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• Mayoral rivals split on wildflowers

  13-09-2015 21:31
  
  Mike Ferner, backed by South Toledoan Peter Hug, condemns the city's mowing of wildflowers along the Anthony Wayne Trail. THE BLADE/KATIE RAUSCH Within two days of wildflowers in the Anthony Wayne Trail's median near the Toledo Zoo being mowed down, mayoral candidate Mike Ferner called for such plantings to be expanded in Toledo.
  
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• A kiss for cool whip the camel

  13-09-2015 17:14
  
  Nabil Shaheen comforts his 1-year-old camel Cool Whip during the 15th annual International Festival Saturday at the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo in Perrysburg. Guidelines: Please keep your comments smart and civil.
  
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• Rockets, Falcons win big on the road

  13-09-2015 13:08
  
  Toledo running back Damion Jones-Moore celebrates after an NCAA college football game against Arkansas in Little Rock, Ark., Saturday. Toledo won 16-12.
  
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• Toledo Magazine: Toddler takeover

  13-09-2015 08:57
  
  Thomas Gould, 4, plays with a provided toy at the Children's Library, located in the Main Library in downtown Toledo. The library boasts a special room for toddlers and younger children to engage with toys, books, and interactive digital programs.
  
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• Use of insanity pleas effective

  13-09-2015 06:57
  
  Forensic monitor Jane Joseph says Daniel Rodgers, here with her at Unison Behavioral Health Care Group in Toledo, was driven to do whatever it took to get well. THE BLADE/LORI KING Driving a garbage truck in a small Wood County town one morning more than 13 years ago, Daniel Rodgers became so delusional and psychotic, he believed he was emptying the bodies of fallen angels that were in the trash cans.
  
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• Pot, council primaries on Toledo ballot

  13-09-2015 06:57
  
  Voting finishes up on Tuesday to narrow the races in four Toledo City Council district contests and to decide whether to decriminalize marijuana possession in the Toledo Municipal Code. The only question on the ballot citywide is one that would eliminate fines and jail terms for minor marijuana offenses and reduce other offenses to the lowest penalties allowed under state law.
  
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• Catholic sisters see fewer aspirants

  13-09-2015 06:57
  
  Sister Antoinette Cosentino speaks with Sister Michel Schmitt, left, and Sister Mary Louisa Heinl at Ursuline Center. Sister Antoinette says she's witnessed profound changes in her religious order in her 78 years as a nun.
  
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