DETROIT — The man charged with stabbing a police officer at the Flint airport in a possible act of terrorism was a part-time caretaker at the Montreal apartment building where he lived and had once studied to sell insurance, people who knew him said Thursday.
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President Trump has said that the Senate’s proposed health care bill will certainly be tweaked. It will need to be if Ohio is to win its fight against the opioid epidemic.
ALEXANDRIA, Va.— A Virginia man caught with $16,500 in cash in his carry-on luggage was charged Thursday with transmitting top-secret documents to an apparent Chinese agent.
Sears will close its store at the Westgate Village Shopping Center as the retailer continues to struggle with plummeting revenues and wide losses.
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Senate's move this week to slice more than $1 billion from the proposed next two-year budget appears to closely match the sour revenue picture painted Thursday.
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.— An Illinois man has been charged after posting online several times that he wants to assassinate President Donald Trump.
Several Toledo councilmen on Thursday wanted answers about city finances — specifically the status of more than $8.2 million that sat unused in a fund for at least five years, and how much money is in the city's capital improvement fund for things like street repairs — but the chairman of council's finance committee shut down any questioning.
LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Legislature has approved funding for 114 public recreation projects, ending — for now — a dispute over senators’ attempt to fund even more.
A Toledo pastor seeking to be released from jail while he awaits trial on federal child sex trafficking charges said in an amended motion for bail filed Thursday that, if released, he would live at home with his parents as guardians.
HELENA, Mont. — U.S. government officials say grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park region are no longer threatened, and that they will lift protections that have been in place for more than 40 years.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday on Twitter that he “did not make” and doesn’t have any recordings of his private conversations with ousted former FBI Director James Comey.
The Miami Street bridge over railroad tracks between Fassett Street and Navarre Avenue has reopened Thursday.
Toledo's building inspections department began taking commercial business plans online for review Thursday, Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson said.
Financial mismanagement, nepotism, and the deplorable condition of city streets are at the forefront of a list of problems that would be best solved by a city manager form of government first pioneered and successfully developed by the city of Toledo in the era of “Golden Rule” Jones.
BOWLING GREEN — The Bowling Green State University board of trustees approved student fee increases today for next school year.
An ATM servicing employee is accused of stealing several thousands of dollars from an ATM machine.
COLUMBUS — Victim after victim today related how they believed they were mistreated by Ohio’s judicial system, but it took a California case and a deep-pocketed tech entrepreneur to get a proposed constitutional amendment for victims’ rights off the ground.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump questions why the Obama administration didn’t try to stop Russian interference in the 2016 election.
At least 30 people were killed Thursday in a car bomb attack outside a bank in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, officials said.
GUATEMALA CITY — A major earthquake struck off the coast of Guatemala on Thursday, shaking buildings and downing trees and causing powerful tremors in neighboring El Salvador.
LONDON — London police have linked the death of a 51-year-old man to the mosque attack, saying he died of “multiple injuries” after a van plowed into worshippers near two mosques in north London.
The Ohio hometown of Otto Warmbier, who died last week after his return from 17 months in detention in North Korea, gathered at the 22-year-old's alma mater Thursday to bid him farewell.
WASHINGTON — A man who walked into a District of Columbia pizza restaurant with an assault rifle, intent on investigating internet rumors dubbed “pizzagate,” is scheduled to be sentenced.
WASHINGTON — Slightly more people sought US unemployment benefits last week, but the number of applications remained at a historically low level that suggests the job market is healthy.