Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. An associate of the Armenian Power gang, who was convicted at trial for his role in a racketeering conspiracy that included stealing personal and financial information of elderly bank customers for accounts valued at more than $25 million, was sentenced to serve 160 months in prison[Read More…]
Day: August 18, 2014
Former Patriarch of the Lorenzana Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy Charges
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. Waldemar Lorenzana Sr., 75, the patriarch of the Lorenzana drug trafficking organization in Guatemala, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to import over 450 kilograms of cocaine into the United States. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting Special Agent[Read More…]
Attorney General Holder’s Statement on Latest Developments in Federal Civil Rights Investigation in Ferguson, MO, Aug. 18, 2014
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement Monday following his briefing of President Obama on the latest developments in the federal civil rights investigation in Ferguson, Missouri: “As I informed the President this afternoon, the full resources of the Department of Justice are being committed[Read More…]
Statement by President Obama on the Completion by the M/V Cape Ray of the Destruction of Syria’s Declared Chemical Weapons
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. Today we mark an important achievement in our ongoing effort to counter the spread of weapons of mass destruction by eliminating Syria’s declared chemical weapons stockpile. The most lethal declared chemical weapons possessed by the Syrian regime were destroyed by dedicated U.S. civilian and military professionals[Read More…]
Carts and Cocktails 2014 Event Honors Mark diSuvero, Exhibits Works of Chakaia Booker and Barry Tinsley
University Park, IL.—(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2014 – Governors State University celebrates several new additions at the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park as well as the 45th anniversary of one of its signature works at Carts & Cocktails 2014, which will be held Saturday, September 13, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. The event[Read More…]
Childhood Disability Rates Continue to Rise
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. Between 2001 and 2011, the percentage of children with disabilities rose 16 percent. The study, “Changing Trends of Childhood Disability, 2001–2011” appearing in the September 2014 issue of Pediatrics (published online Aug. 18) found that while there has been a decline in physical disabilities,[Read More…]
HPV Remains Effective 8 Years Later
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. The study, “Long-Term Study of a Quadrivalent HumanPapillomavirus Vaccine,” appearing in the September 2014 issue of Pediatrics (published online Aug. 18), examined whether the HPV vaccine remains effective 8 years after initial vaccination. Researchers followed boys and girls who were vaccinated with the HPV[Read More…]
Parents Who Refuse Vitamin K for Newborn Also More Likely to Refuse Vaccines
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. Vitamin K is recommended for newborns to prevent a rare bleeding disorder that can result in long-term brain damage and death. In 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on a cluster of four cases of vitamin K deficiency bleeding in infants[Read More…]
Emphasizing MMR Vaccine’s Benefits for Children Increases Parents’ Intent to Immunize
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. Previous studies have shown that messages highlighting vaccines’ benefits to society at large have resulted in increased immunization rates among adults, but it’s unclear whether this pattern holds for parents deciding whether to vaccinate their children. In a study in the September 2014 issue[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel Announces City To Host Watch Party For Jackie Robinson West Little League World Series Game On Monday Evening
Watch Party Will Again be Held at Jackie Robinson Park CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2014. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that the City of Chicago will again host a watch party on Monday evening, August 18 for friends, families and neighbors of the Jackie Robinson West All Stars for their upcoming game against[Read More…]
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