Florida Sentinel Bulletin

WASHINGTON — The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America’s unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits. Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent – a shift that points to a growing crisis of long-term unemployment. Nearly one-third […]

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One of five men sent to prison for the rape and murder of a middle school classmate two decades ago walked out of an Illinois prison Friday, exonerated by new DNA evidence that also has cleared at least two of the others, including his half-brother. James Harden, now 36, stood outside the walls of Menard […]

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Sources inside the family of a missing 5-year-old Glendale, Ariz. girl say Jhessye Shockley wasn’t in school for a week and a half before she disappeared. This and other revelations are slowly coming to the surface as Glendale homicide detectives  are now leading the investigation three weeks into the girl’s disappearance. Family members say Jhessye’s […]

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Thousands of inmates who have been incarcerated for possessing small amounts of cocaine will get a taste of freedom soon due to the Crack Cocaine Disparity Law. The law changes the 100-to-1 disparity between minimum sentences for crack and powder cocaine to 18-to-1.

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SHANGHAI — Tiger Woods’ former caddie caused another sensation, this time by using a racial slur to disparage his old boss during a caddies award roast in Shanghai. Steve Williams received a mock award Friday night for “Celebration of the Year” for his TV interview after Adam Scott won the Bridgestone Invitational. That was the […]

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PHILADELPHIA — Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier has liver cancer and is under hospice care. The 67-year-old boxer was diagnosed four or five weeks ago, Frazier’s personal and business manager said Saturday. Frazier had been in out and out of the hospital since early October and receiving hospice treatment the last week.

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NEW YORK — NBA players have until Wednesday to accept Commissioner David Stern’s latest offer, though the response already seems obvious. “Right now, we’ve been given the ultimatum, and our answer is that’s not acceptable to us,” union president Derek Fisher said. But the next proposal promises to be worse, surely moving players and owners […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for former NFL star Terrell Owens after he failed to show up last month for a court date regarding child support payments. Owens’ spokeswoman said Saturday the free-agent wide receiver tried to reschedule his Oct. 24 hearing in Contra Costa County Court because he had set […]

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NEW YORK — At Sunday’s New York City Marathon, Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai detonated the men’s course record by over two-and-a-half minutes in 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds — with the second and third place finishers also under the course record — and Ethiopian Firehiwot Dado won the women’s race in a swift 2:23:15, the […]

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