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How to make the most out of your sleep tracker 08/28/2014 12:00am • A good night's rest can do wonders for your health, and these days, there are a ton of devices that promise to help you improve the quality and quantity of your sleep simply by tracking it. However, many of these devices just shove data into your face without giving you any advice on how to use Vaccine Safety: Getting the Message to Parents in Doubt 08/28/2014 12:00am • Measles, mumps and whooping cough have been around a long time -- along with the vaccines to prevent them. But instead of being a distant memory in the United States -- like polio -- outbreaks of these infectious childhood diseases keep cropping up, and parents refusing or delaying vaccinations are Vaccine Safety: Getting the Message to Parents in Doubt 08/28/2014 12:00am • Measles, mumps and whooping cough have been around a long time -- along with the vaccines to prevent them. But instead of being a distant memory in the United States -- like polio -- outbreaks of these infectious childhood diseases keep cropping up, and parents refusing or delaying vaccinations are What Your Financial Advisor's Mandatory Arbitration Clause Means for You 08/28/2014 12:00am • There's nothing arbitrary about mandatory arbitration clauses, but you can be purposeful in how you scrutinize them. The fine print you read before you sign can save you headaches and expenses down the road. Such clauses are in the fine print of virtually every contract you read from securities br Orioles fall to Smyly and Rays 3-1 08/27/2014 11:28pm • DAVID GINSBURG AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) -- The Baltimore Orioles thought they got a break when division rival Tampa Bay traded former Cy Young winner David Price to Detroit last month.After going up against Drew Smyly on Wednesday night, the Orioles weren't nearly as enthusiastic about the de Smyly leads Rays over Orioles 3-1 08/27/2014 10:08pm • DAVID GINSBURG AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) -- Drew Smyly allowed two hits over seven innings in his second straight overpowering performance, and the Tampa Bay Rays jumped to an early lead against rookie Kevin Gausman in a 3-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night.Evan Longoria h Deal on health care aids port contract talks 08/27/2014 07:47pm • JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Negotiators hoping to forge a new contract for dockworkers and keep hundreds of billions of dollars in cargo moving smoothly through West Coast seaports made significant progress with a tentative deal on health care benefits, a knotty issue that Boy hurt in California quake: 'I should be dead' 08/27/2014 07:30pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Thirteen-year-old Nicholas Dillon's screams could be heard throughout his pitch black house when the earth shook and the falling bricks hit him. His mother, who later called it the worst night of her life, couldn't get to him."I should be dead," said Nicholas, whose pelvis Utah opens with Idaho State on Thursday night 08/27/2014 06:40pm • ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Idaho State is carrying a 44-game road losing streak into Utah on Thursday night for its season opener. So coach Mike Kramer was brutally honest: He doesn't see his Bengals reversing that trend against the Utes."We've got some numbers that are just nasty. And one of More Colorado pot seized in the mail, report says 08/27/2014 04:40pm • SADIE GURMAN Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- The amount of Colorado marijuana being seized en route to other states through the U.S. mail has more than quadrupled since 2010 and was destined for more states than before, according to a new report by a federally funded drug task force.Postal inspector What to watch at Open: Will Sharapova foe take TO? 08/27/2014 02:56pm • HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- If Maria Sharapova's opponent Wednesday at the U.S. Open takes a medical timeout, the five-time major champion wouldn't mind seeing that come at a cost.Sharapova was asked after her first-round victory at Flushing Meadows what tennis rule she would l NFL, FIFA join forces to evaluate concussions 08/27/2014 11:00am • BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Medical officials from the NFL, FIFA and other sports organizations are banding together to look into better ways to identify, manage and treat concussions.The "think tank," funded by an educational grant from the NFL, was held Sunday and Monday a Obama defends handling of veterans affairs issues 08/27/2014 08:40am • JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- His standing with veterans damaged by scandal, President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended his administration's response to Veterans Affairs lapses that delayed health care for thousands of former service members, but conceded more needed to be do Review: 'As Above' so-so 08/27/2014 08:10am • JORDAN MINTZER The Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here," is the inscription uncovered by a gang of 20-something treasure hunters in the catacomb-hopping horror flick, "As Above, So Below." But the warning could easily apply to viewers checking out this rather Ebola has 'upper hand' says US health official 08/27/2014 07:22am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Ebola still has the "upper hand" in the outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, but experts have the means to stop it, a top American health official said during a visit to the hardest-hit countries.Dr. Tom Fried