Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. Index for Today’s Briefing SECRETARY’S TRAVEL/GERMANY NORTH KOREA IRAQ/SYRIA/TURKEY IRAN/IRAQ VIETNAM CYPRUS/TURKEY CANADA LIBYA NIGERIA UKRAINE/RUSSIA MIDDLE EAST PEACE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/WEST AFRICA/USG/CUBA TRANSCRIPT: 2:17 p.m. EDT MS. HARF: Hello. Welcome to the daily briefing. I am very, very sorry for the crazy time changes this[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
As Ebola Response Accelerates, UN Health Agency Prepares for Arrival of Trial Vaccines
In early October 2014, with the help of the US Navy, a new mobile laboratory opened at Island Clinic, one of the WHO-supported Ebola Treatment Units (ETU) in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo: WHO/R. Sørenson GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–21 October 2014 – Amid positive developments in the global fight against Ebola, including a growing response[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel, Education and Community Leaders Launch Funding Campaign To Transform Arts Education In CPS Schools
“Be Creative: The Campaign for Creative Schools” to Raise $38 Million to Ensure Arts Education Reaches “Every Student in Every Grade in Every School” CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Board of Education President David Vitale and Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett today announced a transformative $38 million arts[Read More…]
Mayor Rahm Emanuel Announces Results Of City’s Online Community Forum
City Will Implement Three Ideas Submitted by Residents to Support Early Learners and Expand Chicago Public Library Resources; Four New Discussion Topics Launched CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced the results of the first round of CHIdeas, the online community forum launched last month to engage Chicago residents[Read More…]
Consumer Advisory: Vehicle Owners with Defective Airbags Urged to Take Immediate Action
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urges owners of certain Toyota, Honda, Mazda, BMW, Nissan, and General Motors vehicles to act immediately on recall notices to replace defective Takata airbags. The message comes with urgency, especially for owners of vehicles affected by the regional recalls[Read More…]
Freedom Hall Welcomes Steel Guitar Legends ‘The Slide Brothers’ on November 7
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 21, 2014. On Friday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m., Freedom Hall in Park Forest will welcome the critically acclaimed steel guitar legends The Slide Brothers to perform their unique blend of sacred steel, rock and blues. Musicians Calvin Cooke, Chuck Campbell, Darick Campbell and Aubrey Ghent are[Read More…]
Dentist And Wife Charged With Bankruptcy Fraud
ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–Octobr 21, 2014. A husband and wife, both formerly of Barrington Hills, Ill., were indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford on separate counts of making false statements in a bankruptcy case. The indictment alleges that DANIEL APOSTOLOPOULOS, 52, and SOULA APOSTOLOPOULOS, 45, each filed a Chapter[Read More…]
Corrections Officer And Three Inmates Among Seven Charged In Alleged Plot To Smuggle Contraband Into Cook County Jail
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. Nearly three ounces of marijuana was confiscated after it was found hidden inside two sandwiches that a Cook County corrections officer allegedly tried to smuggle into the Cook County Jail last year in exchange for a $200 bribe. As a result of that seizure and an[Read More…]
Congresswoman Duckworth Announces HUD Grants for Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg and Mount Prospect
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. Today, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) announced that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) to Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg and Mount Prospect in the amounts of $251,367.00, $307,536.00 and $271,504.00 respectively. The Community Development Block Grant program provides funding[Read More…]
New Gage Gallery Exhibit Attracts International Visitors
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. When five U.S. State Department-sponsored photographers from Jordan visited Chicago in October, one of the places they stopped was Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery. Members of the Jordanian delegation toured the gallery’s new “Faith, Focus, Flight: A John H. White Retrospective” exhibition, which closes Dec. 20. They learned[Read More…]
