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Law enforcement’s options in detaining a disorderly, mentally ill person are limited, and the outcome often includes jail booking.

COLUMBUS — A federal pension guarantee fund can sue the successors to the now-closed Findlay Industries, Inc. to cover the company’s pension obligations to its former workers, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

A 20-year-old Toledo man was charged with rape after a woman said she awoke to find him having sex with her, according to Toledo police.

Bowling Green City Schools will close early Tuesday because of heat concerns, according to the district superintendent.

After 24 years with the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 18, Hira Garrett doesn’t want to see Ohio become a right-to-work state.

MONROE — After years of planning, construction on Monroe’s new public safety and emergency response facility is about to begin.

Ronald Dye pressured his brother-in-law into trying heroin to ease his pain — injecting his arm with the deadly drug.

 PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio — Although the nonvenomous Lake Erie water snake continues to be one of the Great Lakes region’s best comeback stories, a fungus in nature that can kill those and other snakes has scientists worried about their future.

Paul Briggs, a retired City of Toledo employee who was a longtime Toledo Sports Arena usher and a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, died Thursday at his Toledo home. He was 70.

The Ohio Highway Patrol is urging motorists to commit to driving buckled, focused, and sober as part of Safe Driving Awareness Month.