Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Last week, an announcement was made that the Historic Preservation Commission Board had denied an application that Roger’s Park be designated as a historical landmark. A group of advocates who have fought for years to get the designation for the park, have vowed that this decision does not mean the end, and they will be meeting with Congresswoman Kathy Castor and her staff to discuss strategy on how to proceed. The […]

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Tampa Olympian Theresa Manuel will be honored Friday, Jan. 11th at halftime of the girls Blake-Middleton High School basketball game. The game begins at 6:30 p. m. at Middleton, 4801 N. 22nd St., with the schools’ boys game following at 8 p. m. Manuel had her 87th birthday January 7. Manuel, a Middleton graduate who […]

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Tampa Police reported that at 4:40 a. m. Sunday, 15-year-old Roderick Williams was driving a vehicle east across the Laurel Street Bridge. At some point, Williams lost control of the vehicle, struck a guardrail, and plunged into the river, sinking in 20-feet of water. The section of Laurel Street approaching the bridge heading east has […]

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Note to musicians and songwriters, if you don’t pay your debts, you might lose copyrights to the songs you own. Funk legend George Clinton learned this after a judge granted copyrights to four songs from his extensive catalog to a law firm he owes over $1 million. The law firm Hendricks & Lewis was awarded […]

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Nas is good, but CNN thinks Nas is damn good. In a story titled “A case for Nas, hip-hop’s finest MC” the news outlet defends its stance that the man born Nasir Jones is “the greatest lyricist of all time.” The story cites Nas’ longevity, he turns 40 next summer—and the the gift of rhyme, […]

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The beauty with the fiery attitude, model Naomi Campbell was violently attacked on the streets of Paris last month.  The scuffle appeared to be an attempted robbery, which left the cover girl on the losing end with a torn ligament in her leg. As Campbell tried to hail a taxi on Paris’ busy streets, her […]

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Statuesque “Real Housewives of Atlanta” breakout star NeNe Leakes is all giddy these days because on New Year’s Eve her ex-hubby, Gregg, put a ring on it, asking her to marry him once again, and she accepted!  The blond-haired diva shared her news on Thursday during a segment on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.” NeNe […]

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EDGEFIELD, SC — A 114-year-old South Carolina woman who was the oldest living U.S. citizen has died, two of her daughters said Saturday. Mamie Rearden of Edgefield, who held the title as the country’s oldest person for about two weeks, died Wednesday at a hospital in Augusta, Ga., said Sara Rearden of Burtonsville, Md., and […]

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Going into this morning, expectations were that that the new report from Bureau of Labor Statistics would show the economy added about 160,000 jobs in December. As it turns out, in the preliminary report, the expectations were quite close. The BLS reported that the overall economy added 155,000 jobs last month, while the revised unemployment […]

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