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Washington's Top News - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 08/12/2014 03:57am • Here's a look at some of the day's top stories from WTOP: Beware the SmarTrip scam If someone offers to sell you a secondhand SmarTrip card, Metro police warn, it's likely a scam that will leave you without your money or a card. Find out what to look out for, and why trying to beat the system won' Robin Williams, boisterous comedy star, dead at 63 08/12/2014 01:57am • HAVEN DALEY Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Robin Williams, a brilliant shapeshifter who could channel his frenetic energy into delightful comic characters like "Mrs. Doubtfire" or harness it into richly nuanced work like his Oscar-winning turn in "Good Will Hunting," died Monday in an appare One outing, two faces of Wounded Warriors 08/12/2014 01:11am • STERLING, Va. -- When I first found out about the World's Largest Golf Outing, I wanted in, but on one condition. Founded in 2011 by Billy Casper Golf, the one-day event has grown to include nearly 12,000 golfers at more than 120 courses nationwide, with proceeds benefiting the Wounded Warrior Jets' Milliner has ankle sprain; no panic for Ryan 08/11/2014 11:00pm • DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Sports Writer CORTLAND, N.Y. (AP) -- Dee Milliner is out for a few weeks, Dexter McDougle is done for the year and the New York Jets have a huge question mark at cornerback.Rex Ryan still isn't sweating it."It's not a panic situation," the coach said Monday. "It's an opportunity UN: Ebola outbreak a public health emergency 08/11/2014 10:20pm • MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization urged nations worldwide to donate money and resources to stop the spread of Ebola as it declared the outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency.The latest Ebola outbreak is the largest and longest Mexico doctors remove woman's 130-pound tumor 08/11/2014 07:50pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican doctors say they have removed a 130-pound (60-kilogram) tumor from the body of a 51-year-old woman who had been unable to leave her home for two years.Dr. Gilberto Inzulza says a team of surgeons needed four hours to remove the giant tumor from the body of Mercedes Talama FDA approves first DNA-based test for colon cancer 08/11/2014 07:50pm • MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first screening test for colon cancer that uses patients' DNA to help spot potentially deadly tumors and growths.The Cologuard test from Exact Sciences detects irregular mutations in stool sam Column: Stewart found his roots on sprint tracks 08/11/2014 06:42pm • JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer When Jason Leffler was killed in a sprint car crash last summer, Tony Stewart passionately defended the grassroots racing of America.When he triggered a 15-car accident a month later at an upstate New York race track that left a young girl with a fractured back, he DA won't seek prison time for Hernandez cousin 08/11/2014 04:32pm • FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) -- Prosecutors are recommending probation and home confinement instead of prison for a cousin of ex-New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez who is charged with contempt.Prosecutors said in a Friday filing they are seeking two years' probation and home confinement for Tanya S What's scary about Ebola, reasons not to fear it 08/11/2014 04:02pm • 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 Health care at college: Can your teen manage? 08/11/2014 01:00pm • LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Lauren Davies had a desperate thought while stuck in traffic as she frantically drove upstate to reach her 19-year-old."If I drive on the shoulder and a cop stops me, will he believe me when I tell him I think my daughter's dying in a hospital?"The sop Missionaries return to US, in Ebola quarantine 08/11/2014 01:00pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Three missionaries who worked with patients infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia have returned to the United States.Health officials say the aid worker and two doctors are all healthy, but they will be kept in quarantine in Charlotte to make sure they do not have Ebola. T Social bot or not 08/11/2014 07:51am • Data Doctors Bad bite: A tick can make you allergic to red meat 08/11/2014 07:22am • MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer A bug can turn you into a vegetarian, or at least make you swear off red meat. Doctors across the nation are seeing a surge of sudden meat allergies in people bitten by a certain kind of tick.This bizarre problem was only discovered a few years ago but is US doctor, aid worker appear to be improving 08/11/2014 06:50am • KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- An American doctor infected with Ebola while working in Liberia indicated Friday he's getting stronger every day, and the husband of a second aid worker with the deadly virus said his wife also seems to be improving.Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol,