Florida Sentinel Bulletin

BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer On November 11, 2011, Marsha Allen and a friend were on their way home when they stopped by a Shell Gas Station on Himes Avenue. She said she wanted to get a few things to take home, and was in line behind a young Hispanic male wearing a […]

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BY TAMECA JOHNSON Freelance Writer Cary White has always been a man with a plan.  The desire for security, led him to take the road more traveled.  The New York native and design engineer graduated high school, moved to Gainesville to attend the University of Florida, transferred to the University of South Florida then earned […]

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Director George Lucas talked about the difficulty of getting his latest project, Red Tails to the big screen screen. Red Tails stars a virtually all-black cast. It tells the story of the famed Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilots from World War II. They were the first black pilots to serve in combat and their story will […]

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Jay-Z released a heartfelt musical tribute to his brand new baby daughter titled “Glory.” Via his wife Beyoncé’s BeyonceOnline, the Hip-Hop power couple issued a statement formally announcing the arrival of Blue Ivy Carter. ‘Hello Hello Baby Blue! We are happy to announce the arrival of our beautiful daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, born on Saturday, […]

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A sitcom about corporate greed may seem a bit of a head-scratcher during these tough economic times, but for Showtime and the multifaceted Don Cheadle, it’s good to be bad. In House of Lies, Cheadle stars as Marty Kaan, a manipulative management consultant (head of Galweather & Stearn), who along with his team, works with […]

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Third time’s the charm for Halle Berry. The 45-year-old actress and Olivier Martinez are engaged. Over the holidays, Martinez, 46, proposed with an emerald-and-diamond ring. Berry, who has a 3-year-old daughter, Nahla, with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, has been married twice before.

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Christopher Moorhouse, a Detroit Red Wings fan plead guilty to engaging in a prohibited activity and was fined $200 for throwing a banana at an African American hockey player during a game in London, Ontario. In a pre-season game between the Detroit Red Wings and the Philadelphia Flyers, Moorhouse threw a banana at Flyers forward […]

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Jermaine Dupri has been rumored to have had tax troubles over the years and it looks like his late payments caught up with him.  J.D. paid nearly double for his most recent tax lien. According to Georgia records, the super-producer owed $493,818.75 after failing to pay taxes for the year 2007.  However, the principal was […]

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NEW YORK— Barry Larkin was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Monday with plenty of room to spare. The former Cincinnati Reds shortstop was chosen on 495 of 573 ballots (86 percent) in voting announced by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Larkin was on the ballot for the third time after falling 75 […]

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