Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2014. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first FDA-approved HPV DNA test for women 25 and older that can be used alone to help a health care professional assess the need for a woman to undergo additional diagnostic testing for cervical cancer. The[Read More…]
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Rich East’s Elyse Terrazas Advances To Nationals In Business Professionals Of America Competition
Rich East Junior Elyse Terrazas who finished second in the state at the recent Business Professionals of America competition. She will competing at the BPA National Convention in Indianapolis, Ind., April 30-May 4. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Rich East junior Elyse Terrazas will be attending the 2014 Business Professionals[Read More…]
Meet Maya Veal, Rich East Stellar Student
Maya Veal, Rich East Stellar Student. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- This is another in a series of stellar students from "The Class of 2014" at Rich East High School in Park Forest, Ill. All students were given a series of the same questions. All responses are in their exact[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for April 24, 2014
The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) 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[Read More…]
Statement by NSC Spokesperson Caitlin Hayden on Attack in Kabul, April 24, 2014
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2014. The United States condemns the attack today in Kabul that killed three Americans working to provide health care to Afghans. Any such attack on civilians at a hospital is despicable and cowardly. We send our deepest condolences to the families of all those killed and injured.[Read More…]
New Report Slams USDA for Indefinitely Stalling Animal Welfare Regulations in Organic Poultry Production
Center for Food Safety Counters Economic Assessment Relied Upon by USDA Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2014. Center for Food Safety’s (CFS) whitepaper, released today, chastises the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for stalling poultry animal welfare regulations and hiding behind a faulty economic impact analysis. CFS’s white paper reveals that the[Read More…]
Senator Bernie Sanders Statement on Net Neutrality
BURLINGTON, Vt.–(ENEWSPF)–April 24 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today in response to a Federal Communications Commission proposal to let companies pay for faster delivery over the Internet: “Under this terribly misguided proposal, the Internet as we have come to know it would cease to exist[Read More…]
Dutch Man To Plead Guilty To Selling Illegal Drugs For Bitcoins Worth Millions On Shuttered Silk Road Website
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2014. A Dutch man who allegedly used the shuttered Silk Road underground website to sell illegal drugs for bitcoins worth millions of dollars has agreed to plead guilty to a federal drug conspiracy charge filed against him today. The defendant, CORNELIS JAN SLOMP, through his attorney, authorized the[Read More…]
Endangered Killer Whales May Get Protected Habitat Along West Coast
Fisheries Service to Evaluate New Habitat Designation Off Coasts of Washington, Oregon, California SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2014. In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that it will consider expanding protected critical habitat for the endangered “Southern Resident” population of[Read More…]
New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program’s Medical Advisory Board Recommends Adding Alzheimer’s Disease to the List of Eligible Conditions
If Approved by the Dept. of Health, New Mexico Would Join 13 Other States Where Patients Can Access Medical Cannabis for Alzheimer’s Disease SANTA FE—(ENEWSPF)—April 24, 2014. Yesterday, the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program’s Medical Advisory Board voted unanimously to add neurodegenerative dementia including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to the list[Read More…]
