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CARLETON, Mich. — Some residents in southeast Michigan felt the rumblings from a minor earthquake early Monday evening. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.7 magnitude earthquake struck northern Monroe County just west of Carleton around 5:32 p.m. Tremors were reported throughout the Monroe County and neighboring areas,...

Owens Community College has announced its 2026 class of Alumni Hall of Fame inductees, honoring four distinguished graduates whose careers, communities, and lives reflect the best of an Owens education. The honorees – Andrew R. Kleopfer, Edward J. Kubiak, Dr. Nilgün Sezginiş, and Mark White – will be formally recognized...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo Public Schools is weighing difficult decisions as it works to address a $68 million deficit, including plans to close and repurpose seven elementary schools across the district. The Board of Education approved “Transformation Plan 2.0” last week, a proposal aimed at tackling nearly half of...

More than three decades into its existence, Phoenix Earth Food Co-op’s West Toledo home base has received a refresh. “We just purchased the building three years ago, but we’ve been here for 34 years, so we are trying to put all this care back into it that’s been needed for a long time,” said Sean Fitzgerald, the co-op’s general manager. The co...

What could possibly be scary about a story called “Ice Cream”? And, really, how frightening is fudge? Turns out the title of the story is spelled “I Scream,” and a ghostly little girl is trying to force-feed fudge to a living girl who has broken into a hidden basement room where the flow of fudge never seems to end. The Anthony Wayne Junior...

Madison Darrah of Holland will cross the stage at Lourdes University to receive her diploma — among the final graduates in the school’s last commencement ceremony. “I was so sad to hear Lourdes was closing,” Ms. Darrah said. “It was devastating. I can’t tell you how grateful I am that I was able to experience the atmosphere here. It is going to be very bittersweet...

Railroad crossing work will close a North Toledo street on Monday and Tuesday, the Toledo Department of Transportation announced. Matzinger Road will be closed between Stickney Avenue and Enterprise Boulevard, with traffic detoured via Stickney, Benore Road, and Enterprise. Separately, curb and pedestrian ramp work associated with street resurfacing will require lane closings on three residential streets also on Monday and Tuesday, city officials...

A bridge replacement project will block Wood County’s River Road just south of downtown Rossford for about 3½ months starting Monday. While an Ohio Department of Transportation contractor replaces the bridge over Grassy Creek, commercial traffic will be detoured via I-75 and I-475 between the former’s Miami Street interchange and the latter’s State Rt. 25 interchange. Local traffic is expected to use...

Two Ohio zoos closed early after both were evacuated due to safety threats on Sunday.

TOLEDO, Ohio — Two people were taken to the hospital after two pickups violently collided in a south Toledo intersection on Sunday evening. According to Toledo police on the scene, a Chevy Silverado and a Ford F350 both sustained heavy front end damage as a result of the collision in the intersection of Glendale Avenue and Anthony Wayne Trail around 5 p.m.