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Will Smith voted 2008s top moneymaking movie star
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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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
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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US News Archive for April 2005:
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Storms hammer Mississippi
A line of severe storms rumbled through Mississippi, spawning tornadoes and destroying homes, felling power lines and knocking down trees. The storm system threatened more states as it headed toward the Florida panhandle...
CNN - April 6, 2005
Storms leave trail of destruction
A line of severe storms that included tornadoes today raked through Mississippi. Mobile homes were overturned, trees downed and power lines toppled in Mississippi, prompting Gov. Haley Barbour to declare a state of emergency, and tornado watches are in force across parts of seven states. Seven people were injured...
CNN - April 6, 2005
Saddam sees new leader's election
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein watched on TV from his jail cell as Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani assumed the title Saddam held before his downfall...
CNN - April 6, 2005
Spitzer Rains on Albany's Budget Parade
The attorney general said the budget document that state lawmakers passed last week fails to solve the state's long-term problems...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
White Supremacist Hale Sentenced to 40 Years
Matthew Hale was convicted of plotting to kill a federal judge a month after briefly becoming a suspect in the slaying of the judge's mother and husband...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Greenspan Urges Better Regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Fed Chairman Greenspan told Congress today that the nation's two mortgage finance giants needed better regulation as well as limits on the sizes of their portfolios...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Asian Bank Predicts Strong Growth in Area for Next 3 Years
Economic growth is likely to remain strong in developing countries in Asia for the next three years, the Asian Development Bank predicted today...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Shuttle rollout delayed by crack
The moving of the Discovery space shuttle to the launch pad is briefly delayed after a crack is found in a fuel tank...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
Republican 'paid family $500,000'
Republican house leader Tom DeLay paid his wife and daughter $500,000 via political committees, the New York Times reports...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
US set to tighten border controls
New rules will require US citizens to carry passports to return from Canada and Mexico...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
Shuttle rollout stalls
NASA is evaluating a crack in the space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank that could delay today's scheduled rollout of the shuttle to the launch pad. Discovery is scheduled to blast off no earlier than mid-May on the first flight since seven astronauts died when Columbia broke apart on February 1, 2003...
CNN - April 6, 2005
Storms rake Mississippi
High wind and heavy rain caused damage and injuries Wednesday in central Mississippi as lines of violent thunderstorms rolled across the South...
CNN - April 6, 2005
MCI's Directors Reject Qwest's Takeover Offer
It is likely Qwest will take its case to MCI's shareholders, many of whom have lobbied their board to accept Qwest's $8.9 billion bid...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Jackson maid 'saw boy in shower'
A former maid of singer Michael Jackson says she once found the star showering with a young boy...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
Israel 'at odds with Washington'
Israel acknowledges it has differences with the US over the expansion of West Bank settlements...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
Mourners wait patiently
Tired mourners -- in a line up to a mile long -- continued inching forward today in their determination to see the body of Pope John Paul II inside St. Peter's Basilica, while authorities in Rome prepared for the arrival of world leaders...
CNN - April 6, 2005
Kurd leader named Iraq president
Iraq's newly elected parliament has chosen Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as its new interim president. Talabani -- longtime leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan -- is expected to be sworn in during Wednesday's session...
CNN - April 6, 2005
White House Has Tightly Restricted Oversight of C.I.A. Detentions
Only a small number of members of Congress are permitted to be briefed on how and where high-level terror suspects are being held and interrogated...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Breaking Deadlock, Iraqis Pick President and 2 Other Officials
Iraq's national assembly today appointed one of Saddam Hussein's most tenacious opponents to the office of president...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Edward Bronfman, 77, Dies; Low-Profile Business Titan
Edward Maurice Bronfman and his brother created their own corporate realm after being denied a place in their better-known cousins' Seagram liquor kingdom...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
MCI rejects $9.1bn bid from Qwest
US telephone operator MCI rejects a $9.1bn takeover offer from telecoms giant Qwest in favour of a lower bid from rival Verizon...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
Daimler chief faces detractors
DaimlerChrysler chief executive Juergen Schrempp is set to face a rough ride at the carmaker's AGM amid growing investor concern...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
Schiavo parents hold funeral Mass
Hundreds of mourners in the US attend a funeral service for a brain-damaged woman at the heart of a long legal dispute...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
Police charged with Brazil deaths
Eight Brazilian police officers are charged with the killing of 30 people in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
Baseball: Yankees beat Boston
The Yankees wrap up a second successive win over the World Series winners...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
Boxing: Woman dies after match
A woman boxer has died in America from head injuries sustained in the ring...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
Landless Brazilians occupy farms
Members of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement occupy 12 farms to try to speed up land reforms...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
One million goodbyes
More than 1 million mourners filed past Pope John Paul II's body in the first 24 hours of viewing, the Vatican said late Tuesday. The line of mourners continues to stretch for miles from St. Peter's Basilica...
CNN - April 6, 2005
One million goodbyes
More than 1 million mourners filed past Pope John Paul II's body in the first 24 hours of viewing, the Vatican said Tuesday. And in the pope's native Poland, around 200,000 attended Mass in the capital...
CNN - April 6, 2005
Schiavo honored at Mass
Hundreds of mourners gathered Tuesday to remember Terri Schiavo at a funeral Mass arranged by her parents, while her husband held on to her cremated remains and planned a separate service...
CNN - April 6, 2005
Political Groups Paid Two Relatives of House Leader
Tom DeLay's wife and daughter have been paid more than $500,000 since 2001 by Mr. DeLay's political action and campaign committees...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Saul Bellow, Who Breathed Life Into American Novel, Dies at 89
The Nobel laureate's darkly comic work gave new immediacy to the American novel in the second half of the 20th century...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
ABC's Jennings Discloses That He Has Lung Cancer
Peter Jennings, the sole anchor of the ABC's evening newscast for the past 22 years, will work as often as he can during his course of treatment...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Europe Leaves Modified Corn Inquiry to U.S.
Despite abhorrence in Europe of all things genetically modified, European officials are letting the U.S. untangle how unapproved corn has entered Europe...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Top Regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to Depart
WASHINGTON, April 5 - Armando Falcon Jr., the top regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two mortgage finance giants that have struggled through accounting scandals, announced on Tuesday that he would step down next month after a tumultuous tenure of nearly six years...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
David and Goliath Adds Bacardi Silver
David and Goliath...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Wal-Mart's Chief Calls Its Critics Unrealistic
The chief executive of Wal-Mart took the offensive against critics who have sought to block stores...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Salt Lake City Makeover Stirs Some Controversy
The mayor of Salt Lake City is complaining about the Mormon Church's plan to reshape two shopping malls, because he thinks it will limit pedestrian traffic...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Signs of a Budding Recovery as Speculation Blooms
Like crocuses in the spring, a surge in speculative building is being seen as a definite sign of a recovery in the New Jersey commercial real estate market...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Edward Bronfman, 77, Dies; Low-Profile Business Titan
Edward Maurice Bronfman, the elder of the two brothers known as the Toronto Bronfmans, who created their own corporate realm after being denied a place in their better-known cousins' Seagram liquor kingdom, died on Monday at his home in Toronto. He was 77...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Jennings Delivers His News in Character
His voice was scratchy and painfully strained, but ABC's Peter Jennings told viewers he had lung cancer in the same cool, understated way he had delivered other people's bad news for the last 22 years...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Canada and Automakers Agree to Emissions Reductions
Canada and nearly all the world's major automakers reached an agreement under which the companies would voluntarily reduce the emissions of their vehicles...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Times Executive Promoted
The New York Times said on Tuesday that it had promoted Mark W. Herlyn, group director for advertising, to vice president...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
The Times Appoints a Successor to Its First Public Editor
The New York Times named Byron Calame, who retired as a top editor at The Wall Street Journal, to succeed Daniel Okrent as the newspaper's public editor...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
No Word From MCI's Directors on Takeover Offer From Qwest
MCI let a deadline pass without saying whether a sweetened takeover bid from Qwest Communications was superior to an earlier one from Verizon Communications...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Talks on Aid to Plane Makers Still Mired
The United States and the European Union made no obvious progress Tuesday in restarting talks over government aid to aircraft makers...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Former A.I.G. Officials Off Affiliate's Board
By Reuters...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Greenspan Expects High Price to Lead to More Fuel Supplies
WASHINGTON, April 5 - Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said on Tuesday that oil and natural gas markets were under the heaviest strain in a generation and suggested that prices might remain high for some time...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Major Markets Move Ahead as Price of Oil Retreats
By Reuters...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Fewer Layoffs Were Announced in March
By Reuters...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Profit Falls at Card Maker
BROOKLYN, Ohio, April 5 (AP) -- The American Greetings Corporation said Tuesday that its profit fell 56 percent in the fourth quarter, citing slow sales and a plant closing. It also said earnings for the current quarter and full fiscal year would be below Wall Street expectations...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
2 of Its Rivals Talk to Allied Domecq About a Buyout
Allied Domecq said on Tuesday that it was in talks with Pernod Ricard of France and Fortune Brands of the United States about a buyout...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Morgan Dissidents Offer Their Replacement for Purcell
Under pressure from large investors to specify their plans for Morgan Stanley's future, eight retired dissident executives of the firm proposed yesterday that one of their own, Robert G. Scott, immediately replace Philip J. Purcell as chief executive...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Trump Hotel Bankruptcy Plan Accepted
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Sugar and Spice, and Biochemistry
In the battle for health-conscious consumers, food companies are looking at a chemical that tricks the taste buds into sensing sugar or salt when it is not there...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Pfizer Plans 12% Cost Cut as Sales Lag
Pfizer promised to cut annual costs by 12 percent by 2008 to keep profits rising even as several of its biggest-selling drugs lose patent protection...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Cablevision Seeks Adelphia for $16 Billion
Cablevision's surprise decision to pursue Adelphia by itself pits it against its rival, Time Warner, which has submitted a more complicated bid...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Asbestos Claims Decline, but Questions Rise
The wave of asbestos litigation appears to have passed, and divisions have emerged among businesses over a compensation system for claimants...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Return-Hungry Investors Snap Up Riskier Loans
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is a troubled company, but investors are increasingly willing to elbow aside banks when it comes to lending to riskier companies...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Europe to Issue Guide on Textile Imports
The European Commission will complete a set of guidelines on Wednesday to determine how to address the surge in textile imports from China...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Turnaround at the Interpublic Group Remains a Work in Progress
The Interpublic Group told Wall Street for the third time in three and a half weeks that they could not determine when they would release 2004 financial results...
New York Times - April 6, 2005
Canada puts pressure on Tehran
Canada urges Iran to return the body of journalist Zahra Kazemi and investigate if she was murdered in custody...
BBC News - April 6, 2005
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