Month: September 2017

Hurricane Irma potential tracks

Hurricane Irma To Track Toward Us; Residents Of East And Gulf Coasts Urged To Prepare Now

By Jordan Root and Renee Duff, Meteorologists for AccuWeather.com AccuWeather-(ENEWSPF)- AccuWeather reports as Major Hurricane Irma churns across the northern Caribbean and towards the United States, residents along the Gulf and East coasts of the U.S. need to be on alert. Irma will blast the northern Caribbean with flooding rain,[Read More…]

Senographe Pristina

FDA Clears Mammography Device With Option for Patient-assisted Compression

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2017.  Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the first 2D digital mammography system that allows patients to increase or decrease the amount of compression applied to their own breast before the mammogram x-ray is taken. “Regular mammograms are an important tool in detecting breast[Read More…]

Logan Correctional Center

Report: Illinois’ Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoners “Exceedingly Poor and Often Dangerous”

Federally-appointed court monitor exposes shocking problems within IDOC CHICAGO, IL –(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2017.  The first annual report of a federally-appointed monitor regarding the Illinois Department of Corrections’ (IDOC) treatment of mentally ill prisoners was released to the public today. It confirms the complaints prisoners and their lawyers have made regarding[Read More…]

Department of Justice

Chicago Man Facing Federal Firearms Charges

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Chicago man is facing federal firearms charges for allegedly dealing ammunition and gun accessories on the city’s South Side, according to the Department of Justice. BRENT TURPIN illegally supplied an extended handgun magazine, a laser sight and two boxes of ammunition to a convicted felon who, unbeknownst[Read More…]

Map of Europe

U.S. State Department Issues Europe Travel Alert

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2017. The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the continued threat of terrorist attacks throughout Europe. This travel alert expires on November 30, 2017. Recent, widely reported incidents in France, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Finland demonstrate that the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham[Read More…]

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