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.
The Toledo Mud Hens today look to maintain their recent string of success in home openers as they play at Fifth Third Field for the first time this season.
Tom Waniewski, the Republican district councilman from West Toledo, officially launched his mayoral campaign Wednesday, promising to cut city spending, make sure the municipal capital improvement fund is no longer tapped for other expenses, and to quickly sign a regional water authority agreement.
Erik Gable, author of a new book on the Croswell Opera House in Adrian, says he would love to have been there on the night the theater first opened its doors to the public in 1866. And he wonders if the audience could imagine what the theater would become.
■ LET’S Play ball! Today is the Toledo Mud Hens home opener at Fifth Third Field. The game starts at 4 p.m., but tailgate parties start at noon if not before. Not a big baseball fan? So what? Come for the fun of socializing, food, spirits, and who knows, maybe you will become a baseball fan. It’s one the the biggest parties of the year. Hensville will be hopping!
Kurt G. Franck, executive editor of The Blade, was given on Wednesday the additional duties and the title of executive vice president and general manager of the business operations of the newspaper on an interim basis.
Lane Czaplinski, the artistic director of On the Boards in Seattle, has been named the new director of performing arts at the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University. He will succeed Charles Helm, who will retire June 30 after 26 years with the center.
Jerry C. Sutter, 83, a retired Owens Corning executive who was a leader in his church and a support to his wife’s volunteer activities with the Toledo Museum of Art, died Sunday in his Springfield Township home.
The Great Lakes are one of our most precious natural resources, and they are in danger, especially Lake Erie. The Western Lake Erie Basin includes nearly five million acres, three million of which are cropland. The rivers feeding Lake Erie include the St. Mary’s, St. Joseph, and Maumee. This includes portions of northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio.
MONROE — Incriminating statements made to police about the 2014 death of Chelsea Bruck by the man charged with her murder may be played for a jury during his trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.
For Mike Roder, the brewing process began early in life.
Mark your calendars: This year’s summer block party at the Toledo Museum of Art is set for July 8, and will have a Greek-themed focus around the opening of an exhibition of ancient Athenian painted vases by a 5th century B.C. artist.
Two days after Donald Trump won the presidency, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown phoned his transition coordinator and made three offers.
Two years after opening in downtown Toledo, M Osteria has survived its early growing pains to become a destination Italian restaurant.
Progressively dumb-but-enjoyable, The Fast and the Furious franchise has played a successful game of high-speed chicken with real-world physics for years, as the elaborate car stunts grow bigger and more ludicrous with each sequel.
When it comes to Chicago, prayers can’t hurt. But prayers are also not enough.
The Andersons Inc. has finished a project to double ethanol output at a southern Michigan plant it co-owns with Marathon Petroleum Corp.
A traditional education wasn’t the best fit for Sulaiman Mustapha.
The University of Toledo is offering about 500 eligible employees a chance to leave their jobs with a buyout in an effort to save money by shrinking the work force.
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s capital could rescind its decision to deem itself a “sanctuary city” over concerns the ambiguous, contentious term may draw unwanted attention to Lansing.
Two more Chicago Department of Aviation officers have been placed on leave after a United Airlines passenger's violent removal from a flight on Sunday. A total of three agency officers have been placed on leave following the incident.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent for lobbying work he did on behalf of political interests in Ukraine, led at the time by a pro-Russian political party, his spokesman said today.
DALLAS — With the federal government and a Senate committee looking into the dragging of a man off a United Express flight, the airline industry is beginning to speak up against any effort to bar them from overselling flights.
DES MOINES, Iowa — A rule designed to protect the legal rights of farmers who grow chickens and hogs for the nation’s largest meat processing corporations, was delayed today by President Donald Trump’s administration, halting by at least six months an initiative rolled out by President Barack Obama in his final days in office.