Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Debra McNair Calhoun, 58, had been involved with the Hillsborough County Head Start program since she was 20 years old. Last Thursday, Mrs. Calhoun was found on the floor of her apartment by co-workers after she hadn’t shown up for work. She was hospitalized, and pronounced dead Friday. Mrs. Calhoun was a 1971 graduate of […]

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Greg Schiano made it clear Friday he was not in a hurry to become a NFL coach. He is now head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers simply because he felt the opportunity finally was right. “I’ve had some other opportunities before, but this one just felt right,” Schiano said during an introductory news conference […]

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Chad Ochocinco is going to the Super Bowl again, and this time he will be in uniform, answering questions, instead of causing a commotion by asking them. He might even get on the field. The Patriots receiver is returning to the NFL’s title game, changed but not chastened since his time as […]

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Bernard Hopkins, the oldest champion in boxing history, is set to make a historic title defense at age 47 in a rematch against fellow American Chad Dawson on April 28 at Atlantic City. Hopkins will defend his World Boxing Council light-heavyweight crown against Dawson in a rematch of a fight last October in Los Angeles […]

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Former Indianapolis Colts head coach Jim Caldwell plans to join the offensive coaching staff of the Baltimore Ravens, a league source said. The Ravens announced last week that Cam Cameron would return as offensive coordinator, but they still need a quarterbacks coach for Joe Flacco. Caldwell now appears to be the choice. Caldwell had visited […]

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San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith was charged Saturday with driving under the influence in Miami Beach. Miami-Dade County jail records show Smith was booked Saturday morning and held on $1,000 bond. Jail records did not show whether Smith was represented by an attorney. A Miami-Dade County Corrections spokeswoman said Smith was arrested by Miami […]

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – President Barack Obama called Friday for an overhaul of the higher education financial aid system, warning that colleges and universities that fail to control spiraling tuition costs could lose federal funds. The election year proposal was also a political appeal to young people and working families, two important voting blocs for […]

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A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly hacking to death a Connecticut man and eating the victim’s eye and part of his brain, police said Wednesday. Tyree Lincoln Smith, 35, was arrested Tuesday night on a Connecticut warrant for murder, according to police in Lynn Haven, Fla. A property inspector discovered the body of […]

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PHILADELPHIA — Former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has been moved into the general prison population for the first time since his arrest in a Philadelphia police officer’s murder three decades ago. Susan McNaughton, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, told The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper that Abu-Jamal was moved Friday from the restricted […]

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