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PG Replaces Current CEO with a Former CEO

CINCINNATI (AP) - Procter & Gamble says it is replacing CEO Bob McDonald with former CEO A.G. Lafley, effective immediately.Lafley, 65, served as CEO at the world's largest consumer goods maker from 2000 to 2009. He will also take the chairman title.McDonald, who has worked for P&G for 33 years, and became CEO after Lafley retired, will retire on June 30.Under McDonald, ...
Boy Scouts To Accept Gay Scouts

GRAPEVINE, Texas In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization. Gay adults will remain barred from serving as Scout leaders.Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent ...
Kenwood Womans Club awards annual scholarships at lunch

Six high school seniors and two women received scholarships for college. From right to left are scholarship winners Nora and Ellen Molinaro of Mount Notre Dame High School, Ashley Schlissel of Indian Hill High School, Lynn Kendall of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College and Alexis Teeters of Indian Hill High School. / Thanks to Dawn ...
Finneytown meets new school superintendent

Finneytown Local School District Superintendent Tyrone Olverson, 45, meets with Finneytown resident Bob Briggs, 86, during a meet and greet with the community at the Finneytown secondary campus. / Monica Boylson/The Community ...
Friends tie for first in Girls on the Run 5K

DELHI TWP. — Mady Nutter and Erica Schloemer had just yards to go to pass the finish line in the Girls on the Run 5K at Paul Brown Stadium. Exhausted the two knew they had to increase their speed to take first place in the girls ...

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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles [Blu-Ray]

John Hughess Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a road comedy about two men trying desperately to get home for Thanksgiving and having every obstacle imaginable thrown in their way. The men are played, in a feat of perfect casting, by Steve Martin a ... ...

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Rookie on the move

Tanner Hawkinson, the Bengals fifth-round pick, is a young man the Bengals are hurrying along the offensive line. Envisioning Hawkinson as the next Dave Lapham, he's working at left tackle and left guard this week as OTAs opened at Paul Brown Stadium."Being versatile is what he's going to be really good at," said Kyle Caskey, offensive line coach Paul Alexander's ...
CMHA looking for properties in Green Twp.

GREEN TWP. — The Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority is searching for multifamily buildings available for sale in the ...
Colerain woman benefits from Repair Affair

Eva Taylor can get in and out of her Colerain Township home more easily thanks to the installation of a wheelchair ramp by a group of Northwest Community Church members volunteering through the People Working Cooperatively's Repair Affair. / ...
Test Program Would Allow Pilots To Text While Flying

An experiment is under way to see if pilots should be allowed to text while flying. Not to their friends, but back and forth with the control tower. It's a small experiment in the United States, but texting in the sky is widely used in other places. Local 12 news reporter Jeff Hirsh shows us how it works and why it may be coming to your flight. When pilots and air traffic controllers ...
Bob McDonald out as CEO at Procter Gamble

Bob McDonald is retiring from P&G after a 33 year career. Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co. is replacing CEO Bob McDonald with a familiar name. The company's board of directors has named A.G. Lafley as the new CEO and chairman of the consumer goods giant. Lafley returns to the job after an absence of about four years, having served as president and CEO from 2000 to 2009. We thank Bob ...

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Smallest known plant-eating dinosaur found in Canada

A team of paleontologists from the University of Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and University of Calgary have identified a new dinosaur, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur species known from Canada.

Albertadromeus syntarsus was identified from a partial hind leg, and other skeletal elements, that indicate it was a speedy runner. Approximately 1.6 m (5 ft) long, it weighed about 16 kg (30 lbs), comparable to a large turkey.

Albertadromeus lived in what is now southern Alberta in the Late Cretaceous, about 77 million years ago.

Albertadromeus syntarsus means "Alberta runner with fused foot bones". Unlike its much larger ornithopod cousins, the duckbilled dinosaurs, its two fused lower leg bones would have made it a fast, agile two-legged runner. This animal is the smallest known plant-eating dinosaur in its ecosystem, and researchers hypothesize that it used its speed to avoid predation by the many species of meat-eating dinosaurs that lived at the same time.

Albertadromeus was discovered in 2009 by study co-author David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum as part an on-going collaboration with Michael Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to investigate the evolution of dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of North America. ...