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Ranger in Africa's oldest park wounded by grenade 08/28/2014 08:30pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- A ranger in Africa's oldest national park has been seriously wounded by a grenade during a confrontation with poachers.Virunga National Park said in a statement Thursday that a rocket-propelled grenade exploded near Muhindo Kipasula a day earlier. Shrapnel damaged one of his e Judge: rule Friday if no abortion law agreement 08/28/2014 08:10pm • JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday asked lawyers battling over Louisiana's new, restrictive abortion law for an agreement that apparently could let clinics stay open -- at least for a while -- after the law takes effect Sept. 1.U.S. District Judg Fighting the aging process? Exercise the key 08/28/2014 08:02pm • WASHINGTON -- Many people spend a lot of money trying to turn back the hands of time. But doctors say the best anti-ager of all is free. A study in the September issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons says exercise has the power to minimize or delay the effects o Court overturns suspension of W.Va. doc's license 08/28/2014 06:30pm • JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A judge reinstated a doctor's license Thursday, a month after it was suspended when health officials accused his clinic of unsanitary conditions and reusing needles.Kanawha County Circuit Judge Charles King issued a preliminary injunction halting Godzilla stomps back in ultra HD, wires intact 08/28/2014 06:26pm • YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) -- At a humble Tokyo laboratory, Godzilla, including the 1954 black-and-white original, is stomping back with a digital makeover that delivers four times the image quality of high definition.The effort with "4K" technology is carefully removing scratches a Veterinarian adopts dog he saved from gunshot wound 08/28/2014 03:48pm • WASHINGTON -- A 9-month-old boxer mix shot by her owner has a bright future after the doctor who operated on her adopted her. Ruby was bleeding profusely and struggling to breathe when police officers were called to her former home. She'd been shot on the left side of her face and shoulder with 4 killed in New Mexico crash of medical flight 08/28/2014 03:22pm • JUAN CARLOS LLORCA Associated Press LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) -- An air ambulance carrying a cancer patient to Phoenix crashed shortly after taking off from a southern New Mexico airport, killing all four people aboard, authorities said Thursday.The twin-engine aircraft had just left the Las Cruces airp Rockville dad meets stranger who saved his life 08/28/2014 03:15pm • ROCKVILLE, Md. -- A Rockville man is spending his 32nd birthday meeting the woman who saved his life. Four-time marathoner Michael Liu has a lot to live for. In the prime of his life, he and wife Mary have a 2-year-old son, Nathaniel, and a daughter on the way. Out for a run last May in Colleg Review: Meta and mad, 'The Congress' is a trip 08/28/2014 09:20am • JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer "Very soon, this whole structure that we all love so much will be gone," prophesies Danny Huston's wide-grinning movie studio head in Ari Folman's "The Congress."He's speaking to Robin Wright, who plays a version of herself in the film. In a meeting with Wright and her perp Heart group: E-cigarettes might help smokers quit 08/28/2014 08:22am • MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer The American Heart Association's first policy statement on electronic cigarettes backs them as a last resort to help smokers quit. The American Cancer Society has no formal policy but quietly took a similar stance in May.Both groups express great concern ab Conte departure from Juventus could alter Serie A 08/28/2014 06:26am • ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) -- The Italian league opens this weekend with a full slate of matches, a couple key coaching changes and some notable absences.Three-time defending champion Juventus kicks things off at Chievo Verona on Saturday, followed by an enticing matchup of runner-up Ro US official warns Ebola outbreak will get worse 08/28/2014 04:16am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- A third top doctor has died from Ebola in Sierra Leone, a government official said Wednesday, as a leading American health official warned that the outbreak sweeping West Africa would get worse.The disease has already killed more Maria Sharapova comes through in 3 sets at US Open 08/28/2014 04:08am • HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- A year ago at this time, Maria Sharapova was sitting out the U.S. Open, getting checked by doctors and having tests on the surgically repaired right shoulder that has troubled her off and on.On Wednesday, Sharapova found herself down by a set and fac IG: Shoddy care by VA didn't cause Phoenix deaths 08/28/2014 02:22am • STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government investigators found no proof that delays in care caused veterans to die at a Phoenix VA hospital, but they found widespread problems that the Veterans Affairs Department is promising to fix.Investigators uncovered large-scale impropri Hearings planned after call for nuke-plant closure 08/28/2014 02:22am • MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A senior federal nuclear expert is urging regulators to shut down California's last operating nuclear plant until they can determine whether the facility's twin reactors can withstand powerful shaking from any one of several nearby earthquake fau