Новости за 03.09.2017

HOUSTON — Authorities went door-to-door Sunday in parts of storm-battered Houston, warning that more flooding was coming, while a nearby city that lost its drinking water system struggled to restore service and officials kept watch on a crippled chemical plant that’s already triggered explosions.

LOS ANGELES  — With no new wide releases, Hollywood basically took the Labor Day weekend off and put an end to what’s expected to be the lowest earning summer movie going season since 2006 — the last time the industry saw a sub-$4 billion summer.

The opening of a plant that turns natural gas into electricity is the first of what’s expected to be a wave to come into production across Ohio in the next few years

HOUSTON  — Justin Verlander only had about 30 minutes to decide whether to accept a trade the Houston Astros.

SONOMA, Calif.  — Vineyards moved their wine harvest to the cool of night and transit trains slowed for fear that some of the hottest weather in San Francisco Bay Area history would warp rails, as stifling temperatures and the smoky pall of wildfires marked an unofficial end to summer across the U.S. West.

What is happening to the United States of America? Are we all so afraid that we are willing to destroy every symbol of our history?

TOKYO — North Korea announced it detonated a thermonuclear device Sunday in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date, a big step toward its goal of developing nuclear weapons capable of striking anywhere in the U.S. The North called it a “perfect success” while its neighbors condemned the blast immediately.

It is possible that we are seeing the transformation of the Trump Administration.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s military said Sunday that North Korea is believed to have conducted its sixth nuclear test after it detected a strong earthquake, hours after Pyongyang claimed that its leader has inspected a hydrogen bomb meant for a new intercontinental ballistic missile.

They are one of the most peculiar-looking creatures in a phylum replete with the odd, strange, weird, and curiously unusual. If you are looking for a posterchild for Arthropoda, in the Uniramia class and the Dictyoptera order, then the praying mantis (often called a mantid) is your star.

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FREMONT — A flotilla of boats was on the lower Sandusky River this past week, doggedly searching for what biologists hoped they would never find there — grass carp — one of the invasive Asian carps that present an ominous threat to the Great Lakes.

How long has it been since you loaded your laundry into the car and headed for a laundromat?

This is one in a series of monthly reviews of books for young people written by teachers of children’s literature. Today's reviews are by Alexa Sandmann, professor of literacy at Kent State University.

Y is for Yesterday is Sue Grafton’s projected penultimate novel in her alphabet series about intrepid California private investigator Kinsey Millhone. And if the series does end with “Z” — and there’s no reason to believe that it won’t be the finale — it’s going out with even deeper plots and more intense characterizations than when it debuted 35 years ago. Despite clocking in at 496 pages, Y is for Yesterday briskly moves Kinsey’s story forward.

BEAUTIFUL voices filled the night air, wooing the 80 guests at the Toledo Opera’s third annual Season Sampler. The taste of what’s in store was at the home of Susan and Allan Block, chairman of Block Communications Inc., parent company of The Blade.

A recent mission by Russian nuclear-capable bombers near the Korean Peninsula was an event far more ominous than generally believed.

A new 105-suite hotel is moving closer to completion at Levis Commons in Perrysburg. The all-suite Home2 Suites by Hilton is a four-story project that is being designed by Kaczmar Architects of Cleveland and is scheduled to open in February. The 70,000-square foot hotel is meant to complement the adjacent Hilton Garden Inn with both hotels owned by Gateway Hospitality Group, of Twinsburg, Ohio. Gateway broke ground on the Home2 Suites last October and said that each suite in the hotel will have a full kitchen... Читать дальше...

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The dogs pictured above are newly available for adoption at Lucas County Canine Care & Control, 410 S. Erie St., Toledo. Listed are the name, breed, sex, and impound number. For information, call 419-213-2800. For a complete list of dogs available for adoption, go to lucascountydogs.petfinder.com.

Nearly 320,000 soldiers from Ohio fought for the Union during the Civil War, according to the Ohio Historical Society, but monuments, statues, and other symbols of their enemies can be found throughout the Buckeye State, including northwest Ohio.

A new report detailing the number of Ohioans who died of accidental overdoses in 2016 confirm that trends seen last year in Lucas County and northwest Ohio are mirrored across the state — namely that the total deaths continue to rise, as do the prevalence of deadly synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and carfentanil.

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Shibbolethia Lewis, a longtime Toledo Public Schools teacher who volunteered for the church and the community and wrote poetry, died Aug. 20 in her Missouri City, Texas, home. She was 97.

Even in today’s high-tech, digital-first world, you can make a comfortable living with a hammer or a trowel.