Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Firefighters found a 2-month-old girl in a first-floor bedroom while responding to a house fire in the Austin neighborhood. The baby died on the scene. Tiniya Coleman was found in a first-floor bedroom of 831 N. Laramie Ave. Firefighters responded to the fire around 2 a.m. and immediately found the little girl, District Chief Timothy […]

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The wildfires that burned homes and cars near the Dallas-Ellis County line Saturday are flaring back up in certain areas. Firefighters and homeowners have been fighting the hot spots. The only homeowner in Glenn Heights whose house was destroyed returned home Sunday to see it for the first time. Remica Cox couldn’t believe her eyes, […]

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It’s a long way from the soccer fields of Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp to the Ivy League — but Morris Kaunda Michael made the journey. Last month, Michael, a 23-year-old Sudanese refugee, graduated from Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering with a B.S. in biomedical engineering. He hopes to continue his studies in medical school […]

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of women who work there. The court ruled unanimously that the lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cannot proceed as a class action, reversing a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The lawsuit […]

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As of Tuesday, Summertime is officially here, and that’s means our features, right along with the weather, are going to get hotter. This week’s Spotlight feature, Jacara, is evidence of just how hot it’s going to get this year. This young lady loves to pose in front of the camera, and enjoys allowing people to […]

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A Broward County judge gave a penniless mother a priceless gift this week: freedom. Angel Smith, 41, had been arrested for leaving her two children in a hot car for two hours while she gave blood to earn money to feed them. She was paid around $30 for giving blood, but when she left the […]

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Tanya McDowell went from being a sympathetic figure to a convicted drug dealing criminal in a matter of months. In April, the homeless single mother enrolled her son in a school in the wrong district under a babysitter’s address and was charged with larceny. The Connecticut mom offered a Stamford undercover officer crack cocaine, marijuana […]

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was recently released from the hospital and will continue her recovery from a devastating head wound at her husband’s suburban Houston home. Giffords’ departure Wednesday from Houston’s TIRR Memorial Hermann marks a new phase in her rehabilitation. She struggles to speak and walk, and will need daily, intensive therapy, and whether she […]

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A Louisville man is facing multiple sex charges after police said he forced another man to perform oral sex on him at gunpoint before shooting him twice in the leg. Anton L. Malone is charged with three counts of first-degree sodomy and one charged of second-degree assault.

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