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• Former Monroe High student attempts to refute Muslim stereotypes

  17-11-2016 23:09 via toledoblade.com
  
  MONROE — Tala Dahbour sees the dangerous fear mongering against Muslims, and does what she can to refute stereotypes.
  
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• 450 people will be laid off at local First Solar plant

  17-11-2016 22:32 via toledoblade.com
  
  First Solar Inc. said today it will eliminate 450 jobs at its Perrysburg Township plant as it shifts toward producing a next generation solar panel said to be more efficient and cost effective. 
  
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• Truck overturns along I-75 detour loop near Central Avenue

  17-11-2016 22:29 via toledoblade.com
  
  The northbound I-75 detour loop at Central Avenue in North Toledo is closed because of an overturned tractor-trailer that reportedly has spilled some of its cargo of lubricating oil.
  
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• Kroger files plans for new marketplace in west Toledo

  17-11-2016 22:05
  "Kroger has identified an interested buyer for its existing property, contingent on the future development. Kroger is responding to the needs and wants of the community with this revised site plan, which complements the area, while also being respectful to the neighboring schools, all while allowing business to grow."
  
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• Hensville Lights starting a new holiday tradition in Downtown Toledo

  17-11-2016 19:59
  The Toledo Zoo is not the only place to go and see an impressive light display this weekend. Hensville is lighting up the town too! Starting Saturday, Nov. 19, a display of 190,000 lights synced to music along St. Clair Street and a giant tree at Hensville Park will be lit up.
  
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• Bond set at $50,000 for man accused of stabbing roommate

  17-11-2016 18:47 via toledoblade.com
  
  Bond was set at $50,000 for a man accused of stabbing a roommate early today at a West Toledo apartment building, authorities said.
  
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• B.G. police charge woman with falsifying report

  17-11-2016 18:26 via toledoblade.com
  BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green police today charged a woman they said fabricated a reported assault and racial slur against her in the city.
  
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• Travis Tritt coming to Stranahan Theater

  17-11-2016 15:36
  
  Grammy Award-winning country artist Travis Tritt will make a stop in Toledo to perform at the Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd., at 8 p.m. Feb. 18. Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. and can be purchased in-person at the Stranahan Theater box office, by phone at 419-381-8851 or online at stranahantheater.org . Ticket prices are $39, $49 and $59 plus fees.
  
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• School delays and closings: 11-17

  17-11-2016 11:43 via toledoblade.com
  
  Academy Of Educational Excellence 2 HR DELAY
  
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• School delays: 11-17

  17-11-2016 11:43 via toledoblade.com
  Adrian Delayed 2 HR DELAY
  
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• Historic schoolhouse hits the road

  17-11-2016 07:21 via toledoblade.com
  
  Wolfe House & Building Movers moves the Zimmerman one-room schoolhouse from its original site to the Carter Historic Farm near Bowling Green. The Wood County Park District owns the schoolhouse, in operation from 1892-1924, and will use it for educational programs.
  
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• Judge to decide on hotel rape, overdose case

  17-11-2016 07:07
  
  Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Ian English will determine later this week whether a Toledo man is guilty of raping a woman after she lost consciousness - and later overdosed on heroin - at an Alexis Road motel last year. Prosecutors and the defense rested their cases Wednesday in the three-day bench trial of Anthony E. Davis, 34, of the 3500 block of Homewood Avenue.
  
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• UT seniors go out with a bang

  17-11-2016 06:43 via toledoblade.com
  
  As a heavy fog blanketed the Glass Bowl for much of the night, the University of Toledo football team sent out its senior class in style with a 37-19 win against Ball State on Senior Night on Wednesday.
  
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• Patrick Henry will face toughest challenge to date

  17-11-2016 06:38 via toledoblade.com
  
  The magical journey of the Patrick Henry football team takes its next step Friday night at Napoleon, where the third-ranked Patriots take on seventh-ranked Ayersville in a showdown of unbeaten league champions for a Division VI regional playoff championship.
  
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• Michigan aware it still can achieve its goals

  17-11-2016 06:38 via toledoblade.com
  
  ANN ARBOR — The sun has risen over Ann Arbor four consecutive days.
  
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• UT can break out of OSU, UM shadows

  17-11-2016 06:36 via toledoblade.com
  
  The University of Toledo claims Ohio’s lone winning Division I college football program within 140 miles.
  
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• Rankin helps Walleye school Gladiators

  17-11-2016 06:36 via toledoblade.com
  
  At age 30, Walleye forward Evan Rankin has a greater appreciation for individual achievements. The veteran took a moment to embrace another special feat on Wednesday morning.
  
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• Controlling OSU’s Barrett is Spartans' goal

  17-11-2016 06:32 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — For Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio, stopping Ohio State begins with slowing J.T. Barrett.
  
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• November is being kind to UT

  17-11-2016 06:30 via toledoblade.com
  The month of November hasn’t always been kind to the University of Toledo football team.
  
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• Ground game extremely vital to BG’s win

  17-11-2016 06:30 via toledoblade.com
  
  BOWLING GREEN — Mike Jinks entered the press conference after the Bowling Green State University football team’s game with Kent State on Tuesday displaying the same demeanor as he had shown all season long.
  
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• First Solar to slash global work force

  17-11-2016 06:16 via toledoblade.com
  
  First Solar Inc. said Wednesday that it plans to make significant cuts to its global work force and will take steps to idle its Perrysburg Township plant this year as the company embarks on a major restructuring of its manufacturing operations.
  
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• First Solar to idle Perrysburg Twp. plant for months

  17-11-2016 06:16 via toledoblade.com
  
  First Solar Inc. said Wednesday that it plans to make significant cuts to its global work force and will take steps to idle its Perrysburg Township plant this year as the company embarks on a major restructuring of its manufacturing operations.
  
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• Kroger submits plans again for Sisters site

  17-11-2016 06:09 via toledoblade.com
  
  A controversial proposal to demolish the Sisters of Notre Dame Provincial Center in West Toledo and build a new Kroger Marketplace is being resurrected.
  
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• Kroger submits plans again for Sisters of Notre Dame site

  17-11-2016 06:09 via toledoblade.com
  
  A controversial proposal to demolish the Sisters of Notre Dame Provincial Center in West Toledo and build a new Kroger Marketplace is being resurrected.
  
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• Zoo lights a beast of an attraction

  17-11-2016 06:00 via www4.toledoblade.com
  
  For years MGM studios had the slogan “More stars than there are in heaven.”
  
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• UT dean to lead Oregon university

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The University of Toledo will lose the longtime dean of its largest college after the Oregon Institute of Technology picked Nagi Naganathan as its next president.
  
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• U.S. gave Chesapeake Bay billions for impaired waters: Is Lake Erie next?

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Pressure by federal officials six years ago to save the ailing Chesapeake Bay has prompted 11 federal agencies to invest $2.84 billion into that ecosystem, including $515 million last year and $487 million this year.
  
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• Toledo Symphony: Music refuses to be silent

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Toledo Symphony Classics performance this weekend offers listeners a chance to experience a perspective rarely seen these days on the concert stage. Musical powerhouse Ignat Solzhenitsyn will command the orchestra from two distinct vantage points.
  
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• Sylvania officials considering size of water rate increase

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Sylvania city residents can expect to pay more for water beginning next year, but how much more is not yet decided.
  
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• Suspended sheriff’s hearing rescheduled

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  FREMONT — A change-of-plea hearing scheduled for today for suspended Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer has been tentatively rescheduled for noon Monday.
  
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• Residents roll with transit system

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  MONROE — As Griffin Bennett gets older and advances from grade school through middle school to high school — and through various levels of youth hockey — he’ll still be 8 years old in the picture that now adorns one side of a Lake Erie Transit bus.
  
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• Pharmacy opening in former bank site

  17-11-2016 06:00 via www4.toledoblade.com
  
  A drive-thru window, teller counters, and a secure vault: items necessary for a bank and helpful, it turns out, for a pharmacy.
  
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• Pharmacy opening in bank site

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  A drive-thru window, teller counters, and a secure vault: items necessary for a bank and helpful, it turns out, for a pharmacy.
  
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• Ohio House OKs bill requiring coaches to study cardiac issues

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  COLUMBUS — The Ohio House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill designed to make both coaches and student athletes more likely to recognize the signs of potential cardiac trouble.
  
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• Mason Jar shines a spotlight on burgers

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Mason Jar Tap & Grill in Lambertville, Mich., is a busy place. One early indication was the parking lot, which always seemed to have lots of cars when we made three visits that ranged from lunchtime on a Tuesday and a Wednesday to a Friday evening.
  
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• Lawyer: Fewlas named woman as heir

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Two of the three people accused of conspiring to forge a fake will to obtain the $2.2 million estate of Martin Fewlas took the witness stand Wednesday in U.S. District Court to deny allegations against them.
  
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• John R. Hoellrich: 1941-2016

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  John R. Hoellrich, a Toledo-area architect whose structures served purposes public and private — schools, offices, churches — and who was a volunteer leader in professional and community groups, died Tuesday in ProMedica Ebeid Hospice Residence, Sylvania. He was 75.
  
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• Infant mortality rates decrease in Lucas County

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Lucas County infant mortality rates in 2015 were the lowest in five years, according to new Ohio Department of Health data released Wednesday, though racial disparities between black and white babies continue.
  
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• Game On: ‘Civilization VI’ brings history books to life

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Being Gandhi is hard, but dealing with hypocrites is even worse.
  
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• Economy set to grow, PNC speaker says

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Heading into November, the U.S. economy looked poised to heat up next year no matter who was elected president. That remains the case, though economists are still trying to guess their way through a Donald Trump presidency.
  
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• Earnest Brew Works ready to say, Hello

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The news that beer drinkers have been waiting for was released this week — beer might actually have some health benefits.
  
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• Deputy suspended after inmate took another’s property

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  A Lucas County sheriff’s deputy has been suspended after a jail inmate under his supervision was able to take another inmate’s property.
  
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• Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’ to speak at Authors! Authors!

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Longtime science educator and television personality Bill Nye “The Science Guy” will be at the Stranahan Theater at 7 p.m. today to wrap up the fall leg of the Authors! Authors! series sponsored by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library and The Blade.
  
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• BGSU awakens ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Drowsy Chaperone, a celebration of classic musical comedies of the 1920s, opens Friday at Bowling Green State University.
  
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• Beast of an attraction

  17-11-2016 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  For years MGM studios had the slogan “More stars than there are in heaven.”
  
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• "Power of HOPE" making trips to NW Ohio cancer treatment centers

  17-11-2016 03:17
  
  Hope is one of the most important things for who are going through cancer treatment to hold and keep them strong. The five-foot tall "HOPE" letters made a stop at the Dorothy L. Kern Cancer Center in Fremont this week.
  
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• Rockets lead Ball State 20-10 at halftime

  17-11-2016 03:01 via toledoblade.com
  
  The University of Toledo football team leads Ball State 20-10 at halftime at the Glass Bowl.
  
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• Rockets down Ball State 37-19 in the fog

  17-11-2016 03:01 via toledoblade.com
  
  The University of Toledo football team topped Ball State 37-19 tonight at a foggy Glass Bowl tonight.
  
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• National Weather Service issues fog advisory

  17-11-2016 02:28 via toledoblade.com
  The National Weather Service has issued a fog advisory for the northwest region throughout the night until 8 a.m. Thursday.
  
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• First Solar plans to lay off 1,600 workers

  17-11-2016 00:29 via toledoblade.com
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — First Solar Inc., a solar-panel maker born in Toledo and with its sole North American factory in suburban Toledo, said today that it will lay off 1,600 of its 6,000 global workforce as it adjusts some of its plants to make a new type of solar panel.
  
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