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Fine-dining chef has Redskins eating healthier 10/03/2014 05:36pm • JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer ASHBURN, Va. (AP) -- Washington Redskins tight end Niles Paul stopped by his locker before a recent practice to drop off a carry-out plate of baked chicken, black-eyed peas and rice. The mini-feast would become dinner later that evening for a player who doesn't cook, on Bowyer's rough year on track trumped by fatherhood 10/03/2014 04:12pm • DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Midnight was approaching Tuesday, and Clint Bowyer was bummed. His hometown Royals were on the verge of losing to Oakland in their first playoff appearance in decades, and his baby boy was stubbornly refusing to make his entrance into the world Del. doctor sentenced in Silk Road drug sales case 10/03/2014 04:09pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- A Delaware doctor who pleaded guilty to using her Newark home as a base from which to conduct illegal drug sales on the underground website Silk Road has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.Dr. Olivia Bolles was sentenced Thursday after entering a guilty plea in J Fernandez says throwing feels better than ever 10/03/2014 04:09pm • TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) -- Jose Fernandez released the ball with such velocity that the sound of it landing in the catcher's mitt echoed crisply throughout Marlins Park.And to think, he's nowhere close to throwing hard yet.Fernandez's recovery from elbow-reconstruction surgery is tu Gov't website for doc payments not up to snuff 10/03/2014 03:46pm • RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Another year, another headache for the Obama administration over a health care website.This one is called "Open Payments." The goal was to allow consumers to find out if their doctors are getting drug company freebies, travel or other finan Judge: Vegas shooting suspect fakes mental illness 10/03/2014 03:30pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Nevada judge says a 25-year-old defendant is faking mental illness to avoid retrial on charges he fired a gun while trying to steal costumes and props from "Thunder From Down Under" male revue cast members at a Las Vegas Strip resort.Joey Kamari refused Friday to be brought to co Hogan cancels appearance at forum in Towson 10/03/2014 01:20pm • TOWSON, Md. (AP) -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan has canceled an appearance at a forum in Towson.Adam Dubitsky, Hogan's spokesman, said Friday that Hogan has been fighting a head cold. He says Hogan saw a doctor Thursday for a sinus infection and plans to rest Friday before returni California girl's brain-death ruling back in court 10/03/2014 01:20pm • PAUL ELIAS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An attorney for the family of a California teenager who was declared brain-dead says doctors have found signs of brain functions and is seeking an unprecedented court order declaring her alive.Attorney Chris Dolan said Thursday that doctors at the no Judge rejects request for closed Gitmo hearing 10/03/2014 01:10pm • PETE YOST Associated Press A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request by the Obama administration to close a hearing into the force-feeding of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who has gone on a hunger strike.The Obama administration has sought to keep the hearing closed on grounds that much of the info Ugandan doctor with Ebola treated in Germany 10/03/2014 08:43am • FRANKFURT (AP) -- A Ugandan doctor who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone arrived in Germany for treatment Friday.Authorities in the central German state of Hesse said the doctor, who was not identified, had worked for an Italian aid group in West Africa when he became infected. After be Chessacademy.com -- Learn how to play chess 10/03/2014 08:04am • Data Doctors Local doctors watching for Ebola symptoms 10/03/2014 07:32am • WASHINGTON -- Doctors and other health care providers across Maryland and Virginia are being reminded to stay vigilant and keep a close eye out for symptoms of Ebola. Symptoms, such as headache and fever, should raise red flags, especially if the patient recently traveled to a high-risk region. Girl's family seeks reversal of brain-death ruling 10/03/2014 03:00am • PAUL ELIAS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The family of a California teenager who was declared brain-dead after suffering complications from sleep apnea surgery is seeking an unprecedented court order declaring her alive, the family's lawyer said Thursday.Attorney Chris Dolan said doctors at Free birth control cuts teen pregnancy, abortions 10/03/2014 12:58am • MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer Giving teens free birth control encourages them to use long-acting methods and greatly cuts the chances they will become pregnant or have an abortion, a new study finds.The average annual pregnancy rate was 34 per 1,000 girls in the study -- far below the n Dallas Stars still young, expectations growing 10/02/2014 10:55pm • STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer While the Dallas Stars are still young, their expectations have clearly changed.This group is no longer just hoping to get to the playoffs."We've been together for a year now. The new players have fit in well," said Jamie Benn, their 25-year-old captain. "We've got a