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• Mayor extols Toledo development at downtown party

  15-08-2017 23:33 via toledoblade.com
  Toledo Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson hosted a party at a downtown hotel Tuesday evening to release a map showing the development in the city during the past three years.
  
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• One dead following TARTA bus crash

  15-08-2017 23:20 via toledoblade.com
  A Toledo Area Regional Paratransit System bus and a car crashed head-on in central Toledo on Tuesday, killing the car’s driver and injuring the driver of the bus, authorities said.
  
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• Duke Wheeler to remain on the ballot for Waterville Trustee

  15-08-2017 23:13 via toledoblade.com
  Richard “Duke” Wheeler will remain on the ballot as a candidate for Waterville Township trustee despite admitting to spending most of his nights at his home with his wife in Ottawa Hills.
  
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• Grocery delivery service Instacart comes to Toledo

  15-08-2017 23:00 via toledoblade.com
  The competition to make make grocery shopping easier got stiffer Tuesday with the Toledo area debut of a San Francisco-based service that will shop for and deliver to the home groceries and other items.
  
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• Legislators tour testing grounds for self-driving cars

  15-08-2017 22:43 via toledoblade.com
  YPSILANTI, Mich. — U.S. Reps. Bob Latta (R., Bowling Green) and Debbie Dingell (D., Dearborn) got a first-hand look Tuesday at an automated-vehicle testing ground being built on the site that once produced thousands of World War II bomber planes.
  
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• Perrysburg mayoral hopefuls need a clear vision

  15-08-2017 22:32 via toledoblade.com
  The biggest challenge facing the winner of November’s mayoral campaign in Perrysburg is managing the city’s explosive growth.
  
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• Cordray question looms over Ohio Dems gubernatorial primary

  15-08-2017 22:14 via toledoblade.com
  COLUMBUS — Despite efforts by the Ohio Democratic Party to move into 2018 campaign mode, a large question mark hovers over the gubernatorial race in the form of Richard Cordray.
  
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• With title hopes, Libbey's Brown returns to El Salvador

  15-08-2017 21:44 via toledoblade.com
  Libbey High School graduate Anthony Brown finally made it to professional basketball last year at 27 years old, and after a yearlong trek between three countries, Brown proved he belonged.
  
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• Algal blooms forming on Lake Erie

  15-08-2017 21:27
  Green waters below for one pilot flying near Maumee Bay State Park. He took pictures showing the algae blooms along Lake Erie.
  
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• Toledo native Hafner re-signs with Colorado Eagles

  15-08-2017 21:15 via toledoblade.com
  Goaltender Lukas Hafner, a Toledo native and Central Catholic High School graduate, re-signed Tuesday with the ECHL’s Colorado Eagles.
  
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• Sylvania band removed from Rib Off after white nationalist post

  15-08-2017 19:51 via toledoblade.com
  Sylvania act Rodney Parker and Liberty Beach has been removed as the opening band on Friday at The Blade’s 34th annual Northwest Ohio Rib Off.
  
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• ProMedica shows off Steam Plant as workers near move-in day

  15-08-2017 19:48 via toledoblade.com
  It is impossible to miss.
  
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• ProMedica provides tours of new downtown headquarters

  15-08-2017 19:48 via toledoblade.com
  Two hundred and fifty ProMedica employees will move into the third and fourth floors of the renovated Steam Plant building on Friday.
  
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• Creeping beauties: The work that vines require can pay off visually

  15-08-2017 19:20 via toledoblade.com
  Come summertime, Glenwood Avenue in Toledo’s Old West End blossoms, many of its tidy, pastel clapboard houses arrayed with flower blooms and neatly kept lawns.
  
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• Upcoming Wrangler emerges in leaked photos

  15-08-2017 18:06 via toledoblade.com
  The next generation Jeep Wrangler — or at least part of it — has been unmasked.
  
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• Candidate for Toledo mayor advocates universal pre-K

  15-08-2017 17:41 via toledoblade.com
  Toledo mayoral candidate Wade Kapszukiewicz stumped for votes Tuesday by touting his goal to guarantee access to prekindergarten education for all Toledo children. 
  
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• Man dies after car crash near Perrysburg

  15-08-2017 16:53 via toledoblade.com
  PERRYSBURG — An Ottawa, Ohio man died after an apparent medical emergency Tuesday on the Ohio Turnpike near Perrysburg, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
  
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• GALLERY: Maumee marches against white supremacy

  15-08-2017 16:49
  Mary Ann McGill of Toledo, in foreground, picks up a sign made by Dan Rutt of Toledo in peace sign shirt, before the March Against White Supremacy. Demonstrators take part in the March Against White Supremacy in Maumee on Monday.
  
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• Keeping Rondon right choice for Tigers, Mud Hens

  15-08-2017 14:26 via toledoblade.com
  There are soap operas that could learn a thing or two about drama from Bruce Rondon.
  
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• Big year for bees, wasps, hornets causes problems

  15-08-2017 06:34 via toledoblade.com
  Maybe it’s the weather, maybe it’s the regular cycle of nature, or maybe it is one of those aspects of the wildlife world around us we don’t yet fully comprehend.
  
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• UT team spends 2nd day in Florence before game

  15-08-2017 06:31 via toledoblade.com
  University of Toledo sophomore center Luke Knapke documents the men’s basketball team’s trip through Italy for The Blade.
  
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• Police-community relations panel sees urgency rise after Charlottesville

  15-08-2017 06:02 via toledoblade.com
  Members of an Ohio advisory panel called on representatives of Toledo law enforcement and the community Monday to help implement the panel’s recommendations for police-community relations in the wake of the Charlottesville, Va., tragedy.
  
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• Woman is guilty of getaway role in ‘drug-fueled’ robbery

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  A Toledo woman who drove the getaway car in a “drug-fueled” robbery pleaded no contest Monday and was found guilty of attempted aggravated robbery.
  
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• Transfer of $3M into Toledo's general fund debated

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  The city of Toledo closed the books on 2016 with a $3 million transfer from the capital improvement fund to the general fund, but Council President Steven Steel said Monday the transfer was unnecessary, and now he wants that cash moved back.
  
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• The start of something new for Tony Packo's

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Tony Packo’s new drive-through restaurant at 3348 Secor Rd., the first of its kind for the company, will go through a private test run Wednesday to see how smoothly the operation runs. If all goes well, the company will decide on Friday when it will open but officials of Bennett Management Co. say the restaurant will open no later than Monday. Packo’s has a second Packo’s with a drive-through window under construction on Conant Street in Maumee, now scheduled to be opened in Oc
  
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• Spring Meadows-area road work under way

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  A resurfacing project originally slated to begin last month on Airport Highway in the Spring Meadows area of Springfield Township finally got going Monday.
  
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• Old Newsboys group to honor its founder

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  The Old Newsboys Goodfellows Association is holding a tribute event at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Historic Woodlawn Cemetery to celebrate the legacy of the group’s founder, John Gunckel.
  
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• Norman John Frankowski, Sr.: 1922-2017

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  CINCINNATI — Norman John Frankowski, Sr., a longtime engineer in Toledo’s automotive industry described as meticulous and as a Renaissance man by family, died Friday at Jewish Hospital–Mercy Health in Cincinnati. He was 95.
  
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• Man charged in shooting pleads not guilty to bribery

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  A Toledo man charged with shooting and paralyzing a man entered a not-guilty plea Monday to a new charge of bribery.
  
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• Man arrested in death of infant in Ida Township

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  IDA, Mich. — Justin Charles Davis, 32, was was arraigned Monday in 1st District court in Monroe on a charge of first-degree child abuse involving the death of an infant.
  
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• Last swing of the summer before school starts

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Robert Pollard gets a push on the ring from friend Quentin Dixon while playing on a sunny afternoon at Municipal Park in Perrysburg. Classes resume Tuesday in Perrysburg and several other area school districts.
  
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• HCR ManorCare pays portion of back rent

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  HCR ManorCare Inc. has paid $23 million of the nearly $80 million it owes in back rent to its landlord, financial filings show. However, the Toledo-based nursing home operator remains in default and could be facing the prospect of going into receivership.
  
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• Great Lakes Museum to tout 1st responders

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  The National Museum of the Great Lakes will hold a tribute to first responders on the museum grounds from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
  
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• Elvis lives! Through food, at least

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  It’s been 40 years since the world was all shook up by Elvis Presley’s death on Aug. 16, 1977.
  
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• Daily Log: 8/15

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Births
  
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• Coming in for a landing

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Brandon Waddell, 9, of Perrysburg trains using a parachute during a football practice with his father at Swan Creek Metropark. Outdoor practices might be a bit wet as the week wears on, as forecasters are calling for a chance of thunderstorms Tuesday through Thursday with highs in the low to mid-80s. For the full forecast, visit ToledoBlade.com/weather.
  
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• Cedar Point to unveil major new ride Wednesday

  15-08-2017 06:00 via toledoblade.com
  Cedar Point will announce its plans for a major new ride in 2018 — a steel-track roller coaster to replace the retired Mean Streak wooden coaster — at noon Wednesday in the amusement park’s FrontierTown section.
  
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• End of the line for South Toledo Kroger

  15-08-2017 03:44
  Robert Austin of Toledo leaves after shopping at the Kroger on Glendale and Byrne in Toledo on Monday. Austin says he will miss the convenience of the Kroger location because he lives nearby.
  
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