Day: October 3, 2017

PSC Solar conference

Solar Summit at PSC Calls for Region to ‘Become Solar Ready’

CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—October 3, 2017 By: Prairie State College Office of Communications Prairie State College (PSC) recently hosted a Solar Summit, “Become Solar Ready,” as part of an ongoing effort on behalf of the campus community, surrounding community members and the South Metropolitan Higher Education Consortium (SMHEC). The goal of the[Read More…]

Senator Dick Durbin

Senator Durbin: Congress Is Complicit In Gun Violence If We Continue This Course Of Inaction

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—October 3, 2017 Authored by: Office of Senator Dick Durbin Following the tragic mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, that killed at least 59 people and injured more than 500, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) challenged his Senate colleagues to not just be casual observers of gun violence,[Read More…]

UChicago research

UChicago Physicist Lauds Nobel Winners Who Led Efforts to Detect Gravitational Waves

LIGO collaborator Daniel Holz credits trio for scientific leadership CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 3, 2017 By: Steve Koppes and Louise Lerner The University of Chicago’s Daniel Holz this morning saluted the three newest Nobel laureates in physics, with whom he worked as a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. The Nobel Foundation[Read More…]

Puerto Rico recovery

Food, Water, Fuel Still Priorities for Puerto Rico; 9K Military Now Helping Effort

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 3, 2017 By: Jim Garamone, DoD News Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello briefed reporters today on progress the unified collaboration of commonwealth and federal officials has made in delivering aid to the people of the island following Hurricane Maria. The governor briefed from San Juan ahead of President[Read More…]

City of Chicago OIG

OIG Audit Finds Widespread Chicago Police Department Mismanagement of Overtime

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 3, 2017 Authored by: Office of the Inspector General, City of Chicago A report released today by the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) inefficient management of overtime has potentially created millions in wasteful spending, an unchecked culture of abuse[Read More…]

Spc. Alexander W. Missildine

DoD Identifies Army Casualty, October 3, 2017

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 3, 2017 Authored by: U.S. Department of Defense The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. Spc. Alexander W. Missildine, 20, of Tyler, Texas, died Oct. 1 in Salah ad-Din Province, Iraq, as a result of injuries sustained when[Read More…]

CDC Headquarters

Cancers Associated with Overweight and Obesity Make up 40 percent of Cancers Diagnosed in the United States

More than 630,000 in the U.S. affected Atlanta, GA—(ENEWSPF)—October 3, 2017 Authored by: Center for Disease Control (CDC)  Overweight and obesity are associated with increased risk of 13 types of cancer. These cancers account for about 40 percent of all cancers diagnosed in the United States in 2014, according to[Read More…]

Illinos Attorney General seal

Attorney General Madigan Calls on Congress to Change Federal Law to Make Drug Treatment More Affordable & Accessible

Madigan & Attorneys General Urge Passage of “Road to Recovery” Act That Will Make Drug Treatment Options More Available Nationwide Chicago –(ENEWSPF)—October 2, 2017 Authored by: Office of Illinois Attorney General Attorney General Lisa Madigan today joined a coalition of 39 state attorneys general and the National Association of Attorneys[Read More…]

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