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Suri Cruise tops Forbes.com list of Hottest Tots
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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The New Frugality Americans return to thriftiness
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Mammoth task Scientists map DNA of ancient beast
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Invasive mussel confirmed in Utahs Electric Lake
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Rebels No clashes in eastern Congo after pullback
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Ben Affleck visits refugee camps in eastern Congo
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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UN Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Ga. priest facing excommunication will appeal
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Scientists say Mars soil similar to Chile desert
Scientists operating the Phoenix spacecraft say the Martian soil near the north pole landing site is similar to what can be found in the Chile desert on Earth...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Scientists cheer gorilla find, but warn of threats
Can there be more lurking in the mist? Despite a startling find announced Tuesday that doubled the estimated number of western lowland gorillas in central Africa, scientists warned that hundreds of primate species remain in danger of extinction...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Gitmo jury adjourns for day without verdict
Jurors in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial are ending another day of deliberations without a verdict...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Trial could brings US closer to closing Guantanamo
The war crimes trial of a driver for Osama bin Laden could bring the United States closer to its goal of closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
New fears about Olympic press freedoms
The beating of two Japanese journalists by police in western China drew an official apology Tuesday, but Beijing also set new obstacles for news outlets wanting to report from Tiananmen Square in the latest sign of trouble for reporters covering the Olympics...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Cambodia demands Thai troops pull back
Cambodia on Tuesday demanded that Thailand pull its troops back from a second temple site along their border, the latest in a series of territorial claims and counterclaims that have prompted armed tensions between the Asian neighbors...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Funerals begin after North India temple stampede
Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives _ including his wife and daughter _ were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Canada bus beheading suspect says please kill me
A man accused of beheading and cannibalizing another passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada pleaded Tuesday in court for someone to "please kill me," and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Anthrax widows lawsuit blames US for death
The widow of a tabloid photo editor who died in the 2001 anthrax attacks insisted in a $50 million federal lawsuit filed years ago that the U.S. government was ultimately responsible for his death...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
And then there were 5 pit bull clones that is
Bernann McKinney says her beloved pit bull "Booger" saved her life when another dog attacked her, then learned to push her wheelchair while she recovered from a severe hand injury and nerve damage...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Olympic torch relayed through China quake zone
The Olympic torch completed the final leg of its global relay before reaching Beijing where the games will open, passing Tuesday through the earthquake-stricken province of Sichuan in an homage to tens of thousands killed there in May...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Italian reaches base camp after tragedy on K2
The last survivor of the deadliest mountaineering disaster to hit K2 limped into base camp with frostbitten feet Tuesday, but thick clouds threatened to keep him on the mountain for at least another night...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Judge rules Snipes must reimburse government
Actor Wesley Snipes must reimburse the government in prosecution costs for his tax conviction...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Newly discovered Beatles tape sells for $23,000
A newly discovered tape of The Beatles laughing and chatting during an early recording session has sold for about $23,000, an auction house reported Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Newly discovered Beatles sells for $23,000
A newly discovered tape of The Beatles laughing and chatting during an early recording session has sold for about $23,000, an auction house reported Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Kelsey Grammer checks out of hospital in New York
Kelsey Grammer is returning home after being hospitalized in New York...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
FBI used aggressive tactics in anthrax probe
Before killing himself last week, Army scientist Bruce Ivins told friends that government agents had stalked him and his family for months, offered his son $2.5 million to rat him out and tried to turn his hospitalized daughter against him with photographs of dead anthrax victims...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Sorianos homer helps Cubs rally past Astros 11-7
Alfonso Soriano hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Chicago Cubs rallied after blowing a five-run lead, beating the Houston Astros 11-7 Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Joba hurt, Yankees lose on Byrds 9th-inning slam
Joba Chamberlain went down with a stiff shoulder during a tight pennant race. On a tough night in Texas for the New York Yankees, the latest injury to their pitching staff really hurt...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Singh finds range on short putts, wins Bridgestone
After hitting his golf ball more than 17 miles over four days at Firestone Country Club, Vijay Singh agonized over the final 42 inches...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Even with his game in decline, Daly still a draw
Kids reached out to touch him. Grown men shouted his name. Women smiled and begged for an autograph...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Angels beat Orioles on bases-loaded walk
Chone Figgins drew a bases-loaded walk from All-Star closer George Sherrill with two outs in the ninth inning after Francisco Rodriguez blew a four-run lead, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Whole Foods 3Q misses estimates, lowers outlook
Whole Foods Market Inc. said Tuesday that its third-quarter net income dropped more than 30 percent due largely to costs associated with its acquisition of Wild Oats and a tough economy that hurt consumer spending...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Edouard now depression after drenching Texas coast
The National Hurricane Center says Edouard has been downgraded to a tropical depression as it moves inland across eastern Texas and western Louisiana...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
News Corp 4Q profit jumps 27 percent
News Corp. says fiscal fourth-quarter earnings jumped 27 percent on profit from the sale of assets and higher operating earnings in its film, cable networks and newspaper units...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
No change expected in Fed interest rates
The Federal Reserve, caught between mounting job losses and rising inflation, is likely to sit tight and hope that the interest rate cuts it has already provided will be enough to heal a sick economy...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Bush tells troops Iraq no longer hopeless
President Bush said Monday that U.S. troops going to Iraq soon will find a country dramatically different from the one that was "hopeless" before his troop buildup...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Report Therapist feared anthrax researcher
Bruce E. Ivins, the late microbiologist suspected in the 2001 anthrax attacks, had attempted to poison people and his therapist said she was "scared to death" of him, according to court testimony that emerged Saturday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
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Oil giants Chevron Corp. and Total SA wrapped up a string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports Friday, a stretch in which six of the major international oil companies topped $50 billion in combined profit...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
No change expected in Fed interest rates
The Federal Reserve, caught between mounting job losses and rising inflation, is likely to sit tight and hope that the interest rate cuts it has already provided will be enough to heal a sick economy...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Canadian bus attack suspect charged with murder
A man who witnesses said stabbed and beheaded his seat mate on a Greyhound bus in Canada made his first court appearance Friday, while police offered no motive for the savage attack against a 22-year-old carnival worker...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Dad charged in girl abduction arrives in Mass.
The father accused of kidnapping his daughter off a Boston street and fleeing to Baltimore has arrived in Massachusetts to face arraignment...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Violent storms cause damage in Ill. and Ind.
Severe thunderstorms plowed across the Midwest during the night, ripping roofs from buildings, chasing people to shelter and blacking out thousands of homes and businesses...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard closes in on Gulf Coast
The winds were beginning to pick up and the surfs were rising in Galveston early Tuesday as Tropical Storm Edouard closed in on the Texas Gulf Coast...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Source Gotti arrested on murder conspiracy charge
A law enforcement official says John A. "Junior" Gotti has been arrested on a murder conspiracy charge...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Feds, tribe wage legal fight in immigration scam
When federal agents raided the offices of the Kaweah Indian Nation, Malcolm Webber told the arresting officer he had not committed fraud and was confused how he could be arrested on "sovereign soil," court documents show...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Lawyers for Mexican say execution violates treaty
Condemned prisoner Jose Medellin looked to the federal courts to keep him from the death chamber Tuesday for his part in the gang rape, beating and strangling of two teenage girls 15 years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Texas-La. coast begin to feel tropical storm
The winds were beginning to pick up and the surfs were rising in Galveston early Tuesday as Tropical Storm Edouard closed in on the Texas Gulf Coast...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Couple marrying Friday to clinch luck of triple 8s
It may not be as big as 7-7-7, but thousands of couples are heading down the aisle Friday, hoping the date Aug. 8, 2008, brings them luck and an easy to remember anniversary date...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Couples marrying Friday to clinch lucky triple 8s
It may not be as big as 7-7-7, but thousands of couples are heading down the aisle Friday, hoping the date Aug. 8, 2008, brings them luck and an easy to remember anniversary date...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Rockefellers attorney denies Calif. slaying link
An attorney for the father accused of snatching his 7-year-old daughter from a Boston street said Tuesday the man did not kidnap his own child, nor does he have any link to a California slaying...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Jet evacuated after emergency landing at LAX
Passengers are being evacuated by inflatable chutes from an American Airlines jetliner after an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Illegal immigrants invited to turn themselves in
Wanted: Illegal immigrants with clean records who have ignored court orders to leave the country. Immigration officials are standing by to help you leave the country. No jail. No joke...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Gun-control groups fear top activist was NRA spy
A gun-control activist who championed the cause for more than a decade and served on the boards of two anti-violence groups is suspected of working as a paid spy for the National Rifle Association, and now those organizations are expelling her and sweeping their offices for bugs...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Convicted Mexican-born killer set to die
A Mexican-born prisoner condemned for taking part in the rape and murder of two teenage girls 15 years ago waited in a cell a few steps from the Texas death chamber on Tuesday while the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether he should be spared from execution...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Edouard now a depression after drenching Texas
The National Hurricane Center says Edouard has been downgraded to a tropical depression as it moves inland across eastern Texas and western Louisiana. Coastal tropical storm warnings were canceled after Edouard made landfall Tuesday morning east of Galveston...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Judge orders Junior Gotti held without bail
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered John A. "Junior" Gotti held without bail after the man who insisted he had retired from a life of crime was arrested on charges linking him to three killings and large-scale cocaine trafficking...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Indictment links Junior Gotti to 3 NY killings
John A. "Junior" Gotti has been indicted on conspiracy charges in Florida, linking him to large-scale cocaine trafficking and the slayings of three New York men in the late 1980s and early 1990s, federal officials said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Soldier may face murder charge in Afghan death
Army prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to seek a murder charge against a Special Forces soldier accused of killing and mutilating the body of a civilian in southern Afghanistan...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Texas wants 8 kids from sect back in state care
Texas child welfare authorities have asked a judge to return eight children from a polygamist group to foster care...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Missing Florida girls mother formally charged
Prosecutors have filed formal charges against the 22-year-old mother of a missing central Florida girl, but not in her disappearance...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
NY charges for woman in Afghan military shooting
A Pakistani woman once identified as a possible al-Qaida associate has been arraigned in New York on charges that she tried to kill U.S. agents and military officers...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Woman pleads guilty in Ky. social worker slaying
A western Kentucky woman has pleaded guilty to killing a social worker who was facilitating a visit with her infant son...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Pa. rape suspect shoots at police before arrest
Police say a man took a 14-year-old girl from her home at gunpoint early Tuesday and raped her at an eastern Pennsylvania motel, where he later opened fire on police before they arrested him...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Study says China top violator of Sudan embargo
China has been the "most egregious violator" of a worldwide arms embargo, providing Sudan with the vast majority of its small arms and weapons used for mass murder in Darfur province, a private study group is charging...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
12-year-old with HIV applauded at AIDS conference
Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus _ and so did she...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
12-year-old with HIV cheered at AIDS conference
Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus _ and so did she...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Scientists say Mars soil similar to Chile desert
Scientists operating the Phoenix spacecraft say the Martian soil near the north pole landing site is similar to what can be found in the Chile desert on Earth...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Canada bus beheading suspect says please kill me
A man accused of beheading and cannibalizing another passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada pleaded Tuesday in court for someone to "please kill me," and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Scientists cheer gorilla find, but warn of threats
Can there be more lurking in the mist? Despite a startling find announced Tuesday that doubled the estimated number of western lowland gorillas in central Africa, scientists warned that hundreds of primate species remain in danger of extinction...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Gitmo jury adjourns for day without verdict
Jurors in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial are ending another day of deliberations without a verdict...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Trial could brings US closer to closing Guantanamo
The war crimes trial of a driver for Osama bin Laden could bring the United States closer to its goal of closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
New fears about Olympic press freedoms
The beating of two Japanese journalists by police in western China drew an official apology Tuesday, but Beijing also set new obstacles for news outlets wanting to report from Tiananmen Square in the latest sign of trouble for reporters covering the Olympics...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Couple marrying Friday to clinch luck of triple 8s
It may not be as big as 7-7-7, but thousands of couples are heading down the aisle Friday, hoping the date Aug. 8, 2008, brings them luck and an easy to remember anniversary date...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Couples marrying Friday to clinch lucky triple 8s
It may not be as big as 7-7-7, but thousands of couples are heading down the aisle Friday, hoping the date Aug. 8, 2008, brings them luck and an easy to remember anniversary date...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Cambodia demands Thai troops pull back
Cambodia on Tuesday demanded that Thailand pull its troops back from a second temple site along their border, the latest in a series of territorial claims and counterclaims that have prompted armed tensions between the Asian neighbors...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Funerals begin after North India temple stampede
Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives _ including his wife and daughter _ were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
NY charges for woman in Afghan military shooting
A Pakistani woman once identified as a possible al-Qaida associate has been arraigned in New York on charges that she tried to kill U.S. agents and military officers...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Anthrax widows lawsuit blames US for death
The widow of a tabloid photo editor who died in the 2001 anthrax attacks insisted in a $50 million federal lawsuit filed years ago that the U.S. government was ultimately responsible for his death...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
And then there were 5 pit bull clones that is
Bernann McKinney says her beloved pit bull "Booger" saved her life when another dog attacked her, then learned to push her wheelchair while she recovered from a severe hand injury and nerve damage...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Olympic torch relayed through China quake zone
The Olympic torch completed the final leg of its global relay before reaching Beijing where the games will open, passing Tuesday through the earthquake-stricken province of Sichuan in an homage to tens of thousands killed there in May...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Italian reaches base camp after tragedy on K2
The last survivor of the deadliest mountaineering disaster to hit K2 limped into base camp with frostbitten feet Tuesday, but thick clouds threatened to keep him on the mountain for at least another night...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Angels beat Orioles on bases-loaded walk
Chone Figgins drew a bases-loaded walk from All-Star closer George Sherrill with two outs in the ninth inning after Francisco Rodriguez blew a four-run lead, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Judge rules Snipes must reimburse government
Actor Wesley Snipes must reimburse the government in prosecution costs for his tax conviction...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Newly discovered Beatles tape sells for $23,000
A newly discovered tape of The Beatles laughing and chatting during an early recording session has sold for about $23,000, an auction house reported Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Newly discovered Beatles sells for $23,000
A newly discovered tape of The Beatles laughing and chatting during an early recording session has sold for about $23,000, an auction house reported Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Kelsey Grammer checks out of hospital in New York
Kelsey Grammer is returning home after being hospitalized in New York...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
FBI used aggressive tactics in anthrax probe
Before killing himself last week, Army scientist Bruce Ivins told friends that government agents had stalked him and his family for months, offered his son $2.5 million to rat him out and tried to turn his hospitalized daughter against him with photographs of dead anthrax victims...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Sorianos homer helps Cubs rally past Astros 11-7
Alfonso Soriano hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Chicago Cubs rallied after blowing a five-run lead, beating the Houston Astros 11-7 Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Joba hurt, Yankees lose on Byrds 9th-inning slam
Joba Chamberlain went down with a stiff shoulder during a tight pennant race. On a tough night in Texas for the New York Yankees, the latest injury to their pitching staff really hurt...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Singh finds range on short putts, wins Bridgestone
After hitting his golf ball more than 17 miles over four days at Firestone Country Club, Vijay Singh agonized over the final 42 inches...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Even with his game in decline, Daly still a draw
Kids reached out to touch him. Grown men shouted his name. Women smiled and begged for an autograph...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Whole Foods 3Q misses estimates, lowers outlook
Whole Foods Market Inc. said Tuesday that its third-quarter net income dropped more than 30 percent due largely to costs associated with its acquisition of Wild Oats and a tough economy that hurt consumer spending...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Edouard now depression after drenching Texas coast
The National Hurricane Center says Edouard has been downgraded to a tropical depression as it moves inland across eastern Texas and western Louisiana...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
News Corp 4Q profit jumps 27 percent
News Corp. says fiscal fourth-quarter earnings jumped 27 percent on profit from the sale of assets and higher operating earnings in its film, cable networks and newspaper units...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Lawyers for Mexican say execution violates treaty
Condemned prisoner Jose Medellin looked to the federal courts to keep him from the death chamber Tuesday for his part in the gang rape, beating and strangling of two teenage girls 15 years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
No change expected in Fed interest rates
The Federal Reserve, caught between mounting job losses and rising inflation, is likely to sit tight and hope that the interest rate cuts it has already provided will be enough to heal a sick economy...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Bush tells troops Iraq no longer hopeless
President Bush said Monday that U.S. troops going to Iraq soon will find a country dramatically different from the one that was "hopeless" before his troop buildup...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Report Therapist feared anthrax researcher
Bruce E. Ivins, the late microbiologist suspected in the 2001 anthrax attacks, had attempted to poison people and his therapist said she was "scared to death" of him, according to court testimony that emerged Saturday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Canadian bus attack suspect charged with murder
A man who witnesses said stabbed and beheaded his seat mate on a Greyhound bus in Canada made his first court appearance Friday, while police offered no motive for the savage attack against a 22-year-old carnival worker...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Luol Deng, Bulls agree to new deal 6-year deal
Restricted free agent forward Luol Deng and the Chicago Bulls have agreed to six-year contract that could be worth as much as $80 million. The Bulls e-mailed a news release Wednesday afternoon announcing the "contract signing of Luol Deng."...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Ron Artest to be traded to Rockets
The Houston Rockets are close to an agreement to acquire Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
NBA source says Ron Artest to be traded to Rockets
The Houston Rockets are close to an agreement to acquire Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
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Oil giants Chevron Corp. and Total SA wrapped up a string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports Friday, a stretch in which six of the major international oil companies topped $50 billion in combined profit...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
No change expected in Fed interest rates
The Federal Reserve, caught between mounting job losses and rising inflation, is likely to sit tight and hope that the interest rate cuts it has already provided will be enough to heal a sick economy...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
More cities move aggressively to stop heat deaths
The homeless woman was nauseated, dizzy, drenched with sweat, dehydrated and sobbing with fear. She had heat exhaustion and was on the verge of heat stroke...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Obama and McCain trade old-school political jabs
Barack Obama and John McCain traded old-school political jabs Thursday, with McCain contending that he had been wrongly accused of planning a racial attack and Obama countering that his opponent was inventing a controversy to avoid talking about the issues...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Obama and McCain go old-school in political jabs
Barack Obama and John McCain traded old-school political jabs Thursday, with McCain contending that he had been wrongly accused of planning a racial attack and Obama countering that his opponent was inventing a controversy to avoid talking about the issues...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Morgan Freeman injured in car accident in Miss.
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in car accident in Mississippi and is in a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Actor Morgan Freeman is injured in car accident
Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in car accident in Mississippi and is in a Memphis hospital...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Plans to send elephant to Mexico stirs debate
Jenny the elephant lazily poked her trunk into a bucket of fruit as her keepers at the Dallas Zoo hosed her during her morning bath, seemingly oblivious to the fact that she could soon be shipped far from her home of 22 years...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Analysis Race remains the political wild card
By accusing Barack Obama of playing the race card, John McCain hopes to shuffle the deck in a White House campaign that is scarcely begun, much less settled...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Freeman in good spirits after car crash surgery
Morgan Freeman is doing well after surgery to reconnect nerves and repair damage to his left arm and hand after rescuers used a jaws-of-life machine to free him and a passenger from the wreckage of his car, his publicist said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Freeman still in serious condition after car crash
Morgan Freeman remained in serious condition Tuesday with a broken arm and elbow after rescuers used a jaws-of-life machine to free him and a passenger from their car after it crashed on a stretch of rural Mississippi Delta highway this weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Texans backup RB Chris Brown returns to practice
Houston Texans running back Chris Brown returned to practice Monday after sitting out last week with a sore back...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Pistons sign free agent center Kwame Brown
The Detroit Pistons have signed free agent center Kwame Brown, the overall No. 1 pick in the 2001 draft. The team announced the signing on Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Morgan Freeman seriously injured in car crash
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was hospitalized in serious condition Monday after the car he was driving left a rural road in the Mississippi Delta and flipped several times...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Coach Pat Summitt makes $600K gift to Tennessee
Coach Pat Summitt is donating $600,000 to the University of Tennessee to be shared by the Knoxville and Martin campuses...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Yahoo bosses under fresh pressure
Yahoo bosses face fresh pressure after it emerges that opposition to them at its recent AGM was greater than first thought...
BBC News - August 5, 2008
US interest rates left unchanged
The US Federal Reserve keeps its key interest rate on hold at 2%, as widely expected, amid recession and inflation fears...
BBC News - August 5, 2008
Once common on skin, anthrax is deadly in lungs
Seven years ago Americans learned to fear anthrax as a white powder in the mail that claimed lives, forced the post office to change the way it handles letters and sparked contamination scares across the country...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Martian soil may contain detrimental substance
Scientists say the Phoenix spacecraft has found a substance in the Martian soil that might be detrimental to possible life...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Motorola snares Qualcomms Jha for handset unit
Motorola Inc. snagged Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm Inc. and a star of the wireless industry, to head its handset division as that unit prepares to become an independent company...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Strong earthquake hits western China
A strong aftershock struck a western Chinese region where a May earthquake killed almost 70,000 people, shaking buildings a few hours after the Olympic torch relay passed through the area Tuesday. No injuries or damage were reported...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Cambodia demands Thai troops pull back
Cambodia on Tuesday demanded that Thailand pull its troops back from a second temple site along their border, the latest in a series of territorial claims and counterclaims that have prompted armed tensions between the Asian neighbors...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Funerals begin after North India temple stampede
Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives _ including his wife and daughter _ were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Philippine court blocks autonomy deal for Muslims
The Philippine Supreme Court, acting on a petition by Christian politicians, on Monday blocked the signing of a key accord granting an expanded southern homeland to minority Muslims as part of a deal to end decades of bloody Islamic rebellion...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Kin search among dead from Indian temple stampede
Family members moved through row after row of bodies overnight in a grim search for their loved ones among the 145 people killed in a deadly stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Some answers, but not all, likely in anthrax case
The FBI plans to begin briefing family members of victims of the 2001 anthrax attacks, an indication that some lingering questions in the case may soon be answered...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
New fears about Olympic press freedoms
The beating of two Japanese journalists by police in western China drew an official apology Tuesday, but Beijing also set new obstacles for news outlets wanting to report from Tiananmen Square in the latest sign of trouble for reporters covering the Olympics...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Strong earthquake hits western China 1 killed
A strong aftershock struck a western Chinese region where a May earthquake killed almost 70,000 people, shaking buildings a few hours after the Olympic torch relay passed through the area Tuesday. One person was killed and 23 injured...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Dark Knight still soars with $42.7M weekend
Bruce Wayne continues to add to his millions. "The Dark Knight," the blockbuster about the rich guy and his crime-fighting alter-ego, led the box office for the third weekend with $42.7 million...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Young people finding Obama way cooler than McCain
Forget the war for the White House for a moment. Among young people, Barack Obama appears to be beating John McCain in the battle for "cool."...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Singh finds range on short putts, wins Bridgestone
After hitting his golf ball more than 17 miles over four days at Firestone Country Club, Vijay Singh agonized over the final 42 inches...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Even with his game in decline, Daly still a draw
Kids reached out to touch him. Grown men shouted his name. Women smiled and begged for an autograph...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Angels beat Orioles on bases-loaded walk
Chone Figgins drew a bases-loaded walk from All-Star closer George Sherrill with two outs in the ninth inning after Francisco Rodriguez blew a four-run lead, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Moehler, Astros beat Cubs in rain-shortened game
Brian Moehler pitched five sharp innings before two powerful storms rolled into Wrigley Field, and the Houston Astros withstood the wild weather to beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0 in a rain-shortened game that was called in the bottom of the eighth Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Freeman still in serious condition after car crash
Morgan Freeman remained in serious condition Tuesday with a broken arm and elbow after rescuers used a jaws-of-life machine to free him and a passenger from their car after it crashed on a stretch of rural Mississippi Delta highway this weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Wall Street spikes higher after ISM data
Wall Street is surging higher after a trade group reported that activity in the services sector fell less than expected in July...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Oil falls as low as $118 on demand concerns
Oil prices slid further Tuesday, dropping to as low as $118 a barrel on widening expectations that the slumping U.S. economy will keep eroding consumer demand for gasoline and other petroleum products...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Critical of McCain, Obama quiet on own energy vote
Democratic candidate Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain on Tuesday for taking a page out of "the Cheney playbook" on energy, overlooking his own support of oil-friendly policies that the unpopular vice president helped to craft...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Obama links energy troubles to unpopular Cheney
Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to link what he called an "economy in turmoil" with administration energy policies that he asserted Vice President Dick Cheney helped shape. Setting things right will require "all hands on deck efforts," he said...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Report Therapist feared anthrax researcher
Bruce E. Ivins, the late microbiologist suspected in the 2001 anthrax attacks, had attempted to poison people and his therapist said she was "scared to death" of him, according to court testimony that emerged Saturday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Bush tells troops Iraq no longer hopeless
President Bush said Monday that U.S. troops going to Iraq soon will find a country dramatically different from the one that was "hopeless" before his troop buildup...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
No change expected in Fed interest rates
The Federal Reserve, caught between mounting job losses and rising inflation, is likely to sit tight and hope that the interest rate cuts it has already provided will be enough to heal a sick economy...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Ibanez rallies Mariners with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
Raul Ibanez had a grand slam and six RBIs _ all in a wild seventh inning _ and the Seattle Mariners staged their biggest comeback of a lost season to stun the AL Central-leading Minnesota Twins 11-6 on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Edouard hits Texas coast with strong wind, rain
Tropical Storm Edouard hit the Texas Gulf coast east of Galveston on Tuesday with strong winds and rain but was expected to weaken as it makes its way inland during the day...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Canadian bus attack suspect charged with murder
A man who witnesses said stabbed and beheaded his seat mate on a Greyhound bus in Canada made his first court appearance Friday, while police offered no motive for the savage attack against a 22-year-old carnival worker...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Wisc. ambush suspect maybe freaked out, mom says
When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard moving toward Texas coast
Emergency teams were activated as residents along the Gulf of Mexico prepared to get hit with another strong storm for the second time in less than a month...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
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Oil giants Chevron Corp. and Total SA wrapped up a string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports Friday, a stretch in which six of the major international oil companies topped $50 billion in combined profit...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
No change expected in Fed interest rates
The Federal Reserve, caught between mounting job losses and rising inflation, is likely to sit tight and hope that the interest rate cuts it has already provided will be enough to heal a sick economy...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Gay couples use weddings to wage ballot fight
When Pamela Brown got married, the two bride figurines atop her wedding cake celebrated her newfound right in California to marry another woman. But one of the figurines had a tiny sign over its head with something more to say: "Vote No on 8."...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Md. firm tipped police in Mass. abduction case
The head of a Baltimore real estate company says her staff recognized a man accused in the abduction of his daughter in Massachusetts from news reports and called police...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Dad charged in girl abduction going back to Mass.
A father accused of abducting his 7-year-old daughter agreed Monday to be taken back to Massachusetts to face charges there following his weekend arrest in Maryland, where authorities believe he fled to start a new life...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Wis. ambush suspect maybe freaked out, mom says
When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard aims for Texas, La. coast
Tropical Storm Edouard took aim at the coasts of Texas and Louisiana Monday, threatening to pick up strength from warm Gulf waters and gain near-hurricane speeds over the next 24 hours...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Source Gotti arrested on murder conspiracy charge
A law enforcement official says John A. "Junior" Gotti has been arrested on a murder conspiracy charge...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Feds, tribe wage legal fight in immigration scam
When federal agents raided the offices of the Kaweah Indian Nation, Malcolm Webber told the arresting officer he had not committed fraud and was confused how he could be arrested on "sovereign soil," court documents show...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Lawyers for Mexican say execution violates treaty
Condemned prisoner Jose Medellin looked to the federal courts to keep him from the death chamber Tuesday for his part in the gang rape, beating and strangling of two teenage girls 15 years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Texas-La. coast begin to feel tropical storm
The winds were beginning to pick up and the surfs were rising in Galveston early Tuesday as Tropical Storm Edouard closed in on the Texas Gulf Coast...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Embattled senator receives warm greeting in Alaska
Sen. Ted Stevens returned home Monday to a cheering crowd, declaring his innocence and insisting his re-election campaign was "full speed ahead."...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
7 more Philly workers suspended in teens death
Seven city human resources administrators were suspended Monday, exactly two years after the emaciated, maggot-infested body of a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was found in the squalid home of her mother, who has been charged with murder...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Pakistani woman charged in NY with soldier attack
An MIT-educated Pakistani woman once identified as a possible al-Qaida associate has been brought to New York to face charges she tried to kill U.S. agents and military officers during an interrogation in Afghanistan, federal prosecutors said...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Dad charged in girl abduction arrives in Mass.
The father accused of kidnapping his daughter off a Boston street and fleeing to Baltimore has arrived in Massachusetts to face arraignment...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Violent storms cause damage in Ill. and Ind.
Severe thunderstorms plowed across the Midwest during the night, ripping roofs from buildings, chasing people to shelter and blacking out thousands of homes and businesses...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard closes in on Gulf Coast
The winds were beginning to pick up and the surfs were rising in Galveston early Tuesday as Tropical Storm Edouard closed in on the Texas Gulf Coast...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
SC plane co. quits towing banners after 3 crashes
A South Carolina company whose planes have crashed three times recently in the Myrtle Beach area has quit towing advertising banners...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Eastern NC wildfire nearly out firefighters leave
A wildfire that has burned more than 62 square miles of eastern North Carolina forests and fields is nearly extinguished and firefighters are wrapping up operations, a spokesman said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Colo. researcher raises his hurricane forecast
A noted hurricane researcher has revised his Atlantic forecast upward and now calls for a total of nine hurricanes this season _ an increase of one...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
2 window washers die in fall at NYC building
Two window washers working in a cherry picker at a downtown Manhattan building were killed after the contraption tipped over...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
2 window washers die in accident at NYC building
New York City police say two men washing windows at a building in downtown Manhattan were killed when the vehicle carrying their lift tipped over...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Once common on skin, anthrax is deadly in lungs
Seven years ago Americans learned to fear anthrax as a white powder in the mail that claimed lives, forced the post office to change the way it handles letters and sparked contamination scares across the country...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Jet evacuated after emergency landing at LAX
Passengers are being evacuated by inflatable chutes from an American Airlines jetliner after an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Ala. man pleads not guilty in frozen body death
A part-time south Alabama evangelist pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a murder charge in the death of his wife, a mother of eight whose body had been stored in a freezer at least three years...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Martian soil may contain detrimental substance
Scientists say the Phoenix spacecraft has found a substance in the Martian soil that might be detrimental to possible life...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Motorola snares Qualcomms Jha for handset unit
Motorola Inc. snagged Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm Inc. and a star of the wireless industry, to head its handset division as that unit prepares to become an independent company...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Funerals begin after North India temple stampede
Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives _ including his wife and daughter _ were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Philippine court blocks autonomy deal for Muslims
The Philippine Supreme Court, acting on a petition by Christian politicians, on Monday blocked the signing of a key accord granting an expanded southern homeland to minority Muslims as part of a deal to end decades of bloody Islamic rebellion...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Kin search among dead from Indian temple stampede
Family members moved through row after row of bodies overnight in a grim search for their loved ones among the 145 people killed in a deadly stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
New fears about Olympic press freedoms
The beating of two Japanese journalists by police in western China drew an official apology Tuesday, but Beijing also set new obstacles for news outlets wanting to report from Tiananmen Square in the latest sign of trouble for reporters covering the Olympics...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Strong earthquake hits western China 1 killed
A strong aftershock struck a western Chinese region where a May earthquake killed almost 70,000 people, shaking buildings a few hours after the Olympic torch relay passed through the area Tuesday. One person was killed and 23 injured...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Strong earthquake hits western China
A strong aftershock struck a western Chinese region where a May earthquake killed almost 70,000 people, shaking buildings a few hours after the Olympic torch relay passed through the area Tuesday. No injuries or damage were reported...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Cambodia demands Thai troops pull back
Cambodia on Tuesday demanded that Thailand pull its troops back from a second temple site along their border, the latest in a series of territorial claims and counterclaims that have prompted armed tensions between the Asian neighbors...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Some answers, but not all, likely in anthrax case
The FBI plans to begin briefing family members of victims of the 2001 anthrax attacks, an indication that some lingering questions in the case may soon be answered...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Dad charged in girl abduction arrives in Mass.
The father accused of kidnapping his daughter off a Boston street and fleeing to Baltimore has arrived in Massachusetts to face arraignment...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Angels beat Orioles on bases-loaded walk
Chone Figgins drew a bases-loaded walk from All-Star closer George Sherrill with two outs in the ninth inning after Francisco Rodriguez blew a four-run lead, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Moehler, Astros beat Cubs in rain-shortened game
Brian Moehler pitched five sharp innings before two powerful storms rolled into Wrigley Field, and the Houston Astros withstood the wild weather to beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0 in a rain-shortened game that was called in the bottom of the eighth Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Dark Knight still soars with $42.7M weekend
Bruce Wayne continues to add to his millions. "The Dark Knight," the blockbuster about the rich guy and his crime-fighting alter-ego, led the box office for the third weekend with $42.7 million...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Critical of McCain, Obama quiet on own energy vote
Democratic candidate Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain on Tuesday for taking a page out of "the Cheney playbook" on energy, overlooking his own support of oil-friendly policies that the unpopular vice president helped to craft...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Obama links energy troubles to unpopular Cheney
Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to link what he called an "economy in turmoil" with administration energy policies that he asserted Vice President Dick Cheney helped shape. Setting things right will require "all hands on deck efforts," he said...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Young people finding Obama way cooler than McCain
Forget the war for the White House for a moment. Among young people, Barack Obama appears to be beating John McCain in the battle for "cool."...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Singh finds range on short putts, wins Bridgestone
After hitting his golf ball more than 17 miles over four days at Firestone Country Club, Vijay Singh agonized over the final 42 inches...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Even with his game in decline, Daly still a draw
Kids reached out to touch him. Grown men shouted his name. Women smiled and begged for an autograph...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Ibanez rallies Mariners with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
Raul Ibanez had a grand slam and six RBIs _ all in a wild seventh inning _ and the Seattle Mariners staged their biggest comeback of a lost season to stun the AL Central-leading Minnesota Twins 11-6 on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Edouard hits Texas coast with strong wind, rain
Tropical Storm Edouard hit the Texas Gulf coast east of Galveston on Tuesday with strong winds and rain but was expected to weaken as it makes its way inland during the day...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Wall Street spikes higher after ISM data
Wall Street is surging higher after a trade group reported that activity in the services sector fell less than expected in July...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Oil falls as low as $118 on demand concerns
Oil prices slid further Tuesday, dropping to as low as $118 a barrel on widening expectations that the slumping U.S. economy will keep eroding consumer demand for gasoline and other petroleum products...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Canadian bus attack suspect charged with murder
A man who witnesses said stabbed and beheaded his seat mate on a Greyhound bus in Canada made his first court appearance Friday, while police offered no motive for the savage attack against a 22-year-old carnival worker...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Report Therapist feared anthrax researcher
Bruce E. Ivins, the late microbiologist suspected in the 2001 anthrax attacks, had attempted to poison people and his therapist said she was "scared to death" of him, according to court testimony that emerged Saturday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Bush tells troops Iraq no longer hopeless
President Bush said Monday that U.S. troops going to Iraq soon will find a country dramatically different from the one that was "hopeless" before his troop buildup...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
No change expected in Fed interest rates
The Federal Reserve, caught between mounting job losses and rising inflation, is likely to sit tight and hope that the interest rate cuts it has already provided will be enough to heal a sick economy...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Ron Artest to be traded to Rockets
The Houston Rockets are close to an agreement to acquire Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
NBA source says Ron Artest to be traded to Rockets
The Houston Rockets are close to an agreement to acquire Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
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Oil giants Chevron Corp. and Total SA wrapped up a string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports Friday, a stretch in which six of the major international oil companies topped $50 billion in combined profit...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
No change expected in Fed interest rates
The Federal Reserve, caught between mounting job losses and rising inflation, is likely to sit tight and hope that the interest rate cuts it has already provided will be enough to heal a sick economy...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Obama and McCain trade old-school political jabs
Barack Obama and John McCain traded old-school political jabs Thursday, with McCain contending that he had been wrongly accused of planning a racial attack and Obama countering that his opponent was inventing a controversy to avoid talking about the issues...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Obama and McCain go old-school in political jabs
Barack Obama and John McCain traded old-school political jabs Thursday, with McCain contending that he had been wrongly accused of planning a racial attack and Obama countering that his opponent was inventing a controversy to avoid talking about the issues...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Luol Deng, Bulls agree to new deal 6-year deal
Restricted free agent forward Luol Deng and the Chicago Bulls have agreed to six-year contract that could be worth as much as $80 million. The Bulls e-mailed a news release Wednesday afternoon announcing the "contract signing of Luol Deng."...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Plans to send elephant to Mexico stirs debate
Jenny the elephant lazily poked her trunk into a bucket of fruit as her keepers at the Dallas Zoo hosed her during her morning bath, seemingly oblivious to the fact that she could soon be shipped far from her home of 22 years...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Analysis Race remains the political wild card
By accusing Barack Obama of playing the race card, John McCain hopes to shuffle the deck in a White House campaign that is scarcely begun, much less settled...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
More cities move aggressively to stop heat deaths
The homeless woman was nauseated, dizzy, drenched with sweat, dehydrated and sobbing with fear. She had heat exhaustion and was on the verge of heat stroke...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Texans backup RB Chris Brown returns to practice
Houston Texans running back Chris Brown returned to practice Monday after sitting out last week with a sore back...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Pistons sign free agent center Kwame Brown
The Detroit Pistons have signed free agent center Kwame Brown, the overall No. 1 pick in the 2001 draft. The team announced the signing on Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Morgan Freeman seriously injured in car crash
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was hospitalized in serious condition Monday after the car he was driving left a rural road in the Mississippi Delta and flipped several times...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Coach Pat Summitt makes $600K gift to Tennessee
Coach Pat Summitt is donating $600,000 to the University of Tennessee to be shared by the Knoxville and Martin campuses...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Morgan Freeman injured in car accident in Miss.
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in car accident in Mississippi and is in a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Actor Morgan Freeman is injured in car accident
Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in car accident in Mississippi and is in a Memphis hospital...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
Freeman still in serious condition after car crash
Morgan Freeman remained in serious condition Tuesday with a broken arm and elbow after rescuers used a jaws-of-life machine to free him and a passenger from their car after it crashed on a stretch of rural Mississippi Delta highway this weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 5, 2008
US services sector retreats again
The US service sector shrank once again in July, but by less than economists expected, figures show...
BBC News - August 5, 2008
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Fed set to keep US rates on hold
The US Federal Reserve is set to keep its key interest rate on hold at 2% amid recession and inflation fears...
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