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Ding-dong-ditch prank turns into alleged assault

SHAKER HEIGHTS -- What started out as a teen prank turned into a vicious attack. Now, a Shaker Heights man could face assault charges. "Ding-dong-ditching" is when someone runs up to a door, rings the doorbell, and then runs away. That's what police say a group of teens was doing Sunday night, when one of the neighbors on Cheshire Street decided to fight back. "It was very ...
Akron man gets 10 years for robbing elderly man woman

AKRON -- Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh said Daniel Roy Spiegel, 41, of Akron, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated burglary and two counts of robbery. On Feb. 25, Spiegel knocked on the door of a 92-year-old woman for whom he occasionally did odd jobs. Spiegel demanded money he felt was owed from a previous job. The woman refused to give Spiegel money and told him to leave. ...
PD editors are ‘First Thursday’ speakers June 6

Plain Dealer managing editor Thom Fladung and editorial page editor Elizabeth Sullivan will speak at the American Jewish Committee's First Thursdays at the J program from 7:45 to 9:15 a.m. Thursday, June 6. The event will take place at the Simon and Rose Mandel Community Room at the Mandel JCC, 26001 S. Woodland Road in ...
Retired neurosurgeon Bell honored

Dr. Herbert S. Bell, a retired Cleveland neurosurgeon, was recently honored by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurosurgery in ...
Dementia care program June 5

The Alzheimer's Association Cleveland area chapter will offer a dementia care training session from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 5 at its office, 23215 Commerce Drive, Suite 300 in ...

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Whatever It Takes

It is of little surprise that, in the recent rush to release as many teen-oriented comedies as possible over the last few years, filmmakers have almost completely dropped any notion of trying to create teenage characters that reflect, in any appreciable form, actual human beings. ...

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Brickman brings Emory Dental School anti-Semitic film here

Dr. Perry Brickman WHAT: "From Silence to Recognition: Confronting Discrimination in Emory's Dental School History" WHO: Dr. Perry Brickman, a retired maxillofacial surgeon WHERE: Temple Emanu El, 4545 Brainard Road, Orange WHEN: Wednesday, June 5, 7 p.m. TICKETS: $18 per person INFO: Sylvia M. Kramer at 216-319-5555 or ...
Cash mobs boosting business in Cleveland Hts. Shaker Hts.

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3rd pleads guilty in probe of Pilot Flying J

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A third employee of the truck stop chain owned by the Cleveland Browns owner and Tennessee's governor has pleaded guilty in what authorities call a scheme to cheat trucking firms out of rebates. Regional sales manager Kevin Clark pleaded guilty to mail fraud Tuesday in federal court in Knoxville. Court records state he conspired with others in Pilot Flying J's ...
Ky. man says hes target of Steubenville hacking investigation

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-- A central Kentucky man says he's the target of a federal hacking investigation tied to an ongoing inquiry into the rape of a teenage girl in Steubenville. Deric Loustetter, of Winchester, told The Associated Press on Tuesday he leaked documents related to the investigation. Two Steubenville High School football players in Steubenville were sentenced to time in a juvenile ...
Cuyahoga Falls 3 juveniles charged in cemetery vandalism

CUYAHOGA FALLS -- Three juveniles were charged today with damaging or destroying grave markers in Oakwood Cemetery. Cuyahoga Falls Police Chief Tom Pozza said the boys, ages 15 to 17, were charged in Summit County Juvenile Court. The 17-year-old, of Cuyahoga Falls, faces three counts of felony vandalism; a 16-year-old from Akron will be charged with one count; and the 15-year-old from Cuyahoga ...

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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. ...