Among the earnings stories for Tuesday, April 29, from AP Financial News: Top stories: CALABASAS, Calif. -- Countrywide Financial says it lost $893 million during the first quarter due to a sharp increase in its provision for loan losses.

The League of Women Voters of the Oneonta Area is sponsoring two candidates' forums next week in the Craven Lounge at the Morris Conference Center at the State University College at Oneonta.

Increasingly, marketers are looking to ad networks, which sell display advertising across groups of Web sites.

Big gains at its cable networks like ESPN and the Disney Channel rescued The Walt Disney Co.’s fiscal third quarter from the doldrums, with the media giant reporting revenue and operating income increases of 2% for the period ended June 30.

China Automotive Systems, Inc. , a leading power steering components and systems supplier in China, today announced that its subsidiary, Jingzhou Henglong Automotive Parts Co. , has received orders from Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile Company Ltd. for