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Entrepreneurship the answer for some with autism 08/14/2014 10:28am • JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- When Matt Cottle asked his boss to let him work in the supermarket's bakery, she told him he'd never do anything more than collect grocery carts.After six years of bagging groceries and pushing carts, Cottle wanted more. He had already learned h Entrepreneurship the answer for some with autism 08/14/2014 10:28am • JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- When Matt Cottle asked his boss to let him work in the supermarket's bakery, she told him he'd never do anything more than collect grocery carts.After six years of bagging groceries and pushing carts, Cottle wanted more. He had already learned h 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 Federal judge accused of hitting wife in argument 08/11/2014 06:28pm • BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal judge known for sentencing a former Alabama governor to prison in a corruption case was released from an Atlanta jail Monday after he was accused of hitting his wife when she accused him of infidelity.U.S. District Court Judge Mark Fuller, 55, p VA chief makes 1st hospital visit amid scandal 08/11/2014 04:32am • EMAUN KASHFI Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) -- Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald visited a VA hospital Friday for the first time since taking over the embattled agency last month, meeting with veterans and health care providers and vowing to restore trust in the organization.Reports that doz CDC director: Scale of Ebola crisis unprecedented 08/10/2014 11:30am • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The current Ebola crisis in West Africa is on pace to sicken more people than all other previous outbreaks of the disease combined, the health official leading the U.S. response said Thursday.The next few weeks will be critical, said Dr. Tom Frie New VA secretary touts fixes to veterans group 08/09/2014 09:24pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald addressed a veterans group for the first time since taking over the troubled agency last month, calling his plans to fix it "an opportunity we can't miss nor underestimate.""This is an opportunity for me to make a difference in the lives o Past doesn't haunt DesJarlais in rural Tenn. 08/09/2014 09:56am • SHEILA BURKE Associated Press WINCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) -- Well-known details about U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais -- including that he once urged a mistress to seek an abortion and held a gun in his mouth for hours outside his ex-wife's room -- didn't deter Republican primary voters from giving him a poss Ryan calls for solutions-based GOP comeback 08/08/2014 07:10pm • THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) -- Rep. Paul Ryan told the nation's most active Republicans on Friday that criticism of President Barack Obama alone is insufficient to fuel a GOP comeback in this year's elections or in 2016.Instead, the Wisconsin congressman told the Republican Nationa Boost for vets' health: Obama signs new law 08/08/2014 06:06pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) -- Tens of thousands of military veterans who have been enduring long waits for medical care should be able to turn to private doctors almost immediately under a law signed Thursday by President Barack Obama.Other changes will take longer under th Boost for vets' health: Obama signs new law 08/08/2014 06:06pm • DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) -- Tens of thousands of military veterans who have been enduring long waits for medical care should be able to turn to private doctors almost immediately under a law signed Thursday by President Barack Obama.Other changes will take longer un VA apologizes for error in patient-death report 08/08/2014 02:40pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs has apologized for what it called an "inadvertent" mistake that underreported the number of deaths linked to delays in cancer treatment at VA medical facilities."VA inadvertently caused confusion in its communication 3 decades later, remains of Jonestown bodies found 08/08/2014 05:08am • RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) -- More than 35 years after the infamous suicide-murder of some 900 people -- many forced to drink a cyanide-laced grape punch -- in Jonestown, Guyana, the cremated remains of nine of the victims were found in a dilapidated former funeral home in Delaw Cambodia tribunal convicts Khmer Rouge leaders 08/08/2014 03:26am • TODD PITMAN Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- They were leaders of Cambodia's infamous Khmer Rouge, the fanatical communist movement behind a 1970s reign of terror that transformed this entire Southeast Asian nation into a ruthless slave state -- a place where cities were emptied of thei Troops deployed in hopes of preventing Ebola spread 08/07/2014 05:10pm • MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Officials in western Africa are taking increasingly desperate measures to stop the spread of Ebola.In Liberia, troops in full combat gear were deployed in the rain today to block people traveling to the country's capital from rural areas hit by the deadly disease. In Sierra