Owners of several hundred rental properties in Park Forest will soon pay higher taxes as inappropriate exemptions are taken away. (Image: jscreationzs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net) Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Village officials report they have learned from the Cook County Assessor’s Office that 980 Park Forest properties in Cook County have been flagged[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Park Forest Police Reports for September 27, 2010
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…]
Saturday Night Live Takes On Christine O’Donnell (Video)
New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)– Saturday Night Live goes for the jugular satirizing Christine O’Donnell. Tip of the hat to Roger Ebert for the video.
FBI: Twenty-One Indicted in Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy
New Albany, NY–(ENEWSPF)– The indictment of 21 alleged cocaine traffickers was unsealed in U.S. District Court in New Albany, following the arrest of 17 of the defendants. Federal, state, and local law enforcement officers also served 16 search warrants (eight in Indiana, seven in Kentucky and one in Illinois). Seized[Read More…]
Aurora Woman Indicted for Allegedly Embezzling $252,848 from Employer
Springfield, MO–(ENEWSPF)– Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced September 23 that an Aurora, Missouri, woman who was indicted by a federal grand jury for counterfeit checks and mail fraud related to a scheme to embezzle $252,848 from her employer made her first appearance in[Read More…]
Marian Catholic Celebrates Homecoming and Class Reunions
Homecoming Court nominees are Seniors T.J. Galullo (Dyer, Ind.), Hayley Stuber (Oak Forest), Dia Bennett (Olympia Fields), Olivia Mlakar (Crete), Robbie Fink (South Holland), and Nate Bodnar (Highland, Ind.) (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Chicago Heights, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Pajama Day kicked off Marian Catholic High School’s Spirit Week Monday, as special days led up[Read More…]
‘See You At The Pole’ 2010 at Rich East
Students gather for See You At The Pole 2010 at Rich East. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– See You at the Pole is in it’s 20th year. It’s an international day of student prayer where students from around the world gather on the third Wednesday of September and pray for[Read More…]
Augusta, South Carolina, Man Pleads Guilty to Bank Robbery
Columbia, SC–(ENEWSPF)– United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that David Jackson, age 28, of Augusta, pled guilty in federal court for the June 6, 2007 robbery of the Regions Bank in North Augusta, South Carolina. United States District Court Judge Margaret B. Seymour took the guilty plea and will sentence[Read More…]
Daytona Beach Man Sentenced for Possessing Child Pornography
Orlando, FL–(ENEWSPF)– U.S. Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that U.S. District Judge John Antoon II on Friday sentenced Justin Edward Halbsgut (age 23, of Daytona Beach) to 42 months in federal prison for possessing child pornography. The court also ordered Halbsgut to forfeit his computers and hard drives that had[Read More…]
FBI: Chicago Man Arrested in Attempted Bombing Plot
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A 22-year-old Chicago man was arrested early Sunday morning, September 19, immediately after placing a backpack which he thought contained an explosive device into a curbside trash receptacle near a crowded North Side street corner, announced Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal[Read More…]
