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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Rwanda protocol chief says shell prove innocence
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Lame-duck US, Israeli leaders to meet a final time
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Suspected US missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Nepals Buddha boy returns to jungle to meditate
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Kanye Wests new album to debut on MySpace Music
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Hollywood actors guild to seek strike
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for March 2007:
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In-law: Pilot vowed to keep daughter before crash
The man whose small plane slammed into his former mother-in-law's house, killing him and his 8-year-old daughter, had told his ex-wife before the crash he had the girl "and you're not going to get her," the mother-in-law said Tuesday...
CNN - March 6, 2007
Libby guilty in CIA leak case
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former top aide to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, faces years in prison after being found guilty of lying and obstructing a probe related to the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war...
CNN - March 6, 2007
More than 120 die in Iraq blasts
Insurgents on Tuesday stepped up attacks on Shiite pilgrims heading to the holy city of Karbala with a series of bombings and small-arms attacks that left more than 120 people dead and more than 200 wounded. In the deadliest attack, 93 people were killed in Hilla en route to a religious gathering for Shiite Muslims...
CNN - March 6, 2007
Dollars and Dreams Chase $370 Million Jackpot
The odds of winning the 12-state Mega Millions jackpot, the largest ever, are about 1 in 176 million...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Libby guilty on 4 of 5 counts
Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been found guilty of obstruction of justice, perjury and making a false statement. He faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a fine of $1 million...
CNN - March 6, 2007
State Investigates Auditor?s Approval of Payments
The auditor was the vice president of a company that received more than $1.2 million in payments...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Ex-Prosecutors Tell of Pressures From Lawmakers
Several of the ousted U.S. attorneys testified about lawmakers? intrusions in sensitive investigations...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Price of a Good Name? For Louvre: $520 Million
Abu Dhabi agreed today to pay that much to attach the Louvre?s name to a new museum it hopes to open in 2012...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Study Raises Doubts About Lung Cancer Screening
Lung cancer screening with CT scans does not appear to save lives, and it exposes people to risks, researchers say...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
News Analysis: A Choice Between Facts and Emotion
The verdict centered on whether misstatements meant he was a calculated serial liar, or merely an innocently forgetful man...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Chief Sees Difficulties in Splitting Off Chrysler Brands
Dieter Zetsche, DaimlerChrysler?s chief executive, said it would be difficult to separate and sell single brands...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Productivity Is Less Than Estimated, and Pay Is Higher
Revised numbers show a jump in wages and lower productivity, two potentially troubling signs as the Fed considers interest rates...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Venture Capitalists Want to Put Some Algae in Your Tank
Investors are now searching for a holy grail that symbolizes wealth in both profits and what?s good for the environment...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
US judges Darfur 'worst abuse'
The violence ravaging Darfur was the world's worst human rights abuse in 2006, the US says in an annual report...
BBC News - March 6, 2007
Therapy?s Benefits for Sex Offenders Is Disputed
There is no convincing evidence that treatment plans are effective in reforming offenders...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Libby Guilty of Lying in C.I.A. Leak Case
The former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney was convicted today of lying to F.B.I. agents and grand jurors investigating the unmasking of a C.I.A. operative amid a burning dispute over the Iraq war...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Bush Appoints Walter Reed Commission
Bob Dole and Donna Shalala will investigate what was called ?unacceptable? treatment of wounded veterans...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
UnitedHealth Restatement Lowers Profit by $1.55 Billion
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New York Times - March 6, 2007
Citigroup Bids for Japanese Brokerage House
If successful, the $10.8 billion takeover would be the largest of a Japanese brokerage firm by a foreign company...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Stocks Rise in Asia, Europe and U.S.
Investors took advantage of low prices today and started buying again, bringing sighs of relief to Asia...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
US factory orders at six-year low
US factory orders dropped by their largest amount in six and a half years in January, official figures show...
BBC News - March 6, 2007
NFL: Cowboys sign up Davis
Dallas pay their biggest-ever signing bonus to land offensive lineman Leonard Davis...
BBC News - March 6, 2007
US issues Kenya terror alert
World cross country championships due to take place in Kenya could be the target of a terror attack, the US warns...
BBC News - March 6, 2007
Indonesian quake kills at least 70
A powerful earthquake strikes western Indonesian, killing at least 70 people and forcing thousands to flee their homes...
CNN - March 6, 2007
Blast kills 9 U.S. soldiers in Iraq
Nine U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb during combat operations in Salah ad Din province, north of Baghdad, according to a U.S. military statement released Tuesday...
CNN - March 6, 2007
Asian Stocks Rebound, Boosting European Trading
Investors took advantage of low prices today and started buying again, bringing sighs of relief to Asian markets...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
G.O.P. Shift Is Seen on Trade
The administration has signaled a new willingness to work with Democrats on three pending trade deals, with talk of labor rights guarantees...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Chrysler 'meets takeover group'
Car giant Chrysler has opened its books to a buyout specialist for an in-depth look at its finances, reports say...
BBC News - March 6, 2007
Microsoft attacks Google on books
Microsoft is set to launch an attack on Google, saying that its rival's book-scanning service "violates copyright"...
BBC News - March 6, 2007
Rapper Diddy sued over 'assault'
Rap star P Diddy is sued by a man who alleges the Grammy-winner punched him outside a US nightclub...
BBC News - March 6, 2007
US mulls backing 'medicine rice'
The US gives initial backing to growing rice modified with human proteins that could produce medicine...
BBC News - March 6, 2007
Paraguay dengue official sacked
The man heading Paraguay's response to a dengue fever crisis is fired over the use of expired fumigation chemicals...
BBC News - March 6, 2007
Asian markets rebound
Asian stocks rebounded on Tuesday, as investors picked up beaten-down shares such as global mining giant BHP Billiton and Korean steel maker POSCO, steadying from a global rout that pushed regional markets to multi-month lows...
CNN - March 6, 2007
Father, daughter die in suspicious plane crash
A pilot and his 8-year-old daughter were killed Monday when their small plane crashed into an in-laws' house near a southern Indiana airport, authorities said...
CNN - March 6, 2007
U.S., North Korea open historic talks
More than 50 years after the end of the Korean War, the United States and North Korea opened historic talks on steps to establish diplomatic relations following Pyongyang's agreement to dismantle its nuclear program...
CNN - March 6, 2007
N.C.A.A. Names Schools That Miss Its Standards
The N.C.A.A. announced Monday that it would no longer accept transcripts from two schools that had sent dozens of talented athletes to high-profile college athletics programs...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Cheney Is Treated for a Blood Clot After Trip
Experts said the clot was probably the result of the vice president?s recent around-the-world trip, which included 65 hours of plane travel over 9 days...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
For Sex Offenders, a Dispute Over Therapy?s Benefits
Treatment plans have been a cornerstone of efforts to reform offenders, but there is no convincing evidence that the approach works...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Listening and Nodding, Clinton Shapes ?08 Image
In the cliché of modern politics, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is ?reintroducing herself to the American people.?...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Former Prosecutor Says Departure Was Pressured
The former federal prosecutor in Maryland said he was forced out because of investigations involving associates of the state?s governor, a Republican...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Soldiers Testify Over Poor Care at Walter Reed
Congress heard wrenching testimony from wounded soldiers and promises from top Army officials to correct the conditions there...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Australia: Trade Deficit Narrowed in January
The country?s trade deficit narrowed in January as coal and manufacturing exports rose, signaling that growth may pick up in the Asia-Pacific region?s fifth-largest economy. The trade shortfall narrowed to 876 million Australian dollars ($677 million) from 1.38 billion Australian dollars in December, the Bureau of Statistics reported. Exports rose 2 percent and imports dropped 1 percent. Total exports climbed to 18.12 billion Australian dollars in January. Farm exports like meat, sugar, wheat and wool declined 1 percent. Shipments of nonrural goods, which include minerals, increased 3 percent. Total imports fell to 18.99 billion Australian dollars from December. Imports of intermediate goods, which include fuel, decreased 1 percent...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: B.P. to Buy Chevron Assets
BP said it had agreed to buy Chevron?s manufacturing company in the Netherlands, Texaco Raffinaderij Pernis, for about $900 million, excluding working capital and hydrocarbon inventory. BP will acquire Chevron?s 31 percent minority shareholding in the Netherlands Refining Company as well as Chevron?s stake in the jointly owned wind farm located at the refinery; shareholdings in the nearby crude oil terminal and storage facility; and a number of associated pipelines. The deal, which is expected to be completed during the first half of the year, would make the refinery a 100 percent BP- owned asset...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: HSBC Profit Rises
HSBC Holdings reported that profit rose 5 percent in 2006 despite losses in its mortgage operation in the United States that had led to the removal of two senior executives. The chief executive, Michael F. Geoghegan, said problem loans would take up to three years to work out. HSBC, which is based in London and operates in Europe, Asia and the Americas, reported net income of $15.79 billion for 2006, up from $15.08 billion in 2005. Loan impairment charges and other risk provisions rose to $10.57 billion, from $7.08 billion, largely because of a 20 percent increase in bad debt charges in the subprime mortgage market in the United States...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: France: Possible State Aid for Airbus
The government, goaded by presidential candidates into responding to large job cuts at the airplane maker Airbus, said it was ready to pump cash into the company and shake up a Franco-German power-sharing pact. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin also called on the parent of Airbus, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, to abandon paying a dividend this year to its shareholders, which include the French government, after announcing plans to cut 10,000 jobs. Some 4,300 of those jobs are in France. Mr. Villepin, above, said the government stood ready to participate if the holding company decided to tap its shareholders for more cash through a capital increase to shore up a company badly hit by delays to the new Airbus A380 superjumbo airliner. ?The state will play its role,? he said. However, EADS?s biggest private shareholder, the German car company DaimlerChrysler, has battled for years to prevent what it regards as state meddling...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: France: Accor Sells Hotels
Accor, the hotels group, said it had agreed to sell 72 hotels in Germany and 19 in the Netherlands to Moor Park Real Estate for 863 million euros ($1.1 billion). The Novotel, Mercure, Ibis and Etap Hotel properties involved in the transaction represent a total of 12,000 rooms, the company said. Accor will continue to operate the hotels under 12-year variable-rent leases. Accor said it would use the proceeds to reduce debt...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: Japan: Citigroup Said to Weigh Stake
Citigroup, the financial giant, is expected to announce an offer to increase its stake in the scandal-tainted Japanese brokerage company the Nikko Cordial Corporation, said a Nikko spokesman, Shigeyuki Teshima. The potential $5 billion deal would mark Citigroup?s resurgence in Japan. Nikko Cordial faces a delisting from the Tokyo stock exchange because of an accounting scandal. According to media reports, the talks are aimed at Citigroup raising its stake in Nikko to above 50 percent, from under 5 percent. A Citigroup spokeswoman, Atsuko Yoshitsugu, declined to comment...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Americas: Canada: Partnership Buys Pipeline
The Inter Pipeline Fund agreed to buy the Corridor pipeline system in Alberta from Kinder Morgan for 275 million Canadian dollars ($233 million) to become the largest shipper of bitumen from the province?s oil sands. The Corridor system transports diluted bitumen, a heavy oil, from the Athabasca oil sands project near Fort McMurray to a processing plant near Edmonton, the partnership said. Inter Pipeline will also assume 485 million Canadian dollars of Corridor debt. Inter Pipeline already operates and holds an 85 percent stake in the Cold Lake pipeline, which transports 330,000 barrels of blended bitumen a day in east-central Alberta. After the Corridor acquisition, the partnership said its lines would carry about half of the production of bitumen from Alberta?s tarlike oil sands...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Subprime Lender Under Inquiry Puts Some Workers on Leave
The Fremont General Corporation put some of its staff on paid leave ?pending further information? and said it would stop offering subprime mortgages...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Barnes & Noble?s Shares Fall After Weak Forecast
The bookseller said it was closing its Internet distribution center in Memphis, eliminating 200 jobs...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Vioxx Plaintiff Is Denied a Second Chance
The judge presiding over a Vioxx personal injury trial in Atlantic City rejected a motion to give one of the two plaintiffs a second chance at winning damages...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Motorola May Fight to Keep Icahn Off Board
Comments suggest that Motorola may stand up to Carl C. Icahn as he presses the chief executive to use $11.2 billion in cash to buy back stock and reward investors...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Justices Turn Down Appeal by Ebbers
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Bernard J. Ebbers, the former WorldCom chief executive, who was convicted of orchestrating an $11 billion accounting fraud...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Foundation Defends Deals Done by Ex-Chief of A.I.G.
Maurice R. Greenberg acted in good faith in selling assets of the Starr Foundation to the companies he controls, according to a report from the foundation...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Growth in Services Slackened in February
February was the 47th consecutive month of business activity growth, according to a trade group, but the pace of expansion has slowed...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Chief Says Chrysler Unit May Be Sold
Speaking in Geneva, the chief executive of DaimlerChrysler said the all options were open for the Chrysler Group?s financing arm...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
New Leader Is Appointed at McAfee
McAfee, the large maker of security software, appointed David DeWalt of the EMC Corporation as its chief executive...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
BlackBerry Maker to Restate Results; Officer Gives Up a Title
Research in Motion said that a top executive stepped down from one of his posts after the company said it would restate about $250 million in earnings...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
House Lawmaker Seeks Data From Makers of Stents and Drugs
The chairman of a House committee asked two medical device companies and three drug makers for documents as part of an investigation...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
A.& P. to Buy Pathmark, a Rival Grocer
The deal will create a 550-store $11 billion supermarket chain, the latest merger in the quickly consolidating grocery industry...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
A.M.D. Says Pricing Battle May Affect Its Revenue Goal
As the price war with Intel continued to take its toll, shares of Advanced Micro Devices fell 23 cents, or 1.6 percent...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Frequent Flier: Obsessive About Service, the Good and the Bad
Other travelers take service for granted. But as a professional concierge, I?m obsessive about service...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Rethinking the Banquet Menu
With budgets tight, conference planners are feeling squeezed as they try to balance rising food and labor costs with increasingly sophisticated palates...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Agency Halts Sale of a Modified Rice
The Agriculture Department ordered seed dealers on Monday not to sell a long-grain rice seed that may contain a genetic modification not approved for planting...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Microsoft Attacks Google on Copyright
The Microsoft Corporation has prepared a blistering attack on rival Google, arguing that the Web search leader takes a cavalier approach to copyright protection...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Advertising: Critics of Lending Practices Adopt a Harder Edge
A coalition of organizations plans to introduce a marketing campaign comparing the effects of so-called unfair lending practices with the havoc wreaked by natural disasters...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
On The Road: This Air Sickness Bag Is Brought to You by ...
Initial worries that advertising would annoy airplane passengers have now been allayed, US Airways and its advertising partner say...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Drug Maker Stops Work on Lung Disease Medicine
Patients with a potentially fatal lung condition have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a drug that was not approved for their disease but was promoted for that use...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Network Insiders Sign Deal to Supply Programs to NBC
Two former network heads signed a deal to provide programs across all the company?s television channels...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Equity Firm Attracted to Attractions
The Blackstone Group agreed to buy the Tussauds Group, owner of the Madame Tussauds wax museums, for $1.9 billion in cash...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Shares Continue to Sink, From Hong Kong to New York
Another big sell-off in Asia and more modest declines in European markets preceded the downturn in the United States...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Broadcasters Agree to Fine Over Payoffs
Four large radio station owners agreed to pay $12.5 million to resolve claims that they accepted cash in exchange for playing songs...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
G.O.P. Shift Is Seen on Trade
The administration has signaled a new willingness to work with Democrats on three pending trade deals, with talk of labor rights guarantees...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Dollars to Spare in China?s Trove
Pressure is growing on Beijing?s financial leaders to tap their foreign exchange reserves for social spending...
New York Times - March 6, 2007
Pilot crashes into in-laws' house
A pilot and his daughter are killed after their plane crashes into his in-laws' house in the US state of Indiana...
BBC News - March 6, 2007
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