Biggest news you missed this weekend
Authorities locate possible Ebola patient contact
Authorities say they've located a homeless man who needs to be monitored because he may have had contact with the lone Ebola patient in the United States. Dallas city spokeswoman Sana Syed said the man was located Sunday, a few hours after officials first said he was missing. In recent days, a handful of lawmakers have called for restrictions on air travel between Ebola-affected countries in West Africa and the United States. And on Saturday, there was a brief scare at Newark Liberty International Airport when a passenger, who had traveled from West Africa, was ill on a flight coming from Brussels.
Hong Kong protesters defiant as deadline approaches
Ahead of a Hong Kong government deadline to clear occupied streets, some pro-democracy protesters began moving Sunday evening to the central area of their multivenue civil disobedience campaign. Other protesters refused to leave their sit-in camps, the South China Morning Post reported. The city's embattled leader, Leung Chun-ying, has warned that police will "take all necessary actions" to clear occupied streets by Monday, to allow government workers to return to work and affected schools to reopen. The mass civil disobedience campaign, launched Sept. 28 after a week of student class boycotts, has paralyzed several key commercial districts.
Florida State back at No. 1 in Amway Coaches Poll; three new teams among top five
The monumental shakeup in the college football world shouldn't come as a big surprise. The arrival of October brought a full slate of conference games and, finally, a lot of top 25 teams playing other ranked squads. As a result, there is at last some real turnover in the Amway Coaches Poll as three of the teams that were rated in the top five since the preseason sustained losses. Half the top 10 teams, in fact, were defeated, creating some openings for teams to make big moves in the rankings. Heading the field once again is Florida State.
North, South Korea hold rare, high-level talks
North Korea's presumptive No. 2 and other members of Pyongyang's inner circle met with South Korean officials Saturday in the rivals' highest-level face-to-face talks in five years, a possible indication that both sides are interested in pursuing better ties after months of animosity. There appeared to be no major breakthrough from the meeting that came as the North's delegation made a surprise visit to the close of the Asian Games in the South Korean port city of Incheon. But the countries agreed to hold another round of talks between the end of October and the beginning of November, according to a South Korean statement. The specific topics of Saturday's discussions weren't immediately known.
Search resumes for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
After a four-month hiatus, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is about to resume in a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean, with searchers lowering new equipment deep beneath the waves in a bid to finally solve one of the world's most perplexing aviation mysteries. The GO Phoenix, the first of three ships that will spend up to a year hunting for the wreckage far off Australia's west coast, is expected to arrive in the search zone Sunday, although weather could delay its progress. Crews will use sonar, video cameras and jet fuel sensors to scour the water for any trace of the Boeing 777, which disappeared March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.
Toxicology report: Rob Bironas had 0.218 blood-alcohol level
The toxicology report shows former Titans kicker Rob Bironas had a blood-alcohol content more than twice the legal limit for driving in Tennessee when he died in a one-vehicle crash. Testing released Friday by the Davidson County Medical Examiner's Office shows Bironas had a blood-alcohol level of 0.218. Tennessee's limit for driving under the influence is 0.08. The toxicology report also says a low level of Diazepam or Valium also was detected, but at a level so low to have a "negligible effect," according to a release. The Bironas family was informed of the news Friday.
Contributing: Associated Press