Новости за 13.12.2023

Many fantasy sports leagues, especially baseball, are rotisserie, or roto, leagues.

It would not be right to say the road to Cooperstown begins in Toledo.

ADRIAN — Michigan held its first-ever Western Lake Erie Basin Conference, more than 28 years after the modern era of algal blooms began in the lake in the summer of 1995.

A Sylvania man accused of murder in his mother's death has been found by a doctor to be competent to stand trial, but the court receiving that report deferred formal acceptance until next month.

Boys and girls basketball head coaches from Toledo-area teams seem to have differing views on the new tournament-seeding method adopted for the 2023-24 season by the Ohio High School Athletic Association.

COLUMBUS — A controversial bill prohibiting physicians from providing minors with gender-affirming treatment and barring someone born biologically male from competing in interscholastic girls' sports is headed for an Ohio Senate vote Wednesday.

Wood County will receive $675,000 in state money to expand JC Reuthinger Memorial Preserve in Perrysburg Township, according to the park district director.

At a parenting class, mothers were asked to share their top safety concerns and also what they feel they need to keep their children safe in their neighborhoods.

General Motors has delayed by nine months the production launch of a much-ballyhooed electric vehicle drive at its Toledo Propulsion Systems plant on Alexis Road.

BOWLING GREEN — City crews have completed the removal of the Callery pear trees from the downtown streetscape, and the contractor will begin replacing the trees.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, its first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden on Wednesday defied a congressional subpoena to appear privately for a deposition before Republican investigators who have been digging into his business dealings, insisting outside the U.S. Capitol that he will only testify in public.

BOWLING GREEN — New ballfield fencing, bike racks, and basketball hoops are coming to 21 Wood County parks.

Toledo Councilman John Hobbs III is hosting a town hall Thursday night to discuss high-speed police chases in the city.

A 79-year-old Sandusky man was killed Tuesday night in an Erie County crash, authorities said.

Adriene Mishler was still grieving the loss of her beloved blue heeler mix when her boyfriend at the time surprised her with a Christmas puppy that was nearly identical.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday signed the final piece of the state’s Reproductive Health Act into law, which repealed a requirement for a separate insurance rider for abortion coverage.

Dear Santa: All singer, performer, and musical force of nature Michael Cavanaugh wants for Christmas is a green Gretsch hollow-bodied guitar.

This year, The Blade’s interns explored a variety of Toledo's neighborhoods. The following ongoing series highlights those communities.

Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell’s reaction to felony tax charges against him was right, but for the wrong reason.

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Ill., and lived most of his life away from his hometown.

Lois Ziegler, who operated the vehicle license bureau in Sylvania with care and lent support to her husband’s service as a councilman, died Dec. 6 in Westerville Senior Living, Westerville, Ohio. She was 89.

FOSTORIA — A pickup truck Tuesday struck ProMedica Fostoria Community Hospital, leaving one person dead and seriously injuring another.

LIMA, Ohio — In a game befitting a regional-level clash in March, Whitmer had just a little more firepower in overtime and took a 78-74 nonleague basketball victory Tuesday night at Lima Senior.