Florida Sentinel Bulletin

WASHINGTON — Promoting his new $447 billion bill to create jobs, President Barack Obama told NBC in an interview broadcast Monday that his jobs initiative is an insurance against a possible recession.

“There are still a lot of folks hurting out there. And my job as president of the United States is not to worry about my job — my task is to worry about their jobs and their economic situation,” he said in an exclusive interview with NBC’s Brian Williams.

Pres. Obama will send Congress his new jobs bill on Monday and urge lawmakers to quickly pass it, a White House official said.

The President will also travel across the country to build public support for the package he unveiled last week. He’ll visit the pivotal campaign states of Ohio on Tuesday and North Carolina on Wednesday to ask voters to pressure lawmakers to pass the bill.

AKRON, OH — An Ohio woman who was jailed for using her father’s address to enroll her children in a neighboring school district says she’s grateful for her break from the governor.

Kelley Williams-Bolar said she can live her life and be a productive citizen now that she’s no longer a convicted felon.

Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday reduced the Akron woman’s records tampering counts to misdemeanors. He said the original penalty was too harsh.

CALIFORNIA — A 2-year-old was located bound and gagged nearly three hours after the deceased bodies of a man and two women were reported in a Banning home in California.

Authorities thought the boy was missing because a vehicle was seen leaving the crime scene. Detectives were treating all three deaths as homicides, though a murder-suicide scenario had not been ruled out.

Neighbors commented that the family was not well-off at all but as of right now there are no suspects and no motive for the murders.

BOSTON— Officials say President Barack Obama’s uncle has been released from a Massachusetts jail two weeks after being arrested on a drunken driving charge.

Onyango Obama was detained by federal immigration officials for allegedly violating an order to return to his native Kenya. Federal officials would not say why he was released Thursday or where he went.

People who live in the same Framingham home as him and workers at a liquor store where he was a valued employee said they don’t know where Mr. Obama is.

TEXAS — A 22-year-old Dallas mother is in police custody after authorities say she unmercifully tortured her daughter for a potty-training incident.

Police report that Elizabeth Escalona, dragged her daughter, Joselyn Cedillo, by her feet across her apartment, glued her hands and stuck them to a wall until they bled because the 2-year-old soiled her pants.

She then reportedly beat the little girl with a shoe and a belt, kicked her, and pounded her in the stomach with a jug of milk.

According to police, the young mother later made a hysterical phone call to her mother after she noticed that something was wrong with the child.

When the mother arrived, Joselyn was unconscious and rushed to the hospital where she remains in critical condition with broken bones and head injuries. Escalona was arrested for causing an injury to a child; she is being held on $500,000 bond.

DETROIT — President Barack Obama said Monday that congressional Republicans must put their country ahead of their party and vote to create new jobs as he used a boisterous rally to aim a partisan barb at the opposition.

In a preview of the jobs speech he will deliver on Thursday to Congress, Pres. Obama said there are numerous roads and bridges that need rebuilding in the U.S., and over 1 million unemployed construction workers who are available to build them. He was speaking on Labor Day, the holiday that celebrates the American worker and marks the traditional end of summer.

Pres. Obama said that with widespread suffering, “the time for Washington games is over” and lawmakers must move quickly to create jobs. “But we’re not going wait for them,” he said at an annual event sponsored by the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO. “We’re going to see if we’ve got some straight shooters in Congress. We’re going to see if congressional Republicans will put country before party.

“Show us what you’ve got,” Pres. Obama said.

Throughout the speech, the union crowd kept chanting “four more years.”

WASHINGTON — The executive architect of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington says an inscription on the monument won’t be changed, despite criticism from poet Maya Angelou that it makes King sound arrogant.

Ed Jackson Jr. said he stands by the paraphrased line from King’s “drum major” sermon in 1968.

King said, “If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness.” The shortened version reads: “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.”

Jackson says the line has historical perspective and allows King to define himself. He says there is no way it can be altered.

In a weekend in which 47 people were shot, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that he blamed illegal handguns for the rise in violence and a shooting that killed three people and wounded two police officers a few blocks from the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn.

He called out federal officials saying they lack the courage to take on this gun problem.

Bullet fragments hit one police officer in the left arm and chest Monday night. He was hospitalized, but was expected to survive. Another officer was grazed by a bullet.

Two shooters were killed along with a bystander, 56-year-old Denise Gay, who was shot while sitting on a stoop with her daughter nearby just two doors down from the exchange of gunfire

COLUMBUS, OHIO— The Ohio Parole Board on Friday recommended that the governor not pardon a woman who was jailed for using her father’s address to enroll her children in a neighboring school district.

Kelley Williams-Bolar, of Akron, served nine days in jail earlier this year for falsifying information on records that she used to send her daughters to a school outside the city. She said her conviction for felony records tampering threatens her efforts to earn her teacher’s license.

The board said Williams-Bolar could have solved her schooling situation legitimately and was dishonest before and after her conviction. They also rejected Williams-Bolar’s arguments that her conviction harmed her future plans, noting that she has hardly made the efforts necessary to obtain a degree to teach.

Williams-Bolar had told the parole board in July that she was remorseful for lying and would do things differently if given the chance.