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Filmmaker actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to help student athletes in Ohio schools

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools. The Columbus Dispatch ...
Unseasonably Cool Temps Mostly Clear Skies Ahead For Saturday

MORNING WEATHER DISCUSSIONDate: May 25 Time: 4:00 a.m. Meteorologist: Josh Poland Your Doppler 10 ForecastThis Morning: Mostly clear and chilly with patchy frost possible.This Afternoon: Sun and clouds. Unseasonably cool. High 66Tonight: Partly cloudy and cool. Low 44Sunday: Mostly sunny and slightly warmer. High 69Special Information: We’re off to a chilly start to the Memorial weekend! ...
Delaware County Investigators Look Into Possible Child Enticement

The Delaware County Sheriff's Office is investigating a possible case of Child Enticement on Wednesday evening on Ravine Ridge North Drive in Powell. Kim Krasny says two boys were playing on her street when they were approached by two men in a black car. According to Krasny, the men told one of the boys their mother was in the hospital and he needed to ask them several questions. The ...
Hot-hitting Cincy tabs Bailey to clinch series against Cubs

For Travis Wood, Saturday's start in Cincinnati might mean a little more than usual. The Cubs left-hander will be taking the mound against his former team, and Chicago manager Dale Sveum knows from experience that players don't take those games lightly. "I don't care who you are -- I've been traded and been on different teams and come back and faced the (old) ...
CURRICULUM DEBATEOhio District Mulls Allowing Creationism in Classrooms

A proposal by an Ohio school district to add creationism to a list of controversial topics deemed appropriate for classroom discussion has ignited a debate over the separation of church and state among parents and a civil rights group. The Springboro Board of Education took comments on the proposal at a meeting Thursday night attended by parents, students and teachers. Some parents urged the ...

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Captain America: The First Avenger [Blu-Ray]

Following Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger was the summer of 2011s second big-budget action juggernaut based on a second-tier Marvel superhero, with both playing as necessary precursors to next summers superhero mash-up The Avengers ... ...

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Ohio district weighs creationism for classroom discussion

A proposal by an Ohio school district to add creationism to a list of controversial topics deemed appropriate for classroom discussion has ignited a debate over the separation of church and state among parents and a civil rights group. The Springboro Board of Education took comments on the proposal at a meeting Thursday night attended by parents, students and teachers. Some parents urged the ...
Kazmir no stranger to pitching at Fenway Park

Terry Francona's return to Fenway Park has been nothing if not entertaining. The former Red Sox manager and current skipper of the Indians watched his team come out swinging Thursday, lighting up the scoreboard in a 12-3 win. On Friday, John Farrell's squad reversed the fate, sending the Indians back to their hotel with an 8-1 defeat on a rain-soaked night. The third round of this ...
Openly gay Robbie Rogers returning to professional soccer

Robbie Rogers , who came out as homosexual when he announced his retirement from soccer, tells USA Today he has decided to return to the field. Rogers said he made the decision last month while he was speaking at the Nike Be True LGBT Youth Forum in Portland, Ore. "I seriously felt like a coward," he said. "These kids are standing up for themselves and changing the world, and ...
Masterson stumbles Indians offense held in check

CLE@BOS: Reynolds steals third, scores on error BOSTON -- The Indians have shown a knack for shrugging off lopsided losses early on this season. That is good, because the defeat they suffered on a wet Friday night at Fenway Park was the kind of loss the Tribe will want to quickly forget. Red Sox right-hander John Lackey quieted the Indians' potent lineup, making the few mistakes of ...
Reds power past Cubs with trio of homers

CHC@CIN: Votto clubs majestic solo homer in fourth Joey Votto started it; his teammates just finished the job. With the Reds trailing the Cubs 3-0 in the bottom of the fourth on Friday night, Votto -- the National League's reigning Player of the Week -- hit a solo bomb to left field to put his team on the board. That home run opened the floodgates, as Cincinnati went on to score four ...

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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. ...