LISBON An East Liverpool man accused of strangling a woman and putting a child at risk pleaded guilty recently in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court. Donovan Crytzer, 22, West Fourth Street, entered the guilty plea to fourth-degree felony strangulation and misdemeanors of domestic violence and endangering children for physically strangling a woman by placing […]
LISBON A Salem man accused of assaulting a pregnant woman was indicted this week by the Columbiana County Grand Jury for two felony charges. Christopher West, 30, West Pershing Street, was charged with strangulation, a third-degree felony, and domestic violence, a fifth-degree felony, for allegedly punching the woman in the face, choking her and […]
LISBON In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case against JC Marcum, 51, Moore Avenue, East Liverpool, was bound over to the county grand jury on a second
May 16, 2021
Loch Torridan in Scotland’s northwest highlands. Loch is the Scottish word for lake. The newly discovered microfossils –
Bicellum brasieri – were found in ancient sediments of this lake. Image via University of Sheffield.
The beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago, from simple single-celled organisms to more complex multicellular ones, is a widely accepted fact in science. But there are gaps or
missing links in life’s timeline, as it’s known to science. In April 2021, scientists led by Paul Strother of Boston College reported on the discovery of new microfossils in ancient Scottish lake sediments that could help fill in the gap between the earliest single-celled life and multicellular life. These scientists say these microscopic fossils could be the oldest example of complex multicellular life in the evolutionary lineage leading to animals. They say the fossils are also significant because they come – not from ocean sediments – but from sed