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Will Smith voted 2008s top moneymaking movie star
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Apples Jobs has hormone imbalance, will stay CEO
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Apple cuts copy protection and prices on iTunes
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Grand Canyon, Loch Ness compete as nature wonders
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Iraq sends 30,000 troops to guard Karbala pilgrims
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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John Warner passes torch to Mark Warner
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Transcript Mumbai gunmen were commanded by phone
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Japans emperor marks 20th anniversary of reign
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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US Troops kill 32 insurgents in east Afghanistan
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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US News Archive for April 2007:
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Pilgrims mark Easter in Jerusalem
Christian pilgrims from around the world filled the narrow cobblestone streets of Jerusalem's Old City on Good Friday, some carrying large wooden crosses as they followed the route Jesus took on the way to his crucifixion...
CNN - April 6, 2007
Far-Right French Candidate Visits Ethnic Enclave
Jean-Marie Le Pen, who is running in his fifth presidential race, this time has tried to shed his image as an anti-immigrant, anti-Europe racist...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
From the campaign trail: Iowans basking in '08 love
A backyard barbecue with more than 200 guests, an event center bustling with loyal Republicans at noon and a high school gym at capacity by 5 p.m.: It must be Iowa with presidential contenders in town...
CNN - April 6, 2007
The Masters: Woods Salvages a Bad Round on Day Two
Tiger Woods flirted with playing himself out of the 71st Masters today before rallying late...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Official Who Held Loan Stock Put on Leave
The federal Education Department said that it had placed a senior official on leave, following disclosures on Thursday that he held stock in a student loan company...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Chlorine Attack in Iraq Kills 20
A suicide bomber detonated a truck with explosives and chlorine gas near a residential complex in Ramadi today...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Gonzales Aide Who Refused to Testify Resigns
Monica M. Goodling, a top aide to the attorney general, had said she would assert her Fifth Amendment rights and not testify about the firing of U.S. Attorneys...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
For Bulgari, a New Look and New Ventures
The luxury retailer is giving its Midtown Manhattan store a face lift, and branching out beyond jewelry...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
New jobs boost US economy
Growth in US employment in March results in 180,000 new jobs, in a sign the economy is more robust than thought...
BBC News - April 6, 2007
Mystery illness at Mexico school
Some 600 girls at a boarding school run by Catholic nuns in Mexico are struck by an illness said to be psychosomatic...
BBC News - April 6, 2007
US appeal on Cuba militant ruling
The US government appeals after a court rules a Cuban militant should be freed until an immigration hearing...
BBC News - April 6, 2007
US attorney general's aide quits
A Justice Department official who refused to testify about the firing of eight federal prosecutors resigns...
BBC News - April 6, 2007
UK sailors 'blindfolded, isolated'
The 15 British military personnel captured by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf were subjected to "psychological pressure" and kept in isolation during their detention, the group's officers says. Lt. Felix Carman says they were kept in isolation, interrogated and blindfolded and subjected to "aggressive questioning andrough handling."...
CNN - April 6, 2007
Florida houses sex offenders under bridge
The sparkling blue waters off Miami's Julia Tuttle Causeway look as if they were taken from a postcard. But the causeway's only inhabitants see little paradise in their surroundings. They are paroled sex offenders with nowhere else to go...
CNN - April 6, 2007
Cheney: Pelosi shows 'bad behavior' in Syria
Vice President Dick Cheney accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday of "bad behavior" on her Middle East trip, saying she bungled a message for Syria's president that was later clarified by Israel...
CNN - April 6, 2007
Gillispie Leaves Texas A&M for Kentucky
After a two weeks of speculation, Kentucky introduced its new basketball coach. Billy Gillispie, who coached Texas A&M to the Round of 16, will take over Wildcats...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Chlorine Attack Kills 20 in Iraqi Town
A suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives and chlorine gas toward a residential complex, police said...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Emissions Already Affecting Climate, Report Finds
The main international group studying climate change also predicted damaging and costly effects in the future...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Third Suspect Tied to F.B.I. Shooting Is Caught
State police captured a third bank robbery suspect today connected to the deadly shooting of an F.B.I. agent...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Britons Describe Treatment in Iran
Threats and psychological pressure were used before the taping of videotaped statements, they said...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
U.S. Job Numbers Are Stronger Than Expected
The economy added 180,000 new jobs in March, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Jackson memorabilia to be sold
Michael Jackson memorabilia, which includes handwritten lyrics is being auctioned off in New York next month...
BBC News - April 6, 2007
Lost Frenchmen ate jungle spiders
Two French hikers who got lost in the French Guiana jungle ate spiders and turtles to survive...
BBC News - April 6, 2007
Warming 'ruining society, nature'
Top climate experts issue the bleakest U.N. assessment yet on global warming, warning it will cause faster and wider damage than previously forecast, ranging from hunger in Africa and Asia to extinctions and rising ocean levels...
CNN - April 6, 2007
U.N.: Warming ruining society, nature
Top climate experts warned on Friday that global warming will cause faster and wider damage than previously forecast, ranging from hunger in Africa and Asia to extinctions and rising sea levels...
CNN - April 6, 2007
Berlin Journal: A Cub Is Abandoned, and a Star Is Born
A cuddly polar bear cub has become a star at the Berlin Zoo, attracting paparazzi and thousands of visitors...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Anna Nicole doctor investigated
A doctor who prescribed drugs to late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith is being investigated, an official says...
BBC News - April 6, 2007
US home emptied after hoax ad
A house near Seattle is emptied after a false online advertisement urges people to take things for free...
BBC News - April 6, 2007
Space tax takes off after US vote
Residents of the US state of New Mexico approve a tax increase to build the nation's first commercial spaceport...
BBC News - April 6, 2007
FBI: Agent may have been killed by fellow agent
An FBI agent may have been fatally wounded when another agent's weapon accidentally fired while trying to arrest three bank-robbery suspects, the bureau said. Two suspects from the New Jersey robbery are in custody and a third is being sought, authorities said...
CNN - April 6, 2007
A 'diluted' climate report?
A major report on how global warming will dramatically change life on Earth will likely read less dire about massive extinctions than scientists originally wrote...
CNN - April 6, 2007
U.S. protects Iran militants
Despite being considered terrorists by the United States, an Iranian opposition group based in Iraq continues to receive protection from the American military in the face of Iraqi pressure to leave the country...
CNN - April 6, 2007
Red Sox 4, Royals 1: On Cold Day, Matsuzaka Justifies Hot-Stove Hype
Daisuke Matsuzaka, a legend in his native Japan, played the part of legend in the making after pitching seven innings in his Major League debut for Boston...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Romney Used His Wealth to Enlist Richest Donors
Mitt Romney wanted to avoid the fate of others whose self-financed campaigns went down as quixotic indulgences...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Gunshot Kills F.B.I. Agent in a Stakeout
The agent was shot from behind at close range during a confrontation with gunmen outside a bank in New Jersey...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Throwing Batters Curves Before Throwing a Pitch
Pat Venditte is believed to be the only ambidextrous pitcher in N.C.A.A. Division I college baseball...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Federal Official in Student Loans Held Loan Stock
A senior official at the Education Department sold more than $100,000 in shares in a student loan company even as he was helping oversee lenders...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
An S O S for 911 Systems in Age of High-Tech
The 911 system has not kept pace with the nation?s rapidly changing communication habits...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Diane Rothschild, 63, a Creative Force in Ads, Dies
Diane Rothschild was an advertising executive and copywriter who headed her own firm and created pithy and amusing ad campaigns, including some for the Range Rover off-road vehicle and J&B Scotch...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Jacques Courtin-Clarins, 85, Innovator in Cosmetics, Dies
Jacques Courtin-Clarins was the founder and chairman of the Clarins Groupe, a French company that produces luxury skin-care products and makeup made primarily from plant extracts...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Payments in Conrad Black Case Were Not Secret, Defense Says
The media lord?s lawyers produce evidence that some noncompete payments were reported to the S.E.C...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Qualcomm Seeks Arbitration Ruling in Nokia Dispute
The wireless chip developer hopes to resolve a dispute over a technology license agreement that expires Monday...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Second Suitor Enters Bidding for Biosite
A tiny maker of diagnostic tests attracts an offer of $90 a share...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Germany: Acquisition for Software Maker
Software, a software maker, agreed to buy webMethods of the United States for $546 million in cash to add networking software to its product line and more than double its customer numbers in North America. Software, based in Darmstadt, will pay $9.15 for each webMethods share, the companies said. The price is 26 percent higher than the closing price of webMethods on Wednesday. WebMethods, based in Fairfax, Va., sells software systems that allow companies to link ordering and customer service systems and monitor the data, said David Mitchell, the chief executive...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: K.K.R. Drops Out of Sainsbury Bid
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company dropped out of the group that is considering a bid for J Sainsbury, the supermarket chain, leaving its three partners to pursue the takeover plan. CVC Capital Partners, the Blackstone Group and the Texas Pacific Group make up the rest of the group, which must decide on a bid by next Friday...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Louisiana: Higher Offshore Platforms
Offshore oil and natural gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico need to be built as much as 10 feet higher than had been thought, an engineer told the National Hurricane Conference...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: China: A Move to Cool the Economy
China told banks to increase their reserves for the third time this year, cutting the amount of money available for lending in a new effort to cool an investment boom that Beijing worries could lead to a financial crisis. The order comes on top of repeated interest rate increases and investment curbs imposed in the last year on real estate, auto manufacturing and other industries. The effort has had limited success in slowing the growth of investment. The amount of reserves that lenders must keep with the central bank was raised 0.5 percentage point, to 10.5 percent of their deposits, the central bank said. The increase takes effect April 16...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: Interest Rate Unchanged
The Bank of England held its benchmark interest rate steady at 5.25 percent for a third consecutive month. The bank has raised rates three times in the last year, and the pause was largely expected, but most analysts expect the bank to raise the rate one more time next month to help control inflation, which has been exceeding the bank?s target range...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: Japan: Nintendo Raises Sales Forecast
Nintendo raised its group sales forecast 7.3 percent for the year that ended in March, to 966 billion yen ($8.14 billion), as a result of strong sales of its Nintendo DS hand-held game console. The company, which previously projected group sales of 900 billion yen, said it also expected profit to exceed its previous forecast, but did not say by how much. Robust sales of Nintendo DS hardware and software were the driving forces behind the revision, the company said. Nintendo, based in Kyoto, said it would release full results on April 26...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: Singapore: Kohlberg Kravis Buying Mmi
An electronics components maker, MMI Holdings of Singapore, said that the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company had agreed to buy the company for $664 million. A unit of Kohlberg Kravis agreed to pay 1.65 Singapore dollars a share for MMI, a 16 percent premium to the closing price on Feb. 8, when the firm first approached the company. MMI, which has factories in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and China, makes components for computer hard drives...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Defense Sees Fast Wrap-Up of Its Case in Qwest Trial
DENVER, April 4 (AP) ? Defense lawyers in the insider trading trial of Joseph P. Nacchio, former chief executive of Qwest Communications, told a federal judge on Thursday that they thought they could wrap up their case in a day and a half, and might not present evidence about secret government contracts, as they have indicated they would since December 2005...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
The Churn: People
People...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
British Envoy Seeks to Free Reporter Seized in Gaza
A senior British diplomat met with the Palestinian prime minister in Gaza to discuss the fate of a kidnapped BBC correspondent...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Appeal in Enron Case
WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuters) ? Enron investors appealed Thursday to the Supreme Court, seeking review of their class-action lawsuit against investment banks that had put together financing transactions for the company, which collapsed in 2001...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Citigroup Shake-Up Puts Private Bank Under 2 Executives
Citigroup reorganized senior management at its private bank yesterday, replacing the chief executive, Damian M. Kozlowski, with two executives...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Slight Gains End a Short Trading Week
Wall Street ended a holiday-shortened week with a quiet advance yesterday as investors awaited the release of March employment figures. For the week, the major indexes showed gains each day and returned to positive territory for the year...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Jobless Claims Rise by 11,000
WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuters) ? New jobless claims rose by 11,000 last week, more than was forecast, but analysts said the labor market remained on solid ground...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Remington Arms Is Sold
Remington Arms, the gun maker that has equipped American soldiers for 150 years, has agreed to be acquired by a private equity firm, Cerberus Capital Management, for $118 million, a statement by Remington said yesterday. The company, based in Madison, N.C., reported its first profit in three years in 2006...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
A Bumpy Ride on a Brazilian Highway, and Long Waits at Either End
For drivers, the road to the coast is fraught with long lines and potholes. ...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Constellation Profit Rises 26% on U.S. Wine Sales
FAIRPORT, N.Y., April 5 (AP) ? Constellation Brands, the world?s biggest winemaker, said Thursday that its quarterly profit grew 26 percent as strong wine sales in the United States helped offset heightened competition in Britain and a drop in sales of imported beer...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
German Industry Would Alter Law Requiring Labor Seats on Boards
An unusual law that shapes the oversight of German companies is again being re-examined after corruption scandals at Siemens and Volkswagen...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Nuclear Plant Owner Seeks Payment for Lost Production
The owner of an Ohio nuclear plant has asked its insurer to pay for two years of lost production because of corrosion that it called ?unexpected and unforeseeable.?...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Female Lawyers Set Sights on Yet One More Goal: A Seat on a Board
The DirectWomen Institute is a program that recognizes the need of corporate boards to increase their female ranks...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Systems to Prevent Rollovers to Be in All New Cars by 2012
The government said the technology, called electronic stability control, could save 5,300 to 9,600 lives annually...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
For Cable TV, No Interest in Selling Ads the eBay Way
National networks tested an online exchange designed by eBay to sell advertising time and decided that it went too far in removing humans from the ad sales process...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Group Urges Investors Not to Back Times Co. Board
An independent corporate advisory group is urging shareholders to pressure the company over dissatisfaction with its performance and ownership structure...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Advertising: American Express Gets Specific and Asks, ?Are You a Cardmember??
American Express is supplanting its ?My life? theme with a specific, product-focused tack embodied by a rhetorical question...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Insider: Navigating the Hedge Fund Maze in a Leveraged World
Is risk decreased by assuming more of it and spreading it out? Investors seem to think so...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Parent of Airbus Appoints a Board Member to Be Its German Co-Chairman
Rudiger Grube, respected for his diplomatic skills and expertise in aerospace engineering, has been selected to help lead EADS...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
New Urgency in Debating Health Care
Many executives of large companies are starting to call for a national approach to fixing health care, warning that an employer-subsidized health system is unsustainable...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Zell Gets Veto Power at Tribune
Although Samuel Zell will control a minority of the Tribune Company board, he will have the right to veto any major transactions...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
[TS] High & Low Finance: This Deal Is Encouraging and Absurd
Lenders and workers are taking the risks in the Tribune Company deal, but most of the benefits will go to Sam Zell...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Again, Kerkorian Makes a Move for Chrysler
After failing in one takeover in the 1990s, the billionaire has returned with a $4.5 billion bid for the automaker...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
See You in Court, Sweetie
Equal and Splenda are going to court over the meaning of the phrase ?made from sugar.?...
New York Times - April 6, 2007
Guantanamo conditions 'worsen'
Inmates at Guantanamo Bay face "inhumane" conditions, with most held in solitary confinement, Amnesty says...
BBC News - April 6, 2007
Argentine protest sparks clashes
Argentine police use tear gas for a second day against protesting teachers, as a demonstrator dies of injuries...
BBC News - April 6, 2007
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