Новости за 17.08.2017

The president of Toledo City Council recently asked a city finance official why the administration transferred millions into the general fund if that fund was in the black and did not need any additional money. Instead of an explanation, he got stonewalled.

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks plunged Thursday as losses for Cisco Systems hurt technology companies while Wal-Mart declined after its latest quarterly report. Banks also dropped as bond yields and interest rates sank for a second day.

BEREA — Josh Gordon’s return to the Browns from an NFL suspension remains uncertain.

WILLOUGHBY — An Ohio high school is getting rid of its Confederate mascot in the wake of a deadly car attack at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend.

MONROE – A Frenchtown Township man already serving life in prison for murder was sentenced Thursday to 40 to 75 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in Monroe last year.

The Toledo Walleye have added forward Connor Crisp ahead of the 2017-18 season. Crisp, who was drafted in the third round of the 2013 NHL Draft by the Montreal Canadiens, joins the Walleye after play most of the last season with the Brampton Beast.

Two 16-year-old boys accused of assaulting a West Toledo man, who later died of his injuries, have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, according to Toledo police.

Toledo Police officers want pedestrians and motorists alike to exercise extra caution as the school year gets underway.

COLUMBUS — As the Ohio State offense goes through a renovation this offseason, one of Urban Meyer’s stated goals is an eased burden on quarterback J.T. Barrett.

Sierra Leone is in a "race against time" to avoid a new landslide, an official has said, only days after a devastating mudslide on the outskirts of the capital claimed more than 330 lives.

COLUMBUS — They may be fighting on the airwaves, but both sides of a controversial prescription drug issue agreed to a compromise on the language that will greet voters at the ballot box.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An SUV crashed after all four occupants overdosed on heroin in North Carolina. The same day, a man in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, grabbed the steering wheel after his grandson lost consciousness while driving. Police in the city of 30,000 responded to 11 other overdose reports that day, including a woman who crashed her car just before a highway entrance.

The owner of NatureFresh Farms said Thursday that a planned expansion of its large commercial greenhouse in Delta, Ohio is on hold because of the company’s difficulties in finding and keeping employees.

The Man and Woman of the Year campaign to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society raised $254,000, said Christi Ansberg of ProMedica in Toledo, who is chairman of the organization’s northern Ohio advisory board.

BOWLING GREEN — Jake Suder has made some pressure kicks in his Bowling Green State University football career.

WASHINGTON — The Cleveland Clinic is cutting another tie to President Donald Trump, canceling plans to hold its 2018 Florida fundraising gala from the Trump-owned Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.

GIBRALTAR ISLAND, Ohio — An annual two-day workshop for science writers began Thursday with updates expected to be released on Lake Erie's harmful algal bloom and a number of other issues, including the controversy over open-lake disposal of dredged sediments in the Toledo area, climate change, energy production, land use, tourism, agricultural runoff, invasive species, the health of Ohio's fishery, and the plight of the once-endangered Lake Erie water snake.

BARCELONA, Spain — A white van jumped up onto a sidewalk and sped down a pedestrian zone Thursday in Barcelona’s historic Las Ramblas district, swerving from side to side as it plowed into tourists and residents. Authorities said 12 people were killed and 80 were wounded, 15 of them seriously, in what they called a terror attack. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the incident.

Three local environmental activists called on Toledo and Ohio leaders Thursday to more vigorously pursue “impaired” status for western Lake Erie under the Clean Water Act, arguing that merely monitoring pollutants after they’ve entered the lake will not solve the lake’s algae problem.

The Lucas County OVI Task Force will hold three checkpoints late Friday to catch impaired drivers.

A 3-year-old child was shot in the hand Wednesday evening, according to Toledo police.

I have had a vote in the FWAA/NFF Super 16 poll sponsored by the Football Writers Association of American and the National Football Foundation ever since the poll was created.

As a growing number of American cities worked to remove statues commemorating the Confederacy, President Donald Trump defended the statues again Thursday, arguing that removing them uproots American "culture" and history.

Steve Bannon disparaged the mindset that motivates white supremacists in an interview published Wednesday, calling the group "a collection of clowns."

SANDUSKY — Along with getting good grades and listening to their parents, LeBron James has encouraged kids in his foundation’s educational program to stand up for their beliefs.