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Power plant becomes a model for cleaner operation 05/28/2014 11:36am • DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press HOMER CITY, Pa. (AP) -- A massive coal-fired power plant in western Pennsylvania is turning from one of the worst polluters in the country to a model for how such a facility can clean up its act.Homer City Generating Station is expected to make the transformation in a After decades, dirty power plant to get clean 05/28/2014 01:44am • KEVIN BEGOS Associated Press HOMER CITY, Pa. (AP) -- Three years ago, the operators of one of the nation's dirtiest coal-fired power plants warned of "immediate and devastating" consequences from the Obama administration's push to clean up pollution from coal.Faced with cutting sulfur dioxide pollut French politics in disarray, except for far right 05/28/2014 12:58am • ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) -- An anti-immigration movement founded by a man repeatedly convicted of anti-Semitism now leads polls in France. The mainstream conservative party risks collapse amid a financing scandal. The Socialist president is the most unpopular leader in modern French US home prices rise at slower rate in March 05/28/2014 12:14am • JOSH BOAK AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. home prices rose in March, but the gains are decelerating as fewer Americans can afford to buy.The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 12.4 percent in March compared with 12 months earlier. While healthy, that rate of gro Puerto Rico bank, government clash over $230M 05/27/2014 08:50pm • DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Puerto Rico's government and one of the island's biggest banks are locked in a heated battle over $230 million as both sides struggle to regain their financial footing in a wobbly economy.The dispute between the Treasury Department and Doral 495 Express Lanes trip cost woman $10,000 05/27/2014 07:29pm • FAIRFAX, Va. -- A Northern Virginia woman who took 11 trips on the 495 Express Lanes is being charged more than $10,000 in tolls, administrative fees, court costs and civil penalties. Toni Cooley took the trips over a two-week span in November and December 2012. Her E-ZPass on the 495 Express La Stocks climb...FTC wants tighter rules on data brokers...Hyundia-Kia greenest automaker 05/27/2014 06:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- More promising signs that the economy is strengthening after its winter slowdown have pushed stocks higher. The S&P 500 index, the benchmark for most U.S. mutual funds, rose for the fourth straight day and ended at another all-time high. It added 11 points to 1,911.91. The Dow climb Pilgrim's Pride in takeover bid for Hillshire 05/27/2014 06:02pm • CANDICE CHOI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Pilgrim's Pride launched a takeover bid for Hillshire Brands on Tuesday that would expand its business beyond fresh and frozen chicken into a variety of packaged meats, including Ball Park hot dogs and Jimmy Dean sausages.The $5.58 billion offer could d Cost to remove some Detroit blight: $850 million 05/27/2014 04:56pm • JEFF KAROUB Associated Press DETROIT (AP) -- Removing blighted residential properties and small commercial structures that have plagued Detroit neighborhoods for decades would cost $850 million, with perhaps $1 billion more needed to tackle the bankrupt city's larger commercial and industrial proper ECB chief notes risk of low inflation 05/27/2014 01:12pm • BARRY HATTON Associated Press SINTRA, Portugal (AP) -- European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said Tuesday he is mindful of the danger of inflation remaining low in the 18-country eurozone and is committed to bringing it back to more tolerable levels.The central bank is widely expected to offe Unpaid debts problem for Russia-Ukraine gas deal 05/27/2014 10:35am • PRAGUE (AP) -- A top European Union official says Ukraine's debt for gas Russia delivered between November and May remains a hurdle to reaching a deal on energy supplies between the two countries.EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger says Russia's state-owned gas company, Gazprom, is willing to Oil stays above $104 on crises in Ukraine, Libya 05/27/2014 09:51am • PABLO GORONDI Associated Press The price of oil remained above $104 a barrel Tuesday as investors weighed how the conflicts in Ukraine and Libya were likely to affect crude supplies.By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for July delivery was down 10 cents to $104.25 a barrel in electronic tr Investors ponder economy's direction...Durable goods, home prices reports due 05/27/2014 07:40am • UNDATED (AP) -- The question that's lingering in the minds of investors as they ready for a shortened week of trading is will the economy ever come alive this year. So far, growth has fallen short of expectations, barely expanding in the first quarter after a strong finish to 2013. Wall Street had s EU: Proposed solution found in Ukraine gas dispute 05/27/2014 05:36am • GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- A proposed solution to a dispute over Ukrainian natural gas debts to Moscow would see Ukraine's gas company pay $2 billion to Russia's Gazprom this week and trigger talks on the price Kiev should pay for future deliveries as it tries to avert a supply cut Thai coup leader: Don't protest, it's no use 05/27/2014 03:06am • TODD PITMAN Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) -- Bolstered by an endorsement from Thailand's king, the nation's new military ruler issued a stark warning Monday to anyone opposed to last week's coup: don't cause trouble, don't criticize, don't protest -- or else the nation could revert to the "old days"