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• Receiver dismissed from BGSU football team

  27-06-2016 23:38 via toledoblade.com
  
  BOWLING GREEN – Wide receiver Robbie Rhodes has been dismissed from the Bowling Green State University football team for a violation of team rules.
  
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• Nick Moore joins BGSU women's hoops staff

  27-06-2016 23:06 via toledoblade.com
  
  BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green State University has hired Nick Moore as an assistant women’s basketball coach.
  
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• Local hospital council gets grant to address infant mortality problem

  27-06-2016 22:03 via toledoblade.com
  Local programs aimed at reducing infant mortality will soon receive an infusion of money. The Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio announced today it was awarded a $3.23 million grant to support the Lucas County Infant Mortality Prevention Coalition.
  
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• Adrian police make arrest in Sunday's fatal shooting

  27-06-2016 20:53 via toledoblade.com
  
  ADRIAN — An Inkster, Mich. man has been arrested in the Sunday shooting that killed a 32-year-old man and left another person injured, authorities said.
  
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• Toledo officials renew call for violence to stop

  27-06-2016 20:34 via toledoblade.com
  Toledo officials today repeated their calls for violence that has victimized the city's Blackman and Hopings families for months to stop.
  
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• UT football squad suspends 3 players

  27-06-2016 20:26 via toledoblade.com
  
  The University of Toledo will suspend three players – including two projected starters – for the first two games of the 2016 football season.
  
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• Guatemalan human-trafficking ringleader sentenced in Toledo

  27-06-2016 20:12 via toledoblade.com
  
  Aroldo Castillo-Serrano, the ringleader of a forced labor human trafficking operation at a Marion egg farm, was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison today in federal court. 
  
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• Guatemalan human-trafficking ringleader sentenced

  27-06-2016 20:12 via toledoblade.com
  
  Aroldo Castillo-Serrano, the ringleader of a forced labor human trafficking operation at an egg farm near Marion, was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison today in federal court. 
  
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• Toledo woman stabbed Sunday

  27-06-2016 18:34 via toledoblade.com
  A Toledo woman was stabbed at her East Toledo residence early Sunday.
  
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• Supreme Court's Texas ruling could affect Ohio abortion restrictions

  27-06-2016 17:38 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS—Restrictions put in place on abortion clinics in Ohio could be endangered by today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down somewhat similar provisions enacted in Texas.
  
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• Toledo man faces charges in brother's shooting

  27-06-2016 17:12 via toledoblade.com
  A Toledo man was shot by his brother during a fight with several others Sunday in North Toledo, authorities said.
  
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• Dana Corp. donates $25K for Toledo Jeep Fest

  27-06-2016 17:03 via toledoblade.com
  Dana Holding Corp., an automotive supplier whose relationship with Jeep goes back to the very beginning of the brand, is announcing this morning a $25,000 donation to help cover the costs of the upcoming Toledo Jeep Fest.
  
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• Ohio Highway Patrol identifies Springfield truck driver as fatal Turnpike crash victim

  27-06-2016 16:49 via toledoblade.com
  WAUSEON — The Ohio Highway Patrol has identified the victim of a June 23 fatal crash on the Ohio Turnpike.
  
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• Hillary Clinton to stump in Cincinnati today

  27-06-2016 16:28 via toledoblade.com
  
  CINCINNATI - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton makes her third Ohio appearance in as many weeks today in Cincinnati.
  
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• Clinton pitches populism in Cincinnati campaign stop

  27-06-2016 16:28 via toledoblade.com
  
  CINCINNATI – While co-campaigner Sen. Elizabeth Warren savaged Republican Donald Trump as a “money-grubber,” presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton today pitched a populist message here in Mrs. Clinton's third trip to Ohio in 15 days.
  
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• Clinton pitches populism during Cincinnati campaign stop

  27-06-2016 16:28 via toledoblade.com
  
  CINCINNATI – While co-campaigner Sen. Elizabeth Warren savaged Republican Donald Trump as a “money-grubber,” presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton today pitched a populist message here in Mrs. Clinton's third trip to Ohio in 15 days.
  
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• Toledo Mayor, Police Chief work towards peace with feuding families

  27-06-2016 16:04
  In a statement to the media the mayor says members of both families will meet to publicly address and denounce the ongoing violence. Days later a series of arson followed in the same neighborhood .
  
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• Judge rules for Toledo in city-county jail dispute

  27-06-2016 15:56 via toledoblade.com
  A judge has ruled that Lucas County is responsible for the pre-trial incarceration costs of people arrested by Toledo police who are charged with misdemeanors under state law and housed in the county jail.
  
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• Five things you may have missed: 6-27

  27-06-2016 15:05 via toledoblade.com
  
  Here's 5 stories you might have missed this weekend:
  
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• Man out on bond following shooting that left victim paralyzed

  27-06-2016 13:38
  A Toledo man was booked into the Lucas County Jail and later released after police say he shot a man, leaving him paralyzed. Jackie Leu, 55, is charged with one count of felonious assault.
  
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• Toledo Police investigating overnight assault

  27-06-2016 12:16 via toledoblade.com
  Police are investigating an overnight assault in Central Toledo.  
  
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• Leader to be sentenced in Ohio egg farm forced labor case

  27-06-2016 11:16
  
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• Coast Guard: 2 rescued after tuber falls during wind gust

  27-06-2016 11:16
  
  Authorities say two people had to be rescued from a northwest Ohio river after a woman fell off a tube that was being pulled by a small boat and a man jumped in after her. The Blade in Toledo reports the Coast Guard says the woman fell during a sudden windstorm on the Maumee River Sunday evening in Toledo.
  
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• Krawiec slides into 1st at NHRA nationals

  27-06-2016 06:54 via toledoblade.com
  
  NORWALK, Ohio — Seconds after his run ended, Eddie Krawiec lost control of the brakes on his motorcycle. He continued to coast as he clung to his bike, all the way to the end of the asphalt drag strip and into a pit of sand built at the end of the track as a safety precaution.
  
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• University of Toledo students dig into prehistory

  27-06-2016 06:45
  
  They had dug and sifted through earth for four weeks, with two more to go, but they did not complain. "I love every second of it," said Michael Campbell, 34, of Toledo, a recent University of Toledo graduate on his first archaeological dig.
  
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• County fairs are summer traditions

  27-06-2016 06:29 via toledoblade.com
  
  Cattle, cotton candy, and Larry the Cable Guy. You’ll find all three at this year’s Fulton County Fair.
  
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• Ohioans torn between fears: jobs or poverty

  27-06-2016 06:23 via toledoblade.com
  
  The economy.
  
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• Historian gives talk on home turf

  27-06-2016 06:14 via toledoblade.com
  
  The best known name to speak at Perrysburg’s Way Public Library, the superstar of Perrysburg High School alumni, will tell you that he reads other people’s mail for a living.
  
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• BGSU gives vets group a better base

  27-06-2016 06:09 via toledoblade.com
  After six years in the U.S. Army, including a tour in Iraq, Austin Craft found himself back in Ohio, a student at Bowling Green State University and unused to his surroundings.
  
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• Radio enthusiasts ham it up at local event

  27-06-2016 06:08 via toledoblade.com
  
  For technology junkies looking to leave their mark on the world, Saturday and Sunday’s annual amateur radio field day was the place to do it.
  
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• Cruiser 333 in semiretirement at casino

  27-06-2016 06:05 via toledoblade.com
  
  Car 333, where are you?
  
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• Adrian shooting kills man, 32, hurts another

  27-06-2016 06:03 via toledoblade.com
  ADRIAN — Police in southeastern Michigan said a 32-year-old man is dead and another person was being treated in a hospital after being shot.
  
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• Furry friends have doggone fun at competition

  27-06-2016 06:01 via toledoblade.com
  
  Above, Linda Casey of Findlay watches as her golden retriever, Polo, 8, jumps off a dock to catch a toy during an Ultimate Air Dogs competition at Fantasy Acres Horse Ranch in Perrysburg. The two-day competition was sponsored by Swamp Dogs K9 Academy in Perrysburg and featured events centered around fetching and chasing. Swamp Dogs isn’t just for dock diving. The group teaches dogs how to swim and how to bond with their companions. In the second photo, Andrew Davis of Delta gets a kiss fro
  
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• Work starts on roundabout

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  While more than a dozen of them have been built in Toledo’s western suburbs, modern roundabouts so far have been absent from areas east of the Maumee River.
  
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• Township out of sidewalk project

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  A communitywide project is losing a partner.
  
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• Series will test gas caps for leakage

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  The city of Toledo and the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments have organized a series of testing events to let drivers test whether their vehicles’ gas caps are leaking.
  
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• Regional checkpoints net several arrests

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  The Ohio Highway Patrol and other local law enforcement agencies conducted several sobriety checkpoints in the region late Saturday night and early Sunday morning.
  
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• Perrysburg birthday events ready to roll

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  When the Perrysburg Bicentennial Committee was formed more than a year ago to celebrate the city’s 200th birthday, creating events for all ages and groups was a main goal.
  
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• Our Towns Calendars: 6-27

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  What’s On
  
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• Oregon looks to buy drone

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Oregon police and fire officials could soon have the small unmanned aircraft, commonly called a drone, they have requested.
  
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• Monday Memories: Precarious position to be in

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  These city workers seem to be living a little close to the edge.
  
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• Maumee-Perrysburg bridge closed for display

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  The Maumee-Perrysburg Bridge will close at 5 p.m. Sunday for fireworks and reopen after the bridge has been cleaned.
  
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• Former chief to hold lecture

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Way Public Library will host a Bicentennial Lecture Series program 7 p.m. Wednesday with Dan Rowland, Perrysburg’s first safety-service director.
  
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• Dorothy Greer Smith: 1921-2016

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Dorothy Greer Smith, a teacher active in civic, social, and church groups who made friends across generations and was supportive of their endeavors, died Wednesday in Hospice of Northwest Ohio, South Detroit Avenue. She was 95.
  
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• DeWine to discuss drug abuse at meeting

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  FINDLAY — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine will speak at a forum this evening about the opiate epidemic.
  
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• Boaty beauty

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Tim Goligoski polishes his boat with a mop at the Perrysburg Boat Club dock on the Maumee River in Perrysburg.
  
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• Bedford Township voters hear candidates speak

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  LAMBERTVILLE — The candidates for Bedford Township supervisor, clerk, and treasurer discussed economic development, communication, and relationships with small businesses during a forum Thursday.
  
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• 72-year-old to compete in ironman event

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Jim Donaldson will board an airplane in October and jet off to Hawaii to compete in the Ironman World Championships.
  
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• 6 educators honored by post

  27-06-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  The American Legion Post 28 honored six Perrysburg Schools educators as teachers of the year.
  
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• For coverage of teachers' pay raises, percentages not enough

  27-06-2016 04:26
  
  Thomas Schoen of Toledo had a legitimate complaint about a May 27 story that reported a contract agreement between Toledo Public Schools and the teachers' union. The story correctly noted that the board unanimously approved a one-year contract that gave teachers a 5 percent raise.
  
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