Blast off: UT begins season of high expectations vs. Elon
There is somewhat of a sense of uncertainty surrounding the University of Toledo football team’s season opener Thursday against Elon.
There is somewhat of a sense of uncertainty surrounding the University of Toledo football team’s season opener Thursday against Elon.
COLUMBUS — An average of 11 people died each day of drug overdoses last year in Ohio, officials said Wednesday as they reported yet another grim milestone in the state’s addictions epidemic.
Two hundred people on both sides of the abortion issue crammed into Toledo City Council chambers Wednesday regarding a proposed law that would make it a misdemeanor to impede access to health care facilities — including the city’s only abortion clinic.
PUT-IN-BAY — Shawn McCown exited from the back of a Toledo Tent Party Rentals truck trailer mid-afternoon Wednesday. He had been installing party tents since noon in preparation of Put-In-Bay’s first-ever Bash On The Bay country music festival.
Wade Kapszukiewicz unveiled his first television ad Wednesday, citing his own experience as Lucas County Treasurer and painting Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson, the endorsed Democratic candidate and Mr. Waniewski, a Republican city councilman, as “a city government who can’t keep track of your money.”
The creative community of Sylvania is celebrating its 24th art walk Friday that will include 24 stops featuring local artist demos, exhibitions and artwork sales.
The Walleye re-signed veteran defenseman Beau Schmitz on Wednesday.
Toledo mayoral candidate Tom Waniewski said the city should rethink how it uses speed cameras on city streets and highways, moving them into neighborhoods and off highways and main thoroughfares.
It’s not fair to say that Toby Keith is a lightning rod for controversy. That would imply that somehow controversy accidentally finds him.
While a convicted robber suggested his trouble began when he started “hanging out with the wrong people,” Lindsay Navarre, an assistant county prosecutor, suggested to the court Wednesday that Nicholas Martinez had become the “wrong people.”
Notre Dame, Anthony Wayne, and Eastwood all aim to repeat their respective league volleyball championships from a year ago, and each should also be in the mix for district titles come tournament time.
WASHINGTON — Opening a new era in cancer care, the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first treatment that genetically engineers patients’ own blood cells into an army of assassins to seek and destroy childhood leukemia.
Toledo Council candidate Patricia Robinson said in a news conference Wednesday she would focus on stamping out the opioid addiction problem as an at-large councilman, if elected.
COLUMBUS — Ohio State’s football program announced Wednesday that it plans to donate $10,000 to the American Red Cross for disaster relief efforts in southern Texas after Hurricane Harvey.
The Toledo Mud Hens announced Wednesday that the 17th season of Mud Hens baseball at Fifth Third Field will begin Thursday, April 12, 2018.
The University of Toledo football team has released its two-deep depth chart prior to Thursday’s opener against Elon.
North Korea's launch of a missile over Japan was a prelude to more military operations directed at the American territory of Guam, North Korean state media warned Wednesday.
COLUMBUS — In the 128 seasons of Ohio State football, this year could qualify as one of the program’s most unique first games.
In a “Game On” column a few years ago, I wrote that, perhaps, Sonic the Hedgehog as a franchise was not as good as our memories allowed us to believe.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy rebounded sharply in the spring, growing at the fastest pace in more than two years amid brisk consumer spending on autos and other goods.
The Lions this week made Matthew Stafford the highest-paid player in NFL history, signing their franchise quarterback to a five-year extension worth $135 million.
HOUSTON — Harvey’s floodwaters started dropping across much of the Houston area and the sun peeked through thinning clouds Wednesday in the first glimmer of hope in days for the besieged city. But the crisis was far from over, and the storm began to give up some of its dead.
HOUSTON — The Texas community of Port Arthur found itself increasingly isolated Wednesday as Harvey’s rains flooded most major roads out of the city and swamped a shelter for victims fleeing the storm that ravaged the Houston area.
Don’t be fooled by naysayers. America has not lost its way, it values, or its humanity. Sometimes our politics get a little dysfunctional. But the country is bigger than its politics, its media, its identity wars, or its ideological melodramas.