NEW YORK — The “Conjuring” spinoff “Annabelle: Creation” scared up an estimated $35 million in North American theaters over the weekend, making it easily the top film and giving the lagging August box office a shot in the arm.
At the start of August the Tigers promoted two relievers from Double-A Erie to the Mud Hens. Here’s a look at how right-handers Zac Reininger and Bryan Garcia are throwing for Toledo.
CAMARILLO, Calif. — The average price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline jumped 8 cents nationally over the past three weeks, to $2.40.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A car rammed into a crowd of protesters and a state police helicopter crashed into the woods Saturday as tension boiled over at a white supremacist rally. The violent day left three dead, dozens injured and this usually quiet college town a bloodied symbol of the nation’s roiling racial and political divisions.
BOWLING GREEN — Calling it a “Rally to Protect Freedom,” a local city councilman is organizing a gathering at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Wooster Green to show support for Charlottesville, Va.
WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. national security officials said Sunday that a military confrontation with North Korea’s is not imminent, but they cautioned that the possibility of war is greater than it was a decade ago.
FBI agents have interviewed the mother of a Maumee man charged with ramming his car into a crowd of protestors at a white nationalist rally Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., Lucas County Sheriff John Tharp said Sunday morning.
COLUMBUS — Tom Burns last saw a total eclipse of the sun 26 years ago on a cruise ship off Mexico’s Baja peninsula.
LOS ANGELES — Miley Cyrus and Bruno Mars will be among the honorees at Sunday’s Teen Choice 2017 awards.
BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Donald Trump is drawing criticism from Republicans and Democrats for not explicitly denouncing white supremacists in the aftermath of violent clashes in Virginia, with lawmakers saying he needs to take a public stand against groups that espouse racism and hate.
COLUMBUS — Ohio State is launching a $20 million project to update the university airport in central Ohio with a groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for Aug. 19.
On the same day next week as the solar eclipse, the Associated Press will release its top 25 preseason college football rankings.
University of Toledo sophomore center Luke Knapke documents the men’s basketball team’s trip through Italy for The Blade.
ADA, Ohio — When Donovan McNabb opined in 2013 that Jimmie Johnson wasn’t an athlete, it set off a cavalcade of responses, reigniting the age-old debate of whether race car drivers are in the same echelon reserved for football and basketball players.
Jon Berti has been busy rounding up tickets for Mud Hens games the past few days.
My father was a great teacher. He could make a science lesson out of a drive down a country road, identifying a bird of prey and its distinct characteristics. He could expose the grain on a slab of wood, then show you how to read it and tell the good years from the lean years.
LEXINGTON, Ohio — The experience Sam Hornish, Jr., has at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course finally paid off.
James Alex Fields, Jr., texted his mother Friday to say he had dropped his cat off at her Monclova Township home so he could go to an “alt-right” rally in Virginia.
If Donald Trump has done anything to tick off his supporters, it’s the tweeting.
WAPAKONETA, Ohio — The oft-forgotten Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins — who orbited the moon as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to set foot on its surface — has on several occasions called the three members of the historic crew “amiable strangers.”
A Books 4 Buddies event was held Saturday at Birmingham Terrace. Books 4 Buddies is a nonprofit group that collects new and gently used books to give to children.
Two people work on power lines while suspended from a helicopter near I-75 just north of Exit 187, State Rt. 582, near Dunbridge, Ohio.
Isaiah Royburt hopes to finish reading the Harry Potter series by the end of the next school year at Martin Luther King, Jr., Academy for Boys.
The Thayer Family of Dealerships in Bowling Green is putting up a new building for its Nissan store. Construction on the project, which is on Dixie Highway just north of the existing Nissan store, started earlier this year. A post on Thayer Nissan’s Facebook page said the new store should open early next year.
LOS ANGELES — Jerred Kiloh’s eyes narrowed as he checked his mirror again. The black Chevy sport utility vehicle with tinted windows was still behind him.