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• Sylvania Twp. dog dies after shot by officer during domestic dispute

  04-04-2017 22:27 via toledoblade.com
  
  A Sylvania Township dog is dead after a police officer shot it today during a domestic dispute.
  
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• Owens Community College president announces resignation

  04-04-2017 21:58 via toledoblade.com
  
  Owens Community College President Mike Bower announced today he will step down on June 30, the date his current contract concludes.
  
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• Man dies after Raisinville Twp. crash

  04-04-2017 20:25 via toledoblade.com
  MAYBEE, MICH — A Maybee, Mich., man died today after his pick-up truck struck a ditch and overturned several times, officials said.
  
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• Police search for missing Whitmer High teen

  04-04-2017 19:25 via toledoblade.com
  
  Another Toledo teen has been reported missing. 
  
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• Owens Community College removed from fiscal watch

  04-04-2017 19:20 via toledoblade.com
  
  Owens Community College is officially off state-designated fiscal watch.
  
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• Lucas County elections board boosts Dem director's pay by $5,000

  04-04-2017 19:16 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Lucas County Board of Elections today voted to give new Democratic Director LaVera Scott a raise and to instruct new Republican Deputy Director Theresa Gabriel to report to Ms. Scott.
  
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• Ohio Amber Alert canceled after children found

  04-04-2017 19:02 via toledoblade.com
  
  WILLOUGHBY HILLS, Ohio  — Officials canceled an Amber Alert after two children taken from their mother's home early today were found safe.
  
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• North Toledo man accused of break-in, rape in Springfield Twp.

  04-04-2017 18:47
  A North Toledo man is accused of breaking into a Springfield Township woman's home last month and raping her. Deonte L. Thomas, 28, of the 900 block of Peck Street, is charged with rape, a first-degree felony, felonious assault, a second-degree felony, and aggravated burglary, a first-degree felony.
  
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• Former Toledo attorney, 2 others sentenced in fraud case

  04-04-2017 18:40 via toledoblade.com
  
  A former Toledo attorney and two others were sentenced today in U.S. District Court for conspiring to draw up a fake will to steal the $2.1 million estate of a retired city of Toledo employee.
  
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• Hancock Co. assistant prosecutor pleaded guilty to leaving crash scene

  04-04-2017 14:21 via toledoblade.com
  FINDLAY — A Hancock County assistant prosecutor pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two days in jail last week to leaving the scene of a crash in Findlay.
  
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• Empowerment Zone encourages people to back their community

  04-04-2017 13:47
  Different speakers from various organizations interacted with the community to connect them with resources and agencies to help decrease violence in Toledo. "We have the agencies here as a resource, not as somebody to do it for them," said Clark.
  
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• Findlay police probe robbery in bar parking lot

  04-04-2017 13:33 via toledoblade.com
  FINDLAY — Two men were robbed at gunpoint by two other men early today in a Findlay bar parking lot, officials said. 
  
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• 73-year-old Monroe man dies in mobile home fire

  04-04-2017 13:29 via toledoblade.com
  MONROE — A 73-year-old man died in his home Monday night during a fire in the Northtowne Meadows Mobile Home Community, while he wife survived, officials reported. 
  
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• Police identify pedestrian fatally struck in South Toledo

  04-04-2017 13:13 via toledoblade.com
  Toledo police have identified the person who was struck and killed by a vehicle in South Toledo Monday. 
  
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• McCall makes case for slot, running back

  04-04-2017 06:06 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — As far as spring football is concerned, Demario McCall is a running back.
  
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• TRAC softball: Clay seeking 5th straight league title

  04-04-2017 06:05 via toledoblade.com
  
  With arguably the top softball program in northwest Ohio over the past 11 seasons, Clay is no stranger to being favored in March to win league championships, and then making those prognostications come true in May.
  
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• Average age of Mud Hens’ roster is 30

  04-04-2017 06:05 via toledoblade.com
  
  The 25-man Mud Hens roster the Tigers released Friday certainly does not fit the mold of a “developmental” team.
  
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• Iconic stream has seduced Toledo-area anglers for years

  04-04-2017 06:04 via toledoblade.com
  
  BAGLEY TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The North Branch of the famed Au Sable River wells up near here and begins to trace a worrisome looking EKG track toward where it will join the waterway’s main stem about 20 miles east of Grayling.
  
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• Toledo lawyer seeks municipal court judgeship

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Toledo lawyer Jim Anderson filed Monday as a candidate for judge in Toledo Municipal Court.
  
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• Thomas C. Williams: 1947-2017

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Thomas C. Williams, who in a 40-year career at Dundee High School was athletic director, assistant principal, English teacher, and swimming and baseball coach, died Saturday in ProMedica Ebeid Hospice Residence, Sylvania. He was 69.
  
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• Tesla jolts team from basement of contest

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The three best-performing teams last week in The Blade’s School Stock Contest had one major thing in common: All held shares of Tesla Inc.
  
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• Tesla jolts school stock contest team from basement

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The three best-performing teams last week in The Blade’s School Stock Contest had one major thing in common: All held shares of Tesla Inc.
  
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• Staring down sexism: Fearless Girl should stay

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  You’ve heard this story before. A girl shows up somewhere girls haven’t been before, causing a commotion. First we argue about what she has to say. Then we argue about whether she has a right to stay.
  
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• Spiralizers put you ahead of the curve

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Spiralizers have become a singular sensation.
  
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• Sandusky ready for Kasich speech, other events

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  SANDUSKY — Sandusky is bracing for an influx today that could rival the intensity of the annual mayfly invasion.
  
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• Perrysburg man sentenced to prison

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Calling their crimes “morally reprehensible,” a federal judge on Monday sent four people involved in a phony home-loan modification scheme to prison.
  
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• On the road to redemption

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  “We are here! We are here! We are here!”
  
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• Ohio officials tout health of lake’s fisheries

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  MARBLEHEAD, Ohio — On the eve of the governor’s state of the state address along Lake Erie’s shoreline, the upper brass from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources touted the health of the lake’s fishery and the wealth of walleye and yellow perch that angling paradise should produce in 2017.
  
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• North Toledo residents address violence

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  About 50 people came to a North Toledo school Monday for the latest Empowerment Zone anti-violence event that connects residents and organizations to help make the neighborhood safer.
  
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• Maumee to seek injunction on Ohio law

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Maumee officials are taking action against a piece of state legislation that revokes the city’s ability to approve or deny construction of wireless telecommunication towers.
  
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• Matzo recipes with more ‘freedom,’ less ‘affliction’

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Matzo is called “the bread of freedom” for its role in the Jews’ flight from slavery in Egypt.
  
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• Man pleads not guilty in Tokes death

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — Brian Lee Golsby kept his head down for most of his arraignment Monday as he pleaded not guilty to 18 felony charges stemming from the February murder of 21-year-old Monclova Township native Reagan Delaney Tokes and six Columbus robberies.
  
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• Man found guilty in September fatal shooting

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Ronald Goodlow went with his brother to fight Devantee Osley last Sept. 28 and never came home.
  
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• Lucas County tourism takes in over $2B

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Tourism in northwest Ohio is a multibillion-dollar industry and its economic impact for Lucas County equates to more than $350 million annually in income from jobs, Richard Nachazel, president of Destination Toledo Inc., said in a speech to the Toledo Rotary Club on Monday.
  
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• Kitchen gadget inspires a new healthy food trend

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Spiralizers have become a singular sensation.
  
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• Fostoria councilman seeks vote on charter change

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  FOSTORIA — A city councilman wants voters to approve a city charter change that would allow council to make major changes to the police and fire departments — or abolish them altogether.
  
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• Council considering adult day care in Sylvania

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Sylvania City Council members want to continue discussing the possibility of allowing adult day-care centers within city limits before referring a proposal to the planning commission that would change the city’s zoning code.
  
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• Council considering adult day care in city

  04-04-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Sylvania City Council members want to continue discussing the possibility of allowing adult day-care centers within city limits before referring a proposal to the planning commission that would change the city’s zoning code.
  
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• TPD demands west Toledo bar to close

  04-04-2017 04:07
  As of Monday night, police are searching for the shooter who opened fire at the Antidote Bar early Monday morning. This shooting at Antidote bar brings the number of major incidents to ten in 2017.
  
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• Maumee files complaint over state's cell tower legislation

  04-04-2017 02:14 via toledoblade.com
  
  Maumee officials took action today over a piece of state legislation that revokes the city’s ability to approve or deny construction of new wireless telecommunication towers.
  
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• Fostoria councilman seeks power to change police, fire departments

  04-04-2017 00:01 via toledoblade.com
  
  FOSTORIA — A city councilman wants voters to approve a city charter change that would allow council to make major changes to the police and fire departments — or abolish them altogether.
  
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