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Bring a bucket and some treasure-hunting spirit to Ohio's Fossil Park, where you can pick fossils out of the ground yourself. Located in the city of Sylvania, Fossil Park holds traces of a lost world right beneath your feet. The park is world-renowned for its Devonian Era specimens, including clam-like brachiopods, cor

1894: Electric streetcars make their first run from Toledo to Perrysburg as part of the Toledo-Maumee Valley Streetcar Company. 1905: A Cherry Street Bridge tender is fired after almost failing to get draw spans up in time to allow a loaded passenger ship to pass through. With little warning to traffic, a streetcar nea

Lucas County has spent $230,000 fending off a federal civil rights lawsuit against jail officials and will likely spend more in the coming years. Several female corrections officers filed the case in 2023, and say that county and jail officials failed to protect them from “severe and pervasive” sexual harassment by mal

Lourdes University in Sylvania filed for bankruptcy Monday. The university board of trustees voted unanimously to authorize the filing for Chapter 11 “to support an orderly winddown of the University’s operations, the settlement of its remaining affairs, and the disposition of its assets,” according to a news release.

Government officials within Genoa continue to research the positives and negatives of potential business developments at a site near the intersection of 163 and Reiman, which could possibly include a data center. That process continued Aug. 3 at the latest village council meeting, where council members heard from resid

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A large pile of trash that sat in front of a Bowman Street home for roughly two weeks has been cleaned up, according to a neighbor who contacted the city seeking help. Chris Day, who lives on Bowman Street, said the family renting the house moved...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A 14-year-old Toledo boy suffered injuries to his arm, back and legs after a driver struck him in a crosswalk while he was riding his e-bike and then left the scene, his mother said. Arryian Skiles, a student at Whitmer High School, said he was riding...

Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz has ordered Toledo police to block food trucks from occupying a popular area near Huron and Monroe streets on weekend nights after a shooting there two months ago, according to police in a video provided to city leaders and reporters early Monday. Andrew Zepeda, the operator of Andrew Z’s Trave

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A for-profit college with campuses in Brecksville, Maumee and Toledo has agreed to pay just over $1 million to the U.S. Department of Education and a whistleblower to settle allegations that the schools inflated graduation rates and didn’t return federal student aid. Furthermore, American Higher Educa

MAUMEE, Ohio (WTVG) - A new mural at Maumee High School’s Richard Kazmaier Stadium was unveiled Friday, Aug. 7, as the latest piece in a public art project aimed at creating 100 works across the Toledo area. Toledo-area artist Dean Davis and his team spent four months planning and...