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Wild Animal Tracks at Thorn Creek Nature Center

Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Have you ever wondered how animals spend the winter? Join us Saturday, December 14 from 1-3 p.m. at Thorn Creek Nature Center to explore how different animals survive through the different seasons. Tracks can be clues to wild animals’ identities and behaviors. We’ll put ourselves in the paws of Thorn[Read More…]

The fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope with its sunshield and unitized pallet structures (UPSs) that fold up around the telescope for launch, are seen partially deployed to an open configuration to enable telescope installation.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Has Been Assembled for the First Time

By Thaddeus CesariNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Goddard Space Science Center-(ENEWSPF)-Reaching a major milestone, engineers have successfully connected the two halves of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Redondo Beach, California. Once it reaches space, NASA’s most powerful and complex space telescope will explore the cosmos[Read More…]

Justice gavel by Tori Rector

Former Executives and Employees of Health Technology Company Outcome Health Charged in Alleged $1 Billion Fraud Scheme

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Four former executives and two former employees of Outcome Health (Outcome), a Chicago-based health technology start-up company founded in 2006, were charged for their alleged roles in a fraud scheme that targeted the company’s clients, lenders and investors, and involved approximately $1 billion in fraudulently obtained funds. Charged[Read More…]

An artist impression of the Milky Way, showing the thick and thin discs.

Star-quake Vibrations lead to New Estimate for Age of Milky Way

Data gathered by NASA’s now-defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery. Royal Astronomical Society-(ENEWSPF)- Star-quakes recorded by NASA’s Kepler space telescope have helped answer a long-standing question about the age of the “thick disc” of the Milky Way. In a paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of[Read More…]

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Police: Banned from Property, Man Returns, Threatens to Kill Woman – Reports from Oct. 23 through Oct. 27, 2019

Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- These reports include a man arrested who had previously been banned from a cooperative. He returned, according to police, and allegedly threatened to kill a resident. Other reports include charges of domestic battery, theft, and driving while license was suspended. Providing more details than readers will find in any[Read More…]

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DUIs: Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for October 8 through October 15, 2019

Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- These police reports include arrests through October 15, 2019. Charges for those arrested during this time period include DUIs and driving without insurance. Providing more details than readers will find in any other police beat reports, we invite readers to subscribe to get the whole story, every day. eNews Park Forest has always[Read More…]

Child reaches for an officer during a domestic battery incident in Park Forest.

Child Reaches for Officer’s Hand During Domestic Incident: In Thanksgiving for Our Police and Fire

Commentary by Gary Kopycinski Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Police and Fire personnel in Park Forest have made great strides in reaching out to the public through social media. They have also worked to maintain a positive relationship overall with the public, not only through online outreach but in a personal way,[Read More…]

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