Toledo leader in Christmas Bird Count and other top stories.

• Toledo leader in Christmas Bird Count

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print They will gather in Goose Bay, Fargo, Playa Blanca-Barra de Potosi, Oscoda, Shemya Island, Slave Lake, Roswell and Cape Hatteras. And in New York City’s Central Park, along Chicago’s lakefront and in the hills above Malibu. A random collection of citizen scientists also will meet in Rossford early Sunday morning, anxious to brave the elements as they fulfill the Toledo area’s prominent role in The National Audubon Society’s ..

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• Three people shot in 2 separate incidents in Toledo

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Three people were shot late last night and early today in Toledo, authorities said. Most recently, a couple were shot early today in a South Toledo apartment complex, apparently accidentally, according to Toledo police. Paul Gianni and Susan Payne were shot 3:02 a.m.when they were fighting over a gun at a Garden Lake Apartments residence in the 1000 block of Garden Lake Drive near South Detroit Avenue and Arlington Avenue. ..

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• Rockets, Buckeyes, Wolverines prep for bowl season

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Long journey: UT’s Roberts strives to overcome None of the success that University of Toledo senior tight end Michael Roberts is having has come easy. Coming to Toledo as a raw prospect from Cleveland Benedictine High School, Roberts’ ascent as one of the nation’s top tight ends took a long and winding path. He admits looking back on his early years with the Rockets he didn’t put in the work necessary to earn consistent play..

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• Toledo teen could be tried as adult for brother's murder

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Lucas County prosecutors want to try the Toledo teenager charged with killing her brother in adult court. Tyanna Thomas, 14, returned today to Lucas County Juvenile Court for a brief pre-trial hearing. She's charged with murder in the Dec. 7 shooting of Tommie Thomas, 15. Prosecutors said today they filed a motion to transfer her to common pleas court. Toledo police found the victim about 8:50 p.m. at a home in the 1000 bloc..

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• Curtice man stands behind his principles

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print For Ohio State football fans of age, it remains a remember-where-you-were moment.  The Punch.  The night former Buckeyes coach Woody Hayes slugged Clemson lineman Charlie Bauman late in the 1978 Gator Bowl, and became a raving caricature for generations to come.  But this is not another story on the final act of a good but flawed man. You will see plenty of those as Ohio State and Clemson prepare for their New Year’s Eve Col..

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• Athlete of the Week: Logan Woodside

  Athlete of the Week: Logan Woodside 2016-12-16T01:08:12Z2016-12-16T01:45:24Z (Source: UTRockets.com) TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - The Athlete of the Week is a timely pick because the Toledo Rockets are in Montgomery, Alabama for the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl.It’s quarterback Logan Woodside.After sitting out last year behind Philip Ely, Woodside was ready for his close-up. In the opener against Arkansas State, he threw for 371 yards and three touchdowns in a Rocket’s win.He kept getting ..

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• Wintry conditions face local holiday travelers

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Toledoans planning for early starts to Christmas travel should hit the highways early today or consider waiting until later Saturday if they want to avoid weather-related complications. The second significant winter storm to hit northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan in less than a week was forecast Thursday to move into the region late today and deliver a mixed bag of precipitation that could make travel tricky, especially t..

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• Japan, Russia eye economic pact amid stalemate on territory

  

  By MARI YAMAGUCHIAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) - Russia and Japan agreed Friday to hold talks on joint economic development of four islands at the center of a decades-old territorial dispute between the countries. It was a small step forward that fell far short of breaking the stalemate in a dispute that has prevented Russia and Japan from signing a peace treaty formally ending their World War II hostilities. Joint development "would help foster trust toward a peace treaty," Rus..

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• Rates surging 5 weeks post-election; will home sales weaken?

  

  By MARCY GORDONAP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Mortgage rates are still surging five weeks after Donald Trump's election victory. Will higher rates weaken prospective buyers' confidence next year and dampen home sales? While the job market is stable, the low mortgage rates that helped spur homebuying this year are disappearing in the rearview mirror. Steadily rising rates would ultimately limit the number of possible buyers and how much they can afford to pay. And existin..

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• Donald Breese (1930-2016)

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Donald Breese, a retired bank vice president who relished his role in financing projects with promise, died Saturday in ProMedica Ebeid Hospice Residence, Sylvania. He was 86. Mr. Breese of Sylvania Township had congestive heart failure, his daughter Amy said.  Breese Enlarge He closed his career as a senior vice president of First National Bank of Toledo and its successor, Fifth Third Bank, from which he retired in ..

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