BELLS, TN–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. The Pictsweet Company is voluntarily recalling select packages of Pictsweet Farms 12 ounce Breaded Okra after the company learned that some packages may contain glass fragments, which could cause injury if ingested. There has been one minor injury reported in connection with this issue. The recall[Read More…]
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Smoking Costs the Average Illinois Smoker $1,770,563 Over a Lifetime
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. With the societal and economic costs of smoking totaling more than $300 billion a year and rising, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on The Real Cost of Smoking by State. To encourage the estimated 36.5 million tobacco users in the U.S. to kick the[Read More…]
Park Forest Resident Named to Iowa State University Fall 2016 Dean’s List
AMES, Iowa—(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2017 – Approximately 8,775 Iowa State University students have been recognized for outstanding academic achievement by being named to the Fall Semester 2016 Dean’s List. Students named to the Dean’s List must have earned a grade point average of at least 3.50 on a 4.00 scale while[Read More…]
NOW Stands With Rep John Lewis, Calls on Donald Trump to Apologize
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2017. Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill: Donald Trump’s bullying tweets aimed at civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis are appalling. The candidate who said that African Americans should vote for him because their lives were so bad that they “had nothing to lose” now perpetuates[Read More…]
British TV Listing Trolls Donald Trump and Goes Viral
UK–(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2017 By Walter Einenkel The Sunday Herald had a fun television listing in their normally dry listings this past weekend. The Sunday Herald TV Section wins today. pic.twitter.com/OanCZdznGJ — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) January 15, 2017 President Trump: The Inauguration 4pm, BBC One/ STV After a long absence, The[Read More…]
A Desperate Donald Trump Records a Message on Facebook Offering Free Inauguration Tickets
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2017 By Jen Hayden What if you threw an inauguration and nobody came? Is Donald Trump’s inauguration crowd going to be bad or the worst in modern American history? He’s only been able to draw a handful of D.C.-area wedding DJs and a handful of county fair musical[Read More…]
Trump Finally Lands An ‘A’-list Celebrity To Show Up At His Inauguration
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017 By Dartagnan Martin Shkreli If by “A,” you mean Asshole: Who says there aren’t going to be any “celebrities” at the Trump inauguration! Notorious pharma bro Martin Shkreli is headed to Washington, DC for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration… A Brooklyn judge on Wednesday OK’d Shkreli’s travel[Read More…]
Southern Poverty Law Center: A Day to Reflect, Recommit to the Vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
ALABAMA–(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2017. Today is a very special day – a time for us to not only pay tribute to one of our nation’s greatest leaders but to reflect upon and recommit ourselves to the ideals that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. championed. But we shouldn’t fool ourselves. Dr. King’s[Read More…]
Southern Poverty Law Center is an Official Supporter of the Women’s March on Washington
ALABAMA– (ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2017. The day after the presidential inauguration, thousands are expected to converge on the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington. As an official partner of the march, the Southern Poverty Law Center stands in solidarity with its organizers’ vision — that “women’s rights are human[Read More…]
Military Strikes Continue Against ISIL Terrorists in Syria and Iraq, January 16, 2017
SOUTHWEST ASIA–(ENEWSPF)—January 16, 2017. On Jan. 15, Coalition military forces conducted 18 strikes against ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq. In Syria, Coalition military forces conducted 13 strikes using attack, bomber, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft against ISIL targets. Additionally in Iraq, Coalition military forces conducted five strikes coordinated with[Read More…]
