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Advertising billboards for Ikea meat balls are taken down from a parking at the Ikea store in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday, Feb. 25, 2012. Swedish furniture giant Ikea was drawn into Europe's widening food labeling scandal Monday as authorities in the Czech Republic said they had detected horse meat in frozen meatballs labeled as beef and pork and sold in 13 countries across the continent. (AP Photo/Jessica Gow) SWEDEN OUT

Horse a hidden ingredient in many European foods

By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press February 25, 2013

DUBLIN (AP) — So hungry you could eat a horse? Chances are, if you’ve regularly consumed processed-meat products in Europe, you already have. Since Ireland published surprise DNA results...

FILE - This Jan. 13, 2012 file photo shows former captain of the Costa Concordia luxury cruise ship Francesco Schettino arriving at the Teatro Moderno theater for the second hearing of a trial for the Jan. 13, 2012 shipwreck in which 32 people died, in Grosseto, Italy. An Italian prosecutor on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 formally requested a manslaughter indictment against the captain of the Costa Concordia, which crashed into a reef off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people. The prosecutors' office in Grosseto, Tuscany, also wants Francesco Schettino, the captain of the luxury cruise liner, to be tried for causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship while the frantic evacuation of passengers and crew was still being conducted. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, files)

Prosecutor seeks trial for Costa cruise ship capt

By Associated Press February 25, 2013

ROME (AP) — Italian prosecutors on Monday officially requested an indictment of the Costa Concordia’s captain on manslaughter charges in the shipwreck of the cruise liner that killed 32 people...

School threatened, evac ordered; given all clear

By Associated Press February 25, 2013

NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) — Several buildings were evacuated for a time at Northwestern State University and classes were canceled Monday after a college-prepatory high school housed on the campus received...

FILE - In this Sunday, June 6, 2010 file photo, a small oil-covered fish floats on the water's surface at Bay Long off the coast of Louisiana. An April 20, 2010 explosion at the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore platform killed 11 men, and the subsequent leak released an estimated 172 million gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf oil spill settlement trial has started in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is scheduled to hear several hours of opening statements Monday by lawyers for the companies, federal and state governments and others who sued over the disaster. Barbier is hearing the case without a jury. The trial is designed to identify the causes of BP's well blowout and assign percentages of fault to the companies. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

High-stakes trial begins over 2010 Gulf oil spill

By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press February 25, 2013

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP put profits ahead of safety and bears most of the blame for the disastrous 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a U.S. Justice Department attorney charged Monday at the opening...

FILE - This file image provided by NASA on Feb. 22, 2006 from it's Hubble Space Telescope shows Pluto and three of it's five moons. An online vote to name Pluto's two newest, itty-bitty moon concluded Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, and the winner is Vulcan, a name suggested by actor William Shatner, who played Capt. Kirk in the original "Star Trek" TV series. (AP Photo/NASA, File)

Capt. Kirk’s Vulcan entry wins Pluto moons contest

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press February 25, 2013

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — “Star Trek” fans, rejoice. An online vote to name Pluto’s two newest, itty-bitty moons is over. And No. 1 is Vulcan, a name suggested by actor William...

Kathleen Mangan, right, is driven from federal court Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, in New York. Struggling to stay composed, the estranged wife of a New York City police officer testified Monday that she was shocked to find he had visited a website featuring a photo of a dead woman and other gruesome images — a discovery that led to a federal prosecution accusing him of plotting to abduct, torture and eat dozens of women. Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

NYC woman: Husband wanted to kill me, eat others

By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press February 25, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The estranged wife of a New York City police officer struggled to keep her composure Monday as she testified about discovering shocking emails and other evidence on his computer showing...

Crews search for family who abandoned sinking boat

By Associated Press February 25, 2013

MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Crews searched by sea and air and sought the public’s help Monday as they ramped up their efforts to find a husband and wife and two young children who sent a series...

Fallen ‘Idol:’ TV show winner held in Dominican

By Ezequiel Abiu Lopez February 21, 2013

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A winner of the TV talent show “Latin American Idol” who was once loved by thousands in her native Dominican Republic was charged with drug smuggling...

All eyes on Venezuelan hospital, no sign of Chavez

By Fabiola Sanchez February 21, 2013

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At Caracas’ military hospital, the only outward signs that President Hugo Chavez is a patient inside are the motorcades that come and go and the soldiers standing...

This undated photo made available by West Midlands Police shows a clock purchased as a timing device found in the safe house in White Street, Birmingham, England. Three young British Muslims were convicted Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, of plotting terrorist bombings that prosecutors said were intended to be bigger than the 2005 London transit attacks. A London jury found Irfan Naseer, 31, and Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali, both 27, guilty of being central figures in the foiled plot to explode knapsack bombs in crowded areas — attacks potentially deadlier than the July 7, 2005 explosions on subway trains and a bus which killed 52 commuters. Judge Richard Henriques told the men — who had been arrested in September 2011 — they will all face life in prison when sentences are imposed in April or May for plotting a major terrorist attack in Birmingham, a city of roughly 1 million people located 120 miles (nearly 200 kilometers) northwest of London. (AP Photo/West Midlands Police)

3 British men convicted in terrorist bomb plot

By Jill Lawless February 21, 2013

LONDON (AP) — They were very ordinary would-be terrorists, with big plans but bad luck. On Thursday, a London jury convicted the three young British men of being ringleaders of an al-Qaida-inspired...

Road work scaled back amid debt ceiling worries

By Melinda Deslatte February 21, 2013

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana will borrow $100 million to repair and improve rural roads around Louisiana, in a plan scaled back Thursday by state officials grappling with a shortage of construction...

23-day search finds missing boater’s body

By Associated Press February 21, 2013

ST. MARTINVILLE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says searchers have found the body of a Baton Rouge firefighter who apparently fell into the Intracoastal Canal on Jan....