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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Eagles excused Riley Cooper from all team activities on Friday as the wide receiver deals with repercussions of being caught on video making a racial slur. Cooper has been sent away from the team to get help with his issues, something the player and the team agreed upon. Coach Chip […]
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 50,000 pounds of meat have been recalled due to a possible e.coli contamination. LIKE BlackDoctor.org on Facebook! Get…
Mexico seems to have joined the rest of the 21st century when it approved same-sex civil unions yesterday. According to The Huffington Post, Colima, Mexico,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in July, a modest increase and the fewest since March. The gain was still enough to help lower the unemployment rate to a 4½-year low of 7.4 percent, a hopeful sign in an otherwise lackluster report. The Labor Department said Friday that unemployment declined from 7.6 percent […]
A big bear goes dumpster diving at the Edelweiss restaurant in Colorado Springs.
WOODBURY, N.J. (AP) — A five-time Buffalo wing-eating champion known as El Wingador has pleaded guilty to a cocaine distribution charge in New Jersey. Gloucester County prosecutors say William Simmons pleaded guilty Monday to possession with intent to distribute. The 51-year-old Woodbury Heights resident faces a seven-year prison when he’s sentenced in September. Prosecutors say […]
BARRINGTON, R.I. (AP) — In a stunt straight out of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” a Rhode Island family came home from a weeklong vacation to find that someone had been living in their house. Tracy Woodard of Barrington tells WJAR-TV the family found wet towels and blankets strewn about the house, someone’s underwear on […]
SHANGHAI (AP) — It’s been so hot in China that people are grilling shrimp on manhole covers, eggs are hatching without incubators and a highway billboard has mysteriously caught fire by itself. The heat wave — the worst in at least 140 years in some parts — has left dozens of people dead and pushed […]
President Barack Obama‘s (pictured) “Better Bargain for the Middle Class” plan introduction kicked off this week in grand fashion, causing a stir within the beltway…
These days, it seems unheard of to not own a mobile phone and finding a pay phone, even in the largest of U.S. cities, is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. But for those with limited incomes, paying a monthly cell phone bill isn’t so easy. Having the ability to make a […]
Back in 2008, health and consumer groups called on the government to require alcoholic beverages to carry nutrition labeling similar to what foods and other…
