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Held Hostage in Cleveland The World is Watching

When the story first broke in Cleveland that three young women were held hostage in a home on Seymour Avenue, the nation was gripped. Amidst incredulity and disbelief, a saga which began over a decade ago, is now coming to an end. While the story of captives Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight's is now being told, a new story is emerging: the trial ...
Cavs finding limited market for top overall pick

07:13 AM ET 06.19 | The countdown of days to the draft has dwindled into the single digits, and eyes are still at the top of the talent grab, which finds Cleveland on the clock with the first selection. ...
Mentor | Police want man for filling fake prescriptions

MENTOR -- Do you know this man? He's been having phony prescriptions filled in Lake and Cuyahoga counties. If you can identify him, please contact Det. Miller at (440) 974-5760 or millerJ@cityofmentor.com or Agent Edwards with the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy at (440) 205-0570 ...
Ashland woman allegedly enslaved spent time in jail

ASHLAND, Ohio -- A mentally disabled Ohio woman who authorities say was enslaved for two years with her daughter recently spent time in jail after pleading guilty to beating the girl. Court records show that a child endangering complaint was filed against the woman in October 2012. That came just after the woman was charged with shoplifting and asked to be jailed because three people had been ...
Lyndhurst to install accessible pedestrian signals

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Underworld: Evolution

Loud, dark, and hopelessly enmeshed in loop-de-loop arcing plot mechanics that create more confusion than tension, Underworld: Evolution comes at you in an overenthusiastic bum rush, hoping to simply overwhelm your senses. Building on its predecessor, 2003s Un ... ...

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Court to hear lawyers fee debate in Anthony Sowell killings

COLUMBUS -- The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to decide a debate over fees paid to attorneys of Anthony Sowell, theCleveland man who killed 11 women. Attorney John Parker is challenging a decision by a Cuyahoga County judge to cap attorney's fees in the case of serial killer Anthony Sowell. Parker says it resulted in an hourly rate of only $18.50 for a 10-week trial. Parker ...
Middlefield Motorcycle truck crash claims one life

MIDDLEFIELD -- The Ohio Department of Transportation says Route 87, in both directions, has been reopened in Middlefield. A crash, reported by the Geauga County Sheriff's Office on Twitter to be fatal, closed the road between Route 528 and Route 534 early Wednesday morning. The Ohio Highway Patrol says the crash occurred at the intersection State Route 87 and Hayes Road at approximately ...
Go Green program set at Park Synagogue East

"Lake Erie: Past, Present and Our Future - Environment, Energy and Economy," a panel discussion, is set for 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, June 25, at Park Synagogue East, 27500 Shaker Blvd. in Pepper ...
Longtime Cleveland Heights councilwoman wont run in fall

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UPDATE Budish to seek top Cuyahoga County position

CJN PHOTO / MICHAEL C. BUTZ Budish announcement State Rep. Armond Budish, D-Beachwood, answers a question during a news conference to announce his candidacy for Cuyahoga County executive May 30 in the lobby of Ernst & Young Tower in downtown Cleveland. Behind Budish, from left, are current executive Ed FitzGerald; U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo; state Rep. Nicki Antonio, D-Lakewood; and ...

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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. ...