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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 Trail Between Doctor’s Run, Randolph ES Nears Completion 10/22/2014 05:00pm • The trail connecting Doctor’s Run Park and S. George Mason Drive to Randolph Elementary School is expected to be complete by the end of the year. The project, funded with Neighborhood Conservation money, will realign the trail that runs between the park and the school, widening it and decr Redskins' Gruden: RG3 is 'wild card' for Monday 10/22/2014 04:36pm • JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer ASHBURN, Va. (AP) -- Many ifs and maybes and buts surround Robert Griffin III's status for the Washington Redskins' game Monday night against the Dallas Cowboys. There is so much uncertainty, he has been declared a "wild card" by coach Jay Gruden even though Colt McCoy Cases of troubling NYC jail deaths deemed medical 10/22/2014 04:08pm • JAKE PEARSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Hundreds of documents obtained by The Associated Press raise serious questions about the quality and timeliness of care given to least 15 inmates who died over the past five years while being held at New York City's Rikers Island jail.Here are brief acc Kurdish fighters killed in Syria buried in Turkey 10/22/2014 03:56pm • ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press SURUC, Turkey (AP) -- Hundreds of supporters chanting slogans turned out to accompany three Kurdish fighters -- two men and a woman barely out of her teens -- to their final resting place in a dusty cemetery on the edge of the Turkish town of Suruc, within view of th Chiefs' Charles passes battery of concussion tests 10/22/2014 03:16pm • DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Jamaal Charles has passed a battery of tests and does not show symptoms of a concussion, the Chiefs said Wednesday -- one day after the star running back told a radio show he saw "light bulbs" after a hit in Kansas City's win over San Diego.Char Iranians protest acid attacks in central city 10/22/2014 02:20pm • ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranians rallied on Wednesday in the central city of Isfahan and the capital, Tehran, to protest a string of acid attacks on women in Isfahan in recent months, the latest public outcry over the assaults that have shocked the nation.About 2,000 Bedouin Israeli doctor mysteriously turns jihadi 10/22/2014 02:00pm • ARON HELLER Associated Press HURA, Israel (AP) -- He was a quiet whiz kid at the top of his class in Israel, who overcame tough odds in this minority Arab village to become a star medical student and hospital intern.Could Othman Abu al-Qiyan have been radicalized by Israel's conflict with the Palest Doctors differ on preteen suspect's mental state 10/22/2014 01:16pm • M.L. JOHNSON Associated Press WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) -- Doctors disagree over whether the second of two 12-year-old girls charged with stabbing a classmate to please the fictional horror character Slender Man is fit to stand trial, a judge and attorneys said Wednesday.A state psychiatrist filed a repor Earnhardt helps UPMC raise concussion awareness 10/22/2014 12:54pm • JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Dale Earnhardt Jr. knew immediately something was wrong during a 2012 crash at Talladega, where his car was hit hard from behind.He was asked on his radio if he was OK, and it was clear Earnhardt was not."I don't know. I mean, I don't know how many of them hits like Urgent-care clinics ill-equipped to treat Ebola 10/22/2014 11:02am • JULIE WATSON Associated Press A new concern over the spread of Ebola surfaced recently when a Dallas County sheriff's deputy who searched the apartment of the first patient to die from the virus in the U.S. started feeling ill and went to an urgent-care center.The clinics popping up rapidly across t North Korea frees US man; 2 more still detained 10/22/2014 07:23am • LARA JAKES AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- North Korea's reclusive government abruptly freed an American man Tuesday, nearly six months after he was arrested on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, but Pyongyang refused to hand over two other U.S. citizens who are still being he Vandy refocused off open date, McCrary next QB up 10/22/2014 07:22am • TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Vanderbilt Commodores have had a chance to catch their breath during their first open date of the season, and now they hope they are in better shape to finish strong.Coach Derek Mason said Tuesday coaches spent last week self-scouting an Georgia Tech to face Pitt without Zach Laskey 10/22/2014 07:22am • GEORGE HENRY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia Tech has a big role to fill this week with bruising runner Zach Laskey sidelined by a shoulder injury.Former quarterback Synjyn Days, a senior who switched positions before the start of summer camp, is likely to start in Laskey's spot, but he fac