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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 December 2005:
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Snow storm wallops the Northeast
A winter storm dumped almost a foot of snow across much of the Northeast on Friday. That made commutes treacherous and closed schools. In some places, the snow was falling too fast for road crews to keep up...
CNN - December 9, 2005
Draw maps road to World Cup glory
Defending champions Brazil will face 1998 semifinalists Croatia in their opening match of the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.
Host Germany start the tournament on June 9 against Costa Rica in Munich after the draw made in Leipzig on Friday night.
England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson will come up against his home country, Sweden, in his third match, after openers against Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago...
CNN - December 9, 2005
Tricky negotiations expected over tax cuts
Congress is in a late-session gift-giving mood, but until the House and Senate reconcile competing tax relief bills, it will be hard to tell whether the big winners will be the middle class or the well heeled -- or both...
CNN - December 9, 2005
Nations Draw Their Spots in World Cup Tournament
When the draw was made Friday, many of the 32 nations found it brought meetings with old acquaintances, not necessarily friends...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Corzine Selects Menendez to Replace Him in Senate
Representative Robert Menendez of New Jersey will serve out the remaining year of the governor-elect's Senate term...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
World Cup finals draw in full
Full details of the draw for the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
Brazil nun 'shot in self-defence'
One of two men accused over the death of a US-born nun in Brazil tells a court he shot her in self-defence...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
UN renews US 'torture' criticism
Top UN human rights official Louise Arbour repeats her charge that the US is loosening curbs on torture...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
Mexico sentences cardinal killer
A Mexican court jails a former police commander for 40 years for the 1993 killing of a Roman Catholic cardinal...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
Fatal crash: Visibility 'horrible'
People aboard a U.S. passenger jet -- and witnesses on the ground -- describe the harrowing moments as the Boeing 737 ran off the runway at Chicago airport, plowed into an intersection and killed a boy in a car...
CNN - December 9, 2005
Winter storms to merge, dump more snow
A storm that dumped as much as 10 inches of snow from Texas to Indiana hit the Northeast, shutting down schools and snarling rush-hour traffic. "It actually will be quite a doozy of a snowstorm," said Thomas Spriggs, a National Weather Service forecaster...
CNN - December 9, 2005
Dean: Democrats have plan for Iraq
Leading Democrats sought Thursday to promote a specific plan for what party chairman Howard Dean called a "strategic redeployment" of U.S. troops from Iraq. The plan is one that the party "can coalesce around," Dean said...
CNN - December 9, 2005
Iran Holocaust remarks condemned
Iran's hard-line president, who once called for Israel to be "wiped off the map," again sparked a barrage of international criticism, saying the Jewish state should be moved to Europe and questioning whether the Holocaust took place...
CNN - December 9, 2005
Fast-Moving Winter Storm Turns Northeast White
A winter storm was dumping snow throughout parts of the Northeast, but is expected to be short-lived...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
After Mixed Reviews, Chris Rock Will Not Return as Oscar Host
The decision leaves a small pool of other likely candidates, among them Billy Crystal, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Chicago Airport Reopens, After Skidding Plane Kills Boy
Southwest Airlines' chief executive said it was too early to conclude that inclement weather was the cause of the accident...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Alltell to Spin Off Land-Line Phone Unit
Under the terms of the $9.1 billion deal, Alltel will merge its fixed-line business with Valor Communications, an independent local phone company in the Southwest...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
AK-47: The Jamaican rapper
The AK-47 is one of the world's iconic weapons. The BBC talked to those whose lives have been affected by the weapon...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
US consumers upbeat for holidays
US shoppers enter the Christmas shopping season in an upbeat mood, but big winter heating bills could yet stifle their spending...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
NFL: Raiders drop Collins
Oakland drop quarterback Kerry Collins and will start Marques Tuiasosopo for the rest of the season...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
Two tried for Brazil nun murder
Two men go on trial over the murder of a US-born nun allegedly killed in a dispute with Brazilian landowners...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
Boy killed as jet skids into car
A U.S. Southwest Airlines jet has skidded off a runway in a heavy snowstorm at Chicago's Midway Airport, sliding into an intersection and killing a young boy in a car. Another car was also hit by the Boeing 737 and eight other vehicle passengers are in a serious condition...
CNN - December 9, 2005
Deadly winter storm barrels eastward
A storm that wreaked havoc as it dumped as much as 10 inches of snow from Texas to Indiana barreled eastward on Friday, promising to bring more of the same. "It actually will be quite a doozy of a snowstorm," said Thomas Spriggs, a National Weather Service forecaster...
CNN - December 9, 2005
Lean Tulane to Reopen Its Campus Next Month
Tulane University is coping with the effects of Katrina by laying off more than 200 faculty members and eliminating programs...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Bush battle for hearts and minds
By going into great detail on work to rebuild Iraq's economy, the US president paints a very different picture to what most Americans see TV, says the BBC's Matt Davis...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
Schwimmer heads to Broadway
Former Friends actor David Schwimmer is to debut on Broadway after impressing critics in London...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
Teams to learn World Cup fate
The 32 participants will find out who they will face at the 2006 World Cup in the draw on Friday evening...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
Fujimori barred from 2006 ballot
Peru's electoral tribunal confirms that ex-President Fujimori cannot hold any public sector job until 2011...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
Chavez to sit at Mercosur table
The presidents of the South American trading bloc Mercosur are expected to start the process of including Venezuela as a member...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
Project opens up quake 'machine'
Scientists report promising results from the project to drill 3km down into the famous San Andreas Fault...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
Boy dies as jet skids off runway
A plane skids off the runway at Chicago's Midway airport, slamming into two cars and killing a boy...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
Plane slides off Chicago runway
A Southwest Airlines jet slid off the runway during a heavy snowstorm at Chicago's Midway Airport on Thursday night. The plane slid into two cars at a nearby intersection. One boy riding in a car was killed...
CNN - December 9, 2005
Plane slides off runway at Chicago
A U.S. Southwest Airlines jet has skidded off a runway in a heavy snowstorm at Chicago's Midway Airport, sliding into an intersection and killing a young boy in a car. Another car was also hit by the Boeing 737 and eight other vehicle passengers were in a serious condition, Chicago Fire Department commissioner Cortez Trotter said...
CNN - December 9, 2005
When Christmas Falls on Sunday, Megachurches Take the Day Off
Some of the nation's megachurches have decided not to hold worship services on the Sunday that coincides with Christmas Day...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Jet Skids Off Chicago Runway Into Cars, Killing 6-Year-Old
A jetliner trying to land in heavy snow slid off a runway in Chicago into a street, hitting one vehicle and pinning another beneath it...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Ebocha Journal: Strangers in the Dazzling Night: A Mix of Oil and Misery
Across Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, valuable natural gas is burned off for lack of an infrastructure to harness it...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Fretful Passenger, Turmoil on Jet and Fatal Shots
The Miami-Dade Police Department said that preliminary evidence suggested the man had repeatedly refused to surrender...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Advertising: Small Tech-Astute Agency Wins a Small-Car Account
The new agency for the Mini Cooper is just the type that is remaking the way marketers approach advertising...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
[TS] Do Companies Need a Little Democracy?
Four years after Enron's bankruptcy, reforms have changed many things in corporate America. But one change that seemed likely - an increase in shareholder power - has not been realized...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Intel Narrows Sales Forecast for Quarter
The Intel Corporation, the world's largest chip maker, said Thursday that its fourth-quarter revenue would meet the midpoint of its expectations...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Putin Presses Ukraine to Pay Market Price for Natural Gas
With aid flowing in from the West after the overhaul of its government, Ukraine should pay market prices for the Russian natural gas it consumes, Russia's president said...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
As Transit Talks Drag on, Some Suspect a Slowdown
Some riders say something about their commute is awry and M.T.A. officials suggested it's a work slowdown by transit union members...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Shares Drop After Builder Turns Cautious on 2006
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
New Surveys Show That Big Business Has a P.R. Problem
Pollsters, researchers, even many corporate chiefs themselves say that business is under attack by a majority of the public...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Virtual Achievement for Hire: It's Only Wrong if You Get Caught
So there I was Sunday night, minding my own business in the World of Warcraft online computer game, killing a few rock elementals in the Badlands, when I received two unsolicited private messages from a player with the unlikely name Hfasdlf...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
World's Largest Brewer Set to Increase China Holdings
InBev, the world's largest producer of beer, has won a fierce bidding war and is set to acquire one of China's largest brewers for about $750 million...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Dunkin' Brands Is Attracting a Crowd of Would-Be Owners
Three groups of private equity buyers and the Triarc Companies, the owner of Arby's, are planning to bid for control of Dunkin' Brands...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Jobless Claims Rise by 6,000, U.S. Reports
The number of workers filing new jobless claims rose by 6,000 last week, a higher number than expected...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Accord to Raise Flu Drug Output Is Seen
Roche is close to announcing agreements to allow 15 pharmaceutical companies or governments to help produce Tamiflu, the influenza drug that is being stockpiled in the event of a flu pandemic...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Artery-Repair Devices Are Recalled
The Boston Scientific Corporation said that it was recalling 40,000 devices used to treat blocked coronary arteries...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Virgin Group Gets Financing for Low-Fare Airline in U.S.
CHICAGO, Dec. 8 - The British holding company Virgin Group said Thursday that it had raised the $177.3 million needed to start a low-fare airline in the United States, disquieting news to domestic carriers hoping for an industrywide reduction in fleet to help push up fares...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Cost of Internal Control Audits to Fall, Study Says
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Kellogg Will Use New Soybean Oil to Cut Fat
The Kellogg Company is set to announce Friday that it will become the first major food maker to use a new type of soybean oil to reduce trans fats in its baked foods...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Times Co. Names Research Executive
The New York Times Company has appointed Michael Zimbalist, president of the Online Publishers Association, to the new position of vice president for research and development operations...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Nerve Stimulation and Revenue Growth
An unexpected takeover battle between Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson for control of Guidant seems bound to send aftershocks through the medical device industry...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Insider: Should Hedge Funds Be Exempt From an Exemption?
CHIEF executives are increasingly convinced that activist investors - usually hedge funds - are running amok...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Labor to Press for Workers' Right to Join Unions
The A.F.L.-C.I.O. says the right of American workers to form unions is being systematically violated...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Saks Holders Reject Annual Vote for Board
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese
Affluent online gamers are paying workers at Chinese game-playing factories to play games' early rounds for them...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Medical Journal Criticizes Merck Over Vioxx Data
Merck is accused of misrepresenting the results of a crucial clinical trial of Vioxx to play down its heart risks...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
A Maker of Games Is Bought
Electronic Arts, the video game publisher, said it had reached a $680 million deal to acquire Jamdat Mobile, which makes games to be played on mobile phones...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Car Plants as Chips in Big-Stakes Game
Officials are making offers to keep Ford and General Motors, and parts suppliers like Visteon and Delphi, all of which plan to close factories...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Alltel Plans to Spin Off Phone Unit
Alltel, the nation's largest rural telephone company, has agreed to spin off its land-line unit and merge it with Valor Communications in a deal worth $9.1 billion...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Tougher Year Lies Ahead for OPEC
After having avoided divisive issues for the last year, OPEC is likely to face a much different picture next year...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Some Investors Wonder if Mellon Financial Is Being All It Can Be
Mellon Financial has in recent years undergone a makeover, transforming itself from a slow-growing mid-Atlantic bank into an asset management giant...
New York Times - December 9, 2005
Jet skids off runway in Chicago
A Southwest Airlines plane slides off the runway at Chicago's Midway airport, killing a boy on the ground...
BBC News - December 9, 2005
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