Home & Decor 2014

Sierra Leone to have lockdown amid Ebola crisis

By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Authorities are ordering people in Sierra Leone to stay inside their homes for three days later this month as pa…

Truly efficient paddling takes practice, patience

By RICH LANDERS, The Spokesman-Review

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Anyone can move a canoe, kayak or stand-up paddleboard over the water, but precious few have savored the joy of paddling…

Pesticide drift is persistent problem for farmers

By STEVE KARNOWSKI

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The cloud of insecticide that drifted from a neighbor's corn field onto the asparagus on Andrew and Melissa Dunham's centra…

Two pre-teens plan to celebrate the Jewish rite of passage by building a playground

By STEPHANIE K. BAER, Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — When North Side Lakeview neighborhood youths Ariana Handelman and Marc Luban have their bat and bar mitzvahs this fall and turn 13, …

Community of faith column: Join me in appreciating every day

By Christine Prescott

This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Community of faith: Small gestures add up to a blessed life of joy

By MICHAEL TREE

In 1849, as the story goes, a young merchant from Boston was caught up in the fervor of the California gold rush. He sold all of his possessio…

Correction: Keryx-Drug Approval story

NEW YORK (AP) — In a Sept. 5 story about a new drug from Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, The Associated Press misstated the timing of the company's …

Oregon professor probes musical mysteries with technology

By MIKE McINALLY, Corvallis Gazette-Times

CORVALLIS, Ore. – It was 2008, and Jason Silveira was watching a wind ensemble perform a concert at Florida State University when the first cl…

Religion briefs for Saturday, September 6

By The Missoulian

Missoula

Boy in Spain with brain tumor to fly for treatment

Associated Press

MADRID (AP) — Doctors in a Spanish hospital caring for a British boy with a serious brain tumor are finalizing details to enable him to fly fo…

Births for Saturday, September 6

Macall McGillis McCollum and Douglas McCollum, Misoula, girl, Sept. 3

US doctor infected with Ebola in stable condition

By MARGERY A. BECK

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A doctor who became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia — the third American aid worker sickened with the virus — …

NIH finds old ricin, other forgotten germs in labs

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Institutes of Health said it has uncovered a nearly century-old container of ricin and a handful of other forgo…

White House asks for $30M for CDC's Ebola efforts

By ANDREW TAYLOR

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday sent Congress a request for $30 million to pay for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's…