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Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Cyprus reunification talks on Sept 3
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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South Korea struggles to probe tourist death
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 45
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Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
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Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
The deadline for Radovan Karadzic to appeal extradition to a United Nations war crimes tribunal expires Friday, a court spokeswoman said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cyprus reunification talks on Sept 3
The rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have agreed to start negotiations on Sept. 3 to reunify the ethnically divided island...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Korea struggles to probe tourist death
South Korea said Friday it cannot determine whether the shooting death of a South Korean tourist at a resort in North Korea was accidental...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 45
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday by Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 42 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Russell Brand to host the MTV Video Music Awards
MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
One of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. is teaching the food industry the truth of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might get it."...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Brewers stay hot behind Braun and Hardy
No team in baseball is playing as well as the Milwaukee Brewers and no hitter is on a tear like Ryan Braun...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ochoa leads Evian Masters with bogey-free 65
Lorena Ochoa shot a 7-under par 65 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Evian Masters...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Blancos goal, assist help MLS stars top West Ham
Chicago midfielder Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored one goal and helped set up another, and Houston midfielder Dwayne DeRosario snapped a tie with a penalty kick to give the MLS All-Stars a 3-2 victory over English Premier League team West Ham United 3-2 on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
New markets spur Honda to record quarter
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
New market demand spurs Honda to record quarter
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
N.M. researchers hope to cultivate calming herb
The plant has been described by local residents as magical, its qualities almost mythical...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Analysis Bushs policy shifts affect Obama
Barack Obama wants to sound like the voice of reason on U.S. foreign policy _ the guy who would abandon Bush administration policies he sees as shortsighted, self-defeating or just plain wrong. Problem is, George Bush keeps beating him to it...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio
Republican John McCain chose to go to a German restaurant as rival Barack Obama toured Berlin...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Samsungs second-quarter net profit surges
Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Honda reports record 1Q profit
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Giulianis son sues Duke over golf team dismissal
The son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is suing Duke University, claiming his golf coach manufactured accusations against him to justify kicking him off the team to whittle the squad...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued
T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police 1 killed in India blasts
Police say a series of explosions have rocked the southern Indian city of Bangalore, killing at least one person...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Another courtroom victory for religious colleges
A federal appeals court ruling that a Christian university in Colorado can receive state scholarship money is the latest in a string of legal victories for religious schools seeking public dollars...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ark. man accused in 4 boat deaths pleads guilty
One of two men accused of killing four people aboard a fishing charter last year pleaded guilty Thursday in exchange for an agreement that prosecutors will not seek the death penalty...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
3 shot at Phoenix community college 2 critical
Officials say three people have been shot at a community college in Phoenix...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Dolly weakens to depression over Texas
Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical depression with 35 mph winds as it moves north over Texas. Dolly was expected to break up by Friday, and was centered about 35 miles south of Eagle Pass at 5 p.m. EDT...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Feds say Utah mine operator courted danger
The operator of a collapsed Utah mine violated safety protocols by cutting coal pillars that should have been left standing to prevent cave-ins, federal regulators said Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ohio man gets 8 years in $8M armored-car co. heist
A man received eight years in prison Thursday for masterminding an $8 million armored-car heist, a crime he said was born of financial desperation...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
3 shot at Phoenix college suspect arrested
A long-standing dispute between two men turned violent when authorities say a former student shot three people in a computer lab at a community college, injuring one of them critically. The suspected gunman was arrested nearby...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Beating at N.Y. bar strains US-Serbia relations
It started as a bar fight in a college town in upstate New York...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
OSHA to give report on blast at Ga. sugar refinery
Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor said there may be "significant" penalties proposed when federal workplace safety regulators released their findings after investigating a dust explosion that killed 13 workers at a company sugar refinery...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Texas begins cleanup after Dolly
Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Lawmakers NJ legislator focus of child porn probe
Two New Jersey state lawmakers say a veteran Democratic colleague with whom they share legislative office space is being investigated for possibly possessing child pornography on his office computer...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Teen gets 8 years for coaxing nephews to smoke pot
A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
1 dead in NH storms that leveled several homes
Violent storms on Thursday in a 25-mile-long swath of central New Hampshire destroyed several homes, damaged dozens of others and left at least one person dead, authorities said as police and firefighters went door-to-door searching for more possible victims...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Iran widow must go to trial in NY on terror charge
A naturalized U.S. citizen accused of helping to lead an Iranian terrorist group must face trial on a charge of providing material support to terrorism, a federal judge ruled Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Paralyzed man says Chicago cops dragged, beat him
A paralyzed man claimed in a lawsuit Thursday that seven Chicago police officers dragged him from a car and beat him unconscious when he was too slow to obey their order to get out of the vehicle...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Racial issue raised in Atlantic City prosecution
As one notorious Atlantic City corruption case nears its end, another is heating up...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Teen gets jail for coaxing toddlers to smoke pot
A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pa. dad gets 7 years for not helping scalded girl
A man convicted of murder for failing to seek medical help for his handicapped daughter for more than a week after she suffered third-degree burns in a scalding bath was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
1 dead in N.H. storms that levels several homes
Violent storms on Thursday in a 25-mile-long swath of central New Hampshire destroyed several homes, damaged dozens of others and left at least one person dead, authorities said as police and firefighters went door-to-door searching for more possible victims...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pamela Anderson starring in new reality show
Pamela Anderson is shacking up with Tommy Lee again _ but not like that...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
The deadline for Radovan Karadzic to appeal extradition to a United Nations war crimes tribunal expires Friday, a court spokeswoman said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cyprus reunification talks on Sept 3
The rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have agreed to start negotiations on Sept. 3 to reunify the ethnically divided island...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Korea struggles to probe tourist death
South Korea said Friday it cannot determine whether the shooting death of a South Korean tourist at a resort in North Korea was accidental...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
One of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. is teaching the food industry the truth of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might get it."...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
3 shot at Phoenix college suspect arrested
A long-standing dispute between two men turned violent when authorities say a former student shot three people in a computer lab at a community college, injuring one of them critically. The suspected gunman was arrested nearby...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Beating at N.Y. bar strains US-Serbia relations
It started as a bar fight in a college town in upstate New York...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 45
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday by Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 42 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ochoa leads Evian Masters with bogey-free 65
Lorena Ochoa shot a 7-under par 65 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Evian Masters...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Blancos goal, assist help MLS stars top West Ham
Chicago midfielder Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored one goal and helped set up another, and Houston midfielder Dwayne DeRosario snapped a tie with a penalty kick to give the MLS All-Stars a 3-2 victory over English Premier League team West Ham United 3-2 on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Russell Brand to host the MTV Video Music Awards
MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio
Republican John McCain chose to go to a German restaurant as rival Barack Obama toured Berlin...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Brewers stay hot behind Braun and Hardy
No team in baseball is playing as well as the Milwaukee Brewers and no hitter is on a tear like Ryan Braun...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Honda reports record 1Q profit
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
New markets spur Honda to record quarter
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
New market demand spurs Honda to record quarter
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
N.M. researchers hope to cultivate calming herb
The plant has been described by local residents as magical, its qualities almost mythical...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Analysis Bushs policy shifts affect Obama
Barack Obama wants to sound like the voice of reason on U.S. foreign policy _ the guy who would abandon Bush administration policies he sees as shortsighted, self-defeating or just plain wrong. Problem is, George Bush keeps beating him to it...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Samsungs second-quarter net profit surges
Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police Missing Texas soldier may be in danger
Police say a Fort Bliss soldier is considered in danger after she did not report for work Friday and evidence of foul play was found in her apartment...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Read More...
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued
T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police 1 killed in India blasts
Police say a series of explosions have rocked the southern Indian city of Bangalore, killing at least one person...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Family Missing Fort Bliss soldier found alive
A Fort Bliss soldier considered missing and endangered has been found hurt but alive, her sister said Monday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Search continues for missing Fort Bliss soldier
A missing Fort Bliss soldier sent a text message about leaving her husband two days before she vanished, her sister said Saturday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scott Dixon on schedule for another title
Everything is right on schedule for Scott Dixon _ for now...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ship-barge crash closes Mississippi at New Orleans
A stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans could be closed for days as crews clean a 12-mile oil slick caused Wednesday when a tanker and barge collided, officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
AP IMPACT Traffic deaths fall as gas prices climb
Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Federal minimum wage rises to $6.55 today
About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Minimum wage going up, but so does inflation
About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
2 eagles named by Miley, Billy Ray to be set free
Two 14-week-old American bald eagles named by Disney star Miley Cyrus and her country singer father, Billy Ray Cyrus, will be released into the wild Thursday at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Minimum wage going up, little help as costs soar
About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Another courtroom victory for religious colleges
A federal appeals court ruling that a Christian university in Colorado can receive state scholarship money is the latest in a string of legal victories for religious schools seeking public dollars...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Condoleezza Rice looks forward to having time to shop
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tells Australian schoolgirls she is looking forward to having time to shop again...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Chavez gets royal Spanish welcome
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has talks over breakfast with Spain's King Juan Carlos - who famously told him to shut up last year...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Ships blocked after US oil spill
Commercial shipping is severely disrupted following an oil spill on the Mississippi River in the United States...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Ecuador draft constitution passed
Ecuador's constituent assembly overwhelmingly approves a draft constitution sought by President Rafael Correa...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
China marshals Olympic spirit to rebuild
The streets here are alive with the sounds _ rumbling backhoes, roaring jackhammers, clanging pickaxes _ of a town being brought back from the dead...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Wallace & Gromit to become episodic video game
"Wallace & Gromit" are going on a new adventure...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cubs snap losing streak to Marlins with 6-3 win
Carlos Zambrano pitched seven solid innings and the Chicago Cubs snapped a 10-game losing streak to the Florida Marlins with a 6-3 victory Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Herrera earns 1st majors win, Bucs rip Padres 9-1
Yoslan Herrera pitched six shutout innings for his first major league win, and the Pittsburgh Pirates got back-to-back homers from Jason Bay and Xavier Nady in a 9-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Yoslan Herrera earns first career win for Pirates
Yoslan Herrera pitched six shutout innings for his first major league win, and the Pittsburgh Pirates got back-to-back homers from Jason Bay and Xavier Nady in a 9-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Russell Brand to host the MTV Video Music Awards
MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio
Republican John McCain chose to go to a German restaurant as rival Barack Obama toured Berlin...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama arrives in Berlin and meets with Merkel
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrived in Berlin on Thursday, meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Aftershocks kill 1, injure 10 in China
Three aftershocks jolted parts of China on Thursday, the official Xinhua News Agency said, killing one person and injuring more than 10...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Samsungs second-quarter net profit surges
Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Bleeding cash, Ford looks to Europe for help
Bleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Ford Motor Co., an icon of American automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Atlantic...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
50 Cent sues Taco Bell over ad campaign
50 Cent has sued Taco Bell, claiming the fast-food restaurant chain is using his name without permission in advertising that asks him to call himself 99 Cent...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama in Europe aims to raise European profile
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama landed in Berlin on Thursday, meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Reports of wire taps emerge in Drew Peterson case
Two friends of former police officer Drew Peterson told a newspaper he made incriminating statements during secretly taped conversations following the disappearance of his fourth wife _ claims that Peterson denies...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
State highway patrols struggle with big gas bills
In big, wide-open Montana, a state trooper might have to drive more than 100 miles to answer an emergency call, and routinely puts several hundred miles on the odometer in a day...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Texas levees hold but waters rise in Dollys rains
Hurricane Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places and ripping roofs off buildings with 100 mph winds...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Giulianis son sues Duke over golf team dismissal
The son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is suing Duke University, claiming his golf coach manufactured accusations against him to justify kicking him off the team to whittle the squad...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Okla. crane fall kills man watching construction
Firefighters say a crane fell while putting a steeple on an Oklahoma City church, crushing a car and killing an 80-year-old man who was watching the construction...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
New disability regs prompt chorus of concern
Thousands of gallons of water pulse through cascading waterfalls and rapids at Adventure Mini Golf in Lake Worth, Fla. The course, which covers about an acre, features different elevations with two sets of stairs connecting them...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Texas gets first look at Dollys damage
Residents and recovery teams began fanning out across south Texas Thursday and cars crept along roads with darkened stoplights as the region got its first look at the destruction left by Hurricane Dolly...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Texas starts cleanup after Hurricane Dolly
Residents and recovery teams began fanning out across south Texas at dawn Thursday and cars crept along roads with darkened stoplights as the region got its first look at the destruction left by Hurricane Dolly...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Dolly weakens to depression over Texas
Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical depression with 35 mph winds as it moves north over Texas. Dolly was expected to break up by Friday, and was centered about 35 miles south of Eagle Pass at 5 p.m. EDT...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Feds say Utah mine operator courted danger
The operator of a collapsed Utah mine violated safety protocols by cutting coal pillars that should have been left standing to prevent cave-ins, federal regulators said Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ohio man gets 8 years in $8M armored-car co. heist
A man received eight years in prison Thursday for masterminding an $8 million armored-car heist, a crime he said was born of financial desperation...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Another courtroom victory for religious colleges
A federal appeals court ruling that a Christian university in Colorado can receive state scholarship money is the latest in a string of legal victories for religious schools seeking public dollars...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ark. man accused in 4 boat deaths pleads guilty
One of two men accused of killing four people aboard a fishing charter last year pleaded guilty Thursday in exchange for an agreement that prosecutors will not seek the death penalty...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
DA Stolen drug money at center of Marine killing
Two Marines apparently killed one of their Camp Pendleton comrades in a dispute over stolen drug money, prosecutors said Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Lawmakers NJ legislator focus of child porn probe
Two New Jersey state lawmakers say a veteran Democratic colleague with whom they share legislative office space is being investigated for possibly possessing child pornography on his office computer...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
3 shot at Phoenix community college 2 critical
Officials say three people have been shot at a community college in Phoenix...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
1 dead in N.H. storms that levels several homes
Violent storms on Thursday in a 25-mile-long swath of central New Hampshire destroyed several homes, damaged dozens of others and left at least one person dead, authorities said as police and firefighters went door-to-door searching for more possible victims...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Teen gets 8 years for coaxing nephews to smoke pot
A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
1 dead in NH storms that leveled several homes
Violent storms on Thursday in a 25-mile-long swath of central New Hampshire destroyed several homes, damaged dozens of others and left at least one person dead, authorities said as police and firefighters went door-to-door searching for more possible victims...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Iran widow must go to trial in NY on terror charge
A naturalized U.S. citizen accused of helping to lead an Iranian terrorist group must face trial on a charge of providing material support to terrorism, a federal judge ruled Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Paralyzed man says Chicago cops dragged, beat him
A paralyzed man claimed in a lawsuit Thursday that seven Chicago police officers dragged him from a car and beat him unconscious when he was too slow to obey their order to get out of the vehicle...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Prosecutor Escaped convict, wife, daughter slain
U.S. Attorney Troy Eid says escaped convict, his wife and 3-year-old daughter were found slain outside a farm house east of Denver on Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pamela Anderson starring in new reality show
Pamela Anderson is shacking up with Tommy Lee again _ but not like that...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pa. dad gets 7 years for not helping scalded girl
A man convicted of murder for failing to seek medical help for his handicapped daughter for more than a week after she suffered third-degree burns in a scalding bath was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued
T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
China marshals Olympic spirit to rebuild
The streets here are alive with the sounds _ rumbling backhoes, roaring jackhammers, clanging pickaxes _ of a town being brought back from the dead...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Wallace & Gromit to become episodic video game
"Wallace & Gromit" are going on a new adventure...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Lawmakers NJ legislator focus of child porn probe
Two New Jersey state lawmakers say a veteran Democratic colleague with whom they share legislative office space is being investigated for possibly possessing child pornography on his office computer...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cubs snap losing streak to Marlins with 6-3 win
Carlos Zambrano pitched seven solid innings and the Chicago Cubs snapped a 10-game losing streak to the Florida Marlins with a 6-3 victory Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Herrera earns 1st majors win, Bucs rip Padres 9-1
Yoslan Herrera pitched six shutout innings for his first major league win, and the Pittsburgh Pirates got back-to-back homers from Jason Bay and Xavier Nady in a 9-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Yoslan Herrera earns first career win for Pirates
Yoslan Herrera pitched six shutout innings for his first major league win, and the Pittsburgh Pirates got back-to-back homers from Jason Bay and Xavier Nady in a 9-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Russell Brand to host the MTV Video Music Awards
MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Bleeding cash, Ford looks to Europe for help
Bleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Ford Motor Co., an icon of American automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Atlantic...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio
Republican John McCain chose to go to a German restaurant as rival Barack Obama toured Berlin...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama in Europe aims to raise European profile
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama landed in Berlin on Thursday, meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama arrives in Berlin and meets with Merkel
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrived in Berlin on Thursday, meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Aftershocks kill 1, injure 10 in China
Three aftershocks jolted parts of China on Thursday, the official Xinhua News Agency said, killing one person and injuring more than 10...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Samsungs second-quarter net profit surges
Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
50 Cent sues Taco Bell over ad campaign
50 Cent has sued Taco Bell, claiming the fast-food restaurant chain is using his name without permission in advertising that asks him to call himself 99 Cent...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ohio man gets 8 years in $8M armored-car co. heist
A man received eight years in prison Thursday for masterminding an $8 million armored-car heist, a crime he said was born of financial desperation...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Texas levees hold but waters rise in Dollys rains
Hurricane Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places and ripping roofs off buildings with 100 mph winds...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Search continues for missing Fort Bliss soldier
A missing Fort Bliss soldier sent a text message about leaving her husband two days before she vanished, her sister said Saturday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scott Dixon on schedule for another title
Everything is right on schedule for Scott Dixon _ for now...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police Missing Texas soldier may be in danger
Police say a Fort Bliss soldier is considered in danger after she did not report for work Friday and evidence of foul play was found in her apartment...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
AP IMPACT Traffic deaths fall as gas prices climb
Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Family Missing Fort Bliss soldier found alive
A Fort Bliss soldier considered missing and endangered has been found hurt but alive, her sister said Monday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
2 eagles named by Miley, Billy Ray to be set free
Two 14-week-old American bald eagles named by Disney star Miley Cyrus and her country singer father, Billy Ray Cyrus, will be released into the wild Thursday at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Minimum wage going up, little help as costs soar
About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ship-barge crash closes Mississippi at New Orleans
A stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans could be closed for days as crews clean a 12-mile oil slick caused Wednesday when a tanker and barge collided, officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Another courtroom victory for religious colleges
A federal appeals court ruling that a Christian university in Colorado can receive state scholarship money is the latest in a string of legal victories for religious schools seeking public dollars...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Federal minimum wage rises to $6.55 today
About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Minimum wage going up, but so does inflation
About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Bloomberg, Gates fight smoking
Two of the world's richest men launch a campaign aimed at tackling smoking in the developing world...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
College gunman shoots three in US
Three people have been wounded in a shooting at a community college in the US state of Arizona, officials say...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Farc hands hostages to Red Cross
Colombia's Farc rebel group releases eight of the 10 hostages it kidnapped last week, the international Red Cross says...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
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