Florida Sentinel Bulletin

MELBOURNE, Australia — Serena Williams cautiously walked onto the court, and tried to keep the points short to avoid irritating her injured right ankle as she advanced to the third round at the Australian Open. Nineteen minutes later, she finished off a 6-2, 6-0 win Thursday over No. 112-ranked Garbine Muguruza with an ace at […]

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LeBron James has been a star from roughly the minute he entered the NBA in 2003, and over that time he’s accomplished a heck of a lot. On Wednesday night in Oakland, James hit two of those marks against the Golden State Warriors in the midst of a blowout 92-75 win. Five minutes into the […]

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when he shot his girlfriend nine times and then killed himself in front of his coach and general manager, an autopsy released Monday showed. The Jackson County Medical Examiner report on Belcher, 25, raised new […]

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BY TED TAYLOR During an emotional news conference on Friday evening at the Lawson Center on the campus of Florida A&M University, Earl Holmes was introduced as the next head coach for the Rattlers football team. With mother, wife, son and other family members in attendance along with his high school coach, friends, fellow Rattlers […]

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SAN FRANCISCO  — Colin Kaepernick has set an NFL record for rushing yards by a quarterback in a playoff game. Kaepernick broke Michael Vick’s mark of 119 yards with a 56-yard keeper on an option play in the third quarter of Saturday night’s playoff game against Green Bay. The run gave Kaepernick 163 yards on […]

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Pittsburgh Steeler running back Chris Rainey, who was arrested Thursday morning and charged with simple battery (dating violence) for reportedly slapping his unidentified girlfriend around, has lost his job over the incident. Just hours after the arrest hit the media, Rainey, the fifth-round 2012 draft pick, was let go by his team. According to the […]

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CHICAGO  — The wife of former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. announced Friday that she was resigning from the Chicago City Council, saying she could not adequately represent her district while dealing with “very painful health matters.” Alderman Sandi Jackson, whose husband recently resigned from Congress while being treated for bipolar disorder and other medical […]

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During a Friday press conference, Florida authorities announced that the remains of the body of Dontrell Melvin, who was 5-months-old when he disappeared in July of 2011, have been discovered at an address provided by his parents. For the entire time that baby Dontrell was missing no one was looking for him. Father, Calvin Melvin […]

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WASHINGTON – The nation’s capital was swarming with women wearing crimson and cream, as one of the country’s largest African-American sororities gathered to celebrate 100 years of sisterhood. More than 12,000 members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. convened to mark the organization’s centennial this weekend with activities including community service, a rededication and an […]

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