A central Toledo man known for his ministry work and preaching to those on the street following a lengthy criminal past has been jailed on a charge that he sexually assaulted a woman with developmental disabilities, according to the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office.
DETROIT — Phillip Evans kept Akil Baddoo’s drive to left field in the park in the seventh inning to help Pittsburgh escape a jam, and the Pirates scored twice in the eighth to beat the Detroit Tigers 4-2 on Thursday.
WASHINGTON — Coronavirus hospitalizations among older Americans have plunged 80% since the start of the year, dramatic proof the vaccination campaign is working. Now the trick is to get more of the nation’s younger people to roll up their sleeves.
If you lean Republican or voted for Donald Trump, then you may have gotten a cryptic text message last weekend about J.D. Vance.
COLUMBUS — The Ohio House of Representatives on Thursday voted 59-33 for a bill promoted as providing ballot clarity to voters considering property levies but derided by school boards, local governments, and libraries that fear it could have the opposite effect.
A new vaccination program being piloted in Wood County starting Friday allows residents to schedule a shot anywhere in the county.
Officials took the occasion of Earth Day to announce a new city-county initiative they hope will catch on with businesses, churches, scouting organizations, and other groups as a fun challenge to help pick up Toledo’s litter.
The Ohio High School Athletic Association's board of directors has voted to further expand the football playoffs.
If you’re in the market for a Kareem Hunt jersey, you might want to wait.
A person was injured in a shooting Thursday morning at Dryden Drive and Vermaas Avenue, Toledo Police said.
The Lucas County Democratic Party’s executive committee has begun accepting applications to screen for the party’s endorsement for any school board seat in Lucas County.
The field for the 44th Mercy Health Glass City Marathon will be reduced because of coronavirus social-distancing limitations, but after having the event canceled because of the pandemic, just running the event on Sunday will be viewed as a success.
Nature’s Nursery Center for Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation has organized an online art auction coupled with an in-person art gallery.
Four girls basketball players from The Blade’s coverage area gathered Michigan Associated Press all-state honorable mention this week.
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid fell last week to 547,000, a new low since the pandemic struck and a further encouraging sign that layoffs are slowing on the strength of an improving job market.
Summer Berry always has the right joke ready when the Otsego softball team and coach Jason Colyer meet on the pitchers’ mound.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will open a global climate summit with a pledge to cut at least in half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that the U.S. pumps out, a commitment he hopes will spur China and other big polluters to speed up efforts of their own.
An exhibition that opens Saturday at the Toledo Museum of Art takes a look at how the discovery of birds inspired the world around them in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Its building off-limits to large gatherings by order of health officials, the area’s lead employment resource agency will get around that restriction next month by thinking “outside” the box.
BLISSFIELD, Mich. – Lena’s Italian Restaurant is an easy find for the hungry traveler, driving down a dark, lonely road on a Friday night in Blissfield.
As a proud Whitmer graduate and retired librarian, I read with distress the short-sighted decision by the board of Washington Local Schools to discontinue libraries in their schools.
As the Minneapolis jury in the Derek Chauvin trial began deliberations Monday, Ohio authorities granted a request from Minnesota to send 100 Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers to that state to help quell any unrest that may have come after a verdict in the high-profile case. It turns out that wasn’t an issue.
Invasive plant species are more than a nuisance, they wreak havoc with local ecosystems and threaten plants and wildlife native to northeast Ohio.
Volunteers will converge on hallowed ground Friday to remember and to honor some national heroes, and to restore the site that hosts the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
Michael P. Sbrocchi, who as Toledo’s commissioner of maintenance and public buildings oversaw every city-owned structure from daily upkeep to major remodeling, died Friday at Kingston of Sylvania, where he’d been for about three years. He was 91.