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After vote on gay youth Scouts face more turmoil

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 4, 2013 photo provided by the family, Wes Comer holds the Boy Scout uniform of his son, Isaiah, outside their home in Knoxville, Tenn. Comer, whose family attends an Apostolic Pentecostal church which considers homosexuality sinful, had been wrestling with whether to pull his eldest son out of the Scouts if the no-gays policy was abandoned. "To be honest, ...
Officials Track ‘Structurally Deficient’ Bridges Across Central Ohio

Thursday's bridge collapse in Washington State may have you wondering how safe the bridges are that you travel across every day here in Ohio. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, there are 2,643 bridges in Franklin and surrounding counties and 226 of them are classified as "structurally deficient." County engineers across central Ohio are quick to point out that the ...
Fired Bishop Watterson Teacher Waits For Ruling As Graduation Nears

"Someone had to hunt that down. It was a one day obituary, five letters. And, to have five letters make such a huge ordeal," said Julie Uncapher.Uncapher, the same sex partner of fired Bishop Watterson High School teacher Carla Hale, said she is still in disbelief over the debate that has placed them at the center of the gay rights movement."A letter, basically, that was none of ...
Western Ohio Veterans Not Taking Advantage Of Bonuses

Veterans in western Ohio are leaving money on the table.Ohio Veterans Services confirm Clark and Champaign counties have millions of dollars left in their bonus fund accounts. Officials want veterans to know this money belongs to them. If you served, all you need to do is apply for the funds.Veterans who served in-theater receive up to $1,500 per person.Watch 10TV News and refresh 10TV.com for ...
Hilliard Man Killed In Hocking County Motorcycle Crash

A Hilliard man was killed Friday afternoon when his motorcycle collided with a car. Thomas A. Holman, 35, died in the crash that occurred just after noon, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.Deputies said that Holman's Harley Davidson travelled across the center line on eastbound state Route 374 in Hocking County.He struck a Nissan Maxima that was driving in the other ...

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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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Todays MLB starting lineups May 24

Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...
Marshall goes on DL Parra returns from rehab

Email Reds reliever Sean Marshall was placed on the 15-day disabled list on Friday with a sprained left shoulder. In a corresponding roster move, Cincinnati reinstated fellow left-hander Manny Parra from his stint on the 15-day DL. Marshall's placement on the DL is retroactive to Tuesday, with the southpaw having last pitched on Monday, when he retired both hitters he faced in a 4-3 ...
Ohio casino workers in Toledo agree to unionize

The Ohio region director for the United Auto Workers says a joint council of the UAW and the United Steelworkers will represent about 800 casino employees in Toledo. Director Ken Lortz tells the newspaper that there was "very strong support" for the union from workers, though a vote tally wasn't ...
Ohioan sentenced in developmental center theft

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A former business administrator of a center for developmentally disabled adults in southwest Ohio has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing more than $400,000 from the ...
Devin Hamilton named associate publisher in DuBois

DUBOIS, Pa. (AP) -- An Ohio newspaper executive has returned to his home state of Pennsylvania to become associate publisher of The Courier-Express in ...

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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. ...