Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- From the Park Forest Police Department: On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 shortly before 5:00 p.m., Park Forest Police Officers were dispatched to the area of Allegheny St. and Allegheny Ct. for the report of a person who had been shot. Responding officers found an 18 year old[Read More…]
Day: December 1, 2016
Paid Leave Policies Must Work for Everyone, Including LGBTQ Families
Gregg Pitts feeds his son Thomas Brunson-Pitts, 6 months, a bottle in the morning as his husband Brooks Brunson gets ready for work at their home in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 2016. AP/Jacquelyn Martin New report focuses on the importance of inclusive definitions of family in workplace leave policies,[Read More…]
New Center for American Progress Brief Shows How Trump’s Infrastructure Proposal Is Fatally Flawed
A construction worker walks inside the State Route 99 tunnel in Seattle on April 25, 2016. AP/Elaine Thompson Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2016. President-elect Donald Trump’s fatally flawed infrastructure proposal enriches Wall Street investors while passing the bill to middle-class Americans in the form of high tolls and other user[Read More…]
Iraqi Forces Make ‘Remarkable Turnaround,’ Operation Inherent Resolve Official Says
Air Force Senior Airman Kix Payne, a 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron boom operator, prepares for a Marine EA-6B Prowler to refuel over Iraq, Nov. 29, 2016. The 340th EARS extend the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by delivering 60,000 pounds of fuel to Air[Read More…]
More Than 100 Scientists Urge Missouri to Ban Unlimited Commercial Trapping of Wild Turtles
Common snapping turtle photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons/Dakota L. Thousands From State Rivers Have Been Caught, Sold, Exported Overseas JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2016. The Missouri Department of Conservation today received a letter signed by more than 100 scientists, including the nation’s top turtle-conservation experts, asking for a complete ban on[Read More…]
Man Who Worked on Trump’s Michigan Campaign Convicted of 10 Counts of Voter Fraud
MICHIGAN–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2016 By Walter Einenkel Good work making America corrupt again Trump knows very well about voter fraud. His people and the party he represents work diligently on suppressing the vote, while also engaging in some voter fraud themselves. Case in point: Brandon Michael Hall. The 27-year-old Trump supporter was[Read More…]
350.org Japan and Green Peace Japan Hold Joint #NoDAPL Action Encouraging Japanese Banks’ to Divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline
TOKYO -(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2016. Today, 350.org Japan and Green Peace Japan held a “#NoDAPL Japan” photo action to highlight the massive financing that Japanese banks are pouring into the Dakota Access Pipeline project in the U.S., a project that has endangered water access rights among minority populations in the country.[Read More…]
ACLU of North Carolina Responds to Lack of Charges in Police Killing of Keith Lamont Scott
CHARLOTTE, N.C. –(ENEWSPF)–November 30, 2016. Today, Mecklenburg County District Attorney Andrew Murray announced that he will not bring charges against the police officer who killed Keith Lamont Scott. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has said that Mr. Scott was shot while officers were trying to execute an arrest warrant for a[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan and Better Business Bureau Encourage Consumers to Use Caution When Shipping Gifts Internationally for the Holidays
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Chicago and Northern Illinois today urged Illinois residents who send holiday gifts internationally to follow important tips to avoid being scammed and paying expensive fees when packages are “lost,” stolen or delayed. “Unfortunately, scam artists[Read More…]
Illinois’ Stateville Correctional Center’s F House Officially Closed
Springfield, IL –(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2016. John Baldwin, Acting Director for the Illinois Department of Corrections, today announced that the F House at Stateville Correctional Center has officially closed. The Illinois Department of Corrections moved its final thirty-six offenders out of the housing unit on Wednesday, November 30, 2016. “We[Read More…]
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