President Donald Trump took credit today for steering NATO's focus toward terrorism, declaring the military alliance is no longer outdated after castigating its focus and financing on the campaign trail last year.
DETROIT — Andrew Romine hit his first career grand slam, and the Detroit Tigers rallied from an early three-run deficit to beat the Minnesota Twins 5-3 today.
PORTAGE, Ind. — A spill at a U.S. Steel plant in northern Indiana that sent wastewater containing a potentially carcinogenic chemical into a Lake Michigan tributary was apparently caused by a pipe failure, the steelmaker said today.
Industrial and materials companies led U.S. stocks modestly lower today on another day of subdued trading ahead of the long Easter holiday weekend.
AMSTERDAM — Two giant panda cubs are being prepared for a new life at a zoo in the Netherlands following a long airplane flight from China.
CAIRO — Egypt’s Ministry of Interior says it has discovered the identity of the perpetrator of the Alexandria church bombing, one of two church bombings that took place during Palm Sunday prayers this week and killed 45 people.
TUCSON, Ariz. — A conservation group and an Arizona congressman have filed what they say is the first federal lawsuit against the proposed border wall.
DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers have signed first baseman James Loney to a minor league contract.
WASHINGTON — The federal government ran a budget deficit in March that was sharply higher than a year ago, largely because of a hitch in the calendar. Through the first half of this budget year, the deficit is running almost 15 percent higher than the same period a year ago.
Local leaders in the fight against human trafficking called for the community to think first of the teenage victim in the high–profile arrests of two Toledo men accused of engaging in repeated sexual acts with a minor.
Kurt Franck, executive editor of The Blade, has been given the additional duties and the title of executive vice president and general manager of the business operations of the newspaper on an interim basis, effective today. The change was announced today by Allan Block, chairman of Block Communications Inc.
WASHINGTON — President Trump is appearing to rule out deeper American military intervention in Syria beyond retaliatory strikes if Syrian President Bashar Assad continues his assault on civilians with chemical weapons.
PORTAGE, Ind. — Federal authorities say a potentially carcinogenic chemical has spilled from a U.S. Steel facility in Indiana into a tributary of Lake Michigan.
WASHINGTON — With President Trump making his seventh presidential trip this weekend to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, government watchdogs and Democrats are once again seeing dollar signs: namely, $3 million.
A Springfield Township man convicted in the fatal stabbing of a 72-year-old woman was sentenced today to life in prison with the opportunity for parole after 15 years.
Law enforcement officers seized about $200,000 worth of drugs from a “substantial marijuana and hash operation” in Perrysburg Township.
WASHINGTON — White House spokesman Sean Spicer said today he was personally and professionally pained by his comments comparing the atrocities of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Adolf Hitler, saying he had made a mistake and let down the president.
The United Way of Greater Toledo’s president and chief executive officer is no longer in charge of the organization, according to a statement obtained by The Blade.
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s government watchdog says two prisoners took computers from a disassembly program and used them to access their prison’s network, create inmate passes for restricted areas, and apply for credit cards under another inmate’s name for a planned tax fraud scheme.
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — An Ohio man has pleaded guilty in the fatal shooting of a former coal executive in southern West Virginia.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The professional wrestler known as Kane is making a bid to become mayor of Knox County in Tennessee.
BEIJING — Beijing is willing to work with Washington on ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program but wants a peaceful solution to the escalating conflict, Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Trump in a phone call today.
MOSCOW — Russia’s top diplomat today accused the United States of carrying out an unlawful attack against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces as he opened a fraught meeting with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
BOWLING GREEN — The second-in-command at the Henry County Engineer’s Office is the Ohio Department of Transportation’s choice to take the reins at its Bowling Green district office.
The Walleye enter the Kelly Cup playoffs with supreme confidence based on the impressive resume they put together during the regular season.