Новости за 09.03.2017

Death-penalty specifications were dismissed today against an Oregon man charged with setting a fire that resulted in the deaths of two Toledo firefighters.

The Toledo Area Humane Society is offering a reward for information regarding a seriously injured dog that appears to have been fought.

WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks will work with technology companies to help defend them against the CIA’s hacking tools, founder Julian Assange said today. The move sets up a potential conflict between Silicon Valley firms eager to protect their products and an intelligence agency stung by the radical transparency group’s disclosures.

More than 5,000 customers in Lucas County remain without power today after Wednesday’s winds whipped through the area, according to a Toledo Edison spokesman.

The Benton-Carroll-Salem Board of Education voted Tuesday to remove a 4.35-mill bond issue from the May 2 ballot.

BRISBANE, Australia — A 42-year-old Australian man who allegedly posed as Justin Bieber online to solicit explicit images from children has been charged with more than 900 child sex offenses, police said today.

A judge set bond today at $1 million for the Toledo man accused of killing his friend Wednesday at an Old West End apartment.

WASHINGTON — One sign of how entrenched the revolving door has become in Washington: Experienced people are forsaking chances to fill key posts in President Donald Trump’s administration partly because of his executive order forbidding federal employees from lobbying for five years after leaving government service.

HONOLULU — Hawaii has become the first state to file a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, saying the order will harm its Muslim population, tourism and foreign students.

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin has dismissed 10 senior law enforcement officers, the latest move in a personnel reshuffle launched by the Russian leader.

WOOSTER, Ohio — Police say a woman was fatally shot and her 7-week-old infant was abducted in north-central Ohio, leading to a search that ended with the child safe and a suspect dead in an apparent suicide.

COLUMBUS — Ohio’s state income tax revenue has come up short of estimates in the past several months, and state tax revenue overall is nearly 3 percent below estimates for the fiscal year.

NEW MIAMI, Ohio — Authorities say a couple found human remains while they were hiking in southwestern Ohio.

WASHINGTON — More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but claims remained low enough to suggest that most workers enjoy job security.

UPPER SANDUSKY — A New Bloomington man drowned Wednesday while kayaking on the Sandusky River, according to officials.

UT women looking golden at MAC tournament

BOWLING GREEN — Wauseon might have come in with the No. 8 state ranking and the impressive 22-1 record, but in Wednesday night’s Division II district semifinals at the Stroh Center, Napoleon had basketball’s version of the boogeyman in senior long-range bomber Brett Lauf.

CLEVELAND — They say time heals all wounds, but Tim Selgo still is waiting.

TIFFIN — An exhibition of work done by Ohio inmates is an opportunity to see work by a population of artists that might otherwise go unseen and unappreciated, organizers say.

COLUMBUS — State agencies would be forced to cross-check Medicaid and food-stamp recipients against income, employment, lottery, immigration, death, real estate, and other databases on a quarterly basis in an effort to weed out fraud under bills introduced Wednesday.

PORT CLINTON — An Ottawa County judge Wednesday ordered a quarry owner that is mixing spent lime on its Benton Township property to stop work until it is in compliance with zoning rules.

A celebration of life ceremony is next month for James Maxwell “Sandy,” McCornock, a former Owens-Illinois vice president and former Toledo Molding & Die chief financial officer, who died Jan. 18 at his home on Dataw Island, S.C.

I was concerned to read that $8,000 of public funds was used to fund a private party, a billboard, and other things to celebrate the Toledo Housing Court’s history (March 3, “Party for Toledo Housing Court cost nearly $8,000 in public funds”).

Taking a step into retro music land, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra welcomes classic rocker Pat Benatar and her longtime artistic partner Neil Giraldo as the headliners on the KeyBank Pops Concert Series.

Leaders from Toledo and its eight water customers are one step closer to forming a regional water district under state law, but they’re bringing in outside help to find a solution all parties can agree on.