Month August 2005

Rushing to beat an October deadline when the biggest overhaul of the bankruptcy law in a quarter century goes into effect, rising numbers of Americans have filed for protection in the four months since the law was changed, seeking to…

From Sue Mississippi probably will file criminal charges against accounting giant KPMG because it created a tax strategy that the state says illegally let WorldCom, now called MCI Inc., shield billions of dollars from taxes, sources close to the case…

Police knew Brazilian was ‘not bomb risk’ Police officers from the team involved in the fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes did not believe he posed ‘an immediate threat’. It was only when they were joined by armed…

Bush says Iraq war sacrifices deserve victory. US President George W. Bush, besieged at his Texas ranch by relatives of US soldiers killed in Iraq, said that the best way to honor fallen troops was to win the war on…

From a semi-hysterical report about drugs in high schools. The survey revealed that teens at drug-ridden schools are three times more likely than their peers in drug-free classrooms to try marijuana or get drunk. Wow, what an insight. Students at…