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At 8:33 a.m. the building began to crumble as a wrecking ball crashed into it, shattering a windowpane.

A West Toledo couple accused of allowing a known drug user to stay at their Rolland Drive home — an action police say kicked off a hazmat scene and exposed several Toledo police officers to a dangerous drug — face additional charges due to the extensive and costly response. 

Lucas County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a central city man who is believed to have shot a 17-year-old boy last month. 

Tunneling problems have added more than $2.5 million to the price tag for an underground sewage tank and connecting pipes and pumps in International Park, a project official told Toledo City Council during an agenda-review meeting Tuesday.

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Perrysburg Schools Superintendent Thomas Hosler has received the 2018 Martha Holden Jennings Ohio Superintendent Outstanding Performance Award.

Toledo’s new Human Relations Commission held its first meeting this week, at which new members were sworn in.

UPPER SANDUSKY, Ohio — Through traffic on two Wyandot County roads will be blocked later this month when median crossovers on U.S. 23/​30 are permanently closed, the Ohio Department of Transportation announced.

The United Labor Committee and American Red Cross are hosting a blood drive Aug. 30 in memory of former Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins.

Though clearly frustrated by the state of Ohio’s response to toxic algal blooms that have carpeted western Lake Erie’s surface the past 23 summers, Senior U.S. District Judge James G. Carr said in open court Tuesday he worries he is on “thin ice” with the case before him.