NEW YORK (AP) -- A doctor who became New York City's first Ebola patient was praised for getting treatment immediately upon showing symptoms, and health officials stressed that the nation's... READ MORE »

ALBANY, Ga. -- A man looking to buy marijuana texted his probation officer by mistake and is now headed off to jail, according to TV news station WALB. Prosecutors say Alvin Cross Jr.'... READ MORE »

ATLANTA (AP) -- All travelers who come into the U.S. from three Ebola-stricken West African nations will now be monitored for three weeks, the latest step by federal officials to keep the... READ MORE »

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Camel cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is snuffing out smoking in its offices and buildings. The nation's second-biggest tobacco company informed employees... READ MORE »

BURGETTSTOWN (AP) -- Some people paint the town. A western Pennsylvania man just painted a little stretch of Main Street, and now he's in trouble for it. The (Washington) Observer-Reporter... READ MORE »

EAST BERLIN, Pa. (AP) -- Firefighters battling a house fire here found hundreds of snakes inside. Crews "stopped counting after 200-something, " Chief Larry Anderson of the Wellsville... READ MORE »

BERLIN, Pa. (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania convenience store clerk told a would-be bandit to bug off by spraying the suspect with a can of insecticide. State police say a masked woman... READ MORE »

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A New Mexico man says he made an error while paying his electric bill that led him to overpay by thousands of dollars. The Public Service Company of New Mexico... READ MORE »

DANVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- A schoolteacher severely injured by a rock thrown from the overpass of a Pennsylvania interstate said Tuesday she was looking forward to getting back to her Ohio home... READ MORE »

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A convicted murderer sentenced to more than a half-century behind bars is suing the state of Connecticut, saying its ban on pornography in prison violates his... READ MORE »