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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, Poker pros' cash hasn't freed betting suspects 07/28/2014 04:59pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Lawyers in Las Vegas want immigration authorities to release a wealthy Malaysian businessman who was charged in a World Cup betting scheme and remains in custody even after his poker star friends posted his bail.Wei Seng "Paul" Phua, 50, and his son, Darren Phua, 22, were in the He Jets' Aboushi helped create 185 smiles in Sudan 07/28/2014 02:50pm • DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Sports Writer CORTLAND, N.Y. (AP) -- Oday Aboushi gently placed the young boy on the hospital room bed, and quickly stepped aside.The child's mother broke down at the sight of her suddenly unrecognizable son. His once-misshapen mouth appeared nearly normal. She turned to Aboushi More US girls now getting cervical cancer vaccine 07/28/2014 01:50pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- More teen girls are getting a controversial cervical cancer vaccine but the increase isn't much of a bump, the government reported Thursday.Last year's rise follows a couple of years when the girls' HPV vaccination rate was flat and health officials worried that it wouldn't budge. F Doctor: Injection lines placed correctly in inmate 07/28/2014 01:48pm • PHOENIX (AP) -- Intravenous lines were placed correctly during the execution of an Arizona inmate whose death with lethal drugs took more than 90 minutes, a medical examiner said Monday.Incorrect placement of lines can inject drugs into soft tissue instead of the blood stream, but the drugs used to Liberia president orders new anti-Ebola measures 07/28/2014 01:10pm • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberia's president has closed all but three land border crossings, restricted public gatherings and quarantined communities heavily affected by the Ebola outbreak in the West African nation.President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf described the Longreads: Where to find the best longform articles 07/28/2014 08:26am • Data Doctors Ebola kills Liberian doctor, 2 Americans infected 07/28/2014 05:50am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- One of Liberia's most high-profile doctors has died of Ebola, officials said Sunday, and an American physician was being treated for the deadly virus, highlighting the risks facing health workers trying to combat an outbreak that has ki Aid Group: 2nd American has Ebola in Liberia 07/28/2014 04:58am • BOONE, N.C. (AP) -- A second American aid worker has tested positive for the Ebola virus at the same hospital in Liberia where an American doctor became infected while helping to combat an outbreak of the deadly disease, a relief group official said Sunday.Ken Isaacs, a vice president of Samaritan's APNewsBreak: Tentative deal reached on VA reform 07/28/2014 04:02am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees have reached a tentative agreement on a plan to fix a veterans' health program scandalized by long patient wait times and falsified records covering up delays.Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., a Police: Bathroom cameras may have filmed hundreds 07/28/2014 02:10am • NEWARK, Del. (AP) -- State officials say hundreds of women may have been secretly videotaped from cameras found hidden in bathrooms at the University of Delaware.On Friday, authorities announced the July 1 arrest of a University of Delaware graduate student after cameras were found in women's restro Jaso has 3 RBIs as A's beat Rangers 9-3 07/28/2014 12:20am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- It doesn't matter to John Jaso whether he's Oakland's leadoff batter, as long as he's playing. For the Athletics, he's extremely important at the top of the order, especially with Coco Crisp hurting.Jaso drove in three runs Sunday night, helping Scott Kazmir and Oakland beat Hospital shooting suspect charged with murder 07/27/2014 11:56pm • MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A man accused of fatally shooting his caseworker and grazing his psychiatrist at a suburban Philadelphia hospital complex before the doctor returned fire has been charged with murder.Richard Plotts was arraigned late Saturday at his hospital beds