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Up to 500K expected at massive Ohio food festival

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Visitors of a massive food festival in downtown Cincinnati this weekend will have a chance to help victims of Oklahoma's deadly ...
Collapse raises concerns about Ohio bridge safety

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio has 278 bridges similar to the one that collapsed on in Washington this week, sending cars and people into the water ...
Ohio woman with cancer makes it to graduation

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A Cleveland woman stricken with late-stage cancer has been able to fulfill one of her last wishes: Stay alive long enough to watch her oldest granddaughter graduate from high ...
Ohio drivers likely to see construction zones

Ohio's Department of Transportation says construction work may be suspended over the holiday in many work zones, but some restrictions could impact ...
Unique planes to be part of Ohio bases museum

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft collection will be part of a new $46 million gallery at Ohio's largest military ...

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Remember the Titans

Remember the Titans uses the sports movie formula to tell the true story of forced integration in an Alexandria, Virginia, high school in 1971. The script by first-time writer Gregory Allen Howard pulls out all the cliches of both the sports movie and the race-related social drama, but somehow director Boaz Yakin (A Price Above Rubies) makes it work. It's an updated combination of < ... ...

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Ohio fire marshal offers tips for safer cookouts

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio (AP) -- The state fire marshal is urging Ohioans to take safety precautions while grilling outdoors during Memorial Day weekend and throughout the ...
Ohio officials offer cemetery complaint reminder

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- State officials are advising Ohioans of how to issue complaints against cemeteries as many prepare to pay their respects at gravesites over the Memorial Day ...
Temporary Bridge To Replace Section After Collapse

Officials are looking for a temporary, pre-fabricated bridge to replace a collapsed, 160-foot section over Interstate 5 in Washington State. Finding a temporary span could save months in terms of getting traffic on the key corridor to Canada moving again. Building a replacement would take much longer. Investigators are still looking for the cause of the collapse that injured three people. A ...
Turnpike Service Plazas Reopen In Time For Holiday Weekend

Two rebuilt service plazas near the eastern end of the Ohio Turnpike opened in time for the busy holiday travel weekend. The Mahoning Valley and Glacier Hills service plazas reopened Wednesday after a two-year, $31 million construction project. The closed plazas had created a gap of more than 120 miles between rest stops for westbound turnpike motorists and 93 miles eastbound. The plazas were ...
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 ...

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Wyndham New Orleans at Canal Place

On arrival at this hotel the thing that struck us most was the location. It was just meters from the ...

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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. ...