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3 Myths and 3 Truths About FICO 9 09/25/2014 12:00am • Earlier this year, the company that produces the most widely used credit scores in the world, FICO, announced that its newest scoring model will lessen the impact of medical debt on credit scores. The new model, dubbed FICO 9, is set to replace the previous version later this year. By many accounts What You Need to Know About Schizophrenia 09/25/2014 12:00am • A 33-year-old woman hears "brutal and frightening" voices daily but continues her college studies. A middle-aged man, who served in the Navy and has since struggled with substance abuse, spends 10 weeks homeless. And another man lives alone with "mental confusion and chaos," yet tends to his garden. 5 Common Money Scams to Avoid 09/25/2014 12:00am • Many of us have either been the target of some kind of fraud or know someone who has. As technology evolves and it becomes more difficult to fool potential victims, fraudsters are turning to increasingly clever tactics to scam Americans out of billions of dollars each year. To keep this kind of cri Te'o 'frustrated and devastated' with foot injury 09/24/2014 10:07pm • BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Chargers inside linebacker Manti Te'o says he's "frustrated and devastated" with a third foot injury in 13 months.Te'o sustained a fractured right foot in Sunday's 22-10 victory at Buffalo and is out indefinitely.Te'o and the team are declining to rev 10 Things to Know for Thursday 09/24/2014 09:54pm • The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday:1. OBAMA: FORCE ONLY LANGUAGE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP UNDERSTANDSThe president's declaration during a speech at the U.N. is a striking shift for someone who has been reluctant NYPD probes treatment of pregnant woman 09/24/2014 09:00pm • DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City police are investigating an altercation between officers and a pregnant woman that was captured on amateur video, officials said Wednesday.The video shows an officer struggling with a woman who police say tried to intervene in the arrest Parents, students upset at dress-code enforcement 09/24/2014 08:54pm • MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Parents and students at a Utah high school say they're angry at the way school administrators enforced a dress code at a homecoming dance.Parent Chad Pehrson said his 17-year-old daughter was one of dozens of students at Bingham High School i Doctor who helped develop Rogaine dies in Miami 09/24/2014 08:30pm • MIAMI (AP) -- A South Florida dermatologist credited with helping develop the first baldness remedy recognized by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has died. He was 80.Dr. Guinter Kahn's daughter Michelle said her father died Sept. 17 at a Miami hospice. His health had been declining since a stro Colts' Ahmad Bradshaw thrives on comeback trail 09/24/2014 08:22pm • MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Ahmad Bradshaw followed the plan.He was built to play football his own hard-headed way and wanted to leave the sport on his own terms.So three games into his second season with the Colts and one year removed from a career-threatening neck injury, t Mars mission opens India for space business 09/24/2014 07:32pm • KATY DAIGLE Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) -- India celebrated putting a spacecraft into orbit around Mars on Wednesday, hoping the rare feat will show the world it is open for business in space exploration and inspire a new generation of homegrown scientists to help drive growth.Those motivations Red Cross team attacked while burying Ebola dead 09/24/2014 07:16pm • BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- A Red Cross team was attacked while collecting bodies believed to be infected with Ebola in southeastern Guinea, the latest in a string of assaults that are hindering efforts to control West Africa's current outbreak.One Red Cross worker is re Report: Services for female veterans fall short 09/24/2014 05:40pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Veterans Affairs Department and other government agencies are not doing enough to help women who served in the military, even as their number is rising dramatically, according to a new report.The report, released Wednesday by the Disabled American GOP's Cassidy criticizes Landrieu's keg assist 09/24/2014 05:20pm • MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's leading opponent said Wednesday it was inappropriate for the Democratic senator to help a Louisiana State University fan drink upside-down from a beer keg before a recent game.Republican Bill Cassidy, who poses a st Spain: Ebola test drug out of supply worldwide 09/24/2014 04:58pm • MADRID (AP) -- Doctors treating a Spanish priest who was repatriated from West Africa on Monday after being diagnosed with the Ebola virus said there were no samples of experimental drug ZMapp available in the world right now, and they were considering alternative treatments.The priest, Manuel Garci How costs have surged for US middle-class families 09/24/2014 01:00pm • The Associated Press The picture painted by a report from the Center for American Progress released Wednesday is a gloomy one.For a typical married couple with two children, the combined cost of health care, day care, housing and savings for college and retirement jumped 32 percent from 2000 to 201