they have serious misgivings about a long-term security agreement being negotiated this year with President Bush, putting themselves squarely in line with Democrats who say hashing out a deal before Bush leaves office is bad timing...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
White House pushes GI Bill compromise on Iraq bill
After promising to veto a huge Iraq war-funding bill because it contains unrelated domestic spending, the White House now wants to boost the costs even higher by letting troops transfer ramped up GI Bill education benefits to their spouses or children...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Reyes lifts Mets in rubber game against Dodgers
Jose Reyes hit a leadoff double, then homered and singled Wednesday to help John Maine and the New York Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3. Reyes scored twice and Carlos Beltran added a two-run double as the Mets won for the seventh time in nine games...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Reyes lifts Mets in rubber game against Giants
Jose Reyes hit a leadoff double, then homered and singled Wednesday to help John Maine and the New York Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3. Reyes scored twice and Carlos Beltran added a two-run double as the Mets won for the seventh time in nine games...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Reyes comes through for Mets in rubber game
Jose Reyes hit a leadoff double, then homered and singled Wednesday to help John Maine and the New York Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Duchscherer pitches As to 3-game sweep of Tigers
Justin Duchscherer allowed three hits over 6 2-3 innings and the Oakland Athletics beat the Detroit Tigers 10-2 on Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Michelle Obama to be a guest host on The View
Michelle Obama will be a guest host on "The View" on June 18...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Productivity improves while wage pressures moderate
The government reports that worker productivity increased at a faster pace in the first three months of this year than previously estimated. Wage pressures, meanwhile, moderated...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Softbank to offer iPhones in Japan
Japanese mobile carrier Softbank Corp. said Wednesday it now has a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone later this year _ the first such agreement in Japan for the hit cell phones...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
McCain challenges Obama on town hall meetings
John McCain challenged Barack Obama to join him in 10 town hall meetings with voters before the Democratic National Convention in August. An Obama adviser was receptive to the idea and said the campaign would discuss it...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Superdelegates avalanche begins
While much of the political world waits for Hillary Rodham Clinton to concede defeat, most superdelegates are done waiting...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obamas next task Heal rift with female voters
Barack Obama has some urgent making up to do among a lot of angry white women _ lifetime Democrats who spurned him for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primaries and now are threatening to stay home or even vote for Republican John McCain in November...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama clinches nomination, plans celebration
Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Productivity improves while wages moderate
Worker productivity increased at a faster pace in the first three months of this year than previously estimated, wage pressures moderated and an important measure of business activity showed the service sector skirted recession in May...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
J.M. Smucker buys Folgers for $2.95 billion
J.M. Smucker is buying Folgers coffee in an all-stock deal worth about $2.95 billion...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Inflation moves up on Bernankes list of worries
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has moved inflation up on his list of worries, suggesting more pointedly than ever that the time for cutting interest rates is over in view of soaring oil and commodity prices and a weakened dollar...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Car plows into bike race in Mexico, 1 dead
A car has plowed into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Chemo and radiation next for Kennedy after surgery
After investigating his options with his trademark intensity, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent 3 1/2 hours of risky and exquisitely delicate surgery Monday to cut out as much of his cancerous brain tumor as possible...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Another Chicago derailment raises safety concerns
Less than a week after a commuter train derailed here, another jumped its tracks. It has become an all-too familiar story, the list of incidents involving the Chicago Transit Authority getting longer and longer...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Ashley Judd speaks at UN against human trafficking
Ashley Judd says she decided to lend her voice against human trafficking after she "stumbled upon" the issue while visiting brothels, slums, hospices and other clinics in 12 nations to promote public health...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Priest who mocked Clinton told to take a leave
Cardinal Francis George asked a Chicago priest on Tuesday to temporarily step down from his post to "reflect on his recent statements" regarding Sen. Hillary Clinton and her bid for the White House...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama clinches nomination, plans celebration
Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
GM to close 4 truck, SUV plants, focus on getting smaller
General Motors Corp. officially blew up its old business model Tuesday, closing four pickup truck and sport utility vehicle factories, announcing a new small car that could get 45 miles per gallon and shedding 10,000 jobs in the process...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Missing Cape Cod lighthouse located in Calif.
Local historians for decades thought the 30-foot tall lighthouse that once overlooked Wellfleet Harbor had been taken down and destroyed in 1925...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Soldiers skeletal remains found on Miss. base
Authorities were trying to determine Wednesday whether the remains of a soldier found in the woods of a National Guard training base are of a Kentucky guardsman who went missing before his unit deployed to Iraq...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Tornado rips through Indiana town, others possible
Tornadoes ripped through this central Indiana community and skipped over National Guard barracks full of sleeping soldiers as thunderstorms battered the Ohio Valley, authorities said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
FEMA trailer occupant killed after police standoff
A nearly 10-hour standoff with a police SWAT team ended Wednesday morning when police fatally shot the mentally ill occupant of a federally supplied trailer in one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
High cost and demand for fertilizer scares farmers
Corn stalks normally dominate the fields of farmer Lyle McKanna. But this summer, leafy green soybean plants will swallow up more acreage than ever...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Brother FEMA trailer occupant was mentally ill
A man fatally shot by police after a 10-hour standoff Wednesday had suffered with mental illness for much of his life, and it worsened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a family member said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
9 arrests in NY Colombo crime family takedown
A reputed acting mob boss and eight other suspected gangsters were arrested Wednesday on federal charges accusing them of coast-to-coast Mafia crimes, ranging from gangland hits in New York to a home invasion by police impersonators in Los Angeles, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Iraq war creates shortage of night vision gear in US
The war in Iraq is creating a major _ and perhaps deadly _ shortage of night vision goggles for civilian pilots who fly medical helicopters in the U.S...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Iraq war creats shortage of night vision gear in US
The war in Iraq is creating a major _ and perhaps deadly _ shortage of night vision goggles for civilian pilots who fly medical helicopters in the U.S...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Severe storms blamed for 3 deaths across the US
Severe storms that downed power lines and trees across a large swath of the country Wednesday were blamed for three deaths. A woman died Wednesday afternoon when a tree fell on a vehicle in Annandale, a Washington, D.C., suburb, a fire department spokesman said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
3 dead in severe weather across nation
Severe storms that downed power lines and trees across a large swath of the country Wednesday were blamed for three deaths...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Lawyer Patriots player arrested, turns informant
A starting lineman for the New England Patriots worked as an informant for federal drug agents after he was arrested in New York on a charge of carrying the powerful painkiller oxycodone without a prescription, an attorney said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Jury Rezko guilty of 16 counts in corruption case
A federal jury has found a prominent political fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich guilty of 16 of 24 counts in his corruption trial...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Judge blocks Oklahoma illegal immigration law
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked parts of an Oklahoma law targeting illegal immigration, saying the measures are probably unconstitutional...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Court rules on sentences of Cuban 5
A federal appeals court has again upheld the politically charged convictions of five Cuban intelligence agents accused of spying in the U.S., but vacated sentences of three of them, including two who are serving life terms...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
2 trapped in Md. crane collapse
A Baltimore County fire dispatcher says two people are trapped after a crane collapsed at a steel mill site just east of Baltimore...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
ND congressional candidate unhurt in plane crash
Officials in North Dakota say Republican congressional candidate Duane Sand walked away unhurt after the small plane he was flying had engine failure and crashed in a cornfield...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Okla. law aimed at illegal immigration delayed
A federal judge has delayed part of an Oklahoma law aimed at illegal immigration from taking effect next month...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Marine accused of killing Iraq detainee arraigned
A Marine accused of killing an unarmed detainee in Iraq reserved his right Wednesday to enter a plea at a later date on charges of unpremeditated murder and dereliction of duty...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Legislator pleads not guilty to attempted groping
Prosecutors described a longtime state legislator as a "danger to his community" and "out of control" Wednesday after a third woman in as many months accused him of making inappropriate sexual advances...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
French police recover 4 paintings stolen in August
Police on Wednesday recovered a Monet landscape and three other paintings that were stolen by masked gunmen from a museum on the French Riviera last August, judicial officials said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Haitians march against kidnappings
Thousands of protesters rallied outside government buildings in the Haitian capital Wednesday, demanding officials crack down on a four-year kidnapping scourge that has terrorized the Caribbean country...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Alleged 911 plotters due in Gitmo court
Almost seven years after terrorists hijacked airliners and used them as missiles to kill 2,973 people, five men who allegedly plotted the attacks face a military tribunal Thursday...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Electricity outages anger, frustrate Pakistanis
Pakistan is experiencing its worst electricity shortages in years, and the signs are everywhere...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Indonesian police detain 59 after attack
Fifty-nine members of a hard-line Muslim group were taken in for questioning Wednesday following a bloody attack on an interfaith rally in the Indonesian capital, lawyers and police said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
NATO commander to revive Pakistan talks
The new U.S. commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan said Wednesday that he plans to visit Islamabad to revive a stalled cross-border security dialogue with Afghan and Pakistani military leaders...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Vatican excommunication for female priests
The Vatican is slamming the door on attempts by women to become priests in the Roman Catholic Church. It has strongly reiterated in a decree that anyone involved in ordination ceremonies is automatically excommunicated...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Severe storms blamed for 3 deaths across the US
Severe storms that downed power lines and trees across a large swath of the country Wednesday were blamed for three deaths. A woman died Wednesday afternoon when a tree fell on a vehicle in Annandale, a Washington, D.C., suburb, a fire department spokesman said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
3 dead in severe weather across nation
Severe storms that downed power lines and trees across a large swath of the country Wednesday were blamed for three deaths...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Iraqi lawmakers wary of US security agreement
Iraqi lawmakers told Congress on Wednesday that they have serious misgivings about a long-term security agreement being negotiated this year with President Bush, putting themselves squarely in line with Democrats who say hashing out a deal before Bush leaves office is bad timing...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
White House pushes GI Bill compromise on Iraq bill
After promising to veto a huge Iraq war-funding bill because it contains unrelated domestic spending, the White House now wants to boost the costs even higher by letting troops transfer ramped up GI Bill education benefits to their spouses or children...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Lawyer Patriots player arrested, turns informant
A starting lineman for the New England Patriots worked as an informant for federal drug agents after he was arrested in New York on a charge of carrying the powerful painkiller oxycodone without a prescription, an attorney said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Reyes comes through for Mets in rubber game
Jose Reyes hit a leadoff double, then homered and singled Wednesday to help John Maine and the New York Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Duchscherer pitches As to 3-game sweep of Tigers
Justin Duchscherer allowed three hits over 6 2-3 innings and the Oakland Athletics beat the Detroit Tigers 10-2 on Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
X-Files star Gillian Anderson is pregnant
Gillian Anderson and her boyfriend, Mark Griffiths, are expecting their second child this fall, her manager, Connie Freiberg, said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
George Takei and partner plan to wed in September
George Takei, best known for playing Sulu on "Star Trek," will never forget the first time he saw Brad Altman, the man he plans to marry, more than two decades ago...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Superdelegates avalanche begins
While much of the political world waits for Hillary Rodham Clinton to concede defeat, most superdelegates are done waiting...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obamas next task Heal rift with female voters
Barack Obama has some urgent making up to do among a lot of angry white women _ lifetime Democrats who spurned him for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primaries and now are threatening to stay home or even vote for Republican John McCain in November...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Reyes lifts Mets in rubber game against Dodgers
Jose Reyes hit a leadoff double, then homered and singled Wednesday to help John Maine and the New York Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3. Reyes scored twice and Carlos Beltran added a two-run double as the Mets won for the seventh time in nine games...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Reyes lifts Mets in rubber game against Giants
Jose Reyes hit a leadoff double, then homered and singled Wednesday to help John Maine and the New York Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3. Reyes scored twice and Carlos Beltran added a two-run double as the Mets won for the seventh time in nine games...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Productivity improves while wages moderate
Worker productivity increased at a faster pace in the first three months of this year than previously estimated, wage pressures moderated and an important measure of business activity showed the service sector skirted recession in May...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
J.M. Smucker buys Folgers for $2.95 billion
J.M. Smucker is buying Folgers coffee in an all-stock deal worth about $2.95 billion...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Productivity improves while wage pressures moderate
The government reports that worker productivity increased at a faster pace in the first three months of this year than previously estimated. Wage pressures, meanwhile, moderated...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Softbank to offer iPhones in Japan
Japanese mobile carrier Softbank Corp. said Wednesday it now has a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone later this year _ the first such agreement in Japan for the hit cell phones...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
McCain challenges Obama on town hall meetings
John McCain challenged Barack Obama to join him in 10 town hall meetings with voters before the Democratic National Convention in August. An Obama adviser was receptive to the idea and said the campaign would discuss it...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Inflation moves up on Bernankes list of worries
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has moved inflation up on his list of worries, suggesting more pointedly than ever that the time for cutting interest rates is over in view of soaring oil and commodity prices and a weakened dollar...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Car plows into bike race in Mexico, 1 dead
A car has plowed into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Chemo and radiation next for Kennedy after surgery
After investigating his options with his trademark intensity, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent 3 1/2 hours of risky and exquisitely delicate surgery Monday to cut out as much of his cancerous brain tumor as possible...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama clinches nomination, plans celebration
Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
GM to close 4 truck, SUV plants, focus on getting smaller
General Motors Corp. officially blew up its old business model Tuesday, closing four pickup truck and sport utility vehicle factories, announcing a new small car that could get 45 miles per gallon and shedding 10,000 jobs in the process...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
GM closing 4 truck, SUV plants in North America
General Motors is closing four truck and SUV plants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, affecting 10,000 workers, as surging fuel prices hasten a dramatic shift to smaller vehicles...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Derek Fisher has thrived in return to Lakers
When Derek Fisher faced a crisis, he had no problem prioritizing...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
McCain to try to claim mantle of change
With voters sour on the status quo, Republican John McCain plans to spend the next five months arguing that he has a history of fighting to reform government and that Democrat Barack Obama talks of change with nothing to show for it...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
McCain criticizes Obama on Iran, Iraq
Republican John McCain warned Monday that a nuclear-armed Iran would threaten Israel and cautioned that withdrawing troops from Iraq would weaken the entire Middle East as he courted Jewish voters wary of Democrat Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Pacman given permission to join Cowboys workouts
Adam "Pacman" Jones has been given permission by the NFL to join the Dallas Cowboys for workouts, training camps and exhibition games...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama clinches nomination, plans celebration
Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Prosecutors say disgraced NBA ref deserves break
Just before an NBA game on Dec. 26, 2006, Tim Donaghy overheard an official scorekeeper say that one of the teams playing that night, the Memphis Grizzlies, was "all banged up" with injuries...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama clinches nomination, Clinton open to VP slot
Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House. Vanquished rival Hillary Rodham Clinton swiftly signaled an interest in joining the ticket as his running mate...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Bush honors basketball champs
Nice comeback, Kansas. Pretty sweet welcome back, too...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
GM to close 4 truck, SUV plants, focus on getting smaller
General Motors Corp. officially blew up its old business model Tuesday, closing four pickup truck and sport utility vehicle factories, announcing a new small car that could get 45 miles per gallon and shedding 10,000 jobs in the process...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Minor accident on the set of Hannah Montana movie
No one was seriously injured when the wind blew a projection screen against a Ferris wheel on the set of "Hannah Montana: The Movie," witnesses said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
GM to close 4 plants, focus on small cars
General Motors Corp. officially blew up its old business model Tuesday, closing four pickup truck and sport utility vehicle factories, announcing a new small car that could get 45 miles per gallon and shedding 8,350 jobs in the process...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Michelle Obama to be a guest host on The View
Michelle Obama will be a guest host on "The View" on June 18...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Pacman back on the field with Cowboys
Adam "Pacman" Jones is already showing his new teammates some of his playmaking skills...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Yahoo 'sabotaged' Microsoft deal
A billionaire investor has claimed the Yahoo board deliberately "sabotaged" Microsoft's bid...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Vatican excommunication for female priests
The Vatican is slamming the door on attempts by women to become priests in the Roman Catholic Church. It has strongly reiterated in a decree that anyone involved in ordination ceremonies is automatically excommunicated...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Kenyans hopes are high after Obama seals nomination
Hoisting plastic cups of "Obama" beer and gathering around television sets, Kenyans celebrated Wednesday as Barack Obama laid claim to the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Indonesian police detain 59 after attack
Fifty-nine members of a hard-line Muslim group were taken in for questioning Wednesday following a bloody attack on an interfaith rally in the Indonesian capital, lawyers and police said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
NATO commander to revive Pakistan talks
The new U.S. commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan said Wednesday that he plans to visit Islamabad to revive a stalled cross-border security dialogue with Afghan and Pakistani military leaders...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Cambodian prostitutes protest police crackdown
About 200 Cambodian prostitutes protested peacefully Wednesday against a police crackdown and claimed to have been physically and sexually abused in custody...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Federer advances to French Open semifinals
Roger Federer lost three of his first four service games Wednesday, causing a stir among French Open fans but only briefly delaying his progress to the semifinals...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Another French Open comeback for Safina
Twice on the verge of elimination, Dinara Safina instead advanced to the French Open semifinals...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Kuznetsova advances to French Open semifinal
Svetlana Kuznetsova returned to the French Open semifinals, recovering from a slow start to beat unseeded Kaia Kanepi 7-5, 6-2 Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Martinez returns to mound as Mets beat Giants 9-6
It might be a little while before Pedro Martinez returns to his dominant old self. He took a big first step just by getting back on the mound, then went out and won...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Jack Valenti is honored by University of Houston
The University of Houston is naming its school of communication in honor of LBJ adviser and film industry lobbyist Jack Valenti, who instituted the modern movie ratings system...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Rascal Flatts guitarist and wife welcome a son
Rascal Flatts guitarist Joe Don Rooney and his wife, Tiffany Fallon, have welcomed their first child, a son named Jagger Donovan Rooney...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Oil prices drop below $124 a barrel in Asia
Oil prices dropped below $124 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as demand concerns deepened and after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke indicated that more U.S. interest rate cuts are unlikely...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Homebuilders offer bleak outlook and post losses
Homebuilder D.R. Horton said Tuesday the industry could face tough times until 2010, and underscoring that point, Toll Bros. and Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. each reported a second-quarter loss...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama speaks with Clinton, says party can be united
Barack Obama spoke directly with his vanquished rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday and expressed optimism they could achieve party unity after their bruising battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. He also accused Republican rival John McCain over of supporting a "plan for staying, not a plan for victory" in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama vows staunch support for Israel
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama assured Jewish leaders Wednesday that he will be a steadfast ally of Israel and will not negotiate with terrorist groups, a response to attacks leveled against him recently by Republicans...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
McCain urges joint town halls with Obama
John McCain is challenging Barack Obama to join him in 10 town hall meetings with voters between now and the Democratic National Convention in August...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Barack Obama picks up fresh support from Democrats
Barack Obama picked up fresh support from fellow Democrats eager to unify the party after a bruising battle for the presidential nomination on Wednesday at the same time he criticized Republican rival John McCain for supporting a "plan for staying, not a plan for victory" in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Softbank to offer iPhones in Japan
Japanese mobile carrier Softbank Corp. said Wednesday it now has a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone later this year _ the first such agreement in Japan for the hit cell phones...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Car plows into bike race in Mexico, 1 dead
A car has plowed into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Inflation moves up on Bernankes list of worries
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has moved inflation up on his list of worries, suggesting more pointedly than ever that the time for cutting interest rates is over in view of soaring oil and commodity prices and a weakened dollar...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Despite damage, many schools reopen in Myanmar
As students filed into Middle School No. 1 on Monday for the first day of classes since the cyclone hit Myanmar a month ago, all eyes stared skyward _ at the gaping hole in the roof...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
NJ Muslim leader talks of torture in Israel
A Muslim cleric graphically described the torture to which he claims he was subjected to in Israeli custody as he fought to block U.S. efforts to deport him on grounds he lied on his residency application...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Parking-rules suspension throws NYC into a tizzy
In this densely populated city, residents compete for jobs, apartments, subway seats, taxicabs, even treadmills in the gym...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Papers Man to plead guilty in alleged terror plot
An Ohio man accused of plotting terrorist bombings against Americans overseas could have faced life in prison. Instead, a plea agreement offered Christopher Paul allows for a 20-year sentence...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama clinches nomination, plans celebration
Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
GM to close 4 truck, SUV plants, focus on getting smaller
General Motors Corp. officially blew up its old business model Tuesday, closing four pickup truck and sport utility vehicle factories, announcing a new small car that could get 45 miles per gallon and shedding 10,000 jobs in the process...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Art museum celebrates tattoos
For one night, at least, tattoos _ and the living canvases that carry them _ took their place alongside Rembrandt, Matisse and Picasso...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Ohio man pleads guilty to plotting terror attacks
An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to a charge of plotting terrorist bombings against Americans overseas...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Japan searches for soldiers remains on Aleutian island
The searchers dug for days, ignoring blisters and sore muscles to look for remains of Japanese soldiers buried in mass graves on the Aleutian island of Attu following one of the bloodiest battles of World War II...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Priest who mocked Clinton told to take a break
Cardinal Francis George asked a Chicago priest on Tuesday to temporarily step down from his post to "reflect on his recent statements" regarding Sen. Hillary Clinton and her bid for the White House...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Ohio man pleads guilty in alleged terror plot
A man accused of joining al-Qaida in the early 1990s and helping teach fellow Muslim extremists how to bomb U.S. and European targets pleaded guilty Tuesday to planning terrorist attacks...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Chicago cardinal asks Rev. Pfleger to step down
Cardinal Francis George asked a Chicago priest on Tuesday to temporarily step down from his post to "reflect on his recent statements" regarding Sen. Hillary Clinton and her bid for the White House...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
More sect children reunited with happy parents
Families from a polygamist sect began trickling back to the Yearning For Zion Ranch on Tuesday _ exactly two months after child welfare authorities and law enforcement first arrived at its battered metal gate looking for a caller to a domestic abuse hot line...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
1,000 people forced to flee wildfire in Texas
A wildfire is burning in Killeen, Texas, and authorities have evacuated an elementary school and about 100 homes...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Kennedy walking hospital halls as recovery begins
Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy emerged from the most precarious period following surgery to treat a brain tumor without any complications, spending Tuesday walking hospital hallways, spending time with his family and "keeping up with the news of the day," his office said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
FEMA trailer occupant killed after police standoff
A nearly 10-hour standoff with a police SWAT team ended Wednesday morning when police fatally shot the mentally ill occupant of a federally supplied trailer in one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
High cost and demand for fertilizer scares farmers
Corn stalks normally dominate the fields of farmer Lyle McKanna. But this summer, leafy green soybean plants will swallow up more acreage than ever...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Another Chicago derailment raises safety concerns
Less than a week after a commuter train derailed here, another jumped its tracks. It has become an all-too familiar story, the list of incidents involving the Chicago Transit Authority getting longer and longer...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Ashley Judd speaks at UN against human trafficking
Ashley Judd says she decided to lend her voice against human trafficking after she "stumbled upon" the issue while visiting brothels, slums, hospices and other clinics in 12 nations to promote public health...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Priest who mocked Clinton told to take a leave
Cardinal Francis George asked a Chicago priest on Tuesday to temporarily step down from his post to "reflect on his recent statements" regarding Sen. Hillary Clinton and her bid for the White House...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Toddler aboard charity flight dies in Iowa crash
A small plane crash in Iowa City claimed the life of a Georgia toddler who was being flown home after medical treatment for clubfoot...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Va. dairy, school evacuated by ammonia leak
Authorities have evacuated an elementary school in central Virginia after ammonia leaked from a nearby dairy. No injuries are reported...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Court hears case of man accused in Cuba, Venezuela
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is hearing oral arguments in the immigration fraud case of a Cuban militant...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Tornado rips through Indiana town, others possible
Tornadoes ripped through this central Indiana community and skipped over National Guard barracks full of sleeping soldiers as thunderstorms battered the Ohio Valley, authorities said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Tornado rips up Indiana town, others possible
Tornadoes ripped apart this central Indiana community and skipped over National Guard barracks full of sleeping soldiers as thunderstorms battered the Ohio Valley, authorities said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
8 arrests in case New York case targeting organized crime
Eight suspected mobsters, including a reputed acting Colombo boss, have been arrested as part of a takedown of the organized crime family, federal authorities said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Big lab installed on international space station
With astronauts hustling inside and out, the international space station got its biggest live-in addition yet, a Japanese lab stretching 37 feet that opens for business Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Missing Cape Cod lighthouse located in Calif.
Local historians for decades thought the 30-foot tall lighthouse that once overlooked Wellfleet Harbor had been taken down and destroyed in 1925...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Soldiers skeletal remains found on Miss. base
Authorities were trying to determine Wednesday whether the remains of a soldier found in the woods of a National Guard training base are of a Kentucky guardsman who went missing before his unit deployed to Iraq...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Space station residents to fix toilet
Residents aboard the international space station were getting ready to take on a new task Wednesday: plumbing...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Vatican excommunication for female priests
The Vatican is slamming the door on attempts by women to become priests in the Roman Catholic Church. It has strongly reiterated in a decree that anyone involved in ordination ceremonies is automatically excommunicated...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Kenyans hopes are high after Obama seals nomination
Hoisting plastic cups of "Obama" beer and gathering around television sets, Kenyans celebrated Wednesday as Barack Obama laid claim to the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
High cost and demand for fertilizer scares farmers
Corn stalks normally dominate the fields of farmer Lyle McKanna. But this summer, leafy green soybean plants will swallow up more acreage than ever...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Indonesian police detain 59 after attack
Fifty-nine members of a hard-line Muslim group were taken in for questioning Wednesday following a bloody attack on an interfaith rally in the Indonesian capital, lawyers and police said...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
NATO commander to revive Pakistan talks
The new U.S. commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan said Wednesday that he plans to visit Islamabad to revive a stalled cross-border security dialogue with Afghan and Pakistani military leaders...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Cambodian prostitutes protest police crackdown
About 200 Cambodian prostitutes protested peacefully Wednesday against a police crackdown and claimed to have been physically and sexually abused in custody...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Jack Valenti is honored by University of Houston
The University of Houston is naming its school of communication in honor of LBJ adviser and film industry lobbyist Jack Valenti, who instituted the modern movie ratings system...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Rascal Flatts guitarist and wife welcome a son
Rascal Flatts guitarist Joe Don Rooney and his wife, Tiffany Fallon, have welcomed their first child, a son named Jagger Donovan Rooney...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
FEMA trailer occupant killed after police standoff
A nearly 10-hour standoff with a police SWAT team ended Wednesday morning when police fatally shot the mentally ill occupant of a federally supplied trailer in one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Ashley Judd speaks at UN against human trafficking
Ashley Judd says she decided to lend her voice against human trafficking after she "stumbled upon" the issue while visiting brothels, slums, hospices and other clinics in 12 nations to promote public health...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Barack Obama picks up fresh support from Democrats
Barack Obama picked up fresh support from fellow Democrats eager to unify the party after a bruising battle for the presidential nomination on Wednesday at the same time he criticized Republican rival John McCain for supporting a "plan for staying, not a plan for victory" in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Federer advances to French Open semifinals
Roger Federer lost three of his first four service games Wednesday, causing a stir among French Open fans but only briefly delaying his progress to the semifinals...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Another French Open comeback for Safina
Twice on the verge of elimination, Dinara Safina instead advanced to the French Open semifinals...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Kuznetsova advances to French Open semifinal
Svetlana Kuznetsova returned to the French Open semifinals, recovering from a slow start to beat unseeded Kaia Kanepi 7-5, 6-2 Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Martinez returns to mound as Mets beat Giants 9-6
It might be a little while before Pedro Martinez returns to his dominant old self. He took a big first step just by getting back on the mound, then went out and won...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Softbank to offer iPhones in Japan
Japanese mobile carrier Softbank Corp. said Wednesday it now has a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone later this year _ the first such agreement in Japan for the hit cell phones...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Oil prices drop below $124 a barrel in Asia
Oil prices dropped below $124 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as demand concerns deepened and after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke indicated that more U.S. interest rate cuts are unlikely...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Homebuilders offer bleak outlook and post losses
Homebuilder D.R. Horton said Tuesday the industry could face tough times until 2010, and underscoring that point, Toll Bros. and Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. each reported a second-quarter loss...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama speaks with Clinton, says party can be united
Barack Obama spoke directly with his vanquished rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday and expressed optimism they could achieve party unity after their bruising battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. He also accused Republican rival John McCain over of supporting a "plan for staying, not a plan for victory" in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama vows staunch support for Israel
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama assured Jewish leaders Wednesday that he will be a steadfast ally of Israel and will not negotiate with terrorist groups, a response to attacks leveled against him recently by Republicans...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
McCain urges joint town halls with Obama
John McCain is challenging Barack Obama to join him in 10 town hall meetings with voters between now and the Democratic National Convention in August...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Despite damage, many schools reopen in Myanmar
As students filed into Middle School No. 1 on Monday for the first day of classes since the cyclone hit Myanmar a month ago, all eyes stared skyward _ at the gaping hole in the roof...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Papers Man to plead guilty in alleged terror plot
An Ohio man accused of plotting terrorist bombings against Americans overseas could have faced life in prison. Instead, a plea agreement offered Christopher Paul allows for a 20-year sentence...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
GM to close 4 truck, SUV plants, focus on getting smaller
General Motors Corp. officially blew up its old business model Tuesday, closing four pickup truck and sport utility vehicle factories, announcing a new small car that could get 45 miles per gallon and shedding 10,000 jobs in the process...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Car plows into bike race in Mexico, 1 dead
A car has plowed into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Inflation moves up on Bernankes list of worries
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has moved inflation up on his list of worries, suggesting more pointedly than ever that the time for cutting interest rates is over in view of soaring oil and commodity prices and a weakened dollar...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
A timely victory for Perry
Kenny Perry sat in a group with the rest of his U.S. teammates at the Presidents Cup three years ago, pouring out their hearts to captain Jack Nicklaus on how much he meant to them and how badly they wanted to win...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Perry wins Memorial for third time
Kenny Perry joined Tiger Woods as the only three-time winner of the Memorial on Sunday, taking a big step toward joining the No. 1 player in the world on the Ryder Cup team this fall...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama clinches nomination, plans celebration
Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Derek Fisher has thrived in return to Lakers
When Derek Fisher faced a crisis, he had no problem prioritizing...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
McCain to try to claim mantle of change
With voters sour on the status quo, Republican John McCain plans to spend the next five months arguing that he has a history of fighting to reform government and that Democrat Barack Obama talks of change with nothing to show for it...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
McCain criticizes Obama on Iran, Iraq
Republican John McCain warned Monday that a nuclear-armed Iran would threaten Israel and cautioned that withdrawing troops from Iraq would weaken the entire Middle East as he courted Jewish voters wary of Democrat Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Pacman given permission to join Cowboys workouts
Adam "Pacman" Jones has been given permission by the NFL to join the Dallas Cowboys for workouts, training camps and exhibition games...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Broncos release RB Henry, question his commitment
The Denver Broncos released running back Travis Henry on Monday, saying his commitment to the team was in question...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Pacman can join Cowboys for workouts
Adam "Pacman" Jones has been given permission by the NFL to join the Dallas Cowboys for workouts, training camps and exhibition games...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama clinches nomination, Clinton open to VP slot
Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House. Vanquished rival Hillary Rodham Clinton swiftly signaled an interest in joining the ticket as his running mate...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Bush honors basketball champs
Nice comeback, Kansas. Pretty sweet welcome back, too...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
GM to close 4 truck, SUV plants, focus on getting smaller
General Motors Corp. officially blew up its old business model Tuesday, closing four pickup truck and sport utility vehicle factories, announcing a new small car that could get 45 miles per gallon and shedding 10,000 jobs in the process...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
GM closing 4 truck, SUV plants in North America
General Motors is closing four truck and SUV plants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, affecting 10,000 workers, as surging fuel prices hasten a dramatic shift to smaller vehicles...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
GM to close 4 plants, focus on small cars
General Motors Corp. officially blew up its old business model Tuesday, closing four pickup truck and sport utility vehicle factories, announcing a new small car that could get 45 miles per gallon and shedding 8,350 jobs in the process...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Obama clinches nomination, plans celebration
Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Prosecutors say disgraced NBA ref deserves break
Just before an NBA game on Dec. 26, 2006, Tim Donaghy overheard an official scorekeeper say that one of the teams playing that night, the Memphis Grizzlies, was "all banged up" with injuries...
Southern Ledger - June 4, 2008
Fed hints at no more US rate cuts
The Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, signals the run of US interest rate cuts is at an end...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Federal Reserve lends $75bn more
The US central bank auctions another $75bn in short-term loans to firms in the financial sector...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
GM axes four SUV and truck plants
General Motors is closing four truck and sports utility vehicle plants in the US, Canada and Mexico...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Colombian mudslide kills 26
Colombian authorities say at least 26 people have died in a mudslide that buried homes in the city of Medellin...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Credit crunch victims await bill
The fallout from the US credit crisis is not for a specific group of people. Whether you fell for the hype, were careful with your money, or even in the industry, the differences have been levelled, and a final bill is still being calculated...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Venezuela 'spy' law protests
Venezuela's new intelligence law provokes a backlash from human rights groups who say it threatens civil liberties...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Hollywood actor Mel Ferrer dies
US actor and film-maker Mel Ferrer, who was once married to actress Audrey Hepburn, dies at the age of 90...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Argentine farmers extend strike
Farmers in Argentina extend a strike by a further week in an ongoing row with the government over export taxes...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Tortilla threat
Poor Mexicans struggle as price rises hit staple food...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Reaching out
US makes direct approach to French banlieues...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Goblin logic
Can music firms reclaim chunks of your music library?...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Dinosaur dreams
Colombian drug lord's exotic estate draws the crowds...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Sarwan century seals Windies draw
A fine innings of 128 from Ramnaresh Sarwan helps the West Indies to draw in the second Test against Australia in Antigua...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Eriksson appointed Mexico coach
Former Manchester City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson is named as the new coach of Mexico...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Mountain to climb
Big challenges ahead for Barack Obama...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Space lab anchored to ISS
A team of astronauts attaches the $1bn Japanese laboratory Kibo to the International Space Station...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Lehman denies liquidity problems
US investment bank Lehman Brothers denies rumours it is facing funding problems, but its shares fall by 10%...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
Fourteen US skydivers leap to safety as plane fails at 7,000ft
Fifteen people escape unharmed as a skydiving plane loses power at 7,000ft...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
New probe into Victor Jara murder
A judge in Chile re-opens an investigation into the death of folk singer Victor Jara under the Pinochet government...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
R Kelly witness ordered to court
A journalist who received the sex tape at the centre of the R Kelly child pornography trial is made to testify...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
US to tighten visa restrictions
The US is to tighten visa restrictions to allow it to screen short-term visitors from Japan and Western Europe...
BBC News - June 4, 2008
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