Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp doesn’t want any revisionist historians giving him the 2011 NL MVP award, won by now-disgraced Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun. He just doesn’t think Braun deserves to have it, either. Asked by reporters before Tuesday night’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Kemp acknowledged that he feels Braun should […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor An eighteen-year-old Tampa woman died in a traffic accident early Monday. The accident took place at the intersection of Causeway Boulevard and 86th Street, South, shortly before 4 a.m. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Ms. Waynenecia Shacole Tillman was driving a 2003 Pontiac Grand Am. The vehicle […]

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All over the United States protesters gathered Saturday, July 20, 2013, in protest to the ‘not guilty’ verdict George Zimmerman received a week earlier in the shooting death of teen Trayvon Martin. The protests were set to take place simultaneously at 12 noon in front of federal buildings. In Tampa, an estimated crowd of 1,500 […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor With the exception of jumping out of an emergency window to avoid capture, police arrested 23-year-old Demetrius Parks without incident. He reportedly slept on the ride from Orlando to Tampa and was booked into the Hillsborough County jail on Saturday, July 20th. Parks is being held without bond. […]

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Two Tampa residents entered guilty pleas on charges of conspiring to defraud the government and wrongfully disclosing patient information. They are both facing a maximum of ten years in federal prison. According to court documents, Jakiel Bazart, 27, and Ms. Denetria Barnes, 24, entered guilty pleas on Thursday. In August 2012, the Tampa Police Department […]

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NEW YORK — Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network organized more than 100 rallies in cities across the U.S. calling for “Justice For Trayvon” Martin, and got some celebrity support. Sharpton led the New York rally, which included a march across the Brooklyn Bridge. But before the march, the crowd at 1 Police Plaza near […]

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Scandal is pretty much on fire at this point. It’s a ratings smash, Shonda Rhimes brings in more money for ABC than any  other writer/creator on the network, and Kerry Washington earned her first ever Emmy nomination early Thursday (July 18). Washington, who plays crisis fixer and mistress, Olivia Pope, scores the praising nod for […]

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Actress Rae Dawn Chong (daughter of  Tommy Chong…of Cheech and Chong) doesn’t like Oprah Winfrey very much. The two starred together in The Color Purple over 20 years ago (Chong was “Squeak”), and she doesn’t like what the talk show mogul has become. Chong called Lady O a “field ni–a,” skilled in the art of […]

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Yeezus is having a bad week. Kanye West allegedly attacked a photographer at LAX Friday. In photos, the paparazzo can be seen laid out on the ground while EMTs tend to his injuries. Sources connected with the photog tell us, Kanye was on his way out of the airport when he went ballistic, attacking the […]

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