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, 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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