ORLANDO, Fla.–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2011. At a hearing today at the United States courthouse in Orlando, the ACLU of Florida defended the Constitutional rights of Floridians applying for the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program against a new law which requires TANF applicants to submit to a mandatory suspicionless[Read More…]
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President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2011. President Obama today named 94 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. The Presidential early career awards[Read More…]
DOD Identifies Army Casualty, September 26, 2011
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2011. The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Tyler N. Holtz, 22, of Dana Point, Calif., died Sept. 24 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small arms fire. He[Read More…]
Lady Gaga Pays Tribute To Bullied Teen Jamey Rodemeyer, Dead of Apparent Suicide (Video)
Singer Lady Gaga paid tribute to bullied 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, who was found dead from an apparent suicide. Michelle Miller reports.
FBI: Roman Conaway Sentenced for Making Terroristic Threats
Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Fairview Heights man was sentenced in U.S. District Court on September 23, 2011, for making a false threat to detonate an explosive device, and influencing a federal officer by threat, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Roman O.[Read More…]
FBI: Granite City Man Faces Federal Time After Pleading Guilty to Possession and Receipt of Child Pornography
Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Granite City man pled guilty in federal district court in East St. Louis on September 23, 2011, to a two-count indictment charging him with possession of child pornography (count one) and receipt of child pornography (count two), the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois,[Read More…]
UN Pays Tribute to Late Environmentalist and Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–26 September 2011. Wangari Maathai The United Nations today paid tribute to Professor Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and one of Africa’s foremost environmental campaigners, who died on Sunday. Ms. Maathai, 71, was the founder of the Green Belt Movement that encouraged women in rural Kenya to plant[Read More…]
Dan Rather Reports: EPA Covers Up Bee Evidence
U.S. GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO IGNORE PESTICIDE PROOF MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2011. We’ve been at this now for more than five years. As one of the first organizations in North America to go public with the notion that a class of pesticides made from synthetic nicotine were responsible for the sudden bee[Read More…]
Oxford University Study: Curb Bankers’ Pay by Capping Each Bank’s Bonus Pool
UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–26 September 2011. An Oxford University economist proposes that a cap on each bank’s bonus pool in relation to their balance sheet could be an effective new model to limit bankers’ pay and thereby reduce bank risk. In a new study, Dr John Thanassoulis argues that an adjustable cap[Read More…]
Centers for Disease Control Reports Illness and Death Linked to Bed Bug Pesticides
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2011. On September 23, 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a study in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report linking pesticides sprayed in attempts to control bed bugs to poisoning incidents and death. Because bed bugs do not transmit disease and can be[Read More…]
