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BRUSSELS, Belgium – Italy must urgently take further action to ensure dioxin-tainted mozzarella does not end up on store shelves, the European Union said Thursday, warning that the bloc could impose a ban on the popular cheese from Italy’s Campania region. The European Commission said Italian health officials had not …

CLAYTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Jim Koan has gone hog-wild in his battle against a beetle that threatens his 120-acre organic apple orchard. As part of a research experiment believed to be among the first of its kind, Koan is using pigs to help protect his fruit from the plum curculio, …

LAKE FOREST, Calif. – The white van eases into a liquor store parking lot and is swarmed by 30 Hispanic day laborers who begin intense job negotiations with the driver. Within seconds, another wave of people descend on the van. Mostly white and middle aged, they snap pictures as they …