Florida Sentinel Bulletin

DETROIT, MI — Another African-American couple has decided to solidify their love at a White Castle fast food restaurant.

Marquisa Benford and Donahvan Gray of Detroit took to the White Castle where they met two years ago to have a “royal wedding” of their own this weekend.

The couple who owns a tattoo business together also had a Queen Elizabeth look alike attend the nuptials.

“It was love at first bite…When he came and he flashed those dimples, it melted me, instantly. I didn’t even want to leave the White Castle after that.”

Celebrity Apprentice was cut off for last night’s presidential announcement, but Donald Trump isn’t salty about it, in fact he wants Barack to know he’s thankful that U. S. Armed Forces defeated Osama Bin Laden.

“I want to personally congratulate President Obama and the men and women of the Armed Forces for a job well done,” Donald said.

He also called for a temporary end to the debate over “party politics,” suggesting that now is a time to remember the nearly 3,000 people who died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“We should spend the next several days not debating party politics, but in remembrance of those who lost their lives on 9/11 and those currently fighting for our freedom. God Bless America!”

How big of him.

Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the world’s most wanted man, has been killed in a U. S. operation in north-western Pakistan, Pres. Barack Obama has announced.

“Justice has been done,” the U. S. president said in a statement that America has been waiting a decade to hear. A U. S. official said Bin Laden had already been buried at sea.

U. S. special forces launched a helicopter-borne assault on a closely guarded compound in Abbottabad, 30 miles north-east of Islamabad, on Sunday night, Pres. Obama and U. S. officials said.

Bin Laden resisted the attackers and was killed along with three other men in a firefight. The operation lasted 40 minutes. The dead included Bin Laden’s most trusted courier, who carried his messages to the outside world, and one of Bin Laden’s sons, according to reports.

A woman also died, according to some reports. It is not clear whether she was one of Bin Laden’s four wives.

U. S. forces “took custody” of Bin Laden’s body, Pres. Obama said in a televised statement from the White House. Bin Laden had been buried at sea, the AP news agency reported. Senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition. That practice calls for burial within 24 hours.

Pictures on the Pakistani TV station Express 24/7 showed flames rising from what is said to be the site of Bin Laden’s last stand: a building surrounded by trees and high walls.

There had been years of speculation that Bin Laden was hiding in the remote tribal areas of Pakistan or across the border in Afghanistan. But the town where he was found, Kakul, lies a short distance from Islamabad and is home to the country’s main military training institution, the Pakistan Military Academy.

The fact that Bin Laden was killed in a urban area of Pakistan will raise questions about how the six-foot-four fugitive, one of the most famous faces in the world, managed to survive there for so long.

Pres. Obama praised Pakistan for its “close counter-terrorism co-operation”. But officials said the US was the only country that knew in advance of the operation.

An official with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence declined to comment other than to say that it was a “highly sensitive intelligence operation.”

The dramatic news closes one chapter in the global turmoil sparked by the September 11 attacks on America that killed 3,000 people in 2001. The event triggered the war in Afghanistan, was used as a pretext for the invasion of Iraq and inflicted grievous damage on America’s moral authority after the CIA torture of al-Qaida suspects and the detention of more than 700 people at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.

MIAMI — Stepping up his demand to change the nation’s immigration laws, President Barack Obama on Friday promised graduates at a vast, multicultural community college that he’ll keep working to help students not legally in the U. S. to become American citizens.

The president’s renewed endorsement of the DREAM Act, which has become a rallying cry for Hispanic and other students around the country, drew enthusiastic applause from more than 3,000 graduates of Miami Dade College at their commencement ceremony. The students are part of an increasingly important political constituency in a state that will be crucial to the president’s 2012 re-election hopes.

The college graduates more Hispanic students than any other higher education institution in the U. S. Pres. Obama took note that some students had recently identified themselves publicly as immigrants without legal status in the country.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama exacted his revenge Saturday after weeks of attacks from his would-be Republican challenger Donald Trump, joking that the billionaire businessman could bring change to the White House, transforming it from a stately mansion into a tacky casino with a whirlpool in the garden.

With Trump in attendance, Pres. Obama used the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner to mock the reality TV star’s presidential ambitions. The president said Trump has shown the acumen of a future president, from firing Gary Busey on a recent episode of “Celebrity Apprentice” to focusing so much time on conspiracy theories about Pres. Obama’s birthplace.

Pres. Obama took time to rib some of those among the Republicans jostling to succeed him. He said he’d heard that Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota was running for president, adding, “which is weird, because I hear she was born in Canada.”

He then singled out Trump.

After a week when Pres. Obama released his long-form Hawaii birth certificate, he said Trump could now focus on the serious issues, from whether the moon landing actually happened to “where are Biggie and Tupac?”

“No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than ‘the Donald,'” Pres. Obama said, referring to Trump’s claims the same day that he was responsible for solving the issue.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Expressing amazement at the destruction around him, President Barack Obama on Friday stepped through the wreckage left by rampaging tornadoes and pledged help to those who survived, but lost their homes in a terrifying flash. Said the president: “I’ve never seen devastation like this.”

“We’re going to make sure you’re not forgotten,” Pres. Obama said as he and First Lady Michelle Obama walked the streets of a reeling neighborhood. He said that although nothing could be done for the many who were killed — “they’re alongside God at this point” — Pres. Obama assured support for resilient survivors.

Hurrying to Alabama, Pres. Obama offered comfort and help in a role he and presidents before him have had to assume time and again in moments of crisis. “It is heartbreaking,” he said, standing under a sunny sky that was a stark contrast to the wreckage and bleakness around him.

Pictured: President Pres. Barack Pres. Obama visits tornado damage in the Alberta neighborhood in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Friday, April 29, 2011.

DETROIT, MI — Federal investigators said baggage handlers working for Delta Airlines conspired to smuggle drugs from airports in Houston and Jamaica to Detroit.

A total of 12 people have been arrested so far. Ten of them are current or former bag handlers. Two men, LaDale Callaway and Yohanis Watson, were arrested in Houston.

One group is accused of smuggling pot and cocaine from Jamaica to Detroit. The Houston group is accused of smuggling pot. Federal Agents said the bag handlers would put the drugs in suitcases, mark them with either an “X” or tie something to the handle and then load the bags onto planes bound for Detroit.

Investigators said once in Michigan, the baggage handlers would know what to look for.

“All of the suitcases had a proper airline bag tag in the name of actual passengers,” said Moskowitz. “But the suitcases did not belong to the named passenger.”

Authorities said this operation had been going on since January 2010. If convicted, those accused could face prison time and be forced to pay hefty fines.

ATLANTA — A video taken at a local IHOP restaurant has been getting a lot of attention. The video shows a police officer punching a female patron during an altercation.

The officer, Jose Vidal, has been assigned to desk duty while the case is investigated. However, one witness has come out to defend the officer’s actions, calling them justified.

Tanika Hudson, a witness and IHOP employee, says the woman was in the wrong.

Ashley Leavell, the women who hit and was hit, now faces criminal charges.

Hudson states that if the patrons had just left when the officer told them to, none of this would have happened.

He was not wrong. He was in the right. I think the woman should be prosecuted. You do not lay hands on an officer whose just trying to do his job,” added Hudson.

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL — St. Augustine’s College senior Roman Caple was slated to graduate this Sunday with the class of 2011, but he was informed on Wednesday that he wouldn’t be able to walk at his graduation.

According to Caple, the vice president of student affairs told him the omission was based on a Facebook post on his profile that “jeopardized the integrity of the college.”

Caple went through his Facebook page saying, “Here’s the post that I believe they are referring to as to being putting this college in a negative light. It says ‘St. Augs is holding classes tomorrow and students in Falcrest still don’t have power. Like, wtf. Really? #dumb.'”

Caple is known for being an involved member of the student body as a St. Augustine band and choir member as well as playing tennis for the school for three years. He even showed his love and dedication for his school by getting a customized haircut with the school’s logo shaved into his head.

St. Augustine’s released a short statement saying: “As written in our Code of Conduct, Saint Augustine’s College students are expected to support the College’s mission. The College reserves the right to take appropriate actions when student conduct conflicts with the institutional mission.”