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Will Smith voted 2008s top moneymaking movie star
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Review Just say I dont to Bride Wars
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Intel will miss its already-lowered 4Q targets
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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LG shows off Dick Tracy wristwatch phone
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Audiovox to expand availability of TV on the road
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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How big Jurassic flying reptiles got off ground
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Israeli strikes, Hamas rockets resume after pause
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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US supports Egyptian-French initiative on Gaza
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Gaza fighting rages despite cease-fire proposal
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Dutch survivor of K2 avalanche describes ordeal
Blinded by the glare off the snow and ice, attempting a perilous descent down K2 to save his life, the Dutch mountaineer came upon three Korean climbers...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Martian soil may contain detrimental substance
Scientists say the Phoenix spacecraft has found a substance in the Martian soil that might be detrimental to possible life...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Motorola snares Qualcomms Jha for handset unit
Motorola Inc. snagged Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm Inc. and a star of the wireless industry, to head its handset division as that unit prepares to become an independent company...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Once common on skin, anthrax is deadly in lungs
Seven years ago Americans learned to fear anthrax as a white powder in the mail that claimed lives, forced the post office to change the way it handles letters and sparked contamination scares across the country...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Toyota tests Segway-like stand-up-and-ride machine
Toyota has developed a motorized stand-up-and-ride Segway lookalike designed to help people scoot around at malls and airports...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Funerals begin after North India temple stampede
Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives _ including his wife and daughter _ were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Philippine court blocks autonomy deal for Muslims
The Philippine Supreme Court, acting on a petition by Christian politicians, on Monday blocked the signing of a key accord granting an expanded southern homeland to minority Muslims as part of a deal to end decades of bloody Islamic rebellion...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Kin search among dead from Indian temple stampede
Family members moved through row after row of bodies overnight in a grim search for their loved ones among the 145 people killed in a deadly stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Anglican leader seeks moratorium on gay bishops
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, struggling to hold together the troubled world Anglican family, urged church leaders gathered Sunday in England not to consecrate another gay bishop, saying the fellowship will be in "grave peril" without a moratorium...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
New Paraguay leaders first challenge land reform
Just outside the rickety wire fence that guards the rich, red soil of this vast hacienda, dozens of peasants have camped for weeks under a patchwork of thatched shelters and tarpaulin-covered tents...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Roadside bomb kills 2 US soldiers in Baghdad
A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad on Monday, the first deadly attack against American troops in the capital in nearly a month...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Officials Anthrax suspect obsessed with sorority
The top suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks was obsessed with a sorority that sat less than 100 yards away from a New Jersey mailbox where the toxin-laced letters were sent, authorities said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Officials Sorority obsession seen in anthrax case
Authorities say the top suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks was obsessed with a sorority that sat less than 100 yards away from a New Jersey mailbox where the toxin-laced letters were sent...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Huge new US embassy reflects growing US-China ties
A massive new U.S. Embassy, the second-largest in the world after the heavily fortified compound in Baghdad, formally opens in the Chinese capital this week, a testament to the depth and breadth of the ties binding the trading partners and sometimes rivals...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Bush to face protesters during South Korea visit
President Bush held off on visiting Seoul earlier this year when protesters held nightly candlelight vigils and clashed with riot police in anger over government plans to resume imports of American beef...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Morgan Freeman seriously injured in car crash
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was hospitalized in serious condition Monday after the car he was driving left a rural road in the Mississippi Delta and flipped several times...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Laird homers twice to power Rangers past Blue Jays
Gerald Laird homered twice and drove in four runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-4 on Sunday night. Laird had his third career multihomer game, second this season, with two-run shots in the fourth and fifth innings...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
The gangs back Werewolves, vampires and all
"Breaking Dawn" (Little, Brown and Company, 754 pages, $22.99) by Stephanie Meyer: The heartbreakingly beautiful vampires, loyal werewolves and emotionally torn humans are back for one last round in "Breaking Dawn," the fourth and last installment in the fanatically loved "Twilight Saga" series...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Consumer spending after inflation drops in June
The government says consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Obama proposes tapping oil stockpiles
Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high-anxiety over gas prices...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Obama backs limited drilling, tapping oil reserve
Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high-anxiety over gas prices...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Michelle Obama describes duty as mother-in-chief
Forget the pearls. Michelle Obama says her best accessory is her husband...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Obama backs some drilling, tapping oil stockpile
Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high-anxiety over gas prices...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Jonas Brothers, Gossip Girl score teen awards
"Gossip Girl" has six more reasons to say OMG. And so do the Jonas Brothers...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Canada bus passenger stabs, decapitates seat mate
A traveler aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated his seat mate, pausing during the savage attack in central Canada to display the head to passengers who had fled in horror, witnesses said Thursday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Al-Qaida Explosives expert wanted by US killed
Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Car leasings fall means cost climb for consumers
Just when motorists were starting to adjust to exorbitant gas prices, they face the prospect of much higher costs, fewer choices and a dearth of financing options if they want to lease their next car...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Motorola names Sanjay Jha head of handset division
Motorola has named Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm, to head its handset division. The unit is being prepared for a spin-off as a separate public company...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Rising prices beat down consumer spending in June
Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wisconsin shooting suspect was regular at hangout
Scott J. Johnson was a regular at the swimming hangout where he is accused of ambushing a group of young revelers, even showing up a few days before the killings to help people off a rope swing over the Menominee River, teens who knew him said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Teens Wis. shooting suspect stared at swimmers
Scott J. Johnson was a regular at the swimming hangout where he is accused of ambushing a group of young revelers, even showing up a few days before the killings to help people off a rope swing over the Menominee River, teens who knew him said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
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Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Hamas forces battled Fatah-linked fighters with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza neighborhood Saturday, leaving at least nine dead in the worst Palestinian infighting in nine months...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
In US, gas prices mean more riders, fewer buses
High gas prices almost killed the lifeline to the city for a group of mountain commuters...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard gaining speed over Gulf
Emergency teams were activated as residents along the Gulf of Mexico prepared to get hit with another round of tropical weather for the second time in less than a month...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard moves toward Texas
The National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch for the coast of western Louisiana and eastern Texas...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Chinese boat festival subs for Olympics in NYC
Beijing may have the 2008 Summer Olympics, but New York has the 18th annual dragon boat festival...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Rich begin feeling the pain in down economy
The rich are sharing your financial pain _ and contributing to it...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Dad charged in girl abduction going back to Mass.
A father accused of abducting his 7-year-old daughter agreed Monday to be taken back to Massachusetts to face charges there following his weekend arrest in Maryland, where authorities believe he fled to start a new life...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wis. ambush suspect maybe freaked out, mom says
When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard aims for Texas, La. coast
Tropical Storm Edouard took aim at the coasts of Texas and Louisiana Monday, threatening to pick up strength from warm Gulf waters and gain near-hurricane speeds over the next 24 hours...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wisc. ambush suspect maybe freaked out, mom says
When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard moving toward Texas coast
Emergency teams were activated as residents along the Gulf of Mexico prepared to get hit with another strong storm for the second time in less than a month...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
7 more Philly workers suspended in teens death
Seven city human resources administrators were suspended Monday, exactly two years after the emaciated, maggot-infested body of a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was found in the squalid home of her mother, who has been charged with murder...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Gay couples use weddings to wage ballot fight
When Pamela Brown got married, the two bride figurines atop her wedding cake celebrated her newfound right in California to marry another woman. But one of the figurines had a tiny sign over its head with something more to say: "Vote No on 8."...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Md. firm tipped police in Mass. abduction case
The head of a Baltimore real estate company says her staff recognized a man accused in the abduction of his daughter in Massachusetts from news reports and called police...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
4 reported dead as plane hits house on Ore. coast
A small plane crashed into a seaside house in heavy fog early Monday, killing two people aboard and two children in the vacation home it struck, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Ohio officer acquitted of killing mom holding baby
A white police officer was acquitted Monday in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman that set off protests about how police treat minorities in a city where one in four residents is black...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Man pleads guilty in Las Vegas ricin case
An unemployed graphic designer who authorities say poisoned himself with toxic ricin in his Las Vegas motel room has pleaded guilty to possessing a biological toxin...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Former NYC commune member cleared in shooting
A woman has been cleared of all charges in the shooting of the founder of a Staten Island commune...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Accidental courthouse shooting injures 2 officers
Authorities say a gun accidentally fired in a Texas courthouse and injured two federal agents when a bullet ricocheted...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Ohio officer acquitted of killing unarmed woman
An Ohio jury has acquitted a white police officer in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman who was holding a child...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Shoe containing bones found on Wash. beach
An athletic shoe containing bones and flesh has been found on a Washington state beach and authorities are investigating whether it may be linked to a series of human feet found in shoes along the coast of British Columbia...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
12-year-old with HIV applauded at AIDS conference
Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus _ and so did she...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
12-year-old with HIV cheered at AIDS conference
Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus _ and so did she...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Firefighters contain blaze in Los Angeles park
Firefighters have contained a fire that burned about three acres of brush in the northeast corner of Griffith Park...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Martian soil may contain detrimental substance
Scientists say the Phoenix spacecraft has found a substance in the Martian soil that might be detrimental to possible life...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Motorola snares Qualcomms Jha for handset unit
Motorola Inc. snagged Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm Inc. and a star of the wireless industry, to head its handset division as that unit prepares to become an independent company...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Once common on skin, anthrax is deadly in lungs
Seven years ago Americans learned to fear anthrax as a white powder in the mail that claimed lives, forced the post office to change the way it handles letters and sparked contamination scares across the country...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Toyota tests Segway-like stand-up-and-ride machine
Toyota has developed a motorized stand-up-and-ride Segway lookalike designed to help people scoot around at malls and airports...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Kin search among dead from Indian temple stampede
Family members moved through row after row of bodies overnight in a grim search for their loved ones among the 145 people killed in a deadly stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Anglican leader seeks moratorium on gay bishops
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, struggling to hold together the troubled world Anglican family, urged church leaders gathered Sunday in England not to consecrate another gay bishop, saying the fellowship will be in "grave peril" without a moratorium...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
New Paraguay leaders first challenge land reform
Just outside the rickety wire fence that guards the rich, red soil of this vast hacienda, dozens of peasants have camped for weeks under a patchwork of thatched shelters and tarpaulin-covered tents...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Roadside bomb kills 2 US soldiers in Baghdad
A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad on Monday, the first deadly attack against American troops in the capital in nearly a month...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Dutch survivor of K2 avalanche describes ordeal
Blinded by the glare off the snow and ice, attempting a perilous descent down K2 to save his life, the Dutch mountaineer came upon three Korean climbers...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Huge new US embassy reflects growing US-China ties
A massive new U.S. Embassy, the second-largest in the world after the heavily fortified compound in Baghdad, formally opens in the Chinese capital this week, a testament to the depth and breadth of the ties binding the trading partners and sometimes rivals...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Bush to face protesters during South Korea visit
President Bush held off on visiting Seoul earlier this year when protesters held nightly candlelight vigils and clashed with riot police in anger over government plans to resume imports of American beef...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Funerals begin after North India temple stampede
Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives _ including his wife and daughter _ were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Philippine court blocks autonomy deal for Muslims
The Philippine Supreme Court, acting on a petition by Christian politicians, on Monday blocked the signing of a key accord granting an expanded southern homeland to minority Muslims as part of a deal to end decades of bloody Islamic rebellion...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
7 more Philly workers suspended in teens death
Seven city human resources administrators were suspended Monday, exactly two years after the emaciated, maggot-infested body of a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was found in the squalid home of her mother, who has been charged with murder...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Gay couples use weddings to wage ballot fight
When Pamela Brown got married, the two bride figurines atop her wedding cake celebrated her newfound right in California to marry another woman. But one of the figurines had a tiny sign over its head with something more to say: "Vote No on 8."...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Officials Anthrax suspect obsessed with sorority
The top suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks was obsessed with a sorority that sat less than 100 yards away from a New Jersey mailbox where the toxin-laced letters were sent, authorities said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Officials Sorority obsession seen in anthrax case
Authorities say the top suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks was obsessed with a sorority that sat less than 100 yards away from a New Jersey mailbox where the toxin-laced letters were sent...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Laird homers twice to power Rangers past Blue Jays
Gerald Laird homered twice and drove in four runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-4 on Sunday night. Laird had his third career multihomer game, second this season, with two-run shots in the fourth and fifth innings...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
The gangs back Werewolves, vampires and all
"Breaking Dawn" (Little, Brown and Company, 754 pages, $22.99) by Stephanie Meyer: The heartbreakingly beautiful vampires, loyal werewolves and emotionally torn humans are back for one last round in "Breaking Dawn," the fourth and last installment in the fanatically loved "Twilight Saga" series...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Consumer spending after inflation drops in June
The government says consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Obama proposes tapping oil stockpiles
Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high-anxiety over gas prices...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Obama backs limited drilling, tapping oil reserve
Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high-anxiety over gas prices...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Michelle Obama describes duty as mother-in-chief
Forget the pearls. Michelle Obama says her best accessory is her husband...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Obama backs some drilling, tapping oil stockpile
Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high-anxiety over gas prices...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Canada bus passenger stabs, decapitates seat mate
A traveler aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated his seat mate, pausing during the savage attack in central Canada to display the head to passengers who had fled in horror, witnesses said Thursday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Al-Qaida Explosives expert wanted by US killed
Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Car leasings fall means cost climb for consumers
Just when motorists were starting to adjust to exorbitant gas prices, they face the prospect of much higher costs, fewer choices and a dearth of financing options if they want to lease their next car...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Motorola names Sanjay Jha head of handset division
Motorola has named Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm, to head its handset division. The unit is being prepared for a spin-off as a separate public company...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard aims for Texas, La. coast
Tropical Storm Edouard took aim at the coasts of Texas and Louisiana Monday, threatening to pick up strength from warm Gulf waters and gain near-hurricane speeds over the next 24 hours...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Rising prices beat down consumer spending in June
Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wisconsin shooting suspect was regular at hangout
Scott J. Johnson was a regular at the swimming hangout where he is accused of ambushing a group of young revelers, even showing up a few days before the killings to help people off a rope swing over the Menominee River, teens who knew him said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Jonas Brothers, Gossip Girl score teen awards
"Gossip Girl" has six more reasons to say OMG. And so do the Jonas Brothers...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 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 - August 4, 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 - August 4, 2008
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Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Hamas forces battled Fatah-linked fighters with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza neighborhood Saturday, leaving at least nine dead in the worst Palestinian infighting in nine months...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Obama and McCain trade old-school political jabs
Barack Obama and John McCain traded old-school political jabs Thursday, with McCain contending that he had been wrongly accused of planning a racial attack and Obama countering that his opponent was inventing a controversy to avoid talking about the issues...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Obama and McCain go old-school in political jabs
Barack Obama and John McCain traded old-school political jabs Thursday, with McCain contending that he had been wrongly accused of planning a racial attack and Obama countering that his opponent was inventing a controversy to avoid talking about the issues...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 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 - August 4, 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 - August 4, 2008
Analysis Race remains the political wild card
By accusing Barack Obama of playing the race card, John McCain hopes to shuffle the deck in a White House campaign that is scarcely begun, much less settled...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
More cities move aggressively to stop heat deaths
The homeless woman was nauseated, dizzy, drenched with sweat, dehydrated and sobbing with fear. She had heat exhaustion and was on the verge of heat stroke...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Texans backup RB Chris Brown returns to practice
Houston Texans running back Chris Brown returned to practice Monday after sitting out last week with a sore back...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Pistons sign free agent center Kwame Brown
The Detroit Pistons have signed free agent center Kwame Brown, the overall No. 1 pick in the 2001 draft. The team announced the signing on Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Morgan Freeman seriously injured in car crash
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was hospitalized in serious condition Monday after the car he was driving left a rural road in the Mississippi Delta and flipped several times...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Coach Pat Summitt makes $600K gift to Tennessee
Coach Pat Summitt is donating $600,000 to the University of Tennessee to be shared by the Knoxville and Martin campuses...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Morgan Freeman injured in car accident in Miss.
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in car accident in Mississippi and is in a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Actor Morgan Freeman is injured in car accident
Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in car accident in Mississippi and is in a Memphis hospital...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Plans to send elephant to Mexico stirs debate
Jenny the elephant lazily poked her trunk into a bucket of fruit as her keepers at the Dallas Zoo hosed her during her morning bath, seemingly oblivious to the fact that she could soon be shipped far from her home of 22 years...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Storm relief sends oil below $120
Oil prices drop below $120 a barrel as Tropical Storm Edouard appears unlikely to hit oil facilities in the Gulf of Mexico...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
US gives Iran new sanctions warning
Iran faces new sanctions if it does not respond positively to incentives to rein in its nuclear activities, the US and UK say...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Morgan Freeman hurt in car crash
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is in a serious condition in hospital after being injured in a car accident, US officials say...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Limbs found in Brazil body search
Police in Brazil examine a leg and two arms they believe belong to a British teenager killed in the country, according to reports...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
US Gulf states prepare for storm
Tropical Storm Edouard could gain near-hurricane strength winds before reaching Texas or Louisiana, US forecasters say...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Clinton I never made a racist comment
Former President Clinton concedes some lingering bitterness over the Democratic presidential campaign while asserting he "never made a racist comment" about Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Attackers in western China kill 16 border officers
Two men rammed a truck into a group of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers Monday in an attack in a restive province of western China just days before the Beijing Olympics, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
China will start to monitor new pollutants
China will begin monitoring additional air pollutants after the Olympic Games, a state news agency reported...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Kin search among dead from Indian temple stampede
Family members moved through row after row of bodies overnight in a grim search for their loved ones among the 145 people killed in a deadly stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Anglican leader seeks moratorium on gay bishops
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, struggling to hold together the troubled world Anglican family, urged church leaders gathered Sunday in England not to consecrate another gay bishop, saying the fellowship will be in "grave peril" without a moratorium...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
New Paraguay leaders first challenge land reform
Just outside the rickety wire fence that guards the rich, red soil of this vast hacienda, dozens of peasants have camped for weeks under a patchwork of thatched shelters and tarpaulin-covered tents...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Funerals begin after North India temple stampede
Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives _ including his wife and daughter _ were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Philippine court blocks autonomy deal for Muslims
The Philippine Supreme Court, acting on a petition by Christian politicians, on Monday blocked the signing of a key accord granting an expanded southern homeland to minority Muslims as part of a deal to end decades of bloody Islamic rebellion...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Actor Morgan Freeman is injured in car accident
Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in car accident in Mississippi and is in a Memphis hospital...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Campaigns spar over drilling as leadership issue
The different paths John McCain and Barack Obama have taken to support expanded offshore drilling for oil demonstrate how each would govern as president, their supporters said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Laird homers twice to power Rangers past Blue Jays
Gerald Laird homered twice and drove in four runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-4 on Sunday night. Laird had his third career multihomer game, second this season, with two-run shots in the fourth and fifth innings...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Car leasings fall means cost climb for consumers
Just when motorists were starting to adjust to exorbitant gas prices, they face the prospect of much higher costs, fewer choices and a dearth of financing options if they want to lease their next car...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Motorola names Sanjay Jha head of handset division
Motorola has named Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm, to head its handset division. The unit is being prepared for a spin-off as a separate public company...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Consumer spending after inflation drops in June
The government says consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wall Street heads for slightly lower open
Wall Street headed for a moderately lower open Monday as investors awaited key government readings on personal income and spending as well as a report on factory orders...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
McCain visiting motorcycle rally, nuke power plant
Republican presidential candidate John McCain hopes to enhance his appeal to blue-collar voters and those in the Northern Plains with a visit to a giant motorcycle rally in South Dakota...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Jonas Brothers, Gossip Girl score teen awards
"Gossip Girl" has six more reasons to say OMG. And so do the Jonas Brothers...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Canada bus passenger stabs, decapitates seat mate
A traveler aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated his seat mate, pausing during the savage attack in central Canada to display the head to passengers who had fled in horror, witnesses said Thursday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Al-Qaida Explosives expert wanted by US killed
Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Fowles keys late run as US women beat Latvia 84-74
Sylvia Fowles scored eight of her 13 points during a late fourth-quarter run to lead the Americans to a 84-74 victory over pesky Latvia on Sunday night in the FIBA Diamond Ball tournament _ a tuneup for the Olympics...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
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Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Hamas forces battled Fatah-linked fighters with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza neighborhood Saturday, leaving at least nine dead in the worst Palestinian infighting in nine months...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Rising prices beat down consumer spending in June
Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Teens Wis. shooting suspect stared at swimmers
Scott J. Johnson was a regular at the swimming hangout where he is accused of ambushing a group of young revelers, even showing up a few days before the killings to help people off a rope swing over the Menominee River, teens who knew him said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Some see red over proposed green resort in Maine
On paper, the development here in eastern Maine sounds like a dream for people looking to get away from it all...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Part II Welcome to Iraq, and a long separation
The phone call surprised Katie Kriesel, so soon after her husband, John, shipped out...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
AP IMPACT Long haul starts in Iraq for Minn. GIs
In the end, Chad Malmberg put his framed Silver Star on the wall and stowed away his helmet, some old uniforms and the dusty combat boots he had worn in the Iraqi desert...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Kidnapped girl found in Maryland Father charged
A man accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter during a supervised visit in Boston last weekend was arrested Saturday in Baltimore and the girl was found safe, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard moves toward Texas
The National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch for the coast of western Louisiana and eastern Texas...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Chinese boat festival subs for Olympics in NYC
Beijing may have the 2008 Summer Olympics, but New York has the 18th annual dragon boat festival...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Rich begin feeling the pain in down economy
The rich are sharing your financial pain _ and contributing to it...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wisconsin shooting suspect was regular at hangout
Scott J. Johnson was a regular at the swimming hangout where he is accused of ambushing a group of young revelers, even showing up a few days before the killings to help people off a rope swing over the Menominee River, teens who knew him said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wisc. ambush suspect maybe freaked out, mom says
When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard moving toward Texas coast
Emergency teams were activated as residents along the Gulf of Mexico prepared to get hit with another strong storm for the second time in less than a month...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
In US, gas prices mean more riders, fewer buses
High gas prices almost killed the lifeline to the city for a group of mountain commuters...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard gaining speed over Gulf
Emergency teams were activated as residents along the Gulf of Mexico prepared to get hit with another round of tropical weather for the second time in less than a month...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
States addressing volunteer firefighter shortage
Several states have passed laws to encourage people to become volunteer firefighters and to make it easier for volunteers to pull away from work, and to keep employers from punishing employees who leave to fight fires or respond to emergency calls, according to David Finger with the National Volunteer Fire Council...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Dad charged in girl abduction going back to Mass.
A father accused of abducting his 7-year-old daughter agreed Monday to be taken back to Massachusetts to face charges there following his weekend arrest in Maryland, where authorities believe he fled to start a new life...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wis. ambush suspect maybe freaked out, mom says
When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard aims for Texas, La. coast
Tropical Storm Edouard took aim at the coasts of Texas and Louisiana Monday, threatening to pick up strength from warm Gulf waters and gain near-hurricane speeds over the next 24 hours...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Co-defendant in OJ Simpson case pleads guilty
Another co-defendant has pleaded guilty in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case in Las Vegas...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Co-defendant in O.J. Simpson case enters plea
Another co-defendant has taken a plea in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case in Las Vegas...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Refinery fire injures 4 fours in Houston
Four workers at a Houston refinery were injured when a tank of sulfur caught fire and released fumes...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
More Philly workers suspended in starvation death
Seven more city employees have been suspended in connection with the starvation death of a disabled teen...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Oregon town shakes from plane crashing into house
Authorities say a single-engine plane has crashed into a house on the Oregon coast and burst into flames...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Motorola snares Qualcomms Jha for handset unit
Motorola Inc. snagged Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm Inc. and a star of the wireless industry, to head its handset division as that unit prepares to become an independent company...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Once common on skin, anthrax is deadly in lungs
Seven years ago Americans learned to fear anthrax as a white powder in the mail that claimed lives, forced the post office to change the way it handles letters and sparked contamination scares across the country...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Toyota tests Segway-like stand-up-and-ride machine
Toyota has developed a motorized stand-up-and-ride Segway lookalike designed to help people scoot around at malls and airports...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Co-defendant in O.J. Simpson case pleads guilty
A fourth co-defendant pleaded guilty Monday in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Anglican leader seeks moratorium on gay bishops
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, struggling to hold together the troubled world Anglican family, urged church leaders gathered Sunday in England not to consecrate another gay bishop, saying the fellowship will be in "grave peril" without a moratorium...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
New Paraguay leaders first challenge land reform
Just outside the rickety wire fence that guards the rich, red soil of this vast hacienda, dozens of peasants have camped for weeks under a patchwork of thatched shelters and tarpaulin-covered tents...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Clinton I never made a racist comment
Former President Clinton concedes some lingering bitterness over the Democratic presidential campaign while asserting he "never made a racist comment" about Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Iraq violence kills 11, including 2 US soldiers
Roadside bombs killed two U.S. soldiers and at least nine Iraqis Monday in Baghdad and surrounding areas, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Philippine court blocks autonomy deal for Muslims
The Philippine Supreme Court, acting on a petition by Christian politicians, on Monday blocked the signing of a key accord granting an expanded southern homeland to minority Muslims as part of a deal to end decades of bloody Islamic rebellion...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Attackers in western China kill 16 border officers
Two men rammed a truck into a group of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers Monday in an attack in a restive province of western China just days before the Beijing Olympics, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
China will start to monitor new pollutants
China will begin monitoring additional air pollutants after the Olympic Games, a state news agency reported...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Kin search among dead from Indian temple stampede
Family members moved through row after row of bodies overnight in a grim search for their loved ones among the 145 people killed in a deadly stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Dad charged in girl abduction going back to Mass.
A father accused of abducting his 7-year-old daughter agreed Monday to be taken back to Massachusetts to face charges there following his weekend arrest in Maryland, where authorities believe he fled to start a new life...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wis. ambush suspect maybe freaked out, mom says
When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wisc. ambush suspect maybe freaked out, mom says
When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Funerals begin after North India temple stampede
Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives _ including his wife and daughter _ were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Laird homers twice to power Rangers past Blue Jays
Gerald Laird homered twice and drove in four runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-4 on Sunday night. Laird had his third career multihomer game, second this season, with two-run shots in the fourth and fifth innings...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
McCain visiting motorcycle rally, nuke power plant
Republican presidential candidate John McCain hopes to enhance his appeal to blue-collar voters and those in the Northern Plains with a visit to a giant motorcycle rally in South Dakota...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Campaigns spar over drilling as leadership issue
The different paths John McCain and Barack Obama have taken to support expanded offshore drilling for oil demonstrate how each would govern as president, their supporters said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Al-Qaida Explosives expert wanted by US killed
Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Car leasings fall means cost climb for consumers
Just when motorists were starting to adjust to exorbitant gas prices, they face the prospect of much higher costs, fewer choices and a dearth of financing options if they want to lease their next car...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Motorola names Sanjay Jha head of handset division
Motorola has named Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm, to head its handset division. The unit is being prepared for a spin-off as a separate public company...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Consumer spending after inflation drops in June
The government says consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wall Street heads for slightly lower open
Wall Street headed for a moderately lower open Monday as investors awaited key government readings on personal income and spending as well as a report on factory orders...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Rising prices beat down consumer spending in June
Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Jonas Brothers, Gossip Girl score teen awards
"Gossip Girl" has six more reasons to say OMG. And so do the Jonas Brothers...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wisconsin shooting suspect was regular at hangout
Scott J. Johnson was a regular at the swimming hangout where he is accused of ambushing a group of young revelers, even showing up a few days before the killings to help people off a rope swing over the Menominee River, teens who knew him said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Canada bus passenger stabs, decapitates seat mate
A traveler aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated his seat mate, pausing during the savage attack in central Canada to display the head to passengers who had fled in horror, witnesses said Thursday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Fowles keys late run as US women beat Latvia 84-74
Sylvia Fowles scored eight of her 13 points during a late fourth-quarter run to lead the Americans to a 84-74 victory over pesky Latvia on Sunday night in the FIBA Diamond Ball tournament _ a tuneup for the Olympics...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 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 - August 4, 2008
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Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Hamas forces battled Fatah-linked fighters with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza neighborhood Saturday, leaving at least nine dead in the worst Palestinian infighting in nine months...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard aims for Texas, La. coast
Tropical Storm Edouard took aim at the coasts of Texas and Louisiana Monday, threatening to pick up strength from warm Gulf waters and gain near-hurricane speeds over the next 24 hours...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 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 - August 4, 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 - August 4, 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 - August 4, 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 - August 4, 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 - August 4, 2008
Obama and McCain trade old-school political jabs
Barack Obama and John McCain traded old-school political jabs Thursday, with McCain contending that he had been wrongly accused of planning a racial attack and Obama countering that his opponent was inventing a controversy to avoid talking about the issues...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Obama and McCain go old-school in political jabs
Barack Obama and John McCain traded old-school political jabs Thursday, with McCain contending that he had been wrongly accused of planning a racial attack and Obama countering that his opponent was inventing a controversy to avoid talking about the issues...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 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 - August 4, 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 - August 4, 2008
More cities move aggressively to stop heat deaths
The homeless woman was nauseated, dizzy, drenched with sweat, dehydrated and sobbing with fear. She had heat exhaustion and was on the verge of heat stroke...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Actor Morgan Freeman is injured in car accident
Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in car accident in Mississippi and is in a Memphis hospital...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Plans to send elephant to Mexico stirs debate
Jenny the elephant lazily poked her trunk into a bucket of fruit as her keepers at the Dallas Zoo hosed her during her morning bath, seemingly oblivious to the fact that she could soon be shipped far from her home of 22 years...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Analysis Race remains the political wild card
By accusing Barack Obama of playing the race card, John McCain hopes to shuffle the deck in a White House campaign that is scarcely begun, much less settled...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Qinetiq buys US spy services firm
UK defence research firm Qinetiq buys Dominion Technologies, which provides technology and services to the US spy community...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Power of money
The crucial importance of US election funds...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Prices hit US consumer spending
Consumer spending falls in the US in June after customers are hit by the biggest rise in prices since February 1981...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
US oil ports brace for Gulf storm
An offshore oil port is forced to close and workers leave as Tropical Storm Edouard moves over the Gulf of Mexico...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
'Child snatch' accused in court
A father accused of snatching his young daughter on a supervised visit to the US appears i | | | | |
