Thursday, June 16, 2016

Toledo and BG communities honor Orlando shooting victims and other top stories.

  • Toledo and BG communities honor Orlando shooting victims

    Toledo and BG communities honor Orlando shooting victims
    13abc (WTVG) - The tragedy in Orlando has left a lasting feeling of grief across the United States and here at home. As the investigation continues in Florida, hundreds of miles away in Bowling Green, the community packed the First Presbyterian Church to push a message of love and support. "It was a travesty. Hate is what made this happen," Linda Tomajka, who organized the vigil said. "If you love one another, so much more good will happen in the world." With the names of each victim surroun..
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  • 13 charged after search at Toledo adult club

    13 charged after search at Toledo adult club
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Thirteen people are facing charges after state authorities served a search warrant recently at an adult entertainment club in Toledo. The Ohio Investigative Unit and the Toledo Police Department conducted the search Saturday at Déjà Vu, 135 S. Byrne Rd., after a six-month investigation into possible drug trafficking, prostitution, and illegal operation of a sexually oriented business. Additional charges are pending in the investigation..
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  • Housing project wins tax credits

    Housing project wins tax credits
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments The third phase of Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority’s Collingwood Green housing project has been awarded federal tax credits under a state program to promote affordable housing. The 55-unit, $13.8 million complex, which is to be built in the LMHA development opened in 2013 at Division Street and Belmont Avenue, will receive $1 million worth of tax credits, the Ohio Housing Finance Agency announced Wednesday. The LMHA project is amo..
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  • Shootings drive local gun sales

    Shootings drive local gun sales
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Sales of weapons and firearms parts have been brisk this week for Todd Bruning, a development that is as predictable as dark clouds and rain. All it took for buyers to scramble cash in hand to his Lambertville firearms store, Todd’s Guns LLC, was a mass homicide tragedy Sunday in Orlando, Fla., followed by politicians calling for tighter gun controls. “That’s always what does it. The same thing happened after Sandy Hook,” Mr. Bruning s..
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  • Toledo man charged with rape in Old Orchard

    Toledo man charged with rape in Old Orchard
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Moore in Lucas County Common Pleas Court in 2013. THE BLADE Enlarge | Buy This Image A judge has set bond at $500,000 for a Toledo man charged with rape in the Old Orchard neighborhood. James Moore, 24, of the 2700 block of Wayman Palmer Drive was arrested on the charge following a reported sexual assault Friday. He was arraigned Monday in Toledo Municipal Court. Police said a man forced a woman to ..
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  • State Rep. Tim Brown will lead Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of ...

    State Rep. Tim Brown will lead Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of ...
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments State. Rep. Tim Brown (R., Bowling Green) was chosen Wednesday to be president of the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments, replacing Tony Reams, who is retiring. The decision was unanimous by the TMACOG executive committee, said Craig Stough, chairman of the regional body’s board of trustees and mayor of Sylvania. Mr. Brown’s salary is being negotiated, Mr. Stough said. Mr. Reams has been TMACOG president since November, 20..
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  • Reaction mixed for developing water consortium

    Reaction mixed for developing water consortium
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Gabriel Enlarge Proponents of forming a regional water authority for Toledo and its suburbs stressed that a report released Wednesday shows they are right, but some said they are leery of the decades-old idea that has languished. Toledo Councilman Theresa Gabriel, a former high-ranking city administrator who served under Carty Finkbeiner when he was mayor, said it “would not be wise” for Toledo to support a regional consortium...
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