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• Lima man arrested after sending police 'selfie'

  12-01-2016 23:48 via toledoblade.com
  
  LIMA, Ohio – Authorities have arrested a wanted man who they said sent investigators a “better” photograph of himself.
  
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• Toledo police arrest robbery suspect

  12-01-2016 22:44 via toledoblade.com
  Toledo police have arrested a suspect after today’s robbery of a West Toledo credit union.
  
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• St. John's president stepping down

  12-01-2016 22:20 via toledoblade.com
  
  The first lay president to lead St. John’s Jesuit High School and Academy will step down when his contract expires June 30.
  
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• U.S. 6 closed after crash

  12-01-2016 19:44 via toledoblade.com
  BRADNER, Ohio – A portion of U.S. 6 is closed in both directions after a crash between a tractor-trailer rig and train in Wood County.
  
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• Keith Urban returning to Toledo

  12-01-2016 18:17 via toledoblade.com
  Country fans start the countdown. In about nine months, Keith Urban returns to Toledo.
  
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• Fremont man sentenced in vehicular homicide case

  12-01-2016 17:31 via toledoblade.com
  A Fremont man who slammed into the rear of another car, killing its driver, was sentenced today to 54 months in prison.
  
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• Detroit schools closed again in teacher sick-out

  12-01-2016 14:19 via toledoblade.com
  DETROIT — The latest on teacher complaints about Detroit public schools (all times local):
  
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• School Closings and Delays: 1-12

  12-01-2016 12:20 via toledoblade.com
  Updated: 8:43 a.m.
  
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• Snow slickened roads cause crashes on I-75, I-280

  12-01-2016 12:12 via toledoblade.com
  
  Snow-slickened roads with patches of ice caused a spate of crashes and school delays and closings in the greater Toledo area early today, authorities said.
  
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• Snow, ice cause spate of crashes

  12-01-2016 12:12 via toledoblade.com
  Snow-slickened roads with patches of ice caused a spate of crashes and school delays and closings in the greater Toledo area early today, authorities said.
  
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• Man guilty of assault, domestic violence

  12-01-2016 09:04
  
  A Toledo man charged with burning his 2-year-old's eyelid with a cigarette was found guilty of three charges Monday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court. Jaysen Thomas, 26, of the 700 block of Champlain Street, pleaded no contest to endangering children and assault for the Oct. 19 incident in which his young son was burned.
  
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• Judge Wagner wins municipal court post

  12-01-2016 07:22 via toledoblade.com
  Judge Michelle Wagner has been elected by her colleagues on the Toledo Municipal Court to a second one-year term as presiding and administrative judge.
  
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• Oregon to close road for waterline project

  12-01-2016 07:20 via toledoblade.com
  Part of an Oregon street will be closed during daytime hours starting Wednesday for waterline construction, the city Department of Public Service announced.
  
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• BG coach Huger: communication key

  12-01-2016 06:51 via toledoblade.com
  BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green State University men’s basketball coach Michael Huger has seen his Falcons talk before.
  
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• Kowalczyk pays back manager for dedication

  12-01-2016 06:39 via toledoblade.com
  As usual, University of Toledo basketball practice concluded Friday at Savage Arena with coach Tod Kowalczyk calling the team into a huddle. The Rockets prepared to leave the floor and board their bus to Oxford, Ohio, normally the time when Kowalczyk reiterates a point about strategy or a mental task he wants his players to complete.
  
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• Bowling Green’s Lewis leaving for NFL draft

  12-01-2016 06:37 via toledoblade.com
  BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green State University wide receiver Roger Lewis will forgo his final two years of college eligibility and enter the 2016 NFL draft.
  
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• Winter finally makes its presence felt

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Francine Maurer spends her birthday chipping away at ice from the weekend’s heavy rain followed by freezing temperatures in front of her home on Orleans Drive in South Toledo. Forecasters are calling for snow today and tonight with a possible accumulation of 1 to 3 inches and a high in the mid-20s. For more on local weather, click here.
  
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• UT committee recommends college merger

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  A University of Toledo board of trustees committee gave its stamp of approval Monday to merge two colleges.
  
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• Toledo police recover ATF agent’s stolen gun

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Toledo police recently recovered a firearm stolen from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agent’s home.
  
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• ProMedica touts innovation

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  ProMedica Chief Executive Officer Randy Oostra painted a picture of a health-care company that is growing rapidly and leading the way in innovations, job creation, and economic development in a speech before the Rotary Club of Toledo Monday.
  
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• Pauline Kynard (1956-2016): Librarian expert in the culture of black Americans

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Pauline Kynard, a retired Toledo Lucas County Public Library employee who was a longtime supervisor of the Art Tatum African American Resource Center at the Kent branch, died Sunday in Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus. She was 59.
  
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• Ohio’s Lt. Gov. Taylor to attend auto show as Kasich campaigns

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — While Gov. John Kasich’s presidential campaign will have him in Nevada today, Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor will substitute for him at what had become his annual pilgrimage to the Detroit auto show.
  
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• Officials want change after firefighter denied care

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  DUNDEE, Mich. — Dundee officials are seeking a policy change after an urgent-care clinic denied treatment to a firefighter injured in a weekend blaze because he couldn’t present identification.
  
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• Officials back painkiller guide

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and State Rep. Robert Sprague (R., Findlay) on Monday applauded recommended national guidelines on prescribing addictive narcotic painkillers while conceding Ohio still has a long way to go in dealing with its own related heroin epidemic.
  
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• Lucas County Dogs for Adoption: 1-12

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Dogs remain available at the Lucas County Canine Care & Control Office, 410 South Erie St., Toledo. For information, call 419-213-2800.
  
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• Lawmakers to resume hearings on jobless bill

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — Advocates for poorer Ohioans on Monday urged lawmakers to slow down a proposed overhaul of the state’s unemployment compensation system that they argue would hurt jobless workers without getting the fund to solvency.
  
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• Kasich to stay on main stage

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Ohio Gov. John Kasich will have a spot in the primetime political spotlight Thursday when Republican presidential candidates gather to debate in South Carolina.
  
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• GM goes all-electric with Bolt

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  DETROIT — General Motors Co. is getting into the all-electric game with the Chevrolet Bolt, a sedan that should match the Nissan Leaf’s price but nearly double its range.
  
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• Fremont man begins trial in estranged wife’s death

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  PORT CLINTON — Randall Ross fought back tears as he heard his former sister-in-law hysterically tell a 911 operator someone had shot her sister.
  
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• Fiat looks to reshape minivan

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  DETROIT — With its new Chrysler Pacifica, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is walking a fine line between highlighting everything a minivan can offer and distancing itself from the bland tool a minivan has come to represent.
  
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• Ex-Perrysburg clerk gets 10 years

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  BOWLING GREEN — A former employee of the Perrysburg schools’ treasurer’s office wasn’t trying to pay his mortgage or other bills when he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from his employer and the boosters club for which he was a volunteer.
  
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• Deer kill continues through March 31

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Sharpshooters have killed an undisclosed number of deer inside Oak Openings Preserve Metropark and Wildwood Preserve Metropark since the first week of January.
  
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• Council cuts income-tax credit by half in Rossford

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Rossford City Council voted 4-3 Monday night to approve an ordinance that cuts by half the city’s 2016 income-tax credit for residents who work in other municipalities.
  
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• Commissioners elect Wozniak as leader

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Lucas County Commissioner Tina Wozniak was unanimously elected Monday the board of commissioners’ president for 2016.
  
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• $3M in seed funding released

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  COLUMBUS — A state panel voted without discussion Monday to release $3 million in seed funding for early stage technology companies in the Toledo region.
  
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• 2 longtime Andersons executives to retire

  12-01-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Two longtime executives at The Andersons Inc. in Maumee are retiring and their positions are being eliminated.
  
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• For Lucas, Ottawa county students: Local high schoolers - the marine debris challenge is on

  12-01-2016 02:54
  
  Students from Ohio Congressional District 9 are invited to participate in a marine debris challenge by creating a public service announcement to bring awareness to the issue of marine debris. The last day to submit entries is March 1, 2016.
  
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• Crash closes State Rt. 295 north of Toledo Express

  12-01-2016 00:39 via toledoblade.com
  The Ohio Highway Patrol is responding to a crash that has closed State Rt. 295 just north of Toledo Express Airport.
  
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