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Fuel costs ease, US airline profits soar 10/24/2014 02:04am • DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer DALLAS (AP) -- Profits are soaring at the biggest U.S. airlines as fuel prices drop -- but don't expect fares to fall too.Heading into the busy holiday-travel period, the airlines expect even cheaper fuel, thanks to the nosedive in crude oil prices. The price of jet f 1st Ebola case in W. African nation of Mali 10/24/2014 01:40am • BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali has become the sixth nation in West Africa to report a case of Ebola.Officials say Mali's first case is a 2-year-old girl who came from neighboring Guinea, where the outbreak began last December. The child was tested for the virus yesterday in the town of Kayes, about 375 m NY doctor back from Guinea has Ebola 10/24/2014 12:00am • NEW YORK (AP) -- An emergency room doctor who recently returned to New York after treating Ebola patients in West Africa has tested positive for the virus. It's the first case in the city and the fourth in the nation.Speaking at a late news conference, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo urge Ebola: How it spreads 10/23/2014 11:10pm • The Associated Press Some facts about how Ebola spreads:WHEN IS EBOLA CONTAGIOUS?Only when someone is showing symptoms, which can start with vague symptoms including a fever, flu-like body aches and abdominal pain, and then vomiting and diarrhea.HOW DOES EBOLA SPREAD?Through close contact with a sy Shaheen, Brown meet for 3rd debate for US Senate 10/23/2014 09:12pm • HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Picking up where they left off, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and her Republican challenger Scott Brown on Thursday used their latest debate to again emphasize their differences on immigration, the Islamic State group, Ebola and their efforts to help sma Stocks climb...US airline profits soar...Report: Better shields needed for private tax data 10/23/2014 04:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are soaring in afternoon trading on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average has been up more than 300 points. Caterpillar and 3M are leading the gains among industrial stocks, which are up significantly more than the rest of the market. Caterpillar rose 5 percent and 3M US journalist returns home after Ebola recovery 10/23/2014 03:48pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- An American video journalist who recovered from Ebola is home in Rhode Island.Ashoka Mukpo contracted the virus while working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman for NBC and other media outlets. The 33-year-old was released from the Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment u 3 hospitals designated for Md. Ebola patients 10/23/2014 03:20pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Maryland officials say anyone who's diagnosed with Ebola in the state would be treated at one of three hospitals -- one of them in Washington -- if a federal facility is not available.State officials released their plan for dealing with a confirmed Ebola case on Thursday. The Woman who beat Ebola mourns for her slain dog 10/23/2014 02:50pm • MADRID (AP) -- The husband of the Spanish nursing assistant who beat Ebola says his wife now knows that authorities killed their dog Excalibur while she was in the hospital and is questioning that decision.In an interview published Thursday by the Spanish newspaper El Pais, Javier Limon says he fina Battle of tacticians as Chelsea visits Man United 10/23/2014 02:26pm • STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- Two of world football's great tacticians go head-to-head for only the second time in a competitive match when Jose Mourinho's Chelsea puts its unbeaten record in the Premier League on the line against Louis van Gaal's Manchester United on Su Obama expresses optimism about Ebola in US 10/23/2014 01:34pm • JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama expressed confidence Wednesday about the ability to contain Ebola in the U.S., taking special note of the ongoing recovery of two nurses who contracted the disease and of others who were declared Ebola free after being exposed t Ebola: Why virus kills some, other people survive 10/23/2014 12:08pm • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- People who shared an apartment with the country's first Ebola patient are emerging from quarantine healthy. And while Thomas Eric Duncan died and two U.S. nurses were infected caring for him, there are successes, too: A nurse infected in Spain ha Warner, Gillespie make final joint appearance 10/23/2014 12:00pm • BROCK VERGAKIS Associated Press VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Mark Warner and Republican rival Ed Gillespie have made their final joint appearance.Warner and Gillespie appeared at a joint candidate forum in Virginia Beach on Thursday morning.The forum was hosted by the Central Business Distr Key features of rigorous new US Ebola monitoring 10/23/2014 09:52am • LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Rigorous monitoring of travelers arriving from Ebola-stricken West African countries is being implemented to keep the virus from spreading in the United States.Key features announced Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:WHO WILL WHO: Ebola responsible for 4,877 deaths 10/23/2014 09:30am • LONDON (AP) -- Ebola is now believed to have killed 4,877 people globally and that the spread of the lethal virus remains "persistent and widespread" in West Africa, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.In a new update, WHO also said there have been 9,936 probable, suspected and confirmed ca