Новости за 31.05.2017

Half of Michigan’s football game times for the upcoming 2017 season are known.

NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexes edged lower for the second day in a row Wednesday as a sharp drop for banks and a rare loss for technology companies canceled out gains for drugmakers and consumer-focused companies.

Toledo Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson has found even more money to spend on capital projects this year.

BLUFFTON — Two Toledo Correctional Institute employees were arrested Friday at a Bluffton, Ohio campground after Hancock County Sheriff’s deputies say one of them was reportedly firing a handgun while intoxicated.

The Perrysburg Municipal Court has launched a new diversion program for drug addicts to keep them out of jail and without a conviction.

Ken Lortz, director of Toledo-based United Auto Workers Region 2B, is retiring today.

LINCOLNWOOD, Ill. — Authorities say a 16-year-old girl has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder and accused of stabbing her Uber driver to death in suburban Chicago.

LOS ANGELES — Police are investigating after someone spray painted a racial slur on the front gate of LeBron James’ home in Los Angeles on the eve of the NBA Finals.

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PONTIAC, Mich. — A Detroit-area man has been found not guilty in the death of a Michigan State Police trooper who was killed after being struck and dragged several miles by a trailer along a freeway.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Federal authorities say 19 people have been indicted in a New York mob investigation that includes allegations of fraud in a $25 million hospital expansion and in other public building projects.

PITTSBURGH  — Two brothers who formerly owned a Pennsylvania defense contractor and their former chief financial officer have pleaded guilty in a $6 million scheme to overcharge the U.S. Defense Department for Humvee window kits.

DETROIT — Once bankrupt Detroit has a balanced budget and a near $63 million surplus.

WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from a landmark global climate agreement, a White House official said today, though Trump and aides were looking for “caveats in the language” related to the exit and had not made a final decision.

COLUMBUS — The state of Ohio today filed suit against five major drug manufacturers, accusing them of helping to create the opiate painkiller addiction crisis that claims the lives of thousands of residents each year.

Lunch at Levis Square returns Thursday with food trucks and live music downtown.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As a thyroid cancer survivor battling nerve damage and other complications, Lisa Dammert was in such dire financial straits in 2014 that she and her husband did the unthinkable: They let their health insurance lapse for a while.

FINDLAY — Findlay police are investigating reports of multiple gunshots heard Tuesday in the 400 block of Eben Avenue.

A North Toledo man accused of robbing three area businesses was arrested today.

WASHINGTON —  A Pennsylvania physician who was behaving suspiciously and had made threatening remarks was arrested today at the Trump International Hotel in Washington after police found an assault-style rifle and handgun in his car, authorities said.

COLUMBUS — A University of Toledo law graduate who personally argued his case before the Ohio Supreme Court today lost his bid to reverse a decision barring him from taking the bar exam this year.

ADRIAN — A former Monroe County dog breeder was placed on probation and ordered to pay more than $2,500 in restitution for abandoning 15 huskies in January.

Recent reports from Perrysburg and Perrysburg Township police departments.

CANTON, Ohio — Three centenarian sisters have been honored at the final graduation ceremony of the Ohio high school they attended.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Authorities say a JetBlue flight from New York to San Francisco landed in Michigan after a lithium battery in a passenger’s laptop apparently started a fire.