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Liberia nurses threaten strike over Ebola pay 10/13/2014 03:50am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberian officials are pleading with nurses and physician assistants to show up to work Monday amid a dispute over hazard pay that has prompted calls for a strike in the middle of the Ebola epidemic.A strike could deliver a serious blow Cards C Molina leaves game with strained oblique 10/13/2014 03:43am • JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Yadier Molina made contact and barely budged from the batter's box, hunched over in pain as the San Francisco Giants turned an easy double play.Cardinals manager Mike Matheny and a trainer came out to meet Molina, who walked gingerly off the field with a Ebola patient displayed symptoms at first ER visit 10/13/2014 01:40am • EMILY SCHMALL Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- The man said he'd recently traveled from West Africa, was in severe pain -- rating it an eight on a scale of 10 -- and had a fever that spiked to 103 degrees, enough to be flagged with an exclamation point in the hospital's record-keeping system.Thomas E Giants' bullpen falters in Game 2 loss to Cards 10/13/2014 01:24am • JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) -- With a chance to take a commanding lead in the NL Championship Series, the San Francisco Giants' reliable bullpen failed to keep the ball in the park.Two leads and a tie wiped out by three more homers in the late innings from the suddenly potent St. Loui Chicago Marathon runner in critical condition 10/12/2014 09:50pm • CHICAGO (AP) -- A 59-year-old man was in critical condition Sunday night after collapsing in the Chicago Marathon and receiving CPR.The man was stricken late in the race and taken to Mercy Hospital on Chicago's near South Side, where a hospital spokesman said he remained in critical condition.Race m Study: Lack of iron while pregnant linked to autism 10/12/2014 08:13pm • WASHINGTON -- Mothers of autistic children may ask: Could it have been prevented? There are all kinds of theories surrounding this mysterious neurodevelopmental disorder. One of the latest comes from researchers at the University of California, Davis, who say iron deficiency in pregnancy may i Missing California woman found in Maine shack 10/12/2014 07:50pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An elderly Los Angeles woman whose neighbors believed had died was instead found in a rundown shack in Maine, where according to authorities an unrelated family took her after gaining her confidence and selling her house.The Los Angeles Times reported (http://lat.ms/1wkHNvl ) Sun Ebola patient in Nebraska continues improvement 10/12/2014 07:20pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An American video journalist being treated for Ebola continues to show improvement and is described by hospital officials as steadily heading in the right direction.Taylor Wilson, spokesman for Nebraska Medical Center, said Sunday doctors are pleased with 33-year-old Ashoka Mukpo Bengals' Bernard leaves with injury 10/12/2014 03:40pm • JOE KAY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) -- Bengals running back Giovani Bernard landed hard on his right shoulder and left in the fourth quarter with Cincinnati trailing Carolina early in the fourth quarter on Sunday.Linebacker Luke Kuechly tackled Bernard hard on a run, landing on top of him. Bern Beyond marriage, other gay-rights challenges loom 10/12/2014 07:38am • DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Even as they celebrate epic victories in the push for marriage equality, gay-rights activists acknowledge that other difficult issues remain on their agenda. There's the persistent high rate of HIV infections, the struggles to expand transgender rights Doctor recovered from Ebola urges calm in Dallas 10/12/2014 07:38am • ABILENE, Texas (AP) -- Dr. Kent Brantly, the first American flown back to the U.S. for treatment of Ebola, is urging calm for the people of Dallas and elsewhere who are worried about contracting the deadly disease.Brantly, speaking Friday to Abilene Christian University's alumni magazine, acknowledg Ebola: 3 more people under observation in Spain 10/12/2014 07:00am • HAROLD HECKLE Associated Press MADRID (AP) -- Three more people were under observation for Ebola in a Madrid hospital, boosting the number being monitored for symptoms to 16. A nursing assistant infected with the virus remained in serious but stable condition Saturday.The latest three are a nurse wh Ebola News Guide: Deaths keep rising; world reacts 10/12/2014 06:18am • CONNIE CASS Associated Press American Marines scrambled to add Ebola treatment beds in Liberia on Friday, while the U.S. and Britain readied new disease screenings for passengers arriving at their airports from West Africa. Doctors tried out experimental drugs in a global battle against the deadly s AP Enterprise: Records chronicle how Ebola kills 10/11/2014 07:26pm • EMILY SCHMALL Associated Press Despite five days of intensive treatment, Thomas Eric Duncan's condition was deteriorating.Then, suddenly on the afternoon of Oct. 2, came a hopeful sign. Duncan was hungry.Nurses at a Texas hospital raised the 45-year-old welder from Liberia into a sitting position an Up for track honors, Gatlin shrugs off critics 10/11/2014 05:02pm • PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Justin Gatlin is far more interested in winning races than popularity contests.Still, the American sprinter with a doping history doesn't quite understand the backlash over his nomination for track and field athlete of the year.Gatlin went undefeated in the 100 and 200 me