Новости за 15.02.2017

WASHINGTON — A jump in traffic fatalities last year pushed deaths on U.S. roads to their highest level in nearly a decade, erasing improvements made during the Great Recession and economic recovery, a leading safety organization said today.

SANDUSKY — Amusement park chain Cedar Fair LP said today that its 2016 profits rose 58 percent to a record $178 million, or $3.14 a share, on revenues of $1.29 billion.

Sylvania Township police have charged the man they said spray painted a vulgar message last month on an Arab family’s home.

WASHINGTON -- On the eve of a Senate hearing today to consider “modernization of the Endangered Species Act,” an environmental conservation group sued the Trump administration for halting implementation of federal protections for the first bumblebee in history placed on the endangered list.

Police are investigating the armed robbery early today of an East Toledo convenience store.

WASHINGTON — Retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4 percent last month, slowing down from a solid 1 percent gain in December, the Commerce Department said today.

WASHINGTON — A new report says the Brooklyn Bridge and Washington’s Arlington Memorial Bridge are among thousands of spans considered structurally deficient.

Three years ago, House Republicans sued the Obama White House to block the administration from diverting funds to pay health care insurers to help cover low-income Americans.

(WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will formally inaugurate their partnership today in talks that could shape a new approach by Washington that does not emphasize a two-state peace framework for the region.

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Ford Motor Co. plans to build a $200 million aerodynamic testing facility in suburban Detroit.

NEW YORK — A German shepherd with local ties didn’t need a third time to charm her way to the top at one of the world’s premier dog shows.

There is never any love lost between rivals St. John’s Jesuit and St. Francis de Sales, and Tuesday’s basketball contest between the two on Valentine’s Day was no exception.

The laid-back demeanor of Walleye center A.J. Jenks off the ice instantly gives way to an intense, competitive drive when the puck drops.

AKRON — The University of Toledo men’s basketball team had its sights set on ending Akron’s home winning streak on Tuesday.

Dalonte Brown awoke from his dream in a haze.

EAST LANSING, Mich — A flurry of first-half setbacks overcome and a poor start to the second half nearly erased, Ohio State was within one possession of Michigan State.

Starting with Toledo’s municipal primary in September, poll workers will use electronic tablets to keep track of who’s voting instead of thick, printed lists.

One of the Toledo Zoo’s adult polar bears has moved to the Chicago area to be paired with a new mate.

Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Al Jarreau, who died Sunday at age 76, headlined the 2006 Art Tatum Jazz Heritage Festival in International Park as well as a 1996 indoor concert that was part of a three-day festival.

Janice G. Holzemer, a registered nurse whose decades-long career included patient care during two historic local emergencies, died Monday in Hospice of Northwest Ohio, Perrysburg Township. She was 79.

We owe Planned Parenthood a huge debt of gratitude for preventing thousands upon thousands of abortions. Rather than trying to destroy Planned Parenthood, we should do everything we can to save it.

Gen. Michael Flynn didn’t jump, he was pushed. There are at least three ways to look at his departure as national security adviser.

Toledo area real estate investor Matt DeWood early last year was on the lookout for possible new acquisitions when an unusual purchase opportunity came his way — Cricket West, a 56-year-old shopping center in West Toledo.

Toledo is now one of the Ohio cities that’s being targeted for improvement in infant mortality rates.