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Yankees' Sabathia (knee) expects to pitch in 2015 07/21/2014 09:36am • MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- CC Sabathia is disappointed and relieved all at the same time.Sidelined with a right knee injury, the New York Yankees' pitcher spoke to reporters Saturday morning for the first time since the team announced he will have season-ending surgery Wednes Amid bloodshed, frenetic Gaza hospital improvises 07/21/2014 09:24am • KARIN LAUB Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- In the heart of Gaza City, as its citizens again find themselves under fire from Israeli airstrikes and artillery, the wounded and their wailing families stream into Shifa Hospital without end.Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital, only has an 11-be Before doctors check your vitals, check out theirs 07/21/2014 03:37am • JENNIFER AGIESTA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans consider insurance and a good bedside manner in choosing a doctor, but will that doctor provide high-quality care? A new poll shows that people don't know how to determine that.Being licensed and likable doesn't necessarily mean a doc A look at Gaza conditions amid Israeli offensive 07/21/2014 03:36am • YOUSUR ALHLOU Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) -- Sunday was the bloodiest day in the conflict between Israel and Hamas as the nearly-two week offensive surged on across the Gaza Strip. In one Gaza City neighborhood, at least 65 Palestinians -- many of them children -- and 13 Israeli soldiers were ki 10 things to know Monday 07/21/2014 03:18am • WASHINGTON - Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday: 1. WHERE US SAYS EVIDENCE LEADS IN MISSILE HIT ON AIRLINER Secretary of State John Kerry points to what he calls `extraordinary circumstantial evidence'_ including video of a ro Little tick, big problems: How to avoid Lyme disease 07/20/2014 11:47pm • WASHINGTON -- A tiny deer tick can do a lot of damage -- with just one bite, it can transmit Lyme disease. Not all ticks are carriers, but enough are to result in roughly 30,000 reported infections each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heal Making the decision to not have children 07/20/2014 09:24pm • WASHINGTON -- Not everyone wants to be a mom. Movie star Cameron Diaz doesn't, and she said so in her August Esquire Magazine interview. Melanie Notkin knows plenty of women like Diaz. She is the founder of Savvy Auntie, a multimedia company designed for women who love kids but have none of their Majka earns Pole position on Tour's 14th stage 07/20/2014 12:54pm • JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press RISOUL, France (AP) -- Panting hard with his jersey unzipped and wide open in the heat, Polish rider Rafal Majka sped to a solo breakaway victory on Stage 14 as the Tour de France wrapped up its foray in the Alps on Saturday.The two stages were expected to shake up the Studies see new risks for cholesterol drug niacin 07/20/2014 09:56am • MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer New details from two studies reveal more side effects from niacin, a drug that hundreds of thousands of Americans take for cholesterol problems and general heart health. Some prominent doctors say the drug now seems too risky for routine use.Niacin is a typ Former NFLers: Painkillers easy to get up to 2012 07/20/2014 09:52am • JIM LITKE AP Sports Writer Dozens of former players joining a lawsuit against the NFL say teams kept handing out powerful painkillers and other drugs with few -- if any-- safeguards as recently as 2012. That extends by four years the time frame for similar claims made in the original complaint and c Israeli bulldozers destroy Hamas tunnels in Gaza 07/20/2014 01:54am • IBRAHIM BARZAK Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel said it widened its ground offensive early Sunday, sending more troops into Gaza after demolishing more than a dozen Hamas tunnels and intensifying tank fire on border areas.Loud explosions shook Gaza as Israeli flares lit up the n Zack Greinke loses consecutive starts 07/19/2014 09:41pm • STEVE OVERBEY Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Zack Greinke is getting tripped up by first innings.The Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander allowed the first four St. Louis hitters to reach base and score in a 4-2 loss to the Cardinals on Saturday, which gave him losses in consecutive regular-season s Cards score 4 in 1st, beat Dodgers and Greinke 4-2 07/19/2014 09:01pm • STEVE OVERBEY Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) -- After stumbling in his first start following three months on the disabled list, Joe Kelly tinkered with his mechanics.Kelly bounced back with seven strong innings and Matt Adams homered in a four-run first as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angel Sunday marks 2 years since theater massacre 07/19/2014 08:46pm • DAN ELLIOTT Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- On July 20, 2012, a man wearing police-style armor killed 12 people and injured 70 during a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in the Denver suburb of Aurora. James Holmes, a former neuroscience graduate student, pleaded not guilty by reason of in AIDS conference attendees on downed Malaysian jet 07/19/2014 03:36pm • KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) -- A prominent researcher, two activists and at least three others headed to an AIDS conference in Australia were on the Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine, news that sparked an outpouring of grief across the scientific community.Among the passeng