Новости за 12.05.2017

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Justin Upton hit a three-run homer and Michael Fulmer pitched seven innings of three-hit ball in the Detroit Tigers’ 7-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday night.

Rams, Rebels roll at City League track meet

As the competition gets stiffer for the Toledo Walleye in the Kelly Cup playoffs, the team plans to steadily build on the blueprint it has followed in making this deep postseason run.

The latest version of the City League track meet proved to be a bit chaotic on Thursday night at Rogers.

On the 28th floor of the old Fiberglas Tower, the white knight who helped rescue the black sheep of the Toledo skyline feels on top of the city.

When the spring rains come in endless buckets and the Maumee and Sandusky rivers spill over their banks, farm fields get flooded, debris gets flushed out into Lake Erie, and the waterways are generally a high, fast, and sometimes raging torrent that looks more like a stiff cappuccino than the nursery for the next generation of walleye and white bass.

In the first year of OHSAA-sanctioned lacrosse, simply winning the Northern Lakes League was not enough for Perrysburg.

GWINNETT, Ga. — Sean Newcomb allowed just three hits in seven innings Thursday to lead the Gwinnett Braves past the Toledo Mud Hens 3-2.

The University of Akron-bound catcher leads all hitters in the Northern Lakes League with a .656 average this year, with nine home runs.

Leroux recently won his second consecutive No. 1 singles title in the Three Rivers Athletic Conference, and he also was named the TRAC player of the year for the second straight season.

COLUMBUS — As soon as this fall, the Ohio High School Athletic Association could move all football playoff games to Friday nights for the first four rounds.

■ Lake Erie: Smallmouth bass fishing is heating up around the Bass Islands, according to the folks at Netcraft. They report that anglers are enticing strikes with tube skirts or drop-shot rigs. On the walleye front, the reefs around the Camp Perry firing range were productive earlier in the week for anglers using hair jigs in ½ and ¾ ounce sizes. Expect the fishing to really pick up once the water clarity improves and the big breezes take a break. In the Michigan waters, anglers trolling crank baits... Читать дальше...

Undefeated lightweight world champion Robert Easter, Jr., will put his title on the line in his hometown as he takes on challenger Denis Shafikov on June 30 at the Huntington Center.

WGTE-TV, Channel 30, is expanding its local programming with Business 360º, a half-hour, “magazine-style” business program with a northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan slant on business trends, technology, and leadership.

City Councilman Tom Waniewski says he believes no job prepares you to be mayor of Toledo as well as being a district councilman.

In comedy, timing is everything.

MONROE — At the end of the third day of testimony in a Monroe County murder trial, the prosecution’s focus shifted from painstakingly thorough evidence regarding the victim to the accused killer and defendant.

It was one sentence of testimony, following dozens of witnesses’ statements over a week and a half, that brought Ray Abou-Arab’s trial to a halt.

Though not the outcome they’d hoped, relatives of two Toledo firefighters who died battling a Magnolia Street arson in 2014 said they were relieved that a plea agreement brought the long-running criminal case to an end on Thursday.

Glass packaging manufacturer Owens-Illinois Inc. held its annual shareholders meeting Thursday at its Perrysburg headquarters, and while the meeting was brief and uneventful, the company remains on a steady upward climb.

Construction of ProMedica’s downtown campus is in its final stages, shifting focus from walls and roofs to the accoutrements and finishing touches, including a Barry Bagels, entertainment venue, and green space.

Toledo City Council President Steven Steel broke ranks with members of his party this week and assailed the endorsed Democratic mayor, calling her hypocritical on pay raises.

Winfred “Fred” Fails, 81, a retired Waite High School teacher and vice president of the Toledo Federation of Teachers, died Sunday in his South Toledo garage and workshop.

A Fulton County company that makes parts for overhead garage doors has been fined nearly a half-million dollars by a federal agency for workplace safety violations that led to some employees suffering crushed or amputated fingers last fall at the firm’s manufacturing plant.

LAS VEGAS  — A man who police suspect killed two sleeping homeless men in Las Vegas pleaded not guilty today to attempted murder in an unusual case charging him with trying to kill a mannequin that police posed as a decoy near the scene of the earlier slayings.