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  • Slim, broadcasters take fight to soccer field

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans often feel that billionaire Carlos Slim owns everything in their country, from telephone and Internet companies to banks and chain stores, but his latest acquisitive foray is meeting resistance after touching a national passion: soccer. Slim recently bought part of...

  • Iowa brewers raise $31,000 online for business

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Dubuque may soon have its own brewpub downtown after the business' owners raised more than $31,000 online. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports (http://bit.ly/10FPyyv ) Jay Jubeck raised the money on the Kickstarter website for a new brewery in Dubuque. Initially, Jubeck...

  • Small Fla. city wonders who won Powerball jackpot

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) — Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history. But it wasn't Matthew Bogel. On Sunday, he loaded groceries into his...

  • Delta CEO plans to add jobs in NE Minnesota

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    VIRGINIA, Minn. (AP) — The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says he plans to add jobs at the carrier's reservation center in the northeastern Minnesota city of Chisholm. CEO Richard Anderson tells the Mesabi Daily News of Virginia, Minn., (http://bit.ly/13EmPeT ) his airline wants to invest...

  • Development vs. preservation on Mackinac Island

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Northern Michigan's Mackinac Island, which bans cars and yet draws 900,000 visitors each year, is facing key decisions about the development of its tourism industry, which is the island's lifeblood. The island's Historic District Commission on Monday rejected a...

  • Buybacks are a big factor behind stock market boom

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    NEW YORK (AP) — It's the narcissist rally. Sure, there are plenty of forces pushing stocks higher — record corporate earnings, small investors finally buying again, signs the U.S. economy may be strengthening, central banks flooding the financial system with money. But you may want to...

  • Enbridge Energy planning pipeline into Oklahoma

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    CUSHING, Okla. (AP) — Enbridge Energy Co. is preparing to construct a 600-mile pipeline that will carry crude oil from Illinois to Cushing, and the project promises to bring several hundred jobs. The company says most of the line will parallel an existing Enbridge pipeline right of way....

  • Foxwoods seeks a financial win with Mass. casino

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's Foxwoods Resort Casino is looking to expand next door in Massachusetts. The operators of the biggest casino in North America are proposing a $1 billion, 300,000-square foot resort off I-495 in Milford, Mass., about 40 miles southwest of Boston. Plans call...

  • Planners looking at convention center growth

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Leaders of Nashville's convention center already are mapping out a possible future expansion of a center that spans six downtown blocks and sits on 19 acres. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/12EBaql ) reports that project leaders of Nashville's Music City Center are...

  • Coast Guard to take testimony on Shell grounding

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Coast Guard will kick off hearings Monday on how a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge used for Arctic Ocean exploratory drilling ended up aground off a remote Alaska island. The Kulluk was under tow and bound from the Aleutian Islands' Dutch Harbor to a Seattle...