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• UT women's season ends with overtime loss

  09-03-2016 22:36 via toledoblade.com
  CLEVELAND — The University of Toledo women's basketball team is out of the Mid-American Conference tournament following a 73-71 overtime loss to Akron today in a quarterfinal game at Quicken Loans Arena.
  
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• UT's Boothe edged out in MAC player of year vote

  09-03-2016 20:47 via toledoblade.com
  CLEVELAND — Ohio forward Antonio Campbell edged University of Toledo center Nathan Boothe for the 2015-16 Mid-American Conference player of the year award.
  
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• Flu outbreak hits Ohio this week

  09-03-2016 20:42 via toledoblade.com
  
  What had been a relatively quiet flu season suddenly picked up steam in the last week, said Dr. Joseph Perkins, emergency medicine physicians at ProMedica Toledo Hospital.
  
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• Mayor urges Toledo seniors to OK Issue 2

  09-03-2016 19:23 via toledoblade.com
  Toledo Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson is courting seniors to vote for the city’s proposed payroll tax increase, telling them today that the measure will promote safety for older residents.
  
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• Fremont police: Drone helped nab escaped inmate

  09-03-2016 16:34 via toledoblade.com
  FREMONT, Ohio — Police say a drone helped them track down an inmate shortly after he escaped from a northern Ohio jail.
  
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• Rollover crash slows SB I-75 traffic in Rossford

  09-03-2016 14:13 via toledoblade.com
  
  A single-vehicle rollover crash slowed traffic on southbound I-75 in Rossford early today, authorities said.
  
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• Poll shows Kasich's Ohio strategy in jeopardy

  09-03-2016 13:59 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — A poll released today suggests Gov. John Kasich’s game plan of using home state Ohio as a Republican firewall to Donald Trump is in danger.
  
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• Police ID man shot in central Toledo

  09-03-2016 13:38 via toledoblade.com
  A man was shot Tuesday night in central Toledo, authorities said.
  
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• Latino voters worried about politics, issues, candidates

  09-03-2016 10:08
  
  Three Latinos of differing backgrounds sat down with La Prensa for a candid discussion of politics, candidates, and issues that affect the community heading into Ohio's primary March 15, 2016. But the three 30-something voters share a lot in common: each has shunned party affiliation and are undeclared as a result, none is sure who they will vote for president, and all three still have a lot of research to do before they cast a ballot in Ohio's primary.
  
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• Kasich confident after strong finish

  09-03-2016 06:06 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — And it all comes down to Ohio.
  
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• Voters reject Dial-A-Ride levy request

  09-03-2016 06:01 via toledoblade.com
  Primary-goers in select Monroe and Lenawee County townships had a chance to cast votes on local tax issues, along with their presidential choice.
  
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• OCHLA Education Summit at University of Toledo March 11

  09-03-2016 06:01
  
  The keynote speaker will be Northwest Ohio native and interim state school superintendent Dr. Lonny Rivera , who was named to his current post in January. Rivera had been Oregon schools superintendent before being named to a deputy state education administrator position last year.
  
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• Wayne man sentenced to life in prison for son’s 2014 death

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  BOWLING GREEN — James Henderson said he never intended to hurt his infant son, but “snapped” the day he fatally injured him because he was angry at others.
  
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• Walmart workers to get raise

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  More than 4,300 Walmart employees in northwest Ohio are getting a raise.
  
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• Utilities department seeks sewer-repair funds

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  The Department of Public Utilities asked Toledo City Council at Tuesday’s agenda review to consider several motions to approve the use and transfer of funds.
  
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• Seneca Co. courthouse costs up again

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  TIFFIN — The cost to build a new justice center to house Seneca County and Tiffin courts just keeps going up.
  
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• Man on trial for 2013 death of his cellmate

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Toledo Correctional Institution inmate Michael Dodson started his day on Oct. 6, 2013, as a healthy 38-year-old, but shortly after 10 a.m., he was beaten so severely by his cellmate, Cedric Wright, he would be dead the next day.
  
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• Lucas County Dogs for Adoption: 3-9

  09-03-2016 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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• Kaptur organizes meeting to focus on cleaner energy

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  From water-treatment plants to shelters for military veterans, a number of business and government leaders brainstormed Tuesday on ways different facilities and neighborhoods might be able to conserve more energy and save costs with cleaner and less-expensive power.
  
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• Jobless rates up in January

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Unemployment rates rose in January in metro Toledo, as often happens after the holidays and seasonal workers are laid off.
  
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• Home sales, prices both rise in February

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Perhaps buoyed by a 20 percent increase in new listings, home sales in Lucas and northern Wood counties rose last month as did the average sales price.
  
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• Hensville lines up comedian Wenzel

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Friday for the first Rooftop Comedy Series show at Hensville, which will feature a Monroe resident as its headliner.
  
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• CVS distribution site to close

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  CVS Pharmacy Inc. has announced plans to close a distribution center in West Toledo.
  
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• Courthouse costs up again in Seneca County

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  TIFFIN — The cost to build a new justice center to house Seneca County and Tiffin courts just keeps going up.
  
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• Coming ‘home’: Jazz pianist returns to Toledo

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The first thing you need to know about 24-year-old jazz pianist Guy Mintus is he’s a brilliant musician, composer, and arranger who melds a multicultural vision with the passion and fury of jazz greats Art Tatum and Thelonious Monk, a world traveler who goes beyond soloing and embraces the art of improvisation as a soul-soothing and necessary form of communication.
  
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• Bernard F. “Bernie” Swindeman (1936-2016): Apple orchard owner loved to sail his boats

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  TECUMSEH, Mich. — Bernard F. “Bernie” Swindeman, who turned his father’s small apple orchard into a family business that grows, packs, and ships the fruit, and who became a leader in apple trade groups, died Feb. 29 at his winter home at Lake Suzy, Fla. He was 80.
  
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• Arson unit seeks tips from public

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Toledo city authorities are calling on the public to call in arson tips to help the city’s joint fire-police arson investigation unit established in May.
  
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• Area men collect veterans’ stories

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  More than 700 times, Andrew “Bud” Fisher has sat across from war veterans to hear and collect their stories.
  
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• Allegiant set to offer Myrtle Beach flights

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Allegiant Air, already the most heavily traveled airline at Toledo Express Airport, will add a fourth local route in June when it begins seasonal service to Myrtle Beach, S.C.
  
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• 4 men sentenced for fight, shooting at mall

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Four men convicted of a misdemeanor charge of riot for an altercation and shooting last summer outside Franklin Park Mall were sentenced Tuesday by Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Myron Duhart.
  
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• 2016's Perrysburg pool dates could be set

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  It appears the Perrysburg Municipal Pool will open a week later than planned and then stay open a week longer.
  
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• 17-year-olds sue over voting rights

  09-03-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — Nine 17-year-olds, including one from Toledo, sued Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted Tuesday over his office’s refusal to allow them to vote in the presidential race in next week’s primary election.
  
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• Search called off for missing Lake Erie boater from Ohio

  09-03-2016 04:01
  
  The U.S. Coast Guard has ended a search for a boater in western Lake Erie, a day after he didn't return from a trip to Turtle Island, Ohio.
  
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• Bedford girls win, advance in Class A

  09-03-2016 03:11 via toledoblade.com
  BELLEVILLE, Mich. — Rachel Schott scored 13 points and Roma Lucarelli added 10 to lead Bedford to a 47-37 win over Belleville in a Class A girls basketball regional semifinal.
  
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• Coast Guard ends active search for missing man

  09-03-2016 03:05 via toledoblade.com
  TURTLE ISLAND, Ohio — The U.S. Coast Guard ended its active search Tuesday night for a man who went missing on western Lake Erie late Monday.
  
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• Michigan reports brisk turnout for primary vote

  09-03-2016 02:43 via toledoblade.com
  
  LAMBERTVILLE — The three precincts at Lambertville United Methodist Church reported brisk turnout as the state’s first contested presidential primary for both parties in years wound up tonight.
  
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• Man caught after Sandusky Co. jail escape

  09-03-2016 01:59 via toledoblade.com
  A Fremont man is back in custody today after a brief escape from the Sandusky County jail.
  
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• Sylvania, teachers agree on contract

  09-03-2016 01:39 via toledoblade.com
  Sylvania Schools teachers will go at least one year without a raise.
  
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