Florida Sentinel Bulletin

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida House and Senate redistricting panels will work off the other’s map. House Reapportionment Committee Chairman Will Weatherford said Friday that he’d follow the Senate’s example. The Wesley Chapel Republican noted that the Senate this week released proposed Senate and congressional district maps but did not draft one for the House. Weatherford […]

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Bishop Eddie Long is taking a brief leave from the church he transformed into one of the nation’s biggest and most influential, telling congregants at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Sunday he was going to use the time to heal his family. As Eddie Long announced he was taking a leave from his pastor duties […]

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The House Ethics Committee announced Friday it will continue its investigation into allegations Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. or someone acting on his behalf offered to raise campaign cash for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for a Senate appointment in 2008. The committee had previously said it would determine by Friday what course its investigation of […]

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Former professional wrestler Andre Davis, who wrestled under the name “Gangsta Of Love” and “Sweet Sexy Sensation“, has been convicted by a jury in Cincinnati, Ohio of charges that he had sex with women without telling them that he knew he had tested postive for the virus that causes AIDS. Davis was convicted on 14 […]

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A 103-year-old woman facing foreclosure from her home will not be forced to leave the dwelling she has lived in for the past 53 years. The bank administering a second mortgage on the northwest Atlanta house where Vinia Hall lives will work out an arrangement so that she and her 83-year-old daughter, Kathelyn Cornelius, don’t […]

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Returning as a feature this week is Desiree as our Beauty Unlimited feature. If you didn’t see her Friday, make sure you get a good look at her now. Desiree is much too busy to be bothered by petty things, and she always can be found trying to improve herself, and also surround herself with […]

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Hillsborough County Public School bus driver, Trevor Dooley, was arrested and charged with manslaughter on September 26, 2010 as the result of a fatal altercation Dooley had with a neighbor, David James, 41. Deputies said James was playing basketball with his 8-year-old daughter near their home and gave a 14-year-old boy permission to skateboard on […]

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BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer On September 20th, a special meeting was called by the East Tampa Community Revitalization Partnership for citizens to give their input on a proposed roundabout for the junction of 22nd Street and 21st Street. Also discussed at that meeting was the purchased of a house at that junction. […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Ms. Nicole Walker said she is still in shock over the death of her sister, Ms. Monica Alvarez (pictured, right). Ms. Alvarez died on November 16th after she was hit by a car near the intersection of N. 43rd Street and E. Hillsborough Avenue. On Thursday, she completed […]

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