Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Herman Cain was supposed to take questions after a speech to health care professionals, but he ultimately refused and left the hotel through a back door.

“I’m here to visit with these doctors, and that’s what I’m going to talk about, so don’t even bother asking me all of these other questions that you all are curious about, OK? Don’t even bother,” a testy Cain told a throng of reporters.

When pressed about the week’s previous allegations, Cain raised his voice and said “What did I say? Excuse me. Excuse me!” as hotel security led him through a hallway jammed with journalists in a Washington suburb. “What part of ‘no’ don’t people understand?”

Meanwhile, another of Cain’s accusers appeared increasingly reluctant to speak publicly, though her lawyer took the first steps for her to do so. Attorney Joel P. Bennett contacted the association onWednesday and asked it to release his client from the confidentiality arrangement she had agreed to so that she could talk openly about her allegations and respond to Cain’s assertion that her complaints were “totally baseless and totally false.”

On Monday, a jury in the trial of a 49-year-old man named Danny Hembree watched a taped confession of Hembree saying he committed murder over interracial dating.

Hembree, who is being tried in York County, South Carolina, is accused of killing 17-year-old Heather Catterton in 2009, a crime he told police he committed after he gave crack to Catterton in exchange for sex.

Yet despite the fact that he had sex with her after giving her drugs, Hembree says he killed Catterton to keep her from having sex with Black men in order to afford crack.

KANKAKEE, Ill.  – U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is predicting he’ll be “vindicated” by an ethics investigation into whether he or someone on his behalf offered to raise funds for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in return for an appointment to President Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat.

“Let me be clear. I believe in the American system of justice,” Jackson, a Democrat, said Saturday at a Kankakee County NAACP dinner. “The process is continuing, but in the end I believe I will be vindicated.”

The House Ethics Committee announced earlier this month that it would resume a probe that began before Blagojevich’s trial. The panel had agreed to abide by a Justice Department request to take no action in the investigation, which is normal practice when the department is concerned a congressional inquiry interferes with its own investigation.

Jackson, who has not been charged, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

DETROIT — Thousands of students in Detroit have no books or have to share them with their classmates, due to a shortage in the school system.

Two months into the school year, many students have still not received their textbooks for the upcoming school year.

A Fort Pierce woman is facing drug possession charges after police say they found a crack pipe hidden in her bible.

Tonya Levette Sutton, 42, was arrested late Sunday on narcotics possession and public consumption after she was spotted walking on a public street with an open container of Colt .45 malt liquor.

Sutton was approached by officers and taken into custody.

Inside a small bible was a crack cocaine pipe that appeared used and had drug residue, the report said.

A 65-year old school Lousiana teacher was arrested this week after reportedly dragging a student across the playground while choking them with a piece of clothing.

“She tied my jacket around my neck and she dragged me to the playground to the office,” said 6-year-old Kiya Rogers speaking on teacher Mildred Russ.

The victim’s mother recovered the child’s uniform at the police station found with holes and grass stains.

According to little Kiya, she may have been in trouble for speaking out of turn.

Her mother is deeply upset with the school, claiming school officials didn’t tell her what happened until days later.

The NYPD announced that their investigation into the tragic killing of, Zurana Horton, in Brownsville, Brooklyn has resulted in the arrests of 3 young men.

Investigators say Andrew Lopez, 18, admitted to spraying the Brownsville streets with bullets last Friday, just as class was letting out. Also arrested were his brothers, Kristian Lopez, 17, and Jonathan Carrasquillo, 22.

Horton, 33, was picking up her children from school when gunfire erupted. The mother of 13 instinctively shielded the small group of youth, ushering them to safety, as she was fatally struck in the head by a stray shot.

Also wounded were Cheanne McKnight, an 11-year-old girl whose right cheek was grazed, and Unique Armstead, 31, struck in the left arm as she met her son.

As the drama unfolded, a teacher snatched one of Horton’s children away to safety. Andrew’s intended targets, as he fired from the roof, appeared to be a group of youth from a nearby housing project that they confronted earlier.

Terry Jones, the controversy-igniting Florida preacher, who first lit a spark on Facebook when he called for people around the world to set fire to the Islamic holy text, is at it again.

The author of a book, with the provocative title of Islam is of the Devil, Jones hopes to gain funding for his campaign from like-minded individuals, asking them to “financially support us as we continue our stand against radical Islam”. But judging by the fact that his parish has less than a hundred members – and his Facebook page only 1,600 followers, his radical dream could be likely to crash and burn.

And for all his radical, controversial statements, his platform is not all that different from what the Republicans are running with. Whether that will eventually benefit the pastor and his burning passion, or the GOP, remains to be seen.

Conservative activist, Apostle Claver Kamau-Imani, who recently said that Democrats are the party of the Klu Klux Klan is the prominent image on two of the four ads, which the group hopes will “stir up a storm on the plantation.”

The signs definitely have people talking. One sign in particular that hangs over Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in East Austin is drawing mixed reviews from residents there. It says: Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. But this is a controversial claim that has never been substantiated.

Austin NAACP president Nelson Linder said that he feels the signs are disrespectful and that Black voters should vote based on whether issues that affect the community, including unemployment and police brutality, are addressed by either party.

“Martin Luther King was about civil rights and social justice. That’s not the current Republican Party.”

The signs are also up in Houston, Ohio and South Carolina. These are areas where high concentrations of people of color typically vote democratic.