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Cubs fall 8-0 to Wainwright, Cardinals 09/23/2014 12:54am • ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Travis Wood was sailing along, matching Adam Wainwright out for out. Then, in a flash, everything unraveled for him.Wood could not avoid the big inning, and the Cubs could not touch Wainwright in an 8-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night. Wainwright wins 20th, Cardinals beat Cubs 8-0 09/23/2014 12:30am • ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Mike Matheny looked at Adam Wainwright's run over the past five years and summed it up with one word."Wow," he said.Wainwright joined Clayton Kershaw as the majors' only 20-game winners, pitching three-hit ball over seven innings, and the St. Louis Ca Cardinals' Adams, Carpenter return from virus 09/22/2014 08:50pm • CHICAGO (AP) -- First baseman Matt Adams and third baseman Matt Carpenter returned to the St. Louis Cardinals' lineup against the Chicago Cubs Monday night after each missing two games because of a stomach virus.Nearly half the Cardinals' players and coaches have been affected by the virus in recent Falcons' defense braces for Vikings' Bridgewater 09/22/2014 06:22pm • CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) -- The Falcons' defense was handed a new challenge on Monday as players returned from their long weekend: How to contain Teddy Bridgewater.Bridgewater, the rookie quarterback from Louisville, will make his first start for Minnesota on Sunday aga New study finds pregnant women fight flu virus aggressively, get sicker 09/22/2014 05:22pm • WASHINGTON - Researchers say they're surprised by the results of a study involving flu and pregnant women. "What we found out was that pregnant women have an unusually strong response to influenza virus," says Dr. Catherine Blish, senior author of the study by the Stanford University School of Me Sierra Leone concludes nationwide Ebola lockdown 09/22/2014 04:38am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Frustrated residents complained of food shortages in some neighborhoods of Sierra Leone's capital on Sunday as the country reached the third and final day of a sweeping, unprecedented lockdown designed to combat the deadly Ebola d Spain repatriates priest with Ebola from Africa 09/22/2014 01:40am • MADRID (AP) -- The Spanish government is preparing to repatriate a priest who has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus after working in Sierra Leone.In a statement Saturday, the Ministry of Health says Brother Manuel Garcia Viejo, medical director of the San Juan de Dios Hospital in the city of Lunsa Sierra Leone staggers in Ebola isolation effort 09/21/2014 05:08am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Some in Sierra Leone ran away from their homes Saturday and others clashed with health workers trying to bury dead Ebola victims as the country struggled through the second day of an unprecedented lockdown to combat the deadly dis Reds give up 3 HRs in 8-4 loss to Cardinals 09/21/2014 12:02am • JASON L. YOUNG Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) -- At this point, the Cincinnati Reds are looking to get through the final week of the season before turning their attention to next year."It's been a year to forget," Reds starter Mike Leake said after giving up of St. Louis' three home runs in an 8-4 Cards hit 3 HRs, top Reds, move closer to playoffs 09/20/2014 11:46pm • JASON L. YOUNG Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) -- It didn't take Tony Cruz long to consider all of his home runs and rank his latest.He's only had three in his 100-game career and the first two came on the road.Cruz hit a three-run homer and the St. Louis Cardinals connected three times, beating the Sierra Leone begins 3-day Ebola lockdown 09/20/2014 07:44am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Sierra Leone confined its 6 million people to their homes Friday for the next three days as the Ebola-ravaged West African country began what was believed to be the most sweeping lockdown against disease since the Middle Ages.In a Doctors expect Nebraska Ebola patient to recover 09/19/2014 08:18pm • MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An American aid worker infected with Ebola who's being treated in Nebraska is now expected to make a full recovery, his doctors said Wednesday.The medical team treating Rick Sacra also said it's optimistic that the 51-year-old from Worcester, Mass Virus tally nears 500,000 in Dominican Republic 09/19/2014 07:10pm • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- The mosquito-borne virus known as chikungunya has sickened nearly 500,000 people in the Dominican Republic, including 109 newborn babies, an official with the Caribbean country's health ministry said Friday.The virus was transmitted to the newborns by their CDC: Severe respiratory illness now in 22 states 09/19/2014 05:40pm • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials say 22 states now have confirmed cases of an unusual respiratory illness in children.An uncommon virus -- enterovirus 68 -- is causing the illnesses. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said Friday that 160 lab-confirm Sierra Leone begins 3-day Ebola lockdown, ordering 6 million people to stay home 09/19/2014 04:10pm • FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Thousands of health care workers have been going house to house in the West African country of Sierra Leone today, searching for people sick with Ebola who may be hiding.The government has ordered the country's population of 6 million to remain in their homes for the n