TRENTON, N.J. — When hands release helium-filled balloons and send them into the sky, they’re doing more than marking a wedding, graduation or death. They’re also stirring the pot in a clash between the balloon industry and environmentalists seeking to deflate a tradition they say harms wildlife.
PORTLAND, Maine — The summer air is sizzling as the Fourth of July approaches, yet 86-year-old Richard Perkins already worries about how he’s going to stay warm this winter.
MANISTEE, Mich. — A Michigan county prosecutor has ruled that a police officer’s actions in the fatal shooting of a 73-year-old man were justified.
DAMASCUS, Syria — Security forces chased three explosive-laden vehicles through Damascus Sunday, intercepting two of them at checkpoints but failing to stop the third before it exploded in the city center, killing at least eight people, state media and others reported.
LONDON — Based on Andy Murray’s body language alone, reporters’ questions can produce an inordinate amount of consternation.
WEST CHESTER, Pa. — A Pennsylvania man was in custody Sunday for what a prosecutor called the “savage” and “senseless” death of a recent high school graduate shot in the head during a road rage confrontation as the two tried to merge in a single lane.
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — In his latest jab at the media, President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted a mock video that shows him pummeling a man in a business suit — his face obscured by the CNN logo — outside a wrestling ring.
DETROIT — A federal lawsuit seeking to block some public funding for the Little Caesars Arena and the Detroit Pistons’ move from the suburbs has been dropped.
LOS ANGELES — The Minions are still a box office force and original stories are scoring big, but not the R-rated comedy — even with Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler behind it.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is calling for an end to the violence at Venezuela’s anti-government protests and is expressing solidarity with families of those killed.
YUMA, Ariz. — A solar-powered drone backed by Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg has quietly completed a test flight in Yuma after an earlier attempt ended with a crash landing.
MOSUL, Iraq — As airstrikes pound the last pockets of territory held by the Islamic State group in Mosul Sunday, hundreds of civilians are fleeing, many so badly injured they had to be carried over the mounds of rubble clogging the Old city’s narrow streets.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A rapper whose concert in Little Rock became the site of a shooting that left 28 people injured was arrested early Sunday on unrelated charges, authorities said.
BRISBANE, Australia — It went all the way and ended in a contentiously bitter loss, the opposite of what Manny Pacquiao’s handlers predicted for his WBO welterweight world title fight against Jeff Horn.
Even for the people closest to Anthony Brown, the past year has been downright unbelievable.
Northwest Ohio’s newest version of a high school sports league will be the area’s biggest starting in 2017-18 with the launch of the new three-tiered Sandusky Bay Conference.
Lee Gardner took a call from International League president Randy Mobley this past winter.
The Toledo Mud Hens are going retro chic this weekend in rocking red, white, and blue threads modeled after those of perhaps the greatest sports team ever mobilized.
A rugged, full-length fight against challenger Denis Shafikov behind him — and his title belt still intact — Robert Easter, Jr., was asked late Friday night what his next move will be.
LANSING — The names sound so harmless, so appealing, and so fairytale-like: Yellow floating heart, parrot feather, and water lettuce.
Lead-foot drivers are filling Toledo’s coffers faster than officials had projected, and the money is primarily coming from out-of-towners zipping through the city.
A northwest Ohio salon is working to save the environment, one haircut at a time.
Sharon Gaber sums up her first two years at the helm of the University of Toledo with the kind of measured assessment that has come to define her leadership.
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