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Ex-governor's corruption trial focuses on marriage 07/29/2014 06:58pm • LARRY O'DELL Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The corruption trial for ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife plunged Tuesday into the sordid details of the couple's marriage and the former first lady's "crush" on a businessman who, according to prosecutors, lavished them with gifts and c Liberians in US worry about Ebola outbreak 07/29/2014 06:24pm • AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- An outbreak of Ebola in West Africa may seem like a distant threat to many Americans, but it is causing some to cancel travel plans and stirring fear in Minnesota, which has the largest Liberian immigrant population in the United States.The potentiall Vibrio infections reported around the Chesapeake Bay 07/29/2014 04:43pm • WASHINGTON - Several cases of bacterial infection have been reported in the areas around the Chesapeake Bay. To date, 16 cases of vibrio have been reported this year, according to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.. The bacteria naturally lives in the Chesapeake Bay, and t Doctor who contracted Ebola in grave condition 07/29/2014 04:22pm • EMILY SCHMALL Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Kent Brantly always wanted to be a medical missionary, and he took the work seriously, spending months treating a steady stream of patients with Ebola in Liberia.Now Brantly is himself a patient, fighting for his own survival in an isolation u Canes captain has surgery to fix muscle injury 07/29/2014 03:20pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The Carolina Hurricanes say captain Eric Staal has had surgery to repair a core muscle injury and should be ready for training camp.General manager Ron Francis said the surgery was performed Tuesday by a doctor in Philadelphia.He says Staal suffered the injury -- also known as Recovered from illness, Serena ready for return 07/29/2014 03:20pm • RICK EYMER Associated Press STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -- Serena Williams finally realized what happened days later, when she was allowed to get out of bed.Williams said she was barely aware of how sick she was as she tried to play through a viral infection that caused her to lose equilibrium during a wo Myanmar information and health ministers step down 07/29/2014 12:49pm • YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's ministers for information and health have been allowed to retire, state television reported Tuesday, in the country's second Cabinet reshuffle in two months.The evening news read a statement signed by President Thein Sein announcing the resignations of Information M Easy way to organize and launch apps on your phone 07/29/2014 09:46am • Data Doctors Face transplant recipient appears in GQ magazine (Photos) 07/29/2014 08:34am • WASHINGTON -- After a decade of hiding his disfigured face, Richard Norris -- who received complex face transplant surgeries in Maryland in 2012 -- shows off his new appearance on the pages of GQ magazine. Norris, 39, sustained major injuries when he blew of half of his face in a shotgun acciden Nigeria death shows Ebola can spread by air travel 07/29/2014 08:30am • HEATHER MURDOCK Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigerian health authorities raced to stop the spread of Ebola on Saturday after a man sick with one of the world's deadliest diseases brought it by plane to Lagos, Africa's largest city with 21 million people.The fact that the traveler from Lib China to put Glaxo investigators on trial Aug. 8 07/29/2014 05:30am • BEIJING (AP) -- A Shanghai court says American and British investigators who worked for drug maker GlaxoSmithKline will stand trial Aug. 8 on charges of illegally obtaining information on Chinese citizens.The Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court said Tuesday that Yingzeng Yu and her husband Pe Deal to improve veterans' health care costs $17B 07/29/2014 03:16am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bipartisan deal announced Monday would authorize about $17 billion to help veterans avoid long waits for health care, hire more doctors and nurses to treat veterans and make it easier to fire executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs.An agree Medicare's own health looking better, report says 07/29/2014 03:12am • STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicare's financial future is looking brighter despite a growing wave of baby boomers reaching retirement.Getting relief from a slowdown in health care spending, the program's giant hospital trust fund won't be exhausted until 2030, the governm Judge OKs record-setting $2B sale of Clippers 07/29/2014 03:10am • BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling lost his attempt to block the $2 billion sale of the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.In allowing the deal to go forward, Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas sided Monday with Sterling's Judge OKs record-setting $2B sale of Clippers 07/28/2014 06:47pm • LOS ANGELES (AP)-- A judge ruled against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling on Monday in his attempt to block the $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas sided with Sterling's estranged wife Shelly Sterling,