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 local media. An arrest does not mean[Read More…]
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Help Park Forest Police Department Win K9 Grant
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 17, 2017 By: Park Forest Communications When K9 Tobi retired from service this summer, the Park Forest Police Department’s K9 unit, which had been active for the past 25 years or more, came to a hiatus. As the Department looked to find and fund ways to continue[Read More…]
Justice Department Announces First Ever Indictments Against Manufacturers of Fentanyl and Other Opiate Substances
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 17, 2017 By: Department of Justice The Justice Department announced today that federal grand juries in the Southern District of Mississippi and the District of North Dakota returned indictments, unsealed yesterday, against two Chinese nationals and their North American based traffickers and distributors for separate conspiracies to distribute[Read More…]
Harvard Study: More Than Half of Police Killings Not Officially Documented on U.S. Death Certificates
Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017 By: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Official death certificates in the U.S. failed to count more than half of the people killed by police in 2015—and the problem of undercounting is especially pronounced in lower-income counties and for deaths that are due to[Read More…]
AG Madigan Files Lawsuit Against Alleged Student Loan Debt Relief Scam in National Crackdown by 12 Attorneys General & the FTC
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—October 13, 2017 By: Office of Attorney General Madigan Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a lawsuit against the operators of an alleged student loan debt relief scam that took advantage of struggling student loan borrowers by charging large upfront fees for no help in reducing their debt loads.[Read More…]
California Governor Signs Major Drug Sentencing Reform
California Legislature Rolls Back Sentencing Enhancement That Experts Say Failed to Reduce Drug Sales or Availabilty Sacramento, CA—(ENEWSPF)—October 12, 2017 By: Eunisses Hernandez Today, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 180, authored by State Senators Holly Mitchell (Los Angeles) and Ricardo Lara (Long Beach). With his signature, Brown[Read More…]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Finalizes Rule to Stop Payday Debt Traps
Lenders Must Determine If Consumers Have the Ability to Repay Loans That Require All or Most of the Debt to be Paid Back at Once WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 Authored by: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today finalized a rule that is aimed[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Reaches $1 Million Settlement with Suburban Construction Company for Falsifying Payroll Records on Public Works Projects
Madigan’s Settlement Addresses Contractors’ Alleged Abuse of State’s Prevailing Wage Laws Chicago –(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017. Authored by: Office of Attorney General Madigan Attorney General Lisa Madigan yesterday announced a $1 million settlement with A. Lamp Concrete Contractors Inc. (A. Lamp), a construction company based in suburban Schaumburg, for failing to[Read More…]
Atlanta City Council Votes Unanimously to Decriminalize Marijuana, Heads to Mayor’s Desk
People Caught With Under an Ounce of Marijuana Would Be Subject to Fine Instead of Arrest Atlanta, GA—(ENEWSPF)—October 3, 2017 By: Drug Policy Alliance Monday afternoon, after two hours of debate amongst the city council members – the Atlanta city council voted unanimously 15-0 to pass Ordinance 17-O-1152. This legislation[Read More…]
Two Injured In Shooting On Minocqua Street
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A shooting took place in the 300 block of Minocqua Street on Saturday night, according to a statement by Park Forest police. Two residents of the Village of Park Forest suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to police. Police do not believe the shooting was random. The incident took[Read More…]
