Poll: Top concern for voters is economy

WASHINGTON – It’s not Obamacare or climate change. It’s not yet terrorism or fear of the Islamic State group. Those issues are on the minds of voters as they begin casting ballots in this year’s midterm elections, but nothing matters to American voters as much the economy.

An Associated Press-GfK poll released Wednesday finds 9 in 10 likely voters call the economy an extremely or very important issue.

Few see change coming once voting closes Nov. 4. A majority of likely voters expect Democrats to retain control of the Senate, with 68 percent saying the GOP will keep the House.

Nurse knew Ebola patient was in Africa

DALLAS – The airline passenger who brought Ebola into the U.S. initially went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa, the hospital said Wednesday in a disclosure that showed how easily an infection could be missed.

The decision by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to release the patient, who had recently arrived from Liberia, could have put others at risk of exposure to Ebola before the man went back to the ER a couple of days later, when his condition worsened.

Mexico may have caught cartel leader

MEXICO CITY – Two Mexican federal officials say alleged cartel capo Hector Beltran-Leyva is believed to have been captured.

The officials say DNA testing is being done to confirm his identity.

Beltran-Leyva is leader of a cartel named after his brother Arturo.

Associated Press