Local family sues Scouting America after 5-year-old beaten, suffers broken leg during Cub Scout...
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (WTVG) - A local family has filed a lawsuit against Scouting America after their 5-year-old son was beaten and suffered a serious fracture to his thighbone during a Cub Scout meeting, according to the family and their attorney. Breanna and Christopher Russell say their son — identified...
Toledo man flees from police after warrant issued for felonious assault
TOLEDO, Ohio — A Toledo man has been arrested on multiple felony charges after fleeing from police out of a second-story window. According to court documents, Chase Carter, 19, was arrested in north Toledo on Wednesday, Feb. 25, after police attempted to execute a search and arrest warrant for Carter related to a...
Two men with Toledo ties indicted for scamming senior citizens, money laundering
TOLEDO, Ohio — Two men are facing federal charges, accused of targeting senior citizens across four states in a scheme that allegedly tricked victims into handing over hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gold bars. A federal grand jury on Feb. 19 indicted Tejas Bhupendrabhai Patel, 31,...
Cleveland-based company closing Greenville facility, other Ohio sites amid bankruptcy
A Cleveland-based auto parts supplier will be closing several facilities in Ohio, including one in the Miami Valley, leading to layoffs of over 1,200 workers.
First Brands closing plants in Bowling Green, Tiffin; 700 to lose jobs
CLEVELAND — Automotive parts manufacturer First Brands has announced it is closing four facilities across Ohio, affecting more than 1,100 workers. In letters to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, the company, which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, said it will close its facilities in Bowling Green and...
Police investigate break-in at north Toledo cell tower
TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo Police are investigating a possible theft at a north Toledo cell tower late last week. According to a report, officers responded to the site on the 1700 block of Matzinger Road, near Schwartz Road, on Friday. An unknown amount of property was reported stolen. The...
Ohio State Patrol investigating injury crash involving juvenile in Lake Township
The Bowling Green Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating an injury crash involving a juvenile. The crash was reported on Sunday (March 1) at approximately 1:41 p.m., at the intersection of Fostoria Road and Genoa Road, in Lake Township, Wood County. The preliminary investigation showed that a...
Bowling Green emerges from hibernation for first Winterfest in six years
After six years of hibernation, the Bowling Green Winterfest returned on Saturday. There were ice sculptures, bands and brews, brisk horse-drawn wagon rides and roasters of steaming chili. The Winterfest at City Park made a comeback with a Frostbite Fun Run kicking off the event at 9:30 a.m., and bands...
Powell: Friendship, pierogis and a border collie
There are many kinds of friendship gifts and many different reasons to give them. Darlene Lipinski Nowak has known, since she knew me, that I am crazy about dogs — especially Border Collies. She also knows of my interest in Toledo’s great ethnic menu. With two kind gestures as her goal, Darlene arrived at the little...
Garfield Elementary second graders learn to swim for safety
Seventy percent of children drown in everyday clothes, said Kristin Olson, aquatic director at the Eastern Community YMCA in Oregon. “People don’t realize that,” Ms. Olson said. “They think it happens during swim times and it really doesn’t. It happens. They fall in somewhere, something happens. That means they don’t...

















