Chicago Heights, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Marian Catholic High School honored 82 sophomores, juniors and seniors at the annual Academic Breakfast on April 21. Students honored have earned a grade-point average of 4.0 or higher in all semesters at Marian. Seniors include Josephine An, Megan Chio, Kyle Elam, George Funk, Arielle Hernandez-Lyons, Myles Howard,[Read More…]
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GSU School Counseling Professor Named Educator of the Year
University Park, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Dr. Katie Wix, Assistant Professor of Counseling, has only been an educator at Governors State University since last August, but she has already earned recognition for her work as an educator of school counselors. Dr. Wix was recently awarded the 2016 Illinois School Counselor Educator of the Year[Read More…]
Xylitol and Your Dog: Danger, Paws Off
Silver Spring, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Your six-month-old puppy, Hoover, will eat anything that isn’t tied down. Like many dog owners, you know chocolate can be dangerous to your pooch. But you may not know that if Hoover sticks his nose in your handbag and eats a pack of sugarless chewing gum, the consequences[Read More…]
Granite City Chiropractor Pleads Guilty To Healthcare Fraud And Money Laundering
Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today, that Bridget Brasfield, 45, of Edwardsville, Illinois, pled guilty to a two-count information charging Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering. Sentencing has been set for August 30, 2016, in U.S. District Court in Benton,[Read More…]
Did Star Formation Regulation Change as the Universe Evolved?
Subaru Telescope, Japan-(ENEWSPF)- An international team led by scientists at the Subaru Telescope and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich in Switzerland used the W. M. Keck Observatory (Note 1) to study the role of star formation rates in metal contents of distant galaxies. What they discovered is that the amount of[Read More…]
Amateurs Prepare Big-Picture Perspective To Support Juno Mission
EuroPlanet-(ENEWSPF)- Some of the world’s leading amateur and professional astronomers are meeting on 12-13 May to prepare for a campaign of ground-based global observations in support of NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter. Juno arrives on 4th July this year and will investigate Jupiter through a series of long elliptical orbits with[Read More…]
2016 Europe Summer Forecast: Heat To Bypass UK; Storms To Batter Areas From France To Poland
By Justin Roberti AccuWeather Global Weather Center-(ENEWSPF)- AccuWeather reports bouts of rain will suppress heat in the United Kingdom and Ireland this summer, while rain and thunderstorms frequent areas from Paris to Berlin and Warsaw. Meanwhile, dry and hot weather will settle in across Italy and the Balkans, leading to drought conditions, poor[Read More…]
Documents Show Massive Regulatory Failures at L.A. Gas Storage Facility
California Oil Officials Retroactively Approved Decades-old Work, Declined to Witness Leak Tests at Playa Del Rey Wells Los Angeles, CA-(ENEWSPF)- As California lawmakers hold hearings on the safety and reliability of gas-storage facilities, a new analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity finds that state oil and gas regulators have a[Read More…]
Study: Government Wolf-killing Reduces Tolerance, Spurs Wolf-poaching
Silver City, NM-(ENEWSPF)- A study published today of the proportion of wolves that went missing in Wisconsin and Michigan over the course of 18 years shows that when “culling” of wolves was permitted, poaching of wolves increased as well; when wolves were protected from culling, poaching decreased. The study accounted for[Read More…]
USW Applauds OSHA’s Rule Improving the Tracking of Workplace Illnesses and Injuries
Pittsburgh, PA-(ENEWSPF)- The United Steelworkers (USW) today praised the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announcement of a final rule revising the current regulation on its injury and illness record-keeping requirements. Under the revised rule, all employers must submit illness and injury reports electronically, with a frequency dependent on the size[Read More…]
