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• Springfield Schools promotes Geha to superintendent

  10-05-2017 23:56 via toledoblade.com
  
  Springfield Local Schools promoted its assistant superintendent to its top post.
  
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• Man arrested after attempted robbery of W. Toledo pharmacy

  10-05-2017 23:05
  A man accused of attempting to rob a West Toledo pharmacy earlier this week was arrested today, according to Lucas County jail records. Joshua A. Gibson, 28, of the 3700 block of North Erie Street, is charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, a first-degree felony.
  
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• Jurors due back Thursday in Abou-Arab trial after delay over evidence

  10-05-2017 22:34 via toledoblade.com
  
  A Common Pleas Court judge today sent a jury home until Thursday after a more than two-hour delay caused by a reference to evidence they weren’t supposed to hear.
  
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• Car, train collision in Fulton County; injuries unknown

  10-05-2017 21:55 via toledoblade.com
  ARCHBOLD — A car and train collided today on County Road D and the Norfolk Southern Railroad, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.
  
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• UT, BGSU sports earn high APR scores

  10-05-2017 21:20 via toledoblade.com
  
  The NCAA released its annual Academic Progress Rate (APR) figures for the four-year period from 2012-13 to 2015-16, and the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University each received impressive scores across the board.
  
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• Toledo judge candidate explains dealing with blight

  10-05-2017 20:35 via toledoblade.com
  
  Jim Anderson, a candidate for Toledo housing court judge, today explained what he called his judicial philosophy for dealing with blight, suggesting that the property of so-called “urban farmer” Thomas Jackson don’t fit that description.
  
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• Plane landing in Fremont struck tractor-trailer rig

  10-05-2017 19:17 via toledoblade.com
  FREMONT — A plane struck a tractor-trailer on State Rt. 53 while it was attempting to land at the Fremont Airport, the Ohio Highway Patrol said today. 
  
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• Toledo-area clergy, others against lead provision in Ohio budget bill

  10-05-2017 18:48 via toledoblade.com
  
  Nearly two dozen clergy and other community members today voiced their opposition to an addition to the House budget bill from State Rep. Derek Merrin (R., Monclova Township) that would give the state sole authority on lead abatement, possibly voiding Toledo’s lead-safe rental law passed last year. 
  
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• Former Lead Investigator in Fatal OH Fire Testifies

  10-05-2017 18:38
  May 9--After a slow start Tuesday, a former Toledo fire investigator told a jury in Lucas County Common Pleas Court that he initially was the lead investigator on the fatal Magnolia Street fire but that he stepped down. Pvt. Glen Frames said he responded to the scene where two Toledo firefighters died on Jan. 26, 2014, and returned the next two mornings before taking himself off the case.
  
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• Michigan man describes finding body of Chelsea Bruck

  10-05-2017 17:27 via toledoblade.com
  
  MONROE — Today marks the second day of testimony in an ongoing murder trial concerning the death of 22-year-old Chelsea Bruck of Maybee, Mich.
  
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• Deputy coroner describes injuries sustained by firefighters

  10-05-2017 16:28 via toledoblade.com
  
  Two Toledo firefighters who perished fighting a Jan. 26, 2014 fire on Magnolia Street died from thermal burns over much of their bodies and exposure to carbon monoxide, a deputy Lucas County coroner testified early today.
  
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• Findlay man dies in Tuesday motorcycle crash

  10-05-2017 15:46 via toledoblade.com
  FINDLAY — A Findlay man died Tuesday after he was ejected from motorcycle and struck a pole.
  
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• Police alerted to gunshot victim at central Toledo hospital

  10-05-2017 15:28 via toledoblade.com
  A gunshot victim was admitted today at Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center.
  
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• Teacher pleaded guilty to charges of sexual misconduct with a child

  10-05-2017 14:39 via toledoblade.com
  
  NAPOLEON — An 8th grade teacher pleaded Tuesday guilty to multiple counts of sexual misconduct with a child, according to the Henry County prosecutor. 
  
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• Authorities: Ohio man killed by police fired rifle at them

  10-05-2017 14:07
  Investigators say a suspect in a stabbing at an Ohio home fired at responding officers with a high-powered rifle before being fatally shot. A sheriff's deputy was injured in the gunfire on Tuesday in Tiffin, roughly 50 miles southeast of Toledo.
  
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• Two men are accused of breaking into a Millbury bank

  10-05-2017 13:46 via toledoblade.com
  MILLBURY — Two men are accused of breaking into a Millbury bank on Tuesday. 
  
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• One person dead in fatal crash at Lucas-Fulton County line

  10-05-2017 13:42 via toledoblade.com
  SWANTON — One person died early today in a crash after the vehicle was struck by a tractor-trailer on U.S. 20 at the Lucas-Fulton County line. 
  
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• Crash closes U.S. 20 at Fulton Co.-Lucas Co. line

  10-05-2017 13:42 via toledoblade.com
  An accident on U.S. 20 at the Fulton and Lucas county line has the road closed in both directions, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation. 
  
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• Toledoan admits guilt in gun death

  10-05-2017 09:51
  On the day he was to have gone to trial, a Toledo man pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder with a firearm specification in the shooting death of another man. Travis Nettles, 28, of the 400 block of Clark Street was then sentenced by Lucas County Common Pleas Judge James Bates to life in prison with the possibility of parole after he serves 18 years.
  
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• Walleye unbeaten at Huntington Center in playoffs

  10-05-2017 06:47 via toledoblade.com
  
  The electricity inside the Huntington Center has provided a significant jolt to the home team in the Kelly Cup playoffs.
  
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• St. John’s wins 6th straight TRAC tennis title

  10-05-2017 06:36 via toledoblade.com
  
  St. John’s Jesuit won its sixth consecutive Three Rivers Athletic Conference boys tennis championship Saturday at Shadow Valley Tennis Club, taking four of the five titles in the process.
  
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• Ohio nuclear subsidies argued before lawmakers

  10-05-2017 06:22 via toledoblade.com
  
  COLUMBUS — Proposed subsidies to keep two struggling nuclear power plants humming will spike prices for consumers and make northern Ohio less attractive to investment, opponents argued on Tuesday.
  
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• Legal fees add up in CCNO spat

  10-05-2017 06:16 via toledoblade.com
  
  The feud between Toledo and Lucas County over who should pay the costs of prisoners arrested on state charges has taken its toll on taxpayers’ wallets, but it has been lucrative for some highly paid lawyers.
  
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• Husted pushes goal to make Ohio more business-friendly

  10-05-2017 06:10 via toledoblade.com
  
  Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted promised to bring back the American Dream to Ohioans and make the state more business-friendly if elected governor next year, but he would not commit to restoring the state funding taken away from cities the past six years.
  
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• Witnesses testify about where fire had started

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The fire that would destroy a portion of a Magnolia Street apartment building and take the lives of two Toledo firefighters was intentionally set on a shelving unit along the rear garage wall, the lead investigator testified Tuesday.
  
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• Waniewski to eye street services

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Mayoral candidate Tom Waniewski said Tuesday he would flip Toledo’s practices of paying for street and infrastructure for leaf pickup, snow removal, and mowing, if he is elected.
  
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• TPS, teachers union reach tentative agreement

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Toledo Public Schools and the roughly 2,600-member teachers union reached what both sides described as a “tentative agreement” on a three-year contract.
  
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• Toledo GROWs starts seeds for community gardens

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Warm morning in early May finds Vicki Dillon, a volunteer with Toledo GROWs, writing out labels with a Sharpie at the organization’s farm on Oneida Street.
  
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• Testimony under way in Clay's murder trial

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  MONROE — First, a woman’s red shoe. Then, a wig and a damaged leotard covered in artificial leaves.
  
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• Rosebeds need early maintenance

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  It has been raining for days, but the warmer, dry days are on the way and you will be able to get that garden in shape.
  
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• Retired officer likely to join ex-chief in Florida

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  FORT MYERS, Fla. — A Toledo police lieutenant who retired after three decades at the department appears likely to join his former chief in Florida.
  
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• Plant swap to be held before Oregon Fest

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  This year’s Oregon Fest will feature a plant exchange May 20, one day before the festival.
  
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• Joanne Grossmann: 1930-2017

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Joanne Grossmann, a painter frequently part of the annual Toledo Area Artists’ Exhibition whose extensive portfolio ranged from animal scenes — horses were a favorite subject — to cityscapes, died Friday in her Perrysburg home. She was 86.
  
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• Investors, firm meet in cyberspace once again

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  DEFIANCE — It was so quiet at First Defiance Financial Corp.’s annual shareholder meeting Tuesday, you could’ve heard a pin drop — but you wouldn’t have seen it fall.
  
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• Hart Inc. to return home to downtown

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  It wasn’t all that long ago that downtown meetings were no highlight for Mike Hart. Get in. Get lunch. Get out.
  
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• Gunman is killed in shootout near Tiffin

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  TIFFIN — A gunman was killed and a Seneca County sheriff’s deputy struck in the shoulder during a shootout Tuesday in a rural neighborhood just outside Tiffin.
  
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• Free pizza draws a crowd to new shop in West Toledo

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Dozens of patrons lined up for a free pizza outside the new Blaze Pizza in the Shoppes at Westgate in West Toledo. The pizzeria, at 3330 W. Central Ave., drew long lines as it handed out free pies beginning at 11 a.m. Tuesday. By 4:30 p.m., the store had given away 500 free pizzas, and it expected to give away 500 more before it closed at 9 p.m.
  
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• Electronic fence ban rejected by Whitehouse lawmakers

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Punctuated with bursts of applause, several residents spoke against a proposal that would have banned electronic fences in village front yards.
  
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• Electronic fence ban rejected by Whitehouse council

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Punctuated with bursts of applause, several residents spoke against a proposal that would have banned electronic fences in village front yards.
  
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• City council hears more on proposed salary bumps

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Toledo City Council members’ salaries have remained unchanged for more than a decade, and would stay the same for four more years if recommended raises aren’t approved by June 1.
  
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• ‘Book of Mormon’ coming to Stranahan

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  The Book of Mormon — the musical comedy winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical — and Rat Pack Christmas — a holiday-themed show with a mix of holiday classics, original Christmas songs, and some of the Rat Pack’s greatest hits — have been added to the Theater League’s 2017-18 season at the Stranahan Theater. The shows are available through the league’s Season Add-On and Swap-a-Show options.
  
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• A simple plan for backyard bounty

  10-05-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  
  Perhaps you’ve embraced the sandal wearing, granola munching herbivore movement and want to tap your inner hippie by growing locally to help save Mother Earth.
  
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• Call 11 for Action: Demolishing run down Toledo homes

  10-05-2017 05:30
  It's all part of the Lucas County Land Bank's pledge to demolish, or rehab, 1,500 homes by the year 2020. Since announcing the program in July of last year, Land Bank Chairman Wade Kapszukiewicz says they've torn down 375 properties.
  
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• One seriously injured in crash on Secor Road

  10-05-2017 01:56 via toledoblade.com
  One person was seriously injured today when a vehicle pulled out from a driveway into the path of another vehicle in the 4500 block of Secor Road, Toledo police said.
  
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• If rains hold out, Lake Eriea s algae bloom wona t be too bad, experts say

  10-05-2017 00:40
  The amount of phosphorous in Lake Erie's western basis is about the same as last year's levels, barring unexpected extreme rainfall in the coming weeks, according to Tuesday's kickoff projection. "If we go on as typical, we will be a little worse than last year," said Rick Stumpf, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration oceanographer who helps put together the weekly bloom projections.
  
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