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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California businesses would be prohibited from firing or retaliating against employees who take advantage of the state's paid family leave program under a job-protection bill moving through the Legislature. The legislation would protect workers who use the California...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's almost time for a new Xbox. Eight years have passed since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox 360, double the amount of time between the original Xbox debut in 2001 and its high-definition successor's launch in 2005. With the next-generation Xbox expected to be revealed...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against concerns that pot shops attract crime. Voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide how Los Angeles should handle its high with three...

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NEW YORK (AP) — It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering. Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald's, bigger than Coca-Cola. And it was all made possible by our...