Florida Sentinel Bulletin

MANSFIELD, La.  — Former NBA standout Orlando Woolridge has died at his parents’ home in Mansfield, La. He was 52. DeSoto Parish Chief Deputy Coroner Billy Locke said Woolridge died Thursday night. He had been under hospice care for a chronic heart condition. Woolridge was a first-round draft pick of the Chicago Bulls in 1981 […]

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For as long as there have been teachers, students have had excuses: My dog ate my homework. My computer crashed. I had football practice. But 11-year-old Tyler Sullivan of Minnesota isn’t one to make excuses. He’s a good kid: he finishes his work after playing quarterback, his computer is well maintained, and his dog doesn’t […]

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MIAMI — George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin, surrendered to police Sunday and was booked into a central Florida jail two days after his bond was revoked. Zimmerman’s legal team said in a tweet Sunday afternoon that he was in police custody. Circuit Judge Kenneth […]

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In what family members are calling a “freak accident” 15-year-old Kadijah James died from a gunshot wound to the chest as a result of playing with a gun with her 17-year-old brother in Detroit, TV station WXYZ reports. Police say that the brother and sister were playing around with a gun when it accidentally went […]

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Thousands of names, Social Security numbers and birth dates accidentally are released to the public every year by the U.S. government. The information is in the Social Security Death Master File, made public by the Social Security Administration and designed to include only deceased people. The file is widely available on the Internet and is […]

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NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has withdrawn its membership in a conservative political group that has come under fire as part of the Trayvon Martin case, saying it has strayed from its core mission to advance free-market principles. The group, the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, is made up of a group of […]

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On this hot, blistering day, who better to cool you off than this week’s beauty Unlimited feature, Hannah. We know you’ve seen her before, but you asked to see her again, so here she is. Dynamic doesn’t come close to describing this self-made woman, who manages to stay humble in site of her success. Hannah […]

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Phaedra Parks of “Real Housewives of Atlanta” has filed a $30 million lawsuit against Vibe Holdings, which operates Vibe.com, Uptown Magazine, and Augustus Publishing, reports Atlanta Journal Constitution.com. Parks, a high-profile Atlanta attorney who has represented R&B singer Bobby Brown, is suing for defamation of character after Vibe Magazine seemed to highly publicize the book […]

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Jamie Foxx is starring in an upcoming Quentin Tarantino film called Django Unchained. This could be either really good, or really bad—no in between—because the Oscar winning actor will be playing a freed slave who gets taken under the wing of a German bounty hunter. The film is inspired by Spaghetti Westerns and considering Tarantino […]

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