Year: 2024

The Illinois Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Dec. 26, 2024, results for each game:
Midday: 4-1-3, Fireball: 8
Evening: 4-7-5, Fireball: 0
Check Pick-3 payouts and previous drawings here.
Midday: 6-5-3-5, Fireball: 8
Evening: 9-9-1-9, Fireball: 9
Check Pick-4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Midday: 11-17-22-24-35
Evening: 13-14-21-42-45
Check LuckyDay Lotto payouts and previous drawings here.
12-16-24-25-34-47, Extra Shot: 03
Check Lotto payouts and previous drawings here.
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How four Northern Virginia school districts are restricting cellphones  The Washington Post
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Governor Josh Shapiro is touting investments into law enforcement that have seen over 1,000 law enforcement officers hired during his governorship.
The 2024-25 bipartisan Pennsylvania budget saw 400 State Troopers hired and another 700 local police officers hired through grant funding.
The budget also saw $45 million for community-based violence prevention, $11.5 million for after-school learning to prevent violence for young people, $5 million to help protect places of worship, and $2.5 million to the PA Department of Human Services for domestic violence services.
An additional $5 million was also added to the Victims Compensation Assistance Program to increase the funding to $65 million for over 76,000 claims across the Commonwealth.
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An elderly woman lost her savings to scammers posing as the FBI. Families are urged to learn warning signs to prevent such devastating frauds.
Elder fraud scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated, as illustrated by a recent case where an 82-year-old woman lost her life savings to criminals posing as the FBI. After depleting her accounts, the scammers coerced her into withdrawing funds via a Bitcoin machine and kept her isolated in a hotel under the guise of ‘protection.’ Despite her family’s intervention, the scammers struck again, convincing her to hand over $20,000 by exploiting false hopes of recovering a promised reward.
Elderly individuals are prime targets for such schemes, often due to their savings, trust in others, and unfamiliarity with modern technology. Fraudsters employ tactics like intimidation, urgency, and psychological manipulation to exploit their victims. According to recent statistics, seniors lose billions annually to scams, with the emotional toll leaving many feeling ashamed and fearful.
To combat these threats, experts recommend verifying unsolicited requests, limiting personal information sharing, using strong security measures, and reporting suspicious activity. Education and vigilance are key to protecting vulnerable individuals and ensuring scammers are outsmarted.
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Canadians are losing millions in crypto to fraudsters. Here is how to spot red flags  CBC.ca
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Dr. Neil Rosenshein is retiring after nearly 25 years of service at Washington County Hospital and Meritus Health.
Rosenshein began his career with the health system in 2000, according to a Meritus Health press release.
He graduated from the University of Florida College of Medicine in 1969 and completed his residency in gynecology and obstetrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He also completed fellowships in gynecologic oncology and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Throughout his career, Rosenshein has authored books, published articles, conducted medical research and won numerous awards. Most recently, he served as the director of Meritus Gynecologic Oncology Specialists.
Rosenshein is known both nationally and locally as a champion of women’s health. His passion has been to educate women outside major urban areas about ovarian, endometrial and cervical cancer.
Dr. Victoria Giffi, an oncologist with Meritus Hematology & Oncology Specialists, first met Rosenshein when she was a medical student at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
“He would go around the room asking students question after question after question,” Giffi said. “We were all scared of him. His questions were tough.”
Giffi began working with Rosenshein a decade ago at Meritus and said he is “just so supportive and approachable.”
“I think the reason his patients adore him is because he listens,” Giffi said. “He also listens to his colleagues. And he has a mind like a steel trap. He remembers patients he met decades ago.”
Rosenshein’s patients have been sad to hear the news of his retirement, but many, like Sarah Thomas, say they are grateful to have had him as their doctor.
“He saved my life,” Thomas said.
Thomas had cancer that was at stage 1-A — the earliest form — when it was discovered. Her gynecologist referred her to Rosenshein, who saw her within a week and performed surgery to remove the growth by the next week. It was at stage 1-B when he removed it.
“That was six years ago,” Thomas said. “Every year I’ve been to him since then, he’s just been a sweetie.”
At her last visit, she asked to take a photo of him. He insisted she be in the picture, too.
“So we ended up taking a selfie of both of us. I’ll treasure that always.”
For his part, Rosenshein is humble when talking about himself. The Smithsburg resident took the opportunity of his retirement to thank all those who have supported him in his quest to advance women’s health in the tristate region.
“I’ve been honored to be part of the health system, first at Washington County Hospital, and at Meritus Health,” he said. “It has been a rewarding experience for me to deal with such wonderful patients and superb support staff throughout the hospital.”
Rosenshein’s final day at Meritus was Dec. 19.
This story was created by Janis Reeser, jreeser@gannett.com, with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Journalists were involved in every step of the information gathering, review, editing and publishing process. Learn more at https://cm.usatoday.com/ethical-conduct/.
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BELLVILLE – It was a tumultuous year for the village of Bellville.
Everything came to a head at a special council meeting called on a Sunday in April in which members voted to dismiss Administrator Larry Weirich after outside legal counsel ruled Weirich’s romantic relationship with Mayor Teri Brenkus was a “clear conflict of interest.”
The story was No. 9 on the News Journal’s top 10 stories of 2024.
More than 50 people crowded into a stuffy village hall for the special meeting, called after council received a legal opinion from the Cleveland law firm Zashin & Rich.
Attorney Drew Piersall issued the legal opinion.
“It is the undersigned counsel’s opinion that there is a clear conflict of interest present in this situation as there is no dispute that Mayor Brenkus enjoys supervisory authority over Administrator Weirich,” Piersall wrote. “The level of supervisory authority exercised is not the appropriate focus; the focus is on whether the authority exists, which it certainly does.
“Mayor Brenkus and Administrator Weirich should have notified Village Council of a potential relationship prior to entering into a romantic relationship so that any potential conflict of interest/appearance of impropriety could have been addressed at that time.”
Council voted 6-0 in March to ask Brenkus to resign while also putting Weirich on paid administrative leave. Brenkus refused to resign and has retained legal counsel.
Brenkus did not attend the April meeting. A message was left with the mayor’s office.
Weirich did attend the meeting and met in executive session with council for about 45 minutes before members voted 5-0 to remove him. Council President Justin Enix did not vote because he was the acting mayor in Brenkus’ absence.
Weirich, who had been village administrator since 2015, oversaw the street, water, sewer and cemetery departments.
Council’s options regarding Weirich were to restructure, discipline or dismiss.
Enix allowed for public comment, giving residents two minutes each. About 15 spoke, and they were fairly evenly split on what should happen.
When the residents had their say, Enix turned to Weirich and asked him if he wanted to comment.
“Nope, pretty much everything’s been said,” he replied.
Weirich had spoken to attorney Piersall.
“According to my interview with Administrator Weirich, he began a romantic relationship with Mayor Brenkus after he separated from his wife in July 2023,” the attorney wrote.
“It is not in dispute that Administrator Weirich has a dual reporting structure: He reports to both Village Council and Mayor Brenkus. Administrator Weirich contends that Mayor Brenkus does not provide much oversight over him, and her supervision is generally limited to signing off on his time-off sheets.”
Under Ohio law, a village administrator can be removed without cause by the mayor with the consent of a majority of council, or he may be removed without cause by the affirmative vote of three-fourths of council, without consent of the mayor.
Piersall noted the village’s nepotism policy does not include dating or a romantic relationship.
“Notwithstanding, the ordinance expresses a policy for avoiding any appearance of impropriety,” he wrote. “The undersigned counsel is of the opinion that the relationship between the mayor and village administrator does not violate the ‘letter’ of the nepotism policy, but is incompatible with its spirit.”
Enix and several other council members spoke to reporters, noting they removed Weirich without cause. To do so with cause would have required the mayor to bring the charges.
The council president said business is back to normal in Bellville.
“Nothing else really happened after that,” he said of the April meeting. Council appointed Michael Morton to replace Weirich.
In August, Weirich was appointed to be road superintendent at Madison Township.
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