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Hospitals urged to ‘think Ebola’

Federal health officials on Monday urged the nation’s hospitals to “think Ebola” and launched a review of procedures for treating patients, while medical records showed that an infected Texas nurse repeatedly visited the room of a Liberian man as he was dying from the disease.

 
Should company pay white mom for non-white baby?

Jennifer Cramblett and her wife, Amanda Zinkon, wanted a white baby. They went to the Midwest Sperm Bank near Chicago and chose blond, blue-eyed donor No. 380. When Cramblett was five months pregnant, they found out that she had been inseminated by donor No. 330 — a black man.

Utah school bus driver accused of DUI during field trip

A Utah school bus driver was arrested Monday on suspicion of DUI after swerving lanes and nearly hitting a car on a busy stretch of highway while taking 67 elementary-school students on a field trip.

 
27 deaths linked to defect in GM ignition switches

A program to compensate victims of a faulty ignition switch in General Motors vehicles has approved three new death claims, bringing the total number of deaths linked so far to the switch to 27, according to a report released on Monday.

1 climber killed, 1 rescued in Colo. mountains

Two Colorado men climbing some of the state’s most famous mountains both fell after going off an unfamiliar trail on their way down a peak, killing one man and leading to the rescue of the other two days after they went missing.

 
Mechanical problem caused deadly hay wagon crash

Maine, like most states, doesn’t have strict regulations for hayrides, including the one that lurched down a steep hill and into a tree over the weekend, killing a 17-year-old girl and injuring more than 20 others.

 
FAA traffic site near Chicago returns to full operation

Full operation was restored on Monday at a Chicago-area air traffic control site that was shut down in September by a fire allegedly set by a field technician, the Federal Aviation Administration said.