COPS Office Releases 42 Findings and Recommendations to Implement Best Practice at the Spokane Police Department Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 19, 2014. The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) announced today the completion of a Collaborative Reform Review of the Spokane Police Department’s use of force policies[Read More…]
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Two Remaining Colombian Nationals Involved in the Kidnapping and Murder of DEA Agent Terry Watson Plead Guilty
All Seven Defendants Charged Have Now Been Convicted Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 19, 2014. Two Colombian nationals pleaded guilty today to second degree murder and conspiracy to kidnap an internationally protected person for their roles in the kidnapping and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent James “Terry” Watson in Bogotá,[Read More…]
Utility Company Sentenced in Wyoming for Killing Protected Birds at Wind Projects, Dec. 19, 2014
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 19, 2014. PacifiCorp Energy, a subsidiary of PacifiCorp, based in Portland, Oregon, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Wyoming today to violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) in connection with the deaths of protected birds, including golden eagles, at two of the company’s wind projects[Read More…]
FDA Approves Viekira Pak to Treat Hepatitis C
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2014. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir and ritonavir tablets co-packaged with dasabuvir tablets) to treat patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection, including those with a type of advanced liver disease called cirrhosis. Hepatitis C is[Read More…]
Public Assistance Eligibility App Launches Food Stamp Offerings in Spanish
Spanish Speakers Can Now Easily Pre-screen Food Stamp Eligibility CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)—December 19, 2014. On the heels of President Obama’s executive order on immigration, mRelief, an app that helps Chicagoans determine their eligibility for government benefits — and local community resources through Purple Binder — has launched mRelief español. The web application’s latest version[Read More…]
UN Secretary General Ban Visits Ebola-hit West Africa, Declares Zero Cases ‘Must Be Everyone’s Goal’
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Monrovia. UN Photo/Evan Schneider MONROVIA–(ENEWSPF)–19 December 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that there is reason to be “cautiously optimistic” about defeating the Ebola crisis in West Africa, as[Read More…]
T-Mobile to Pay At Least $90 Million, Including Full Consumer Refunds To Settle FTC Mobile Cramming Case
Settlement Requires Company To Pay Fines to States and FCC Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2014. T-Mobile has agreed to fully refund its customers for unwanted third-party charges it placed on their phone bills, a practice known as mobile cramming, paying at least $90 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit[Read More…]
Treasury Sells Entire Ally Financial Stake, Taking Total Recovery to $19.6 Billion and Closing Auto Rescue Program
Auto program helped save auto industry, more than 1 million jobs WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2014. The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced that it agreed to sell all of its remaining 54.9 million shares of Ally Financial Inc. (Ally) common stock, exiting the last major Troubled Asset Relief Program[Read More…]
Nurses Voted #1 in Honesty, Ethics, Again as in 15 Previous Gallup Polls
Nation’s Largest Nurses Group Cites Greater Advocacy Role at Bedside, Beyond in Year of Ebola Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2014. In what has become a holiday tradition, registered nurses are once again viewed as the most trusted profession in the U.S., according to an annual Gallup survey conducted December 8-11.[Read More…]
NASA, Planetary Scientists Find Meteoritic Evidence of Mars Water Reservoir
This illustration depicts Martian water reservoirs. Recent research provides evidence for the existence of a third reservoir that is intermediate in isotopic composition between the Red Planet’s mantle and its current atmosphere. These results support the hypothesis that a buried cryosphere accounts for a large part of the initial water[Read More…]
