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Tech men’s golf earned all-academic team status Texas Tech’s men’s golf team earned All-Academic team status for the 2013-2014 as announced Thursday by the Gold Coaches Association of America.

This award is given to schools that achieve a team GPA of 3.0 or higher and submitted the GPAs for each player on the official squad list for that academic year, according to a Tech news release.

The award is presented by Farmers Insurance, an insurer group that insures automobiles, homes, small businesses and other products.

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Divided House abandons vote on border crisis bill WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans abruptly abandoned a bill to address the immigration crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday after last-minute maneuvering failed to lock down sufficient conservative support.

The surprise move, coming on Congress’ final day of action ahead of a five-week summer recess, was an embarrassing setback for Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team as a small group of tea party lawmakers once again upset their plans.

It was also a disappointment for the majority of House Republicans who were eager to produce a legislative solution to the situation on the border, where tens of thousands of unaccompanied children have been showing up from chaotic Central American nations and crossing illegally into the United States.

“It can’t wait, it’s a humanitarian crisis,” Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., said before the vote was canceled, as he pleaded with fellow Republicans to support the legislation. “This bill is an urgently needed bill.”

But even significant concessions by leadership weren’t enough to secure support from a small band of tea party lawmakers reluctant to give money to President Barack Obama without taking steps to rein in his executive authority on immigration.

Those lawmakers were goaded on by firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz, RTexas, who summoned them for pizza Wednesday evening to strategize against the bill.

Lubbock ranked among best economies

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The recession officially ended five years ago, but some cities still have not recovered to their previous economic levels.

Lubbock ranked 8th in WalletHub’s survey that assessed which United States economies had recovered the most in these past five years.

Richie Bernardo, WalletHub employee, said cities who are left behind in the recovery process, crime can rise, education can suffer, local administrations collapse, property values decline, businesses shut down and skilled workers move to other cities to find new opportunities.

“WalletHub compared the 150 largest U.S. cities to identify those that have experienced the most and least growth since the recession,” he said. “We used 18 essential metrics to examine how each city has evolved economically in the past several years.”

These metrics surveyed were unem-

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growth rate increase 58th –Ration of part-time to full-time jobs decrease 61st – Inflow increase of college-educated workers 69th – Public Assistance Rate Decrease

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Altered Raider Ready offered for students

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ing about $60,000 a year base salary,” Harral said. “That’s nuts.”

As long as the tax abatements continue to be approved and an off taker can be secured, he said the project should be built within the next year.

He said in addition to the job opportunities available for students through NextEra, the company has also agreed to allow the data collected from the farm to be used for student research and development opportunities.

“Our focus is real world,” Harral said.

“You can do all the models and simulations in the lab, but if they don’t match real results they’re worthless. We want to be able to use this data to educate Tech students and do more research.”

While Group NIRE is a company separate from the university, he said one of the company’s goals is to enhance the education and studies of Tech students.

An additional project will be announce in October through Group NIRE, and he said they will continue to use part of the profits gained from these projects to put back in to PhD research at Tech.

The Texas Tech Student Disability Services is preparing to welcome incoming students with an altered version of Raider Ready, the college transition seminar course.

Shelly Ducatt, associate director for Student Disability Services, said while looking for ways to maintain, or improve, a 96-percent retention rate, the department realized creating specific sections of Raider Ready for their students would ultimately benefit the students’ transition into college.

“We are going to tailor it to the students based on their needs,” she said.

“Sections go entire semester. Our students tend to start struggling just as raider ready ends. They are very good and serve a great purpose, but for our students, that is where they start to panic and get behind and lose their way. We want to make sure the end of their semester goes as great as the beginning.”

Because of the variety of disabilities the department covers, they have prepared a section for as many different disabilities as possible, Ducatt said.

“The reason behind that is,” she said, “if a student has dyslexia, obviously it may take them longer to read or prepare and they may need to review a little bit differently than a student who is dealing with say a psychological issue or extreme test anxiety.”

Student Disability services offers sections for students with learning disabilities, AD/HD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), Asperger’s, SDS Military Veteran’s, Psychological and low incidence, according to the Student Disabilities website.

Tamara Manziniz, assistant director of Student Disability Services, agrees this altered program would not only benefit the students better but also allow the department to better assist their students.

“I think it is a great opportunity for us to be able to help our students more than we already do,” she said. “Because even our students in the past that have taken a Raider Ready course, they always say good things about it, but they come to see us if they need help. I just think it will be better for us to be able to get with them every week to see how they are doing.”

These specific sections of Raider Ready allow the students to meet with counselors once a week — 10 students per counselors, according to the website.

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AS TEXAS TECH continues to grow in the number of students enrolled, they are growing the number of dorms on campus as well.

The paperwork for the West Village Phase II was submitted Monday, according to the paperwork, and will be a $50 million project next to the West Village Phase I graduate and upperclassman dorms. It will be a 500-bed traditional residence hall project with two beds per room and common restroom facilities, according to the paperwork. The project’s anticipated design start date is September 2014, with the Board of Regents’ approval October 2014, which will make the construction start date February 2015, according to the paperwork. The anticipated completion date, according to the paperwork, is July 15, 2016.

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The survey also included poverty rate decrease, public assistance rate decrease, population growth rate increase, uninsured rate decrease, bankruptcy rate decrease, number of businesses growth, average Experian vantage credit score increase, consumer non-housing debt decrease, violent crime rate decrease, GDP growth rate, opportunity to start a business ranking and municipality bankruptcy, according to the survey’s website.

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Red Raider Wind, LLC, a company held by NextEra Energy Resources has taken the next step towards benefitting students and citizens as the Hockley County Commissioners Court has now approved an agreement with the company.

Red Raider Wind, LLC, was established by Group NIRE, national institute for renewable energy, a company created by Texas Tech to acquire land and begin new projects, Mark Harral, investor relations specialist at Group NIRE, said.

“One of the commercial projects Group NIRE has started is the Red Raider wind farm,” he said. “The Red Raider wind farm, we developed and owned for a period of time. We then sold that asset to NextEra Energy Resources.”

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and Tech would still be affiliated.

The agreement was signed in December 2013, he said, and mandated that while NextEra is responsible for building the project, getting the power purchase and other similar duties, Group NIRE and Tech are still affiliated.

NextEra is the largest owner and operator of wind farms in the United States, he said, which presents a new opportunity to Tech students through this agreement.

“Group NIRE has also worked with NextEra to provide students the opportunities to get jobs within NextEra,” Harral said. “Since they’re the largest, they have a lot of job openings available.”

Destiny Vasquez, director of project development at Group NIRE, said about six students currently hold positions with NextEra. These students hold undergraduate degrees from the National Wind Institute and are making $23 an hour, or $60,000 a year, she said.

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Texas Tech to host back to school fiesta

By KYMBRE KUPATT Staff Writer

Texas Tech is hosting its annual back to school fiesta organized by the Office of Community Engagement August 9 at 9 a.m. to noon in the Student Union Building.

“The purpose of fiesta is to provide the parents and kids in the community with a chance to visit our campus and learn about resources and opportunities that will help enrich their quality of life,” Heather Martinez, office of Community Engagement director,

said, “and get them excited about higher education.”

The fiesta is put together with the help of many community partnerships and colleges across the University, she said.

“The back to school fiesta originally started out in partnership with the college of education,” Martinez said. “With investments from community partners and the university, we are now able to serve over 4,000 people that attended our last event and hopefully more this year.”

Martinez said there are two

parts to the fiesta including an indoor and outdoor opportunity fair.

“The indoor fair is largely informational,” she said. “We have about 40 partners that give out information on all kinds of things from health and wellness to higher education to opportunities for participation.”

The outdoor fair gives students the opportunity to participate in various activities, and there also is a free meal provided, Martinez said.

The school age students who attend will be presented with a

Investigators make it to Ukraine jet crash site ROZSYPNE, Ukraine (AP) — International investigators got their first look Thursday at the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, finally reaching the site two weeks after a missile brought down the plane. Fighting between Ukrainian troops and separatist rebels raged around them but the investigators called their brief inspection visit a success.

Clashes along routes to the wreckage site had kept the delegation from reaching the area to find and retrieve bodies that have been lying in open fields where midsummer temperatures have hovered around 90 degrees (32 degrees Celsius) for the last several weeks.

But the investigators were allowed early Thursday afternoon through a checkpoint leading to the crash site at the village of Rozsypne by a rifle-toting militiaman who then fired a warning shot to prevent reporters from accompanying the convoy.

The militiaman, who gave his name only as Sergei, said there was still fighting in Rozsypne as the Ukrainian army continues an offensive to take back swatches of territory from the rebels.

The team of police and forensic experts from the Netherlands and Australia spent about an hour inspecting the scene before returning to their base in the rebel held city of Donetsk base before the evening.

Australian Federal Police commander Brian McDonald said the visit was only a preliminary survey ahead of more comprehensive recovery work of bodies and victims’ personal belongings.

“We had a quick inspection of the site. Today was more about an assessment of the site than it was of a search,” said McDonald, who was in police uniform.

As many as 80 bodies are still at the site, said Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from Ukraine.

Ukrainian national security spokesman Andriy Lysenko said a “day of quiet” was declared Thursday in response to a call for a cease-fire from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

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cinity of where the Boeing 777 came down.

Reporters who attempted to reach the crash site by another route were warned by residents that some nearby roads have been mined.

AP reporters passing through Hrabove, another village around which fragments of the plane remain uncollected, saw one mortar fall on a spot about 150 meters (160 yards) from their car and heard two more hit nearby.

It was not immediately clear who fired the mortars or what the intended target was though Lysenko put the blame on rebels.

Thursday’s drive took the convoy of four investigators and eight officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation Donetsk through the town of Debaltseve, which was retaken earlier this week by the government, and later back into rebel territory.

Armored personnel carriers and light armored trucks bearing the blue-and-yellow Ukrainian national flag could be seen in and around Debaltseve and residents at one entrance to the town walked along a pontoon erected over the remains of a blown-up bridge.

The OSCE said on its Twitter account that the team observed a moment of silence upon reaching the scene in remembrance of the victims.

And Alexander Hug, deputy head of the OSCE mission to Ukraine, provided no details on what was seen during the visit but called but called it a success because officials “managed to access the site without any incident.”

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s office in a statement urged rebels to comply with a cease-fire spanning an area 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) around the crash site.

A delegation from Russia’s state aviation body said Thursday it also hoped to visit the site, an agency spokesman said.

backpack full of school supplies that are prepared by the South Plains Food Bank, Lynn Weir with South Plains Food Bank.

Weir said after the backpacks are prepared, a driver will load up a truck with all the work the students have done and take the truck to Tech and unload it.

The Back to School Fiesta is expecting 100 volunteers, Mari Samarritas, Office of Community Engagement section coordinator, said.

“We are hoping for about 100 volunteers and basically what we

look for is someone who is really excited about education, someone who really wants to invest their time in the community and someone who really gives back,” Samarritas said. “We want someone who has a happy smiling face and is hard working and really loves Lubbock as well as Texas Tech University.”

Along with the volunteers and representation of the colleges on campus there will also be some special Texas Tech attendees she said.

“Some of the more exciting people that are going to be there

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Texas Tech received a research investment Wednesday, totaling more than $850,000 from the Deer Breeders Corporation to support white-tailed deer and cervids research.

The program, which takes place at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health, is led by Ernest Smith and Steve Presley, Tech associate professors, and Galen Austin, a senior research associate, in collaboration with the corporation, according to a Tech news release.

The funds will be used to establish a white-tailed deer and cervids, species similar to the white-tailed deer in the deer family, research program at Tech, according to the release, and will include the construction of a

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Students from the Lubbock area ages Kindergarten through 12th grade are invited to attend, Martinez said.

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BLAINE WALL, A graduate electrical engineering student from Abilene, lifts dumbbells Thursday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

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CHRISTIAN MAURER, A senior mechanical engineering major from Austin, jumps up to shoot a basket Thursday inside the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

Palestinians mull war crime charges against Israel GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking written pledges of support from all political factions, including rival Hamas, before making any attempt to press for possible war crimes charges against Israel, senior officials said Thursday.

Abbas hesitated in the past because such a step would transform his relations with Israel from tense to openly hostile and could put

him on a collision course with the United States.

But with nearly 1,400 Palestinians killed in Israel-Hamas fighting in Gaza in the past 24 days, according to health officials, Abbas is under growing domestic pressure to turn to the International Criminal Court to try to make a case against Israel.

Israeli officials have said Israel is acting in self-defense by targeting Hamas’ military arsenal and rocket-

launching sites and have accused Hamas of using Gaza civilians as human shields.

Earlier Thursday, the U.N.’s top human rights official accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes in the current Gaza fighting.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Hamas is committing war crimes by firing rockets from heavily populated areas and storing them in schools and hospitals.

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Juan Carlos, assistant professor of economics at Duke University, said, according to the survey, one of the best metrics used in this study was the share of college graduates in the city.

“Over the last thirty years we have seen a diverging pattern in the location patterns of collage graduates towards cities that are rich in amenities such as entertainment and museums,” he said. “To the extent that such amenities are complicit in attracting college graduates to a city, they may be encouraged by local administrators.”

Laredo was number one on the list, according to the survey, but was not the only Texas city to make the top 25.

Other Texas cities on the top 25 are Irving, Dallas, Corpus Christi, Garland, Amarillo, Brownsville and Houston.

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his wife, Maureen, received from Williams. Other monetary gifts and loans can’t be presented in court for jurors to hold, although many documents and photos have been shown on courtroom video screens.

Among them are photos of Bob McDonnell behind the wheel of Williams’ Ferrari during a free vacation at the former Star Scientific Inc. chief executive’s lake house. Williams testified that Maureen McDonnell, who also is charged in the 14-count indictment, was admiring the car shortly before the vacation and asked if any like it were available at the lake house. Williams said no.

“She said, ‘It would be nice. We never get to do things like this,’” Williams testified.

He said he had the car delivered.

Bobby McDonnell, one of the former first couple’s five children, testified Wednesday that he and his siblings goaded their father into driving the Ferrari. Bob McDonnell had not driven himself anywhere since becoming governor and the kids thought it would be amusing,

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A key witness in the corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell testified Thursday that he made a mistake when he bought a Rolex watch for the governor at the first lady’s request.

Businessman Jonnie Williams said he thought it was wrong to buy the watch while he was seeking government support for his dietary supplements company’s signature product, and he didn’t want people to know.

“It was a bad decision on my part to buy that watch when she asked for it,” Williams said. “I shouldn’t have had to buy things like that to get the help I needed.”

The watch was passed to the jury, where each juror briefly inspected it.

Williams said he bought the watch at a California jewelry store for between $6,000 and $7,000.

The watch is an important piece of evidence because it represents a tangible chunk of the more than $165,000 in secret gifts and loans prosecutors say Bob McDonnell and

the 22-year-old son said.

On the stand Thursday, Williams said Maureen McDonnell also made a comment about admiring his Rolex.

He said he took it off and handed it to her for a closer look.

“She said, ‘I’d really like to get one of these for the governor,’” Williams testified.

He said he asked if she wanted him to buy one and she said, “Yes, that would be nice.”

Maureen McDonnell gave the watch to her husband as a Christmas present. It is engraved “Robert F. McDonnell, 71st Governor of Virginia.”

Williams also testified that he and Bob McDonnell discussed a possible secret transfer of Star Scientific stock to the governor so he could borrow money against it to ease money problems he was having with real estate investments. Williams said he wanted to keep the deal just between the two of them because he thought it was wrong.

“It could be violating laws. I don’t know that. It could be,” he said.

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8:38 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated theft at the Ranching Heritage Center. An electric drain cleaner was taken.

11:52 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident involving a university vehicle in the Z2B parking lot.

11:59 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the east bicycle racks of the Tech library.

A secured Genesis bike and lock were taken.

4:00 p.m. — A Tech officer charged and released a non-student for violation of a driver’s license restriction after a traffic stop in the 900 block of Knoxville Avenue.

at about $370,000, the corporation also provided a recent gift of $325,000 that is eligible for matching funds from the Texas Research Incentive Program and will bring the total investment for the project to more than $850,000, according to the release.

“Deer Breeders Corporation is proud of Texas Tech for stepping up to the plate and helping the deer industry with research that is long overdue,” Chris Timmons, Tech alumnus and president of the corporation, said in the release. “We hope to further this industry in a big way by producing healthier, hardier animals – not only for our breeders but also for our native deer.”

dedicated research facility.

Part of the research includes the study of white-tailed deer and cervids for drug residues, insect-borne disease transmission dynamics, nutrition and genetics, according to the release.

“Despite being an $8 billion industry in the United States, deer breeders have no antibiotics or other pharmaceuticals labeled for use in these animals,” Russell Thomasson, interim vice chancellor of research and commercialization for the Tech system, said in the release. “This research program at Texas Tech will work to provide health solutions for deer and the industry.

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Tuesday 10:25 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for an outstanding Lubbock County warrant in the 2500 block of 15th Street. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

2:17 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license in the 3300 block of 7th Street after a traffic stop of two vehicles.

The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. A student operating the second vehicle was arrested for driving while intoxicated. A student passenger was also arrested for public intoxication.

Both students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Wednesday 1:16 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving while intoxicated in the 1100 block of University Avenue. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

1:49 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving while intoxicated in the 500 block of University Avenue. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Texas Tech police department.

UN official: Vietnam violates religious freedom HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A U.N. official who went to Vietnam to assess religious freedom in this Southeast Asian country said Thursday that security agents closely monitored his visit and people he wanted to meet were harassed and intimidated.

Heiner Bielefeldt, the U.N. special rapporteur, told journalists he concluded that serious violations of religious freedom existed, while noting some improvements.

Planned visits to three provinces were interrupted, Bielefeldt said. “I received credible information that some individuals whom I wanted to meet with had been either under heavy surveillance, warned, intimidated, harassed or prevented from travelling by the police,” he said.

“I was closely monitored of my whereabouts by undeclared “security and police agents” while the privacy and confidentiality of some meetings could have been compromised.

All these incidents are in clear

violation of the terms of reference of any country visit,” he said of his 11-day, fact-finding mission.

Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh told a

press briefing Thursday that the government has done its best to facilitate the special rapporteur’s visit including arranging all requested meetings.

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W. Africa Ebola outbreak tops 700 deaths FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Security forces went house-to-house looking for Ebola patients and others exposed to the disease Thursday in Sierra Leone’s capital as the death toll from the worst recorded outbreak in history surpassed 700 in West Africa.

U.S. health officials urged Americans not to travel to the three countries hardest hit by the medical crisis: Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

Two Americans are sick with Ebola in Liberia. Their colleagues said Thursday they were in “grave” but stable condition, and one of them was to receive an experimental serum.

“There was only enough for one person. Dr. (Kent) Brantly asked that it be given to Nancy Writebol,” said Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, an aid organization that has been working in Liberia during the Ebola crisis.

Brantly, though, did receive a unit of blood from a 14-year-old boy who had survived Ebola because of the doctor’s care, Graham said in a statement.

“The young boy and his fam-

ily wanted to be able to help the doctor who saved his life,” he said.

Giving a survivor’s blood to a patient might be aimed at seeing whether any antibodies the survivor made to the virus could help someone else fight off the infection. This approach has been tried in previous Ebola outbreaks with mixed results.

No further details were provided on the experimental treatment.

There is currently no licensed drug or vaccine for Ebola, and patients can only be given supportive care to keep them hydrated. There are a handful of experimental drug and vaccine candidates for Ebola and while some have had promising results in animals including monkeys, none has been rigorously tested in humans.

Authorities in Sierra Leone are vowing to contain the disease’s spread by quarantining all those at home who have refused to go to isolation centers. Many have kept relatives at home to pray for their survival instead of bringing them to clinics that have had a 60 percent fatality rate. Those in the throngs of death can bleed from their eyes, mouth and ears.

The disease has continued to spread through bodily fluids as sick people remain out in the community and cared for by relatives without protective gear. People have become ill from touching sick family members and in some cases from soiled linens.

The World Health Organization on Thursday reported 57 new deaths in recent days, almost half of which occurred in Liberia.

Liberia’s president on Wednesday also instituted new measures aimed at halting the spread of Ebola, including shutting down schools and ordering most public servants to stay home from work.

“It could be helpful for the government to have powers to isolate and quarantine people and it’s certainly better than what’s been done so far,” said Dr. Heinz Feldmann, chief of virology at U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “Whether it works, we will have to wait and see.”

Dr. Unni Krishnan, head of disaster preparedness and response for the aid group Plan International, said closing schools could help as they bring large number

of children together, which can amplify infection rates.

“Door-to-door searches are not going to be easy,” he said. “What will help is encouraging people to come forward when they see symptoms and seek medical help.”

The U.S. Peace Corps also was evacuating hundreds of its volunteers in the affected countries. Two Peace Corps workers are under isolation outside the U.S. after having contact with a person who later died from the Ebola virus, a State Department official said.

In Moberly, Missouri, Liz Sosniecki said she got a call from her 25-year-old son, Dane, a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia. He had not been exposed to Ebola and expressed disappointment about leaving just six weeks after he arrived.

“He said, ‘I’m coming home.’

Sorry,” she said, beginning to cry. “I’m a little emotional. It’s a relief.”

The last time the CDC issued such a travel warning during a disease outbreak was in 2003 because of SARS in Asia.

Ebola now has been blamed for

729 deaths in four West African countries this year, and has shown no signs of slowing down particularly in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The 57 deaths that WHO added to its totals include 27 in Liberia, 20 in Guinea, nine in Sierra Leone and one in Nigeria.

The organization is launching a $100 million response plan in Guinea’s capital on Friday, it said. The new plan calls for the deployment of several hundred additional health workers to help the strained resources in deeply impoverished West Africa, where hospital and clinics are ill-equipped to cope with routine health threats let alone the outbreak of a virulent disease like Ebola.

Among the deaths announced this week was that of the chief doctor treating Ebola in Sierra Leone, who was to be buried Thursday. The government said Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan’s death was “an irreparable loss of this son of the soil.” The 39-year-old was a leading doctor on hemorrhagic fevers in a nation with very few medical resources.

Ebola cases first emerged in

the nation of Guinea back in March, and later spread across the borders to Liberia and Sierra Leone. The outbreak is now the largest recorded in world history, and has infected three African capitals with international airports. Officials are trying to step up screening of passengers, though an American man was able to fly from Liberia to Nigeria, where authorities say he died days later from Ebola.

Experts say the risk of travelers contracting it is considered low because it requires direct contact with bodily fluids or secretions such as urine, blood, sweat or saliva. Ebola can’t be spread like flu through casual contact or breathing in the same air.

Patients are contagious only once the disease has progressed to the point they show symptoms, according to the World Health Organization. The most vulnerable are health care workers and relatives who come in much closer contact with the sick.

In Liberia, authorities say 28 out of the 45 health workers who have contracted the disease so far have died.

Passenger dies, pilot hurt in plane crash SAN DIEGO (AP) — A small plane clipped the top of a store before it crashed in the parking lot of a San Diego shopping center, killing a 78-year-old passenger and seriously injuring the 52-year-old pilot, authorities said.

Several witnesses rushed to douse the plane’s flames and pull out the two women, the only people aboard. A man who helped was treated for minor cuts and burns, but no one on the ground was hurt in the crash.

The single-engine 1988 Mooney M-20L went down Wednesday in a parking lot that serves a Costco and a Target store in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood.

The plane bounced while

landing at nearby Montgomery Field, continued westbound and went down, said Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

However, helicopter pilot Vince Carter said he had taken off from the field when he heard the pilot tell the control tower in a radio transmission that she had lost power on takeoff. “She said she lost power and she was going down and that was it,” he told KFMB-TV. It wasn’t immediately clear which version of events was correct.

The plane clipped the top of the Target store and knocked down a light pole, police Lt. Steve Behrendt said.

It spun around and finally landed

in the parking lot in a loading dock area away from the main entrances, and no cars were there, San Diego Fire Department spokesman Lee Swanson said.

The plane caught fire, but the flames were quickly doused. The passenger had serious burns, and she died at a hospital, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s office. The woman was initially described by a fire department spokesman as 80 years old, but the medical examiner’s office later said she was 78.

The pilot also had major injuries, but she was expected to survive, Behrendt said.

Gregg Smith was working in a nearby office building and saw the

plane in trouble. It nearly hit his building, he said.

“I knew they didn’t have enough power to do the things they needed to do,” he told KNSD-TV. “I knew it was going down.”

Smith said the plane left his view, but he then heard a loud thud and then the crash. “The next thing I saw was a bunch of black smoke,” he said.

He ran outside as he called 911, Smith said.

About 15 to 20 people were standing around the plane, some with fire extinguishers, he said.

They put out the fire before it reached the plane’s fuel tank, and they pulled the women out, Smith said.

Witness of Syrian atrocities testifies in Congress WASHINGTON (AP) — Graphic images of emaciated and bloodied corpses in the Syrian civil war were presented to uncharacteristically silent members of Congress Thursday as a former military photographer testified about the signs of savagery he witnessed.

Codenamed “Caesar,” the man appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in disguise, his face

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Fearing for his safety, the man whispered to an interpreter, who repeated his words aloud in English.

He said he witnessed a “genocidal massacre.”

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The corpses included young children, the elderly, women and his own neighbors and friends, though he couldn’t tell their families about what he saw.

“Death would have been my fate if the regime found out,” he said.

The State Department arranged Caesar’s trip to the United States but did not provide his name to any members of Congress.

No audio or video recordings were permitted in the hearing, as Republicans and Democrats alike took the opportunity to question Caesar about what he saw and call on the Obama administration to adopt a more forceful policy to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government.

Caesar’s photographs were enlarged and displayed on poster board in the background and on television monitors mounted on each side of the room.

They showed images of people whose necks had been slashed, eyes gouged out and foreheads ripped open.

“This is happening right now in Syria as we speak, and we can do more to stop it,” said Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the committee’s top Democrat.

The hearing occurred as Congress continued to weigh action by President Barack Obama to significantly expand U.S. training and arming of Syria’s rebels. He has proposed spending $500 million for a Pentagon-run program that would broaden a previously covert effort to equip vetted, moderate rebels fighting Assad’s forces and an expanding Sunni extremist insurgency that has spread to Iraq.

Lawmakers in both chambers, however, have been trying to get more details of the plan. Last week, for example, Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas questioned whether the administration could determine which groups are moderate in Syria as the 3-year-old civil war grinds on with 170,000 dead. He said it would be impossible to keep track of the weapons.