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Emily Bamforth, EdScoop Following a ransomware attack last October that disrupted the operations of Illinois’ Heartland Community College, leaders approved a budget this month designed to rebuild defenses, but also to position systems to quickly adjust to future threats. “We were looking at our back-end data management,” said Steve Fast, public information director of the central Illinois college. “When we had to take everything down and revert to backups, the thought was, do you want to put it back the way it was before or do you want to accelerate some of these projects?”

Just days ago, I wrote an article about the remains of a possibly new species of sea turtle that was found in British Columbia, Canada (the article can be read here). The unusual turtle dates back about 84 million years. And now, another extremely rare sea turtle has been found in Saskatchewan, Canada. The story... Read more »

  REGINA -- Paleontologist Emily Bamforth wasn’t expecting to find evidence of sea turtles from millions of years ago, in the land-locked modern day prairies. The discovery was a surprise to Bamforth, who initially misidentified the rare artifact. According to her, this is the first instance of a sea turtle from the late Cretaceous period and one of the northern-most occurrences of sea turtles in North America. “This is one of the very first sea turtles that’s ever been found in the province,” Bamforth told CTV News. “It doesn’t look like much but it’s really scientifically...

Gov. Mike DeWine proposes using stimulus money to repay Ohio’s unemployment loans: Capitol Letter Rotunda Rumblings Payback time: Gov. Mike DeWine wants Ohio to use $1.5 billion of the $5 billion-plus it’s getting from the federal coronavirus relief bill to balance the state’s unemployment compensation fund. As Andrew Tobias writes, the move would avert planned premium hikes on employers to pay back the money the state borrowed from the feds to pay out jobless claims, and avoid what happened following the Great Recession, when the state spent eight years paying off a similar loan. DeWin...

Rocky River teachers resign, retire following investigation results: The Wake Up for Thursday, April 8, 2021 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com © David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com/David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com/cleveland.com/TNS Workers start setting up for the NFL Draft event that will take place at the NFL Draft Experience around FirstEnergy Stadium on April 29-May 1. Crews were setting up on Wednesday morning, April 7, 2021. Subscribe to the Wake Up, cleveland.com’s free morning newsletter, delivered to your inbox weekdays at 5:30 a.m. Weather More sunshine is in forecast to...