U.S. stocks extended records with an eighth straight gain, the dollar strengthened and Treasuries slipped as the latest batch of data added to optimism in the American economy ahead of Friday's jobs report. European markets got a boost after Catalans were said to stall their push for independence.
BOWLING GREEN – The Bowling Green State University hockey team will host its second and final exhibition game when the U.S. National Under-18 team comes to the Slater Family Ice Arena for a contest starting at 7:37 p.m. Friday.
WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association announced its support Thursday for regulating “bump stocks,” devices that can effectively convert semi-automatic rifles into fully automated weapons and that were apparently used in the Las Vegas massacre to lethal effect. It was a surprising shift for the leading gun industry group, which in recent years has resolutely opposed any gun regulations. Immediately afterward the White House, too, said it was open to such a change.
Appliance giant Whirlpool Corp., which builds top-loading washing machines at its plant in Clyde, Ohio, lauded a U.S. International Trade Commission decision to impose “global safeguard” restrictions on imported washing machines to stop its South Korean rivals Samsung and LG from flooding the American market with cheap machines.
When the archery seasons for white-tailed deer opened in Ohio and Michigan in the past week, a trend that has been in motion for the past few decades will continue to play out. For many hunters — young and old, male and female, experienced and novice — the bow and arrow are now the preferred method of hunting.
DEFIANCE – First Federal Bank and First Insurance Group are accepting submissions for their annual giving campaign.
DEFIANCE – First Federal Bank and First Insurance Group are accepting submissions for their annual giving campaign.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dannon, the maker of Oikos yogurt, is cutting ties with spokesman Cam Newton following what the company perceives as “sexist” comments the Carolina quarterback made to a female reporter.
Goaltender Matej Machovsky was reassigned from the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League to the Walleye today.
STRYKER, Ohio – The board of the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio created a special subcommittee Wednesday to deal with Lucas County's plans to slash the number of inmate spaces it needs and eventually pull out of its agreement to use the regional jail.
The University of Toledo football team will have its hands full on Saturday against Eastern Michigan, the top overall defense in the Mid-American Conference so far this season.
Tom Petty was the wild one. A loser. A rebel.
Although he didn’t know it at the time, giving up on football after his 2014 freshman season at Whitmer would be the best decision current senior Nate Cousino could ever have made.
Although he didn’t know it at the time, giving up on football after his 2014 freshman season at Whitmer would be the best decision current senior Nate Cousino could ever have made.
COLUMBUS — When an Ohio State return team finds a crease, or a Buckeyes defensive back has a promising alley on an interception return, the most excited man in the stadium is not on the playing field.
A Lucas County judge on Thursday denied a request by the Zepf Center to prohibit its former chief executive officer from working at a competing agency.
As is often the case with epochal films, Blade Runner was so visionary and profoundly unique when released in 1982 that it baffled and flopped.
Toledo police will be taking social media on to the streets Thursday.
It’s only a few more hours to take a virtual ride-along with Toledo Police on Twitter and Instagram.
The University of Toledo is asking families across northwest Ohio to share their stories or memories of Ritter Planetarium and Brooks Observatory to be used as part of the astronomy program’s 50th anniversary celebration.
STOCKHOLM — Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-born British novelist best known for The Remains of the Day and other works about memory’s pain and illusions, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday.
SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix is raising the price for its most popular U.S. video streaming plan by 10 percent — a move that could boost its profits but slow the subscriber growth that drives its stock price.
COLUMBUS — Moses Fleetwood “Fleet” Walker, major league baseball’s first black player to play under contract, was given an early 160th birthday present Thursday as he was inducted into the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame.
Here is a look at the MAC West power rankings. Western Michigan is the big mover as Northern Illinois drops: