Jurors due back Thursday in Abou-Arab trial after delay over evidence
A Common Pleas Court judge today sent a jury home until Thursday after a more than two-hour delay caused by a reference to evidence they weren’t supposed to hear.
A Common Pleas Court judge today sent a jury home until Thursday after a more than two-hour delay caused by a reference to evidence they weren’t supposed to hear.
LOS ANGELES — U.S. authorities are reducing how long they’ll hold off deporting immigrants in the country illegally who are awaiting a decision from Congress on so-called “private bills” written for individual cases.
NEW YORK — Energy companies jumped with the price of oil Wednesday, but overall, stocks finished only slightly higher as a quiet week of trading continued.
ARCHBOLD — A car and train collided today on County Road D and the Norfolk Southern Railroad, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.
A man accused of attempting to rob a West Toledo pharmacy earlier this week was arrested today, according to Lucas County jail records.
The NCAA released its annual Academic Progress Rate (APR) figures for the four-year period from 2012-13 to 2015-16, and the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University each received impressive scores across the board.
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CHASKA, Minn. — A Minnesota judge says he’ll take a request that Prince’s six siblings be declared his lawful heirs under advisement.
WASHINGTON — In the days before his firing by President Donald Trump, FBI Director James Comey told U.S. lawmakers he had asked the Justice Department for more resources to pursue the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference in last year’s presidential election, three U.S. officials said today.
Jim Anderson, a candidate for Toledo housing court judge, today explained what he called his judicial philosophy for dealing with blight, suggesting that the property of so-called “urban farmer” Thomas Jackson don’t fit that description.
HUNTERDON, N.J. — A self-proclaimed Nazi who received approval to change his last name to Hitler had the change legally go into effect this week.
NEW ORLEANS — A last-ditch effort to block the removal of a monument to a Confederate general in New Orleans was rejected Wednesday by a Louisiana judge who turned away arguments that the city doesn’t own the statue or the land on which it sits.
FREMONT — A plane struck a tractor-trailer on State Rt. 53 while it was attempting to land at the Fremont Airport, the Ohio Highway Patrol said today.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service is hoping it can soon raise stamp prices by a penny or more.
Members of Congress from Ohio weighed in Wednesday on President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, some saying the firing raises alarms, others suggesting that he had it coming.
FINDLAY — A Findlay man died Tuesday after he was ejected from motorcycle and struck a pole.
A gunshot victim was admitted today at Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center.
BUNNELL, Fla. — Authorities say a 52-year-old Florida woman fatally shot her legally blind husband and used moth balls to cover up the smell of his decomposing body, hidden under a jon boat in their backyard.
VILNIUS, Lithuania — U.S. defense officials said a long-range Patriot missile battery may be deployed to the Baltic region later this year as part of a military exercise. The move, if finalized, would be temporary but signal staunch U.S. backing for Baltic nations concerned about the threat from Russia.
NAPOLEON — An 8th grade teacher pleaded Tuesday guilty to multiple counts of sexual misconduct with a child, according to the Henry County prosecutor.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A middle school student has been arrested after authorities say they found explosives in his school locker.
BEIRUT — Syrian Kurdish fighters today welcomed the Trump administration’s announcement that it will provide them with heavier arms in order to battle the Islamic State group, but NATO member Turkey, which views the main Syrian Kurdish militia as terrorists, says every weapon the Americans give them is a “threat.”
RICHLAND, Wash. — The collapse of an underground tunnel containing radioactive waste that forced workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to shelter in place is the latest incident to raise safety concerns at the sprawling site that made plutonium for nuclear bombs for decades after World War II.
MILLBURY — Two men are accused of breaking into a Millbury bank on Tuesday.
SWANTON — One person died early today in a crash after the vehicle was struck by a tractor-trailer on U.S. 20 at the Lucas-Fulton County line.