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* A judge in Houston delayed the sentencing of former Enron Corp. executives Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling to Oct. 23 to give their lawyers more time to prepare appeals.

* Van Nuys-based Superior Industries International Inc., which manufactures automotive wheels, said it would lay off about 225 chrome-plating workers at a plant in Fayetteville, Ark.

* A federal judge approved Dutch retailer Royal Ahold’s $1.1-billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by shareholders over an accounting scandal, the most ever to be paid by a European company to settle U.S. fraud charges.