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Invasive mussel confirmed in Utahs Electric Lake
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Astronauts end spacewalk to repair gummed-up joint
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie get preliminary divorce decree
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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UN expects new peacekeepers in Congo in weeks
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Warsaw marks borders of former ghetto
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Afghanistan markets its brand of pomegranates
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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China says 19,000 students died in May earthquake
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Tiffany files eBay ruling appeal
The luxury jeweller appeals a court ruling that eBay was not primarily responsible for ensuring fake goods are not sold on its site...
BBC News - August 11, 2008
Football: Gullit and Lalas exit LA
Los Angeles Galaxy coach Ruud Gullit resigns and president and general manager Alexi Lalas is sacked at David Beckham's club...
BBC News - August 11, 2008
Kidnap capital
Mexico public's faith in police dives amid abduction epidemic...
BBC News - August 11, 2008
US identifies child-snatch suspect
A man accused of abducting his UK-based daughter is a German wanted over a disappearance in 1985, US authorities say...
BBC News - August 11, 2008
Ivins remembered for intelligence, compassion
The Army scientist suspected in the anthrax attacks was remembered for his humor, intelligence and compassion at a memorial service Saturday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Unfazed by bombings, India has an option peace
With a deadly attack on its embassy in Afghanistan, Pakistani troops clashing with its soldiers in disputed Kashmir and Islamic militants bombing its cities, India has in recent months seemed a country under siege...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Shrine clash threatens to tear Kashmir from India
It started as a small demonstration against a plan to build bathrooms and shelters for Hindu pilgrims visiting a shrine in Kashmir...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Ousted Thai prime minister, wife flee to London
Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has fled to London, saying Monday that there were threats against his life and that he could not expect justice in Thai courts on the corruption charges he faces...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Kabul bomb kills 3 Afghans, wounds NATO soldiers
Officials say a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul has wounded NATO soldiers and killed at least three civilians...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Losing the yeti in forgotten nation of Bhutan
He remembers the darkness of the pine forest, and the footprints, and his terror when the creature began to howl. He remembers the stories of his childhood, of a beast that stalked the upper reaches of the mountains, and how fear spread through the village every time it was spotted...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Philippine troops press assault on Muslim rebels
Philippine troops, backed by helicopter gunships, regained control of two southern villages from Muslim rebels Monday and pressed ahead with a massive assault to clear 13 others, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Kabul bomb kills 3 civilians, wounds NATO soldiers
A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in Kabul on Monday, killing three civilians and wounding at least a dozen, officials said. Clashes and an airstrike in the south killed 25 militants and eight civilians held hostage by insurgents...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Rays roll to franchise record for wins
Rocco Baldelli fits perfectly into the remarkable script that the Tampa Bay Rays are putting together this season...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Dempsters pitching leads Cubs past Cards, 6-2
Ryan Dempster won his 13th game and the Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis 6-2 on Sunday night in a game in which Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter left with another injury...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Dempster stifles Cards to push Cubs to 6-2 victory
Ryan Dempster earned his 13th win and the Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis 6-2 on Sunday night in a game in which Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter left with another injury...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Rockmount shirts set the fashion in the West
Its Western shirts have been worn by everyone from Elvis Presley in "Love Me Tender" to Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain."...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Harrington fills Tiger void with PGA win
Everyone wondered who would fill the void with Tiger Woods recuperating and out of the last two majors...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bolivians back Morales in recall vote
Voters vigorously endorsed President Evo Morales on Sunday in a recall referendum he devised to try to break a political stalemate and revive his leftist crusade, partial unofficial results showed...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Hayes, Shaft singer and disco presage, dies
Isaac Hayes, the baldheaded, baritone-voiced soul crooner who laid the groundwork for disco and whose "Theme From Shaft" won both Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon after he collapsed near a treadmill, authorities said. He was 65...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
New premium grapes auctioned for $910 in Japan
A new variety of premium grapes debuted in Japan on Monday, with a single bunch fetching as much as $910...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Denver wants delegates to see the old and the new
This frontier town turned modern city wants to put its best foot forward for the Democratic National Convention _ just not necessarily one wearing a cowboy boot...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Clinton to headline second night of convention
Hillary Rodham Clinton will headline her own night at the Democratic National Convention...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Angels finish 1st 3-game sweep of Yanks since 1995
Chone Figgins hit an RBI single with one out in the ninth inning against Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, and the Los Angeles Angels completed a three-game sweep of New York with a 4-3 victory on Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Michael Phelps wins his 2nd gold of 2008 Olympics
Michael Phelps has his second gold of the Beijing games. It came in the 400-meter freestyle relay and he got the gold because of the performance of teammate Jason Lezak, who swam the anchor leg of the race. When Lezak dove into the pool for the last lap he was second to world-record holder Alain Bernard of France. He was still trailing with about 20 meters to go but from there the American turned on the afterburner. He made up the distance and finished 0.08 seconds ahead of Bernard...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
911 callers told of carnage at Texas bus wreck
Witnesses who called 911 after a chartered bus crash that killed at least 16 people described a chaotic scene, telling emergency personnel of bloody passengers crushed beneath the smoking wreckage, according to calls released Saturday by police...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Texas bus crash kills 15 on a religious pilgrimage
Like passengers around her, Leha Nguyen had started to doze off when she heard the bus make a horrible noise, followed by screaming. She opened her eyes to see people strewn about. A television had fallen on one person...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bus accident in Texas kills 15 on a pilgrimage
Like passengers around her, Leha Nguyen started to doze when she suddenly heard the bus emit a horrible noise, followed by the screaming. She opened her eyes to see people strewn about. A television had fallen on one person...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Somalis fill vacant jobs at Iowa meatpacking plant
Nearly three months after a federal immigration raid uprooted almost 400 employees at a meatpacking plant in northeastern Iowa, dozens of Somali immigrants are slowly but steadily filling the depleted ranks left by the arrested workers...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Lincolns hometown marks 100th anniversary of riot
Two days of terror. Black men tortured and hanged. A baby dead of exposure. Four white rioters shot by black defenders...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Hawaii teachers cure clears way for a new saint
When cancer spread into her lungs, doctors told Audrey Toguchi she had six months to live, at best, and suggested chemotherapy as the only option...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Cloned puppies may have exposed 31-year mystery
A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She may be the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Iconic stone arch collapses in southern Utah park
One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Anthony Russo, Pentagon Papers figure, dies at 71
Police in Virginia say Anthony J. Russo, a researcher who helped leak the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers, has died. He was 71...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
911 callers told of carnage in Texas bus wreck
Witnesses who called 911 after the crash of a charter bus that killed at least 17 people described a chaotic scene, telling emergency workers of bloody passengers crushed beneath the smoking wreckage, according to calls released Saturday by police...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Death toll rises to 17 in Texas charter bus crash
The death toll after the crash of a charter bus carrying pilgrims in Texas has risen to 17...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Cease-work order for companies linked to bus crash
The Federal Motor Safety Administration has ordered companies linked to the bus involved in a fatal Texas crash to cease all commercial operations...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Texas Vietnamese congregation honors bus victims
The pastor of a Vietnamese congregation that lost parishioners in a deadly charter bus crash told churchgoers Sunday that they must accept the tragedy as a "door that God has opened."...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
FDNY stint proving ground for West Point cadets
Before they hit the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, West Point cadets have gotten a taste of chaos, New York City style...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Race sometimes a problem in eyewitness IDs
In the midst of being raped, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino told herself to pay attention to details that would allow her to identify her attacker...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Authorities Tire failure may be behind Nev. crash
Tire failure may have caused a casino worker shuttle bus crash that injured 29 people, a Nevada Highway Patrol officer said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Md. woman sues state for right to massage horses
Mercedes Clemens is certified to massage humans, but she claims the state of Maryland is keeping her from her first love: Massaging horses...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Mourners pray at Texas bus crash site
Like others returning from a religious festival in Missouri, Hoang Vu stopped at the spot where a charter bus carrying fellow Vietnamese Catholics on the pilgrimage had crashed and killed 17 people...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Aide pleads guilty in Pa. corruption case
A technician accused of destroying computer records for indicted Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Fumo has pleaded guilty to 29 obstruction-related counts and will testify against the Democratic power broker...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Death penalty to be sought in NC student slaying
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a man charged in the kidnapping and fatal shooting of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Miss. bus crash kills 3, survivors due back in SC
More than 30 survivors of a casino bus crash that killed 3 people are expected to fly back home to South Carolina...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
PART VI an Ambush Produces a Hero
It all looked as if a video game had come to life...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
PART V Joy Over Survival, Tears at Exte
Christmas Day arrived _ and for two 1st Brigade Combat Team soldiers, there was a gift like no other: their very survival...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
PART IV for 2 Soldiers, Families, Lives
In that dreadful December, every day brought bloodshed, every week hundreds of attacks on Americans and Iraqis...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Researchers study mercury in the Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is so briny that swimmers bob in the water like corks. It is teeming with tiny shrimp that were sold for years in the back of comic books as magical "sea monkeys." And, for reasons scientists cannot explain, it is heavily laden with toxic mercury...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Hartford, Conn., imposes curfew after shootings
Hartford, Conn., officials say they will impose a 30-day citywide curfew on everyone under 18 years old in response to recent violence, including the shootings of seven people after a parade over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
PART VII Homecoming, Struggles and New
The chartered plane loaded with soldiers descended slowly in the summer sky as Sgt. John Kriesel watched eagerly on the tarmac, clutching a walking cane. He had been waiting for this reunion for more than seven months...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Losing the yeti in forgotten nation of Bhutan
He remembers the darkness of the pine forest, and the footprints, and his terror when the creature began to howl. He remembers the stories of his childhood, of a beast that stalked the upper reaches of the mountains, and how fear spread through the village every time it was spotted...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Ivins remembered for intelligence, compassion
The Army scientist suspected in the anthrax attacks was remembered for his humor, intelligence and compassion at a memorial service Saturday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Unfazed by bombings, India has an option peace
With a deadly attack on its embassy in Afghanistan, Pakistani troops clashing with its soldiers in disputed Kashmir and Islamic militants bombing its cities, India has in recent months seemed a country under siege...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Shrine clash threatens to tear Kashmir from India
It started as a small demonstration against a plan to build bathrooms and shelters for Hindu pilgrims visiting a shrine in Kashmir...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Ousted Thai prime minister, wife flee to London
Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has fled to London, saying Monday that there were threats against his life and that he could not expect justice in Thai courts on the corruption charges he faces...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Kabul bomb kills 3 Afghans, wounds NATO soldiers
Officials say a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul has wounded NATO soldiers and killed at least three civilians...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Hawaii teachers cure clears way for a new saint
When cancer spread into her lungs, doctors told Audrey Toguchi she had six months to live, at best, and suggested chemotherapy as the only option...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Mourners pray at Texas bus crash site
Like others returning from a religious festival in Missouri, Hoang Vu stopped at the spot where a charter bus carrying fellow Vietnamese Catholics on the pilgrimage had crashed and killed 17 people...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Philippine troops press assault on Muslim rebels
Philippine troops, backed by helicopter gunships, regained control of two southern villages from Muslim rebels Monday and pressed ahead with a massive assault to clear 13 others, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Kabul bomb kills 3 civilians, wounds NATO soldiers
A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in Kabul on Monday, killing three civilians and wounding at least a dozen, officials said. Clashes and an airstrike in the south killed 25 militants and eight civilians held hostage by insurgents...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Authorities Tire failure may be behind Nev. crash
Tire failure may have caused a casino worker shuttle bus crash that injured 29 people, a Nevada Highway Patrol officer said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Md. woman sues state for right to massage horses
Mercedes Clemens is certified to massage humans, but she claims the state of Maryland is keeping her from her first love: Massaging horses...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Dempsters pitching leads Cubs past Cards, 6-2
Ryan Dempster won his 13th game and the Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis 6-2 on Sunday night in a game in which Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter left with another injury...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Dempster stifles Cards to push Cubs to 6-2 victory
Ryan Dempster earned his 13th win and the Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis 6-2 on Sunday night in a game in which Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter left with another injury...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Harrington fills Tiger void with PGA win
Everyone wondered who would fill the void with Tiger Woods recuperating and out of the last two majors...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Rays roll to franchise record for wins
Rocco Baldelli fits perfectly into the remarkable script that the Tampa Bay Rays are putting together this season...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
New premium grapes auctioned for $910 in Japan
A new variety of premium grapes debuted in Japan on Monday, with a single bunch fetching as much as $910...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Angels finish 1st 3-game sweep of Yanks since 1995
Chone Figgins hit an RBI single with one out in the ninth inning against Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, and the Los Angeles Angels completed a three-game sweep of New York with a 4-3 victory on Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Denver wants delegates to see the old and the new
This frontier town turned modern city wants to put its best foot forward for the Democratic National Convention _ just not necessarily one wearing a cowboy boot...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bolivians back Morales in recall vote
Voters vigorously endorsed President Evo Morales on Sunday in a recall referendum he devised to try to break a political stalemate and revive his leftist crusade, partial unofficial results showed...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Clinton to headline second night of convention
Hillary Rodham Clinton will headline her own night at the Democratic National Convention...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Michael Phelps wins his 2nd gold of 2008 Olympics
Michael Phelps has his second gold of the Beijing games. It came in the 400-meter freestyle relay and he got the gold because of the performance of teammate Jason Lezak, who swam the anchor leg of the race. When Lezak dove into the pool for the last lap he was second to world-record holder Alain Bernard of France. He was still trailing with about 20 meters to go but from there the American turned on the afterburner. He made up the distance and finished 0.08 seconds ahead of Bernard...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 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 11, 2008
Melissa Lawson wins NBCs Nashville Star
A Texas mother of five is the new "Nashville Star."...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2008
Witness Freeman said woman in crash is a friend
The woman who was injured along with Morgan Freeman in a weekend car accident apparently is a friend of the Oscar-winning actor who had offered him a ride home, a crash witness says...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Tenn. church rampage suspect eyes insanity defense
An unemployed truck driver accused in a fatal church shooting plans an insanity defense for the rampage that left two people dead and six wounded, his lawyer said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 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 11, 2008
In Ohio, McCain to discuss potential job losses
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is taking up the issue of possible job losses due to the closure of a DHL shipping site in Ohio, the result of a corporate merger aided by his campaign manager during his work as a lobbyist...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Publicist Lisa Marie Presley is expecting twins
Lisa Marie Presley is expecting twins, her spokeswoman, Cindy Guagenti, said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Morgan Freeman discharged from Tenn. hospital
Morgan Freeman was discharged Thursday from a Tennessee hospital after the Oscar-winning actor was treated for broken bones and other injuries sustained in a weekend car crash in Mississippi...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Police raid Md. mayors home and kill his dogs
Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
McCain says Obama wants to forfeit war in Iraq
Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has contended that Barack Obama is willing to lose in Iraq to win the election, on Thursday said his rival would forfeit the war as part of an agenda that also promotes big government and high taxes...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Singer, songwriter Isaac Hayes dies at age 65
Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless "Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, has been found dead at home. He was 65...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Rockmount shirts set the fashion in the West
Its Western shirts have been worn by everyone from Elvis Presley in "Love Me Tender" to Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain."...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Hayes, Shaft singer and disco presage, dies
Isaac Hayes, the baldheaded, baritone-voiced soul crooner who laid the groundwork for disco and whose "Theme From Shaft" won both Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon after he collapsed near a treadmill, authorities said. He was 65...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Tijuana: In the cartels' shadow
Mexico battles with a developing drugs market as the US cracks down on trafficking...
BBC News - August 11, 2008
Oil prices ease despite fighting
Crude oil prices ease after earlier rising on fears that military conflict between Russia and Georgia could disrupt supplies in the region...
BBC News - August 11, 2008
Stars pay tribute to Isaac Hayes
Stars including Dionne Warwick and Gloria Gaynor pay tribute to soul legend Isaac Hayes, who has died at the age of 65...
BBC News - August 11, 2008
Losing the yeti in forgotten nation of Bhutan
He remembers the darkness of the pine forest, and the footprints, and his terror when the creature began to howl. He remembers the stories of his childhood, of a beast that stalked the upper reaches of the mountains, and how fear spread through the village every time it was spotted...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Ivins remembered for intelligence, compassion
The Army scientist suspected in the anthrax attacks was remembered for his humor, intelligence and compassion at a memorial service Saturday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Unfazed by bombings, India has an option peace
With a deadly attack on its embassy in Afghanistan, Pakistani troops clashing with its soldiers in disputed Kashmir and Islamic militants bombing its cities, India has in recent months seemed a country under siege...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Shrine clash threatens to tear Kashmir from India
It started as a small demonstration against a plan to build bathrooms and shelters for Hindu pilgrims visiting a shrine in Kashmir...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Official 2 attackers in western China were women
Two women were among a squad of assailants accused of killing 12 people when they hurled homemade bombs at government buildings and police this week in a Muslim region of China, officials said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Filipino troops press assault on Muslim rebels
Philippine troops, backed by helicopter gunships, regained control of two southern villages from Muslim rebels Monday and pressed ahead with a massive assault to clear 13 others, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Harrington fills Tiger void with PGA win
Everyone wondered who would fill the void with Tiger Woods recuperating and out of the last two majors...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Rays roll to franchise record for wins
Rocco Baldelli fits perfectly into the remarkable script that the Tampa Bay Rays are putting together this season...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Dempsters pitching leads Cubs past Cards, 6-2
Ryan Dempster won his 13th game and the Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis 6-2 on Sunday night in a game in which Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter left with another injury...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Dempster stifles Cards to push Cubs to 6-2 victory
Ryan Dempster earned his 13th win and the Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis 6-2 on Sunday night in a game in which Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter left with another injury...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Lousy economy threatens states sales tax holidays
Thousands of shoppers have been flocking to malls in more than a dozen states for back-to-school sales tax holidays, buying millions of dollars worth of clothes and school supplies _ and depriving states of much-needed revenue...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
More Nebraska Beef recalled despite assurances
Federal authorities last month assured consumers that a meat plant linked to nearly 50 illnesses caused by tainted ground beef had made enough changes after a recall to ensure that its products were safe. Less than a month later, the same processor has recalled 1.2 million pounds of other beef products that might have sickened more than 30 people...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Rockmount shirts set the fashion in the West
Its Western shirts have been worn by everyone from Elvis Presley in "Love Me Tender" to Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain."...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Edwards ex-mistress nixes paternity test
The ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards said Saturday she will not participate in DNA testing to establish the paternity of her daughter...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bolivians back Morales in recall vote
Voters vigorously endorsed President Evo Morales on Sunday in a recall referendum he devised to try to break a political stalemate and revive his leftist crusade, partial unofficial results showed...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Hayes, Shaft singer and disco presage, dies
Isaac Hayes, the baldheaded, baritone-voiced soul crooner who laid the groundwork for disco and whose "Theme From Shaft" won both Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon after he collapsed near a treadmill, authorities said. He was 65...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Clinton to headline second night of convention
Hillary Rodham Clinton will headline her own night at the Democratic National Convention...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Angels finish 1st 3-game sweep of Yanks since 1995
Chone Figgins hit an RBI single with one out in the ninth inning against Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, and the Los Angeles Angels completed a three-game sweep of New York with a 4-3 victory on Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Denver wants delegates to see the old and the new
This frontier town turned modern city wants to put its best foot forward for the Democratic National Convention _ just not necessarily one wearing a cowboy boot...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bus accident in Texas kills 15 on a pilgrimage
Like passengers around her, Leha Nguyen started to doze when she suddenly heard the bus emit a horrible noise, followed by the screaming. She opened her eyes to see people strewn about. A television had fallen on one person...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bus in fatal Texas crash had improper tire
An unlicensed charter bus carrying a Vietnamese-American Catholic group on a pilgrimage to a religious festival blew an illegally treaded tire and skidded off a highway early Friday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Crash of illegal charter bus in Texas kills 15
An unlicensed charter bus carrying a Vietnamese-American Catholic group on a pilgrimage to a religious festival blew an illegally treaded tire and skidded off a highway early Friday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Lincolns hometown marks 100th anniversary of riot
Two days of terror. Black men tortured and hanged. A baby dead of exposure. Four white rioters shot by black defenders...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Hawaii teachers cure clears way for a new saint
When cancer spread into her lungs, doctors told Audrey Toguchi she had six months to live, at best, and suggested chemotherapy as the only option...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Cloned puppies may have exposed 31-year mystery
A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She may be the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
911 callers told of carnage at Texas bus wreck
Witnesses who called 911 after a chartered bus crash that killed at least 16 people described a chaotic scene, telling emergency personnel of bloody passengers crushed beneath the smoking wreckage, according to calls released Saturday by police...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Texas bus crash kills 15 on a religious pilgrimage
Like passengers around her, Leha Nguyen had started to doze off when she heard the bus make a horrible noise, followed by screaming. She opened her eyes to see people strewn about. A television had fallen on one person...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Race sometimes a problem in eyewitness IDs
In the midst of being raped, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino told herself to pay attention to details that would allow her to identify her attacker...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Iconic stone arch collapses in southern Utah park
One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Anthony Russo, Pentagon Papers figure, dies at 71
Police in Virginia say Anthony J. Russo, a researcher who helped leak the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers, has died. He was 71...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
911 callers told of carnage in Texas bus wreck
Witnesses who called 911 after the crash of a charter bus that killed at least 17 people described a chaotic scene, telling emergency workers of bloody passengers crushed beneath the smoking wreckage, according to calls released Saturday by police...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Death toll rises to 17 in Texas charter bus crash
The death toll after the crash of a charter bus carrying pilgrims in Texas has risen to 17...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Somalis fill vacant jobs at Iowa meatpacking plant
Nearly three months after a federal immigration raid uprooted almost 400 employees at a meatpacking plant in northeastern Iowa, dozens of Somali immigrants are slowly but steadily filling the depleted ranks left by the arrested workers...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Md. woman sues state for right to massage horses
Mercedes Clemens is certified to massage humans, but she claims the state of Maryland is keeping her from her first love: Massaging horses...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Mourners pray at Texas bus crash site
Like others returning from a religious festival in Missouri, Hoang Vu stopped at the spot where a charter bus carrying fellow Vietnamese Catholics on the pilgrimage had crashed and killed 17 people...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Cease-work order for companies linked to bus crash
The Federal Motor Safety Administration has ordered companies linked to the bus involved in a fatal Texas crash to cease all commercial operations...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Texas Vietnamese congregation honors bus victims
The pastor of a Vietnamese congregation that lost parishioners in a deadly charter bus crash told churchgoers Sunday that they must accept the tragedy as a "door that God has opened."...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
FDNY stint proving ground for West Point cadets
Before they hit the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, West Point cadets have gotten a taste of chaos, New York City style...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Authorities 3 dead in midair plane crash in Wyo.
Authorities in Wyoming say three people are dead after two small planes collided in midair...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
3 killed, several injured in Mississippi bus crash
Three people were killed and several injured Sunday when a casino bus carrying a group of tourists in northwestern Mississippi overturned on its way to the airport, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
4 killed in boating accident on New Orleans river
Divers in New Orleans are looking for a man reporting missing after two boats collided, killing at least four people...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
3 people killed in Mississippi casino bus crash
Authorities in Mississippi say three people have died and several others have been injured after a casino bus overturned...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Officials work to ID remains from helicopter crash
Authorities worked Sunday to identify badly burned remains collected from the site of a helicopter crash in the Northern California wilderness as crews continued the painstaking effort to recover bodies from the wreckage...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
4 people killed in Mississippi casino bus crash
Authorities in Mississippi say four people have died and several others have been injured after a casino bus overturned...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Hurricane Hernan could weaken to tropical storm
Forecasters say Hurricane Hernan could weaken to a tropical storm on Monday as it moves west over the Pacific...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
29 injured in Las Vegas bus crash
A bus crash south of Las Vegas has injured 29 people, four critically, after their employee shuttle swerved off the interstate and slammed into the center divider...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Researchers study mercury in the Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is so briny that swimmers bob in the water like corks. It is teeming with tiny shrimp that were sold for years in the back of comic books as magical "sea monkeys." And, for reasons scientists cannot explain, it is heavily laden with toxic mercury...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Hawaii teachers cure clears way for a new saint
When cancer spread into her lungs, doctors told Audrey Toguchi she had six months to live, at best, and suggested chemotherapy as the only option...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Losing the yeti in forgotten nation of Bhutan
He remembers the darkness of the pine forest, and the footprints, and his terror when the creature began to howl. He remembers the stories of his childhood, of a beast that stalked the upper reaches of the mountains, and how fear spread through the village every time it was spotted...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Ivins remembered for intelligence, compassion
The Army scientist suspected in the anthrax attacks was remembered for his humor, intelligence and compassion at a memorial service Saturday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Unfazed by bombings, India has an option peace
With a deadly attack on its embassy in Afghanistan, Pakistani troops clashing with its soldiers in disputed Kashmir and Islamic militants bombing its cities, India has in recent months seemed a country under siege...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Shrine clash threatens to tear Kashmir from India
It started as a small demonstration against a plan to build bathrooms and shelters for Hindu pilgrims visiting a shrine in Kashmir...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Cease-work order for companies linked to bus crash
The Federal Motor Safety Administration has ordered companies linked to the bus involved in a fatal Texas crash to cease all commercial operations...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Texas Vietnamese congregation honors bus victims
The pastor of a Vietnamese congregation that lost parishioners in a deadly charter bus crash told churchgoers Sunday that they must accept the tragedy as a "door that God has opened."...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Official 2 attackers in western China were women
Two women were among a squad of assailants accused of killing 12 people when they hurled homemade bombs at government buildings and police this week in a Muslim region of China, officials said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Filipino troops press assault on Muslim rebels
Philippine troops, backed by helicopter gunships, regained control of two southern villages from Muslim rebels Monday and pressed ahead with a massive assault to clear 13 others, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Md. woman sues state for right to massage horses
Mercedes Clemens is certified to massage humans, but she claims the state of Maryland is keeping her from her first love: Massaging horses...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Mourners pray at Texas bus crash site
Like others returning from a religious festival in Missouri, Hoang Vu stopped at the spot where a charter bus carrying fellow Vietnamese Catholics on the pilgrimage had crashed and killed 17 people...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Rays roll to franchise record for wins
Rocco Baldelli fits perfectly into the remarkable script that the Tampa Bay Rays are putting together this season...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Dempsters pitching leads Cubs past Cards, 6-2
Ryan Dempster won his 13th game and the Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis 6-2 on Sunday night in a game in which Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter left with another injury...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Dempster stifles Cards to push Cubs to 6-2 victory
Ryan Dempster earned his 13th win and the Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis 6-2 on Sunday night in a game in which Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter left with another injury...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
More Nebraska Beef recalled despite assurances
Federal authorities last month assured consumers that a meat plant linked to nearly 50 illnesses caused by tainted ground beef had made enough changes after a recall to ensure that its products were safe. Less than a month later, the same processor has recalled 1.2 million pounds of other beef products that might have sickened more than 30 people...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Edwards ex-mistress nixes paternity test
The ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards said Saturday she will not participate in DNA testing to establish the paternity of her daughter...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Harrington fills Tiger void with PGA win
Everyone wondered who would fill the void with Tiger Woods recuperating and out of the last two majors...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Lousy economy threatens states sales tax holidays
Thousands of shoppers have been flocking to malls in more than a dozen states for back-to-school sales tax holidays, buying millions of dollars worth of clothes and school supplies _ and depriving states of much-needed revenue...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Clinton to headline second night of convention
Hillary Rodham Clinton will headline her own night at the Democratic National Convention...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Angels finish 1st 3-game sweep of Yanks since 1995
Chone Figgins hit an RBI single with one out in the ninth inning against Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, and the Los Angeles Angels completed a three-game sweep of New York with a 4-3 victory on Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Denver wants delegates to see the old and the new
This frontier town turned modern city wants to put its best foot forward for the Democratic National Convention _ just not necessarily one wearing a cowboy boot...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bolivians back Morales in recall vote
Voters vigorously endorsed President Evo Morales on Sunday in a recall referendum he devised to try to break a political stalemate and revive his leftist crusade, partial unofficial results showed...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2008
Publicist Lisa Marie Presley is expecting twins
Lisa Marie Presley is expecting twins, her spokeswoman, Cindy Guagenti, said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Witness Freeman said woman in crash is a friend
The woman who was injured along with Morgan Freeman in a weekend car accident apparently is a friend of the Oscar-winning actor who had offered him a ride home, a crash witness says...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Tenn. church rampage suspect eyes insanity defense
An unemployed truck driver accused in a fatal church shooting plans an insanity defense for the rampage that left two people dead and six wounded, his lawyer said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2008
Melissa Lawson wins NBCs Nashville Star
A Texas mother of five is the new "Nashville Star."...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Morgan Freeman discharged from Tenn. hospital
Morgan Freeman was discharged Thursday from a Tennessee hospital after the Oscar-winning actor was treated for broken bones and other injuries sustained in a weekend car crash in Mississippi...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
In Ohio, McCain to discuss potential job losses
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is taking up the issue of possible job losses due to the closure of a DHL shipping site in Ohio, the result of a corporate merger aided by his campaign manager during his work as a lobbyist...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Singer, songwriter Isaac Hayes dies at age 65
Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless "Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, has been found dead at home. He was 65...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Rockmount shirts set the fashion in the West
Its Western shirts have been worn by everyone from Elvis Presley in "Love Me Tender" to Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain."...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Police raid Md. mayors home and kill his dogs
Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
McCain says Obama wants to forfeit war in Iraq
Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has contended that Barack Obama is willing to lose in Iraq to win the election, on Thursday said his rival would forfeit the war as part of an agenda that also promotes big government and high taxes...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Hayes, Shaft singer and disco presage, dies
Isaac Hayes, the baldheaded, baritone-voiced soul crooner who laid the groundwork for disco and whose "Theme From Shaft" won both Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon after he collapsed near a treadmill, authorities said. He was 65...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Native Americans strike $7bn coal plant deal
A Native American tribe strikes a 50-year deal with an Australian company to build a $7bn (£3.6bn) plant to convert coal into liquid fuel...
BBC News - August 11, 2008
Green gauntlet
Costa Rica sets itself 'huge' carbon neutral target...
BBC News - August 11, 2008
All clear after Toronto fireball
Thousands of people forced to flee after a gas explosion in the Canadian city of Toronto are allowed back home...
BBC News - August 11, 2008
Bolivians back Morales in recall
Voters vigorously endorsed President Evo Morales on Sunday in a recall referendum he devised to try to break a political stalemate and revive his leftist crusade, partial unofficial results showed...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Losing the yeti in forgotten nation of Bhutan
He remembers the darkness of the pine forest, and the footprints, and his terror when the creature began to howl. He remembers the stories of his childhood, of a beast that stalked the upper reaches of the mountains, and how fear spread through the village every time it was spotted...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Ivins remembered for intelligence, compassion
The Army scientist suspected in the anthrax attacks was remembered for his humor, intelligence and compassion at a memorial service Saturday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Unfazed by bombings, India has an option peace
With a deadly attack on its embassy in Afghanistan, Pakistani troops clashing with its soldiers in disputed Kashmir and Islamic militants bombing its cities, India has in recent months seemed a country under siege...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Shrine clash threatens to tear Kashmir from India
It started as a small demonstration against a plan to build bathrooms and shelters for Hindu pilgrims visiting a shrine in Kashmir...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bolivians strongly back Morales in recall vote
Voters vigorously endorsed President Evo Morales on Sunday in a recall referendum he devised to try to break a political stalemate and revive his leftist campaign to eliminate historical inequities, partial unofficial results showed...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bolivians back Morales in recall vote
Voters vigorously endorsed President Evo Morales on Sunday in a recall referendum he devised to try to break a political stalemate and revive his leftist crusade, partial unofficial results showed...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Pakistani forces bomb houses near Afghan border
Pakistani forces bombed dozens of houses in a tribal region near the Afghan border Sunday, officials and witnesses said, in a military offensive that comes amid U.S. pressure for Pakistan to crack down on militants...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Singer, songwriter Isaac Hayes dies at age 65
Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless "Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, has been found dead at home. He was 65...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Dempsters pitching leads Cubs past Cards, 6-2
Ryan Dempster won his 13th game and the Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis 6-2 on Sunday night in a game in which Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter left with another injury...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Dempster stifles Cards to push Cubs to 6-2 victory
Ryan Dempster earned his 13th win and the Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis 6-2 on Sunday night in a game in which Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter left with another injury...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Angels finish 1st 3-game sweep of Yanks since 1995
Chone Figgins hit an RBI single with one out in the ninth inning against Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, and the Los Angeles Angels completed a three-game sweep of New York with a 4-3 victory on Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Angels finish 1st home sweep of Yanks since 1995
Chone Figgins hit an RBI single with one out in the ninth inning against Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, and the Los Angeles Angels completed a three-game sweep of New York with a 4-3 victory on Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Hayes, Shaft singer and disco presage, dies
Isaac Hayes, the baldheaded, baritone-voiced soul crooner who laid the groundwork for disco and whose "Theme From Shaft" won both Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon after he collapsed near a treadmill, authorities said. He was 65...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
More Nebraska Beef recalled despite assurances
Federal authorities last month assured consumers that a meat plant linked to nearly 50 illnesses caused by tainted ground beef had made enough changes after a recall to ensure that its products were safe. Less than a month later, the same processor has recalled 1.2 million pounds of other beef products that might have sickened more than 30 people...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Denver wants delegates to see the old and the new
This frontier town turned modern city wants to put its best foot forward for the Democratic National Convention _ just not necessarily one wearing a cowboy boot...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Rockmount shirts set the fashion in the West
Its Western shirts have been worn by everyone from Elvis Presley in "Love Me Tender" to Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain."...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Edwards ex-mistress nixes paternity test
The ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards said Saturday she will not participate in DNA testing to establish the paternity of her daughter...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bush seeks to contain violent conflict in Georgia
President Bush sought to contain the explosive conflict in Georgia on Sunday as the White House warned Russia that relations with the U.S. were in jeopardy...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Lousy economy threatens states sales tax holidays
Thousands of shoppers have been flocking to malls in more than a dozen states for back-to-school sales tax holidays, buying millions of dollars worth of clothes and school supplies _ and depriving states of much-needed revenue...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Clinton to headline second night of convention
Hillary Rodham Clinton will headline her own night at the Democratic National Convention...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
NTSB Bus in fatal Texas crash had improper tire
Investigators say a blown tire on a charter bus that crashed and killed 15 people had been refitted with a new tread in violation of safety standards...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bus crash in Texas kills 15 on a pilgrimage
The death toll now stands at 15 in the crash of a charter bus that skidded off a freeway north of Dallas...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Edwards other woman is 42-year-old filmmaker
The woman former presidential candidate John Edwards admitted having an affair with Friday is a sometimes Hollywood producer-director who has all but dropped from sight since dismissing word of their liaison as nothing but lies last month...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Texas bus crash kills 15 on a religious pilgrimage
Like passengers around her, Leha Nguyen had started to doze off when she heard the bus make a horrible noise, followed by screaming. She opened her eyes to see people strewn about. A television had fallen on one person...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bus accident in Texas kills 15 on a pilgrimage
Like passengers around her, Leha Nguyen started to doze when she suddenly heard the bus emit a horrible noise, followed by the screaming. She opened her eyes to see people strewn about. A television had fallen on one person...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Bus in fatal Texas crash had improper tire
An unlicensed charter bus carrying a Vietnamese-American Catholic group on a pilgrimage to a religious festival blew an illegally treaded tire and skidded off a highway early Friday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Crash of illegal charter bus in Texas kills 15
An unlicensed charter bus carrying a Vietnamese-American Catholic group on a pilgrimage to a religious festival blew an illegally treaded tire and skidded off a highway early Friday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Death toll rises to 17 in Texas charter bus crash
The death toll after the crash of a charter bus carrying pilgrims in Texas has risen to 17...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Somalis fill vacant jobs at Iowa meatpacking plant
Nearly three months after a federal immigration raid uprooted almost 400 employees at a meatpacking plant in northeastern Iowa, dozens of Somali immigrants are slowly but steadily filling the depleted ranks left by the arrested workers...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Lincolns hometown marks 100th anniversary of riot
Two days of terror. Black men tortured and hanged. A baby dead of exposure. Four white rioters shot by black defenders...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Hawaii teachers cure clears way for a new saint
When cancer spread into her lungs, doctors told Audrey Toguchi she had six months to live, at best, and suggested chemotherapy as the only option...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Cloned puppies may have exposed 31-year mystery
A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She may be the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
911 callers told of carnage at Texas bus wreck
Witnesses who called 911 after a chartered bus crash that killed at least 16 people described a chaotic scene, telling emergency personnel of bloody passengers crushed beneath the smoking wreckage, according to calls released Saturday by police...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Texas Vietnamese congregation honors bus victims
The pastor of a Vietnamese congregation that lost parishioners in a deadly charter bus crash told churchgoers Sunday that they must accept the tragedy as a "door that God has opened."...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
FDNY stint proving ground for West Point cadets
Before they hit the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, West Point cadets have gotten a taste of chaos, New York City style...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
Race sometimes a problem in eyewitness IDs
In the midst of being raped, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino told herself to pay attention to details that would allow her to identify her attacker...
Southern Ledger - August 11, 2008
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