Florida Sentinel Bulletin

OAKLANDC — The Oakland Unified School District is getting some unwanted attention after a video surfaced of a fight between a 7th grade female student and a male substitute teacher at the Alliance Academy. With 360 students, and an extraordinarily high teacher turnover rate, 5 students have been expelled from Alliance this school year and […]

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NEW YORK — Authorities have charged 19-year-old Ariel Devonish-Francis of the Bronx with unlawful disposal of a cadaver for allegedly throwing her newborn down a garbage chute. On Saturday, Devonish-Francis reportedly gave birth to a baby boy in her bathroom at the West Farms Road Rehabs projects. Her brother was reportedly home at the time, […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor On Tuesday, (today), beginning at 1 p. m., members of the Hillsborough County School District will hold a workshop. Its purpose is to address and discuss the high number of African American and Hispanic male students receiving out-of-school suspensions. The workshop will take place at the Hillsborough County […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor The Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc., (CDC) recently received a $60,120 grant to provide foreclosure prevention. The grant was the second largest awarded in the state awarded by the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling Program. Marquaz McGhee, Housing Manager for the CDC of Tampa, Inc., said, “The […]

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On Friday evening, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a woman who said she had found the bodies of her son, Jason Allen, 37, and his estranged wife, Pamela Allen, 38, inside her Clair-Mel City home. Both were dead. When deputies arrived, they reported that based on the evidence at the scene, […]

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Demetrius Morris, 27, now has the charge of solicitation to commit first-degree murder added to the list of charges he’s been held on. Investigators said between April 12, 2013 and April 21, 2013, Morris, communicated through notes that he wanted to have a hit placed on the victim and her daughter in a pending case. […]

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Cordell “Boogie” Mosson, who gained fame as the bassist for the George Clinton-fronted Parliament-Funkadelic group, died of liver failure on April 18,according to the New York Times. He was 60. The New Jersey native moved to Toronto in the late 1960s with friend Garry Shider, and both joined United Soul — which brought them in […]

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We hope Kevin Hart isn’t trying to go all Katt Williams on us. The comedian and star of BET’s Real Husbands of Hollywood has been charged with DUI and was allegedly two times over the legal drinking limit when he was busted. The L.A. City Attorney has charged Hart with two misdemeanor counts of DUI. […]

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In the final weekend before Iron Man 3 kicks off the summer movie season in earnest, Michael Bay’s R-rated action comedy Pain & Gain topped a slow weekend at the box office with $20 million from 3,277 theaters, giving it an average of $6,103 per location. The Paramount film achieved only a fraction of the […]

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