This is AP News Minute.The European Aviation Safety Agency is the latest to join the FAA, in ordering the grounding of Boeing 787.Problems with the new high-tech plane's lithium batteries have emerged as the chief safety concern.Japan and India also have grounded the jet they called the dreamliner.U.S. inspectors are finding hundred of levees in danger of failing seven years after Hurricane Katrina.The Army Corps of Engineers says of those checked so far, 326 are found to be in urgent need of repair.Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, is set to appear in a military court today.His lawyers say he'll plead not guilty.The Army may try to bar Bales from using a mental health defense because of his refusal to undergo an official review of his sanity.Notre Dame says Manti Te'o was the victim of an apparent outline hoax.This after reports emerged that no record of his dead girlfriend ever existed.Joe Belmont, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.
