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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 May 2007:
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Bush and Queen Celebrate Common Values
?We honor our traditions and our shared history,? President Bush said...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
N.J. Governor Ready to Resume Duties
Jon S. Corzine said that his prolonged absence from a job that he loves was driving him ?stir crazy.?...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Flooding Forces Evacuations in Plains
Thunderstorms and soaking rain produced flooding today in parts of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Astronomers Report Biggest Stellar Explosion
Astronomers reported today that they had seen the most powerful stellar explosion ever recorded...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Car Bombs Kill 25 at Iraqi Police Checkpoint
Ramadi, which was the site of the car bombs, has been the center of a fight between Al Qaeda and Sunni Arab tribes...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Obama Criticizes Automakers on Fuel Economy
The senator said the Japanese had done far better than Detroit companies to develop energy efficient vehicles...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
ABN Amro Rejects $24.5 Billion Bid for LaSalle
ABN Amro said the offer led by the Royal Bank of Scotland was linked to too many conditions and made it difficult to recommend to shareholders...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Fox Interactive Nears Deal to Buy Photobucket
Photobucket is in advanced talks to be acquired by Fox Interactive Media, a division of the News Corporation...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Mercosur parliament inaugurated
The new assembly of the member states of South America's Mercosur trading bloc is inaugurated in Uruguay...
BBC News - May 7, 2007
Maradona leaves alcoholism clinic
Argentina football legend Diego Maradona is released from a specialist clinic treating addictions...
BBC News - May 7, 2007
Survivor found in town's ruins
Searchers found a person alive in the rubble in Greensburg, Kansas, two days after a tornado flattened the town. The survivor was found late Sunday, providing hope for other discoveries, said Kansas Highway Patrol spokesman Ron Knoefel. The search for survivors or victims had been complicated by the extent of the damage...
CNN - May 7, 2007
Leader's remarks point to GOP nervousness on Iraq
The top House Republican said Sunday that GOP support could waver if President Bush's Iraq war policy does not succeed by the fall...
CNN - May 7, 2007
Alcoa Makes a Bid for Alcan of Canada
The deal, valued at $27 billion, would once again make Alcoa the world?s largest aluminum company...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
US puts trust in Alaska missile shield
The BBC's Jonathan Beale examines the remote Alaskan military base at the heart of a controversial US missile defence system...
BBC News - May 7, 2007
Chief witness set for Black trial
The trial of Lord Black is set to reach a crucial stage as the key prosecution witness appears on the stand...
BBC News - May 7, 2007
BAE in $4.5bn US takeover offer
Britain's BAE Systems agrees to take over US defence company Armor Holdings in a deal worth $4.5bn...
BBC News - May 7, 2007
Alcoa in $27bn hostile bid move
US aluminium maker Alcoa launches a $27bn hostile takeover bid for Canadian rival Alcan...
BBC News - May 7, 2007
Senior Wolfowitz aide steps down
Kevin Kellems, a senior aide to embattled World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, says he has resigned...
BBC News - May 7, 2007
Sarkozy: I have mandate for change
France was Monday looking ahead to a new political era after conservative Nicolas Sarkozy took a decisive victory in presidential elections that he claimed as a five year mandate for change. "The French people have called for change. I will carry out that change, because that's the mandate I have received from the French people," he said...
CNN - May 7, 2007
Clemens Returns, and So Does Hope for Yankees
The pitcher will receive a $28 million salary, prorated based on the date he is added to the major league roster...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Man in the News: Sarkozy Wins the Chance to Prove His Critics Wrong
Nicolas Sarkozy, who defeated Ségolène Royal for the French presidency, is one of the most polarizing figures to move into Élysée Palace in the postwar era...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
World leaders congratulate Sarkozy
European leaders congratulated Nicolas Sarkozy on his victory in France's presidential election on Sunday and hoped his triumph would help unblock reforms stalled by the rejection of the EU constitution in 2005...
CNN - May 7, 2007
?Spider-Man 3? Box Office Bodes Well for Summer
The movie took in an estimated $148 million in domestic ticket sales and broke records internationally...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
An Empty Place Where a Kansas Town Once Stood
The town of Greensburg, Kan., was destroyed by a tornado over a mile wide on Friday night...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
California Gains Clout With Earlier Primary
Its size, concentrations of liberals and conservatives, and role as fertile ground for policy innovation make California likely to wield additional power...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Critic Says New Orleans Levees Show Signs of Flaws
Some levee repairs by the Army Corps of Engineers are showing signs of serious flaws, a critic says...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Throngs Attend Speech by Pakistan?s Suspended Justice
The chief justice of Pakistan?s supreme court was suspended by the government after he investigated some of its practices...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Addenda: Crispin Porter Acquires Radar Communications
Crispin Porter Acquires...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Treasury Bills Scheduled for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week includes today?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Looking Ahead
EYES ON INTEREST RATES The main news of the week is likely to be the meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve (Wednesday). The committee is expected to hold interest rates steady at 5.25 percent. The European Central Bank is also scheduled to issue a decision on rates (Thursday)...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Qantas Says Takeover Bid Fails, but Group of Suitors Disagrees
Qantas said a takeover bid by Airline Partners Australia failed after regulators refused to step in and save it...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Drilling Down: Counting Radio Listeners Stirs Controversy
Philadelphians being surveyed by Arbitron now wear pager-size devices that register hidden audio tones in nearby radio sound...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
A Guru Offers Help on Credit Scores, but No Longer Makes Any Promises
A proposed class-action settlement means that Suze Orman can no longer claim that her credit-score kit can improve a person?s creditworthiness...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Link by Link: Taking Violence to a New, Technological Absurdity
A parody on ?Saturday Night Live? has been supplanted by something even more viral and revealing of the popular mindscape on YouTube...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
A Boston Newspaper Prints What the Local Bloggers Write
BostonNow, a free weekday daily, is culling blog posts and running excerpts next to articles from reporters and newswires...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Panel to Find That Wolfowitz Broke Rules, Officials Say
World Bank officials said the committee investigating misconduct charges against Paul D. Wolfowitz would eventually find that he violated bank rules barring conflicts of interest...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Fashion Industry Rallies to Aid Designer in Trouble
Narciso Rodriguez?s candor about his company?s money problems will be rewarded with Liz Claiborne?s acquisition of his upscale label...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Ottaways Deplore Bid by Murdoch
Members of the Ottaway family, a minority partner in Dow Jones, said a takeover by Rupert Murdoch would ruin the company and The Wall Street Journal...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Hollywood Loves the Tiny Screen. Advertisers Don?t.
Multiepisode cellphone series are growing in popularity but advertisers have been slow to migrate to the supersmall screen...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Beam It Down From the Web, Scotty
New 3-D printers that transform three-dimensional plans online into solid objects could be in homes much sooner than you think...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Whistle-Blower on Student Aid Is Vindicated
Lawmakers say the Bush administration resisted calls to improve oversight of the student loan industry...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
About.com Buys ConsumerSearch.com
The information site owned by The New York Times Company will announce that it has bought ConsumerSearch.com for $33 million...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Tech Investors Cull Start-Ups for Pentagon
The Defense Department is using the nation?s top technology investors to help it find innovations from tiny start-up companies...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Bidding War for ABN Amro Division Intensifies
The consortium led by the Royal Bank of Scotland is said to have submitted a $24.5 billion offer for LaSalle Bank, contingent on its successful takeover of ABN Amro...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Hard Sell Cited as Insurers Push Plans to Elderly
Improper hard-sell tactics have persuaded Medicare recipients to sign up for private health plans that cost the government, officials say...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Advertising: Cellphones Tailored for Any Organization
A start-up company is trying to apply the concept of affinity groups to the cellphone market, as banks have long done with credit cards...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Book Not Ready for Print? You Can Whip Up an Audiobook for a Podcast for Now
Audio books are fast, inexpensive and easy to record, leading publisher to look to the audio format to fuel early interest in paper books...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Time Learns That Popular Taste Can Vary a Lot With the Test Market
Time magazine asked the online community to choose the most influential person in the world. The winner was Rain, a South Korean singer...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Beyond Books: Oprah Winfrey?s Seal of Approval Goes Presidential
Oprah Winfrey?s support for Barack Obama represented her first endorsement of a political candidate...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Journalists Intend to Sue Hewlett-Packard Over Surveillance
Three journalists whose private phone records were scrutinized intend to sue Hewlett-Packard for invasion of privacy...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
The Media Equation: Once Again, Murdoch?s Siren Song
Examining the News Corporation?s bid for Dow Jones, bearing in mind Rupert Murdoch?s unique business DNA...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
E-Commerce Report: Want to See That Shot Again? Download It for $3
The N.B.A. announced a new video download store that will allow fans to download playoff games for $3 apiece...
New York Times - May 7, 2007
Golf: Woods' Wachovia victory
Tiger Woods shoots a final-round 69 to clinch the Wachovia Championship in Charlotte by two strokes...
BBC News - May 7, 2007
US troops killed at Kabul prison
Two US soldiers are killed and two injured in a shooting outside a prison on the outskirts of Kabul...
BBC News - May 7, 2007
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