WASHINGTON — The White House today distanced itself from Republican Rep. Steve King’s inflammatory comments about immigrants, as Democrats pressed House GOP leaders to punish the Iowa lawmaker by stripping him of a chairmanship.
NEW YORK — Stock indexes sank today after yet another drop in the price of oil dragged down shares across the energy industry. Other areas of the market saw modest losses as investors wait to hear from the Federal Reserve, which began a two-day policy meeting on interest rates.
The U.S. government has revoked the tax-exempt status of a group run by prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer for its failure to file tax returns.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris and Jon Pardi are early winners at this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards.
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. — Dolly Parton’s My People Fund has issued monthly checks to 921 people who lost their homes in deadly wildfires that ravaged East Tennessee last year.
COLUMBUS — Objections by family members did not directly influence a coroner’s decision to shield full autopsy reports of eight relatives who were shot in their homes, the coroner said in a deposition filed today in the state Supreme Court.
COLUMBUS — Sheila Vaculik told an Ohio Senate committee that she doesn’t know whether her daughter, Sierah Joughin, would be alive today if her family had known someone with a violent criminal record was living nearby.
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — Police in Ohio say a man thought an undercover officer in his neighborhood was a drug dealer and attacked the detective after yelling at him to leave the area.
PANAMA CITY, Fla. — A Florida Panhandle man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his 2-month-old son by stuffing a sock in his mouth to stop him from crying.
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas lawmaker is making a point about legislation that restricts women’s access to health care and abortions by proposing to fine men $100 when they masturbate.
KIRKVILLE, N.Y. — Authorities say a 45-year-old New York woman collected her mother’s state pension checks for several years after her parent’s death.
CANTON, Ohio — Another Ohio county has made use of a mobile cooling unit to store bodies because its morgue ran out of space, in part because of fatal drug overdoses.
Singer and songwriter Paul Simon will perform at the Toledo Zoo Amphitheatre Sunday, June 11 as part of the zoo’s 2017 Live Nation Concert Series.
DELTA — Authorities found a 10-month-old Delta boy whose removal from home prompted a statewide Amber Alert.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Armed men are demanding a ransom for the release of an oil tanker they have seized off the coast of Somalia and the crew is being held captive, the European Union anti-piracy operation in the region announced late today.
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As the University of Toledo women’s basketball team gathered at Savage Arena on Monday night to learn its NCAA tournament fate, the Rockets got a bit of an unexpected surprise from the tournament committee.
PORT CLINTON — It was about 35 years ago, but Mike McCroskey clearly recalls the scene. Early on an April morning, with his boat floating above one of the Lake Erie reef areas, McCroskey was all alone on the big water.
Earlier this season, I decided to see what all the fuss was about and went to La La Land.
Sixteen months after his arrest on charges of supporting terrorism, one of four co-defendants in the federal case is again asking the court to release him on bond.
Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. We all eat, drink, and are merry with a nod to the Emerald Isle.
Thomas H. Durnford, an artist who enjoyed a loyal following for his watercolor landscapes, died Sunday in his Sylvania home. He was 90.
A March 4 article outlined the return to influence of Lucas County Republican Chairman Jon Stainbrook and the havoc that will inevitably follow for the Lucas County Board of Elections (‘‘Lucas County elections board deadlocked on choice for leaders”).
“We was robbed!” as the old saying goes. Or, rather, we’ve been ignored.