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Syracuse University has suspended an on-campus fraternity after videos posted online showed students being harassed and mistreated.

In a letter to campus Wednesday, Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud said the “disgusting” videos “endanger the well-being of some of our students.” He said the videos were taken at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house.

“I am outraged by the actions shown in these videos and condemn this behavior,” Syverud said in the letter. “The university has issued an immediate interim suspension halting all Phi Kappa Psi activities. This suspension will remain in effect while the University conducts an immediate and thorough investigation. The Phi Kappa Psi National Office has also ordered the chapter to cease and desist from all activities.”

The videos appear to show two students lying on the floor while at least one of them vomits on them. Another student is then seen tied to a pole with his mouth taped shut.

“Hazing and related actions that endanger our students constitute a serious violation of both University policy and New York law,” Syverud said.

The university asks anyone with information to contact the university’s Department of Public Safety or Community Standards. All reports will be treated confidentially.

Letter from Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud

Dear students, teachers and staff:

The University has recently been made aware of videos showing abhorrent behavior that endangers the welfare of some of our students. The videos in question show alleged acts at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house.

I am outraged by the actions shown in these videos and condemn this behavior. The university has issued an immediate interim suspension halting all activities of Phi Kappa Psi. This suspension will remain in effect while the University conducts a prompt and thorough investigation. Phi Kappa Psi’s national office has also ordered the chapter to cease and desist from all activities. Hazing and related actions that endanger our students constitute a serious violation of both University policy and New York law.

The Department of Public Safety (DPS) and Community Standards have already launched an investigation. DPS also notified and involved the Syracuse Police Department because the activities observed on video could be considered criminal offenses. DPS and Community Standards have jointly begun collecting evidence and will interview students associated with Phi Kappa Psi, including members, supporters and people who have come forward as witnesses. Appropriate disciplinary action will be taken against all individuals involved.

While this investigation continues, our priority is supporting all affected students. This also includes providing affected students with the necessary resources and services. If you or someone you know has information, please contact Community Standards or DPS. Your reporting will be treated confidentially.

The university will provide further information on this if necessary.

Sincerely,

Chancellor Kent Syverud

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When Gov. Greg Abbott ordered hospitals to ask patients about their citizenship status this summer, the intent was clear: to place the costs of caring for undocumented immigrants on the Biden administration and demand reimbursement from Texas taxpayers.

“Due to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ open border policies, Texas has had to foot the bill for medical costs for people who are in the state illegally,” Abbott said in a statement in August. “Texans should not have to bear the burden of financially supporting medical care for illegal immigrants.”

Starting November 1, hospital patients will be asked about their citizenship status. Abbott’s order does not say patients are legally required to answer the question. However, according to the Texas Hospital Association (THA), care will not be interrupted for patients who answer this question or not.

“The bottom line for patients is that this does not change hospital care,” said Carrie Williams, THA spokeswoman.

Several hospitals contacted by The Texas Tribune declined to discuss how they will comply with the order. Next March they will release the data they have collected or risk losing their payments from the state’s Medicaid health insurance for low-income people.

“Hospitals across the state are working to figure out how to comply with reporting guidelines and meet the state’s deadlines,” WIlliams said.

The move by Abbott’s office is the latest by Texas officials to demonstrate an unequal financial burden on states due to illegal immigration, a move supported by the conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF).

“The governor himself wanted to see what the costs were now to businesses and hospitals,” said Ammon Blair, senior fellow at TPPF’s Secure and Sovereign Texas Initiative. “This should not fall on the shoulders of private companies.”

However, there are doubts as to whether Texas will be able to provide a solid cost figure without many caveats.

Data has shown for years that undocumented immigrants who do not have access to health insurance, including Medicaid, tend to use hospitals less often than U.S. citizens who are uninsured – hospitals in Texas spend $3.1 billion annually, according to the THA dollars for uninsured care that is not reimbursed. Even emergency spending on Medicaid, which covers hospital costs for undocumented immigrants under certain circumstances, has declined over the past five years. And Florida’s efforts to answer the same undocumented question about patient care have failed.

“This executive order is designed to discourage people from taking advantage of any public welfare programs,” said Lynn Cowles, health and food justice program manager at Every Texan, which advocates for better health care in Texas. “It’s pretty classic anti-immigrant rhetoric that won’t produce any new insights from the data collected by (Texas) Health and Human Services.”

The uninsured and uninsured undocumented immigrants in Texas

Texas leads the nation in the number of uninsured residents, and most of them are citizens. Data also already shows that immigrants are less likely to seek medical treatment than U.S. citizens.

Overall, about 18% of the state’s 30 million residents are uninsured.

The state also has a large number of undocumented immigrants. According to the 2022 American Community Survey, 2.8 million Texas residents are undocumented immigrants, about 10% of Texas’ total population of 30 million.

So what is the share of undocumented residents in the total uninsured population in Texas? It’s a difficult question that Charles Miller, a former policy and budget adviser under Abbott who now works at Texas 2036, a political organization, has tried to answer. He says that based on available data, his group estimates that about 14% of the uninsured in Texas, about 680,000, are undocumented residents.

“While we do have a fairly large population of uninsured, undocumented people, that is not the majority,” said Miller, director of health and economic stability policy at Texas 2036. “So when we talk about who the majority of the uninsured are, that will be “Be people who are here legally.”

Abbott’s order may bring Texas closer to the true cost, but even Florida’s 2023 law requiring hospitals to inquire about their patients’ citizenship status has failed to produce a solid answer. State officials there claim that unlicensed residents cost Florida hospitals $566 million, but that figure does not take into account any payments for that care, such as: B. Medicaid reimbursements from the federal government or patients paying their bills out of pocket. The Florida Policy Institute estimates the far smaller but not insignificant cost at $21.3 million when payments and reimbursements are taken into account.

But what about Medicaid for undocumented immigrants?

In Texas, taxpayers funded about 31% of the state’s Medicaid program. The remaining almost 70% comes from federal taxes. In 2022, Texas Medicaid spending was approximately $57 billion.

Treating uninsured patients accounts for about 2% of hospital costs in Texas, according to an analysis of hospital data by the National Academy for State Health Policy. Medicaid covers about 12% of these hospital costs.

Typically, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for comprehensive Medicaid health insurance.

Even for American citizens, it is difficult to get Medicaid health insurance. Texas is one of 10 states that have refused to expand the program to single, childless adults under age 65, making it primarily a program for low-income children, the elderly and people with disabilities. In fact, children make up the majority of Medicaid recipients in Texas.

Since 2010, under the Affordable Care Act, states have had the option to expand their Medicaid program if they agree to cover 10% of the costs. Not doing so means Texas will turn away more than $5.6 billion in federal tax dollars each year and lose the opportunity to provide health insurance coverage to an additional 1.4 million Texans. Again, most of this uninsured care burden is due to citizens being uninsured.

However, uninsured, undocumented residents may be eligible for emergency Medicaid, which does nothing more than stabilize a patient. But that undocumented immigrant patient would have to be a child, elderly or disabled person whose family income is low enough to meet Texas’ strict Medicaid criteria.

Experts agree that most uninsured, undocumented patients eligible for emergency Medicaid in Texas hospitals are undocumented children.

However, according to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, emergency Medicaid spending fell from $382 million in the fiscal year ending August 2019 to $334 million in fiscal year 2023. The number of patients receiving this emergency Medicaid has also dropped from about 75,000 to 70,000.

The Houston Chronicle previously reported that the state paid hospitals $123 million in 2023 for emergency care for undocumented immigrants. However, according to Texas Health and Human Services, the state’s most recent data shows that Texas taxpayers paid $116 million for emergency Medicaid at hospitals in fiscal year 2023.

Responsibility for emergency funding for Medicaid lies with the federal government. From fiscal year 2017 to 2023, state and federal governments paid a total of $27 billion for Medicaid emergency services. Of that, states accounted for $9 billion, according to an Oct. 2 letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Texas Congressman Jodey Arrington, a Republican from Lubbock.

Beyond the emergency Medicaid program, it’s difficult to know exactly how much other resources go toward caring for undocumented immigrants — and how much undocumented immigrants spend out of pocket or who among them has private insurance. It is also not clear whether this citizen survey project can better answer this question.

Despite the likelihood of the data being scrutinized, Blair, the TPPF grantee, says Abbott’s order will hopefully give taxpayers better insight into how their money is being used.

“We think this shows transparency at the Texas Public Policy Foundation about what is actually happening,” Blair said. “This way there are no conspiracy theories about the true cost to our hospital systems and then to taxpayers.”

Disclosure: Every Texan, Texas 2036, the Texas Hospital Association and the Texas Public Policy Foundation have been financial supporters of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune’s journalism. A full list of them can be found here.

NEW YORK, Oct. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Leading securities law firm Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP announces an investigation into Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD) for possible violations of federal securities laws.

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TD Bank is the tenth largest bank in the United States.

On October 10, 2024, TD Bank pleaded guilty to money laundering-related crimes and agreed to pay more than $3 billion in fines to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Finance Department of the Ministry of Finance to pay law enforcement network. The Comptroller of the Currency has also implemented an “asset cap” that prevents TD Bank from growing beyond its current size.

The news caused TD Bank stock to fall significantly. On October 10, 2024, the Company’s stock price fell 6.4%, from a closing price of $63.51 per share on October 9, 2024 to $59.44 per share on October 10, 2024.

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Absentee Voting: What Mid-Missouri Voters Need to Know to Make Sure Their Ballots Count

With just three weeks until Election Day on Nov. 5, more than 1,000 people in Boone County have already voted absentee, according to the county clerk’s office.

Currently, only some voters can cast postal votes. No-excuse absentee voting in central Missouri begins Oct. 22, meaning every registered voter can cast their vote in person as they would on Election Day.

Callaway County Corporal released from hospital after traffic stop

Callaway County Corporal Justin Bax has been released from University Hospital after a shooting during a traffic stop that injured two sheriff’s deputies and killed a suspect.

Bax’s release was accompanied by claps and cheers from family, friends and other first responders as he climbed into the car that took him back to Callaway County.

Due to staffing shortages, Columbia veterinary clinics are limiting nighttime hours

Both the University of Missouri Veterinary Health Center and Horton Animal Hospital are temporarily operating on reduced hours. These hospitals typically offer 24-hour emergency care for animals, but due to limited staffing, both hospitals limit overnight care.

The MU Veterinary Health Center said it will not be accepting new small animal patients between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m. Horton Animal Hospital said it may close several times in October from 1:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. but will continue to have staff on call during those times who will offer assistance over the phone and direct patients to the nearest open one hospital further.

The “Build My Future” event showcases the construction industry as a career path for students

Fifty construction industry professionals came to the Jaycees Fairgrounds in Jefferson City to teachStudents from 51 schools across Missouri about the different opportunities they might have in the construction industry.

The showcase gives students the opportunity to learn more about what life after high school can be like. At the showcase, students were able to pour concrete, lay bricks, weld and make tables.

California is hiring a new police chief after seven weeks without a department head

The city of California has hired a new police chief and detective sergeant after nearly two months without department leadership.

Scott John was sworn in as police chief and Dale Harp as the new detective sergeant on Tuesday. John and Harp were both Maries County officials.

California has been without a police chief and without a police force for about seven weeks Boss Daniel Hurt has resigned due to retention concerns and staffing shortages.

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) – Thursday starts off cool again, but this time we’ll have temperatures above 30° for most of us.

The wind is blowing from the south, so we will warm up very quickly. Temperatures will peak in the mid to upper 60s this afternoon and skies will be mostly sunny again.

Due to the gusty winds, low humidity and the fact that it has been a few days since it rained, there is an increased risk of fire compared to recent days. This also applies to Friday. Controlled burns are not recommended.

Light showers remain possible in the distant Northwoods early Saturday. These will likely remain north of Highway 64 and be below 0.25 inches. In other words, it is still not expected to be enough to alleviate the drought. The only isolated chance of rain and our best chance for rain over the next week or so is on Tuesday. It’s too early to tell how much rain we’ll get. Once the cold front passes behind these showers, that will be the end of the warmer period we are entering.

With all the clear skies we have an optimal view of the full moon. It’s also a supermoon. The Hunter’s Moon, named for the hunting season at this time of year, will reach peak illumination this morning at 6:26 a.m. CDT. If you can’t see it properly at this point, there will still be a lot of glow Thursday night into Friday morning. Our next full moon will be November 15th.

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Medicare enrollees have the opportunity to change their health insurance coverage each year during fall enrollment, which runs from October 15th to December 7th. If you use Medicare Advantage, you may be wondering whether it’s worth signing up for a new plan for 2025. Here are a few signs that you should at least consider switching.

1. Your costs are increasing

Many retirees live on a tight budget and little flexibility. If this is your situation and the cost of your Medicare Advantage plan is increasing in 2025, then that alone is a reason to look at other plan options.

You may particularly want to consider purchasing a new plan if Social Security’s cost of living adjustments are not enough to cover this increase in costs. Next year, benefits are expected to increase by 2.5%. But if your monthly benefit isn’t that high to begin with, it may not be that big of an increase.

2. Your benefits will be reduced

The advantage of choosing Medicare Advantage over original Medicare is that you may gain access to a variety of services that would not otherwise be covered. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, by 2024, 97% or more of Medicare Advantage plans will offer dental, vision, hearing or fitness benefits.

And these are considered more “standard” benefits for Medicare Advantage plans. Some plans go well beyond these perks and include services like home cleaning and meal delivery.

However, if your Medicare Advantage plan loses some of these additional benefits in 2025, you may want to make a switch. Having to pay out of pocket for certain services could hurt your finances more than paying a higher premium for an Advantage plan with more coverage.

3. Your favorite providers are leaving the network

Once you get used to seeing certain providers, it can be difficult to make a switch. And if you have limited access to transportation, losing your preferred provider could mean struggling to take care of your health.

If your favorite doctors aren’t included in your plan next year, it might be time to think about getting a new Medicare Advantage plan. If you have even more providers to choose from, you may want to forego Advantage altogether and switch to Original Medicare.

However, keep in mind that original Medicare does not cover services such as dental, vision and hearing services. You’ll also need to sign up for a Part D drug plan in addition to original Medicare.

You should also know that Medicare Advantage plans typically have a deductible maximum that limits your annual spending, but Original Medicare plans do not. And although you can purchase supplemental insurance (Medigap) as an original Medicare enrollee, you may find it difficult to get affordable coverage if you choose to do so after being covered by an Advantage plan. You may also have to complete a waiting period for a Medigap plan to cover certain medical conditions you have.

Choosing a new Medicare Advantage plan can be overwhelming. So don’t wait until the end of the open enrollment period to get started. Start reviewing your options in the coming weeks if it’s clear you need a change. This way, you can go through the process without undue stress and avoid having to make a quick decision that ends up being the wrong one.

There wasn’t much to complain about last week. Just a preseason game here and there to end the regular season before going into win-or-go-home mode. Some teams have already started. Some are eagerly awaiting their first postseason match. Prep Coordinator Zach Piatt takes a look at how it all starts:

1. St. Joseph Ogden

➜ Record: 20-2-1

➜ Previous ranking: No. 1

The Spartans ended the regular season with a bang, defeating Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond 14-0. Tyler Hess was all over the statistics with three goals and six assists. Logan Mills led the net scoring with four goals, followed by Zach Harper with three and Quinn Stahl and Alex Acosta with two goals each. SJ-O will play its Class 1A St. Anne Regional semifinal game against Iroquois West.

2. Fisher/GCMS

➜ Record: 17-3-1

➜ Previous ranking: No. 2

Heading into their 1A Fisher Regional semifinal game against Unity, the Bunnies are riding a six-game winning streak and have eliminated four straight opponents. Their 2-0 win over Teutopolis gave them and goaltender Parker Baillie 16 shutouts on the year, extending their program single-season record. With Zack Zbinden back in the mix, watch out for Fisher/GCMS.

3. Oak wood/salt fork

➜ Record: 20-3

➜ Previous ranking: No. 3

With a chance to bounce back after a loss to Fisher/GCMS before the postseason, O/SF did just that with a 6-1 win over BHRA thanks to four goals from Mason Swartz. O/SF hopes it can carry that momentum into its 1A Hoopeston Area Regional semifinal game against host Cornjerkers.

4. Watseka/Milford

➜ Record: 16-4-1

➜ Previous ranking: No. 4

After two close games, the Warriors had to work hard to close out the regular season. They won 4-3 against Georgetown-Ridge Farm/Westville, with David Bell scoring the winning penalty. Reed and Custer then played to a 1-1 tie, with Bell scoring the team’s only goal and Jason Moore making a season-best 10 saves. Still a dangerous team heading into the 1A St. Anne Regional semifinals with Clifton Central.

5. University High

➜ Record: 16-6

➜ Previous ranking: No. 6

The Illineks ended their regular season a few days ahead of everyone else with a 10-1 victory over Cornerstone Christian to secure the East Central Illinois Conference title. Uni High is now on a five-game winning streak after losing four of its last five games. This team is firing on all cylinders heading into the 1A Fisher Regional semifinal game against St. Thomas More.

6th Centenary

➜ Record: 11-7-2

➜ Previous ranking: No. 7

Things weren’t looking good for the Chargers after losing their third straight game last week, but they were able to bounce back with wins over Rantoul/Paxton-Buckley-Loda and Bloomington to start the postseason with some momentum. Centennial will play regional 2A host Charleston for a spot in the finals. Coach Thair Al-Saqri said his team was the best in the region. Time to prove it.

7. Mahomet-Seymour

➜ Record: 13-7-2

➜ Previous ranking: No. 5

The Bulldogs are the only team in this ranking that still has one regular season game left to play, a road game against Taylorville on Thursday. They then await the winner of Mt. Zion and Rantoul/Paxton-Buckley-Loda for a 2A Meridian Regional semifinal showdown. MS is currently off at 0-2, but Taylorville is its chance to get back on track before postseason play.

8. Urbana

➜ Record: 10-8-1

➜ Previous ranking: No. 9

The Tigers endured one of their most difficult stretches ever over the final three weeks of the regular season, losing five of their last seven games, but ended the game on a positive note with an 8-0 win over Peoria. Seven different players scored the winning goal. Urbana is hoping that will be just enough to advance them to a 2A regional run on home soil, starting with Danville.

9. St Thomas More

➜ Record: 9-6-4

➜ Previous ranking: No. 10

The Sabers finished the regular season with a 4-0-2 run and carried that mojo to an 8-0 victory over Judah Christian in the 1A Fisher Regional quarterfinals on Tuesday. STM is now tasked with facing third-seeded Uni High, a team the Sabers lost 5-0 a month ago, in the semifinals.

10. Unity

➜ Record: 8-7-3

➜ Previous ranking: Unranked

The Rockets had the definition of a regular season with ups and downs and ended it on a downturn with two losses and a tie in their last three games. They put all that aside, however, and earned a 3-1 comeback win over Monticello in the quarterfinals of the 1A Fisher Regional on Tuesday thanks to goals from Teaguen Williams, Ryan Robinson and Nolan Remole. Next it’s the turn of the host bunnies.