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Akron Man attacks tries to shoot parole officer

AKRON -- The U.S. Marshals Office Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information that helps police identify a man that assaulted, then attempted to shoot, an Adult Parole Officer. Shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday, the officer was attacked while in the stairwell of 1180 Rentar Lane at the Spring Hill Apartments. The officer had just finished ...
Cleveland area Memorial Day Parades 2013

Ashtabula, the city's Memorial Day program begins on Monday with a laying of wreaths at the Memorial Wall at 1045am in Veterans Memorial Park. A service will begin at 11am, followed by a parade at noon and a flyover by Titan ...
Cleveland Police ask for help in hit-skip of bicyclist

CLEVELAND -- Cleveland Police investigating hit-skip of a male bicyclist, 42. It occurred between 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. May 16 in the area of West 112th Street and Madison Avenue. Investigators believe the bicyclist was traveling eastbound on Madison Avenue. He was found seriously injured after he was apparently struck by an unidentified vehicle. Due to his injuries, the victim has not yet ...
Paninis to offer meals for donation to Courage Fund

On Tuesday, May 28, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., two Northeast Ohio Panini's restaurants will offer complimentary meals in exchange for a donation to the Cleveland Courage Fund. The Courage Fund has been set up to benefit Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and her daughter. The women were rescued on May 6 after spending a decade as captives inside a Seymour Avenue home. Since the ...
FBI Canton police find convicted murderers stash of guns

CANTON -- A Canton man with a prior murder conviction faces federal firearms charges after authorities found him with six firearms, said U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach. Torrey T. Gross, 39, was indicted on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Gross was arrested on April 17 by Metro Narcotics, FBI Safe Streets Task Force and the Canton Police Department SWAT team during an ...

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Elizabeth

Right from the start, Indian director Shekhar Kapur lets us know that his first English-language film, "Elizabeth," is no Masterpiece Theater or Merchant-Ivory costume production. The film opens in a grisly, dank, rat-infested dungeon where several guards are shaving the heads of three Protestant "heretics," taking bits and pieces of their scalps along with the hair. The camera then follows them o ... ...

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Solon Man crashes stolen Ferrari orders another one

SOLON -- After a man crashed the Ferrari that police say he'd stolen from a Solon car dealer, he called and asked that a second one be delivered to him at Shaker Square. Police say that about 11 a.m. May 17, the owner of R & H Motor Car Group on Davis Industrial Drive reported that on May 16 he had received a fraudulent check from a customer for the purchase of a $197,971 Ferrari. The ...
Report Cavs eyeing Hoyas Porter with No.1 pick

Wizards pick third. A source with knowledge of the Cavaliers' thinking said Porter is under consideration to go No. 1."I definitely see myself up there," Porter said last week in Chicago, adding that he believes he can flourish at the next level. "My versatility. I think that's definitely going to show when I get to the NBA. My ability to rebound, bring it up the court, ...
Cash mobs boosting business in Cleveland Hts. Shaker Hts.

The complete archive of the Cleveland Jewish News is now accessible to everyone. Search for relatives, friends and events; and see every article, every photo, every ad since ...
Heights homes reflect East Side’s diversity

If you're looking for a home on Cleveland's East Side, you'll find more to choose from in Cleveland Heights than University Heights or Shaker Heights, according to real estate agents with years of experience in area residential sales. Part of that is sheer size: Cleveland Heights is the biggest of these older, inner-ring ...
Berry DeJesus and Knight finally have a voice

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight From Left: Amanda Berry, abducted 2003; Gina DeJesus, abducted 2004; Michelle Knight, abducted ...

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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. ...