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Liberia: Ebola fears rise as clinic is looted 08/18/2014 08:14am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items including bloody sheets and mattresses.The violence in the West Point sl Washington's Top News -- Monday, August 18, 2014 08/18/2014 03:40am • Here's a look at some of the day's top stories from WTOP: U.S. launches airstrikes near Irbil and Mosul Dam The U.S. is widening its air campaign in Iraq. The latest attacks are aimed at helping Iraqi forces regain control of the strategic Mosul dam. The Islamic State extremist group took contro New school year, new immunization rules in D.C. region 08/17/2014 01:51pm • WASHINGTON -- Children are lining up for back-to-school shots. And in Maryland and Virginia, their parents are running out of time to make sure they meet some new immunization rules. In Maryland, students entering kindergarten now need two doses of chicken pox vaccine instead of one. Middle s Stanford professor 1st woman to win top math prize 08/17/2014 01:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Iranian-born Stanford University professor is the first woman to win math's highest honor, the Fields Medal.The International Mathematics Union awarded the prize to Maryam Mirzakhani and three others at a meeting in Seoul on Wednesday.The prize and $13,700 is awarded every four Liberia expands Ebola treatment in capital 08/17/2014 06:24am • KRISTA LARSON Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberian authorities expanded Ebola treatment centers in the capital Saturday to cope with increasing numbers of patients, while two more airlines announced they were halting flights to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone amid the deepeni Pope makes strong, silent anti-abortion statement 08/17/2014 02:52am • NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Pope Francis has generally avoided hot-button "culture war" issues like abortion, arguing that the church's doctrine on the sanctity of life is well-known and that he'd rather emphasize other aspects of church teaching.But he made a strong, Rams' Pead likely out for season with knee injury 08/16/2014 09:50pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) -- St. Louis Rams backup running back Isaiah Pead is likely out for the season with a torn ACL in his left knee.Pead was helped off the field after returning a kickoff in the first quarter of a 21-7 preseason loss to the Green Bay Packers on Saturday. He didn't play in the preseason o Ebola survivor shunned by boyfriend, even school 08/16/2014 12:12pm • BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- The medical school professors no longer want Kadiatou Fanta in the classroom. Her boyfriend has broken up with her. Each day the 26-year-old eats alone and sleeps alone. Even her own family members are afraid to touch her months after she surv Paul George still hopeful of returning this season 08/16/2014 11:42am • MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Paul George beat the odds to become an NBA star. He'll have to do it all over again to play next season.Two weeks after a gruesome compound fracture of his right leg, George said Friday he remains hopeful that he can make it back onto the court lat Police: Chemicals in tea due to earlier mix-up 08/16/2014 05:02am • BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- An industrial cleaning solution that ended up in tea that a woman drank at a Utah restaurant was unintentionally mixed into a bag of sugar a month earlier, authorities said Friday.South Jordan Cpl. Sam Winkler said a former employee told authorit Aid group: W. Africa Ebola outbreak like 'wartime' 08/16/2014 03:42am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- The Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 1,100 people in West Africa could last another six months, the Doctors Without Borders charity group said Friday. One aid worker acknowledged that the true death toll is still unknown.New fig Girl with untreated seizures removed from home 08/15/2014 08:10pm • FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) -- A 7-year-old girl was removed from her northern Colorado home and her parents were arrested because she could not walk or talk and was not being treated for seizures, police said.The girl, who weighed just 37 pounds, is in foster care and progressing well, the Fort Collin Doctor is thankful for 5th season with the Beavers 08/15/2014 06:29pm • ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) -- The usually unshakable Michael Doctor was a tiny bit nervous.After his senior season was cut short early by a fractured left ankle, Oregon State asked for another year of eligibility for the outside linebacker.Having never utilized a redshirt Ebola: Questions, answers about an unproven drug 08/15/2014 05:08pm • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- An experimental Ebola drug has been used to treat two American aid workers and a Spanish missionary priest. Could Liberian doctors be next?The Liberian government said Monday that it will receive doses of the drug to treat two doctors in the coun US doctor with Ebola says he's recovering 08/15/2014 03:38pm • ATLANTA (AP) -- An American doctor infected with Ebola while working in western Africa says he is "recovering in every way" and holding onto the hope of a reunion with his family.Dr. Kent Brantly remained hospitalized Friday at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. His comments came in a statement i