Florida Sentinel Bulletin

President Barack Obama didn’t earn any Holy points with America’s leading religious leaders when he announced via a pre-recorded  interview with ABCs Robin Roberts that he supports gay marriage. Pastors and religious leaders expressed their disappointment in Pres. Obama’s decision. The Rev. Al Sharpton is the only high-profile Black religious leader to come out and […]

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Marissa Alexander, whose case brought allegations that Florida’s Stand Your Ground law is being unfairly applied, was sentenced to 20 years in prison last Friday after being convicted of three counts of aggravated assault after firing a warning shot during a dispute with her husband. Alexander, 31, claimed she fired a shot from a handgun […]

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A police officer in Georgia has become the subject of an investigation for kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach. Jerad Wheeler, an officer in DeKalb County, responded to a call over a custody dispute involving the brother of the alleged victim, Raven Dozier. According to Dozier she was actually trying to calm her brother […]

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Donte Johnson, 20, who is said to have the mind of an 11-year-old child, was found guilty of the 2010 first-degree murder and rape of Philadelphia waitress, Sabina O’Donnell.  The judge gave him a sentence of life without parole in state prison. Johnson confessed to police that he merely wanted O’Donnell’s bicycle, which was why […]

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WASHINGTON  — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is facing federal civil charges of taking part in an influence-peddling scheme involving the city’s public-employee pension funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission says Kilpatrick and ex-city treasurer Jeffrey Beasley received $125,000 in private jet travel and other perks from an investment firm. The SEC says that was […]

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A Hillsborough County judge Monday ruled that an elderly man must stand trial in a shooting death. He is accused of killing his neighbor during an argument. The judge ruled the case must go to trial. Attorneys representing Trevor Dooley, 71, had attempted to use the Stand Your Ground law as a defense. Last week, […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor After several months of searching, the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc., has chosen its next leader. In the final analysis, the board selected one of its own. The announcement of Ernest Coney, Jr., as the President/CEO was made by Board Secretary Denese Meteye-James. Coney has been […]

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Pastor Cynthia Forde hadn’t given any thought to using rap as a means of reaching people. However, one day the idea took root and resulted in her creating a rap Christian song. “I was listening to my son-in-law, Lo-Boy and my nephew, Fatty Dukes rapping. I saw how they rapped and I told them that […]

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Jury selection began Monday in the second-degree murder trial of 53-year-old Kenneth Shivers. Shivers was arrested September 4, 2010 for the stabbing death of 48-year-old Wanda Smith, a mother of three and a grandmother. Authorities said Smith was stabbed in her home in the 3900 block of East Chelsea. Family members rushed her to the […]

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