Astronaut Mike Hopkins works outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk Dec. 24. Image Credit: NASA TV HOUSTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 24, 2013. Spacewalkers Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins are conducting a second spacewalk to install a spare ammonia pump module. The duo switched their spacesuits to battery power at 6:53 a.m.[Read More…]
Year: 2013
In and Around Park Forest Week of December 23, 2013
2 year old Rider Carroll enjoying the magic of Christmas. (Photo: Rosemary Piser) Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—December 23, 2013. Grandma Mary used to tell me that you know you’re getting old when summer goes by faster and Christmas comes sooner every year! Now that I’m in my twilight years, I appreciate[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for December 23, 2013
A winter past at the Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) 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[Read More…]
As South Sudan Conflict Worsens, Secretary General Ban Proposes Reinforcing UN Peacekeepers
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–23 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called a crisis meeting of his top advisers on the deteriorating situation in South Sudan today and proposed reinforcing the United Nations peacekeeping force there in a bid to stem a conflict increasingly marked by ethnically targeted killings. “I am determined to[Read More…]
Africa Command Repositions Forces in East Africa to Increase Flexibility
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–December 23, 2013 – The commander of U.S. Africa Command is repositioning forces in East Africa in an effort to attain maximum flexibility to respond to State Department requests, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters here today. Warren also told reporters that three of the four U.S. personnel[Read More…]
Remarks on the Current Situation in South Sudan by Ambassador Donald Booth, Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 23, 2013. Okay, good morning, afternoon, whatever it is there. Let me go ahead and start with just a short statement on today’s visit to Juba. I visited Juba today, where I had a frank and open discussion with President Salva Kiir; the discussion focused on a range[Read More…]
Justice Department and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reach $35 Million Settlement to Resolve Allegations of Lending Discrimination by National City Bank
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 23, 2013. The Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a consent order today to resolve allegations that National City Bank engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination that increased loan prices for African-American and Hispanic borrowers who obtained residential mortgages between 2002 and 2008[Read More…]
Four Minneapolis-based Return Preparers Indicted for Conspiracy, Aggravated Identity Theft, Preparing False Returns
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 23, 2013. A 63-count superseding indictment charging Chatonda Khofi, Ishmael Kosh, Amadou Sangaray and Francis Saygbay in a conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was unsealed on Monday, December 23, in Minneapolis, Minn., the Justice Department and IRS announced today. The superseding indictment was returned by[Read More…]
Former Ohio Deputy Treasurer Pleads Guilty for His Role in Kickback and Money Laundering Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 23, 2013. The former Ohio deputy treasurer pleaded guilty today for his role in leading a bribery and money laundering scheme involving the Ohio Treasurer’s Office. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark T. D’Alessandro of the Southern[Read More…]
Ohio Lobbyist Pleads Guilty for Role in Kickback and Money Laundering Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 23, 2013. An Ohio attorney and lobbyist pleaded guilty today for his role in a bribery and money laundering scheme involving the Ohio Treasurer’s Office. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark T. D’Alessandro of the Southern District[Read More…]
