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Islanders beat Bruins 3-2, Chara injured 10/23/2014 10:30pm • JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Bruins lost the game to the New York Islanders 3-2 and then waited to find out how long they will be without their captain and No. 1 defenseman, Zdeno Chara.The 2009 Norris Trophy winner left Thursday night's game in the first period with an und Report: NY doctor tests positive for Ebola 10/23/2014 08:37pm • WASHINGTON -- The New York City doctor who was being checked for Ebola on Thursday has tested positive, The New York Times reports. The doctor's name is Craig Spencer, and he recently returned from a trip to Guinea, where he was treating Ebola patients, the Times reports. He has been taken to Be Jurors hear doctor's dying wife on 911 recording 10/23/2014 08:14pm • JOE MANDAK Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Jurors heard from prosecution and defense attorneys -- and then from the dying woman herself -- as the homicide trial began Thursday for a University of Pittsburgh medical researcher charged with poisoning his neurologist wife.Assistant District Attorne AMC enters joint venture to operate BBC America 10/23/2014 08:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- AMC Networks Inc. said Thursday it will pay $200 million to acquire a stake in BBC America.The entertainment company known for shows such as "The Walking Dead" and "Mad Men" will have a 49.9 percent equity stake in the cable channel that is home of shows such as "Doctor Who" and "Or Cutler says Marshall did not single out anyone 10/23/2014 06:02pm • ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) -- Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler insisted receiver Brandon Marshall did not single out him or anyone else during his outburst following last week's loss to the Miami Dolphins."He didn't come near me," Cutler said Thursday. "He didn't say Cassidy has many opponents in Louisiana Senate bid 10/23/2014 05:42pm • MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mary Landrieu is the last Democrat to hold statewide office in Louisiana, a state that Mitt Romney won easily in 2012 and where President Barack Obama remains highly unpopular.It's not a new story for Southern Democrats, an endangered specie California malpractice cap generates big spending 10/23/2014 03:22pm • JUDY LIN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Bob Pack wanted to go after the HMO doctors for recklessly prescribing painkillers to a drug-abusing nanny who ran over his 10-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter as they were heading for ice cream one early fall evening in 2003.But under Califor Corporate giants funding state ballot initiatives 10/23/2014 03:20pm • PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Voters may not know it, but the millions of dollars paying for ads on ballot measures they will consider next month come from large companies and national advocacy groups.Many of the messages are tailored to defend or expand the business interests o US announces $840M to improve medical care 10/23/2014 02:30pm • The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is announcing an $840 million grant program to help doctors and hospitals improve the quality of care delivered to patients.Patrick Conway, Medicare's chief medical officer, said Thursday the goal is to identify ways of delivering car Dallas hospital caught in spotlight in Ebola case 10/23/2014 02:30pm • MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- Five things to know about Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where the first U.S.-diagnosed Ebola patient died:EMERGENCY ROOM WEAKNESSESPresbyterian's emergency department failed to meet five national benchmarks of patient care, according to the After alarm, Lebanese man tests negative for Ebola 10/23/2014 02:10pm • DIAA HADID Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) -- A Lebanese man who arrived in Beirut from West Africa believing he may have Ebola was reassured by doctors that he is disease free but was still taken into a hospital quarantine on Thursday as a practice run to check the country's preparedness, a health off Obama expresses optimism about Ebola in US 10/23/2014 01:34pm • JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama expressed confidence Wednesday about the ability to contain Ebola in the U.S., taking special note of the ongoing recovery of two nurses who contracted the disease and of others who were declared Ebola free after being exposed t Highlights of ballot initiatives voters to weigh 10/23/2014 01:20pm • The Associated Press Large companies and national advocacy groups are putting millions of dollars in ads behind ballot measures this year, from questions about oil companies' profits in Alaska to medical marijuana in Florida, according to an analysis of advertising data released Thursday from the C Cyprus president hospitalized in Brussels 10/23/2014 01:16pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- The president of Cyprus was admitted to a hospital in Brussels on Thursday and unable to attend a European Union summit there.President Nicos Anastasiades suffered a nosebleed and underwent nasal cauterization at the hospital, where he opted to stay overnight "for clearly pre Johnson still a doubt for Lions game in London 10/23/2014 12:36pm • CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer BAGSHOT, England (AP) -- Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson is still a doubt for Detroit's game against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday in London.Johnson has missed the last two games, both wins, for the Lions (5-2) with a right ankle injury. He made the trip to Engla