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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) ...
Westerville Police Release Name Condition Of Woman Struck By Garbage Truck

Reem Kastoon, 32, of Westerville was backed into by a Rumpke garbage truck. Westerville police said Kastoon was pinned under the left rear axle and received critical injuries in the crash. She was taken to the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center by a medical helicopter. The incident occurred on Crescent Drive at Crescent Court. Police said it appeared the driver did not ...
Temperatures Drop Sunny Skies Over Weekend

Your Doppler 10 ForecastThis Evening: Scattered showers ending around sunset.Tonight: Clearing skies and chilly. Low 43.Tomorrow: Mix of sun and clouds and cool. High 63.Saturday: Sunny and continued cool. High 65.Special Information: Another cold front moving across the region today brings much chillier weather for the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Highs will be in the 60s and lows will drop ...
Police Look For Man Who Stole 176 Packs Of Cigarettes

Central Ohio Crime Stoppers is seeking the public's help identifying a man wanted for stealing 176 packs of cigarettes from a UDF.Early last Thursday morning, a suspect entered a side door at a Reynoldsburg UDF, located at 6686 E. Main Street.Police said the suspect took 176 packs of cigarettes from display shelves behind the counter and stuffed them into a bag.The value of the cigarettes ...
Vandals Target Local Parks In Westerville

The Westerville Police Department said it is watching for vandals targeting local parks.The director of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department said there have had nearly 20 cases of vandalism in the last month.The restroom graffiti has been cleaned up at Hoff Woods Park, but vandals have also hit restrooms at Hanby and Metzger parks.Police said defacing property is illegal and ...

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Forrest Gump [DVD]

ForrestGump is one of those gloriously good-natured movies, the kind that views the world with such an open eye and optimistic attitude that you're willing to overlook how much it simplifies complex phenomena just because it makes you feel so good. The movie covers a broad swath of ... ...

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Obama Security Speech Addresses Use Of Drones

President Barack Obama is defending the use of drone strikes against American citizens abroad who the administration believes are a national security threat. In a speech, Obama says when an American goes abroad to wage war against the U.S., his citizenship "should no more serve as a shield" than a sniper shooting on an innocent crowd should be protected from a SWAT team. Obama's ...
Ohio Medical Board Chief Investigator Found Misusing State Vehicle

The Ohio Inspector General found a state medical board chief of investigations misused a state vehicle that he was provided.The inspector general issued the report on Thursday.According to a press release, Douglas Edwards, the chief of investigations for the State Medical Board of Ohio, was assigned a state-issued vehicle to carry out his duties as the agency’s top investigator.The ...
Restaurants offer free lifetime burgers to Charles Ramsey for helping rescue kidnapped Cleveland women

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three women held captive in a Cleveland, Ohio, house, will get free burgers for the rest of his life. Ramsey was eating a Big Mac and had to put it down to help rescue Amanda Berry and her daughter as well as Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. Now more than a dozen northeast Ohio restaurants have pledged free burgers for Ramsey for the rest of his ...
Cleveland hero Charles Ramsey gets hamburgers for life

Heroic Charles Ramsey could be in line for reward CLEVELAND - The man made famous for putting down his Big Mac to help free three women held captive for about a decade in a Cleveland house will never have to buy a hamburger in his hometown again. More than two weeks after Charles Ramsey became an instant folk hero after telling his story to television reporters, Cleveland food blogger Michelle ...
House Dems seek changes to JobsOhio oversight

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Democrats in the Ohio House are proposing a series of reforms they say will make Gov. John Kasich's (KAY'-siks) private nonprofit job-creation office, JobsOhio, more accountable to 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. ...