SAN DIEGO, Nov. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robbins LLP reminds investors that a class action was filed on behalf of all investors and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Acadia Healthcare Company (NASDAQ: ACHC) securities between February 28, 2020 and September 26, 2024. Acadia is a leading provider of behavioral healthcare services across the United States. For more information, submit a form , email attorney Aaron Dumas, Jr., or give us a call at (800) 350-6003. The Allegations: Robbins LLP is Investigating Allegations that Acadia Healthcare Company (ACHA) Held Patients Against Their Will According to the complaint, during the class period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Acadia Healthcare’s business model centered on holding vulnerable people against their will in its facilities, including in cases where it was not medically necessary to do so; (2) while in Acadia Healthcare facilities, many patients were subjected to abuse; and (3) Acadia Healthcare deceived insurance providers into paying for patients to stay in its facilities when it was not medically necessary. On September 1, 2024, The New York Times published an article entitled “How a Leading Chain of Psychiatric Hospitals Traps Patients.” The article noted that "Acadia has lured patients into its facilities and held them against their will, even when detaining them was not medically necessary” and detailed specific patient experiences. On this news, the price of Acadia Healthcare stock fell $3.72 per share, or 4.5%, to close at $78.21 per share on September 3, 2024. Then, on September 27, 2024, Acadia Healthcare disclosed, among other things, that on September 24, 2024, it "received a voluntary request for information from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York as well as a grand jury subpoena from the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (W.D.Mo.) related to its admissions, length of stay and billing practices." On this news, the price of Acadia Healthcare stock fell by $12.38 per share, or 6.36%, to close at $63.28 on September 27, 2024. What Now: You may be eligible to participate in the class action against Acadia Healthcare Company. Shareholders who want to serve as lead plaintiff for the class must submit their application to the court by December 16, 2024. A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. You do not have to participate in the case to be eligible for a recovery. If you choose to take no action, you can remain an absent class member. For more information, click here . All representation is on a contingency fee basis. Shareholders pay no fees or expenses. About Robbins LLP: Some law firms issuing releases about this matter do not actually litigate securities class actions; Robbins LLP does. A recognized leader in shareholder rights litigation, the attorneys and staff of Robbins LLP have been dedicated to helping shareholders recover losses, improve corporate governance structures, and hold company executives accountable for their wrongdoing since 2002. Since our inception, we have obtained over $1 billion for shareholders. To be notified if a class action against Acadia Healthcare Company settles or to receive free alerts when corporate executives engage in wrongdoing, sign up for Stock Watch today. Attorney Advertising. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at: https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/d258d2f0-7131-4dcf-8583-fb6d31183719NASA Experts Share Inspiring Stories of Perseverance to Students
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Spanish on the Fly, other NKY businesses receive awardssyracuse.com | The Post-Standard Each week, syracuse.com will look back at some of our most important and valuable journalism from the previous week. Here are six stories for the week of Nov. 17, 2024. Subscribe to get the Syracuse.com Exclusives newsletter delivered to your email inbox every Sunday. Inside the lead water testing that’s sparked outrage, confusion for Syracuse residents A second round of lab tests shows the problem with lead in Syracuse’s drinking water isn’t as bad as originally thought. But the whole exercise exposes the gaps in the testing process and the confusion of residents who thought for a minute that their drinking water was dangerous. Residents are asking: Is my water safe to drink or not? There’s a mind-boggling gap in NY’s plan for a clean electric grid. ‘We are so far behind’ New York has a mandate to stop burning fossil fuels for electricity by 2040. But there is a big problem to solve first. It’s not just that acres and acres of solar and wind farms have yet to be developed. That’s a tough slog, but we know how to build solar and wind farms. The greater uncertainty is this: What technology will grid operators turn to when solar and wind fall short? Contractor who stole money in 3 counties takes $62,000 from CNY family, leaves huge hole, couple says Ed and Theresa Polimeni seen near an 11-foot-deep hole in the backyard of their house on Lock Street in Baldwinsville on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com) Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com Ed and Theresa Polimeni were looking forward to building an addition to their Baldwinsville home. They wanted more space for their family of four kids and three dogs. They found a contractor online who they thought offered them a good deal, and they made a down payment of $5,875 in August. The job would be done in about a month, the Polimenis said the man told them. Three months later, there is an 11-foot-deep hole in the family’s backyard. And they said the contractor who walked away with nearly $62,000 of their money isn’t who he first appeared to be . Kyle McCord’s year in Syracuse: A star quarterback rediscovers his joy after leaving Ohio State The position that McCord worked years to reach – through early mornings at Planet Fitness, commutes to an elite high school program and workouts with the best coaches in New Jersey – didn’t bring him much joy last season at Ohio State. Those who know him best say he didn’t look like the person they knew. One year in Syracuse has changed that . Jamesville-DeWitt teacher begs board to act on student threat: ‘He stated that he would kill me, hunt me’ Denise Stillitano, 43, said the threats against her were so detailed that she feared for her life, even after the 12-year-old boy involved was removed from school. The long-time teacher took the rare step of speaking about the threat publicly, during the district’s school board meeting Monday. She begged the board to ensure that the threat against her life was not swept under the rug . Onondaga Nation plans a wild future for 1,000 acres of reclaimed land A small group of Onondaga Nation citizens recently gathered on the bank of Onondaga Creek near Tully. They’d come to talk about the unprecedented return in September of 1,000 acres of land to the Onondaga Nation , and along with it the headwaters of the creek that bears the name of their people.Stormont minister Maurice Morrow told an official he would not raise the issue with the Northern Ireland Executive, despite similar measures being considered in England and Wales. A file on planning arrangements for the jubilee celebrations reveals a series of civil service correspondences on how Northern Ireland would mark the occasion. It includes a letter sent on January 11 2001 from an official in the Office of the First Minister/Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) to the Department of Social Development, advising that a committee had been set up in London to consider a programme of celebrations. The correspondence says: “One of the issues the committee is currently considering is the possibility of deregulating liquor licensing laws during the golden jubilee celebrations on the same lines as the arrangements made for the millennium. “It is felt that the golden jubilee bank holiday on Monday 3 June 2002 is likely to be an occasion on which many public houses and similar licensed premises would wish to stay open beyond normal closing time.” The letter said a paper had been prepared on the issue of extending opening hours. It adds: “You will note that paragraph seven of the paper indicates that the devolved administrations ‘would need to consider deregulation separately within their own jurisdictions’. “I thought that you would wish to be aware that this issue is receiving active consideration for England and Wales and to consider whether anything needs to be done for Northern Ireland.” Some months later a “progress report” was sent between officials in OFMDFM, which again raised the issue of licensing laws. It says: “I spoke to Gordon Gibson, DSD, about Terry Smith’s letter of 12 January 2001 about licensing laws: the matter was put to their minister Maurice Morrow (DUP) who indicated that he would not be asking the NIE (Northern Ireland Executive) to approve any change to current licensing laws in NI to allow for either 24 hour opening (as at the millennium) nor a blanket approval for extended opening hours as is being considered in GB. “In both cases, primary legislation would be required here and would necessitate consultation and the minister has ruled out any consultation process.” The correspondence says individual licensees could still apply for an extension to opening hours on an ad hoc basis, adding “there the matter rests”. It goes on: “DSD await further pronouncements from the Home Office and Gibson and I have agreed to notify each other of any developments we become aware of and he will copy me to any (existing) relevant papers. “Ministers may well come under pressure in due course for a relaxation and/or parity with GB.” The document concludes “That’s it so far...making haste slowly?” Emails sent between officials in the department the same month said that lord lieutenants in Northern Ireland had been approached about local events to mark the jubilee. One message says: “Lord lieutenants have not shown any enthusiasm for encouraging GJ celebrations at a local level. “Lady Carswell in particular believes that it would be difficult for LLs to encourage such activities without appearing political.”
ESTERO, Fla. (AP) — Al Green scored 19 points and Sean Newman Jr. added seven in the overtime as Louisiana Tech knocked off Southern Illinois 85-79 in a first-round contest at the Gulf Coast Showcase on Monday night. Green had three steals for the Bulldogs (5-0). Kaden Cooper scored 18 points and added 12 rebounds and four steals. Amaree Abram went 8 of 13 from the field to finish with 18 points, while adding six steals. Kennard Davis led the way for the Salukis (2-4) with 16 points, 10 rebounds and three steals. Southern Illinois also got 15 points and eight rebounds from Jarrett Hensley. Ali Abdou Dibba also had 12 points and two steals. Cooper scored 12 points in the first half and Louisiana Tech went into the break trailing 31-27. Abram's 16-point second half helped Louisiana Tech close out the six-point victory. NEXT UP These two teams both play Tuesday in the six-team, round-robin tournament. Louisiana Tech squares off against Richmond and Southern Illinois faces Eastern Kentucky. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
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Analysis: Protecting QBs from violent late hits like the one that leveled Trevor Lawrence isn't easyMinutes of an Executive meeting from June of that year state further action would be considered “as appropriate” if the DUP went ahead with a threat to rotate its ministers. The minutes are within files which have been declassified at the Public Record Office in Belfast. Devolved powersharing had been restored to Northern Ireland in May 2000 when Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble had received the backing of his party to go back into the Assembly, despite there having been no decommissioning of IRA arms at that point. Then DUP deputy leader Mr Robinson and Mr Dodds took up the offices as ministers for regional development and social development, but refused to attend Executive meetings due to the presence of Sinn Fein ministers. The party also said it would rotate its ministerial posts to prevent other parties from taking them. A minute of an Executive meeting on June 8 said Mr Robinson and Mr Dodds had refused a request from First Minister Mr Trimble and deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon to meet with them “to discuss recent public comments by the DUP concerning their positions as ministers”. The minute records that the Executive endorsed a proposal from the First and deputy First Ministers to write again to the two DUP ministers setting out sanctions against them. It says: “The First Minister and and Deputy First Minister would assume responsibility for representing the Executive Committee on transport matters at the British-Irish Council in place of the Minister for Regional Development. “The Minister for Social Development and the Minister for Regional Development would not be nominated to attend meetings of the Joint Ministerial Committee. “Pending the receipt of satisfactory assurances from DUP Ministers regarding the confidentiality and integrity of Executive Committee business, the Minister for Social Development and Minister for Regional Development would not receive Executive Committee papers as of right. “The First Minister and Deputy First Minister would seek briefing, as appropriate, from officials in the Department for Regional Development and Department for Social Development.” The minute continues: “If the DUP carried out their threat to change the holders of the two Ministerial offices on a frequent basis, the Executive Committee would consider other action as appropriate.” Mr Robinson and Mr Dodds resigned as ministers on June 27 and were replaced by party colleagues Gregory Campbell and Maurice Morrow. A minute from an Executive meeting that day says: “The Executive Committee noted that the Minister for Social Development and Minister for Regional Development would be resigning their posts that afternoon, and expressed concern at the proposed rotation of the ministries held by their Party Members.”
Finally, some happy news has come to the Middle East! The Syrian spadefoot toad ( Pelobates syriacus ) has been rediscovered in Syria. This is quite the zoological feat given that the country has been wracked by civil war for 13 years and that the shy toad had never actually been seen in Syria before. More specifically, the historic record of the amphibian in Syria consisted of exactly one specimen – and it's dead. It is being held in perpetuity at the Natural History Museum in London. The toad cadaver had been given to the museum in 1892 and, as the team points out, its provenance is "vague," only given as somewhere near Damascus. The team suspects this to be inaccurate because habitat suitability studies, irrespective of explosives, suggest the city's environs are not compatible with anuran survival. In fact, the toad's existence in Syria has been postulated but never proven, according to the paper "Community Science Rediscovers the Syrian Spadefoot Toad, Pelobates syriacus, in War-Torn Regions of Syria" – published last week in the prestigious journal Herpetological Conservation and Biology. Now it has been, says Yaman Omran of the University of Aleppo with researchers Johnny Baakliny, a student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Mark Davis, an Illinois Natural History Survey conservation biologist. To be fair, it's hard to spot the Syrian spadefoot toad. It's perfectly camouflaged for concealment in the swamps it calls home, avoids humans, and has apparently become rare everywhere in its range except Iran. Surveys done before the civil war in Syria (which began in 2011) found not a single one, and there haven't been any zoological surveys in Syria in recent years due to lack of herpetological funding and support for biodiversity research in the war-torn country. It was rediscovered thanks to "modern technology," the team explains – by which they mean not frog-spotting, motion-activated robots, but by using Facebook. Specifically, the researchers posted a query on the Facebook page Huwat al-Ḥayat al-Barriyah al-Suriyah (Syrian Wildlife Hobbyists) asking the animal aficionados of Syria if they had seen any Syrian spadefoot toads. They had. "Three confirmed sightings emerged from the group," the team writes: tadpoles at Lake Sedd al-Rabwa in Western Hama, and two adults found lurking in a greenhouse in Burj Arab in the Tartous governorate. "Notably, these observations were approximately 35 kilometers [22 miles] from each other and 120 kilometers from the nearest confirmed occurrence in Lebanon," the team writes. The Syrian spadefoot toad is a lovely plump anuran with protruding eyes featuring the cat's-eye slit pupil. It can grow to about 9 centimeters (3.5 inches) long, and, like a frog, has smooth skin. Its coloration can vary widely so that's no criterion. The Syrian species is distinguished from the common spadefoot ( Pelobates fuscus ) chiefly by head shape. The Syrian toad has a flat head, while the common spadefoot's head is more domelike, according to people who have seen them. The spadefoot exists in Israel too, where, in contrast to Syria, it has been seen. But again, seeing it is a rare occurrence. Here, the toad is called the hafarit metzuya after the decision fell to stop calling it hafarit ein hahatul (cat's eye toad). When adults and larvae of the rare species were discovered in a winter pool at the Check Post in Haifa during construction of a mall – they were rescued, tenderly hosted at Tel Aviv University. Their descendants have been dispersed here and there in the wild to shore up the local toad population. We can only wish the toads good luck even though they are listed under "least concern" in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . The IUCN features a map of their distribution, showing exactly why we should be worried. It survives mainly in isolated spots around the Black and Caspian seas, with tiny populations in the Middle East as well. Clearly in the distant past it had a vast range, which is no more. Based on the forecasts for climate change in the Middle East and the Caucasus, its situation is not likely to improve. Why does the toad's status matter except to its mother and herpetologists? It matters to us all. We have destabilized the planet's climate and ecology, and amphibians are considered to be a bellwether of ecological health because they are relatively sensitive. Just for one tiny instance, pollutants in the water – which have become a worldwide problem – leads to startling birth defects in amphibians such as extra legs. In short, amphibians generally and our newly rediscovered friend the Syrian spadefoot toad, are sentinel species, indicators of the state of our environment. It is hard to monitor the state of a shy, delicate amphibian in a war zone, which is hazardous for zoologists, the team points out. They are therefore highly appreciative of the efforts of citizen science via social media, which has now proved its efficacy under fire. So, the Syrian toad is back. As for that one in London from the early days of archaeological and zoological surveys of the Middle East – could that toad have originated in ... the land that is today Israel? In 1892, Syria was part of the Ottoman Empire, the team points out. The whole area from Aleppo and Damascus down the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon to Mount Hermon was known as the Vilayet of Damascus. "Therefore, the label Damascus on the specimen might refer to the entire region of the eastern Mediterranean known as the Vilayet of Damascus during that period," the team says – and at this point in time, Mount Hermon is in Israeli hands. But it doesn't actually matter. The toad is here and the toad is there. Maybe one day the toad will be everywhere, but that isn't looking likely. Meanwhile, we can take pleasure in the knowledge they are around, even if we never see any.Centurion, Dec 29 (IANS): South Africa captain Temba Bavuma revealed it was an emotional moment for him personally as the Proteas sealed a place in the World Test Championship (WTC) final after registering a gripping two-wicket win against Pakistan in Centurion on Sunday. "Quite an emotional moment for me. Lot of joy and happiness on our side. We did the hard way. But glad we won. I was still sulking," Bavuma said after the match. Before the start of the Boxing Day Test in Centurion, South Africa were on the top of the standings for the next year's summit clash at Lord's. A win against Pakistan ensured that they would finish the standings in the top two to secure a place in their maiden WTC final. However, the win was not easy for the hosts despite chasing 148 as they crumbled on the way before Kagiso Rabada (31 not out) and Marco Jansen (16 not out) finally got them over the line to seal their maiden WTC final appearance. Bavuma lauded Aiden Markram for scoring 89 in the first innings that set the tone of the win and also earned him Player of the Match. "Aiden get them going. Wasn't a lot of conversations. We still had the confidence. I didn't come out to the viewing area and was in the toilet. I came when 15 runs were needed. It is a big win. Not just for myself. But for the coaches. The way we started our campaign against India. We weren't given much of a chance. We weren't ruthless. But we kept finding ways. We hope the guys can get confidence from performances like these. Guys get picked on when they do badly. We would like to enjoy the moment and take stock of what we have done," the skipper said. The Proteas were already on top of the WTC standings after a 2-0 series sweep against Sri Lanka at home. Having played 11 Tests in the ongoing cycle, South Africa boast seven wins and a 66.67 point percentage. Having started off the ongoing cycle with a drawn series at home against India, followed by a clean sweep at the hands of New Zealand, the Proteas bounced back with impressive wins away from home against West Indies and Bangladesh, followed by dominant displays at home. Bavuma-led side pipped Australia, India and Sri Lanka – who are also in contention – to become the first team to book a spot in the final, barring any point deductions owing to slow-over rate.