Runners line up on Westgate near Forest Trail Middle School for a recent running of the PFRPC’s Midwinter Cruise. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Are you feeling the winter blahs? Are you dying to get out there and run? Are you looking for a local fun running or walking[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Local Author Wants Justice After Crash With USPS Truck
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– As an author and educator, Jim Martin prefers to not be the story. Unfortunately, the soft-spoken Marian Catholic teacher, author of two novels, found himself in the middle of a Tri-State Tollway nightmare just before Christmas. While approaching the Lincoln Oasis in I294 on December 21, 2010, Martin[Read More…]
Remarks by Vice President Biden to the U.S. Forces-Iraq Troops
Al-Faw Palace, Camp Victory—(ENEWSPF)–January 13, 2011 – 5:50 p.m. Arabian Standard Time. VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: Task Force Troy, Task Force 807 Med, Task Force Phantom, USDC, I just want to say I am amazed you’re still here. (Laughter.) And I don’t mean in Iraq. I mean, this is my seventh[Read More…]
State Department Briefing by Phillip J. Crowley, January 13, 2011
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 13, 2011. INDEX: DEPARTMENT Secretary’s remarks at Forum for the Future in Doha / C Secretary’s meetings in Qatar Secretary’s Speech on U.S.-China Relations Memorial for Richard Holbrooke U.S.-Nigeria Binational Commission / Infrastructure Exchange Partnership with Pennsylvania DoT Secretary’s phone call with UK Foreign Minister Hague CUBA U.S.[Read More…]
DOD Identifies Three Army Casualties, January 13, 2011
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 13, 2011. The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died Jan. 12, in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. Killed were: Sgt. Omar Aceves, 30, of[Read More…]
IL Dept. of Employment Security Offices Closed to Honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 13, 2011. The offices of the Illinois Department of Employment Security will be closed on Monday, Jan. 17, in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Offices will re-open Tuesday. Office hours are 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Dr. King was born Jan. 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. The civil[Read More…]
New Hampshire Man Sentenced to 60 Years for Child Sexual Exploitation Offenses
Concord, NH–(ENEWSPF)– Ronald Goergen, 47, of Newmarket was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to four counts of sexual exploitation of children, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas. The defendant was apprehended following a criminal investigation commenced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Innocent Images[Read More…]
Man Sentenced for Role in Supporting Terrorist Plot to Attack JFK Airport
Philadelphia, PA–(ENEWSPF)– Earlier today, in the Eastern District of New York, United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry sentenced Abdel Nur to 15 years in prison for providing material support to the conspiracy to attack John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, by exploding fuel tanks and the[Read More…]
Two More Defendants in Operation Blind Spot Plead Guilty
Philadelphia, PA–(ENEWSPF)– Alexander Steele, 47, of Philadelphia, and Christopher J. Hahn, 48, of Edgewater, NJ, pled guilty today to charges in connection with a scheme that involved bribes to driver’s license examiners in exchange for fraudulent driver’s licenses, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Steele was a PennDOT driver’s[Read More…]
Fort Yates, North Dakota, Man Pleads Guilty to Child Abuse
Bismarck, ND–(ENEWSPF)– United States Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on January 13, 2011, Gabriel L. Martin, 29, of Fort Yates, North Dakota, pled guilty before United States District Court Judge Daniel L. Hovland to a charge of child abuse in Indian country. In February 2010, Martin struck a child with[Read More…]
