Toledo players relax, take in beauty, history of Florence
University of Toledo sophomore center Luke Knapke documents the men’s basketball team’s trip through Italy for The Blade.
University of Toledo sophomore center Luke Knapke documents the men’s basketball team’s trip through Italy for The Blade.
BROOKLYN, Mich. — There were only a few boos Sunday at Michigan International Speedway, and they were mostly reserved for NASCAR’s bad boys Kyle Busch, Kurt Busch, and Kevin Harvick.
FLORENCE, Ky. — James A. Fields, Jr., expressed white-supremacy ideologies beginning in high school, but a former social studies teacher says educators did all they could to change the student’s way of thinking.
The four candidates for Toledo mayor have been stumping for votes the past several months with the occasional tussle and jab at each other — all with the hope of locking in precious support for what will likely be a close primary election in September.
The deadline to register for the Toledo municipal election primary will pass Monday night, with early voting starting Tuesday to whittle the 13-candidate field to 12 general-election candidates.
Toledo Police Chief George Kral was there as a police officer when the Ku Klux Klan rallied in front of the Lucas County Courthouse in 1994.
Each week during the construction season, The Blade’s Road Warrior highlights the major construction projects in Toledo and the surrounding area, noting where delays are worst and suggesting alternate routes.
Births
ARLINGTON, Ohio — The Ohio Department of Transportation is seeking public comments about its plans to rebuild Main Street, part of U.S. 68 in this Hancock County village.
SylvaniaVET will host a special benefit event Sunday, Sept. 17.
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Renovation of Smith Park, which has seen brighter days, will be the focus of a meeting Monday in central Toledo’s Mott Branch library.
COLUMBUS — Northwest Ohio’s last abortion clinic will ask the Ohio Supreme Court next month to block the state’s attempts to shut it down despite what it claims have been its repeated attempts to comply with a regulatory framework that kept shifting under its feet.
A program that provides discounted spay/neuter surgery for licensed dogs has helped hundreds of canines, but is hitting a bit of a speed bump.
It may be hard to believe, but Toledo had its own Eliot Ness back in the day — the day being the 1930s and the faux Untouchable being Capt. George Timiney, a veteran detective with the city’s police force who headed its vice squad.
A waterline project will require lane closings and parking restrictions on a busy part of Erie Street starting Monday, the city transportation division announced.
What started as a challenge from Maumee Superintendent of Schools Todd Cramer has turned into quite the project for Nick Neiderhouse, the principal at Wayne Trail Elementary School.
PORT CLINTON — Milton “Butch” Long, a longtime carpenter and competitive shooter who lived most of his life in and around Port Clinton, died Thursday in Edgewood Manor Nursing Care here. He was 100.
BOWLING GREEN — It was a show of solidarity for a far-away community racked by racist violence, but also a stand of defiance against the hate that lives among us.
RICHMOND, Va. — The woman killed when a car plowed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Virginia was described as a “true American hero” who died doing what she loved — standing up for people.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Justin Thomas emerged from the shadow of a longtime friend and won the PGA Championship to take his place among the young elite in golf.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Kim Ganczak waved her sign amid a swirl of protesters, officers with riot shields, and national news media.
BROOKLYN, Mich. — The third time was the charm for Kyle Larson.
FLORENCE, KY. — James A. Fields, Jr., expressed white-supremacy ideologies beginning in high school, but a former history teacher says educators did all they could to change the student's way of thinking.