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Driver pleads no contest to charge for passenger's death in high-speed crash - 2025-10-09T16:22:15Z
A Maumee man charged for a fatal, high-speed crash just over a year ago in South Toledo has pleaded no contest to a single count of second-degree aggravated vehicular homicide.

Man pleads guilty to attempted kidnapping, resisting for July incident during which police shot him - 2025-10-09T16:13:38Z
A South Toledo man shot by police after brandishing a gun when officers tried to arrest him in a domestic conflict pleaded guilty Thursday morning to attempted kidnapping, strangulation, resisting arrest, and domestic violence.

Area leaders decry lack of coordinated anti-poverty plan - 2025-10-09T11:15:19Z
Poverty reduction comes down to economic development that benefits everyone.

Daily Log: 10/9 - 2025-10-09T04:00:00Z
Births

Toledo Crime Log: 10/9 - 2025-10-09T04:00:00Z
Click on icons in the map to find details of reported crimes. For a full list of all reported crimes in Toledo this week, consult the table below.

Find toys galore at Rossford show - 2025-10-08T16:20:28Z
A toy show is set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the TOCA Soccer & Sports Center in Rossford.

Bond set at $100,00 for woman who shot another during argument - 2025-10-08T16:13:29Z
Bond has been set at $100,000 for a South Toledo woman who shot another person Tuesday afternoon.

Photo Gallery: Country Garden Club's 38th Trunk Show - 2025-10-08T16:50:09Z
The Country Garden Club hosted its 38th Trunk Show at the Carranor Hunt & Polo Club in Perrysburg on Wednesday.

Coroner identifies man killed by police in Airport Highway standoff - 2025-10-08T23:23:20Z
The man who was shot by Toledo police Tuesday morning died the same day and was identified Wednesday by the Lucas County Coroner’s Office.

Judge sets notification deadline for insanity, incompetence defenses in Jones case - 2025-10-08T11:30:00Z
The judge overseeing the Darnell Jones capital murder case in Lucas County Common Pleas Court has set an Oct. 30 deadline for Jones’ defense team to notify him of any potential mental-illness or intellectual disability defenses or arguments.

Daily Log: 10/8 - 2025-10-08T20:33:23Z
Marriage licenses

Truck inspections, weight checks at heart of highway patrol's 4-day safety campaign - 2025-10-08T18:09:19Z
FINDLAY — Inspectors working at highway weigh stations in bygone days didn’t know much about the trucks passing in front of them beyond what their eyes or the scales’ readout told them.

Political newcomer jumps into Toledo City Council race 1 month before election - 2025-10-08T18:06:11Z
Just hours after Toledo City Council President Carrie Hartman announced she was resigning from her post and withdrawing her bid for re-election, Old West End resident Emily Desmond put her hat in the ring.

Mercy Health mammography van announces dates for October - 2025-10-08T16:51:06Z
Mercy Heath’s mammogram van will make multiple stops throughout the first half of October offering screenings to women 40 and older, the health system announced.

Couple turns vision into vibrancy in historic Vistula - 2025-10-08T12:30:00Z
For Peter and Valerie Garforth, revitalizing Vistula isn’t just about renovation, it’s about building community, one neighbor, one planter, and one historic house at a time.

Sheriff requests $6.6M increase in 2026 budget, cites staffing struggles - 2025-10-08T16:18:38Z
The Lucas County Sheriff’s Office is requesting an increase of $6.57 million for next year’s budget and will operate with 15 fewer employees to offer more competitive wages.

Standout student and Scout: Northwood 14-year-old earns prestigious rank - 2025-10-08T22:00:00Z
Give 14-year-old Ann Mannon a challenge and be prepared to be wowed.

'Honor of a lifetime': Toledo City Council president says goodbye to the dais - 2025-10-07T23:23:39Z
Surrounded by her colleagues, and a couple of tissues, Toledo City Council President Carrie Hartman presided over her last voting meeting with expressions of gratitude.

Man shot by police had pointed gun at officers - 2025-10-07T13:30:36Z
Toledo police on Tuesday morning shot a man armed with a handgun after a 30-minute standoff during which he pointed the weapon at officers.

Utility work to briefly close 2 Toledo streets - 2025-10-07T19:44:00Z
Utility work will close part of Sylvania Avenue for one day Wednesday, while part of Rambo Lane will be closed for about four hours, the Toledo Department of Transportation announced.

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Editorial: Electric demand exceeds supply - 2025-10-09T04:00:00Z
Lucas County electric bills are up — way up — 55 percent from 6.3 cents per kilowatt hour to 9.75 cents.

Editorial: Relief for farmers - 2025-10-09T01:34:46Z
President Trump’s plan to bail out soybean farmers with a subsidy check, as was done in 2018, is the predictable consequence of what he called “Liberation Day” — the start of the tariffs policy.

Editorial: 23 bypass progresses — toll road or not - 2025-10-08T04:00:00Z
Progress continues on the decades-long needed highway connection between Toledo and Columbus. The preliminary plan from the Ohio Department of Transportation, mandated by the Ohio General Assembly, has produced multiple viable options for a bypass from U.S. 23 to I-71.

Editorial: Partners have power - 2025-10-07T04:00:00Z
The best opportunity to unlock the promise of individual and collective potential is through the power of partnership.

Editorial: Let’s keep AI in its place - 2025-10-06T04:00:00Z
We applaud the legislation offered by an Ohio lawmaker to ban artificial intelligence systems from having human rights such as the ability to marry and own property.

Editorial: Blade endorsements for Toledo City Council Set out on new path - 2025-10-05T04:00:00Z
Toledo voters have the chance this year to upset the course of Toledo’s torpid city government and inject some new energy and creativeness into the business of boosting the quality (and quantity) of life in town.

Editorial: Dumpster only part of solution to blight - 2025-10-04T04:00:00Z
The proposed city council solution to the problem of unsightly “set-outs” of evicted tenants’ is one that will add to the cost of rent in Toledo while marginally improving the streetscape of some city neighborhoods.

Editorial: DeWine property tax task force fails - 2025-10-03T04:00:00Z
Ohio’s property tax mess is a $20 billion-plus problem the Republican establishment running state government shows no inclination to fix.

Editorial: No shutdown wins - 2025-10-02T04:00:00Z
The government shutdown is a game of chicken being played at the expense of the American citizen.

Editorial: What about solar? - 2025-10-01T04:00:00Z
Ohio Senate President Rob McColley (R., Napoleon) looks at the state economy as a four-legged stool, according to his presentation at the Ohio Chamber of Commerce Impact Ohio Toledo Regional Conference.

Editorial: Peace deal good - 2025-10-02T03:39:09Z
A workable, reasonable solution to the brutal conflict in Gaza has emerged from the Trump White House. Hamas must disarm and release all Israeli hostages, living and dead. In return Israel will release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and agree to creation of a Palestinian state.

Editorial: Where cost cuts kill - 2025-09-30T04:00:00Z
There’s strong evidence that private equity-owned hospitals put financial success ahead of quality health care.

Editorial: Shift pension reform target - 2025-09-29T04:00:00Z
The Ohio General Assembly and Gov. Mike DeWine have united educators in anger over the attempt to take over the State Teachers Retirement System. It’s a preview of the disgust ahead when taxpayers get asked to put more money in the state pensions.

Editorial: Retribution arrives - 2025-09-28T04:00:00Z
President Trump was elected president promising to bring retribution to Washington. The presidentially prodded indictment of former FBI Director James Comey makes good on that campaign pledge — with potentially seismic consequences to Washington and to the country.

Editorial: Trump is seeing light on Ukraine - 2025-09-28T04:00:00Z
President Trump has at long last awakened to the fact that Russia is a “paper tiger” militarily. In typical Trumpian fashion this pronouncement came via social media and has been hailed as a “game changer” by Ukraine.

Editorial: UT and BGSU tied - 2025-09-27T04:00:00Z
The annual rankings of universities by U.S. News & World Report, a widely used guide for students and parents since 1983, reveal very interesting details for both the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University that will be the starting point for many momentous enrollment decisions.

Editorial: Protect Perryburg schools, pass levy - 2025-09-26T04:00:00Z
Perrysburg voters have a defining decision before them: continued excellence or a slide to mediocrity.

Editorial: Fund sewer, hold reservoir - 2025-09-25T04:00:00Z
Call it a severe case of sticker shock — $16 million to replace a broken sewer in South Toledo and $100 million to construct a 135-acre reservoir in Oregon.

Editorial: Redistricting targets Kaptur - 2025-09-25T04:00:00Z
Redrawing Congressional districts has begun in Columbus, with the most challenging aspect of the process for Republicans in control of the process how to create a constitutionally defensible district that dislodges Democrat Marcy Kaptur from the seat she’s held since 1983.

Editorial: GOP policies lower Ohio’s population - 2025-09-24T04:00:00Z
Gov. Mike DeWine has finally awakened to the decline in Ohio. State population projections forecast a fall from the seventh most populous state to ninth, supplanted by Georgia and North Carolina by 2030.

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Lessenberry: Michigan budget battles just beginning - 2025-10-09T04:00:00Z
LANSING — “Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made.” Though that quote is often wrongly attributed to Mark Twain, it was actually said by Otto von Bismarck, the first and greatest chancellor of the 19th century old German Empire.

Hussain: Absolute power corrupts absolutely - 2025-10-08T04:00:00Z
IT HAS been merely seven months since Donald Trump swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution. If these seven months are any indication of what is to come in his remaining term, all democracy loving Americans of all political hues should realize that the country is hurtling toward autocracy and dictatorship.

Haworth: Hamas doesn’t want peace - 2025-10-08T03:31:07Z
THE POLITICAL world is alight with anticipation and excitement after President Trump released his 20-point peace proposal for Gaza, built around three central pillars: immediate de-escalation, humanitarian relief and redevelopment, and a long-term political framework.

Shribman: Muddy modern line between religion and politics - 2025-10-05T04:00:00Z
Of the many changes in our politics — the movement of political power from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West, the coarsening of our national conversation, the transformations wrought by technological change, including the internet and social media — the one that might be the most astonishing is the dramatic increase in the prominence of religion in political life.

Walton: Big Fitz — a tragedy on our vast inland sea - 2025-10-05T04:00:00Z
Five weeks from tomorrow, the date “10 November” will once again be seared into the public consciousness, reminding Toledo and northwest Ohio of what we all lost on that date half a century ago.

Lessenberry: Doug Jones more important than Dow Jones - 2025-10-02T03:42:20Z
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Several years ago, Jim Hightower, a witty former Texas agricultural commissioner who sometimes bills himself as “America’s Favorite Populist,” gave a speech in Southfield, a major Detroit suburb, and I was asked to introduce him. Mr. Hightower, one of the last Democrats to win statewide office in Texas, told me he asked a waitress that morning if she knew about all the new jobs the economy was supposedly creating.

Shribman: Canada, Mexico eye pact amid American turmoil - 2025-09-28T04:00:00Z
MONTREAL — Hardly noticed in the United States amid its worries about domestic tranquility was an important, telling, and symbolic development that prompted bold-faced headlines here.

Lessenberry: Vice President Vance ignorant on Mich. history - 2025-09-25T04:00:00Z
DETROIT — Last week, Vice President JD Vance made a speech in the reliably Republican mid-Michigan city of Howell, mainly to promote the Trump Administration’s economic policy. But he also charged that there was a violent crime wave in Detroit, and suggested the governor ask the Trump Administration to ask for troops.

Hussain: Pakistan-Saudi Pact’s a new wrinkle in Middle East - 2025-09-24T04:00:00Z
Recently Pakistan and Saudi Arabia entered a defense pact that stipulated that any attack on Pakistan would be considered an attack on Saudi Arabia and vice versa. Considering the deteriorating climate in the Middle East this pact has more than a symbolic significance. Pakistan is the only country in the Arab/​Muslim world to possess nuclear weapons.

Walton: If phone doesn’t ring, it’s me - 2025-09-21T04:00:00Z
What is it about leaving a voice mail message that befuddles us so? Comments that might sound pithy or clever in a face-to-face, two-way conversation tend to lose their zip when we are speaking all by ourselves into someone else’s cell phone voice mail.

Shribman: Keep an eye on Maine - 2025-09-21T04:00:00Z
OGUNQUIT, Maine — The Old Dirigo State. The Lumber State. Down East. The Switzerland of America. The Polar Star State. The Pine Tree State. Vacationland.

Lessenberry: Mayor Duggan always full of surprises - 2025-09-18T03:40:51Z
CHARLEVOIX, Mich. — This popular little resort town is nearly 300 miles north of Detroit, and in some ways seems like another world. Life revolves around tourism, boating, and Lake Michigan, and other mainly outdoor recreational pursuits. One house on a typical broad, leafy street displays a sign, “If you’re lucky enough to be up north, you’re lucky enough,” a sentiment with which most of the thousands of summer and fall tourists would enthusiastically agree.

Shribman: Could our leaders pass citizenship test? - 2025-09-14T04:00:00Z
Th overhaul of American attitudes toward immigration has many fronts. One is the border, both the southern and northern frontiers. Another is workplaces — Mexican restaurants, manufacturing plants like the Hyundai facility where hundreds of Koreans recently were arrested — where the undocumented are found. A third is this week’s emphasis on sanctuary cities, which harbor many of the migrants Donald Trump is targeting.

Lessenberry: Michigan Con-Con once again on ballot - 2025-09-11T03:34:07Z
LANSING — Even though millions already have been spent on next year’s midterm elections in Michigan, the fact is that I don’t really know who is going to be on the ballot in a single race, and neither does anyone else.

Hussain: Thoughts and prayers all over again - 2025-09-10T03:34:05Z
WHEN I heard about yet another shooting in a church in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, I also heard the same old, stale, and blatantly insincere comments and statement: It is not the time to talk politics of gun violence. Let us pray for the victims. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.

Walton: Mankind’s greatest achievement: stretch pants - 2025-09-07T04:00:00Z
Stretch pants, it must be acknowledged, are the Rodney Dangerfield of fashion. No respect. No respect at all.

Shribman: Giuliani’s very bad Labor Day weekend - 2025-09-07T04:00:00Z
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — The radio station around here has a popular morning feature called Talk of the Towns, and in the past week, the talk of the towns, and of New Hampshire more generally, has been Rudolph Giuliani’s injury in an automobile accident.

Lessenberry: An ethical professional philosophy in action - 2025-09-04T04:00:00Z
GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich. — When I first began covering Jack Kevorkian’s assisted suicides back in the early 1990s, I asked his colorful lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, about the medical examiner’s findings. While Kevorkian said the causes of death were medically assisted suicides, Oakland County’s medical examiner, Dr. Ljubisa Dragovic, was ruling all the ones in his jurisdiction homicides.

Shribman: Heaven beckons to Trump - 2025-08-31T04:00:00Z
Donald Trump has begun to worry that he might be going to hell.

Lessenberry: Michigan corruption bipartisan - 2025-08-28T03:33:39Z
PONTIAC, Mich. — In recent years, stories about political corruption in Lansing mostly have involved Republicans. Think former Senate Majority Leader Rick Johnson mumbling “I am a corrupt politician,” before going to federal prison for taking bribes.

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