Florida Sentinel Bulletin

ATLANTA, GA — Herman Cain has run a pizza chain, hosted a talk radio show and sparred with Bill Clinton over health care. But, he’s never held elected office.

Now Cain, a favorite of the ultraconservative Tea Party movement, wants to be president.

“I’m running for president of the United States, and I’m not running for second,” he told a crowd of thousands at Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta.

VIRGINIA — A Newport News, Virginia family is lucky to be alive after a fire came dangerously close to destroying their home.

It’s usually firefighters who save lives, but this time it was a 17-year-old who many are calling a hero.

After seeing heavy smoke and flames, Jordan Jones picked up a hose, jumped on his roof and began battling the flames.

Jones was playing catch outside when he noticed heavy, black smoke coming from his apartment building.

“So I went around, grabbed the water hose, and I took it through the house and I hopped on top of the roof and started spraying where I saw the fire,” Jordan explained.

His family watched in shock as the teen fearlessly worked to put out the flames. “I was worried about him being on the roof, not being a professional. But he did save the day,” said Jones’ great aunt Juanita Jones.

Fire crews arrived a short time later and relieved Jordan.

“I don’t really feel like a hero I just made sure nothing else burned down,” he said

TRENTON, PA — In what is probably the most disgusting news story of the week, an intoxicated ice cream truck driver from Trenton, PA was recently arrested.

Yassir Hassan, 46, was busted with boxes of wine on his truck that were filled with urine.

Hassan was hit with DUI charges and released.

And because he operators as an independent contractor, the reports said, unfortunately there are no laws preventing him from operating the ice cream truck again.

TEXAS — A teenage mother was caught on tape attempting to smother her baby at a hospital in Forth Worth, Texas.

Shantaniqua Nykole Scott, 18, was convicted after a jury watched the video of Scott trying to smother her 4-month-old son.

The baby stopped breathing, but doctors were able to resuscitate him.

The child is now in foster care, while Scott faces sentencing. She is facing life in prison.

WASHINGTON — A big portion of President Obama’s wealth is invested in federal debt, according to a financial disclosure form released Monday.

The president and First Lady Michelle Obama had assets valued between $2.8 million and $11.8 million in 2010.

And between $2 million and $10 million of their assets are invested in super-safe U.S. Treasury securities, according to the disclosure form. That’s up from $1.5 million to $6 million reported invested in Treasury notes and bills in 2009.

The report uses broad financial ranges, making a more precise accounting impossible.

The President and First Lady reported no debts.

They also have between $350,000 and $800,000 invested in IRAs and other retirement funds, according to the form.

And the couple has between $200,000 and $500,000 squirreled away in 529 college savings plans for their daughters Malia and Sasha. That’s up considerably since the president took office. In 2008, the Obamas reported between $50,000 and $100,000 in such savings.

Much of the Obamas’ wealth comes from President Obama’s best-selling books “Dreams from my Father” and “Audacity of Hope.”

Last year, the Obamas earned at least $1.1 million in royalties from books. On their 2010 tax returns, they reported an adjusted gross income of $1,728,096.

But their book royalties have dropped from 2009, when they raked in more than $5 million in royalties.

The president’s children’s book, “Of Thee I Sing,” published last November, earned him a $134,000 advance. He is donating that money and all proceeds from the book to the nonprofit Fisher House Foundation for a scholarship for children of fallen and disabled soldiers.

Obama’s annual salary as president in 2010 was $395,188.

Michelle Obama received $10,000 from a trust called the Henry G. Freeman Jr. Pin Money Fund set up for first ladies, who don’t draw a salary. The fund was set up in 1917 to augment presidential salaries.

LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, newly estranged from his wife of 25 years and seeking to resume his Hollywood career, has acknowledged fathering a child more than a decade ago with a member of his household staff.

The revelation came a week after Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born former bodybuilder turned film star, and his wife, Maria Shriver, a broadcast journalist and member of the Kennedy dynasty, jointly announced their marital split.

“After leaving the governor’s office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago,” Schwarzenegger said in replying to the Times. A Schwarzenegger spokesman later gave a copy of the statement to Reuters.

“I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. There are no excuses, and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I have apologized to Maria, my children and my family. I am truly sorry,”

Schwarzenegger, 63, said in the statement.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Rewarded with the president of the United States as their commencement speaker, the graduating seniors at Booker T. Washington High School got the same advice a young President Barack Obama once got himself: Keep pushing.

“You’ve always been underdogs,” the president told the cheering students clad in green and yellow gowns from a school where academic scores and graduation rates have soared despite tough conditions in the community. “Nobody’s handed you a thing. But that also means that whatever you accomplish in your life, you’ll have earned it,” Pres. Obama said.

The high school won a national competition, and Pres. Obama’s presence, thanks to its hard-fought academic turnaround. The school is in a gritty south Memphis community where many of its students live in tough neighborhoods beset by crime, drug addiction, teenage pregnancy and untreated mental illness. A majority of the students are poor, and some are homeless.

Pres. Obama told the smiling seniors: “You’ve shown more grit and determination in your childhoods than a lot of adults ever will.”

Pictured: President Barack Obama speaks to graduates before he delivers the commencement address at the Booker T. Washington High School graduation at Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tenn., Monday, May 16, 2011.

TOWSON, Md. — A grand jury has indicted two teens on hate crime charges in the beating of a transgender woman at a McDonald’s restaurant that was caught on video.

The indictment returned Monday by a Baltimore County grand jury charges Teonna Brown with assault and a hate crime in the attack on Chrissy Lee Polis last month. She is also charged with assaulting a customer and a McDonald’s employee who tried to intervene.

A 14-year-old girl is facing the same charges in juvenile court.

A videotape of the April 18 beating posted online shows a woman being attacked repeatedly while an employee and customer try to stop them. The woman then appears to have a seizure.

The State’s Attorney’s office says no one else will be charged.

OKLAHOMA — Police in Chickasha, Oklahoma are working an unusual case after a rash of meat thefts from area grocery stores.

According to the police, 39-year-old Dan Beal was hiding meat they say he had stolen in his pants.

Authorities say store security was keeping a close eye on Beal and his companion, 42-year-old Bridgette Pugh, after the two entered the store for the third time that day. They believe the duo has been shoplifting for some time and were often wearing the same clothes each instance.

Investigators say Pugh managed to stuff several rib-eye steaks inside her purse. Beal denied stealing anything, but police say Pugh ratted him out.