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Reports of Masked Exposers Near OSU Campus

Two Ohio State University students reported similar incidents involving a masked man exposing himself to them near campus. Lindsey Ritchey said it happened to her outside her Hunter Avenue apartment. Ritchey said she was sitting on her porch when she noticed someone come up next to her in the dark. "I look up and see that it's a man in a mask," she said. She said the man was using ...
Buckeye Lake Residents Protest Outside Fire Department

Nearly two dozen Buckeye Lake residents protested in front of the Buckeye Lake Fire Department Thursday evening. The protestors said they are not getting full protection from fire crews. "Our EMS services are not what they need to be and they've had nearly a year to improve and they're not doing it," says resident Peggy Wells. Wells says the department has had a number of ...
Ohio AG Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Warn Of Mystery Shopper Scam

Scammers are using counterfeit checks that appear to be from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, according to the Ohio Attorney General's Office.The AG issued a news release on Thursday about the scam, which the department said are part of a mystery shopper scam in which consumers receive a letter stating that they have been selected as a "customer service evaluator" ...
IRS replaces official who revealed targeting

replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday, May 23, 2013, that he has selected a new acting head of the division, staying within the IRS to find new leadership. (AP Photo/J. Scott ...
Tribes Masterson goes after fourth straight win

Unlike Thursday's series opener between the Indians and Red Sox, which had a total of 15 runs scored on 23 hits, Friday's game at Fenway Park could be quite the pitchers' duel. Justin Masterson will be on the hill for Cleveland, while John Lackey toes the rubber for Boston. The Indians right-hander has won three straight games and was named the American League Player of the Week ...

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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles [Blu-Ray]

John Hughess Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a road comedy about two men trying desperately to get home for Thanksgiving and having every obstacle imaginable thrown in their way. The men are played, in a feat of perfect casting, by Steve Martin a ... ...

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Ohio GOP’s Attempt To Suppress Student Vote Backfires Encourages Them To Register Instead

@UC.Wisc Whoop-sie! The GOP members of Ohio’s House of Representatives just pulled a blooper so big that it’s probably time to promote all of them to the United States House of Representatives. Fortunately for them–or at least for Ohio–they’re probably going to be saved by the other half of their legislature, the Senate. The issue is student voting. In April, the ...
Terry Francona proud of Cleveland revival

Terry Francona knew the drill, and that helped. But in the end, the best coping mechanism for making his emotional return to Fenway Park was one that he’s relied on throughout his life - the game of baseball itself.Francona arrived in Boston yesterday at 5 a.m. after an 11-7 loss to the Tigers on Wednesday, and he knew it wouldn’t just be any other day. But he also knew he was coming ...
Violent felons in Ohio getting hunting licenses www.privateofficer.com

Hundreds of convicted felons in Ohio — many of them violent — are getting state licenses to hunt, even though it’s illegal for them to have guns, a Channel 3 news investigation found. The Investigator Tom Meyer did a computer-assisted investigation, cross-checking last year’s list of Ohio hunting license recipients with a list of state prisoners who did time in the past ...
Kenwood Womans Club awards annual scholarships at lunch

Six high school seniors and two women received scholarships for college. From right to left are scholarship winners Nora and Ellen Molinaro of Mount Notre Dame High School, Ashley Schlissel of Indian Hill High School, Lynn Kendall of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College and Alexis Teeters of Indian Hill High School. / Thanks to Dawn ...
Finneytown meets new school superintendent

Finneytown Local School District Superintendent Tyrone Olverson, 45, meets with Finneytown resident Bob Briggs, 86, during a meet and greet with the community at the Finneytown secondary campus. / Monica Boylson/The Community ...

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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. ...