Toledo news

• Toledo lands former Florida State offensive lineman Ruble

  23-01-2018 22:07
  Ruble is a graduate transfer and will be eligible to play for the Rockets next season. He posted on Twitter in early December that he was set to earn a degree in Criminology from Florida State.
  
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• Firefighter injured at South Toledo fire

  23-01-2018 17:33
  A firefighter sustained minor injuries after he fell through a hole in the floor at a vacant house fire in South Toledo Monday, according to the Toledo Fire Department. The firefighter was transported to Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center for evaluation, but has returned back to work, according to Toledo Fire Department spokesman Pvt.
  
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• Richard J. "Dick" Koperski

  23-01-2018 15:16
  Richard J. "Dick" Koperski of Maumee, a retired Toledo assistant police chief who was an Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War, died Thursday at Hospice of Northwest Ohio on South Detroit Avenue. He was 75. "As a police command officer, he was firm but just," said his brother, Ken Koperski, a retired Toledo police captain.
  
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• Scientists leading algae fight

  23-01-2018 10:53
  Ohio State University's algae researchers have launched yet another initiative to help the state track and study the dangerous algae threatening bodies of water around Ohio. The university's scientists have long led efforts to study the algae that blankets portions of Lake Erie every summer.
  
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• Boil advisories issued for parts of Toledo

  23-01-2018 06:37
  Franklin Park Mall is under a boil-water advisory until Tuesday afternoon because of a repair late last week to the city water system in the area. According to a city statement, the mall did not lose service during the repair, but city water now must be boiled as a precaution before it can be used for consumption, food preparation, washing dishes, or other health-sensitive purposes.
  
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• Toledo firm buys 2 buildings near Southwyck mall site

  23-01-2018 04:32
  A Toledo company has purchased two buildings near the former Southwyck Shopping Center from the city of Toledo and will redevelop the property to expand its business operations. The city finalized the sale Friday for the property at 5355 and 5405 Southwyck Blvd. to Olympic Real Estate Group LLC. Owner Paul Rahe said he plans to redevelop the 20,000-square-foot building at 5355 Southwyck into commercial office space for Olympic's sister company, Rahe & Co.
  
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• Man robbed, shot in leg in East Toledo

  23-01-2018 04:32
  An East Toledo man was shot in the leg during what police described as a robbery outside his apartment Monday evening. The man, who was not immediately identified but believed to be in his mid-30s, was taken to Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center for treatment of a wound not considered life-threatening, officers at the scene said.
  
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• Former TPS employee placed on community control

  23-01-2018 00:01
  Anthony Miller, 46, a longtime paraprofessional for Toledo Public Schools takes an Alford plea for endangering children before Judge Stacy Cook in the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas in Toledo on December 14. A former paraprofessional for Toledo Public Schools was placed on community control for two years rather than sent to prison Monday for breaking a student's wrist after forcing him onto a school bus last year. Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Stacy Cook also ordered that Anthony Miller, 4
  
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