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WTOP Town Hall on Ebola airs public concerns 10/20/2014 10:50am • WASHINGTON -- A town hall sponsored by WTOP on Monday morning featured three top experts in infectious diseases who said Americans should be aware, prepared and informed, but not panicked, over the presence of Ebola in the United States. Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes for He Ebola monitoring inconsistent as virus spread 10/20/2014 09:46am • MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- The top administrator in Dallas County rushed to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital this week responding to urgent news: One of its nurses had caught Ebola from a patient. He quickly asked for the hospital's watch list to find out who else might be at r Ebola lapses persisted for days at Dallas hospital 10/20/2014 09:04am • MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- Just minutes after Thomas Eric Duncan arrived for a second time at the emergency room, the word is on his chart: "Ebola." But despite all the warnings that the deadly virus could arrive unannounced at an American hospital, for days after the admission, h Pope beatifies Paul VI at remarkable synod's end 10/20/2014 07:30am • NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis on Sunday beatified Pope Paul VI, concluding the remarkable meeting of bishops debating family issues that drew parallels to the tumultuous reforms of the Second Vatican Council which Paul oversaw and implemented.Emeritus Pope Benedi Liberia president describes heavy cost of Ebola 10/20/2014 04:59am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said Ebola has killed more than 2,000 people in her country and has brought it to "a standstill," noting that Liberia and two other badly hit countries were already weakened by years of war.Appea Spaniard with Ebola beats the disease, test shows 10/20/2014 03:40am • ALAN CLENDENNING Associated Press MADRID (AP) -- A Spanish nursing assistant infected with Ebola after treating missionary priests with the disease repatriated from West Africa has managed to beat it after nearly two weeks of treatment in Madrid and has no traces of the virus in her bloodstream, acc Coroner: 6 fire victims died of smoke inhalation 10/20/2014 01:14am • PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Four children and two adults killed in a suburban house fire died of acute smoke and fume inhalation, according to autopsy results released Sunday.Investigators have not identified the cause of Saturday's fire, which killed a recently married woman, her four young children and her Overcoming Obesity -- and Making it Last 10/20/2014 12:00am • Facts About Weight in the United States More than 2 in 3 adults are considered to be overweight or obese. More than 1 in 3 adults are considered to be obese. More than 1 in 20 adults are considered to be extremely obese. About one-third of children and adoles Larry Flynt's daughter hurt in Ohio car accident 10/19/2014 06:50pm • DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- The daughter of Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has been seriously injured in an Ohio car accident and is hospitalized in critical condition.The Dayton Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/1wXjbZK ) 47-year-old Lisa Flynt was ejected from her car Friday afternoon after it turned in f Gay-rights group backs use of HIV-prevention pill 10/19/2014 02:00pm • DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- The largest U.S. gay-rights organization Saturday endorsed efforts to promote the use of a once-a-day pill to prevent HIV infection and called on insurers to provide more generous coverage of the drug.Some doctors have been reluctant to prescribe the d Toni Morrison's papers to be housed at Princeton 10/19/2014 01:50pm • PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) -- The papers of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison are now part of the permanent library collection of Princeton University.Princeton made the announcement Friday, shortly before the 83-year-old Morrison took part in a forum at the school where she served on the faculty for 17 years. Serena Williams hits back at Russian official 10/19/2014 01:18pm • CHRIS BRUMMITT Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) -- Serena Williams says comments by the head of the Russian Tennis Federation referring to her and older sister Venus as "brothers" were bullying, sexist and racist, and that she supported the one-year suspension imposed by the WTA against the official. Mission Unaccomplished: Containing Ebola in Africa 10/19/2014 01:14pm • MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer Looking back, the mistakes are easy to see: Waiting too long, spending too little, relying on the wrong people, thinking small when they needed to think big. Many people, governments and agencies share the blame for failing to contain Ebola when it emerged WHO won't discuss Ebola mistakes document 10/19/2014 12:38pm • MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization said Saturday that it wouldn't explain details contained in an internal document obtained by The Associated Press in which the U.N. health agency said it fumbled early attempts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.In S. Korea concert planner found dead after 16 die 10/19/2014 12:14pm • KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A South Korean man involved in planning an outdoor pop concert where 16 people were killed after falling through a ventilation grate was found dead Saturday in an apparent suicide, officials said, as doctors treated eight others facing life-