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Ebola outbreak forces Liberians into exile 10/23/2014 02:42am • RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press BUDUBURAM CAMP, Ghana (AP) -- Henry Boley left Liberia to attend a conference in Nigeria just days after his twins were born. Now, weeks later, he can't get home. Amanda Johnson, a 50-year-old Liberian living in Ghana, awaits her fiance's departure from their home co Australia weighs US request for Ebola Africa team 10/23/2014 02:30am • ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's prime minister said Thursday he was considering a personal request from President Barack Obama to send a medical team to Africa to fight Ebola, but that priority remains responding to an outbreak in the Asia-Pacific region.Prime Mi Blackwater guards found guilty in Iraq shootings 10/23/2014 01:44am • PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Four former Blackwater security guards were convicted Wednesday in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad, an incident that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe and was denounced by critics as an illustration of a war gone horr 8 Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Colon Cancer 10/23/2014 12:00am • Understanding the basics Being diagnosed with colon cancer, as with any cancer, is scary. It also might be a little embarrassing, since it involves a part of the body that's distinctly hidden from view. But colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. When detected early, it' 5 Things to Have Handy Every Time You Get a Medical Bill 10/23/2014 12:00am • Few things are worse than having a serious illness or injury -- but the financial aftermath can come close. Receiving a huge bill after medical services when you're trying to recover only adds to the stress of such a serious event. Most Americans are confused by medical bills, according to NerdWall The Benefits of Health Savings Accounts 10/23/2014 12:00am • Health care consumers with high-deductible health insurance plans may want to consider establishing a health savings account to pay for qualifying out-of-pocket medical expenses using tax-free dollars. "Health savings accounts can be a useful tool to help with the cost of deductibles, copayments a North Korean detainee reunites with family in Ohio 10/22/2014 11:44pm • ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press WEST CARROLLTON, Ohio (AP) -- An American arrested and held for nearly six months in North Korea for leaving a Bible at a nightclub returned home to Ohio on Wednesday to tears of joy and hugs from his wife and surprised children.A plane carrying Jeffrey Fowle, w Family: Doctors don't detect Ebola in nurse's body 10/22/2014 10:00pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Doctors no longer detect Ebola in a Texas nurse who flew to Ohio and back before she was diagnosed with the virus, her family said Wednesday.Officials at Emory University Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention couldn't detect Ebola in Amber Vinson as of Tu US journalist leaves hospital after Ebola recovery 10/22/2014 09:26pm • MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An American video journalist who recovered from Ebola at an Omaha hospital left the facility Wednesday afternoon and is heading home to Rhode Island, a hospital spokesman said.Ashoka Mukpo, who contracted the virus while working in Liberia as a fr WHO: Ebola vaccine trials in W. Africa in January 10/22/2014 08:18pm • JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization is pressing the search for an Ebola vaccine and hopes to begin testing two experimental versions as early as January on more than 20,000 front-line health care workers and others in West Africa's hot zone -- a bigger rollout Republicans hope for congressional sweep in Iowa 10/22/2014 06:10pm • CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) -- The politically savvy state of Iowa prides itself on purple voting, boasting a congressional delegation evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. But this year, with a closely matched Senate race and three competitive House seats, th Spanish woman free of Ebola, final tests show 10/22/2014 05:50pm • CIARAN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) -- Conclusive tests show a Spanish nursing assistant infected with Ebola is cured of the virus, doctors said Tuesday, signaling a huge step forward in her 15-day battle for survival.Four blood tests over the past four days indicated Teresa Romero's system ha Beaten Giants fan shows significant progress 10/22/2014 05:40pm • CAPITOLA, Calif. (AP) -- Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 2011 beating by two Los Angeles Dodgers fans, is cracking jokes, fist-bumping and hoping to one day discard his walker and run on his own.His remarkable progress was displayed Tuesday during German firm wins appeal in Spain thalidomide case 10/22/2014 05:40pm • MADRID (AP) -- A Spanish court on Wednesday accepted a German pharmaceutical company's appeal against a ruling that had ordered it to pay compensation to 22 Spaniards who blame their disabilities on the drug thalidomide.Madrid's provincial court said the statute of limitations for the plaintiffs' ca 2 closed Alabama abortion clinics reopen 10/22/2014 05:10pm • PHILLIP RAWLS Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Two closed abortion clinics in Alabama have reopened, giving the state a total of five licensed clinics, but how long most remain open depends on the outcome of a lawsuit.The Planned Parenthood Southeast clinic in Birmingham reopened after taki