Monday, October 9, 2017

Opioids and cops visible and other top stories.

  • Opioids and cops visible

    Opioids and cops visible
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Last week, Toledo city councilman Lindsay Webb offered a budget amendment. She proposed spending $1.25 million to hire 40 police recruits July 1 rather than Dec. 1. She was ruled out of order by council President Steven Steel, but Ms. Webb is right. We need more cops in Toledo, and we need them now. Click here to view more Blade editorials There have been 10 murders in Toledo so far this year. Three of the victims were 14, 1..
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  • March 4 Trump rally in Toledo

    March 4 Trump rally in Toledo
    TOLEDO (WTVG) - There were rallies in support of President Trump all across the nation today, including down at International Park. The crowd in Toledo may not have been massive but the point wasn't to make a spectacle according to attendees. "We want to remind people of the great job he's been doing. To the opposition, we just like to say, we're here, we won," said Tommy Mori, a Trump supporter. A number of people spoke at the rally, including a former Obama supporter. The people who showed u..
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  • Cameras reveal hot spots for Toledo's traffic offenders

    Cameras reveal hot spots for Toledo's traffic offenders
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print The Rockets are still flying low. Tallies from Toledo’s 43 fixed-location traffic cameras show the camera on northbound Douglas at University Hills Boulevard, on the northeastern edge of the University of Toledo’s main campus, yielded by far the most tickets during 2016, and its count went up by 15 percent. Overall, the cameras last year nabbed 29,610 vehicles traveling substantially over the posted speed limit — the city gi..
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  • Supporters gather for 'March 4 Trump' rallies around US

    Supporters gather for 'March 4 Trump' rallies around US
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print From Colorado’s state Capitol to Trump Tower in New York and the Washington Monument, groups of hundreds of people rallied for President Trump today, waving “Deplorables for Trump” signs and even carrying a life-size cutout of the president. Chelsea Thomas, an accountant from Thornton, Colorado, brought her family to the March 4 Trump rally in Denver — and the life-size cardboard cutout of Trump. She said the family has take..
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  • Toledo RB Kareem Hunt talked with Browns at NFL Combine

    Toledo RB Kareem Hunt talked with Browns at NFL Combine
    QB Mitch Trubisky isn't the only local player with the dream of playing for his hometown team: RB Kareem Hunt shares those ambitions. Here is what the Toledo ...
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  • 'Wicked,' 'Cinderella' among shows in Toledo Broadway lineup

    'Wicked,' 'Cinderella' among shows in Toledo Broadway lineup
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print   The 2017-18 Broadway in Toledo Series, to be presented by Theater League at the Stranahan Theater, features four musicals that have been on Broadway, two of which are still playing there. The anchor of the new season, the long-running hit Wicked (June 6-17, 2018), features two girls — the smart, strong-willed, misunderstood, green-faced Elphaba and the beautiful and popular Galinda (later called Glinda) — who meet as stude..
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  • French culture celebrated at Mardi Gras party

    French culture celebrated at Mardi Gras party
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Alliance Francaise de Toledo celebrated its 50th anniversary with a Mardi Gras-themed party at Sylvania Country Club. Mask-clad guests sipped champagne and nibbled savory appetizers including petite crab cakes and zesty shrimp as the Toledo International Youth Orchestra performed. Emcee Chris Joseph welcomed everyone and introduced Joyce Blanton, board president, and event chairman Elizabeth Dupuy, who was assisted by Shirle..
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  • The Russian Revolution, still turning

    The Russian Revolution, still turning
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print It was a land of peasants, and yet it was industrializing with astonishing speed. It was ruled by an ancient, autocratic royal family, and yet there were remarkable stirrings of demands for democracy. It was a thousand miles from the main theaters of World War I, and yet there were 15 million men at arms. It was a rural kingdom, and yet its most far-reaching events were occurring in the cities. And as this nation of controve..
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  • Trump accuses Obama of tapping his phones, invokes Watergate

    Trump accuses Obama of tapping his phones, invokes Watergate
    By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JULIE PACEAssociated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - President Donald Trump is accusing Barack Obama of ordering his telephones tapped during last year's elections, offering no evidence while invoking politically charged references to Watergate, Nixon and McCarthyism. An Obama spokesman responded that the assertion against the former president was "simply false." Trump's claim also drew bipartisan rebukes from Democrats and Republicans alike. In a serie..
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  • At least 12 fire departments battling church blaze

    At least 12 fire departments battling church blaze
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print TEMPERANCE — At least 12 fire departments are battling a blaze at Bridgepoint Church in Temperance. PHOTO GALLERY: Fire at Bridgepoint Church in Temperance Monroe County dispatchers confirmed a call came in at roughly 2:45 p.m.  Bedford Township officials shared on their Facebook page that Bridgepoint Church services would be at 11 a.m. Sunday in the Bedford High School auditorium, 8285 Jackman Rd, Temperance. Pastor Craig ..
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Toledo woman hit and killed by train .Steven Mnuchin, Treasury Nominee, Failed to Disclose $100 Million in Assets .
Suburbs want stake in Toledo water plant .Iranian Baby Barred By Travel Ban Enters US For Lifesaving Surgery .

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