Plan Threatens Mexican Spotted Owls, Endangered Flycatchers, Watersheds PHOENIX—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. The U.S. Forest Service is proposing a new travel-management plan for Arizona’s Tonto National Forest that would allow off-road vehicles on more than 3,700 miles and risk destruction of watersheds and wild areas, including habitat for endangered species like[Read More…]
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Lawsuit Launched to Protect Threatened Marbled Murrelets From Clearcutting on Liquidated Oregon State Forests
Logging of Parcels Liquidated from Elliott State Forest Will Harm Marbled Murrelets, Other Wildlife, Water and People EUGENE, Ore.–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014. Conservation groups filed a notice of intent to sue Seneca Jones and Scott Timber today to prevent the imminent clearcutting of three large parcels of Elliott State Forest lands[Read More…]
Citizen Groups Slam Cuomo Administration Threats Over Oil-terminal Lawsuit
Call Threats of Financial Sanctions If Lawsuit Is Filed Over Global Expansion “Bullying” NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014. A coalition of community and environmental organizations today criticized the Cuomo administration’s threat to seek financial sanctions against tenants of a public housing project and environmental groups if they file a lawsuit challenging[Read More…]
Governor Quinn Continues Push to Properly Fund Education in Illinois
Urges Critical Investment in Education to Give Every Child the Opportunity for Success CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014. Governor Pat Quinn today visited students and teachers at the Jane Addams Elementary School in Chicago to continue his push to properly fund education in Illinois. In March, Governor Quinn proposed an honest and[Read More…]
Los Angeles Physician Indicted in $33 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. A Los Angeles physician was indicted today for a $33 million scheme to defraud Medicare, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. of the Central District of California, Special Agent in Charge Glenn R. Ferry[Read More…]
Massachusetts Man Pleads Guilty to Importing and Selling Counterfeit Intergrated Circuits from China and Hong Kong
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. Peter Picone, 41, of Methuen, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Connecticut to importing thousands of counterfeit integrated circuits (ICs) from China and Hong Kong and then reselling them to U.S. customers, including contractors supplying them to the U.S. Navy for use[Read More…]
John Charles Mccluskey Sentenced to Life in Prison for Carjacking and Murdering Oklahoma Couple
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. John Charles McCluskey, 49, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Judith C. Herrera of the District of New Mexico to serve life in prison followed by a consecutive term of 2,820 months (235 years) in prison for carjacking and murdering a retired couple from[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama and President Komorowski of Poland in a Joint Press Conference, June 3, 2014
Warsaw, Poland–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014 – 12:25 P.M. CET PRESIDENT KOMOROWSKI: (As interpreted.) Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, it really is a great joy and a great satisfaction for me to be able to host the President of the United States to Poland on the 25th anniversary of regaining freedom by[Read More…]
New Speech Language Pathology Assistant Program Open Houses Coming to South Suburban College
SOUTH HOLLAND, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. South Suburban College’s Health Professions Department will be hosting two Open Houses in June for their exciting new Speech Language Pathology Assistant program piloting in the Fall 2014 Semester. The Speech Language Pathology Assistant (SPA) educational program prepares individuals to work in a health or[Read More…]
Horrific Stories of Two Babies Victimized by the War on Drugs
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. By: Sharda Sekaran The multi-decade, trillion dollar waste that we call the drug war has become increasingly unpopular, with everyone from Nobel Prize-winning economists to leaders from the religious and civil rights communities calling for its end. Those who defend arresting, incarcerating and militarizing our way[Read More…]
