ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man says he assaulted his dentist with a tire iron because he couldn’t afford dental treatment and knew he’d get it in prison.

30-year-old Philip Kienholz offered the explanation Tuesday when he was sentenced to 16 months to four years in state prison.

The Erie man had pleaded guilty but mentally ill in September to charges of aggravated assault and possessing an instrument of crime.

Erie police say Kienholz cornered the dentist while he was treating a juvenile patient, then hit the doctor in the wrist with the tire iron before running away. At the time, police said Kienholz indicated he attacked the dentist because he was angry that the dentist wanted to prescribe antibiotics rather than pull an infected tooth.

LENOIR CITY, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman who fell behind on her yard work was cited by code enforcers and has served a stint in jail over her overgrown yard.

Karen Holloway said the issue started in the summer, when the city sent a citation. She admits she didn’t properly maintain her yard in Lenoir City in East Tennessee and says it had overgrown trees and bushes, but she says she didn’t deserve jail time. She says she fell behind because of personal family issues.

The station reports that Judge Terry Vann heard the case last week and handed down a five-day jail sentence but amended it Tuesday to six hours.

Holloway turned herself in Tuesday at the jail.

WVLT says neither Vann nor police Chief Don White could be reached for comment.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — In the days after the first diagnosis of Ebola in the U.S., the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was resolute in his confidence about hospitals’ ability to manage the virus.

Dr. Tom Frieden said almost every hospital in the country can take care of Ebola, provided health care workers have the right training and materials.

Now Frieden says the government wasn’t aggressive enough in containing the virus as it spread from an infected patient to a Dallas nurse. He says the CDC could have sent a more robust team and been more hands-on with hospital staff once Ebola was diagnosed here.

Frieden also has outlined new steps designed to stop the spread of the disease, including the creation of an Ebola response team.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration will ask a panel of experts later this week whether a bold-letter warning on the anti-smoking drug Chantix should be removed based on company-supported evidence that the drug does not cause suicidal behavior.

Pfizer’s twice-a-day tablet has carried the FDA strongest warning label, known as a black box, since 2009 because of reports of suicidality, hostility and depression. But the New York drugmaker points to recent studies and analyses suggesting there is no difference in psychiatric problems between people taking Chantix and other smoking-cessation aids.

Still, the FDA notes in briefing documents posted online that there is little precedent for removing a boxed warning. And the agency will ask its panel of outside efforts whether more data is needed before consider removing the warning language.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Customs and health officials at airports in Washington, Chicago, Atlanta and Newark will take the temperatures of passengers from three West African countries starting Thursday.

Federal health officials say the entry screenings add another layer of protection to halt the spread of the Ebola virus that has killed thousands. Screeners will use no-touch thermometers to try to find passengers with fevers.

The screenings started at New York’s Kennedy International Airport Saturday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that screenings will start Thursday at Washington Dulles, Chicago O’Hare, Newark’s Liberty and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta.

Customs officials say about 150 people travel daily from or through Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea to the United States. Nearly 95 percent of them land first at one of those five airports.

TYLER HILL, Pa. (AP) — State Police have arrested a 10-year-old boy and charged him as an adult in the beating death of a 90-year-old woman in Wayne County, Pennsylvania.

Authorities say the boy was visiting his grandfather, the woman’s caretaker, on Saturday when the woman shouted at the child for entering her room. They say he punched her in the throat numerous times.

The boy held a cane to Helen Novak’s throat before he punched her. He then told his grandfather she was bleeding from her mouth. The grandfather checked on the woman twice; the second time she was unresponsive.

The boy is being held without bail on a homicide charge. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 22. It wasn’t immediately known if he has a lawyer.

MERCED, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Central California say they have identified a 13-year-old girl as the mother of a newborn baby abandoned last week in a trash bin.

Merced Police Capt. Tom Trindad said Monday that investigators are still collecting all the facts before turning the case over to prosecutors, who will decide if the girl faces criminal charges or not. For now, the young mother remains in the care of authorities.

The hours-old baby girl was found Thursday by a man looking for cans and bottles in the trash bin near an apartment complex in the city of Merced.

Trindad says the baby is healthy and thriving and could eventually be put up for adoption.

Trindad says investigators are also trying to determine if the baby was the result of sexual abuse.

DALLAS (AP) — Texas officials say they’re trying to find an appropriate place to monitor a dog that belongs to a nurse diagnosed with Ebola.

Nina Pham’s Dallas apartment is being thoroughly cleaned after tests over the weekend confirmed she is infected. A Dallas spokeswoman says the city will make sure the dog is cared for.

Pham tended to Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital after he became the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. He died last week.

There was an uproar in Spain after Madrid authorities euthanized a dog named Excalibur that belonged to a nursing assistant sickened by the virus. She remains hospitalized. Authorities were concerned the dog might be harboring the virus.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top federal health official says a health worker diagnosed with Ebola has been unable to identify a breach in procedures that might have led to her infection.

Dr. Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says the Texas hospital worker had extensive contact with Thomas Eric Duncan before Duncan died Wednesday from Ebola.

Frieden says the worker has a low level of virus and is being monitored.

He says the diagnosis of the worker — who’s not identified — clearly shows that there was a breach of protocol.

Among the things CDC will investigate is removal of protective gear, because removing gear incorrectly can lead to a contamination.

The investigation will look at dialysis and intubation — procedures with the potential for spreading infectious material.

BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to forcing her two children to drink bleach will spend at least five years in a state psychiatric hospital.

Wendy Miller-Wright was charged last year with attempted murder. She admitted in court that she made the children drink the chemical in June 2013 at their home in Seabrook by telling them it was medicine.

Police say her 6-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter spit out most of the bleach and went to a neighbor for help.

Miller-Wright also drank bleach. Police say she was trying to kill herself and her children.

Miller-Wright has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She was sentenced Friday.

The children are living with their father.