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MADRID (AP) — The World Health Organization says it is ethical to use unproven Ebola drugs and vaccines in the outbreak in West Africa, provided the right conditions are met. The statement from the U.N. health agency comes amid a worldwide debate over the medical ethics surrounding the Ebola outbreak. The experimental drug ZMapp has been used on two American missionaries with Ebola and possibly a 75-year-old Spanish missionary priest who died today. There's been criticism that only Westerners have been given the drug.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — He got his big break in the 1970s as the alien in the hit TV show "Mork & Mindy" and won an Academy Award for his role as an empathetic therapist in the 1997 film "Good Will Hunting." Robin Williams is dead at age 63. The actor and comedian was found dead yesterday in his home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Authorities say he died of asphyxiation — a suicide. Williams had been suffering from severe depression.
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson, Missouri's police chief says there were five arrests, but no reports of looting in a second night of unrest following the shooting death of an unarmed black teen by a police officer. Police last night used tear gas and shot "beanbag rounds" at crowds police say were throwing rocks at them. The night before was much more violent, with vandalism and looting resulting in dozens of arrests
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Some highways and streets are impassable in Warren, Michigan today, after a storm dumped more than 6 inches of rain in the southeastern part of the state. Some motorists were stranded and state police divers were sent out to search flooded freeways. Warren's mayor says he may ask for state help for residents dealing with the aftermath.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman is accused of helping her son with a video in which he set himself on fire as part of the "fire challenge" trend on social media. Media outlets are reporting that Janie Lachelle Talley, of Charlotte, has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police detectives say Talley's 16-year-old son poured fingernail polish on himself July 29 and set himself on fire, while the mom allegedly helped with the recording. Other people put out the fire. The teen suffered minor burns to his chest and neck.
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