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Honduran teens, mom navigate life after US reunion 08/11/2014 04:10pm • LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ Associated Press MIAMI (AP) -- The mother arrived early at Miami International Airport, pacing the baggage claim hall until, at last, she spotted her.Denia Zelaya had last seen her eldest daughter nearly 10 years earlier. On an early morning in 2004, she kissed Anita's head as the Health care at college: Can your teen manage? 08/11/2014 01:00pm • LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Lauren Davies had a desperate thought while stuck in traffic as she frantically drove upstate to reach her 19-year-old."If I drive on the shoulder and a cop stops me, will he believe me when I tell him I think my daughter's dying in a hospital?"The sop Illinois governor, opponent clash over investments 08/11/2014 10:27am • SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) -- As one of the nation's most competitive governor's races picks up, voters in Illinois are hearing a whole lot about a British territory thousands of miles away in the Caribbean.Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn hammered his wealthy Republican rival for days afte Hull hopes Europa League isn't a distraction 08/11/2014 06:06am • HULL, England (AP) -- Swansea and Newcastle have shown over the last two years that qualifying for the Europa League can be more of a hindrance than a help in the Premier League.Hull must hope it can buck the trend.A first foray into European football as the FA Cup runner-up should nevertheless make Gaza's wounded: Living reminder of ravages of war 08/11/2014 04:34am • HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- When an Israeli airstrike hit the Gaza home for the handicapped where she was staying, Sally Saqr was left shattered. Her pelvis, both legs and an arm were broken, her skull fractured, much of her body burned. In the hospital, doctors coul Washington's Top News - Monday, August 11, 2014 08/11/2014 03:17am • Here's a look at some of the day's top stories from WTOP: Kurds make advances U.S. military forces on Sunday launched a fourth round of airstrikes against militant vehicles and mortars firing on Irbil in Iraq, as part of efforts to blunt the militants' advance and protect American personnel in and Catchings helps Fever beat Liberty 90-76 08/10/2014 07:00pm • DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Tamika Catchings and the Indiana Fever played with a sense of urgency and blew past the New York Liberty.Catchings scored a season-high 29 points to lead Indiana to a 90-76 victory over the Liberty on Sunday, ending the Fever's three-game losing st NFL dynasties disappeared; could Seahawks be one? 08/10/2014 09:46am • HOWARD FENDRICH AP Pro Football Writer The NFL does what it can via the draft, salary cap, free agency and, coming soon, expanded playoffs to engineer a sense of parity, making each team and each fan base believe it has a chance to win on any given Sunday -- and to reach any season's Super Bowl.Thos Cowboys CB Carr in camp after death of mother 08/09/2014 09:30pm • OXNARD, Calif. (AP) -- Brandon Carr knows the pain of losing his mother will never go away completely.Football is the veteran Dallas cornerback's escape, and he was back on the field with the Cowboys on Saturday after missing the first two weeks of training camp to be with his mother in the final da Review: In 'Phoenix,' hooking up is hard to do 08/09/2014 10:34am • JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Should you happen to bring your mother along to see "Phoenix," Scott Organ's one-act dark comedy at the Cherry Lane Theatre, beware: She might stare you down and say, "I told you so."Because "Phoenix," despite its partly comic tone, is surely a remi Crisp Cassel, Vikings beat Raiders 10-6 08/09/2014 12:26am • DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Matt Cassel was crisp from the start, giving Teddy Bridgewater a model touchdown drive to watch.Bridgewater showed his age, aside from a few flashes of brilliance, and that's the early snapshot of the starting quarterback competition.Cassel we Distracted smartphone walking poses safety risks 08/08/2014 03:22pm • WASHINGTON -- Smartphone users are starting to fill up emergency rooms as distracted walking is to blame for everything from sprained ankles, broken bones and even deaths. "You see people in restaurants with their phones all on the table; you see people checking their phones walking on the stree Africans face long wait for unproven Ebola drug 08/08/2014 01:12pm • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Africans seeking a drug to help contain the Ebola virus will have to wait months before a potentially life-saving experimental treatment used on two infected Americans is produced even in small amounts, officials said.And there are no g Review: Mother Nature deserves better lines 08/08/2014 09:06am • JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer "Into the Storm" is a movie that addresses the fearsome power of nature. Alas, it also addresses the fearsome power of a bad script to distract us from the fearsome power of nature.Add to that a set of cardboard characters, and what you have is a movie that should h Sen. John Walsh leaves race amid plagiarism probe 08/08/2014 12:17am • LISA BAUMANN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Montana U.S. Sen. John Walsh dropped his election campaign Thursday amid allegations he plagiarized large portions of a 2007 research project, leaving fellow Democrats to scramble for a replacement with the election less than three months away.Nati