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• Person dies from crash injuries

  26-10-2015 22:10 via toledoblade.com
  LYON, Ohio – One person has died from Sunday’s two-vehicle collision that injured three others on U.S. 20 and Fulton County Road 10-3, the Ohio Highway Patrol said today.
  
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• Wood County: Election offers voters a few competitive races

  26-10-2015 17:22
  
  Candidates for a seat on the Lake Township Board of Trustees and for the fiscal officer's post say their candidacies offer voters a needed choice and different perspective in the township administrative offices. Michael Evanoff, Meadowview Lane, Ken Gilsdorf, Oak Court, and Matthew Schober, Luckey Road, are vying for the trustee seat held by four-term board member, Melanie Bowen, who is not seeking re-election.
  
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• Police probe two Toledo robberies

  26-10-2015 14:45 via toledoblade.com
  
  Two Toledo businesses were robbed at gunpoint early today.
  
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• Police probe downtown Subway robbery

  26-10-2015 14:45 via toledoblade.com
  
  A downtown Subway restaurant was robbed early today.
  
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• Left lane of WB I-475 reopens

  26-10-2015 14:00 via toledoblade.com
  A crash slowed traffic today on I-475 near Corey Road.
  
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• Senator Rob Portman opens campaign office in Toledo

  26-10-2015 09:02
  
  Republican Senator Rob Portman is making a push across Ohio more than a year before he faces re-election in one of the nation's most closely watched races. He's opening up campaign offices across the state, including in Toledo.
  
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• Local juvenile justice advisers reappointed

  26-10-2015 06:13 via toledoblade.com
  COLUMBUS — Gov. John Kasich recently reappointed Hancock County Probate Judge Kristen K. Johnson and Lucas County Assistant Juvenile Court Administrator Kendra J. Kec to the Governor’s Council on Juvenile Justice through Oct. 31, 2017.
  
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• Adrian band to spend New Year’s in Rome

  26-10-2015 06:12 via toledoblade.com
  ADRIAN — The Adrian College Marching Band has been chosen to participate in the Rome New Year’s Day Parade.
  
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• Man arrested after tip for In and Out robbery

  26-10-2015 06:11 via toledoblade.com
  A Toledo man was arrested Sunday for the armed robbery of a West Toledo carryout.
  
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• Toledo looking for quicker starts

  26-10-2015 05:11 via toledoblade.com
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The University of Toledo has dominated second halves of late, a trend that was especially true Saturday at Gillette Stadium.
  
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• Buckeyes put forth best effort of season

  26-10-2015 05:11 via toledoblade.com
  PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Ohio State arrived here Saturday night burdened with enough drama to fill an episode of Jersey Shore.
  
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• UAW, GM reach tentative agreement

  26-10-2015 05:09 via toledoblade.com
  Minutes before an 11:59 p.m. deadline, the United Auto Workers and General Motors announced a tentative agreement to avoid a strike that could have affected thousands of Toledo-area workers.
  
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• Way Public Library hosts Halloween events

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  Way Public Library will host a special Halloween screening Thursday of The Uninvited, starring Ray Milland and Gail Russell. The 1944 film is set in a haunted house with ghosts seeking vengeance. The library encourages patrons to dress in costumes for the 2 p.m. show.
  
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• Way library hosts Halloween events

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  Way Public Library will host a special Halloween screening Thursday of The Uninvited, starring Ray Milland and Gail Russell. The 1944 film is set in a haunted house with ghosts seeking vengeance. The library encourages patrons to dress in costumes for the 2 p.m. show.
  
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• Water supply key issue in Sylvania

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  Sylvania voters will fill five city council seats in the Nov. 3 election.
  
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• Water supply key issue for candidates

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  Sylvania voters will fill five city council seats in the Nov. 3 election.
  
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• Virginia R. Kohn (1918-2015): Point Place library clerk aided Red Cross in WWII, hospitals

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  Virginia R. Kohn, a retired clerk at her neighborhood public library who volunteered for church and community, died Oct. 12 in Swan Creek Retirement Village. She was 97.
  
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• UAW, GM talks lead to tentative agreement

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Negotiations between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Co. went late into the night Sunday as the two sides reached a tentative agreement to avoid a costly strike that could have involved as many as 53,000 U.S. workers. About 2,800 of those are in northwest Ohio.
  
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• Street repair choices questioned by some on council

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Hicks-Hudson administration’s last-minute attempt to get money from the Ohio Public Works Commission for infrastructure improvements, mostly to streets, has caused a kerfuffle among some Toledo City councilmen irritated that the planned projects would not be in their districts.
  
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• Shipwreck likely polluting lake

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  KELLEYS ISLAND — It wasn’t qualified to operate in the Great Lakes’ open waters, and when it did, the barge Argo was caught in a gale, capsized, and sank.
  
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• Serving Our Soldiers club raising money

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  Rossford High School’s Serving Our Soldiers club is selling Marco’s Pizza gift cards for $10 each. The club is using proceeds to assist military veterans and families. The cards never expire. The club earns $8 profit for each card.
  
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• Restaurant inspections 10-26

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  Recently released inspection reports of Lucas County food-service operations.
  
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• Reception honored athletics donors

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  A groundbreaking and donor reception for the new Perrysburg Schools Athletic Complex was held at Perrysburg Junior High School before the regular season’s final home football game Friday night. Donations and pledges continue to come in for the new facility to be built at Widdel Field at Steinecker Stadium, next to the junior high.
  
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• Park selects head of Perry’s Memorial

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  Barbara Fearon was selected as the new superintendent of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial last week. She has spent 27 years with the National Park Service and has been acting superintendent at the site for the past six months.
  
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• OctoBOOfest a success in Perrysburg

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Seven-year-old twins Alyvia and Ava Gromnicki dressed in matching “little gangster” outfits and identical face paint Saturday near Hood Park in Perrysburg, carving pumpkins with their family.
  
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• New Metropark honors 1794 battle

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  What began more than 20 years ago with an archaeological exploration in a Maumee soybean field became reality on Sunday with the dedication of the Fallen Timbers Battlefield Metropark.
  
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• Monroe to vote on 4 councilmen, fire station levy

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  In Monroe, voters who go to the polls Nov. 3 will elect city councilmen and cast ballots on a property tax hike to pay for a new fire station.
  
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• Monroe Co. looks for health volunteers

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  MONROE — Monroe County authorities are seeking volunteers to help with public-health emergencies and special events.
  
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• Monday Memories: Show must go on

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  October 31, 1963 was a dark and stormy night. But weather didn’t deter youngsters from taking to the streets to plead their cases for Halloween candy.
  
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• Mercy to host pregame tailgate

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  Mercy Health Sylvania will host a community tailgate before the Southview-Northview football game Friday.
  
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• Lourdes to host lecture on faith

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  The Lourdes University Office of Mission and Ministry is offering a lecture titled Faith Talks: Human Rights and the Teachings of the Catholic Church, from Saint Francis to Pope Francis at 2 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Franciscan Center.
  
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• Idea Lab aims to encourage innovation

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Science Society’s $1.1 million project to fund construction of the Idea Lab for the Imagination Station is officially under way with the awarding of contracts to the construction manager and exhibit builders, society members were told Sunday.
  
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• Council told to act or grants lost

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Hicks-Hudson administration’s last-minute attempt to get money from the Ohio Public Works Commission for infrastructure improvements, mostly to streets, has caused a kerfuffle among some Toledo City councilmen irritated that the planned projects would not be in their districts.
  
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• City council, education board to meet together

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  Monroe City Council and Monroe Board of Education will hold a joint workshop at 6:30 p.m. today. There will be no “official” business, but the government bodies have similar issues they wanted to discuss face-to-face. The public is invited.
  
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• Block Watch asks for curfew to stop juvenile crime

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  Members of the Oregon Block Watch have asked the city council to consider a curfew for minors similar to those in surrounding communities.
  
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• BG mayoral hopefuls focus on jobs

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  BOWLING GREEN — A couple of years ago, Richard Edwards picked a popular, locally owned coffee shop in Bowling Green’s quaint downtown as the place to announce his first run for mayor of the college town.
  
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• Argo shipwreck find leaking petroleum

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  KELLEYS ISLAND — It wasn’t qualified to operate in the Great Lakes’ open waters, and when it did, the barge Argo was caught in a gale, capsized, and sank.
  
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• 6 in Maumee council race

  26-10-2015 05:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Six candidates are vying for four Maumee City Council seats in the Nov. 3 election, and each candidate sees obstacles upcoming for the council.
  
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• Crews to begin hunt for leak near sunken barge in Lake Erie

  26-10-2015 00:36
  
  This undated image provided by Tom Kowalczk and created with a side scan sonar shows a sunken barge in Lake Erie. Underwater contractors are being sent to Lake Erie to search for the source of what appears to be a petroleum leak coming from the barge found recently in the lake near the U.S.-Canadian border, the U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015.
  
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