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Reservations are being accepted for tours of the Northwest Ohio 9/​11 Memorial, which will open to the public this week at the Ohio Air National Guard 180th Fighter Wing base at Toledo Express Airport.

A sewer repair that began last week will close part of Collingwood Boulevard for three more days this week, the city transportation division announced.

Each week during the construction season, The Blade’s Road Warrior highlights the major construction projects in Toledo and the surrounding area, noting where delays are worst and where the best alternative routes are.

A state prison inmate in Toledo killed himself last summer, a death disclosed months later because no public notification policy is in place.

Sewer construction that has blocked Main Street at the east end of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Bridge since mid-September is on target for completion at the end of this month, project officials told Toledo City Council last week.

COLUMBUS — Republican legislative leaders now know who will be in the Ohio governor’s mansion for the next four years, knowledge that will likely affect their agenda during a lame-duck session when bills shelved during election season can suddenly move swiftly and furiously.

One hundred years to the hour after World War I ended, representatives of the Toledo Memorial Park unveiled a monument in honor of 327 soldiers, sailors, Marines, and nurses from Lucas County who died during the war.

FINDLAY — A Mount Blanchard, Ohio, man has been killed and a Findlay man injured when a car they were in crashed in Findlay, ending a pursuit by Ohio Highway Patrol from I-75, according to The Blade's news partner, WTVG-TV, Channel 13.

Two people were fatally shot early Sunday morning in West Toledo, according to police.