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Redskins' RG3 'not worried' about being disliked 09/03/2014 05:34pm • JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer ASHBURN, Va. (AP) -- Robert Griffin III downplayed the notion that he's oversensitive to criticism, saying: "Trust me, I'm not worried about anybody liking me."Meanwhile, Jay Gruden said he feels the "weight of the world" on his shoulders and confessed to being "very ne Virginia man pleads insanity to threats on Obama 09/03/2014 05:10pm • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A retired Navy officer has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of making threats against the president and Hillary Clinton.David Gil Wilkinson of Suffolk entered the plea Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Norfolk.The Virginian-Pilot reports (http://bit.ly/1CqXt Quality QBs dot Pac-12 landscape 09/03/2014 04:44pm • JOHN MARSHALL AP College Football Writer PHOENIX (AP) -- The Pac-12 has long been known as the conference of quarterbacks, from Jim Plunkett and John Elway to Matt Leinart and Andrew Luck.This year's crop, with 10 returning starters and some talented newcomers, may be the best in the conference's ri US officials say Ebola is likely to spread 09/03/2014 04:20pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- U.S. health officials are warning that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is likely to spread to more countries.During a telephone briefing with reporters, Tom Kenyon of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the disease is spreading faster than health workers British parents reunite with son at hospital 09/03/2014 03:40pm • MADRID (AP) -- The British parents who were pursued by police for taking their critically ill son out of a British hospital for treatment in another country have reunited with the child after they were released from a prison in Spain.A hospital spokeswoman says the parents visited five-year-old Ashy Mission group identifies 3rd US aid worker with Ebola 09/03/2014 03:30pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The president of a missionary group says a third U.S. aid worker sickened with the Ebola virus decided to return to Liberia after the other two people became ill.SIM President Bruce Johnson said at a news conference Wednesday that Dr. Rick Sacra returned to Liberia about a mo British boy's parents visit him in Spanish hospital 09/03/2014 12:50pm • MADRID (AP) -- The British parents who took their critically ill son for treatment abroad have gone to see him at a hospital in southern Spain following their release from custody after U.K. authorities dropped accusations of child cruelty against them.Brett King, the father of 5-year-old Ashya, tol NFL suspends Irsay 6 games, fines him $500,000 09/03/2014 11:44am • RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- The NFL suspended Jim Irsay for the first six games of the season and fined him $500,000 for violating its personal conduct policy, coming down hard on the Indianapolis Colts owner Tuesday just hours after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor st AZ coach Van Basten sidelined with health problem 09/03/2014 09:38am • AMSTERDAM (AP) -- AZ Alkmaar says coach Marco van Basten is taking a break until mid-September to recover from a health problem.AZ says in a statement on Wednesday the former Ajax and AC Milan striker is being given "more time to rest."The club's director of football, Earnest Stewart, says the club US missionary who had Ebola to discuss recovery 09/03/2014 09:20am • MITCH WEISS Associated Press CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) -- The doctor who oversaw treatment of two American missionaries who contracted the Ebola virus in west Africa says he doesn't know if a third sick American will be coming to his Atlanta hospital.Dr. Bruce Ribner told NBC's "Today" show Wed US missionary who had Ebola to discuss recovery 09/03/2014 09:20am • MITCH WEISS Associated Press CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) -- The doctor who oversaw treatment of two American missionaries who contracted the Ebola virus in west Africa says he doesn't know if a third sick American will be coming to his Atlanta hospital.Dr. Bruce Ribner told NBC's "Today" show Wed Group says world is losing battle against Ebola 09/03/2014 06:42am • ALEXANDRA OLSON Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The international group Doctors Without Borders warned Tuesday that the world is losing the battle against Ebola and lamented that treatment centers in West Africa have been "reduced to places where people go to die alone."In separate remarks a Ill UK boy's parents freed from custody in Spain 09/03/2014 06:42am • ALAN CLENDENNING Associated Press SOTO DEL REAL, Spain (AP) -- The British parents who took their critically ill child for treatment abroad without doctors' consent were released from custody in Spain on Tuesday after authorities in the United Kingdom dropped charges of child cruelty against them.Th News Guide: Thailand's surrogacy scandals and laws 09/03/2014 05:06am • JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) -- A string of recent scandals has lifted a lid on Thailand's largely unregulated commercial surrogacy industry, which has been around for over a decade. Here's a look at the controversies, some of the ethical dilemmas they have raised and the Thai milita A look at dangers posed by the Islamic State group 09/03/2014 02:42am • ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The Islamic State militant group that has taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq and declared a self-styled caliphate poses one of the most significant threats to stability in the Middle East in years. But what danger does it immedi