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2 Sentenced for Insurance Fraud in Ohio

Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that two insurance fraud investigations have led to criminal convictions in the Columbus and Cleveland areas. The cases were related to insurance claim padding totaling nearly $20,000. Randall Stewart, of Canal Winchester, pled guilty in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to a misdemeanor count of ...
Ohio Firm Launches Program Aimed at Opioid Abuse in Workers’ Comp

Lewis Center, Ohio-based Modern Medical announced the nationwide roll out of a program designed stop the rise of opioid abuse in the workers’ compensation industry. Opioid Defense Manager (ODM) was launched in November 2012 in a test phase, the company said. The managed care program is a proactive, customized program designed to protect employees, physicians and employers by reducing ...
Ohio State Global Gateway program measuring worth before pitching Brazil office

Chris Carey, the director who oversees operations of Ohio State's Global Gateways program, said the university is still tinkering with the three-year-old initiative. Ohio State Universitys global initiative to open embassy-like overseas offices has plans for a third site in Brazil next year. But first, it has to collect enough data on efforts in China and India to convince trustees that the ...
Former Bear Creek CFOs plea agreement revealed

Work at Kenwood Towne Place ground to a halt in 2008, and a complicated foreclosure case began in 2009. The plea agreement for the former chief financial officer for Bear Creek Capital LLC and Kenwood Towne Place LLC, has been unsealed. Tina Schmidt was indicted in September in federal court for the Southern District of Ohio on one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud for her actions related ...
Leawood Elementary Lockdown Lifted Suspect Now In Custody

A lockdown at a Columbus elementary school was lifted after a suspect was taken into custody.Officials locked down Leawood Elementary School in east Columbus following a nearby domestic dispute around 11:45 a.m.According to police, the lockdown was prompted after a man left the scene of a domestic dispute on Wilton Avenue.Police described the individual as a "mentally-ill" teenager. He ...

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In 1937, Delmore Schwartz wrote a short story called In Dreams Begin Responsibilities in which the first-person narrator dreams that he is in a theater watching his parents courtship unfold as an old Biograph silent film. Knowing that his parents relationship will turn sour and that, in his w ... ...

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Marion Police Look For Information About Robbery Suspect Considered Armed Dangerous

The Marion Police Department is looking for William Wadell Evans, who is wanted for an armed robbery of a Circle K on North Main Street that occurred in March. Evans is 48 years old, 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. Police said that he should be considered armed and ...
Law Enforcement Officials Work To Keep Roads Safe Over Holiday Weekend

Law enforcement agencies are working to keep the roads safe over Memorial Day weekend.The Franklin County DUI Task Force will conduct a sobriety checkpoint Friday night in the western part of the county.Deputies will be checking vehicles on Norton Road, just south of U.S. Route 40 in Prairie Township.The checkpoint will be manned from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m.Authorities will also be looking for ...
Analysis finds structurally deficient bridges

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. - A newspaper's analysis has found that almost 100 bridges in the northern Kentucky-Cincinnati region need attention due to age or defects.The Kentucky Enquirer ( http://cin.ci/13358Dz) reports information from a national bridge database shows there are 24 "structurally deficient" bridges in the northern Kentucky counties of Boone, Campbell and Kenton and 72 ...
Williams inks as Bengals close in on rookie signings

, who has the best chance of any of the Bengals rookies to start for the NFL's sixth-ranked defense when Cincinnati opens the season in Chicago, signed Friday as they neared a sweep of signing their draft picks before next month's mandatory minicamp. Of the club's 10 draft picks, only ...
Tips dwindle in Mich. girls kidnapping slaying

MONROE, Mich. (AP) -- Investigators say the number of tips is dwindling in the kidnapping and slaying of a 5-year-old Michigan girl who disappeared four years ago and was found buried near a Michigan ...

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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. ...