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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
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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Laura Bush visits Peruvian hospital
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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China 19,000 victims identified from May quake
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Obama keeps low profile in auto rescue talks
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Meyer expecting baby No. 2
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
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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US News Archive for June 2005:
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Source: Suspects trolled island hotels
Two men charged in the disappearance of a U.S. teenager who went missing in Aruba more than a week ago were known to police for trolling area hotels to pick up women, and at least one had a previous brush with the law, a police officer said Tuesday...
CNN - June 7, 2005
GM closing plants, cutting 25,000 jobs
General Motors is cutting 25,000 jobs and closing an unspecified number of plants over the next 3-1/2 years, CEO Rick Wagoner told shareholders. The world's largest automaker is struggling to stem huge losses. The 25,000 jobs represent about 17 percent of GM's U.S. work force...
CNN - June 7, 2005
U.S., Iraqi troops launch offensive
U.S. and Iraqi troops launch another major military operation against insurgents in Iraq, a show of force in the northwestern city of Tal Afar -- not far from the huge, porous Syria border that has been navigated with impunity by anti-American foreign fighters...
CNN - June 7, 2005
Abstract Art's New World, Forged for All
Richard Serra's installation of giant bent steel sculptures at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is one of the great works of the past half-century...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
West Side Stadium, Another Big Idea Brought Down by Politics
The death of the West Side stadium calls into question whether anyone can build big in New York anymore...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
G.M. Plans to Cut 25,000 Jobs in Next 3 Years
General Motors plans the cuts as it shuts down more assembly and component plants, the company's chief exeutive said today...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Greenspan adds to yuan pressure
US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan adds to calls for China to allow the yuan to trade freely...
BBC News - June 7, 2005
NBA: Pistons finally douse Heat
Richard Hamilton scores 22 points as defending champions Detroit beat Miami 88-82 to reach this year's NBA Finals...
BBC News - June 7, 2005
NFL: 'Neon Deion stays at Ravens'
NFL great Deion Sanders has agreed a new contract with the Ravens, according to reports...
BBC News - June 7, 2005
Finance trial looms for Pinochet
A Chilean court strips Augusto Pinochet of immunity, opening the way to his prosecution for tax evasion...
BBC News - June 7, 2005
Arubans join hunt
Aruba civil servants Monday joined police, Dutch marines and FBI agents in the search for 18-year-old Alabama student Natalee Holloway who vanished a week ago on the Caribbean island...
CNN - June 7, 2005
Bolivian president submits resignation
Bolivian President Carlos Mesa announced on national television late Monday that he was submitting his resignation to Congress. It is the second time this year he has offered to step down amid weeks of street protests and road blockades. On Monday, tens of thousands of Indians, miners, labor and peasant protesters staged their biggest anti-government march in weeks, paralyzing downtown La Paz...
CNN - June 7, 2005
Bolivian president submits resignation
Bolivian President Carlos Mesa has announced on national television that he is submitting his resignation to Congress, the second time this year he has offered to step down amid weeks of street protests and road blockades...
CNN - June 7, 2005
Olympic Bid Hurt as New York Fails in West Side Stadium Quest
The stadium became a victim of the city's and state's clashing rebuilding priorities after the World Trade Center attack...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
In County Made Rich by Golf, Some Enclaves Are Left Behind
As developers rush to provide "resort quality" amenities in new subdivisions in Moore County, N.C., some neighborhoods have been left without sewers...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
In a Test of Guts, the Pistons Grab the Glory
Detroit, with timely contributions from Rasheed Wallace and Richard Hamilton, closed out Miami, 88-82, with decisive defense...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Microsoft Ordered to Pay Inventor $8.9 Million in Patent Case
Microsoft was told by a jury to pay a Guatemalan inventor $8.96 million for infringing a patent that links its Access and Excel programs through a single spreadsheet...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Does a 42-Inch Plasma TV Justify a 4-Star Hotel Price?
Beverly Hills, Calif...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Missing a Muse but Still Finding Inspiration
FOR two years I crisscrossed the globe, meeting the world's great travel writers. Simon Winchester served me Lapsang souchong tea and homemade lemon tea cake at his farm near Great Barrington, Mass. Bill Bryson trudged through six inches of snow to meet me at a pub, which had a small plaque near our table reading "Bryson's Booth," in Hanover, N.H...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Bumping Jobs
A growing number of business travelers are bumping into the downside of outsourcing these days...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
ProLogis to Acquire a Real Estate Rival in a $3.6 Billion Deal
ProLogis, a real estate investment trust, agreed to acquire the Catellus Development Corporation, a rival, for $3.6 billion in cash and stock...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Air Fare Fracas
AIR FARE FRACAS A new attempt by major airlines to raise fares on most domestic flights has just about collapsed as, one after the other, carriers rescinded price increases begun Thursday night by United Airlines and matched by the other majors on Friday. Most of the attempted increases were $10 to $20 for round-trip tickets, said Terry Trippler, the airline analyst for Cheapseats.com. Except for AirTran, none of the low-cost carriers joined in the latest round of fare increases, he said. On Sunday, American Airlines and Northwest Airlines...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Another Step in Charting Health Data
The Bush administration plans to award $50 million in contracts to companies that can further its goal of creating a national health information network...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Some Immigrants Are Offering Social Security Numbers for Rent
Operating in immigrant communities, an underground trade in identities has emerged on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Disney Trial to Proceed
A judge ruled that a trial would proceed over whether Walt Disney Company directors gave fair consideration to outside candidates in the search for a chief executive...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Diageo to Buy a Pernod Asset and Stay Out of Domecq Fight
Diageo, the world's largest liquor company, agreed Monday to buy the Bushmills Irish whiskey brand from Pernod Ricard of France...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Britain Showing Signs of a Slowdown
Reduced profits at some of Britain's best-known retailers may be signs of a significant slowdown, as heavily indebted consumers are curbing their free-spending ways...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Europe and Microsoft in Accord on Competition Rules
After more than a year of wrangling, the European Commission and Microsoft appear to have reached agreement on how to meet Europe's competition standards...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Quest Diagnostics Says the Justice Department Is Investigating Its Lab Test Contracts
Quest Diagnostics, the nation's largest provider of medical lab tests, said yesterday that the Justice Department was investigating its contracts and business dealings with major public and private health care providers from 1993 through 1999...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
E.W. Scripps to Buy Shopzilla
The media company E. W. Scripps said that it intended to buy Shopzilla, a privately held online comparison shopping site, for $525 million...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Another Senior Executive Resigns at Morgan Stanley
Another senior executive resigned from Morgan Stanley yesterday, extending what has become a stream of departures from the investment bank...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Greenspan Says Low Rates Tempt Investors to Risk More
WASHINGTON, June 6 - Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, warned Monday night that the baffling persistence of low long-term interest rates was driving investors to hunt for higher returns by plowing money into hedge funds that will not be able to deliver on their promises...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Weatherford to Buy Two Oil Drilling Units
Weatherford International is buying two divisions of the Precision Drilling Corporation, an oil services company based in Calgary, Alberta, for about $2.28 billion...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Enron Figure Enters a Halfway House
HOUSTON, June 6 (AP) - Lea Fastow, a former assistant treasurer at the Enron Corporation and wife of its former chief financial officer, left a federal prison here early Monday to serve the last month of her one-year sentence for a tax crime in a halfway house, her lawyer said...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
False Sales Make a Better Bottom Line, but Only for a While
A house of cards ultimately collapses. And the channel-stuffing scheme at the pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb was no exception...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Shares Rise on Thin Volume as Market Awaits Reports
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
A New Issue Is Complicating U.S. Trade Talks With China
Heavy investment and hiring by Chinese textile and apparel companies have complicated a trade dispute between the United States and China...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
A Plea Expected in Inquiry of Insurer
A former executive of the General Re Corporation plans to plead guilty to charges of helping the American International Group doctor its books...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Scrushy Jury Plans to Take 3 Days Off
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 6 - Despite the judge's admonishment late last week to break their deadlock, the jurors deciding the fate of former HealthSouth chief executive Richard M. Scrushy deliberated without a resolution on Monday and plan to meet only one more day this week...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Visteon Plan Approved
DETROIT, June 6 (AP) - Members of the United Automobile Workers union voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to realign the auto supplier Visteon, the union said Monday...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Black, White or Gray
The chief executive of a General Electric unit is suing the company for racial discrimination, in a powerful illustration of how statistics and emotions clash in corporate bias cases...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Apple's Next Test: Get Developers to Write Programs for Intel Chips
Apple's decision to shift the Macintosh microprocessor business to Intel was the latest bold maneuver by Steven Jobs...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Pension Loopholes Helped United Hide Troubles
Loopholes in the federal pension law allowed United Airlines to treat its pension fund as solid for years, when in fact it was dangerously weakening...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Doubts Rising About a Venture to Import Chinese Cars
The future of Visionary Vehicles, the company that announced it would bring the first Chinese-made automobiles to the U.S. by 2007, appears to be in doubt...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Bank to Buy Credit Card Business for $6.45 Billion
Washington Mutual, which grew rapidly from a Seattle savings institution to a home loan giant, said yesterday that it would buy Providian Financial for $6.45 billion in cash and stock, its first major foray into the credit card business...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
NBC Lowering Rates on Commercial Time for 2005-6 Season
The networks are wrapping up efforts to sell commercial time ahead of the 2005-6 season as NBC began making deals at lower rates for the first time in four years...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
Personal Data for 3.9 Million Lost in Transit
CitiFinancial said that a box of computer tapes containing information on 3.9 million customers was lost by United Parcel Service last month...
New York Times - June 7, 2005
How Jaws changed Hollywood
Three decades on, Steven Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster Jaws still casts a long shadow over Tinseltown...
BBC News - June 7, 2005
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