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By day, Carrie Grindle helps students. By night, she bartends. Last month, she saved a life. “I noticed a man’s life was in peril as he was choking and had no airway,” said Grindle, who was working an event for her part-time job at the Toledo Club. “I immediately performed the Heimlich maneuver on him and was able to...

MONROE, Mich. — A Monroe mother is now facing felony charges months after her 20-month-old son was found dead inside their home in December. Coralan Kaye-Elizabeth Peters, 36, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and second-degree child abuse, according to court records filed in Monroe’s 1st District Court. She...

DETROIT - A lot of people were surprised to see Air Quality Advisories being issued for parts of Michigan on Sunday and continuing into Monday. Those pollution-related alerts typically happen on humid summer days, and times when wildfire smoke is drifting across Michigan, creating hazy skies. But the strange culprit...

The blues was born in the sultry climate of the Deep South — but it didn’t stay there. The spirit of the blues, if not always the blues itself, infused Sunday’s indoor music festival that was held in the vast and vacant second-floor space of Hannon’s Block restaurant in downtown Toledo. It featured half a dozen bands...

Tom Hawley will see this year’s Monroe County Fair parade from a new vantage point. The recently retired Monroe News photographer was named marshal for the Sunday, Aug. 2 fair parade. “The (fair) board has selected Tom Hawley as the 2026 Monroe County Fair parade marshal,” said Darryl Diamond, fair manager. “We have...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a new USDA framework aimed at ending what officials call agricultural lawfare. The Farmer and Rancher Freedom Framework focuses on reducing federal enforcement actions, limiting regulations and strengthening private property protections. For Lenawee County...

TOLEDO, Ohio — What holds businesses back is not always a lack of customers, capital or ideas. Sometimes, local leaders say, the biggest barriers are the unseen gaps - between people, systems and opportunities. That was the focus of a recent episode of Leading Edge, where host Jeff Smith...

PORTAGE, Ohio — A Perrysburg man has died after a Feb. 5 crash at U.S. 6 and I-75 in Center Township, according to the Wood County Sheriff’s Office. Peter Kay was taken to Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center and later died of his injuries, the sheriff’s office said Sunday. Deputies were called at 3:12 p.m. Feb. 5...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - No major injuries were reported Saturday when a car crashed into a power pole after hitting another car. The crash happened around 4 p.m. at Dorr and Holland-Sylvania roads in Toledo. Police said the at-fault driver was in the car wash parking lot at the intersection,...

Before they had plant-filled storefronts, married couple Greer and Matthew Bowley only had their home in Toledo. “I’ve had plants my whole life,” Greer Bowley said. “My mom always had plants. She worked in a horticulture department at certain times.” Years later, around 2020, she started a plant nursery called Green...