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Toronto elects a new mayor, ends Ford era 10/28/2014 02:44pm • ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) -- Toronto's next mayor will be a straight-laced, button down moderate conservative -- almost the polar opposite of current Mayor Rob Ford, whose term was plagued by scandals involving public drinking and illegal drug use.John Tory won Monday's election with US governors, Army go own way on Ebola quarantines 10/28/2014 01:57pm • COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday recommended new restrictions for people at highest risk for coming down with the Ebola virus and symptom monitoring for those at lower risk, but some state governors and even the Army Ga. hospital: Nurse who had Ebola to be released 10/28/2014 11:39am • ATLANTA (AP) -- An Emory University Hospital spokeswoman says a 29-year-old Dallas nurse who was treated for Ebola will be released.Emory spokeswoman Holly Korschun tells The Associated Press that Amber Vinson will be leaving the hospital after a 1 p.m. news conference Tuesday to make a statement af Cumberbatch in talks to star in Marvel's 'Doctor Strange' 10/28/2014 09:15am • WASHINGTON -- Marvel Studios may have found its Sorcerer Supreme. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is in talks to play Doctor Strange in Marvel's upcoming superhero movie, Variety reports. If the deal is confirmed, Cumberbatch will play Stephen Vincent Strange, neurosurgeon-turned-Master-of-the-Mys Google Inbox: A new way to manage email 10/28/2014 08:29am • Data Doctors Quarantined nurse expected to arrive at Maine home 10/28/2014 06:20am • FORT KENT, Maine (AP) -- A nurse who over the weekend was forcibly quarantined in New Jersey after helping Ebola patients in West Africa is expected to arrive at her home in Maine today.Nurse Kaci Hickox became the first person forced into New Jersey's mandatory quarantine for people arriving at New Lawmaker: New York jail heath care needs oversight 10/28/2014 03:50am • JAKE PEARSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- A city councilman on Monday said he will hold an oversight hearing this year to examine health care services at Rikers Island and other city jails, where documents obtained by The Associated Press raised troubling questions about quality and timeliness No runners from Ebola-stricken nations in marathon 10/28/2014 03:50am • NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Marathon organizers say they had no runners signed up for Sunday's race from the three West African countries stricken by Ebola.Only a "handful" of entrants, mostly from overseas, have reached out with concerns after a doctor who had treated infected patients in Africa US official: Welcome home medics fighting Ebola 10/28/2014 03:16am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Health care workers who go to West Africa to fight Ebola must be welcomed home and nothing should be done to impede fighting the disease "at its source," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Monday.After an American doct Experts tackle public's questions on Ebola 10/28/2014 02:11am • WASHINGTON -- The possibility of an Ebola flight ban came up Monday night during a live ABC7/NewsChannel 8 Town Hall called "Ebola in America." The panelists took questions, many of which were submitted through social media. "The person who came in here who infected two nurses would not have 5 foods you're probably not eating -- but totally should be 10/28/2014 12:00am • Food ruts happen. Who hasn't felt stuck, like they're just eating the same meals, the same snacks, day in and day out? When I find myself living a culinary "Groundhog Day," I glom on to an unfamiliar food or ingredient and figure out how to incorporate it into my existing rotation for a bit of n 6 Last-Minute Tactics for a Cheap Halloween 10/28/2014 12:00am • Halloween is just a few days away. Whether you're a parent with children who plan on trick-or-treating or anticipate a number of costumed children coming to your door with big smiles on their faces, Halloween can be an expense that sneaks up on you. Here are six simple strategies to handle last-mi How to Care for Body Piercings 10/28/2014 12:00am • On the main drag in Adams Morgan, the storied neighborhood in the District of Columbia for things hip, Tattoo Paradise is appropriately snuggled between a West African cafe and a roofer's union. On one side of the shop are floor-to-ceiling tattoos of butterflies, skulls and roses. On the other side Judge sets new trial date for James Holmes 10/27/2014 10:10pm • CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) -- A Colorado judge has postponed the death penalty trial for movie theater shooter James Holmes so that Holmes' attorneys can have more time to evaluate a second report on their client's sanity.Judge Carlos A. Samour wrote in a Monday ruling that jury selection will start Jan Ukraine looks to reform with an eye on Europe 10/27/2014 07:48pm • PETER LEONARD Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- As Ukraine's most ardently pro-European parties pocketed a resounding collective election triumph Monday, thoughts turned to a reform agenda that promises pain and progress in equal doses.Although the outcome of Sunday's vote is in part fruit of a