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Tobacco growers brace for competition

DANVILLE, Va. – Starting this month, America’s remaining tobacco growers will be totally exposed to the laws of supply and demand. The very last buyout checks, totaling about $91...

Ebola patient came to U.S. to marry girlfriend, start new life

DALLAS – Thomas Eric Duncan, the Dallas Ebola patient, came to the United States to marry his girlfriend, a local pastor says. Days later, Duncan was hospitalized in isolation, and his girlf...

Nation Briefs

Indiana aid worker’s parents plead for release INDIANAPOLIS – The parents of an Indiana man threatened with beheading by the Islamic State group are pleading with his captors to f...

Ebola comes across 3 continents

Liberian sufferer may face charges

Dallas Ebola patient critical

DALLAS – The condition of the lone Ebola patient to be diagnosed in the U.S. has worsened and is now deemed critical, the Dallas hospital that has been treating him reported Saturday. ...

U.S.: Militants use beheadings to make up for losses

WASHINGTON – For months, Islamic State militants rampaged across Syria and Iraq, seizing cities, taking hostages and terrorizing all who dared to confront them. The tide began to...

UK leader: British hostage’s killers must be found

CAIRO – The Islamic State extremists who have beheaded another Western hostage are deaf to reason and must be destroyed, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Saturday as Muslims worldwi...

Schools grapple with transgender atheletes

At issue: Which team should they plan on?

Main Hong Kong protest resurges

Authorities demand that protesters go home

World Briefs

Embattled Syrian president makes rare appearance BEIRUT – Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance on Saturday by attending prayers for a key Muslim holiday at ...

Ousted Haitian dictator Duvalier dies

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Jean-Claude Duvalier, who presided over what was widely acknowledged as a corrupt and brutal regime as the self-proclaimed “president for life” of Haiti until a popul...

Crew rids apartment of Ebola

In Dallas, family moved to a private residence