SPRINGFIELD –(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2015. Parents who owe delinquent child support and like to gamble be warned; if you win big at Illinois casinos, it’s your children who will benefit. In a joint venture between the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services and the Illinois Gaming Board, the state recently[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Mohammed Hamzah Khan for Allegedly Attempting to Support Terrorism Overseas
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)-January 9, 2015. A southwest suburban Bolingbrook man who was arrested in October, was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly attempting to travel overseas to join a foreign terrorist organization operating inside Iraq and Syria, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendant, Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, a[Read More…]
Justice Department Enters Into Settlement Agreement with the State of Kansas to Protect Prisoners at the Topeka Correctional Facility from Sexual Abuse and Misconduct
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2015. Today, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division reached an agreement with the state of Kansas to reform the Kansas State Department of Corrections (KDOC) correctional practices at the Topeka Correctional Facility (TCF) to protect its women prisoners from sexual victimization. The agreement resolves allegations that[Read More…]
Daiichi Sankyo Inc. Agrees to Pay $39 Million to Settle Kickback Allegations Under the False Claims Act
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2015. Daiichi Sankyo Inc., a global pharmaceutical company with its U.S. headquarters in New Jersey, has agreed to pay the United States and state Medicaid programs $39 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce physicians to prescribe Daiichi[Read More…]
DICK’S Sporting Goods Voluntarily Recalls Fitness Gear Inversion Table
PITTSBURGH, PA –(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2015. DICK’S Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) has voluntarily recalled the Fitness Gear Inversion Table. Customers who purchased the table (Style STE00059FG or Style STE00118FG) anytime between November 2011 and September 2014 from DICK’S stores in the United States or online at DICKS.com are encouraged to return[Read More…]
Newly-formed Governors State University Concert Chorale Gala Debut at Center for Performing Arts
University Park, IL –(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2015. The 130-voice Governors State University Concert Chorale, under the direction of Albert M. Jackson, has announced their 2014-2015 season Gala Concert performance to be held in the Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University. The group, which operated for the past 16 seasons under[Read More…]
Payroll Employment Rises by 252,000 in December 2014; Unemployment Rate Declines to 5.6%
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2015. Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 252,000 in December, and the unemployment rate declined to 5.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, construction, food services and drinking places, health care, and manufacturing. NOTE: Revision of[Read More…]
Ebola: Vaccine Trials Can Offer ‘Signs of Hope’ Says UN Health Chief
WHO mobile lab scientists at the crossing point between Guinea and Sierra Leone, two of the countries affected by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Photo: WHO/Saffea Gborie GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–8 January 2015 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today convened in Geneva its second ever high-level meeting on Ebola[Read More…]
Cicero Man Sentenced To 40 Years In Prison For Arson That Killed Man Sleeping In Adjacent Apartment In 2012
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–January 8, 2015. A Cicero man was sentenced today to 40 years in federal prison for setting fire in January 2012 to his estranged girlfriend’s southwest side apartment that resulted in killing a man sleeping in the apartment next door. The defendant, JUAN ADAME, was convicted of federal arson[Read More…]
DePaul University Earns Carnegie Distinction for Community Engagement
“The opportunity to bring ideas, research, resources and service to bear on the community is a primary reason faculty, students and staff come to DePaul. It’s what we do,” said the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., president of DePaul University, which received the 2015 Community Engagement Classification from the Carnegie[Read More…]
