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Scanning electron microscopic image of Ebola virions (Public Library of Science)

Dallas health worker 2nd in U.S. to test positive for Ebola

Nomaan Merchant, The Associated Press

Scant evidence of threats to execution drugmakers

Nomaan Merchant, Bailey Elise Mcbride

(AP/Mel Evans)

Boy Scouts end ban on openly gay boys

David Crary, Nomaan Merchant

Leah Hill (L), of Shawnee, Oklahoma, is hugged by friend Sidney Sizemore, as they look through Hill's scattered belongings from her home which was destroyed by a tornado, west of Shawnee, Oklahoma May 19, 2013. (Reuters/Bill Waugh)

Rescue crews race to find tornado survivors

Sean Murphy, Nomaan Merchant

(AP/Sue Ogrocki)

Frantic parents search for children in tornado’s wake

Nomaan Merchant

Crews dig through rubble after deadly tornado

Tim Talley, Nomaan Merchant

Firefighters check a destroyed apartment complex near the fertilizer plant that exploded earlier in West, Texas, in this photo made early Thursday, April 18, 2013. (AP/LM Otero)

12 bodies recovered from Texas blast; 200 injured

Christopher Sherman, Nomaan Merchant

(AP)

Dallas stepmom gets 85 years in dehydration death

Nomaan Merchant

Texas town’s rental ban to get second hearing

Nomaan Merchant

A flag files at half staff over devastated Joplin High School next to a portable tornado siren in Joplin, Mo. Thursday, May 26, 2011. An EF-5 tornado tore through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 125 people. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (AP)

2011 now deadliest year for tornadoes since 1950

Nomaan Merchant

Water from a nearby creek begins to rise around a home on 54th Street on Monday, April 25, 2011, in Fayetteville, Ark. Much of Northwest Arkansas was hit with heavy rain and flash floods. (AP Photo/Beth Hall) (AP)

Arkansas tornado all but wipes out town

ANDREW DeMILLO, Nomaan Merchant