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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 July 2007:
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Hurricane Center Chief Is Reassigned
The director of the National Hurricane Center was temporarily reassigned today, four days after many of the center?s employees called for his removal...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Many Vacancies at Homeland Security
Fully one-fourth of top positions at the Department of Homeland Security are vacant, according to a report released by a House oversight committee...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Government Shutdown in Pennsylvania
Gov. Ed Rendell shut down all but critical government services over a budget dispute with the Legislature...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
2 Police Officers Shot During Brooklyn Traffic Stop
?One will recover, and one is clinging to life,? Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said today...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Fugitive Hedge Fund Manager Is Caught
VIENNA (Reuters) - The five-year getaway of a banker whose U.S. fund lost $400 million when he bet against the Internet stockmarket bubble in the late 1990s ended on Friday when he was caught in Austria, police said on Monday...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Consumer Credit Rose $12.9 Billion in May
Consumer borrowing posted a hefty increase in May, reflecting the biggest jump in credit card debt in six months...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Alcoa Profit Slips in Second Quarter
The aluminum maker said second-quarter profit slipped nearly 4 percent as outage costs at two smelters weighed down results...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Securities Case
A former partner in Milberg Weiss & Bershad will plead guilty to helping to pay kickbacks in securities lawsuits...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Chicago market agrees $11bn deal
Shareholders in the Chicago Board of Trade approve its $11.9bn (£5.9bn) merger with Chicago Mercantile Exchange...
BBC News - July 9, 2007
Bush says aides will not testify
US President George W Bush invokes executive privilege to shield aides from testifying over the firing of federal prosecutors...
BBC News - July 9, 2007
Pennsylvania Governor Orders Partial Shutdown
Gov. Ed Rendell shut down the Pennsylvania government late Sunday over a budget stalemate with the Legislature...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
2 Police Officers Shot in Brooklyn
Police today were seeking two suspects in the shooting, which wounded one of the officers seriously...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Bush Denies Congress Access to Aides
The president invoked executive privilege today to defy subpoenas from Congress for testimony on the firings of prosecutors...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Lear Accepts Sweetened Bid From Icahn Company
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn's American Real Estate Partners LP raised its takeover offer for Lear Corp. to about $3 billion after shareholders balked at a previous buyout proposal...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Carlyle to Acquire Sequa for About $2.7 Billion
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firm Carlyle Group said on Monday it would buy aircraft and auto parts maker Sequa Corp. for $2 billion...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Apollo Raises Offer for Huntsman to $6.2 Billion
Apollo Management LP?s Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. said Monday it raised its rival takeover bid for chemical company Huntsman Corp. to about $6.2 billion...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Danone Bids for Royal Numico
The French food group said it was offering $16.8 billion to buy Dutch baby food company Royal Numico, which is recommending that shareholders accept the deal...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
The Week Ahead
This week?s coming quarterly reports, economic data, merger votes and interest rate decisions...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Lexmark Slashes Profit View on Weak Ink Sales
The computer printer maker said second-quarter earnings missed the company?s forecast, citing disappointing revenue from inkjet printers and cartridges...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Delphi Drops Financing Deal
The Delphi Corporation said that it had terminated a $3.4 billion financing plan to bring the company out of bankruptcy protection but that it expects to sign a new deal this month...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
California inspires climate revolt
California is hatching out ideas and policies that could revolutionise America's approach to climate change...
BBC News - July 9, 2007
Google buys email security firm
Google steps up its challenge to Microsoft's Office system with the $625m purchase of email security firm Postini...
BBC News - July 9, 2007
Football: Tevez closer to Man U
Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson says the Premier League champions are close to completing a deal for West Ham striker Carlos Tevez...
BBC News - July 9, 2007
Mexico migrants packed into lorry
Mexican police find 289 illegal migrants from Latin American, 226 of them hidden inside a single lorry, officials say...
BBC News - July 9, 2007
Voters Excited Over ?08 Campaign; Tired of It, Too
Across the country, voters said the presidential race had become much too intense, much too soon...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Difficult Choices for the Old Rec Center
The Parks Department has largely ceded its role as a provider of free youth recreational services, changing the way many of the city?s poorest children play...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
New York Plans Surveillance Veil for Downtown
The program would include license plate readers and 3,000 security cameras below Canal Street...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
The Week Ahead:
This week?s upcoming quarterly reports, economic data, merger votes and interest rate decisions...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Harry Henshel, 88, Watch Maker, Dies
Harry B. Henshel was the last member of the Bulova family to run the watch company bearing their name...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
E-Commerce Report: As Domestic Sales Slow, Travel Sites Go Global
Online travel agencies like Travelocity and Expedia are looking overseas as growth in domestic bookings has slowed...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Sony Cuts PlayStation 3 Prices as Many Xboxes Fail
Sony will lower the price of the PlayStation 3 by $100, hoping to take advantage of rivals? missteps...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Mafia puts Black in the shade
While former media baron Conrad Black waits to hear whether he is found guilty of fraud, four mobsters go on trial in the same court building...
BBC News - July 9, 2007
Defying silence in Honduras
Award-winning Honduran journalist Dina Meza talks about the deadly risks run by reporters in her homeland...
BBC News - July 9, 2007
Argentina and Mexico reach Copa America semis
Argentina see off Peru and Mexico thrash Paraguay to set up a Copa America semi-final showdown...
BBC News - July 9, 2007
Wildfires rage across US states
Scorching temperatures in parts of the US cause a string of fires, threatening homes and causing transport mayhem...
BBC News - July 9, 2007
[TS] Sidebar: A Deal for the Public: If You Win, You Lose
In courts around the nation, in cases involving tobacco, lead paint and guns, state attorneys general have been outsourcing government power to private lawyers...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
A Battle Over Expansion of Children?s Insurance
The seemingly uncontroversial goal of insuring more children has become the focus of an ideological conflict between the White House and Congress...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
New York Wineries Face Tastings Gone Wild
Long Island?s North Fork wineries are struggling to handle crowds who are looking for a good time rather than good wine...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Scared Silent: A Little Girl Shot, and a Crowd That Didn?t See
At least 20 people were within sight when a child was struck by a bullet from a gang fight in Trenton, but not one will tell police what happened...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Voters Excited Over ?08 Race; Tired of It, Too
Voters say the 2008 presidential campaign had become way too intense, way too soon...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Police Plan Web of Surveillance for Downtown
If the program is fully financed, it will include not only license plate readers but also 3,000 public and private security cameras below Canal Street...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Treasury Auctions Scheduled for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week included Monday?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Nissan Plans Russian Output in 2009
The Japanese automaker Nissan said Sunday that it would begin production at its first Russian factory in 2009...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Israeli-Led Group to Buy the Lipstick Building in Manhattan
Two Israeli investment companies said Sunday that they led a group that will buy the Lipstick Building in Manhattan for $648.5 million...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
The Media Equation: Ethics Tenet Is on Trial in Minnesota
Can a newspaper maintain editorial independence under the shadows cast by its publisher?s conduct?...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Drilling Down: Ads Against Drinking Speak Only Faintly
Despite growth in the amount spent advertising alcohol, spending on public service ads against underage drinking has fallen...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Advocate to Offer Magazine Without 2nd Cover
The national gay magazine will cease shipping its issues with a second cover concealing its identity...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
NBC News to Provide Content for Channel One
The deal with NBC is part of a multi-million-dollar makeover for Channel One, the struggling network that broadcasts to middle and high schools...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Expert on Murdoch Insisted the Dow Jones Deal Was Done
Andrew Neil, an expert on Rupert Murdoch, says that Dow Jones negotiators were his source for a claim that a deal had been reached with News Corporation...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Fixing Typos by Web Users, Without Raising Hackles
People who sign up for OpenDNS?s service are offered an easier way to find Web pages and greater online protection from malicious sites...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
In Poorer Nations, Cellphones Help Open Up Microfinancing
In countries where A.T.M.?s are few or nonexistent, cellphones are helping microlenders bring financial services to poor and remote areas...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
An Escape From the Slush Pile: A Web Site Tries Out New Comics
DC Comics is launching an online imprint that will accept submissions from the public and pay for the best work that comes in...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Journal Editor to Join a Magazine
Ellen J. Pollock, a longtime editor and writer for the Wall Street Journal, is leaving to become executive editor of BusinessWeek...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Fans Get to Talk About ?Transformers,? and the Knives Are Unsheathed
A producer?s online forum became a destination for Transformers fans to vent frustration with a film?s production executives...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Link By Link: In the Blink of a Byte, Future Becomes Past
Coincidence or foresight? A mysteriously prescient note about a wrestler?s wife?s death highlights the predictive possibilities of the internet...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Network for Blacks Broadens Its Schedule
Black Entertainment Television is introducing 16 shows through 2008, the biggest lineup of debuts in its 27-year history...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
British Press Assails Curbs on Reporting
Media organizations say Britain?s tight reporting restrictions hamper their ability to cover terrorism stories...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Transformers Dominate Culinary Rats at Box Office
The robot aliens of ?Transformers? have sold $152.5 million in tickets at American theaters since that film?s debut last Monday...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Advertising: Job Cuts Averted as Bid for Journal Stays Open
A fall in ad revenue leads reporters and editors at the Wall Street Journal worry that their jobs may be in jeopardy if Dow Jones stays independent...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
NBC?s Turnaround Artist
After producing some of TV?s most successful recent shows, Ben Silverman is trying to revive NBC?s slumping entertainment division...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Dow Jones Continues Hunt for an Alternative Bid
Dow Jones board members are meeting with billionaire Ronald W. Burkle in an effort to hunt for alternatives to a takeover by Rupert Murdoch?s News Corporation...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Increasing Rate of Foreclosures Upsets Atlanta
Despite a thriving local economy, Atlanta has one of the highest foreclosures in the nation, leading experts to fear similar problems in other U.S. cities...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
Amid Fanfare, Boeing Unveils New Long-Distance Jet
The arrival of the 787 Dreamliner highlights what a striking counterpoint Western Washington has been in a country where manufacturing jobs have long been in decline...
New York Times - July 9, 2007
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