Florida Sentinel Bulletin

It’s good to know that you have security with this week’s Beauty Unlimited feature, Hannah. We know you do, because you have requested to see her once again. Hannah enjoys the spotlight, but is not so selfish she won’t share it with those in her inner circle. Hannah promises you will be hearing her name […]

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BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor In its afternoon session Wednesday, the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners voted 7-0 to name James Tokley as the Poet Laureate for Hillsborough County. He’s also the Poet Laureate for the City of Tampa, serving since January 1996. Commissioner Al Higginbotham, District 4, placed a request on the Commission’s […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor   Some students enrolled in the General Education Diploma have taken the test, but failed some portions. In the past, the students were only required to re-take the portions they failed. However, important changes will take place that will affect those students who have failed a portion of […]

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BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer Last summer, Antoinette Glover walked into a convenience store in her Wimauma community with her grandson. They hadn’t gotten through the door well when she noticed her grandson standing in front of a big advertisement. “I got closer to see what had captured his attention, and was shocked […]

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For the second time in less than a week, a shooting has left a young man dead in East Tampa. Tampa Police report on Tuesday night at 9 p. m., Dexter Gardner, 26, Thomas Causey, 41, and Bertran Sampson, 26, were hanging out in the courtyard of Causey’s apartment on 22nd Avenue near 29th Street. […]

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Jesse Jackson Jr. may have admitted wrongdoing but his fellow former political brethren refuses to fess up to his own set of charges. Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded not guilty to several charges today, including allegedly taking bribes, and corruption. Nagin appeared before magistrate judge Sally Shushan this afternoon, where he entered his […]

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CHICAGO  — A well-known Illinois state senator dropped her bid Sunday for the U.S. House seat vacated by Jesse Jackson Jr., narrowing the field and consolidating key support behind another Democrat in a race where gun control has emerged as a central issue. State Sen. Toi Hutchinson, targeted in recent days by critical anti-gun campaign […]

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Carron Washington, 20, the Florida father arrested Sunday for giving his infant daughter bleach to help alleviate her congestion, said in a press conference that he would never hurt his daughter and giving her bleach was “dumb.” “It’s probably the dumbest decision I’ve made in my life,” Washington said to reporters. According to Washington, his […]

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A Florida man is charged in the deaths of two men after his daughter told her mother she witnessed the killings. Laureano “Larry” Romero’s arrest report indicates his daughter said she saw him shoot DeAngelo Cox, 22, and Nick Lewis, 21, on Tuesday at a home in the Taft area. Romero, 39, was arrested and […]

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