Police block off downtown street after body found
Toledo police cordoned off a downtown block after receiving a call about a dead man in the street.
Toledo police cordoned off a downtown block after receiving a call about a dead man in the street.
An unidentified man was taken into custody Saturday afternoon after barricading himself inside his West Toledo home for about two hours, Toledo police said.
A man was shot twice in a leg Saturday afternoon in central Toledo, police said.
When Toledo set a homicide record last year with 61 deaths; 28 of the victims were age 24 or younger. So were another seven of the 20 victims killed so far this year.
COLUMBUS — Ohio reported 1,297 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, below the 21-day average of 1,463.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb exploded near a girls’ school in a majority Shiite district of west Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 30 people, many of them young pupils between 11 and 15 years old. The Taliban condemned the attack and denied any responsibility.
Waterline work and roadway reconstruction will close parts of two Toledo streets Monday morning: one for just five days, but the other for about six months.
The University of Toledo’s class of 2021 gathered in two separate ceremonies Saturday to walk across a stage at the Glass Bowl Stadium and receive their diplomas.
A pedestrian who darted out into traffic in central Toledo suffered life-threatening injuries when a car struck him just after midnight Saturday, Toledo police reported.
MONROE — A Newport, Mich., man was fatally shot and two people believed to have been involved in a dispute with him were arrested near a Frenchtown Township mobile-home park early Saturday, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office reported.
A letter mailed from Columbus is likely to arrive in Toledo a day earlier than the same letter mailed in Toledo, according to a Blade experiment in mail delivery that found most mail was delivered in a relatively prompt three days.
Befitting the underdog ride of a lifetime, let us begin not at the House that Ruth Built but the house of intramurals.
University of Toledo fans are ready for some football.
Top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline has shut its entire network after a cyber attack, the company said in a statement on Friday.
So many letters, emails, telephone calls, and personal conversations start with the same disclaimer: “I don't fish or hunt, but . . . ”.
DETROIT — Matt Shoemaker pitched five scoreless innings and Kyle Garlick, Jorge Polanco and Max Kepler homered to lift the Minnesota Twins to a 7-3 win over the Tigers on a rainy Friday night in Detroit.
DETROIT — Want to know why Michigan and Ohio don’t have the political clout they once did? Just consider this: Back in the 1960s these two mighty Midwestern powerhouses had 43 members of Congress and 47 electoral votes between them.
Question: How can you tell if a candidate running for judge in Ohio is a Republican or a Democrat? Well, that depends. In the primary, the judicial candidate’s political party affiliation is right on the ballot. But in the general election, it’s nowhere at all.
Helping human victims escape domestic abuse often means helping them save their pets from an abusive household as well. That’s why Ohio lawmakers changed state law in 2014 to allow for court orders in such cases to specifically protect cats, dogs, and other family pets.
The United States’ relationship with China remains fraught largely because of the latter’s treatment of Hong Kong, its human rights abuses in the Xinjiang province, intellectual property theft, and more. Nevertheless, President Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, visited China to eke out a pact to reduce carbon emissions, setting aside the nations’ differences on a critical issue at a critical moment.
It’s clear to most of us that Toledo is on the move, However, Toledo is still known primarily for urban decay and human sex trafficking, and as the butt of jokes by John Denver and The Simpsons.
TEMPERANCE — Walter C. “Bill” Alexander, who for years kept the wood lanes at a leading West Toledo bowling center in prime condition and found his skill in demand at other alleys across the tri-state region, died May 1 in ProMedica Toledo Hospital. He was 86.
SACRAMENTO — The owner of a California bar where authorities say made-to-order fake coronavirus vaccination cards were sold to undercover state agents for $20 each was arrested in what officials call the first such foiled operation they are aware of nationwide.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Command is tracking a large Chinese rocket booster that is tumbling uncontrollably through space and expected to come crashing down to Earth this weekend.
CLEVELAND — Wade Miley pitched baseball’s second no-hitter in three days — and fourth already this season — leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-0 win Friday night over the Cleveland Indians, who were no-hit for the second time in a month.