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In the four decades since the Ebola virus was first identified in Africa, treatment hasn't changed much.

The medical examiner has ruled that a police officer's chokehold on a New York City man last month caused his death.

A North Texas city already has deployed two unusual techniques to try to cope with a persistent and lengthy drought, and Wichita Falls just added a third, more extreme tool to try to deal with its dwindling water supply.

The B.C. government is spending $3.5 million a day to fight forest fires around the province, with the total for the year past $106 million and headed higher.

Algeria's health ministry says four of the victims died after jumping from windows in panic.

The U.S. Hurricane Center in Miami said the tropical storm's maximum sustained winds Thursday night were near 75 km/h.

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The National Weather Service says 3 inches to 5 inches of rain fell in just a few hours Thursday morning from downtown Greenville south and in eastern areas of Anderson County.

But when health officials evacuate the two American aid workers infected with Ebola in west Africa, it will be the plane they take.

Hundreds of cars submerged below murky water. A landmark basketball court, newly refurbished, showing signs of buckling.

The USA will launch an early-stage trial in September of an experimental vaccine against Ebola, the deadly viral disease that has killed 729 people in the largest outbreak in history.

"It's just going crazy; people are starting to panic," said Arthur, the owner of Arthur & Orum Well Drilling Inc. "You go to the city, and some people don't know there's a drought," he told CNN.

More than 24 hours after the Wednesday morning landslide, authorities said the chances of survival were slim for anyone still trapped under the mud in Malin, a village of some 700 people in Pune district of Maharashtra state.

A wildfire in Yosemite National Park made a new run that firefighters quickly stopped, and containment lines have kept it from threatening some treasured trees that are among the largest and oldest living things on earth.

A small plane crashed in a San Diego shopping center parking lot Wednesday, killing an 80-year-old woman who was the lone passenger and injuring the pilot, authorities said.

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Humanitarian agencies working in west Africa are stepping up precautions against the deadly Ebola virus as local and international health officials struggle to bring the outbreak under control.

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A twister filled with man-eating sharks is about to hit New York City -- at least on your television screen.

Northern Colorado got the brunt of heavy rains that flooded streets and stranded drivers up and down the Front Range.