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More Caution Signs Being Posted At Hocking Hills

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is in the process of posting more warning signs at Hocking Hills.One of the "Danger" signs was installed on Friday. More are expected to be posted in the coming weeks.Three people have been killed in falls since the beginning of the year.Along with the signs, park managers told 10TV that they are increasing enforcement by issuing citations to ...
Dublin Police Improve Vehicles Firing Range

Dublin police demonstrated some departmental improvements designed to keep officers safer.As the force replaces vehicles, they will be adding Dodge Chargers with push bumpers.The bumpers help clear obstacles from the road.Police also showed off improvements to the firing range. The walls have been reinforced with special traps to catch any type of bullet.The range is now computerized, so the ...
Nearly 100 bridges in Cincinnati region need attention

There are nearly 100 bridges that are either so old or have defects that require weight limits in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, an Enquirer analysis of a national bridge database ...
Veterans pay tribute at Daters Memorial Day ceremony

WESTWOOD — Veterans gathered at Dater High School to honor their comrades who lost their lives protecting our freedoms. The school hosted its 16th annual Memorial Day ceremony Friday, May ...
AdvancePierre donates to tornado relief efforts

As Moore, Oklahoma, and the surrounding communities struggle to recover from the devastation caused by the tornado May 20, AdvancePierre Foods in Springdale is helping the relief ...

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Salesman [DVD]

What is it about salesmen that bring to mind failure? From Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman to David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, dramas on page, stage, and screen have consistently cast salesmen in the role of the tragic loser--the fundamental prototype of the failed American dream. Maybe it is because it is their job to peddle the wares of the American dream--those desirable ma ... ...

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State OKs plans of Ohio schools to fix data errors

The state auditor had flagged the errors in a February report. He was looking into a practice whereby schools attempted to improve performance ratings by altering attendance ...
Cleveland Police ask for help in hit-skip of bicyclist

CLEVELAND -- Cleveland Police investigating hit-skip of a male bicyclist, 42. It occurred between 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. May 16 in the area of West 112th Street and Madison Avenue. Investigators believe the bicyclist was traveling eastbound on Madison Avenue. He was found seriously injured after he was apparently struck by an unidentified vehicle. Due to his injuries, the victim has not yet ...
Ohio bans those dangerous dens of iniquity Internet cafes

municipalities are also getting on board with bans. The cafes in Ohio mostly draw an older crowd, according to cafe owners. The cafes tried to get around casino regulations by saying they offered legal online "sweepstakes." There are only four legal casinos in Ohio, a state which authorized Las Vegas-style gambling ...
Seelbach QA on bidder controversy They dont want to change

Cincinnati City Councilman Chris Seelbach Controversy continues to dog an ordinance Cincinnati City Council passed at the beginning of May setting requirements for bidding on the $3.2 billion Metropolitan Sewer District replacement project. The ordinance modified a different law passed by council in June 2013. At the center of the controversy is a requirement that bidders participate in an ...
Hartmann QA on MSD bidder requirements Were not going to let that stand

Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Hartmann Controversy continues to dog an ordinance Cincinnati City Council passed at the beginning of May setting requirements for bidding on the $3.2 billion Metropolitan Sewer District replacement project. The ordinance modified a different law passed by council in June 2013. At the center of the controversy is a requirement that bidders participate in an ...

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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. ...