OAKLAND, Calif. — As confetti fell on the court, LeBron James gave Kevin Durant a long embrace and congratulatory words before walking off the court with his head held high despite a fifth career NBA Finals loss.
SWANTON — Although he insists he’ll now be busy with football on a year-round basis and won’t have time to think about it much, it wouldn’t be odd if recent Swanton High School graduate Gunnar Oakes grows bored next winter and spring at Eastern Michigan University.
COLUMBUS — Ohio State introduced its new basketball coach Monday in a fitting setting.
CLEVELAND — Poaching often goes on behind the shroud of darkness, or well off the hard road and away from view. But recently the spotlight has shined directly on a couple of huge cases in Ohio in which numerous wildlife were taken illegally.
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Board of Education voted Monday to require the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, a statewide online school chartered in Lucas County, to repay the state $60 million.
Zach Harris lounges on a bench in the shade during his lunch break in downtown Toledo. For the full local forecast, visit toledoblade.com/weather.
Ohio’s elementary and high school students would take fewer state tests under a proposal offered Monday by the state superintendent to cut several non-federally mandated exams.
Marilyn Bensman, who served as Democratic supervisor for the Lucas County Board of Elections for more than 25 years, died Saturday at her home in Maumee. She was 84.
Congratulations to Fremont Ross High School administrators. They clearly stated the rules and consequences for painting graduation caps, and they followed through, as they should have (“Student banned from walking at commencement” June 8).
Little green men aren’t taking over the world (the food world, that is). Instead, it’s little green fruits.
Shattered windows and the smell of charred walls remained at an empty Montrose Avenue duplex Monday, where a homicide, house fire, and car fire all happened within three days.
Connie Perry kept watch in the parking lot at the Toledo Farmers’ Market on June 3 to make sure her father, John Paszek, didn’t circumvent her. She didn’t want him to start his regular shopping excursion just yet, because a surprise was waiting for him: A party, in honor of his 89th birthday.
COLUMBUS — Senate Republicans on Monday removed a House-passed provision from the proposed two-year budget that would have prevented Toledo from enforcing its new lead-safety law.
Sylvania Schools board members approved a plan to redraw district boundaries for the 2018-19 school year after months of often contentious back-and-forth with parents and community members.
The Hicks-Hudson administration is still $45,000 in donations away from its goal to open Toledo’s public pools this summer without having to dip into taxpayer money.
On Mother’s Day, it’s traditional to bring breakfast in bed to Mom or to take her out for a beautiful, bountiful brunch. Either way, she gets to relax while someone else does the cooking.
Americans traditionally look to the British political system, and perhaps its electorate, with envy: The Brits are so calm, so orderly, so reasonable.
The Carlyle Group is reportedly nearing a deal to divest HCR ManorCare Inc. by handing over the troubled Toledo-based nursing home operator to Quality Care Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust to which HCR ManorCare owes hundreds of millions of dollars in back rent.
Toledo residents will have the chance this evening to learn how they can overcome bias and bring about community change.
COLUMBUS — A revised two-year Senate budget proposal unveiled Monday holds $5 million in grants to help local communities replicate programs like the Drug Abuse Response Teams run through Lucas County Sheriff John Tharp’s office.
WASHINGTON — High-profile supporters of President Donald Trump are turning on special counsel Robert Mueller, the man charged with investigating Russian interference in the U.S. election and possible collusion with Trump’s campaign.
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis declared today that he was “shocked” upon his return to the Pentagon by the poor state of the U.S. military’s readiness for combat.
PHOENIX — Nearly 30 wildfires tore through dry and windy Arizona today, drawing crews from across the Western United States to the state with the most blazes burning in the nation.
SECAUCUS, N.J. — The Minnesota Twins selected California high school shortstop Royce Lewis with the No. 1 pick in the Major League Baseball draft Monday night.
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