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Connecticut man bitten by rare rattlesnake he tried to help ends up in coma 08/01/2024 01:30pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — When Joseph Ricciardella saw the snake in the road, he stopped his car and tried to help it avoid getting run over. The attempted good deed landed him in a Connecticut hospital in a medically induced coma after the timber rattlesnake, which is rare in the Northeast, bit his Two couples drop wrongful death suit against Alabama IVF clinic and hospital 08/01/2024 12:53pm • MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Two couples who sued a hospital and in-vitro fertilization clinic over the accidental destruction of their frozen embryos have dropped their lawsuit, months after Alabama's supreme court ruled they could pursue wrongful death claims because embryos could be considered children. Former Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker sues university over his firing 08/01/2024 12:07pm • Former Michigan State University head football coach Mel Tucker is suing the university and school leaders, alleging that they wrongfully fired him last year and violated his constitutional rights after he was accused of sexual harassment. The federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in Michigan accuses scho Gordon Hayward retires after 14 NBA seasons with Utah, Boston, Charlotte and Oklahoma City 08/01/2024 11:05am • BROWNSBURG, Ind. (AP) — Gordon Hayward, who nearly gave Butler a national title over Duke with a half-court shot that just missed on the final play of the 2010 NCAA men's basketball championship game, retired from the NBA after 14 seasons on Thursday. Hayward played for Utah, Boston, Charlotte and Mpox cases have surged by 160% in Africa so far this year, but few treatments and vaccines available 08/01/2024 11:03am • BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — African health officials said mpox cases have spiked by 160% so far this year, warning the risk of further spread is high given the lack of effective treatments or vaccines on the continent. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a rep Investment funds to take healthcare tech company R1 RCM private in nearly $9B deal 08/01/2024 10:02am • The healthcare tech company R1 RCM will be acquired for $9 billion and taken private by investment funds. The Utah company's stock jumped Thursday morning after it said investment funds tied to TowerBrook Capital Partners and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice will pay $14.30 per share in cash for the com US table tennis players call for more resources after Jha's unprecedented Olympic run in Paris 08/01/2024 07:59am • PARIS (AP) — U.S. Olympians are often medal favorites in the events they compete in. Not in table tennis, one of the few Olympic sports in which no American has ever won a medal. In Paris, U.S. competitors are hoping for more exposure — and resources — after Kanak Jha made history by becoming UK family doctors vote to limit services to patients in a dispute over funding 08/01/2024 07:14am • LONDON (AP) — Family doctors in England have voted to limit the number of patients they see and refuse extra work to protest a “broken” funding model, their union said Thursday. The British Medical Association said 98.3% of the 8,500 general practitioners who voted backed the work-to-rule acti Olympic Athletics Results 08/01/2024 05:58am • Thursday Men 20km Race Walk 1. Brian Daniel Pintado, Ecuador, 1:18:55. 2. Caio Bonfim, Brazil, 1:19:09. 3. Alvaro Martin, Spain, 1:19:11. 4. Massimo Stano, Italy, 1:19:12. 5. Evan Dunfee, Canada, 1:19:16. 6. Misgana Wakuma, Ethiopia, 1:19:31. 7. Koki Ikeda, Japan, 1:19:41. 8. Yuta Koga, Japan, 1:19: 1 of last Republican congressmen to vote for Trump impeachment defends his seat in Washington race 08/01/2024 12:05am • SEATTLE (AP) — Congressional primary races in Washington state are attracting outsized attention, including one that pits one of the last remaining U.S. House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump against two conservative candidates whose platforms are in lock-step with the GOP presidentia What Is the Difference Between a Skilled Nursing Facility and a Nursing Home? 07/31/2024 08:00pm • It's overwhelming enough helping your mom get discharged from the hospital after a fall. Then, what if her doctor doesn't think it's safe for her to return home? As you scramble to find somewhere for her to go, you're inundated with unfamiliar senior living terminology: What is a skilled nursing fac Paris Olympics Day 5: Ledecky wins; Triathlon held in the Seine; Guatemala earns its 1st gold 07/31/2024 05:35pm • PARIS (AP) — Katie Ledecky gritted her teeth and flexed her left arm atop the lane rope. There was plenty of splashing, too, by one of the most accomplished swimmers to ever dive into the pool. Ledecky dominated the 1,500-meter freestyle at the Paris Games on Wednesday for her eighth Olympic Woman denied abortion at a Kansas hospital sues, alleging her life was put at risk 07/31/2024 04:33pm • MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A woman who was denied an abortion at a Kansas hospital after suffering a pregnancy complication that her attorneys say put her at risk of sepsis and even death is suing in a case that already prompted a federal investigation. Mylissa Farmer, of Joplin, Missouri, filed the la Gymnast-turned-shooter Adriana Ruano wins Guatemala's first Olympic gold 07/31/2024 01:04pm • CHATEAUROUX, France (AP) — A spinal injury ended Adriana Ruano's chances of competing at the Olympics as a gymnast. She came back as a shooter and won Guatemala's first gold medal on Wednesday. Ruano was training for the 2011 world championships in gymnastics, a qualifier for the London Olympics t Lice, scabies, rashes plague Palestinian children as skin disease runs rampant in Gaza's tent camps 07/31/2024 09:33am • KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A steady stream of miserable children and worried parents flowed into the dermatology office at Nasser Hospital in central Gaza. A toddler with a blue hair bow sobbed as her mother showed how the red and white spots covering her face have spread to her neck and chest