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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...