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North Dakota reaches deal to keep dinosaur mummy 10/24/2014 10:26pm • JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Dakota the duckbilled dinosaur might have found permanent digs in Bismarck.State Historical Society Director Merl Paaverud said officials have reached a $3 million deal to keep the rare mummified fossil on display at the North Dakota Heritage Woman quarantined in New Jersey develops fever 10/24/2014 10:20pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The New Jersey Department of Health says a woman who arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport from West Africa and was the first traveler to be quarantined under an Ebola watch has developed a fever.She is in isolation and is being evaluated at a hospital in Newark.The g Hopkins to help design Ebola guide for nurses 10/24/2014 09:20pm • BALTIMORE (AP) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine says it has been asked to lead a group to design a Web-based program on Ebola protocols for health workers. The hospital said in an email on Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked Hopkins to aid doctors, nurses and others as they c As Ebola reaches New York, what you need to know 10/24/2014 07:50pm • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Now that a doctor in New York has been diagnosed with Ebola, health officials are once again stressing that the virus poses little risk in the U.S.Some questions and answers about Ebola:WHAT IS EBOLA?Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a rare and deadly disease Ebola jitters for some _ but not all _ New Yorkers 10/24/2014 07:40pm • JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Traveling into Manhattan by subway from Brooklyn on Friday, the day after a New York doctor was diagnosed with Ebola, Dennis Johnson and his fiancee, Lian Robinson, were trying to be sensible about the odds of the disease spreading.Still, they found College player fights tumor for moment on court College player fights tumor for moment on court 10/24/2014 07:38pm • JOE KAY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) -- Lauren Hill is the last player to take the court for the 6 a.m. stretch before basketball practice. She's moving slowly today.The freshman wearing the blue No. 22 Mount St. Joseph jersey has days like this lately. Days when the inoperable tumor squeezing h Stumped doctor ordered cyanide test on dying woman 10/24/2014 06:40pm • JOE MANDAK Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A physician who treated a 41-year-old neurologist after she suddenly collapsed said Friday that he ordered a test that eventually revealed a lethal amount of cyanide in her blood because he could find no other explanation for her sudden illness.Dr. Jon Redskins' RG3 speaks, says he won't rush return 10/24/2014 06:30pm • JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer ASHBURN, Va. (AP) -- The Washington Redskins finally allowed Robert Griffin III to speak. So he referenced Winston Churchill and played along with the uncertainty whether he might make his return Monday night.Griffin spoke for 1 minute, 17 seconds Friday near his locker In House bid, 'kissing congressman' admits mistake 10/24/2014 06:10pm • MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press MONROE, La. (AP) -- Republican Rep. Vance McAllister is trying to make up with Louisiana voters for getting too close to a married former employee.Campaigning for a new term, the lawmaker dubbed the "kissing congressman" tells audiences that he's made a "personal mi Doctor said to be 'relatively stable' 10/24/2014 05:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- An adviser to Mayor Bill de Blasio says the New York City Ebola patient is in "relatively stable" condition.Dr. Irwin Redlener spoke Friday outside Bellevue Hospital, where Dr. Craig Spencer is being treated.Redlener says Spencer's fiance also is hospitalized in isolation.He said Sp Colorado braces for Hundley, No. 25 UCLA 10/24/2014 05:32pm • PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- Brett Hundley threw for 330 yards and two scores last weekend in a win at California. Ho-hum.The UCLA junior quarterback also scrambled his way for 94 more yards and another score. Yawn.See, Hundley's been so consistently stellar that No. 25 UCLA al Want to start running? Tips to help Want to start running? Tips to help 10/24/2014 05:07pm • WASHINGTON -- Runners are a common sight along streets and trails throughout the D.C. area. There are also enough foot races to keep any runner busy, from 5K and 10K races, kids' runs and walk-run combos to races such as the Army Ten-Miler, and this weekend's 39th annual Marine Corps Marathon Aid group: No need to isolate staff treating Ebola 10/24/2014 04:40pm • CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- Doctors Without Borders is insisting that it's not necessary to quarantine doctors returning from West Africa if they don't show any symptoms of Ebola.This, even though one of the organization's doctors has now come down with Ebola in New York.Some countries have banned trave Nurse who overcame Ebola meets with Obama 10/24/2014 04:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Texas nurse who's overcome the Ebola virus has met in the Oval Office with President Barack Obama.The meeting, which included a hug from the president, came immediately after Nina Pham was released from the National Institutes of Health's hospital outside Washington. Doctors the Ebola cases could spur lawsuits _ with big hurdles 10/24/2014 04:30pm • MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- In a land of lawsuits, this case seems made for litigation: A doctor appears to miss a red flag, an Ebola diagnosis is delayed, and a patient dies. But this is Texas.It may not matter much that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas apologized for ini
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