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gcash jili games Will Riley scored a game-high 19 points off the bench as No. 25 Illinois shrugged off a slow start to earn an 87-40 nonconference victory over Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday afternoon in Champaign, Ill. Morez Johnson Jr. recorded his first double-double with 10 points and 13 rebounds, Kylan Boswell posted 13 points and Tomislav Ivisic contributed 11 for Illinois (4-1). Coming off a 100-87 loss to No. 8 Alabama on Wednesday, the Illini led by as much as 52 despite hitting just 10-of-40 3-point attempts. Jalen Ware paced Maryland Eastern Shore (2-6) with 10 points before fouling out. Ketron "KC" Shaw, who entered Saturday in the top 20 of Division I scorers at 22.3 points per game, went scoreless in the first half and finished with seven points on 2-of-11 shooting. The Hawks canned just 22.1 percent of their shots from the floor. Illinois broke out to a 6-0 lead in the first 2:06, then missed its next six shots. That gave the Hawks time to pull into an 8-8 tie on Evan Johnson's 17-foot pullup at the 12:21 mark. That marked Maryland Eastern Shore's last points for more than seven minutes as the Illini reeled off 17 straight points to remove any suspense. Johnson opened the spree with a basket and two free throws, Ben Humrichous swished a 3-pointer and Tre White sank a layup before Kasparas Jakucionis fed Ivisic for a 3-pointer and an alley-oop layup. Jakucionis set up Johnson for a free throw, then drove for an unchallenged layup to make it 25-8 with 5:15 left in the first. Evan Johnson snapped the visitors' dry spell with a driving layup at the 4:56 mark, but Illinois went on to establish a 35-15 halftime lead on the stretch of 11 offensive rebounds that turned into 12 second-chance points and 13 points off UMES' 10 turnovers. Maryland Eastern Shore needed nearly four minutes to get its first points in the second half as Illinois pushed its lead to 42-15. The Illini margin ballooned all the way to 70-24 on Boswell's driving layup with 8:11 to go. --Field Level MediaNeal Maupay: Whenever I’m having a bad day I check Everton score and smile

Chuck Woolery, smooth-talking game show host of 'Love Connection' and 'Scrabble,' dies at 83Everton striker Neal Maupay has sparked outrage among Toffees fans by taking a swipe at his parent club in a post on social media. Maupay also had a dig at Everton when he departed on loan to Marseille in the summer and his latest taunt has further angered the Premier League club’s supporters. The 28-year-old said on X after Sean Dyche’s side had lost 2-0 to Nottingham Forest at Goodison Park on Sunday: “Whenever I’m having a bad day I just check the Everton score and smile.” Whenever I’m having a bad day I just check the Everton score and smile 🙂 — Neal Maupay (@nealmaupay_) December 29, 2024 Former boxer Tony Bellew was among the Toffees’ supporters who responded to Maupay, with the ex-world cruiserweight champion replying on X with: “P****!” Maupay endured a miserable spell at Everton, scoring just one league goal in 29 appearances after being signed by the Merseysiders for an undisclosed fee in 2022. He departed on a season-long loan to his former club Brentford for the 2023-24 season and left Goodison for a second time in August when Marseille signed him on loan with an obligation to make the deal permanent. After leaving Everton in the summer, Maupay outraged their fans by posting on social media a scene from the film Shawshank Redemption, famous for depicting the main character’s long fight for freedom.None

OOH Campaign Highlights the Power of Donating During the Thanksgiving Season NEW YORK , Nov. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OUTFRONT Media (NYSE: OUT), one of the largest out-of-home (OOH) media companies in the U.S., has unveiled a new campaign with The Farmlink Project, the fastest-growing solution in the charitable food space, to drive home an important food insecurity fact on Thanksgiving. The campaign, running now through Friday, Dec. 6 , features the line " $1 = 17 lbs of food saved" to jolt audiences into action. OUTFRONT Studios and Farmlink's creative team produced the campaign, which also marks the debut of Farmlink's rebrand. The creative can be seen on digital billboards across the country, securing additional impressions with holiday traffic at an all time high. The campaign's message encourages audiences to make a big impact toward battling food insecurity through a small action during Thanksgiving, the largest event for food consumption in the U.S., and Giving Tuesday, an annual global generosity movement. For the month of December, every dollar donated to Farmlink will be matched to provide 32 pounds of food to families in need. "In collaboration with OUTFRONT, we are able to expand our mission of supporting farmers and feeding families by inspiring people to take simple actions," said Aidan Reilly , Head of Partnerships at Farmlink. "Collectively, those efforts can add up to help us reach our goal of raising $100K in December." As a partner of OUTFRONT since 2021, Farmlink has helped further OUTFRONT's purpose of helping people, places and businesses grow stronger. "Fighting food insecurity continues to be one of OUTFRONT's most important causes, driven by our employees," said Liz Rave , Vice President, Marketing at OUTFRONT. "This timely Thanksgiving campaign is our latest effort to support and amplify Farmlink's mission at a critical time for food insecurity solutions. We are also proud to be making a monetary donation of our own this holiday season." The Farmlink Project was born as a student movement at the onset of the pandemic in an effort to support a local food bank in Los Angeles . Having delivered nearly 300 million pounds of food which otherwise would have gone to waste to families across North America , Farmlink is driven by the belief that hunger can be solved in the U.S. using already grown food. About OUTFRONT Media Inc. OUTFRONT leverages the power of technology, location and creativity to connect brands with consumers outside of their homes through one of the largest and most diverse sets of billboard, transit, and mobile assets in the United States . Through its technology platform, OUTFRONT will fundamentally change the ways advertisers engage audiences on-the-go. OUTFRONT Media Contacts: Matt Biscuiti Courtney Richards The Lippin Group OUTFRONT Media 212-986-7080 646-876-9404 outfront@lippingroup.com courtney.richards@OUTFRONT.com Stephan Bisson OUTFRONT Media 212-297-6573 stephan.bisson@outfront.com View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/outfront-media-and-the-farmlink-project-unveil-new-campaign-to-fight-food-insecurity-302317001.html SOURCE OUTFRONT Media Inc.En un evento inaugural que marca un hito histórico, la alcaldesa Muriel Bowser, junto con el Departamento de Planificación y Desarrollo Económico (DMPED) y la Autoridad de Vivienda del Distrito de Columbia (DCHA), celebró este jueves la apertura de The Asberry, un edificio de uso mixto de 108 unidades. Este es el primer edificio entregado bajo la Iniciativa de Nuevas Comunidades (NCI) en el área de Barry Farm-Hillsdale. “Como ciudad, les hicimos una promesa a los residentes de Barry Farm: brindar vivienda asequible, segura y de calidad que honre el legado de la comunidad”, dijo la alcaldesa Bowser. “Hoy, estamos cumpliendo esa promesa y marcando el comienzo de una nueva era para nuestros residentes”. The Asberry, ubicado en 1200 Sumner Road SE, representa un paso significativo en el esfuerzo continuo por revitalizar la comunidad históricamente significativa de Barry Farm. La DCHA y Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) son los codearrolladores del proyecto. La reurbanización de Barry Farm incluirá un total de 900 unidades de vivienda, que comprenderán al menos 380 unidades de reemplazo para familias desplazadas de Barry Farm, así como 320 nuevas unidades y 100 unidades de propiedad. Características de The Asberry: “Este momento representa oportunidades renovadas para nuestros residentes de DCHA, quienes habían hecho de Barry Farm un lugar especial para vivir”, expresó Keith Pettigrew, director ejecutivo de DCHA. “El proyecto no solo restablece la comunidad, sino que también ofrece opciones de vivienda asequibles y de calidad”. La comunidad de Barry Farm tiene una rica historia desde su fundación en 1867. Originalmente creada para proporcionar oportunidades de propiedad a africanos estadounidenses liberados, la reurbanización actual busca restaurar y revitalizar este legado. “Estamos emocionados de celebrar estos logros y ver el futuro que se está construyendo aquí”, añadió Maia Shanklin-Roberts, vicepresidenta de Desarrollo Inmobiliario de POAH, en un comunicado. “Estos hitos representan la posibilidad de un futuro vibrante y conectado para las generaciones futuras”. La NCI, que se ejecuta en asociación con el Departamento de Planificación y Desarrollo Económico y la DCHA, es una iniciativa del gobierno del Distrito destinada a reconstruir comunidades de viviendas públicas en dificultades, transformando las áreas en dinámicos vecindarios de ingresos mixtos. La inauguración de The Asberry es un paso significativo hacia el renacimiento de la comunidad de Barry Farm, brindando soluciones de vivienda asequibles y espacios comunitarios que promueven la inclusión y el bienestar social. Para más información sobre el proyecto de reurbanización de Barry Farm, visitas guiadas y oportunidades de involucrarse, visita http://www.dmped.dc.gov o sigue a la DCHA en sus plataformas sociales. Con información de nota de prensa.

When J. Bryan Quesenberry first learned that the federal government was sending out hundreds of billions of dollars to help businesses survive during the COVID-19 pandemic, he thought: “There’s going to be fraud here. There just has to be.” A few months later, Quesenberry began sifting through a list of businesses that received Paycheck Protection Program loans, which were intended to help small businesses ravaged by the pandemic continue paying their employees. The Oregon lawyer said he knew businesses were not allowed to receive more than one loan during a single round, so he searched for “double dippers.” He soon found dozens of businesses across the country that appeared to obtain PPP loans improperly. During the summer of 2020, Quesenberry started suing those firms to try to help the government recover funds. “It just blows my mind,” Quesenberry said. “That’s tax money that comes out of your pocket and that comes out of my pocket.” As federal officials try to retrieve billions in stolen pandemic relief funds, private citizens are scouring public data, company websites and social media pages to help identify potential cases. Those who have filed suits say they are motivated by the desire to root out wrongdoers and expose corporate fraud. But there is also a strong financial incentive. Under the False Claims Act originally enacted in 1863, private citizens can file lawsuits on behalf of the federal government against those who may have defrauded the United States. If the government recovers funds, those citizens can typically earn between 15% and 30% of that amount. That has allowed some private citizens to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars, or in some cases more than $1 million, for chasing pandemic relief fraud. The practice has stirred up some controversy. Some argue that the provision was meant to encourage whistleblowers with insider knowledge to come forward. But some private citizens who have filed many suits said they had relied heavily on publicly available information, stitching together evidence they sourced from the internet to build their cases. The armchair sleuthing highlights how widespread pandemic fraud was and how federal investigators have struggled to keep up with it. In its haste to stave off an economic crisis and provide immediate aid to Americans, Washington distributed billions of dollars with few strings and little oversight. The Small Business Administration’s inspector general has estimated that more than $200 billion — or at least 17% of the pandemic loans the agency distributed — was awarded to “potentially fraudulent actors.” The majority of PPP loans have been forgiven by the federal government. While federal investigators have gone after some of the biggest perpetrators of fraud, limited resources have hindered their ability to go after the estimated thousands of people who took government money improperly. The effort by some private citizens to uncover pandemic fraud has not been warmly received by former Justice Department officials who worry that a deluge of lawsuits that lack insider knowledge could be straining federal resources. Federal officials have to investigate each whistleblower lawsuit to some extent, though the government ultimately declines to intervene in most suits that are filed. “I’m concerned about the consequences brought on by this,” said Michael Galdo, the former director of COVID-19 fraud enforcement at the Justice Department. “There’s a finite amount of resources that the Department of Justice has.” Galdo, now working as counsel at the King & Spalding law firm in New York, said he thinks private citizens without insider information are “clearly” filing suits for financial reasons. “They’re not saying, ‘Send all the money back to the government,’” he said. It is unclear how many whistleblower suits have been filed by private citizens who are not insiders, in part because many cases could still be sealed. As of April 1, the Justice Department had opened more than 1,200 civil pandemic fraud matters, including more than 600 “qui tam,” or whistleblower, cases. To date, more than $43 million has been awarded to whistleblowers, according to Justice Department data. Ethan P. Davis, a former acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s civil division, said he worried that some private citizens were finding red flags in the data that “may be completely innocuous.” “I fear that they may mislead the government into thinking that there is a real problem, and that can result in a pretty costly and expensive investigation for a company,” said Davis, now a partner at King & Spalding who has represented companies that have been accused of obtaining fraudulent PPP loans and investigated. Some private citizens said that it often took hours to investigate leads, and that they were unearthing cases that might otherwise slip through the cracks. Although Quesenberry said he relied primarily on information available on the internet to build cases, he said it was a time-intensive process that often required combing through government websites, Yelp pages, news articles and LinkedIn profiles. He said he thought he added value because he was pulling together evidence to “paint the picture of fraud.” Quesenberry has earned more than $400,000 from 10 cases that have helped the federal government recover more than $3 million, according to a review of documents from U.S. attorney’s offices. Quesenberry said he had been investigating pandemic fraud for about four and a half years and was now working on his cases full time. The Justice Department declined to comment. Hefty Settlements There are several private citizens who are prolific in suing PPP loan borrowers. In June, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California announced that two homeowners associations and two country clubs would pay more than $5.8 million to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims to obtain PPP loans. Some of the organizations said in statements that they had applied in good faith and thought they were eligible. The claims were brought by Wade Riner, a real estate investment business owner in Houston, who was awarded nearly $700,000 as part of the settlement. Riner learned that his own homeowners associations in Florida, where he owns property, and “numerous others” had obtained pandemic loans they were ineligible for, according to the complaint. He has since sued dozens of homeowners associations, condominium associations and country clubs across the country. Although he has seen some success in other districts, the federal government has not pursued most of the defendants he has sued. Riner declined to comment through his lawyer. David Abrams, a lawyer in New York, has also brought cases resulting in multimillion-dollar settlements. Abrams has been awarded more than $1.7 million through pandemic fraud-related lawsuits that have resulted in the government’s recovering more than $17 million, according to a review of documents from U.S. attorney’s offices. Abrams has filed many lawsuits under GNGH2 Inc., targeting borrowers who had links to China, among other things. He has also filed some suits under his organization, the Zionist Advocacy Center, which he said seeks to do “pro-Israel work in the court system.” In September, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced that Americans for Peace Now, a progressive Jewish nonprofit, had agreed to pay $261,890 to settle allegations that it improperly obtained a $130,945 PPP loan. In June, the office said the Middle East Institute had also agreed to pay $718,558 to settle allegations that it improperly obtained a PPP loan. Abrams, who sued both groups, accused them of fraudulently certifying that they were not “primarily engaged in political or lobbying activities,” according to the complaints. Hadar Susskind, president and CEO of Americans for Peace Now, said officials thought they had qualified for the loan because they did not consider the nonprofit to be a political organization. He said they had settled because it could have been costlier to go to court. Susskind said he had never met Abrams, but he believed the complaint was “very much ideologically motivated” because of the nonprofit’s work to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace. In an email, Abrams said: “In America these anti-Israel organizations have the right to spin, distort or even outright lie about Israel. However, they do not have the right to subsidize their activities with government monies for which they were not eligible.” Abrams said he had long done other activist work, including recently representing a Jewish high school student who was the victim of antisemitic bullying. He said he did not charge fees in those matters, and that the “whistleblower cases do generate significant revenue, so things more or less balance out.” Abrams declined to comment about lawsuits he has filed under GNGH2 because of “confidentiality concerns.” ‘A Gold Rush’ There are signs that more people are starting to notice cases that have resulted in big settlements. Jason Marcus, a partner at the Bracker & Marcus law firm in Atlanta, said he had filed about a hundred lawsuits on behalf of four clients who have been investigating pandemic fraud. One of those clients is Sidesolve, a company in San Jose, California, that was awarded $1 million last year after Empire Roofing and its network of affiliated companies agreed to pay $9 million to settle allegations that they falsely certified they were eligible to receive PPP loans. A representative for Empire Roofing said there “was no fraud,” and that the company had settled to resolve the matter quickly. Marcus said that after the case was announced last December, he started to get “calls all of the time from people who say, ‘How do I do this?’” “It’s like a gold rush,” he said. Marcus said he was selective with his clients, though, and that he thoroughly vetted cases before filing suits. Katy Levinson said she and her two co-founders at Sidesolve use artificial intelligence and other data science tools to analyze a mix of information, including publicly available data and private data they purchase. She said they started to investigate pandemic fraud full time in early 2021. The future of the whistleblower provision, though, has come into question. Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida recently declared the provision unconstitutional because it allowed private citizens to sue on behalf of the United States without proper appointment. The decision has been appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Jason M. Crawford, a partner at the Crowell & Moring law firm in New York, said the case seemed likely to eventually reach the Supreme Court. “I think the qui tam provisions could receive a lot of scrutiny from the high court,” he said. This article originally appeared in The New York Times .

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Moment of silence for former President Jimmy Carter held before the Falcons-Commanders gameJimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100On Oct. 1, Indiana County Technology Center officials announced, the River Valley School District filed a lawsuit against the ICTC and its six other member districts to officially withdraw from its longstanding contract with ICTC . The suit came after every other district partnered with ICTC rejected River Valley’s request to withdraw from the technical school at their September board meetings. The ICTC and its six other member districts, Indiana Area, Marion Center Area, United, Homer-Center, Penns Manor Area and Purchase Line, have all contracted with Ira Weiss, of Weiss Burkardt Kramer LLC, as their legal counsel for the withdrawal process. River Valley’s suit claims the district has the right to withdraw from the jointure despite the jointure agreement requiring approval from every ICTC member district, which River Valley did not secure, according to an ICTC news release. “It’s River Valley’s contention that the court should apply a termination date to this agreement, that there can be no agreement without an end date,” Weiss said. “The defendants argue the agreement is very plain, there’s no ambiguity, and in order to withdraw, all the sending districts would have to approve.” As one-seventh owner of the technical school, River Valley’s suit is also seeking for ICTC and its member schools to either: 1.) pay River Valley for its share of ownership of the ICTC, or 2.) force a sale of ICTC’s property to be distributed equally among its member districts. “Both of these scenarios create situations where (ICTC and its programming are) in jeopardy,” Weiss said. Weiss said he’s not yet sure how much River Valley’s share of ICTC would be worth, as ICTC’s assets and property along Hamill Road in White Township would first need appraised. He said selling the technical school’s property isn’t really an option, however, because closing ICTC’s doors would hurt students across the county. “(Selling ICTC’s property) is really not an acceptable solution because this is a vital program for the students of Indiana County,” Weiss said. River Valley Superintendent Philip Martell has said ICTC has a healthy budget surplus and the technical school can survive without River Valley’s support or participation. He added the move to withdraw from ICTC is to protect River Valley taxpayers, as the district is currently paying roughly $29,000 per student to attend ICTC, when including state subsidy, because of River Valley’s drastic decline in student enrollment at ICTC. “(ICTC Administrative Director Michael) McDermott and the other districts left us no choice but to secure our freedom and protect our taxpayers,” Martell said. “The other districts have talked about protecting each one’s own taxpayers, and why is it any different for us? Mr. McDermott again is being disingenuous with Indiana County’s parents, students and taxpayers.” Martell also stated that no contract lasts forever in the state of Pennsylvania and that the separation between River Valley and ICTC could have been amicable. “The solution was simple,” Martell said. “Clearly just let us walk away, and we can all move on to educating students and giving them the resources they need to succeed. “We just have big differences on what that looks like, and I stand behind the fact the River Valley STEAM Academy is a pathway for students to the future and not a doorway to the past.” Weiss pushed back on Martell’s arguments that ICTC left River Valley with no other choice but to withdraw. “River Valley claims its cost-per-student is higher, and that is because it has chosen to take its students out of (the ICTC) for the most part and assign them to (the STEAM Academy),” Weiss said. “So, any financial advantage River Valley may claim is self-inflicted. “This is like starting a fire and wanting everybody else to pay to put the fire out. I mean, you don’t shoot your parents and claim to be an orphan.” Weiss also said he disagreed with Martell’s analysis that River Valley’s withdrawal wouldn’t impact ICTC’s ability to maintain its programming. Weiss said River Valley’s withdrawal wouldn’t create any material reduction to operating costs; the only difference would be six districts would have to pay for what seven districts used to pay. “It’s unfortunate River Valley has chosen to create its own career education program and use that as a pretext to place in jeopardy a very worthwhile program for all the students and families of Indiana County,” Weiss said. McDermott elaborated on the financial strains River Valley’s lawsuit and withdrawal could put on school districts across the county. “It is disappointing that River Valley has chosen this path requiring taxpayer dollars to be spent by all districts rather than working to continue the quality programming here, at ICTC,” McDermott said. “This suit jeopardizes the future of this center and its member districts. The ICTC will respond to this suit through counsel to ensure our outstanding programming continues. The students and families of Indiana County deserve no less.” River Valley officially filed the suit against ICTC and its member districts Monday, Sept. 23, according to Weiss. ICTC’s member districts were served Monday, Sept. 30. Weiss said ICTC’s next steps include filing a responsive pleading to the lawsuit and resolving legal issues before a trial can occur, such as determining whether selling ICTC’s property is an appropriate remedy. o o o As was reported Sept. 21, how River Valley, ICTC and its six other sending schools got to this stage is a point of contention between River Valley administration and every other district partnered with ICTC . Martell said he wants to pull the district out of ICTC due to the school’s high enrollment costs and antiquated programming. He also believes River Valley’s STEAM Academy at the district’s Saltsburg campus, which has some overlapping programs with ICTC like electrical and welding, successfully serves River Valley students and gives his district more control over curriculum and instruction. But administrators from ICTC and the six other sending schools claim Martell presents inaccurate and misleading information about ICTC’s enrollment costs and that River Valley’s financial concerns are a result of its own actions. Those administrators also stated ICTC effectively serves all students in Indiana and that River Valley should consider its contractual obligations as well as how its actions will negatively impact students, taxpayers and educational opportunities throughout the county. History of ICTC River Valley’s history with ICTC began when the technical school opened in 1980 with a mission to provide trade and industry entry level skills to students across the county. At the time, River Valley went by Blairsville-Saltsburg School District, and ICTC went by Indiana County Vocational Technical School. The technical school changed its name to ICTC on July 1, 1999, to better reflect its mission, and Blairsville-Saltsburg changed its name to River Valley after the schools in Blairsville and Saltsburg consolidated in 2021. River Valley, then Blairsville-Saltsburg, was one of the founding members of the ICTC, along with Homer-Center, Indiana Area, Marion Center and United school districts. Penns Manor became a member December 2011, and Purchase Line joined the consortium in July 2014. Like many county technical centers across the Commonwealth, the purpose of ICTC was to serve as a central organization other Indiana County school districts could utilize to benefit workforce development, according to Homer-Center Superintendent Ralph Cecere Jr. in a June 14 meeting with the Indiana Gazette. By sharing costs and resources among member schools and working collaboratively to make decisions, ICTC’s member districts provide technical education to their students, including smaller districts that may not have funding or resources to develop technical programs on their own, according to Penns Manor Superintendent and ICTC Superintendent of Record Daren Johnston. “At Penns Manor, we cannot (create our own technical school),” Johnston said at the same June 14 meeting. “We’re a small school district. That can’t happen. So, what’s the next best step? Working collaboratively with everybody else in the (county).” Collaboration among the seven member schools, which are each part owner of the ICTC, went well. Although the contributing schools didn’t always see eye to eye, every district helped finance the operation and worked together to make decisions about the ICTC and its programming — that is, until Martell became River Valley’s superintendent in December 2020. History of River Valley STEAM Academy In a July 23 interview with Martell, STEAM Academy Workforce Development Consultant Jeff Geesey and River Valley Director of Public Relations Jeanine Buell, Martell said he agreed to take the superintendent role at River Valley under two conditions: 1.) the Blairsville-Saltsburg school district had to consolidate, and 2.) the former Saltsburg middle-high school had to be converted into a STEAM Academy. “It was the only way I agreed to take the job,” Martell said. Martell said his goal with the STEAM Academy was to provide career pathways, workforce development opportunities and industry credentials in high-demand fields such as welding, which, at ICTC, required going through a wait list before students could enter the program. The STEAM Academy officially opened in the 2022-23 school year with four programs of study: cybersecurity, esports, electrical occupations and sports medicine and rehabilitation therapy (SMaRT). 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ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s incumbent President Zoran Milanovic won most of the votes in the first round of a presidential election on Sunday, but must face a runoff against a ruling party candidate to secure another five-year term. With nearly all of the votes counted, left-leaning Milanovic won 49% while his main challenger Dragan Primorac, a candidate of the ruling conservative HDZ party, trailed far behind with 19%. Pre-election polls had predicted that the two would face off in the second round on Jan. 12, as none of the eight presidential election contenders were projected to get more than 50% of the vote. Milanovic thanked his supporters but warned “this was just a first run.” “Let’s not be triumphant, let’s be realistic, firmly on the ground,” he said. “We must fight all over again. It’s not over till it’s over.” Milanovic is an outspoken critic of Western military support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. He is often compared to Donald Trump for his combative style of communication with political opponents. The most popular politician in Croatia, 58-year-old Milanović has served as prime minister in the past. Populist in style, he has been a fierce critic of current Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and continuous sparring between the two has lately marked Croatia’s political scene. Plenković, the prime minister, has sought to portray the vote as one about Croatia’s future in the EU and NATO. He has labeled Milanović “pro-Russian” and a threat to Croatia’s international standing. “The difference between him and Milanović is quite simple: Milanović is leading us East, Primorac is leading us West,” he said. Though the presidency is largely ceremonial in Croatia, an elected president holds political authority and acts as the supreme military commander. Milanović has criticized the NATO and European Union support for Ukraine and has often insisted that Croatia should not take sides. He has said Croatia should stay away from global disputes, though it is a member of both NATO and the EU. Milanović has also blocked Croatia’s participation in a NATO-led training mission for Ukraine, declaring that “no Croatian soldier will take part in somebody else’s war.” His main rival in the election, Primorac, has stated that “Croatia’s place is in the West, not the East.” His presidency bid, however, has been marred by a high-level corruption case that landed Croatia’s health minister in jail last month and featured prominently in pre-election debates. During the election campaign, Primorac has sought to portray himself as a unifier and Milanović as divisive. Primorac was upbeat despite such a big defeat in the first round. “I know the difference (in votes) at first sight seems very big,” said Primorac, who insisted that the center-right votes had split among too many conservative candidates. “Now we have a great opportunity to face each other one on one and show who stands for what,” he said. Sunday’s presidential election is Croatia’s third vote this year, following a parliamentary election in April and the European Parliament balloting in June.Some were crime victims. Others lived and died in solitude. Some may have been lost hikers, runaway children, or wanderers. One thing connects the 58 or so remains at the Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office found with no identification card and no next of kin to claim them: They remain nameless. Forensic pathologists hope that advanced DNA testing technology will allow them to attach names to all of the agency’s unidentified people. But for now, five cases — all children and teens — have been sent for additional testing thanks to a $50,000 grant from Texas-based cold case resolution company, Othram. They include the partial skeleton of a teenager found in Keehi Lagoon near the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in 2002; parts of the body of a 7- to 10-year-old boy discovered in Waianae in 2000; six fingers of a girl under the age of 4 who was found in Honolulu in 2012; and the skeletal remains of an adolescent found mixed with animal bones inside of a vase purchased in Honolulu in 2015. The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office wouldn’t provide additional details about the individual cases but medicolegal investigator Charlotte Carter said each one represents a person whose family deserves closure. The five cases sent to Othram for testing were chosen in part because they are juveniles, who DNA experts felt had a good chance being identified through advanced technology. One case is connected to a 2014 homicide so the Honolulu Medical Examiners Office declined to provide information while the investigation continues. For the case involving the severed fingers, it’s unclear whether they belong to a child who died or only suffered trauma to their hands. The other cases could be missing children, a possibility that can’t be ruled out until DNA testing is complete. Carter said she’s committed to resolving the other unidentified cases in Honolulu’s morgue, especially if DNA testing becomes more accessible and affordable. “Anybody who’s unidentified deserves to have a chance at being found and identified,” she said, “and given their name back.” The Honolulu City Council in June accepted the grant from Houston-based Othram, which performs forensic genetic genealogy testing, which combines DNA analysis with genealogy research. So far, Carter said none of the samples have been identified. Sparse information about each case is available publicly through the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs , an organization funded by the National Institute of Justice that runs a national database of unidentified, missing and unclaimed persons. Representatives with NamUs did not respond to interview requests. For some cases, very little is known. For the skeletal remains found inside the vase in Honolulu, for example, forensic pathologists could not identify an age range, gender, height, weight or year of death — only that the person was still an adolescent. Other cases include more clues. The young boy found in Waianae in 2000 was suspected to have died that same year. He was recovered without a torso and was missing one or more of his limbs and one or both of his hands. A forensic artist reconstructed his face, which is included on his NamUs profile, showing what he may have looked like in life. He is listed in the missing children’s database as “John Waianae Doe 2000.” Carter said it can take a year or more for DNA testing results to come back. Thus far, her agency has worked on one successful identification with Othram. Skeletal remains unearthed by a construction crew in Manoa in 2010 were tested and later identified as belonging to William Hans Holling Jr., a Washington man last seen by friends and family in January 1985. Othram identified Holling’s remains and the Honolulu Police Department confirmed his identity in July. No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains open. Forensic genetic genealogy testing allows investigators to search for an unidentified person’s relatives as a starting point and, with the help of public records, to build a family tree that they hope will get them closer to an identification. The method became popular in criminal investigations in the 2010s after companies like 23andMe and Ancestry came onto the market. Those companies block law enforcement agencies like the FBI from their databases, but investigators can use others, like GEDMatch, which is public facing, and FamilyTreeDNA, which allows limited access by law enforcement, according to Stephen Kramer, a former FBI in-house counsel and founder of Indago Solutions, a DNA identification company. While still working with the FBI in 2018, Kramer helped identify the Golden State Killer using forensic genetic genealogy testing. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., pleaded guilty to 13 murder and rape charges for crimes committed in the 1970s and ’80s, and has admitted overall to 161 crimes involving 48 victims, including dozens of rapes. Kramer’s company recently identified Albert Lauro as the murder suspect in the 1991 killing of Dana Ireland on the Big Island. During a presentation to University of Hawaii law students this month, Kramer said genetic analysis of the DNA found on Ireland’s body connected him to ancestry information about the suspect. He discovered the man was 83% Filipino, meaning he had three Filipino grandparents. He was also 5% European and Scandinavian, with the rest a mix of Hawaiian, Maori and South Pacific Islander. That told Kramer the suspect’s fourth grandparent was about 30% European and 25% Pacific Islander, he said. Kramer focused on that grandparent because it’s generally easier to find public records for people of European descent. He used records to identify people with this ancestry who had moved to Hawaii and married into Filipino families, leaving very few potential matches. He traced a family tree with three Filipino grandparents and one grandparent descending from Europeans, Scandinavians and Pacific Islanders. There, he found his suspect. Investigators followed Lauro, picking up a fork he discarded, which was tested against a DNA sample from Ireland’s body. Detectives later reconfirmed Lauro’s identity with a swab when they brought him in for questioning on July 19. Hawaii County Police Chief Ben Moszkowicz later said police didn’t have enough probable cause to arrest Lauro for Ireland’s murder, and they let him go. He killed himself four days later. Lack of funds is the main obstacle to more intensive screening and forensic genetic genealogy on cold cases, Carter said. Each case costs about $10,000, and NamUs pays for Honolulu to send around five cases per year for testing. The 58 unidentified cases at the Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office date back to about 1966 and include people found under a variety of circumstances. Many are skeletal remains uncovered at construction sites, Carter said. Others are remains discovered by hikers that likely belonged to people who were homeless and living in encampments in remote parts of the island. If remains are found on tribal lands, are more than 50 years old or otherwise suspected to be Native Hawaiian, medical examiners contact the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ State Historic Preservation Division for confirmation. If the remains are confirmed to be Native Hawaiian, the agency takes custody of them for repatriation. But some unidentified cases involve people who died fairly recently and, although they were physically recognizable when they were found, they still haven’t been claimed by family members or matched through any national database. Forensic pathologists have not been able to identify a woman fatally struck by a car while trying to cross the road at Ke’eaumoku and South King streets on May 21, 2016, Carter said. She was between 50 and 75 years old, of Asian or mixed Asian ancestry and appeared to be homeless, according to her NamUs profile . Her DNA was run through the national database, and Honolulu police collected her fingerprints and sent them to the FBI, but received no matches. A few people have come forward thinking they knew her, but her identity wasn’t able to be confirmed, Carter said. “That is a person who was a victim of a crime,” she said. “But, unfortunately, we’re not able to figure out who she is.” The most recent case was discovered on Oct. 9 when military personnel doing a training exercise found two femurs inside a camping tent off a hiking trail in Haleiwa. Carter said her office doesn’t track statistics on identifications but said usually one or two unidentified remains are ID’d each year through DNA testing. If a person is identified but their next of kin can’t be found, their case is moved to NamUs’s unclaimed persons database. If family members are found, they are able to collect their relative’s remains for burial or cremation, Carter said. She hopes that as technology improves, testing will become more accessible so every case can be resolved. “I just think everybody deserves a name and their family deserves an answer,” she said. “We have a lot of families who are out there wondering what happened to somebody they love. And now that there’s new technologies, we’re maybe going to get a little step closer to having more closure or more processing to that new normal for those families.” This story was originally published by Honolulu Civil Beat and distributed through a partnership with The Associated Press.

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