Kiana Mayes (center), winner of the 2010 Park Forest Idols talent competition. Deana Williams (left) placed third. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Photo Gallery: Park Forest Idols 2010 Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Kiana Mayes topped other talented individuals at Saturday’s Park Forest Idols. Singing and dancing in front of a standing-room-only audience in[Read More…]
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Runners Scorch Frozen Streets for Running Club’s Midwinter Cruise
Bryce Baker crosses the finish line at the 2010 Midwinter Cruise. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) See over 200 pictures from the race here: 2010 Midwinter Cruise Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Close to 200 runners from the Chicagoland area and northwest Indiana braved the ice and snow for the Park Forest Running and Pancake[Read More…]
Attempted Armed Robbery At Currency Exchange
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Park Forest police were called to the Norwood Currency Exchange a week ago Sunday to investigate an attempted armed robbery when a man allegedly told an employee he had a bomb. Police were dispatched to the Norwood Currency Exchange, a 20 Norwood Square Boulevard, on Sunday, January[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Reports for January 18, 2010
The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Wendy Heise) 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…]
Video: Haitians React To Televangelist Pat Robertson’s ‘Devil Pact’ Remarks
Tip of the hat to the Miami Herald for this video.
Bears Defensive End Gaines Adams Dead At 26
From the Chicago Sun-Times: Bears’ defensive end Gaines Adams, 26, died this morning of an enlarged heart, a Greenwood County deputy coroner said. He’d been taken to the emergency room at Self Regional Hospital in Greenwood, S.C., and died at 7:20 a.m. Chicago time. An autopsy showed he died of[Read More…]
UN Secretary-General Touches Down in Quake-Devastated Haiti
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–17 January 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in Haiti, which was struck by a catastrophic earthquake on Tuesday, to show his solidarity with the people of the impoverished Caribbean nation and assess for himself the scale of the devastation. The 7.0 magnitude tremors on 12 January are[Read More…]
Rescuers Still Finding Survivors in Haiti, UN Reports
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–17 January 2010 – Search-and-rescue teams from around the world continue to work around the clock to pull survivors out of the rubble in the wake of Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, the United Nations reported today, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to arrive in the Caribbean nation[Read More…]
CNN Interview with USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and Lieutenant General P.K. Keen Re: Situation in Haiti
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2010. This is the STATE OF THE UNION report for Sunday, January 17th. JOHN KING: Under normal circumstances this would be a Sunday spent reflecting on the first year of this historic presidency, and on the very different political climate now compared to when we launched this[Read More…]
Mercy Corps Team in Haiti to Provide Relief and Prepare for Long-Term Recovery
Portland, OR–(ENESPF)–January 17, 2010. Mercy Corps emergency response team members arrived in Port-au-Prince to start mounting Mercy Corps’ comprehensive response to the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti on Tuesday. The team represents Mercy Corps’ A-team of humanitarian first responders. The group is comprised of eight experts from around the[Read More…]
