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Worst TB outbreak in 5 years hits Alabama prisons 08/14/2014 08:00pm • JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama's prison system, badly overcrowded and facing a lawsuit over medical treatment of inmates, is facing its worst outbreak of tuberculosis in five years, a health official said Thursday.Pam Barrett, director of tuberculosis control for the Al Utah's Wilson back after health scare 08/14/2014 06:44pm • ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer The discouraging news hit Utah quarterback Travis Wilson harder than any defensive lineman.It was November, and Wilson knew he was likely going to miss at least one game with a concussion. But then the doctors found something more, damage to an artery in his brain.H Woods pulls out of US Ryder Cup consideration 08/14/2014 04:56pm • DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Tiger Woods removed himself from consideration for the Ryder Cup team Wednesday evening with a clear message that he is not healthy enough to play.One day after U.S. captain Tom Watson said he trusted Woods to give him the "straight skinny" on the condition of his back i Ebola may be scary, but most shouldn't be afraid 08/14/2014 04:40pm • CONNIE CASS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States' top disease detective calls Ebola a "painful, dreadful, merciless virus."The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak in West Africa an international emergency, killing more than 900 people and spreading.That's scary and s Robin Williams' public joy, private pain 08/14/2014 04:26pm • LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- In public, Robin Williams shared only the joy he found in life, never the sorrow. He was the same man in private, shielding even longtime friends from the darkness of depression that finally enveloped him."I can honestly say I never saw him in the It's a jungle out there: Animals in campaign ads 08/14/2014 03:22pm • DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's a jungle out there in political television advertising, what with parrots, chicks, dogs and pigs taking turns in commercials that bite and scratch in a way no nonpartisan pet ever would."You can keep it," squawked a parrot in a Club for Gro Gunmen wreak havoc in Caracas emergency rooms 08/14/2014 02:26pm • HANNAH DREIER Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- At first, the operating room doctors thought the quiet man in jeans was a distressed family member. One shouted at him to leave as another fought to save the gunshot patient unconscious on the table.The anesthesiologist was the first to see t Toe dispute prompts arrest of beauty contestant 08/14/2014 09:12am • RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- Officials say a 22-year-old beauty pageant contestant has been arrested in California after being caught on video walking comfortably in high heels while collecting workers' compensation benefits after saying she had a broken toe.The state Department of Insurance said Tuesd VA referrals to private doctors on rise 08/14/2014 09:06am • ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs is significantly increasing its referrals of veterans to private doctors following a scandal over lengthy patient waiting times at many VA hospitals and clinics and falsified appointment records, VA Secretary Rob Neymar returns to team practice with Barcelona 08/14/2014 05:40am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Neymar has returned to team training with Barcelona for the first time since fracturing a vertebra in his back at the World Cup.Barcelona says Neymar completed his first full training session with the rest of the team on Wednesday, although he has not yet been cleared by tea AP video journalist, translator killed in Gaza 08/14/2014 05:38am • IBRAHIM BARZAK Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Six people -- including an Associated Press video journalist -- were killed Wednesday when leftover ordnance believed to have been dropped in an Israeli airstrike blew up in the Gaza Strip.Simone Camilli and his Palestinian translator, Al Washington's Top News -- Thursday, August 14, 2014 08/14/2014 03:41am • Here's a look at some of the day's top stories from WTOP: Police use tear gas on Ferguson protesters Police and politicians in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson are vowing to reach across the racial, economic and generational divide in a community where a white police officer shot and killed an u Doctors: Ebola drug poses 'impossible dilemma' 08/14/2014 02:32am • SARAH DiLORENZO Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Doctors treating a Sierra Leone physician with Ebola defended their decision not to give him an experimental drug, saying Wednesday they feared it was too risky.Calling it "an impossible dilemma," Doctors Without Borders explained in detail las Swimmer Amy Van Dyken leaving Colorado hospital 08/13/2014 10:10pm • ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) -- Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen is being released from a Denver-area hospital to continue her rehabilitation after an all-terrain vehicle crash left the 41-year-old paralyzed just below the waist.Van Dyken-Rouen is leaving Craig Hospital on Thursday, just over two months Mississippi seeks new ruling on abortion law 08/13/2014 08:38pm • EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi is asking a federal appeals court to uphold a 2012 state law requiring abortion clinic doctors to obtain hospital admitting privileges.In late July, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the law is unc