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• Toledo teen faces judge after allegedly shooting, killing 15-year-old ...

  

  TOLEDO, Ohio (13abc Action News) - Emotions ran high inside a Toledo courtroom as 14-year-old Tyanna Thomas entered a denial plea for allegedly shooting and killing her 15-year-old brother Tommie. File image from unrelated crime scene taken by: LWP Communications / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 The charges against Tyanna stem from a call Toledo Police say they received just before 9:00 p.m. Wednesday night. That's where they found 15-year-old Tommie Thomas shot at least one time. "It appears it was in..

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• Toledo Police need helping finding missing teen

  

  TOLEDO (13abc Action News) - According to Toledo Police 18-year-old Logan Green has been missing since Monday. The department's Facebook posted the following information: Please, help us locate Logan Green. Logan was last seen on December 5, at around 9:00 p.m., leaving his home on Lewis Avenue. He is a white male,18 year old, 5'11 ft, 155 lbs, with brown hair, and green eyes. He was last seen wearing a dark colored hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, and black work boots. Logan drives a dark blue ..

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• John Glenn (1921-2016)

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print John Herschel Glenn, Jr., the first American to orbit the Earth and decades later the oldest person in space, who served four terms as a U.S. senator from his native Ohio, died Thursday in Columbus. He was 95. A cause of death was not reported. Mr. Glenn had been hospitalized for more than week at James Cancer Hospital, an official with the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University reported Wednesday. The..

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• Rev. Paul Martin Kwiatkowski (1939-2016)

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print The Rev. Paul Martin Kwiatkowski, a priest known for his intellect, humor, teaching ability, empathy for the poor, and musicianship, died Saturday at his home in Toledo of an extended illness. He was 77. “He was very charismatic. He was very kind and outgoing. He would do anything for people. He had a good sense of humor,” said his cousin, Joyce Thome, of Maumee, who grew up with him and was as close to him as a sister. ..

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• Urban gardens planned for west Toledo are put on hold

  

  ©  NBC 24 | Portions are ©  Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or distributed.NBC 24 provides coverage of news, sports, weather and local events in the Toledo, Ohio area, including Sandusky, Fremont, Findlay, Whitehouse, Maumee, Holland, Lima, Delta, Napoleon and Defiance, Ohio and Adrian, Monroe and Milan, Michigan.

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• Abortion bills push constitutional limits

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print COLUMBUS — Gov. John Kasich will soon have two conflicting bills before him, through which lawmakers seek to push the constitutional envelope on how much states may restrict abortion rights. After staying away from Columbus most of the summer and fall, lawmakers rushed dozens of bills to the governor’s desk this week as they prepared to end the two-year session late Thursday. The House voted 64-29 and the Senate 23-8 to send..

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• Attorney: Death of student's roommate 'unfortunate accident ...

  

  AKRON, Ohio (AP) - An attorney for an Ohio college student charged in the fatal stabbing of his roommate at an off-campus apartment says the death wasn't a murder but an "unfortunate accident." University of Akron student Kendal Scheid pleaded not guilty to a murder charge this week in Akron Municipal Court in the death of Duncan Unternaher. Police say the roommate was stabbed in the chest Saturday during an alcohol-fueled argument and died Monday. Scheid is from Norwalk. He's free after postin..

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• Police chief optimistic despite homicide increase

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Although Toledo has had an increase in homicides this year, police Chief George Kral expressed optimism Wednesday about a series of new programs and officer efforts. Chief Kral praised officers’ efforts during his first State of the Toledo Police Department address at the main Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. About 20 members of the public attended. Toledo Police Chief George Kral gives his first state of the police d..

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• Storm on its way this weekend to Toledo area

  

  Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Toledo-area weather forecasters remained on the lookout Thursday for a winter storm late this weekend, but northwest Ohio and extreme southeast Michigan were missed by snow that factored into two major freeway pileups. Snow in central Michigan and along eastern Lake Erie were believed to be factors in the crashes Thursday that closed I-96 east of Lansing and I-90 near Erie, Pa., with three deaths reported in the Michigan cra..

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• Quotes from John Glenn: 'Zero-G and I feel fine.'

  

  By The Associated Press A sampling of quotes from John Glenn: "We are placed here with certain talents and capabilities. It is up to each of us to use those talents and capabilities as best you can. If you do that, I think there is a power greater than any of us that will place the opportunities in our way, and if we use our talents properly, we will be living the kind of life we should live." - At NASA news conference in 1959 to introduce the Mercury 7 astronauts. "Zero-G and I feel fine." - W..

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