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• Diocese of Toledo to hold vigil on eve of inmate's death sentence

  11-01-2017 23:08
  The Diocese of Toledo will hold a candlelight vigil on the eve of the first execution in Ohio in three years. The Catholic Church strongly rejects the death penalty and is holding the vigil at Saint Francis de Sales Chapel in the hopes of its abolishment.
  
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• Guess Who This Boatin' Babe Turned Into

  11-01-2017 18:23
  Before it was smooth sailing in Hollywood for this boatin' babe, she was just another cruisin' cutie hanging topside in Toledo, Ohio. Can you guess who she is? HERE'S THE RUNDOWN Donald Trump Blasts Meryl Streep Over Golden Globes Speech Charles Manson: Back in Prison Nicki Minaj & Meek Mill: The Reason Behind The Breakup! Mariah Carey Speaks Out! Yet another gold medal performance from the U.S. Gymnastics team.
  
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• Toledo, nine customers study how to govern regional water supply

  11-01-2017 18:05 via toledoblade.com
  
  Representatives from the City of Toledo and its nine water customers agreed to move forward with a regional bulk water system, but how to govern such a system is far from reaching consensus.
  
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• Sylvania Township neighborhood reacts to racist graffiti painted on garage

  11-01-2017 16:54 via toledoblade.com
  
  A Sylvania Township family says they can’t imagine how anyone could paint the racist graffiti they discovered on their garage door Tuesday night.
  
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• Sylvania Township family finds racist graffiti on garage

  11-01-2017 16:54 via toledoblade.com
  
  A Sylvania Township family found racist graffiti on their garage door Tuesday night.
  
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• 2 injured in crash; one car hits building

  11-01-2017 15:09 via toledoblade.com
  Two people were injured when two cars collided in South Toledo early today, with one of the cars crashing into a building, authorities said.
  
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• Rutherford retires: Coached Eastwood football for 35 years

  11-01-2017 14:53 via toledoblade.com
  
  Jerry Rutherford, the dean of high school head football coaches in northwest Ohio, has announced he will retire from his post at Eastwood after 35 seasons guiding the Eagles.
  
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• About 120 without power after high winds in Toledo area

  11-01-2017 14:26 via toledoblade.com
  More than 100 Toledo Edison customers remained out of power today after gusty winds disrupted power lines at several locations across Lucas County, a spokesman said.
  
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• 120 without power after high winds in Toledo area

  11-01-2017 14:26 via toledoblade.com
  More than 100 Toledo Edison customers remained out of power early today after gusty winds disrupted power lines at several locations across the greater Toledo area, a spokesman said.
  
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• School closings and delays 1/11

  11-01-2017 12:06 via toledoblade.com
  ADDISON - Closed
  
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• UT president, Toledo mayor encourage community to attend MLK Unity Celebration

  11-01-2017 08:37
  University of Toledo President Sharon L. Gaber and Toledo Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson invite students and families throughout the northwest Ohio region to the 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Celebration. The theme of the 16th annual event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is 'Reconciliation through Service: Education, Social Justice and Religion,' named in honor of the three pillars that defined the philosophy of the civil rights leader who created a nonviolent social movement that changed the course
  
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• Toledo Public Schools hosts High School Open House, Jan. 12th

  11-01-2017 08:37
  
  A Discover TPS Night open house will be held at each of the district's eight high schools Thursday evening, January 12, 2017, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The open house will provide students, especially eighth-graders, a chance to meet other students, staff, and counselors, as well as receive a tour of the school. There also will be hands-on demonstrations.
  
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• Hampton-Bey leads Notre Dame past Rams

  11-01-2017 06:45 via toledoblade.com
  
  For the second straight game, Rogers faced a familiar local foe. And for the second straight game, the Rams lost.
  
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• Walleye have faith in Paterson

  11-01-2017 06:41 via toledoblade.com
  
  The confidence of Walleye goaltender Jake Paterson continues to build as the young netminder has taken on the lion’s share of work between the pipes this season.
  
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• Bowling Green loses intensity, and game

  11-01-2017 06:38 via toledoblade.com
  
  BOWLING GREEN — The Bowling Green State University men’s basketball followed up its best game of the season last Saturday with arguably its worst effort Tuesday.
  
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• Rockets fall again to the Broncos in Kalamazoo

  11-01-2017 06:35 via toledoblade.com
  KALAMAZOO, Mich. — University Arena was once again a house of horrors for the University of Toledo men’s basketball team on Tuesday night.
  
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• Is it time for OSU, Matta to part ways?

  11-01-2017 06:35 via toledoblade.com
  
  If Ohio State loses a basketball game in a half-empty mausoleum, does it make a sound?
  
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• Ohio lineman picks UM, bucks family tradition

  11-01-2017 06:33 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Honigfords weren’t anticipating a summer remodeling.
  
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• Ex-Indiana coach Wilson joins Ohio State

  11-01-2017 06:32 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — Ohio State announced Tuesday that former Indiana head coach Kevin Wilson is joining the Buckeyes’ staff as the offensive coordinator.
  
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• Girls roundup: AW edges Delta with free throws

  11-01-2017 06:31 via toledoblade.com
  ANTHONY WAYNE 50, DELTA 47
  
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• Boys roundup: Nunn’s buzzer-beater lifts Findlay past Irish

  11-01-2017 06:25 via toledoblade.com
  FINDLAY 54, CENTRAL CATHOLIC 52
  
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• Rossford police will be without Narcan for now

  11-01-2017 06:21
  Narcan is a prescription medication that can treat a narcotic overdose in emergency situations. Several law enforcement agencies have been outfitted with the drug to fight the opioid epidemic, but not Rossford police.
  
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• Walleye acquire forward J.P. LaFontaine

  11-01-2017 06:17 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Walleye acquired forward J.P. LaFontaine in a trade with Elmira on Tuesday.
  
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• Versatile Peppers leaving Michigan for NFL draft

  11-01-2017 06:17 via toledoblade.com
  
  ANN ARBOR — Jabrill Peppers is going pro.
  
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• U.S. finds illegal appliance dumping

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  WASHINGTON — Whirlpool Corp. and its factory in Clyde, Ohio, won on Tuesday when the U.S. International Trade Commission decided unanimously that Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. have illegally “dumped” clothes washing machines into the United States from China factories for prices below fair market value.
  
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• Trial in fatal fire delayed

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The trial of the man accused of setting fire to an apartment building that killed two Toledo firefighters nearly three years ago has been pushed back about two months, to early April, at defense lawyers’ request.
  
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• Toledo council OKs regionwide water system

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Plans for a regional water system will move forward after Toledo city council approved a nonbinding resolution Tuesday supporting such a system.
  
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• Toledo art museum adds jewelry pieces

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Toledo Museum of Art is adding to its permanent collection more than 120 pieces of late 18th and early 19th-century jewelry amassed by a Florida couple over more than three decades after selling at auction more than 90 sets from the same collection.
  
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• Robert J. Armstrong: 1943-2017

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Robert J. Armstrong, a skilled salesman and a retired vice president of the Bostwick-Braun Co., the hardware distributor with Toledo roots in the mid-19th century, died Jan. 7 under hospice care the Otterbein at Monclova skilled nursing facility. He was 73.
  
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• Projects on land near Bass Pro, casino advance

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Rossford and the NAI Harmon Group are moving forward with a pair of projects expected to bring jobs and millions of dollars to the city.
  
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• Plans for memory care facility to move forward with zone change

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  A zoning change cleared the way for a developer to pursue plans to build a memory care assisted-living facility in Sylvania Township.
  
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• Michigan Theater to host Japanese film noir festival

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Roger Ebert called film noir “the most American film genre, because no society could have created a world so filled with doom, fate, fear and betrayal, unless it were essentially naive and optimistic.”
  
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• Latta named to head panel that oversees data, cybersecurity

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  U.S. Rep. Bob Latta (R., Bowling Green) has been named chairman of the House Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, under the House Energy and Commerce committee, his office announced.
  
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• Kaptur demands DeVos pay Ohio fine

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur joined two of her Democratic congressional colleagues Tuesday in calling on education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos to pay a $5.3 million fine owed to Ohio she has headed.
  
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• Judge Carr keeps jail population limit at 403 set 3 years ago

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Despite expressing concerns about the reluctance to release some nonviolent offenders, U.S. District Judge James Carr kept in place a 2014 order maintaining the maximum inmate population of the Lucas County jail.
  
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• Home sales, sales price rose in area in 2016

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Home sales in Lucas and northern Wood counties were up 3 percent and the median sales price rose 20 percent in 2016, according to a report Tuesday by the Toledo Regional Association of Realtors.
  
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• Film festival returns to Toledo

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Toledo International Film Festival returns for its third-annual run over three Saturdays next month with a slate of six foreign films, all screened at The Ohio Theatre and Event Center, 3114 Lagrange St.
  
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• Father Walker getting ready to go the distance

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Things were not going well for the Rev. Jeff Walker after 20 minutes into his first serious physical activity since high school gym class.
  
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• Debate argues merit of red-light cameras

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — A lawyer for Ohio on Tuesday sparred with members of the Ohio Supreme Court over whether a state law restricting automated red-light and speed cameras run by cities like Toledo is really designed to put the programs out of business.
  
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• Council OKs regionwide water system

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Plans for a regional water system will move forward after Toledo city council approved a nonbinding resolution Tuesday supporting such a system.
  
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• Authorities looking into whether owner abandoned huskies

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  ADRIAN — Lenawee County authorities are investigating a possible felony case of animal abandonment after at least a dozen huskies were found running loose.
  
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• 3 vehicles latest, not necessarily last, in the future of Jeep brand

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  DETROIT — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will add three new vehicles to the Jeep lineup by 2020, giving the brand its broadest offering in years. But one key official said the company may not be finished when it comes to expanding Jeep.
  
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• 2 die in separate early morning collisions in area

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  A spate of crashes, two of them fatal, occurred on slush-slickened roads in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan on Tuesday.
  
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• 11 dogs coming to Toledo in rescue from South Korea

  11-01-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Toledo Area Humane Society could receive nearly a dozen dogs this week that were rescued from a South Korean meat farm, according to the local and international society.
  
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• Jeep leaders remain quiet on new Wrangler editions

  11-01-2017 04:03
  It's no secret that the 2017 Jeep Wrangler should be a hit when the public starts attending the North American International Auto Show in Detroit Saturday, but Jeep leaders still don't want to talk about specifics about what's coming next. This Toledo-made icon is the last of its kind, because the next-generation Wrangler could be out by the end of the year.
  
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• Hampton-Bey, Notre Dame roll past Rogers

  11-01-2017 03:30 via toledoblade.com
  
  Notre Dame's Bre Hampton-Bey scored a game-high 19 points to lead the Eagles to an 81-40 win over Rogers tonight in the Eagles’ gym.
  
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• BGSU men trail Eastern Michigan at home

  11-01-2017 02:03 via toledoblade.com
  
  BOWLING GREEN — The Bowling Green State University men's basketball team trails Eastern Michigan 36-29 at halftime at the Stroh Center tonight.
  
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• BGSU men lose at home Eastern Michigan

  11-01-2017 02:03 via toledoblade.com
  
  BOWLING GREEN — The Bowling Green State University men's basketball team suffered an 81-53 loss to Eastern Michigan at the Stroh Center tonight.
  
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• Walleye acquired forward J.P. LaFontaine

  11-01-2017 01:55 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Walleye acquired forward J.P. LaFontaine in a trade with Elmira today.
  
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• Toledo City Council approves regional water plan

  11-01-2017 01:26
  
  Lake Erie water makes its appearance in the Collins Park Water Treatment plant in the Rapid mix room, where aluminum sulfate is added. In this room at the Collins Park Water Treatment Plant in Toledo, new paddles have been installed to improve flocculation as part of the water treatment process.
  
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