Toledo OH

Working as a team, the first responders lifted their patient, Toledo Public Schools Superintendent Romules Durant, into an ambulance without missing a beat. Yaseen Yassin, a seventh-grade student at the Toledo Pre-Medical and Health Science Academy, was one of four students who simulated an emergency with the...

To honor area veterans, TARTA will debut a new bus wrap on Veterans Day. The red, white, and blue star-spangled bus wrap calls attention to the heroism, service, and sacrifice of area veterans, the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority says. The wrapped bus will be on different routes starting Tuesday. As a...

A crowd of 25,000 people gathered in downtown Toledo in 1954 to view a nighttime torchlight parade, celebrating the country’s first Veterans Day. Faces lit by flickering red fusee torches, hundreds of veterans and reservists marched down the streets, accompanied by marching bands, floats, artillery, and military...

Twenty years ago, I was CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo. Along with CEO Robert Alexander and COO Larry Lev, of the YMCA, and a dedicated core of community lay leaders, we brought forth the partnership that resulted in the merger of the YMCAs of Toledo and the Jewish Community Center. That partnership,...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Ohio Department of Transportation is seeking public comments on a proposed project to rehabilitate the Craig Memorial Bridge in Toledo, which carries State Route 65 over the Maumee River. ODOT said the project will upgrade the bridge’s internal electrical and mechanical systems, with construction...

Monday will mark 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy. Her entire crew of 29 died in a disaster so bad and so quick that no mayday call could be sent. The Fitzgerald story is the latest deadly tragedy on the Great Lakes, but unfortunately probably not the last. As a board member of the International Ship...

Mediation between a South Toledo drummer and his upset neighbors was unsuccessful, a judge said, and the case will continue with a visiting judge. Neither party appeared in Toledo Municipal Court on Monday morning, but Judge William Connelly, Jr., said it was his understanding that mediation between Patrick Chaney,...

IONIA, Mich. – John Russel Skelton, the father of the Skelton Brothers who went missing in 2010, is nearing the end of his jail sentence. Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton were 9, 7 and 5 years old when they disappeared from Lenawee County in November 2010. The boys were last seen with their father.

Changes to Perrysburg’s ordinances for mobile food units took effect Thursday. The changes to Chapter 813 of the city’s codified ordinances are intended to “modernize terminology, clarify permit processes, and expand operational and safety requirements for mobile food units,” officials said in a release. The changes...

WOOD COUNTY, OH (WOWO) — Anthony Emmanuel Labrador-Sierra, a Venezuelan national, has been indicted by a Wood County grand jury for allegedly posing as a teenage student at Perrysburg High School. WTOL reports Labrador-Sierra faces two charges: forgery, a fifth-degree felony with a maximum sentence of one year, and...