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Asian stocks lower on weak China housing data 05/19/2014 06:10am • JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) -- Asian stock markets were mostly lower Monday after China reported a weak increase in housing prices.Oil gained to stay above $102 a barrel after rising last week on concern about tensions in Ukraine.China's Shanghai Composite Index fell 1 percent to 2, Frustration grows over $3.4B settlement delay 05/19/2014 12:28am • MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Laura Juarez is supposed to receive close to $1,200 as her share of a $3.4 billion settlement among hundreds of thousands of Native Americans whose land-trust royalties were mismanaged by the government for more than a century.The Bakersfield, Califor Judge rules vs. firm's charge for negative review 05/18/2014 09:40pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A federal judge has ruled against an online retailer that tried to force a Utah couple to pay $3,500 over a critical online review.U.S. District Judge Dee Benson entered a default judgment on April 30 in favor of John and Jen Palmer of Layton after KlearGear.com failed to resp Edu still doesn't know why WCup goal didn't count 05/18/2014 02:34pm • MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -- Four years later, Maurice Edu still doesn't know why his goal against Slovenia was disallowed.After the U.S. gave up a pair of first-half goals, Landon Donovan and Michael Bradley scored to leave the Americans even at 2-2 in Johannesburg's El Portugal ends bailout constraints; pain won't end 05/18/2014 10:30am • LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Portugal is emerging from the painful economic constraints imposed by a three-year bailout that saved the country from collapse, but EU officials are warning that tough controls must continue to create stable employment.With the government taking control of its finances once Timbers play to 3-all draw with Crew 05/18/2014 03:20am • ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Gaston Fernandez has a flair for the dramatic.Fernandez scored in the 85th minute to pull the Timbers into a 3-3 draw with the Columbus Crew on Saturday night. It was the Argentine forward's fourth game-tying goal of the season and it capped a Cyprus says 4th bailout review is positive 05/17/2014 03:03pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- Cyprus' finance minister said Saturday that international creditors have given a fourth straight positive review to the country's financial rescue program and are projecting that its economy will shrink this year slightly less than earlier forecasts.But the European Union and Greek coalition faces major test in midterm vote 05/17/2014 05:48am • NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's rickety coalition government faces its first electoral test in local and regional voting Sunday -- followed in a week by the nationwide European parliamentary elections that the left-wing opposition has billed as a referendum on the US regulators close small lender in Illinois 05/16/2014 08:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators have closed a small lender in Illinois, marking the seventh U.S. bank failure of 2014 after 24 closures last year.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Friday that it has taken over AztecAmerica Bank, based in Berwyn.The lender, which operated two branches, had about Bailout ends but austerity stays for Portugal 05/16/2014 10:28am • BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- A thousand days on from its near-economic collapse, Portugal is ready to stand on its own again and is promising not to go back to its bad old spend-happy ways.On Saturday, after an internationally-mandated makeover, Portugal will become the sec House, Senate unveil water project bill compromise 05/16/2014 07:00am • HENRY C. JACKSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- House and Senate negotiators on Thursday unveiled a compromise bill that authorizes billions of dollars for water projects over the next decade, from flood protections in California to deepening Georgia's rapidly growing Port of Savannah.Lawmakers Deutsche Bank sells Vegas casino for $1.73 billion 05/15/2014 06:14pm • MICHELLE RINDELS Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Deutsche Bank AG is cutting itself free of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas resort and casino, saying it's selling the swanky but unprofitable high-rise complex on the Strip to Blackstone Real Estate Partners VII for $1.73 billion.The German investmen Stocks tumble...GM recalls more cars...FCC moves forward with net neutrality rules...Mortgage rates decline 05/15/2014 03:38pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Investors are selling off stocks after disappointing earnings from Wal-Mart and mixed news about the U.S. economy. The Dow Jones industrial average has been down more than 200 points in afternoon trading on Wall Street. The Russell 2000, which is made up primarily of smaller, more r Norfolk man sentenced for ID theft scheme 05/15/2014 03:38pm • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A Norfolk man has been sentenced to 6½ years in prison for conspiring with four other people to steal $87,000 from applicants for housing at an apartment complex.The U.S. attorney's office says 29-year-old Donte L. Battin was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Norfolk. He p Senate panel approves 6-year highway bill 05/15/2014 02:50pm • JOAN LOWY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel on Thursday approved a bill to keep federal highway programs going for the next six years, but it remained unclear whether Congress would act in time to prevent a disruption in transportation aid to states this summer.The Environment and P