By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A1 Nationwide, libraries have struggled with how to deal with the power of the Internet, the massive computer network that provides an unbounded flow of images and information. The Internet contains the most useful wisdom right alongside pornography, and librarians are stuck with the decision: Do you have […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 FINDLAY — Sarah Hayner, a concert violinist who played with orchestras across the country, died Friday at the Blanchard valley Regional Health Center, Findlay. She was 67 and died after a short bout with cancer. She grew up in a musical household in Chicago, her former husband, […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 10 A two-alarm fire caused about $80,000 damage to a downtown second-story restaurant last night, Toledo fire officials said. The blaze at George’s City Club, 415 North Huron St., started in a storage area in the rear of the second floor. The fire department got the call at […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 Barbara Corbin, a Mormon who believed all Christian faiths should be united, died Friday. She was 39. She was hit by a rail car at the North Star BHP Steel plant near Delta, where she worked. Ms. Corbin was born and raised in Toledo, growing up on […]
By Joshua Benton and Chris Osher Blade Staff Writers Page A1 Chester Devenow, a retired Toledo industrialist, called last night for the removal of the president of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority because the leader banned agency officials from talking to reporters in the wake of articles about their spending of federal drug-forfeiture funds. James […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 11 BRYAN — Henry Martin, a chemist who managed to combine his loves of dahlias and Notre Dame football, died Friday at Bryan Community Hospital. Mr. Martin, who lived in Defiance, was 80. He died of pneumonia, brought on in the aftermath of a January surgery, said his […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 11 WAUSEON — A Milwaukee man led state troopers on a chase across Fulton County Saturday night, hijacking one vehicle and trying to hijack four more, the Ohio Highway Patrol said. The chase began about 6:30 p.m., about three miles west of the Ohio Turnpike’s Wauseon exit. A […]
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