Новости за 16.09.2017

Ava Gibson of Maumee carefully strung a purple cord over the tops of some of the poles that formed a circle Saturday at the newly renovated Promenade Park in downtown Toledo.

In front of his former teammates, Perrysburg High School’s graduated long snapper Jase Whitner managed a world-record 34-yard snap Friday evening.

WASHINGTON — Suicide among military veterans is especially high in the western U.S. and rural areas, according to new government data that show wide state-by-state disparities and suggest social isolation, gun ownership and access to health care may be factors.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump skipped town for the weekend, but that didn’t stop demonstrators from making him the focus of competing rallies in the nation’s capital that highlighted the stark political divisions in the United States.

With more than 200 concerts already scheduled by area performers for the 2017-18 season, classical music and dance in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan is alive and kicking.

Harvey Taft got really loud on a normally quiet street in downtown Perrysburg.

ANN ARBOR — Michigan has slowed the Air Force rushing attack, but a UM turnover was a gift for the Falcons.

“There’s something about a live theater performance: You can’t fake it,” Broadway star Gavin Creel said in a July interview with The Blade after he won a Tony Award for his performance in the hit show Hello, Dolly!

MONROE — The Monroe Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred early Saturday morning.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio woman says her drug-addicted son has died of an apparent overdose after being abruptly released from a Florida treatment center ahead of Hurricane Irma.

Two years ago, Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, convicted one of its male students of sexual assault and banned him from the university. “John Nokes,” as court documents refer to him, subsequently filed suit against the university, claiming he was denied his due process rights. A federal judge has now ruled in favor of his appeal.

The quarrel between Qatar and some of the other Sunni states, led by Saudi Arabia, continues. The American effort to resolve it, led by President Trump, has hit a roadblock.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A son of former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky pleaded guilty Friday to charges he pressured a teenage girl to send him naked photos and asked her teen sister to give him oral sex.

Last week, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced plans to reverse Obama-era policies on campus sexual assault under Title IX, the federal law on gender equality in higher education.

The most valuable natural resource we will have this century is potable water. We must do everything we can to preserve and protect this national resource. Protecting our fresh water from pollution should be one of our nation’s sacred duties. The cost of water will increase for Toledo taxpayers who have for decades spent millions of dollars to provide regional water.

I find it rather interesting that the political propaganda we are receiving on a regular basis from Wade Kapszukiewicz makes no reference to the political party he represents.

PELLSTON, Mich. — Before this past summer, biological research for Molly Beattie amounted to a science-based curriculum in high school and college, hours spent reading as many professional papers as she could get her hands on, and studying the work of others.

Since the beginning of time, we have been telling stories.

Protests broke out in St. Louis after former police officer Jason Stockley was acquitted Friday of first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of black driver Anthony Lamar Smith.

LONDON — British police made a “significant” arrest in the urgent manhunt for suspects a day after the London subway blast that injured more than two dozen people, authorities said Saturday.

Have you wondered why in Toledo you wait so long for trains? I can tell you why. CSX is under new managers.

Big third quarter carries Whitmer over St. John’s, 31-0

Genoa 29, Lake 7

BOWLING GREEN — Before the game even began Springfield was battling adversity Friday night.

Archbold 24, Wauseon 21