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Ebola News Guide: Deaths keep rising; world reacts 10/12/2014 06:18am • CONNIE CASS Associated Press American Marines scrambled to add Ebola treatment beds in Liberia on Friday, while the U.S. and Britain readied new disease screenings for passengers arriving at their airports from West Africa. Doctors tried out experimental drugs in a global battle against the deadly s AP Enterprise: Records chronicle how Ebola kills 10/11/2014 07:26pm • EMILY SCHMALL Associated Press Despite five days of intensive treatment, Thomas Eric Duncan's condition was deteriorating.Then, suddenly on the afternoon of Oct. 2, came a hopeful sign. Duncan was hungry.Nurses at a Texas hospital raised the 45-year-old welder from Liberia into a sitting position an California officials report 32 enterovirus cases 10/11/2014 06:00pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California health officials said Friday that they have confirmed 32 cases of a virus that can cause serious respiratory illness -- more than double the figure from a week earlier.However, the state Department of Public Health said there doesn't appear to be any outbreak of Ashes from Ebola victim's belongings to be buried 10/11/2014 04:50pm • PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) -- The ashes of items taken from the Dallas apartment where the man who died from the Ebola virus first became ill will be taken to a Louisiana hazardous waste landfill for burial.The linen, bedding and carpet taken from the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan got sick were ta Ebola patient's temperature spiked to 103 degrees 10/11/2014 10:58am • NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- Thomas Eric Duncan's temperature spiked to 103 degrees during the hours of his initial visit to an emergency room -- a fever that was flagged with an exclamation point in the hospital's record-keeping system, his medical records show.Despite telling a WHO: Ebola death toll rises to more than 4,000 10/11/2014 06:14am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberian lawmakers on Friday rejected a proposal to grant President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the power to further restrict movement and public gatherings and to confiscate property in the fight against Ebola. One legislator said such a law New once-a-day pill for hepatitis C wins FDA OK 10/11/2014 05:40am • MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials have approved a daily pill that can cure the most common form of hepatitis C without the grueling pill-and-injection cocktail long used to treat the virus.But the drug's $1,125-per-pill price is sure to increase criticism o Top finance officials grapple with weak growth 10/11/2014 04:10am • PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Finance ministers from the world's largest economies said Friday they are determined to prevent a slide into another global recession, but a top U.S. official expressed frustration that a number of major economies were not doing enough to bolster g Remains of Ebola victim who died in US cremated 10/10/2014 09:30pm • DALLAS (AP) -- The remains of a man who became the first person to die of Ebola in the United States have been cremated.A spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services announced the development involving the remains of Thomas Eric Duncan in a terse email Friday. Spokeswoman Christine Ebola victim's belongings burned in Port Arthur 10/10/2014 09:10pm • PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) -- A Texas incinerator has destroyed drums loaded with items believed to have been contaminated by a man with Ebola.Veolia North America says the drums taken from a Dallas apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan became ill were destroyed Friday at the company's incinerator in Port Jet with ill boy quarantined, cleared in Las Vegas 10/10/2014 07:10pm • KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A commercial airliner was quarantined on the airport tarmac in Las Vegas for more than an hour Friday while paramedics and health officials evaluated a mother and a child who vomited during a flight from New York, authorities said.An all-clear was given Inhofe gives final OK to $700M to fight Ebola 10/10/2014 06:40pm • ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A powerful GOP senator lifted his objections Friday to a $750 million Pentagon request to fight Ebola in Africa, freeing up the money immediately.Oklahoma GOP Sen. James Inhofe, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, gave his OK to s News Guide: A quick look at Ebola developments 10/10/2014 05:40pm • The Associated Press Six U.S. military planes arrived Thursday in Liberia to deliver more Marines into the epicenter of the Ebola crisis. Meanwhile, at a World Bank meeting in Washington, West African leaders pleaded for help in dealing with the disease.A look at the essential developments worldwid US adds extra level of airport screening for Ebola 10/10/2014 05:20pm • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama calls it a "belt and suspenders" approach -- an extra level of screening at five major U.S. airports to try to catch any travelers from Ebola-ravaged countries who may be carrying the disease.About 150 travelers a day will Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment: 10/10/2014 04:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) --US-TERRORISM-WARNINGNEW: US renews global terrorism warningWASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department is renewing its global terrorism alert for Americans traveling abroad, saying it sees a heightened risk of reprisal attacks from the Islamic State group and its supporters.In a new "w