Florida Sentinel Bulletin

RIO DE JANEIRO — More than 3,000 police and soldiers backed by armored personnel carriers raced into Brazil’s biggest slum before dawn Sunday, quickly gaining control of a shantytown ruled for decades by a heavily armed drug gang. The takeover of the Rocinha neighborhood was the most ambitious operation yet in an effort to increase […]

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Government aid helped cut the poverty rate nearly in half, according to a study conducted by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The Census Bureau estimates that last year a record 46 million people lived below the poverty line, and revised figures released this week suggest that the number may in fact be more […]

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NEW YORK — R&B diva Patti LaBelle hurled curses — and half a bottle of water — at a woman and her 18-month-old daughter after a dust-up over parenting in an apartment building lobby, according to a lawsuit filed Monday and the family’s lawyer. LaBelle’s publicists and lawyer didn’t immediately respond. The couple live in […]

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LL Cool J, along with his wife, Simone and daughter Italia raised over $100,000 for cancer research during an event last weekend. LL hosted the charity event called “Why Fashion Matters.”

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Jay-Z’s Occupy Wall Street T-shirt line has been pulled from Rocawear’s website just days after critics slammed the millionaire rapper for cashing in on the movement without promising to share a penny of profits with the 99%. The shirts, stamped with the phrase, “Occupy All Streets,” first appeared when Russell Simmons tweeted a picture of […]

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A spa owner has come forward to accuse Nicki Minaj of being a temperamental diva just weeks after the rapper was named in an assault of a maid. Dawn DaLuise of Dawn DaLuise Skin Refinery L.A. is calling out Minaj for being a “temperamental diva.” According to the skincare specialist, the rapper cursed at her […]

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T.I. fans might not have much of a wait to get the King of The South’s new album. As Tip revealed in an interview his next LP could be here as soon as February, although the Atlanta rapper isn’t feeling pressed to finish it. “I mean, I don’t feel a certain amount of pressure to […]

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At 4:40 p. m. Tuesday, Tampa Police dispatch received a 9-1-1 call from a man who said he was on his way to the District III Police Headquarters with a body in the trunk of the Mercury Grand Marquis he was driving. Once he arrived, he honked the horn, and an officer approached the vehicle, […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor “I am so happy. I just thank God that my sister got her justice. Her soul is at peace now,” Ms. Rachel Johnson said of the guilty verdict of Vincent George Brown. A jury found Brown guilty of killing Ms. Jennifer Johnson in November 2008. Ms. Johnson further […]

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