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Toledo, Ohio (April 19, 2025)………There can’t possibly be a better way to celebrate a 100th career USAC Silver Crown start the way Justin Grant did during Saturday afternoon’s Hemelgarn Racing/Super Fitness Rollie Beale Classic at Ohio’s Toledo Speedway. Grant (Ione, California) started from the...

john prine Declining numbers of tobacco smokers since 1965 are being offset by growing numbers of people vaping e-cigarettes. That trend is as apparent in Lucas County as in the rest of the nation, according to Karim Baroudi, public health commissioner for the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department. “We are seeing...

Canise Jones said she has never received an Easter basket — not even as a child. But the 23-year-old emergency homeless shelter resident happily accepted a basket containing items for both her and her 1-year-old son Jerusalem this Easter. “I feel really blessed because I thought they said it was for the babies,” she...

Michigan (WWJ) -- A 35-year-old woman is in the hospital after the car she was driving crashed into a Dundee, Michigan, house Friday evening. According to the Dundee Police Department, officers responded to the crash on the 100 block of Monroe Street near Oak Street around 5:20 p.m. The woman...

Local foodies and culinary adventurers roamed the streets of downtown Toledo on Saturday, sampling curated dishes and drinks and discovering new spots. Best Bites, a one-day food tour hosted by The Blade, highlighted 15 restaurants ranging from coffee to burgers to sushi. The ticketed event sold out, and restaurant...

What is going on with all the attacks on birth certificates? We live hopefully long lives beyond that one moment in time. Things can change. They attacked persons’ rights who have transitioned medically to the opposite sex than what is on their birth certificates. Now, they are attacking the rights of women,...

It almost seemed like a deja vu from years gone by with my own late father. Over the past weekend, my son and I were drawn to watching a pair of hawks that were flying above our Sylvania house and taking perches in the large sweet gum trees in our neighbor’s yard. Apparently I thought their nest is due west across...

PRESS RELEASE – (TOLEDO, Ohio) — The former director of a Toledo-area nonprofit has been indicted for allegedly stealing at least $150,000 from the organization and its donors, including elderly Ohioans, Attorney General Dave Yost announced. A Lucas County grand jury this week indicted Thomas Ostrosky, 52, on felony...

ELMORE, Ohio — An Elmore man said he’s frustrated and out thousands of dollars after a contractor failed to honor a warranty on a fence project that quickly began falling apart. Joseph Trader said he hired Blue Line Fencing in August 2023 to build a 280-foot-long L-shaped fence...

One Toledo City Councilman wants to ensure that all schools in the city are held to the same zoning standards, but others are pushing back on a new proposed ordinance. Councilman Nick Komives is proposing an ordinance that would add requirements to the Toledo Municipal Code for future educational facilities. It would...