Florida Sentinel Bulletin

NEW YORK — A friend of slain radio and TV personality DJ Megatron told investigators Monday the two were chatting on the phone as the deejay went out to buy marijuana when the line went dead, likely because he’d been shot. The friend was on the phone with the 32-year-old deejay, whose real name is […]

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West coast rapper, Mack 10 has been hit with a lawsuit that claims the MC has failed to pay for close to 30 hours of studio time, as reported by TMZ. According to a lawsuit filed by DoggHouse Studio operator Rodger Carter, the West Side Connection member has an unpaid bill of close to $2,000. […]

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President Barack Obama declared Monday night that the U.S. military action in Libya had “stopped (Moammar) Gadhafi’s deadly advance,” fulfilling what he said was a U.S. responsibility not to “turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries.” “It may not happen overnight, as a badly weakened Gadhafi tries desperately to hang on to power,” […]

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A New York City child welfare supervisor charged in connection with the death of a starved and beaten 4-year-old girl says she told her superiors the caseworker couldn’t handle his workload. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Chereece Bell says she had asked her bosses to transfer caseworker Damon Adams out of her […]

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier is being discharged from a hospital in the country’s capital. Two SUVs and a police escort were waiting outside the hospital Tuesday to take the ex-strongman known as “Baby Doc” home. Family friend Enzo Alcindor says Duvalier is heading to the villa where he is under house […]

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA  — Nelson Mandela’s foundation is reaching out to the young, networked and socially conscious, bringing teens to a news conference Monday to announce it was launching a Twitter account. Thando Sithebe, a 17-year-old Soweto high school student, called Mandela a “father to everyone” and said he would use his own Twitter and […]

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WASHINGTON — Christine Kwapnoski hasn’t done too badly in nearly 25 years in the Wal-Mart family, making more than $60,000 a year in a job she enjoys most days. But Kwapnoski says she faced obstacles at Wal-Mart-owned Sam’s Club stores in both Missouri and California: Men making more than women and getting promoted faster. She […]

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MORENO VALLEY, CA — Authorities have arrested another suspect in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in a Riverside County, Calif., park bathroom. County sheriff’s Cpl. Courtney Donowho says 19-year-old Michael Sykes of Moreno Valley was arrested Monday morning but she has no other details. Sykes is the eighth person arrested in connection with […]

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This week’s Spotlight feature comes to us all the way from Queens, New York, but now calls Tampa home. Alicia describes herself as a hard working small business owner and single mom of two boys. Alicia comes from a very cultural Trinidadian family, and also does hair and makeup. She really takes pride in her […]

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