Day: August 18, 2008

Slow Down, Stay Alert as Kids Head Back to School

AURORA, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fifty-six million children across the country begin heading back to school this month, and AAA is urging motorists to slow down and stay alert in neighborhoods and school zones with its 75th annual School’s Open—Drive Carefully campaign. Unsafe driving in school zones AAA’s School’s Open—Drive Carefully campaign hopes[Read More…]

Taco Bell Shift Manager Charged with Felony Theft

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A Shift Manager at the Taco Bell on Sauk Trail in Park Forest was arrested last week and charged with stealing over $11,000 from the business. Taco Bell District Manager Elizabeth Brewer reported the alleged theft to Commander Green of the Park Forest Police Department on August[Read More…]

Park Forest Police Report – August 18, 2008

The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Wendy Heise) Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other[Read More…]

IRAQ: Students Fail, Like So Much Else

Inter Press Service By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* BAGHDAD, Aug 8 (IPS) – Living from one crisis to another, without electricity or freedom to move under a collapse of security, massive numbers of Iraqi students are failing their exams. "It is a natural result of what is going on[Read More…]

The Blame Game and ‘Section 8’

Commentary Park Forest’s Crime Free Housing Ordinance helped make quite an impact on one area of the village last week. While some were evicted from their residences in the Lofts of Thorn Creek because of failure to pay rent, there’s no question that a fair number of the 34 evictions[Read More…]

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