New boat museum to help Toledo youth and other top stories.

• New boat museum to help Toledo youth

  

  New boat museum to help Toledo youth 2017-08-19T19:19:47Z2017-08-19T19:19:47ZBy Kelsey Cogan, Reporter (Source: WTOL) TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - A new museum boat made it's way to Toledo Saturday and it will be helping out some kids.The 44-foot Motor Lifeboat 44334 was built in 1965 for the US Coast Guard with a primary mission of being used for coastal rescue."The coast guard used them up until 2010 I believe, the last one was retired. The boats, as long as their closed up the way the..

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• Parade-goers show 'Pride' in Toledo

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print   The heart of downtown Toledo was pulsed with color Saturday. The annual Toledo Pride festival in Levis Square celebrated diversity and promoted equality for the LGBTQIA community — lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, and allied. People bedecked in bright, rainbow colors filled the streets after a joy-filled parade down Adams Street.   GALLERY: Toledoans show 'Pride' during annual festival VIDEO: To..

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• Walking tours let residents see the many sides of Toledo

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print The Toledo-Lucas County Library and University of Toledo have one simple concept: The more you know about the City of Toledo, the more you’ll appreciate and understand it. More than 60 people recently squeezed into the front entrance of the Collingwood Arts Center for the year’s sixth stop on the Discover Downtown Toledo Walking Tours. Patrick Tansey, founder and first executive director of the Collingwood Arts Center, b..

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• Giant tree limb falls on house in east Toledo

  Giant tree limb falls on house in east Toledo 2017-08-19T21:09:00Z2017-08-19T21:09:00Z (Source: WTOL) TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - Imagine waking up to a tree landing on the roof of your house.That's exactly what happened to one family on Forsythe St. in east Toledo early Saturday morning when a large dead limb from a tree in the tree lawn fell on their roof.When they discovered the tree on the roof, they reached out to the city but never received a call back.They eventually called 911 ar..

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• School buses to get wireless internet for lengthy commutes

  

  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Ohio students with lengthy commutes will be able to access Wi-Fi on new technologically advanced buses in a pilot program. Ten yellow buses for Toledo Public Schools are now outfitted with wireless capabilities. The Blade reports (http://bit.ly/2uMCT4d ) the program aims to give students a way to complete assignments and homework both on the way to school and on the way home. Jim Gault, the school district's chief academic officer, says some students are riding the bus 45 mi..

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• Businesses told to close near former Confederate marker site

  

  Businesses told to close near former Confederate marker site 2017-08-20T00:18:52Z2017-08-20T00:21:53Z (Source: Raycom) (AP) - Police in an Ohio city advised businesses close to the site of a former Confederate marker to close early after Confederate flags were placed in the area.The Hamilton-Middletown Journal News reports (http://bit.ly/2wcDk7G ) the stone marker commemorating Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed Thursday in Franklin, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northeast of Cincin..

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• Pioneering piano player swings through Toledo

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Ben Sidran, one of the finest pianists who’s likely not a household name, brings his jazzy-funk-meets-serious-beboppin’ style of music back to Toledo on Saturday for the first time in three years. The show, presented by the Art Tatum Jazz Heritage Society and Harold Jaffe Jewelers, is at 7:30 p.m. inside the Collingwood Arts Center, 2413 Collingwood Ave. Tickets are $25 for Art Tatum members, $35 for non-members, and $15 for..

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• Man pleads guilty after shooting at Columbus main library

  

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man has pleaded guilty to felonious assault after being charged with firing gunshots in the Columbus Metropolitan Library's main branch downtown. The Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/2fUObNg) 28-year-old Joseph Steward entered the guilty plea Thursday in Franklin County court. The felonious assault charge included a gun specification. Steward also pleaded guilty to inducing panic following the June 11 shooting. He faces 12 ½ years in prison. A message was left with Stewar..

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• Thomas S. Brittain (1930-2017)

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Thomas S. Brittain, a retired Owens-Corning Fiberglas accountant and a dedicated volunteer who helped start the local branch of a group to help people in need, whether of a meal, a ride to the doctor, or a kind word, died Wednesday in Hospice of Northwest Ohio, South Detroit Avenue. He was 87. Mr. Brittain of Monclova Township had cancer, his wife, Eileen, said. Brittain Enlarge On his way to a career at what is now ..

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• Baby overdoses on heroin; mother arrested

  

  YORKTOWN, IN (WISH/CNN) – A mother from Indiana is facing charges after her 1-month-old son overdosed on heroin and had to be revived with naloxone.Diasha Clark, 26, the baby’s mother, found him with a small plastic bag in his mouth Wednesday night, according to court documents.The bag had a powdery substance in it, now believed to be heroin.Prosecutors say a cousin rushed the baby to the hospital after he stopped breathing.“First of all, you have the addict who chooses to take the drug, but the..

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