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• Dutch MH17 relative visits Ukraine crash site
• Dozens hurt in riots near New Hampshire pumpkin festival
• Dallas officials urge calm in city on edge over Ebola
• Texas lab worker tests negative for Ebola after cruise in isolation
• S. Korea: 2 Koreas exchange gunfire along border
• U.S. hospitals gird for Ebola panic as flu season looms
• Cruise ship with monitored health worker returns
• Fiercest fighting in days hits Syrian border town
• Hopes fade for 40 missing after Nepal blizzard
• Cops: Remains may be those of missing UVa. student
• Cops: Remains may be those of missing U.S. student
• Street artist revisits ghosts of Ellis Island hospital
• Hong Kong democracy street battles rage on
• Americans 'can't give in to hysteria or fear' over Ebola: Obama
• Pennsylvania ambush suspect spotted carrying gun, police say
• Human remains found in search for missing Virginia student
• Body found in search for Va. student
• Body found in search for Va. student
• In Georgia Senate bid, Nunn talks economy to women
• Woman being monitored for Ebola falls ill in Dallas: local media

Dutch MH17 relative visits Ukraine crash site Posted: 19 Oct 2014 12:59 PM PDT The Hague (AFP) - A Dutch relative of a victim of downed flight MH17 has travelled to the crash site in eastern Ukraine to search for the remains of his missing cousin, Dutch television reported Sunday.

Dozens hurt in riots near New Hampshire pumpkin festival Posted: 19 Oct 2014 11:12 AM PDT By Kevin Murphy (Reuters) - More than two dozen people were treated at a New Hampshire hospital for injuries resulting from rioting that erupted near the site of an annual pumpkin festival in Keene, a hospital official said on Sunday. Hundreds of mostly young people descended on neighborhoods around the pumpkin festival on Saturday, setting bonfires, throwing bottles and flipping some vehicles as police in riot gear tried to keep control, according to local news coverage. ...

Dallas officials urge calm in city on edge over Ebola Posted: 19 Oct 2014 08:39 AM PDT By Anna Driver DALLAS (Reuters) - Texas officials are still working to contain the public's fear of Ebola even as dozens of people who may have had contact with a Liberian man who died from the virus are soon expected to be released from a 21-day monitoring period. There have been no new cases since two nurses who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan contracted Ebola. But one traveled on a plane shortly before her diagnosis, sparking worry that fellow airline passengers could be infected. ...

Texas lab worker tests negative for Ebola after cruise in isolation Posted: 19 Oct 2014 07:06 AM PDT By Erwin Seba GALVESTON Texas (Reuters) - A Dallas hospital lab worker who spent much of a cruise holiday in isolation after possible exposure to Ebola, has tested negative for the disease, Carnival Cruise Lines said on Sunday. The Carnival Magic arrived on Sunday in the port of Galveston, Texas after a week-long trip that included being denied docking by Belize and Mexico because of the presence of the woman on board. The woman works at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital where a Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan, was treated for Ebola. ...

S. Korea: 2 Koreas exchange gunfire along border Posted: 19 Oct 2014 04:42 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean and South Korean troops exchanged fire Sunday along their heavily fortified border in the second such shooting in less than 10 days, South Korean officials said.

U.S. hospitals gird for Ebola panic as flu season looms Posted: 19 Oct 2014 04:27 AM PDT By Bill Berkrot and Yasmeen Abutaleb NEW YORK (Reuters) - A young woman complaining of abdominal pain and nausea who had traveled to Africa arrived at a Long Island hospital fearful that she had contracted Ebola. She did not have the virus, but the pregnancy test was positive. The woman had been to South Africa, more than 3,400 miles (5,400 km) from the three West African countries enduring the worst Ebola outbreak on record, and the trip ended six weeks prior, or twice the potential incubation period for Ebola infection. "It tells you how ready for panic we can get ourselves," said Dr. ...

Cruise ship with monitored health worker returns Posted: 19 Oct 2014 04:11 AM PDT The Texas-based cruise ship carrying a health care worker being monitored for signs of Ebola returned to port early Sunday.

Fiercest fighting in days hits Syrian border town Posted: 19 Oct 2014 02:51 AM PDT By Humeyra Pamuk URFA Turkey (Reuters) - The fiercest fighting in days shook the Syrian border town of Kobani overnight, sources inside the town and a monitoring group said on Sunday, as Islamic State attacked Kurdish militants with mortars and car bombs. Islamic State, which controls much of Syria and Iraq, fired 44 mortars at Kurdish parts of the town on Saturday, some of which fell inside Turkey, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It said four more were fired on Sunday. The month-long battle for Kobani has ebbed and flowed. ...

Hopes fade for 40 missing after Nepal blizzard Posted: 19 Oct 2014 02:36 AM PDT KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Hopes faded on Sunday for survivors of one of Nepal's worst mountain disasters as villagers joined an intensive search by troops and government officials for as many as 40 people missing after an unseasonal blizzard killed 39. More than 500 people have been rescued from a route popular with foreign adventure tourists that circles Annapurna, the world's tenth-tallest peak, among them 230 foreigners. ...

Cops: Remains may be those of missing UVa. student Posted: 19 Oct 2014 01:16 AM PDT A long search appears to have come to a sad end, though further forensic tests are needed.

Cops: Remains may be those of missing U.S. student Posted: 18 Oct 2014 10:23 PM PDT The British-born University of Virginia student has been missing since Sept. 13.

Street artist revisits ghosts of Ellis Island hospital Posted: 18 Oct 2014 10:07 PM PDT New York (AFP) - Ellis Island was once the gateway to America for millions of immigrants, but the cavernous hospital that treated some of those new arrivals has been closed to the public for 60 years.

Hong Kong democracy street battles rage on Posted: 18 Oct 2014 09:21 PM PDT By James Pomfret and Elzio Barreto HONG KONG (Reuters) - Violent clashes erupted early on Sunday in a Hong Kong protest hotspot as unarmed pro-democracy activists once again confronted riot police despite the confirmation of talks between protest leaders and officials early this week. Hong Kong's 28,000 strong police force have been struggling to contain a youth-led movement that has shown little sign of waning after three weeks of standoffs in which hundreds of thousands of people have occupied city streets to demand full democracy in the former British colony. ...

Americans 'can't give in to hysteria or fear' over Ebola: Obama Posted: 18 Oct 2014 07:15 PM PDT By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With three cases of Ebola diagnosed in the United States and more than 100 people being monitored in case they are infected, President Barack Obama said Saturday that Americans "can't give in to hysteria or fear" about the spread of the virus. As though to illustrate his point, a Dallas bus and train station was closed on Saturday afternoon over concern about a woman who fell ill. The woman was first reported to be on the checklist for possible Ebola exposure but turned out not to be. ...

Pennsylvania ambush suspect spotted carrying gun, police say Posted: 18 Oct 2014 06:43 PM PDT By Joe McDonald MOUNTAINHOME Pa. (Reuters) - The survivalist charged with murdering a Pennsylvania trooper and wounding another was spotted near his old high school carrying a rifle and with mud smeared on his face, police said on Saturday, five weeks after a manhunt for the suspect began. Eric Frein, 31, who is on the FBI's Most Wanted list, was spotted by a woman in a "surprise encounter" while she was taking a walk, said Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police. ...

Human remains found in search for missing Virginia student Posted: 18 Oct 2014 06:12 PM PDT By Gary Robertson RICHMOND Va. (Reuters) - Searchers looking for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham found human remains at an abandoned property in a rural area on Saturday, five weeks after she was last seen in the university town of Charlottesville, police said. Authorities, who notified the girl's parents of the grim discovery, must conduct forensic tests on the remains to determine the person's identity, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo told a news conference. ...

Body found in search for Va. student Posted: 18 Oct 2014 04:54 PM PDT Police say they've found human remains that could be those of Hannah Graham.

Body found in search for Va. student Posted: 18 Oct 2014 03:51 PM PDT Police say they've found human remains that could be those of Hannah Graham.

In Georgia Senate bid, Nunn talks economy to women Posted: 18 Oct 2014 02:16 PM PDT EVANS, Ga. (AP) — You don't hear Michelle Nunn mention gender politics or try to rally female voters in Georgia around issues of abortion, birth control and gay marriage as she runs for the Senate.

Woman being monitored for Ebola falls ill in Dallas: local media Posted: 18 Oct 2014 01:29 PM PDT (Reuters) - A woman who was being monitored for possible exposure to the Ebola virus was reported falling ill at a Dallas transit station, a local television station reported on its website on Saturday. The woman had a low-grade fever at a Dallas Area Rapid Transit station in Northeast Dallas, WFAA said, quoting a DART spokesman. DART closed White Rock Station until further notice, and Dallas hazardous materials teams were dispatched there, it said. (Reporting by Frank McGurty; Editing by James Dalgleish)

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