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…]
Day: January 17, 2010
Video: Haitians React To Televangelist Pat Robertson’s ‘Devil Pact’ Remarks
Tip of the hat to the Miami Herald for this video.
Bears Defensive End Gaines Adams Dead At 26
From the Chicago Sun-Times: Bears’ defensive end Gaines Adams, 26, died this morning of an enlarged heart, a Greenwood County deputy coroner said. He’d been taken to the emergency room at Self Regional Hospital in Greenwood, S.C., and died at 7:20 a.m. Chicago time. An autopsy showed he died of[Read More…]
UN Secretary-General Touches Down in Quake-Devastated Haiti
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–17 January 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in Haiti, which was struck by a catastrophic earthquake on Tuesday, to show his solidarity with the people of the impoverished Caribbean nation and assess for himself the scale of the devastation. The 7.0 magnitude tremors on 12 January are[Read More…]
Rescuers Still Finding Survivors in Haiti, UN Reports
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–17 January 2010 – Search-and-rescue teams from around the world continue to work around the clock to pull survivors out of the rubble in the wake of Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, the United Nations reported today, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to arrive in the Caribbean nation[Read More…]
CNN Interview with USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and Lieutenant General P.K. Keen Re: Situation in Haiti
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2010. This is the STATE OF THE UNION report for Sunday, January 17th. JOHN KING: Under normal circumstances this would be a Sunday spent reflecting on the first year of this historic presidency, and on the very different political climate now compared to when we launched this[Read More…]
Mercy Corps Team in Haiti to Provide Relief and Prepare for Long-Term Recovery
Portland, OR–(ENESPF)–January 17, 2010. Mercy Corps emergency response team members arrived in Port-au-Prince to start mounting Mercy Corps’ comprehensive response to the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti on Tuesday. The team represents Mercy Corps’ A-team of humanitarian first responders. The group is comprised of eight experts from around the[Read More…]
Security Role in Haiti to Gain Prominence, Lt. Gen. Keen Says
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–Jan. 17, 2010 – The security side of U.S. humanitarian relief operations in Haiti will take on a larger role as violence increases in the aftermath of the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck five days ago, the top U.S. commander in Haiti said today. In the midst of the massive[Read More…]
Interview of Secretary of State Clinton With Sanjay Gupta of CNN Re: Haiti
Port-au-Prince, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2010. QUESTION: What were your first thoughts as you flew over today and (inaudible)? SECRETARY CLINTON: So many things went through my mind. Obviously, I have a lot of memories going back many years. And for the last year as Secretary of State, we’ve been working so[Read More…]
MuscleMaster.com Conducts a Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Certain Body Building Products
Northborough, MA–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2010 – MuscleMaster.com, Inc. (“MuscleMaster.com”) announced that it is conducting a voluntary nationwide recall of all lots and expiration dates of the seventeen below listed dietary supplements sold between June 1, 2009 and November 17, 2009 (hereinafter “Recalled Products”). FDA informed MuscleMaster.com that it believes that the[Read More…]