Sunday, September 3, 2017

Freedom School wraps up its 1st Toledo summer and other top stories.

  • Freedom School wraps up its 1st Toledo summer

    Freedom School wraps up its 1st Toledo summer
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print More than 50 children planned to chant for one last time the inspirational lyrics to Labi Siffre’s “Something Inside So Strong” during the closing program for Monroe Street Church and Neighborhood Center’s Freedom School. The participants, who ranged in age from kindergartners to eighth graders, learned the motivational song during their six weeks in the summer school. “[The theme is] ‘I can make a difference in my life, in ..
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  • USAC at Toledo

    USAC at Toledo
    Toledo, Ohio has been a home to USAC racing dating back to the club's inception in 1956. Over the past six decades, no driver has won more USAC races in the "Glass City" than did hometown hero, Rollie Beale, who won five USAC Sprint Car races on the half-mile, high-banked paved oval between 1971 and 1976. However, this Friday night, July 28, at Toledo's Hemelgarn Racing/Super Fitness "Rollie Beale Classic," one driver has an opportunity to do something not even the great Beale was able to accom..
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  • Repaving of Toledo's Front Street may include roundabouts

    Repaving of Toledo's Front Street may include roundabouts
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print An upcoming city of Toledo project to repave Front Street north of I-280 might be supplemented by — or expanded to include — construction of two modern roundabouts near the Port of Toledo to support the planned development of an iron processing plant nearby. One of the two roundabouts connecting Cherry Street and Detroit Avenue in Toledo. An upcoming project to repave Front Street north of I-280 might be supplemented by ..
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  • Toledo man indicted for murder of 73-year-old

    Toledo man indicted for murder of 73-year-old 2017-07-27T20:56:57Z2017-07-27T20:56:57Z (Source: Lucas County Jail) TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - A Lucas County grand jury indicted a Toledo man Thursday on several charges, including murder, in the death of a 73-year-old man.Michael Smoot is accused of murdering Walter Sites on July 12. An autopsy revealed Sites had massive head trauma including skull fractures and brain injuries.Smoot was charged with Sites's murder.Thursday, a grand jury i..
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  • Toledo officials: $8M in city fund for 5 years didn't sit idle

    Toledo officials: $8M in city fund for 5 years didn't sit idle
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Toledo’s top finance officials this week tried to close the chapter on lingering financial questions hammering the mayor’s administration during an election year by asserting the more-than-$8 million that sat idle in a fund for five years was actually known about and “accounted for” during that entire time. There is no proof that is true. City Finance Director George Sarantou and Debt Commissioner Bryan Benner told The Blade..
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  • President Trump's son-in-law no longer invested in Toledo

    President Trump's son-in-law no longer invested in Toledo
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Jared Kushner ASSOCIATED PRESS Enlarge Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior adviser, is no longer invested in Toledo apartments. The Kushner Cos., a multibillion-dollar real-estate company based in New York and owned by Mr. Kushner and his father, Charles, purchased five large Toledo apartment complexes totaling 1,000 units for more than $12.9 million in 2011. They were bought in ..
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  • Motorcyclist killed in South Toledo crash

    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print A 21-year-old motorcyclist was killed during a three-vehicle crash in South Toledo late Thursday, according to Toledo police.  The driver of the motorcycle, Osha D. Southward, 21, of the 2100 block of Shenandoah Road in central city, was transported to the University of Toledo Medical Center, formerly the Medical College of Ohio Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased, according to police.  The drivers of the other two ca..
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  • Toledo mother claims birth control injection killed daughter

    TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - A Toledo mother claims her daughter died from Dep Provera, a birth control inject prescribed by her doctor.Rochelle Russell says she lives every day with the pain of watching her 21-year-old daughter Breanna die with no idea what was happening to her.“I should have possibly researched it more," Russell said. However, she also claims doctors and clinics never laid out the potentially serious side effects.Russell says her daughter died from severe cranial pressure ..
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  • Junkyard King: Toledo man harbors special talent for cars and their ...

    TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - When it comes to junkyards, one Toledo man is quite a legend. Paul "Shaky" Childress works at King Road Auto Parts and he is the go-to guy if you need parts for you car. That's because Shaky can remember details about every single car in the yard."To me, these cars are like a big game. It's hide-and-go-seek," Shaky said.Shaky said he starts his day by coming to work and tearing apart cars. He has been doing this job for more than 30 years and knows all the cars i..
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  • Man peacefully surrenders after hours-long standoff

    Man peacefully surrenders after hours-long standoff 2017-07-28T09:22:53Z2017-07-28T09:22:53Z (Source: WTOL) TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - Toledo police were on the scene of a standoff early Friday morning.The incident occurred on the corner of Huron and Locust Streets around midnight.Police say they received a call from a woman who was concerned for her brother's safety. The man had barricaded himself inside of the auto body shop where he works. Police blocked off several streets and SWAT ..
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50 years ago: Nationwide contagion of violence touches Toledo .Jamie Farr returns to Toledo for August celebration .
FDA Approves First Generic Version of Gilead's HIV Drug Truvada .'Assassin's Creed Origins' could arrive on October 27th .

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