Toledo news

• Biden will campaign in Ohio next week

  26-08-2016 22:49 via toledoblade.com
  
  Vice President Joe Biden will campaign in Ohio for the Democratic presidential ticket of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine on Sept. 1, with stops being planned for the Youngstown area and Cleveland, the Clinton campaign announced today.
  
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• St. John's Jesuit welcomes new school president with Mass, ceremony

  26-08-2016 22:30
  "I've been absolutely amazed by the warmth, the welcome. The hospitality of the Toledo community, the greater community.
  
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• Toledo Pride weekend to close several streets downtown

  26-08-2016 19:50
  Twenty thousand people are expected to embark on Downtown Toledo throughout the weekend for various activities as part of Toledo Pride Fest 2016, and that has city crews closing a number of roads to accommodate the crowds.
  
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• Clinton offices open in Sylvania, Findlay

  26-08-2016 18:40 via toledoblade.com
  The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign opened two regional offices in Findlay and Sylvania on Thursday to organize voter outreach for the Nov. 8 presidential election.
  
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• Toledo's lead-safe ordinance shows the way for Cleveland: Spencer Wells

  26-08-2016 17:27
  A Cleveland billboard, pictured in February, encouraged parents to have their children tested for lead poisoning. Four decades after political leaders declared war on lead, citing evidence of its pernicious impact on young brains, the crusade remains unfinished, but Spencer Wells writes that Toledo's recent "lead-safe" ordinance illustrates a practical preventive approach that Cleveland should emulate.
  
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• Toledo man found guilty of working as unlicensed guard

  26-08-2016 17:27
  
  A Toledo man has been found guilty of a felony charge of working unlicensed as an armed security guard at local bars and after-hours clubs. Providing unlicensed security is typically a misdemeanor offense, but he was charged with a felony because of repeated violations, according to the Ohio Department of Public Safety.
  
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• Real estate transfers: 8-26

  26-08-2016 15:27 via toledoblade.com
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• Water main break affecting Glenwood Avenue in Rossford

  26-08-2016 13:54 via toledoblade.com
  Glenwood Avenue in Rossford was closed from Superior Street to Beach Street early today because of a water main break, authorities said.
  
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• Rossford's Glenwood Ave. reopens after water main break

  26-08-2016 13:54 via toledoblade.com
  Glenwood Avenue in Rossford has reopened after being closed from Superior Street to Beech Street today because of a water main break, authorities said.
  
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• Vehicle crashes into South Toledo ice cream shop

  26-08-2016 13:29 via toledoblade.com
  
  A sport utility vehicle crashed into an ice cream shop in South Toledo late Thursday, authorities said.
  
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• Male suspect in 1983 murders may be living in L.A. as a woman

  26-08-2016 10:41
  John Gentry, a male fugitive from two 1983 murders who police think may be living in Los Angeles as a woman, is seen in a 1983 booking photo and an age-progressed drawing of what he may look like today as a 63-year-old. Police who have renewed the search for a man suspected in two brutal murders in Michigan and Ohio more than 30 years ago have released a sketch of what the suspect could look like today and say he may be living in the Los Angeles area as a woman.
  
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• Northview rolls over Waite

  26-08-2016 06:32 via toledoblade.com
  
  Sights and sounds of another high school football season filled Wildcats Stadium on Thursday when Northview welcomed Waite for a season-opening showdown.
  
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• Napoleon defense overcomes Defiance on rivalry anniversary

  26-08-2016 06:24 via toledoblade.com
  
  NAPOLEON — The Napoleon defense rose to the occasion in one of Ohio’s oldest grudge matches Thursday as the Wildcats topped Defiance 21-7 in the River Rock rivalry.
  
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• Tigers trying to get the band back together

  26-08-2016 06:19 via toledoblade.com
  
  One night, Gene Simmons and KISS are tearing through the Huntington Center. The next, the Detroit Rock City Get-Well Tour opens at Fifth Third Field.
  
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• Iglesias gives boost to Mud Hens

  26-08-2016 06:17 via toledoblade.com
  
  The tenure of Jose Iglesias as a Mud Hen has been sweet — and may be short.
  
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• Warren running toward history

  26-08-2016 06:14 via toledoblade.com
  
  At this point of his high school football career, you could say that Central Catholic senior running back Michael Warren II is playing with house money.
  
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• The Blade's weekly fishing report: 8-26

  26-08-2016 06:12 via toledoblade.com
  
  ■ Lake Erie: As the calendar creeps closer to fall, yellow perch fishing on the big water traditionally improves. The experts at Netcraft report that phenomenon is taking place once again, with the perch anglers doing better with each week that passes. The hot spots the folks at Netcraft are recommending are the waters around the Toledo intake and the Toledo harbor light, plus northwest of Rattlesnake Island and southwest of Green Island. There have also been limit catches of yellow perch
  
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• Fall fun nears as hunting seasons begin

  26-08-2016 06:12 via toledoblade.com
  
  Long before that first leaf hits the ground or the foggy mist rises from the pond on a cool late summer morning, hunters have been preparing for the upcoming fall seasons in Ohio and Michigan. A lot of scouting has already taken place, which sets the foundation for a successful hunt.
  
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• UT men, BGSU women honored by MAC

  26-08-2016 06:11 via toledoblade.com
  The University of Toledo men’s athletic program and the Bowling Green State University women’s athletic program have been named the winners of the 2015-16 Mid-American Conference Faculty Athletics Representative Academic Achievement Awards.
  
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• TMACOG propose second intake source as provider of bulk water

  26-08-2016 06:10
  The Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments is proposing a regional water system. Only one intake in Lake Erie pipes water to Toledo's water treatment plant.
  
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• Tornadoes started out big in area

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  DEFIANCE — It may be several days before National Weather Service officials can provide further details about tornadoes that spawned from two thunderstorms that rumbled across far northwest Ohio late Wednesday, other than to confirm the one that passed near Defiance and Napoleon started out big.
  
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• Toledo among worst for homes underwater

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Metro Toledo and three other other cities are among the worst areas in the country when it comes to the percentage of homes still “seriously” underwater.
  
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• State’s largest solar project to be in B.G.

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  BOWLING GREEN — Sixteen of Ohio’s 25 largest solar projects are in northwest Ohio and — four months from now — the largest will be in Bowling Green, which for years was best known as the place which launched the state into the modern era of utility-scale wind turbines.
  
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• School evacuated for alarm

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Highland Elementary School in Sylvania was briefly evacuated Thursday when a smoke detector accidentally went off, triggering a fire alarm.
  
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• Robber beaten at gas station by worker gets 5 years prison sentence

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  A Toledo man who tried to rob a central-city gas station and was beaten by an employee will spend five years in prison.
  
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• Pietro 'Pete' Badia: 1930-2016

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  BOWLING GREEN — Pietro “Pete” Badia, 86, a retired psychology professor at Bowling Green State University whose research into sleep captured scholarly interest and popular attention, died Sunday in Hospice of Butler and Warren Counties, Franklin, Ohio.
  
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• Owens may claim card funds

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Owens Community College students might want to stock up on snacks with their school-issued purchasing cards or start asking for refunds.
  
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• Mortgage for stadium goes up in smoke

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gerken gives a thumbs-up as he, along with Joe Napoli, left, president and chief executive of the Toledo Mud Hens and Toledo Walleye; county Recorder Phil Copeland; and Commissioners Sandy Isenberg and Tina Skeldon Wozniak burn symbolic mortgages at Fifth Third Field’s Home Run Terrace. The ceremony before the Hens’ game Thursday celebrated the fact that the 20-year bonds used to finance construction of the Hens’ home field have been paid off five
  
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• Lane shifts on I-75 northbound set to begin tonight

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The first of an upcoming series of lane shifts on I-75 in central and North Toledo is scheduled to start tonight.
  
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• Justice center work reveals vestiges of past courthouses

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  TIFFIN — Work is under way on a new joint justice center in downtown Tiffin, but elements of past courthouses continue to be uncovered.
  
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• Fifth Third to provide financial education

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Fifth Third Bank will provide financial education classes Monday at the Boys & Girls Club of Toledo, 2250 N. Detroit Ave.
  
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• Driver asks to expunge drunk, fatal crash

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  For Helene Bachli, the death of her infant daughter, Juliette, who was stillborn after a drunken driver struck her car, is a hurt that never goes away.
  
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• County, jobs chief agree on separation

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Lucas County commissioners have reached a monetary settlement with the former director of the county’s Job and Family Services.
  
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• City of Toledo hires an intern to tweet for $21 an hour

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  A year-old city of Toledo hiring freeze hasn’t stopped the Hicks-Hudson administration from bringing in new employees — including a $21-an-hour full-time intern to help tweet, Facebook, and do other online work.
  
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• City hires an intern to tweet for $21 an hour

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  A year-old city of Toledo hiring freeze hasn’t stopped the Hicks-Hudson administration from bringing in new employees — including a $21-an-hour full-time intern to help tweet, Facebook, and do other online work.
  
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• Cheers: German-American Festival is back for more

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Don’t worry, the potatoes are fine. The beer is stocked. And the sausage has been smoked.
  
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• Aide: Clinton won’t redo or sign trade pact

  26-08-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal will not be renegotiated and signed by Hillary Clinton if she is elected, her campaign’s senior policy adviser said Thursday.
  
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• Napoleon defense stymies Defiance

  26-08-2016 04:39 via toledoblade.com
  NAPOLEON — The Napoleon defense rose to the occasion in one of Ohio's oldest grudge matches tonight as the Wildcats topped Defiance 21-7 in the River Rock rivalry.
  
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• Mud Hens win 4th straight contest

  26-08-2016 04:01 via toledoblade.com
  The Mud Hens won their fourth straight contest with a 5-1 victory over Columbus at Fifth Third Field tonight.
  
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• Perrysburg fills vacant city council seat

  26-08-2016 02:25 via toledoblade.com
  Perrysburg City Council appointed the city’s former mayor today to a vacant council seat.
  
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• New trade skills center opens on UT Scott Park campus

  26-08-2016 01:44
  A big problem facing manufacturers today is replacing retirees who had decades of experience with new hires who have very little, which is why a new training center was established in Central Toledo to bridge that gap. A few years ago, a building on the south end of the University of Toledo's Scott Park Campus was not being utilized for any education.
  
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