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Darling buying Vion Holding unit for $2.17B

Food recycling company Darling International Inc. is buying a unit of Vion Holding NV for about 1.6 billion euros ($2.17 billion). The Irving, Texas, company said Monday that the acquisition will help diversify its product line. Vion Ingredients, based in the Netherlands, produces specialty ingredients from animal origin for applications ...

LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger (8) throws a pass against Mississippi State as LSU fullback Connor Neighbors (43) goes past during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Starkville, Miss., Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. No. 10 LSU won 59-26. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

SEC honors Mettenberger, Purifoy, Morgan

LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger, Florida defensive back Loucheiz Purifoy and Georgia placekicker Marshall Morgan are the Southeastern Conference players of the week. The SEC named its weekly winners on Monday. Mettenberger completed 25 of 29 passes for 340 yards and two touchdowns in the 10th-ranked Tigers' win over Mississippi State. ...

FILE - In this  Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, file photo, Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team owner and business man Mark Cuban stops to chat as he walks out of the federal courthouse during a break in testimony during his insider trading trial, in Dallas. Billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban testified Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, that he generally doesn’t agree to treat as confidential information what people tell him about investments. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Mark Cuban continues testimony at trial

Billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban testified Monday that he generally doesn't agree to treat as confidential any information that people tell him about investments. Cuban made the comment at his insider-trading trial to counter a government claim that he broke a secrecy vow in 2004 when he unloaded ...

Court considers ending Stanford Ponzi scheme suits

The Supreme Court is considering shutting down class-action lawsuits from investors who lost billions in former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford's massive Ponzi scheme. Justices listened to lawyers argue over whether lawsuit should proceed against individuals, law firms and investment companies that allegedly aided Stanford's fraud. He was sent to ...

BP trial focus shifts to how much oil spilled

The focus of a trial over BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has shifted to the multibillion-dollar question of how much crude gushed from BP's blown-out well. Lawyers for BP and the federal government began Monday presenting U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier with conflicting scientific theories to ...

NY probes rights sale of World Trade Center name

New York is expanding its probe nationwide into the 1980s sale of the rights to the World Trade Center name to a nonprofit for $10, resulting in millions of dollars in fees for use of the name in 28 states, according to an official familiar with the investigation. The official ...

Denver Broncos punter Britton Colquitt (4) and Matt Prater (5) celebrates their winning field goal in front of Dallas Cowboys outside linebacker Bruce Carter (54) during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. The Broncos won 51-48. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Jose Yau)

Manning tops Romo, Cowboys in wild 51-48 shootout

Peyton Manning had to make sure Tony Romo wasn't the last man with the ball in his hands. The Denver quarterback did it by keeping the Broncos out of the end zone in the final moments of the second-highest scoring game since the NFL-AFL merger. Manning maintained his record pace ...

BP trial to focus on scientists' spill estimates

A federal judge was set to begin hearing three weeks of testimony Monday about how much oil made it into the ocean during the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Experts for BP and the federal government will provide U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier with very different estimates when the ...

Houston Texans running back Ben Tate (44) is tackled by San Francisco 49ers linebacker Michael Wilhoite (57) as linebacker Dan Skuta moves in on the right, in the first half of an NFL football game in San Francisco, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Beck Diefenbach)

49ers pound Schaub, Texans in lopsided 34-3 win

Tramaine Brock is kicking himself for not having a third interception. He came oh so close. "I wanted it," he said. The San Francisco 49ers turned a prime-time showdown into an all-out pick party at The Stick. Brock perfectly read Matt Schaub's first pass of the night, jumped in front ...

Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (18) sprints to the end zone untouched for a touchdown on a quarterback keep play in the first half of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys, Sunday, Oct. 6,2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Prater's FG lifts Broncos past Cowboys, 51-48

Peyton Manning spent all afternoon putting the Broncos in the end zone during a wild shootout with Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys. The last time he got the ball, Manning kept Denver out of the end zone — and that was the best way to win the game. The ...

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