Day: July 28, 2013

Deadline Sept. 30 to Apply for Mortgage Payment Assistance

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Illinois Hardest Hit Program offers temporary help to homeowners faced with unemployment and underemployment to catch up on their mortgage payments and keep their home. Preventing foreclosure is one of the most essential ways to keep our communities strong. Cook County Commissioner Joan Murphy wants to make certain[Read More…]

FBI: Illinois Man Indicted for Obstruction of Justice and Filing False Liens Against Two Federal Judges and Other Government Employees

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Justice Department announced July 25 that Tyree Davis Sr. of Flossmoor, Illinois, was arrested on an eight-count indictment charging him with obstruction of justice and filing fraudulent multi-billion-dollar liens against government employees. The indictment was returned on July 24, 2013, by a federal grand jury in Chicago.[Read More…]

FBI: Alleged Attempts to Collect Debts Lead to Extortion Charges Against Nine Chicago Men

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Three federal grand jury indictments were unsealed July 24 charging a total of nine defendants with allegedly collecting debts through the use of intimidation, fear, and, in one instance, physical violence. The indictments, which were returned Tuesday, were unsealed July 24 following arrests made by special agents of[Read More…]

MPP Airs Ad at Brickyard 400 NASCAR Race

NASCAR fans attending this weekend’s Brickyard 400 races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be greeted by an MPP video ad in support of making marijuana legal for adults. It is scheduled to air dozens of times on a jumbotron outside the entrance of the speedway, which will be “the[Read More…]

Victory Center, 101 Main Street, Park Forest

Police: ‘Combative’ Knife-wielding Victory Center Resident Dead after Being Shot with Bean Bag Rounds

Victory Center in Park Forest. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Park Forest police are waiting for the results of an autopsy following the death of a 95-year-old Victory Center resident police describe in a statement as "combative," and wielding a foot-long "butcher-type kitchen knife." In a statement released July[Read More…]

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