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Family too upset to see Ebola patient via video 10/08/2014 07:50am • The Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan has died, CBS News reports. EMILY SCHMALL Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- The family of a man diagnosed with the first U.S. case of Ebola visited him at the hospital Tuesday but declined to view him again via video because the last time had been too u Wal-Mart cuts health benefits for some part-timers 10/08/2014 07:40am • ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation's largest private employer.Wal-Mart told The Associated Press that star Doc exposed to Ebola released from Md. isolation 10/08/2014 07:00am • BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- An American doctor exposed to the Ebola virus after a needle stick in Sierra Leone has been released from isolation and sent home.The doctor had been kept in isolation at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda since Sept. 28 out of an abundance of caution.The NIH said Tu Behind McConnell ad, a Ky. woman's complex story 10/08/2014 06:50am • ADAM BEAM Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- In a recent campaign ad for Republican Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky woman tells of how the U.S. Senate's minority leader fought to help get her daughter back from war-torn West Africa in a custody battle that spanned two years, two governments and two Nobel Prize for work on brain's navigation system 10/08/2014 06:46am • MARK LEWIS Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) -- How do we remember where we parked the car? And how do we figure out a shortcut to work when there's a big traffic jam?The brain, it turns out, has a GPS-like function that enables people to produce mental maps and navigate the world -- a discovery for w Nobel Prize for work on brain's navigation system 10/08/2014 06:46am • MARK LEWIS Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) -- How do we remember where we parked the car? And how do we figure out a shortcut to work when there's a big traffic jam?The brain, it turns out, has a GPS-like function that enables people to produce mental maps and navigate the world -- a discovery for w Nobel Prize for work on brain's navigation system 10/08/2014 06:46am • MARK LEWIS Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) -- How do we remember where we parked the car? And how do we figure out a shortcut to work when there's a big traffic jam?The brain, it turns out, has a GPS-like function that enables people to produce mental maps and navigate the world -- a discovery for w Md. medical marijuana getting down to business 10/08/2014 04:30am • BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- The business of medical marijuana is the focus of a meeting in Bethesda.The Marijuana Policy Project and the National Cannabis Industry Association are sponsoring the seminar Wednesday to educate business people about Maryland's new medical marijuana law.Speakers include Sharon Ebola evades European defenses; pet dog must die 10/08/2014 03:56am • JORGE SAINZ Associated Press MADRID (AP) -- Health officials in Spain rushed to contain the Ebola virus Tuesday after it got past Europe's defenses, quarantining four people at a Madrid hospital where a nursing assistant got infected and persuading a court that the woman's dog must die.The first cas Roller Coaster Blackouts: Safe or Scary? 10/08/2014 12:00am • Have you heard the one about the groomsman who locked his knees during the wedding ceremony and passed out cold? Or the guy who gets weak at the knees every time he enters a hospital? Maybe you're one of those queasy types who can't see blood without seeing stars. But have you heard about roller c Should You Try the Charcoal Detox Diet? 10/08/2014 12:00am • With the change of the seasons (in this case, summer to fall), it always seems like people feel the need to detox their bodies. What one has to do with the other, I don't know -- maybe it's similar to my need to clear the clutter from my closets, but in any event, it is what it is. Unfortunately, t Doctor says Gitmo practices ill-advised 10/07/2014 10:44pm • PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is applying ill-advised procedures as a form of punishment for hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay prison, a medical doctor told a federal court Tuesday.The assessment by Dr. Steven Miles came at a hearing where lawyers for Abu Wa'el Dhiab a Ebola aid held up at port in Sierra Leone 10/07/2014 10:30pm • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- A shipping container filled with medical gear and mattresses to help in the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has been held up at a port for more than a month, an opposition politician said Tuesday.Alpha Chernor Bah said the containe Jesse Jackson meets with Ebola patient's family 10/07/2014 06:48pm • DALLAS (AP) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson presided over a prayer vigil at the Dallas hospital where the first man diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. is being treated for the deadly disease.Jackson spoke in Dallas Tuesday alongside the mother, son and other relatives of Thomas Eric Duncan.Duncan is in crit Vanderbilt coach trying to refocus for second half 10/07/2014 05:33pm • TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason is hitting the reset button for his Commodores halfway through the season.The Commodores are 1-5 and have lost three straight. Quarterback Patton Robinette still is recovering from a concussion suffered Sept. 20,