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Fentanyl testing strips, naloxone available at Main Library - 2025-12-18T18:24:28Z
Naloxone, a medication that reverses opioid overdoses, will be available at the main branch of the Toledo Lucas County Library on Monday.

Emergency warming centers available Thursday, Friday nights - 2025-12-18T19:37:38Z
Emergency warming centers are available overnight Thursday and Friday, when low temperatures are expected, city officials said.

Toledo Public Schools to cut more than 100 jobs immediately - 2025-12-19T00:35:53Z
In an emergency vote Thursday, the Toledo Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to immediately submit a plan to the state board of education that will cut 115 positions, effective immediately.

Pedestrian sustains life-threatening injuries in crash on Monroe - 2025-12-19T02:19:18Z
A 66-year-old Toledo man was seriously injured Thursday when struck by a vehicle while trying to cross Monroe Street, police said.

State allows new CAFO to be built within landfill buffer zone, near scenic river - 2025-12-19T00:22:13Z
TIFFIN — A controversial livestock facility under construction is being allowed to build one of its barns 200 feet closer to a landfill than state law normally allows because Ohio officials quietly accommodated the owner.

TARTA board approves Jan. 25 service changes - 2025-12-18T23:53:52Z
A $480,000 state grant will underwrite increased frequency on four TARTA bus routes that takes effect Jan. 25.

Community leaders tell council homelessness is on the rise in Toledo - 2025-12-18T23:39:15Z
West Toledo resident Trish Kwapich doesn’t want people thinking her family didn’t care for her brother who died Nov. 30.

Appellate court rejects appeals by 2 convicted for boys’ 2022 disappearances, deaths - 2025-12-18T22:45:41Z
Appellate judges have upheld the convictions last year of two men whom a jury found guilty of killing two teenage boys in late 2022 and dumping their bodies in the basement of a vacant house that was set fire about a day later.

Historic property tax credits to help Toledo Club reimagine itself - 2025-12-18T22:17:28Z
The Toledo Club has been awarded $1,658,500 in state of Ohio historic tax credits, which it plans to use to support the preservation of and reinvestment in the venerable downtown Toledo institution.

County ‘reloads’ dwindling hotel reserves, invests in future renovations - 2025-12-18T19:34:14Z
Lucas County is doubling down on its downtown hotel investment, propping the operation up with $500,000 in cash and adding $1 million to a maintenance fund.

Body in burned Toledo house identified as missing woman - 2025-12-18T21:33:16Z
The body of 63-year-old Rinda Brown has been identified by the coroner’s office as the one discovered in the burned out rubble of a Toledo house Wednesday.

Waterville Township becomes second in region to halt data centers - 2025-12-18T20:56:21Z
Waterville Township became the second local jurisdiction to pass a moratorium on data center construction within its boundaries following Dec. 9 action by the city of Waterville.

Photo gallery: H2O holiday gift shop at the Fraternal Order of Eagles - 2025-12-18T20:53:32Z
Helping You Pursue Excellence 2.0’s second annual holiday gift shop on Thursday at the Maumee Eagles provided free holiday gifts to families served by H2O and its consortium of community business partners who provide behavioral health services.

Library offers prizes for annual winter reading challenge - 2025-12-18T20:08:39Z
Toledo Lucas County Public Library’s winter reading challenge will return for another year, with prizes including gift cards and Nintendo Switch Lites.

Maumee seeks applicants to fill 2 vacant city council seats - 2025-12-18T18:35:34Z
Maumee is seeking qualified residents to fill two vacant city council seats.

2 plead to felonies from March torture beating at Maumee motel - 2025-12-18T16:39:25Z
Two men entered guilty pleas Thursday morning to reduced charges arising from a March kidnapping, torture, and beatdown at a Maumee motel, leaving just one of six defendants’ cases unresolved.

Photo gallery: Vigil held for Lourdes student killed in crash - 2025-12-18T15:01:52Z
A vigil was held for Kaniya Durr, the Lourdes University sophomore who was killed in a car crash Tuesday, at the Franciscan Center on campus Wednesday in Sylvania. Click through the images above to see the full gallery.

Daily Log: 12/18 - 2025-12-18T05:00:00Z
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Toledo Crime Log: 12/18 - 2025-12-18T05:00:00Z
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.

Lourdes student killed in 3-vehicle crash in Sylvania Township - 2025-12-17T13:31:05Z
A 20-year-old Toledo woman was killed in a three-vehicle crash in Sylvania Township Tuesday afternoon.

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Editorial: Good advice from medical pros - 2025-12-19T05:00:00Z
Last week’s Perspectives panel by The Blade and the University of Toledo provided audience members with valuable insights into a few of the big issues facing health care.

Editorial: Be honest in emergencies - 2025-12-18T05:00:00Z
The superintendent of Sylvania Public Schools deliberately misled the parents of an elementary school population and kept her school board in the dark on an incident involving a dangerous dog.

Editorial: Step up nuisance vigilance - 2025-12-18T04:45:00Z
With the city of Toledo facing the possibility of a deficit in the coming year, council is well advised to look hard for reductions.

Editorial: Records’ search motive suspicious - 2025-12-17T05:00:00Z
It is with trepidation that we learn that the Trump Justice Department is demanding to review voter records in Fulton County, Georgia, to determine whether there was election fraud in that state in 2020.

Editorial: Garbage in, out - 2025-12-16T05:00:00Z
President Trump and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell don’t agree on much, but they both conclude data supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics cannot currently be trusted. Without trustworthy data federal economic policy is that old operating warning of the computer revolution: garbage in, garbage out.

Editorial: Measles’ return - 2025-12-16T05:00:00Z
Herd immunity from vaccine requirements to enter school had measles eliminated as a health threat in the United States way back in 2000. But now measles is breaking out in 43 states thanks to bad decisions on vaccine safety.

Editorial: Welcome home, coach - 2025-12-15T04:45:00Z
For better or worse, the head football coach at any Division I university is the highest paid and most high-profile representative of the university. The embarrassment of the firing and arrest of Michigan Wolverines coach Sherrone Moore is just the latest example.

Editorial: Ukraine holding out - 2025-12-14T05:00:00Z
The peace process involving Russia and Ukraine continues to function, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky holding talks with many European countries.

Editorial: Growth is answer - 2025-12-14T04:45:00Z
Tight budgets for the city of Toledo and Lucas County have both local government bodies drawing down the rainy day fund to balance proposed spending with anticipated revenue. Toledo proposes a $28 million transfer from the budget stabilization fund while Lucas County expects to take just over $12 million from their savings account.

Editorial: Follow Title IX on girls’ sports - 2025-12-13T05:00:00Z
Given the clear direction made by the federal government, it’s a little shocking to learn that girls at Monroe High School had to compete with and share a locker room with a biological male, regardless of that male’s choice to identify as a female.

Editorial: Look for better solutions, TPS - 2025-12-12T05:00:00Z
Toledo Public Schools is facing a serious financial crisis and it came without any warning.

Editorial: Bailout taxpayer abuse self-inflicted - 2025-12-11T05:00:00Z
Donald Trump has bailed out American farmers from the devastating financial damage inflicted by — Donald Trump.

Editorial: Murals project great - 2025-12-11T04:45:00Z
Beauty brings joy has been our impression of the murals on downtown buildings and ADM silos along the east bank of the Maumee and the reason for our support of the project.

Editorial: Reality cannot be ignored - 2025-12-10T04:45:00Z
Ignored warnings of “chaos” on the border by President Joe Biden set the stage for the draconian enforcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with National Guard troops on patrol in the cities ICE targets.

Editorial: Michigan court should wait - 2025-12-09T05:00:00Z
The Michigan Supreme Court is considering a rule that would bar civil arrests in state and local courts. It’s an obvious message to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that they aren’t welcome to show up in state court looking for illegal resident suspects. It must be a message because the problem is nearly nonexistent in Michigan.

Editorial: Hold Jack Smith inquest in public - 2025-12-08T05:00:00Z
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s demand that former U.S. Special Prosecutor Jack Smith give testimony in private to Mr. Jordan’s committee investigating the weaponization of the Justice Department is an odd one.

Editorial: Mull data-nomics - 2025-12-07T05:00:00Z
The opportunity of having a few data centers in greater Toledo is being greeted with overheated opposition fueled largely by misunderstanding of the water and electrical demands and lack of appreciation for the economic benefits.

Editorial: Minnesota fraud unsurprising - 2025-12-07T05:00:00Z
That Minnesota state government was oblivious to a fraud which the New York Times described as “staggering in its scale and brazenness” should not have come as a surprise to anyone following Ohio’s teacher retirement system brouhaha.

Editorial: Pep up downtown - 2025-12-06T05:00:00Z
To those of us impatient for action, economic development in downtown Toledo appears to move at a speed that would make a glacier’s advance look fast.

Editorial: Let NIL stand, keep Ohio on par - 2025-12-05T05:00:00Z
State lawmakers trying to ban name, image, and likeness payments as a possibility for Ohio high school athletes should find more productive work.

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Lessenberry: Legal mess means Line 5 still a threat - 2025-12-18T05:00:00Z
CHARLEVOIX, Mich. — Almost eight years ago, when Gretchen Whitmer first ran for governor of Michigan, she called for the ancient oil-carrying pipelines under the Straits of Mackinac to be shut down.

Hussain: An unfair, lopsided American health-care system - 2025-12-17T05:00:00Z
While most western democracies have a comprehensive healthcare system, the United States is still struggling with providing equitable and fair health care for its population. All efforts to reform the health system in the past were vehemently opposed by the Republicans. They were just happy to have an archaic system where health insurance companies and pharma get rich and the poor and uninsured are left out to suffer.

Shribman: Is tide turning in Maine? - 2025-12-14T05:00:00Z
PORTLAND, Maine — An entrenched senator distrusted by both parties. A governor born just 18 months after 79-year-old Donald Trump. An oyster farmer who for years walked around with a Nazi symbol tattoo. Anti-gay remarks in a state generally regarded as welcoming to LGBTQ+ people. Pockets of deep Trump loyalty in a state that he lost three times. Traditional resistance to outsiders and the likelihood of a flood of out-of-state spending.

Walton: Happy Yule, y’all, from Harvey and Harriet - 2025-12-14T05:00:00Z
Christmas is just around the corner, and it’s a relief to know that in a volatile and uncertain world, some things remain as dependable as ice on the driveway. Take the annual holiday letter from the Fizblisters. Please. Harvey and Harriet’s card came this week, as usual with postage due.

Lessenberry: High integrity in election vote count - 2025-12-11T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — Two weeks ago I heard from a faithful reader and former student, a successful professional now past middle age.

Shribman: Canadians have already answered this question - 2025-12-07T05:00:00Z
MONTREAL — We know their names. Some of them are Margaret “Pearl” Fraser of New Glasgow, N.S.; Mary Agnes McKenzie and Carola Douglas of Toronto; Alexina Dussault of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec; and Margaret Fortescue of York Factory, Man. Among them was Minnie Follette, whose portrait hangs in Age of Sail Heritage Centre and Museum in Port Greville, N.S.

Hussain: Religious discriminations in U.S. - 2025-12-04T14:04:56Z
RECENTLY TEXAS Govdeclared a leading Muslim advocacy organization, the Council of American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, a foreign terrorist group. According to this declaration CAIR can no longer operate in Texas or purchase land in the state. He also banned another minor group, Muslim Brotherhood.

Lessenberry: Michigan to elect a new senator - 2025-12-04T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — Two things about U.S. senators from Michigan in the modern era: They tend to be Democrats, and they stay in office a long time.

Walton: What’s your tipping point? Rules have changed - 2025-11-30T05:00:00Z
At the friendly neighborhood market where we buy our groceries, a sign by the door reminds us of a firm policy at the place: “No Tipping.” The message it conveys seems somehow counterintuitive. If ever there were folks who earned a tip, it is the young people who help customers get their cart of groceries out to the parking lot and loaded into their cars.

Shribman: As parties entrench, an impasse grows - 2025-11-30T05:00:00Z
MARBLEHEAD, Mass. — He helped supply the Continental Army during the early days of the American Revolution. He signed the Declaration of Independence. He shaped the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He was a member of the House of Representatives, a governor of Massachusetts, and vice president. He lent his name — perhaps the most mispronounced name in American history, even more so than Kamala — to the creative shaping of a congressional district we now call “gerrymandering.”

Lessenberry: Political experiment that didn’t work - 2025-11-27T05:00:00Z
LANSING — Happy Thanksgiving! May your turkey not be dry, and you and yours celebrate happily this year. But when the holiday is over, and government gets back to work, there’s something I won’t be thankful for: Term limits for Michigan’s elected officials.

Mills: How to humanely talk about economics - 2025-11-26T04:45:00Z
“I knew that of course most private-equity investors make the U.S. economy stronger,” the man wrote, a little indignantly. I’d come across the quote, from the City Journal in 2012, while looking for something else. It’s published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and prestigious enough for Barnes & Noble to sell it.

Shribman: In Netherlands, a lesson in American history - 2025-11-23T05:00:00Z
For nearly two years, the American Cemetery in Margraten, The Netherlands — solemn site of more than 8,300 graves of Americans who died freeing Europe from Nazi rule — displayed commemorative panels honoring the Black military personnel who fought for freedom abroad that they were denied at home.

Lessenberry: Michigan enables corruption - 2025-11-20T05:00:00Z
LANSING — Those of us who have lived most of our lives in big northern industrial states often think of places like Alabama and Mississippi as backward, and states like West Virginia and Louisiana as hotbeds of political corruption.

Hussain: Dick Cheney — a most powerful, controversial vice president - 2025-11-19T05:00:00Z
Dick Cheney, a polarizing figure in American politics, died recently. He left behind a legacy of public service mixed with self-righteous high-handedness.

Shribman: Building on declaration - 2025-11-16T05:00:00Z
WASHINGTON — In the next several days, Simon & Schuster will bring forth a little book, 7 inches tall and 5 inches wide, that should shake the country. It is called The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, and in its mere 67 pages, the author Walter Isaacson reminds us in a torrid time about the enduring values that define a troubled country.

Walton: It’s what you do know that can hurt you - 2025-11-16T05:00:00Z
Once in a while someone much younger than me takes note of my advancing years and assumes I have wisdom to impart. They have questions. I generally play along rather than acknowledge that what I know is dwarfed by what I don’t.

Lessenberry: Detroit’s new mayor a first - 2025-11-13T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — Right up until the votes were counted last week, there were those who doubted whether Detroiters would elect a woman as the city’s next mayor. But last week, Mary Sheffield proved them very wrong, as she won by an eye-popping landslide.

Shribman: Gales of November remembered - 2025-11-09T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — Here in the Mariners’ Church, planted in the shadow of the Renaissance Center at the corner of Woodbridge Street and Woodward Avenue, the gales of November seem to swirl in the air.

Lessenberry: A transformational lawyer’s next goal - 2025-11-06T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — Years ago, when I was covering a high-profile Jack Kevorkian trial for the national media, the judge would recess the proceedings every so often and work through a parade of mostly poor and homeless defendants charged with mostly petty crimes.

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