BERLIN — Two giant pandas — Meng Meng and Jiao Qing — received a celebrity welcome Saturday in Berlin from the German capital’s mayor and the Chinese ambassador after they safely weathered a long flight from China.
ST. LOUIS — An off-duty black St. Louis police officer’s race factored into him being mistakenly shot by a white officer who didn’t recognize him during a shootout with black suspects this week, the wounded officer’s lawyer contends.
LONDON — Britain’s famed Glastonbury music festival has embraced an unlikely headline act: Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
WASHINGTON — Two weeks into her new life as a full-time Washingtonian, Melania Trump is staying true to her reputation as more homebody than social butterfly.
FINDLAY — Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers will set up checkpoints Saturday night to deter impaired drivers.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Cindy are covering timberland and fields across the rural Deep South, but the sun has peeked out enough to offer hope that the worst is over.
The seasonal opening of Toledo pools has hit a snag — at least for two swimming locations.
NEW YORK — A magazine writer has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the creators of the new Tupac Shakur biopic, saying that portions of the film are based on his articles about the late rapper.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence plan to be among the guests as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (mih-NOO‘-shin’s) weds a Scottish actress.
LONDON — Britain’s fire-safety crisis expanded substantially Saturday as authorities revealed that 27 high-rise apartment blocks across the country have cladding that failed fire safety tests. London officials scrambled to evacuate four public housing towers after experts found them “not safe for people to sleep in overnight.”
COLUMBUS — A federal judge has rescheduled a plea hearing for an Ohio man accused of trying to travel to Libya to join the Islamic State group.
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A small plane has crashed into an empty daycare building in Florida, killing one person and injuring another.
Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old man in East Toledo Friday night.
WASHINGTON — Nevada Republican Dean Heller became the fifth GOP senator to declare his opposition to the party’s banner legislation to scuttle much of Barack Obama’s health care overhaul on Friday, more than enough to sink the measure and deliver a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump unless some of them can be brought aboard.
WASHINGTON — A dozen or so House Democrats want Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to go after a dispiriting loss in a House election in Georgia. They just don’t know how to make it happen.
MIDDLE BASS ISLAND, Ohio — There won’t be wine or food served right away.
SAN DIEGO — Luis Perdomo pitched two-hit ball over six innings, Austin Hedges had an RBI double and the San Diego Padres handed the Detroit Tigers their seventh straight loss, 1-0 on Friday night.
The Toledo Warehouse District Association’s new five-year plan calls for more pedestrian and bike friendly areas, better parking, new construction, and enhanced green space.
A private donor has paid for the admission Saturday of the first 500 swimmers at each of two Toledo swimming pools, city officials said Friday.
The dogs pictured above are newly available for adoption at Lucas County Canine Care & Control, 410 South Erie St., Toledo. Listed are the name, breed, sex, and impound number. For information, call 419-213-2800. For information, call 419-213-2800. For a complete list of available dogs, go to lucascountydogs.petfinder.com. If searching for a lost dog, the office is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. You must take a photo ID to walk through the holding areas.
An Inglewood, Calif., man charged with having a large amount of drugs and money in a local storage unit pleaded guilty Friday to heroin possession and was sentenced to three years in prison by Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Gene Zmuda.
When people tell Christina Kajfasz, 54, they’re too out of shape to participate in Bike to the Bay, she just looks at her leg brace and says, “Really?”
Darryn Grills, 7, of the Wood County village of Haskins puts the finishing touches on his sand creation at the Sand-Tastic event at the Town Center at Levis Commons in Perrysburg. A 50-foot community sandbox containing eight tons of sand and fully stocked with castle-making toys was set up at the shopping center Friday for children of all ages.
Sorry to burst your bubble — or balloon — children of Toledo.
Whitmer alumnus Nigel Hayes signed an NBA Summer League contract Friday with the New York Knicks.