Новости за 25.07.2017

Toledo top finance stewards Tuesday stressed again that the city doesn't have any new or found money and the more than $8 million that sat idle in a fund for five years was actually accounted for during that entire time.

When most of us apply for a job or a contract, we understand the people thinking of hiring us are going to consider our resume, our references, and our criminal record, if we have one. That’s just standard practice. So when the city of Toledo apparently does not use that practice for hiring, citizens are left to wonder just what city officials are looking for in job candidates.

WASHINGTON — Applause and whoops greeted Sen. John McCain, who is battling brain cancer, as he returned to the Capitol on Tuesday to vote for moving ahead on legislation to dismantle Obamacare

Groundbreaking is planned early next year for a $700 million iron-refining plant in East Toledo that will employ more than 100 people once it opens and require 1,200 construction workers to build, project officials announced during a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

I read with shock, horror, disgust, and anger the July 22 article “Hot weather kills 2 dogs in Toledo.” Two dogs needlessly died in the oppressive heat. The weather wasn’t bearable for man or beast.

The Mud Hens suffered a 5-3 loss to Pawtucket at Fifth Third Field on Tuesday afternoon.

CHICAGO — Big Ten coordinator of officials Bill Carollo said Tuesday that he thought the officiating crew in last season's Ohio State-Michigan contest had a “solid game” despite the outcry about several controversial calls in the Buckeyes' double-overtime victory in Columbus.

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COLUMBUS — A condemned killer in Ohio arrived at the death house a day ahead of his scheduled execution Wednesday with several requests for a delay pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman will vote in favor of Tuesday’s crucial Senate motion to proceed with debate on an Obamacare replacement.

Houseplants never fully disappeared from our homes — unlike shag carpeting — but it's only been within the last few years that their popularity in the 1970s has resurged as Americans, Millennials in particular, are (re)discovering the joy, benefits, and ease of care of leafy green friends in their homes.

WASHINGTON — Two key members of President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign met Tuesday with congressional investigators probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion with Trump associates.

Waterville voters will have several charter amendments before them on the November ballot, including one to extend term limits for the city’s councilmen.

CHICAGO — In discussions with Jim Harbaugh and Urban Meyer at Big Ten media days, a popular topic has been last season’s epic game between Michigan and Ohio State, most notably the controversial spot in double overtime.

Bond was revoked Tuesday for a Toledo man accused of shooting and paralyzing a man last year after prosecutors said they are concerned he was intimidating potential witnesses in the case.

CHICAGO — No team in college football lost more starters than Michigan.

CHICAGO — P.J. Fleck’s first taste of coaching came at Ohio State when he served as a graduate assistant on Jim Tressel’s staff in 2006.

NEW YORK  — Two Ohio college students who connected on Tinder have finally met after three years of excuses on the dating platform.

LONDON — Charlie Gard’s mother returned to a London court Tuesday to ask a judge to let her and the baby’s father take their critically ill son home to die.

An East Toledo man accused of fleeing from law enforcement — and falling from a highway overpass with an Ohio Highway Patrol trooper during the pursuit — was arraigned Tuesday in Toledo Municipal Court.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump turned up the heat on Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday, launching a fresh Twitter tirade against him while musing privately about firing the man who was the first U.S. senator to endorse his candidacy.

Unemployment rates in metro Toledo rose in June, a report on Tuesday shows.

Two Toledo teenagers are charged with murder in the January shooting death of a city man.

After months of debate, It’s now or never for the Senate’s push to dismantle Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Backstreet Boys got their first hit country song this year on a collaboration with country duo Florida Georgia and now the two powerhouse acts are teaming up for a “CMT Crossroads” episode airing Aug. 30.