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President Trump’s opioid epidemic task force released its initial report on Monday. It contained solid ideas, but at this point, they are just ideas that will not stop any of the 144 drug overdose deaths that are happening each day in the United States.

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller has convened a grand jury in Washington to investigate allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing two unnamed people familiar with the matter.

BOWLING GREEN – One of the most successful coaches in the history of Bowling Green State University’s women’s basketball program and a former major league baseball player are among the five inductees into the school’s athletics hall of fame.

OAK HARBOR, Ohio — Three people are dead after a two-vehicle crash Thursday in Ottawa County.

TAUNTON, Mass. — A woman who encouraged her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself in dozens of text messages and told him to “get back in” a truck filled with toxic gas was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter.

BOWLING GREEN — The Bowling Green State University football team wasted no time in starting to prepare for the 2017 season.

Not having read any of the eight books in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, I know little about its mythology.

Crews are on scene of an injury crash in West Toledo, according to Toledo police.

The Aug. 1 writer of “Capitalism is not the problem” claims that capitalism allowed Jeff Bezos, starting with very little, to become the richest man in the world in 22 years. The fact that one man is worth $90 billion and the 400 richest American have more money than the bottom 50 percent of Americans combined is a problem.

The Toledo Walleye boosted the team’s defensive corps for the 2017-18 season when it signed Davis Vandane.

WASHINGTON — Two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee moved Thursday to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by President Donald Trump, putting forth new legislation that aims to ensure the integrity of current and future independent investigations.

COLUMBUS — The preseason coaches poll, the first of the season, ranked Ohio State as the No. 2 team in the county.

A young group of seven black men and two white women are held hostage and interrogated in a Detroit motel by a trio of armed and violent racist white cops. The men and women, guilty of only skin color and fraternization, were rounded up as suspects in what was a faked sniper attack from a window. The gun fired by one of the men, Carl Cooper, had only blanks.

Toledo council candidate Sam Melden called on city and school leaders Thursday to find solutions to the problem of homeless children.

COLUMBUS — Package delivery company UPS said Thursday that expectations for the upcoming holiday shipping season will require it to hire 1,000 new full-time and part-time workers at its hub in Maumee at 1550 Perrysburg-Holland Rd.

University of Toledo football coach Jason Candle said his defensive front was decimated by injuries by the end of last season.

BOWLING GREEN — The Bowling Green Police Department is looking for a man who broke into Campus Pollyeyes in Bowling Green.

FINDLAY — Marathon Petroleum Corp. has agreed to pay $86 million to settle four lawsuits brought about following a January, 2016, fire at its Galveston Bay refinery in Texas.

LANSING, Mich. — The grounds at Michigan’s Capitol will be under construction for the next two years as part of $70 million in improvements to its mechanical and electrical systems.

SANDUSKY — Sandusky police have identified a man who was shot and killed Wednesday night in a city park.

BOWLING GREEN — By season’s end, the 2017 Bowling Green State University football team may prove to be better than last year’s team.

Having failed to get a sales tax subsidy on the November ballot, Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority board members agreed Thursday they need a committee to help form a better plan to sell the concept to community leaders.

The countdown of our vote in the Associated Press Top 25 preseason college football poll continues with ...

MINNEAPOLIS — An explosion at a school in Minneapolis killed two people, injured several others and reduced part of a building to rubble, fire officials said.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Four people injured last week when a thrill ride fell apart at the Ohio State Fair remain hospitalized, including a woman in a coma.