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          STORY HIGHLIGHTS Judge denies request to ban Murray from practicing medicine Murray was Michael Jackson’s doctor when he died California Medical Board asked for restriction Previous judge banned Murray from using anesthesia RELATED TOPICS Conrad Murray Michael Jackson Crime Los Angeles, California (CNN) — A Los Angeles, California, judge refused […]

This video of a Paterson, N.J. officer using pepper spray on an already detained black man might be a citizen-made, blurry video, but it doesn’t make it any less horrifying to watch.

Gary Coleman’s 1999 will was officially filed Tuesday in a Utah court. The document names his friend and former manager Dion Mial as executor of his estate and specifies that he wanted to be cremated, according to the Associated Press. The will was filed in 4th District Court in Provo, where the 42-year-old died May […]

VIA MYFOXATLANTA.com: A downtown Atlanta building has been evacuated due to a possible grenade was found on Tuesday morning. People were seen filing out of the Peachtree Summit Federal Building on West Peachtree Street just before noon. An official for the Atlanta Police Department told FOX 5 that the building was evacuated due to a […]

Percy “Frenchy” Creuzot, Co-Founder of Frenchy’s Chicken has died according to confirmed reports from St. Joseph Hospital today. In 1969, New Orleanian Percy Creuzot, Jr. (known as “Frenchy”) along with wife, Sallie, decided to bring a taste of New Orleans to the Houston Community with the birth of Frenchy’s Po boy, in a small, family-owned […]

BP PLC chief executive Tony Hayward said Sunday he won’t step down over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and predicted his company will recover from the disaster. Hayward told BBC television’s “Andrew Marr Show” that he would not quit, and he had the “absolute intention of seeing this through to the end.” “We are […]

Via Blackvoices.com: Former Temptations front man Ali “Ollie” Woodson died on Sunday, May 30 after a battle with Leukemia. The Detroit native, who was the lead singer for legendary Motown group from 1984 to 1986 and again from 1988 to 1996, also penned the group’s hit single ‘Treat Her Like A Lady.’ Woodson left the […]

It’s all over for Tyra. On Friday, she has wrapped up her talk show. “I had journalists tell me this show was going to be canceled in two weeks, and it’s five years…” The former model turned talk show host showed clips of memorable shows: Tyra as a fat woman, Tyra homeless, Tyra in jail […]

PROVO, Utah — Gary Coleman, the child star of the 1970s TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” problems, has died after suffering an intercranial hemorrhage. He was 42.

VIA CNN: BP’s much-anticipated effort to cap its undersea gusher in the Gulf of Mexico was temporarily suspended Thursday afternoon and was expected to resume later in the evening, a BP executive said. “Nothing has actually gone wrong or unanticipated,” Doug Suttles, the company’s chief operating officer, told reporters. He said engineers have been monitoring […]

Venice, Louisiana (CNN) — BP started a “top kill” procedure Wednesday afternoon in an attempt to contain oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the company said. At 1 p.m. CT (2 p.m. ET), the oil giant began pumping 50,000 pounds of thick, viscous fluid twice the density of water into the site of the […]

Emergency crews have been called to a fire at a chemical plant off of Highway 225 at Scarborough. A plant spokesman initially said the fire was part of a “controlled burn.” The burn was first reported at the Lyondell-Basell crude distillation plant just before 2:30 p.m., sending a large plume of black smoke into the […]