Funds requested for Ebola evacuation

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone has requested funds from the World Health Organization to evacuate a doctor sickened with the deadly Ebola disease.

ISIS slays aid worker

BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State extremists released a video showing the beheading of British aid worker David Haines, who was abducted in Syria last year, and British Prime Minister David Cameron late Saturday condemne…

Trooper killed in overnight ambush

BLOOMING GROVE, Pa. — A late-night ambush outside a state police barracks in Pennsylvania’s rural northeastern corner left one trooper dead and another critically wounded, and authorities scoured the densely wooded…

Forming coalition for Iraq, Syria no easy task

 ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Assembling a coalition to fight the militants from the Islamic State group is proving to be a complicated affair.

Pope to marry couples with kids, cohabitating

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is making good on his insistence that the Catholic Church welcome all faithful — not just those who obey church teaching perfectly. He’ll marry 20 couples this weekend, including so…

Court martial considered in Marine desertion case

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Marine hearing officer has recommended a court martial for a Marine accused of deserting his unit a decade ago and later winding up in Lebanon for eight years, a defense lawyer said Thursday.

Missouri enacts new abortion law

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri women seeking abortions will face one of the nation’s longest waiting periods, after state lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto to enact a 72-hour delay that includes no except…

Lynx protection expanded

BILLINGS (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials are expanding protections for Canada lynx to include animals in New Mexico, while again denying critical habitat designations for the elusive wild cats in the Southern Rockie…

Congress supports Obama plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Republicans and Democrats in Congress voiced strong pre-election support for President Barack Obama’s call for new authority to combat Islamic State militan…

Obama: U.S. will expand airstrikes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Opening a new military front in the Middle East, President Barack Obama authorized U.S. airstrikes inside Syria for the first time Wednesday night, along with expanded strikes in Iraq as part of “…

'Loving' father charged with killing his five children, ages one to eight

PINE APPLE, Ala. (AP) — Their little bodies shrouded in plastic bags, the five children of Timothy Ray Jones Jr. had been dead for days by the time he led investigators to the spot where they had been dumped among …

Scientists say ozone layer recovering

World Trade Center survivor tree to be planted at school

SEBRING, Fla.  — When Ellie Brinling of Sebring visited the World Trade Center memorial she was impressed by the so-called survivor tree.

Canada finds explorer ship lost in Arctic

TORONTO (AP) — One of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic nearly 170 years ago during a search for the fabled Northwest Passage has been found, Canada’s prime minister announced Tuesday in a disc…

Google seeks help defining the 'Right to be Forgotten'