Florida Sentinel Bulletin

An unemployed Cincinnati man died last week when a minor tooth infection spread all the way to his brain and he had no healthcare to treat it.

Kyle Willis, only 24-years-old and the nephew of the famed Bootsy Collins, became another example of the healthcare problem in America. Willis was told he needed his wisdom teeth removed to get rid of the infection, but he decided to tough it out because of lack of funds and healthcare.

“The [doctors] gave him antibiotic and pain medication, but he couldn’t afford to pay for the antibiotic, so he chose the pain meds, which was not what he needed,” Willis’ aunt Patti Collins said.

While Willis’ discomfort subsided, the infection continued to spread, causing lethal swelling in his brain.

Reverend Al Sharpton criticized GOP leaders, including Speaker Of The House, John Boehner, for the postponement of President Barack Obama’s speech for Congress due to the GOP Presidential debate on his MSNBC show.

Pres. Obama’s speech was originally scheduled for next Wednesday, but was postponed because Boehner would not agree to the date and rescheduled for the following day which will make it at the same time as the NFL opening game.

Jamaican drug lord, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, who was the centerpiece of a drug war in Kingston that last over a year, killing a number of Jamaicans, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom.

Coke was captured on his way to turn himself in to the U.S. Embassy in Jamaica, and is facing drug and trafficking charges.

Indicted by the U.S. in 2009, Coke became the target of a massive Jamaican police operation in May 2010, sparking a bloody street battle between local security forces and Coke’s gun-toting supporters and mercenaries in the west Kingston neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens.

After a month of violent struggle, it was a popular local preacher that managed to arrange Coke’s peaceful surrender to authorities.

At the time of his surrender, Coke said that he chose to accept extradition rather than watch the bloodshed in Jamaica continue. More than 70 people had already died in the violence.

Coke is scheduled to be sentenced on December 8th, and could face up to 20 years behind bars and deportation back to Jamaica.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — Authorities said they arrested the woman in St. Louis as she sat with a shotgun on a bench outside KMOV-TV.

Officers in nearby East St. Louis, Ill., responded shortly before to reports of shots fired and found the bodies of a 4-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy in a bedroom of the family’s apartment, state police Capt. James Morrisey said.

Autopsies on Thursday determined that each child was shot once in the head at close range with a shotgun and died instantly of the “devastating” injuries, said Danny Haskenhoff, St. Clair County’s chief deputy coroner.

The woman’s 8-year-old son managed to escape unharmed and was in a relative’s custody Thursday, Morrisey said.

The shooting marked the latest deadly outburst that victimized children in the struggling city of East St. Louis, evoking memories of a 2006 case in which Tiffany Hall killed pregnant best friend Jimella Tunstall, cut

Tunstall’s fetus from the womb and drowned Tunstall’s other three children. Those childrens’ bodies were later found stuffed in the washer and dryer of the Tunstall family’s apartment.

Hall is serving four life sentences in the killings, as well as a 60-year term linked to the fetus’ death.

A Philadelphia police officer was charged with rape after allegedly assaulting a woman while on duty, according to the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

Police Officer Keith Corley II was arrested and charged with rape, indecent assault, sexual assault and other related offenses. Corley, 27, has been with the police department for four years, according to the district attorney’s office.

A 32-year-old woman claims she was waiting for a bus around 3 a.m. on August 11 when she spotted Corley and flagged him down for a ride.

The victim alleged Corley drove to an area in Cobbs Creek and forced her to perform a sex act, then dropped her off at the 69th Street Terminal. That’s where the woman stopped a transit officer to report the attack.

Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey suspended Corley for 30 days with the intent to dismiss, according to police.

DETROIT — For the last 14 years, convicted violent felons have been serving as babysitters and child care professionals in Chicago and throughout Illinois. Even worse, the felons have been paid by the state through a government subsidy program meant to help poor families that cannot afford childcare.

Cornelius Osborne, who was convicted of a multitude of felonies including two rapes, kidnapping, robbery, and failing to register as a sex offender, was paid nearly $5,000 over a two-year span by the state before being convicted of drug trafficking. Illinois taxpayers footed the bill for Osborne and many others.

WASHINGTON – The federal government is escalating security around the country in preparation for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and conducting confidential briefings with state and local law enforcement organizations. But officials say there is no specific indication that a terror plot against the U.S. is under way.

Americans can expect more security at airports, mass transit stations, U.S. borders, government buildings and major athletic events over the next month, said an intelligence official who spoke anonymously to discuss sensitive security matters.

The FBI and Homeland Security Department have been briefing state and local law enforcement agencies on potential terror threats to the U.S. and ways to increase security in their communities.

As the NFL and NBC try to figure out the plans for the season-opening game between the Saints and Packers in light of President Obama’s plan to address a joint session of Congress on the same night, the good news is that Obama apparently plans to steer clear of the start of the football game.

Though an official announcement has not yet been made by the White House, Obama’s speech apparently will begin at 7:30 p.m. ET on September 8, one hour before kickoff of the kickoff to the season.

And so, assuming the absence of any filibustering (a big assumption, given the precise location of the address), the speech should be over before it’s time to play the game.

But plenty of football fans will still find that outcome unacceptable.  The speech is still encroaching on turf that had been reserved for the game, potentially interrupting the pregame coverage on NBC, including the musical acts and the other stuff aimed at getting folks properly lathered up for the official start of the football season — and at permitting Packers fans to properly savor the celebration of their most recent Lombardi Trophy.

It remains unclear whether NBC will preempt the pregame coverage for the purposes of covering the speech, and whether the pregame coverage will be exported to another NBC/Comcast channel.

But really, what’s more important football fans, looking at a football game or watching the President addressing his job’s plan.

TENNESSEE — School guidance counselor Cinnamon Davis, 23, was charged with statutory rape after police discovered she was sexually involved with a student.

Police say Davis was involved in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male student at Varangon Academy in Tennessee for an entire weekend, as well as gave him alcohol. The Memphis school is a 7th to 12th grade “residential treatment facility for adolescent boys with emotional and behavioral problems.”

Davis is currently out of jail on bond and is due in court in two weeks.