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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 August 2006:
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BP oil field 'closed until 2007'
BP's Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska could be back up to full production early in 2007, the U.S. government said on Tuesday as global oil prices continued to climb...
CNN - August 8, 2006
Source: Israel shells refugee camp
Israeli gunboats shell Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp for the first time since the Israel-Hezbollah conflict began, Lebanese and Palestinian officials tell The Associated Press. At least one person is killed, sources say...
CNN - August 8, 2006
Arab League takes concerns to U.N.
The U.N. Security Council is meeting with an Arab League delegation on concerns about a draft resolution aimed at ending the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon...
CNN - August 8, 2006
Lieberman blames 'Rovian tactics' for site disruption
Officials with U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's re-election campaign say that "dirty politics" and "Rovian tactics" are to blame for what they call an online attack on their campaign Web site as Connecticut voters headed to the polls Tuesday...
CNN - August 8, 2006
Killing of Aid Workers on Rise in Darfur
The deepening chaos imperils the effort to help millions of displaced people there, according to aid organizations working in the region...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
24 Killed in Baghdad as Violence Persists
Also today, testimony continued in a hearing for four soldiers charged with rape and murder in Iraq...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
DeLay Says He’ll Still Work to Be Taken Off Ballot
The Supreme Court rejected the Texas Republican Party’s last-ditch attempts to have Tom DeLay's name replaced...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Forecasters Lower Hurricane Predictions
Officials modestly downgraded their projections for the intensity of this year’s hurricane season...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
9/11 Museum Acquires Its 1st Memory
A fiberglass Statue of Liberty affixed with personal 9/11 tributes was acquired...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Lieberman Camp Blames Foes for Web Site Crash
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman's campaign accused its opponents of trying to suppress Connecticut voter turnout today in the Democratic primary race for U.S. Senate...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Nokia to Buy Loudeye in Bid to Outdo iTunes
Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of cellular phones, agreed today to buy Loudeye, a digital music distributor, for $60 million...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Bristol-Myers Sees a Generic Rival to Plavix
A Canadian drugmaker said today that it had begun shipping a generic version of Plavix to retailers in the United States...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Gas Prices Hold Steady Despite Oil Field Shutdown
The Alaskan oil field supplies about 2.6 percent of the nation's crude oil production...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Fed Takes a Pause and Leaves Rates Unchanged
In leaving benchmark interest rates untouched for the first time in two years, the Fed said its tightening of monetary policy is working...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Gangs renew Brazil street attacks
Suspected gang members fire on police stations and bomb public buildings in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo...
BBC News - August 8, 2006
Cuba dissident Arcos dies
A fellow fighter with Fidel Castro who went on to turn against the revolution, Gustavo Arcos, has died of pneumonia aged 79...
BBC News - August 8, 2006
Oil shutdown expected to hit West Coast hard
BP's decision to shut down the nation's biggest oil field is expected to squeeze the West Coast particularly hard and the government is considering releasing oil from its emergency stockpile to ease the crunch...
CNN - August 8, 2006
Israel: We'll bomb moving vehicles
The Israeli military dropped leaflets over the Lebanese city of Tyre, warning of stepped-up operations and urging people not to drive. One leaflet said, "All cars and of any type will be shelled if seen moving south of the Litani River."...
CNN - August 8, 2006
Lieberman in closely watched primary
Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman was locked in a battle with a political novice fueled by anti-war sentiment in the nation's most closely watched primary race Tuesday...
CNN - August 8, 2006
Israel warns of more strikes
The Israeli military dropped leaflets Tuesday over the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, warning of stepped-up operations and urging people not to drive on roads...
CNN - August 8, 2006
N.F.L. Owners to Vote for New Commissioner Today
Roger Goodell, the league’s C.O.O., could be within 2 or 3 votes of the 22 needed to win the job...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
China Executes Official Accused of Spying
China distributed videotapes of his trial as a warning to other civil servants, according to reports...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Democratic Voters Line Up for Primary in Connecticut
Democratic voters are deciding whether to back the three-term incumbent, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, or Ned Lamont, a multimillionaire from Greenwich whose antiwar candidacy has proved unexpectedly strong...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Consumer Borrowing Rose in June
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Cadbury goes west with 7 Up deal
Cadbury Schweppes buys the company which bottles its 7 Up brand and other drinks in San Francisco for $48m...
BBC News - August 8, 2006
Toll booths seized in Mexico City
Supporters of Mexico's defeated presidential candidate seize toll booths to protest at the result...
BBC News - August 8, 2006
Rates decision looms for US Fed
The US Federal Reserve will announce later on Tuesday whether interest rates will go up for the 18th time in a row...
BBC News - August 8, 2006
Olmert: Troops plan 'interesting'
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert describes a Lebanese proposal to send 15,000 troops to its southern border as "interesting" but combat between Israel and Hezbollah continues to claim lives...
CNN - August 8, 2006
Olmert; Troops plan 'interesting'
Israeli PM Ehud Olmert describes a Lebanese proposal to send 15,000 troops to its southern border as "interesting" but combat between Israel and Hezbollah continues to claim lives...
CNN - August 8, 2006
Jersey Police Officer Is Fatally Shot
Detective Kieran T. Shields was trying to apprehend a suspect on a residential street in Orange, N.J...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
World Business Briefing: Americas, Asia, Europe
AMERICAS...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Honda plane to take off in 2010
Honda says it hopes to deliver its first HondaJet light aircraft by 2010 after announcing plans to build it in the US...
BBC News - August 8, 2006
Tags record epic bird migration
The 40,000-mile migration by a small sea bird is the longest recorded by electronic tracking, scientists say...
BBC News - August 8, 2006
Jackson 'blames legal conspiracy'
Pop star Michael Jackson believes his former legal team set out to make him bankrupt, his spokeswoman says...
BBC News - August 8, 2006
Op 'success' for conjoined twins
A pair of four-year-old conjoined-twin girls have been separated after undergoing 16 hours of surgery...
BBC News - August 8, 2006
Trial begins in Afghan death case
The trial of an American contractor accused of the death of an Afghan prisoner begins in the US...
BBC News - August 8, 2006
Chilean copper mine hit by strike
A strike in Chile at the world's largest privately-owned copper mine cuts production by almost two-thirds...
BBC News - August 8, 2006
Cheese workers win Powerball dough
Dozens of cheese company workers returned to their jobs after they reported being among about 100 workers who won a Powerball jackpot worth $208.6 million. The group estimates each person will receive between $500,000 and $700,000, after taxes, if they choose to take a lump sum, Sargento's CEO said...
CNN - August 8, 2006
Lebanon pushes peace plan
Lebanon proposed changes to a draft U.N. resolution aimed at halting the Israel-Hezbollah conflict that left some 800 people dead -- but the missiles and rockets kept falling on both sides of the border with Israel Monday...
CNN - August 8, 2006
Saudi Arabia Begins to Face Hidden AIDS Problem
The government is opening up, but the lingering challenge for most AIDS patients is their acceptance by society...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Ohio Republican Tied to Abramoff Will Retire
Representative Bob Ney, who is entangled in a corruption scandal, said that he would abandon his re-election bid...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
DeLay Must Stay on Ballot as Court Rejects Appeal
The decision was a victory for Democrats, who fought to keep the former House majority leader in the spotlight...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
New Orleans Moves to Repair Its Legal System
The mayor announced steps to replace prosecutors, public defenders and police officers, as well as ruined courtrooms...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Lieberman and Lamont Battle to the Wire
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and Ned Lamont used sharply different tactics to gain advantage in a contest that appeared to be tightening...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Court Rules for I.B.M. on Pension
An appellate panel ruled that I.B.M. did not discriminate against its older workers when it switched retirement plans in 1999...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
A Deal Maker Jerry Garcia Might Have Liked
What does the lead singer of a rock band want with a financial magazine empire?...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
El Paso Corp. Returns to a Profit
HOUSTON, Aug. 7 (AP) — The El Paso Corporation, the natural gas distributor, said on Monday that it swung to a $141 million profit in the second quarter because of gains in pipeline income and hedges on oil and gas production prices...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Consumer Borrowing Rose in June
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
C. V. Starr Escalates a Legal Feud With A.I.G.
By Reuters...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Drug Distributors to Merge Units
The AmerisourceBergen Corporation and Kindred Healthcare said that they planned to spin off their institutional pharmacy businesses and merge them...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
S.E.C. Asks Game Publisher for Data
The video game publisher THQ Inc. said it intended to cooperate fully with a request for documents and information related to its stock option grant practices...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
New Suitor Emerges for a Cable Maker
CommScope Inc., a communications cable maker, offered to buy a rival, the Andrew Corporation, for $1.5 billion...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
TV Sports: NFL Network Gains Ground in Cable Battle
The F.C.C. handed the NFL Network a victory this week in its battle with Time Warner Cable over gaining access to Time Warner’s subscribers...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
A. G. Edwards to Settle Claims of Overcharging
By Reuters...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Northwest Airlines’ Losses Mount as Costs Rise
EAGAN, Minn., Aug. 7 (AP) — Northwest Airlines, which has been operating under bankruptcy protection, posted a wider second-quarter loss on Monday as its revamping costs mounted. But its executives pointed to promising developments in their plans to cut labor and pension costs...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Chip Maker Fires 4 Executives After Inquiry Into Travel Funds
The dismissals at the Atmel Corporation came after an investigation into allegations that company travel funds were misused...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Starbucks Picks Novel to Start Its Book-Sale Program
With a new novel coming out in September, Mitch Albom, author of “Tuesdays With Morrie” and “The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” is getting a heavy push from Starbucks...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
S.E.C. Decides It Won’t Appeal on Hedge Funds
The commission said it would not challenge an appeals court ruling that overturned its new rules for the oversight of hedge funds...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Coke and Pepsi Try to Reassure India That Drinks Are Safe
The campaign followed a report contending that the drinks contain high levels of pesticide causing local governments to impose partial bans...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Shares Slip as Price of Oil Surges Again
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
AOL Removes Search Data on Group of Web Users
AOL removed a list of the Web search inquiries of 658,000 unnamed users from a public Web site, after bloggers complained that the information compromised the users’ privacy...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Big U.S. Business Troupe Is Being Readied for India
The Bush administration is organizing a business delegation to India this fall, potentially the largest ever to a single country...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Wal-Mart’s Latest Special: 6% Raises at Some Stores
The company said the wage increases would occur at 1,200 Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores, but it did not say how many employees would be affected...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Apple Completes Transition to Intel Chips
Analysts agreed that Apple’s shift to Intel, in a quest to improve upon the performance of the Power PC chips developed by I.B.M. and Motorola, had been a success...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
China Turns Out Mummified Bodies for Displays
A ghastly underground mini-industry has emerged in China, preparing human corpses for the museum exhibition market...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Must Haves: Cellphones Top Iraqi Cool List
Cellphones are a window into Iraqis’ macabre sense of humor and their resilience amid the swells of violence...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Google Deal Will Give News Corp. Huge Payoff
Google has won a bidding war to provide search services and advertising to MySpace.com and other News Corporation sites...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Stewart Deal Resolves Stock Case
Martha Stewart agreed to pay $195,000 and Peter Bacanovic, her broker, agreed to pay $75,645...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Biggest Oil Field in U.S. Is Forced to Stop Pumping
The emergency at BP's Prudhoe Bay operation in Alaska drove world crude oil prices to just under $77 a barrel...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
A Forbes Family Fund-Raiser
Forbes magazine may call itself the “capitalist tool,” but it apparently no longer produces enough capital to support the family empire...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Frequent Flier: Free Advice From an Expert on Getting Stuff Free
In the islands, T-shirts are often as good as local currency...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Public Pension Plans Face Billions in Shortages
By one estimate, state and local governments owe roughly $375 billion more than they have committed to their pension funds...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Advertising: Ads in a Mere Magazine? How Last Century
Part of staying relevant means staging outsize, razzle-dazzle productions that incorporate other media, but have relatively little to do with the print product...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
The Science of Zzzzz’s
Jet lag is becoming a bigger aggravation in the global economy, leading sleep researchers to work harder to find suitable remedies...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Flying This Summer Has Been No Vacation
After I asked readers for reports on their own recent experiences in the chaotic air-travel system, my in-box was flooded...
New York Times - August 8, 2006
Israel withdraws Venezuela envoy
Israel is to withdraw its ambassador to Venezuela as a row over the war in Lebanon escalates...
BBC News - August 8, 2006
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