By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 14 Connie Keaton, a teacher whose love for marine life gave dozens of students the chance to explore the sea, died Saturday at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. She was 57. She fought a nine-month battle with esophageal cancer. Mrs. Keaton grew up on a […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page W1 She knew freed slaves who still had fresh memories of plantation life. She remembers a time when Leonardo DiCaprio had no role in the sinking of the Titanic. She is old enough to be Ronald Reagan’s mother. And when Estella Henry turned 107 last week – surprisingly […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page ME1 Third graders at Greenwood Elementary are learning the value of a buck. It’s worth exactly one banana-shaped pencil gripper, one Detroit Lions pencil, and one rainbow-colored eraser. The 23 children in Roxanne Ward’s class have spent this school year running a school supplies business and have turned […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page W1 Poorly performing students need extra attention, and a new program in Springfield schools next year will provide just that, administrators say. The idea is to create a transition program for about 20 eighth graders having trouble in school – those who have failed three or four core […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page W1 Nearly two years after voting to buy one, Richfield Township residents will finally get a new fire truck later this year. Township officials have placed an order for a $193,000 fire truck, scheduled to arrive in October. “It took a while to get everything set up,” said […]
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By Joshua Benton and Robin Erb Blade Staff Writers Page A1 It was a terrifying way to show affection. Slashed car tires. Sugar poured in her car’s gas tank. Perverse name-calling. And when Vivian Morris, 30, finally went to authorities Friday for protection from her co-worker, Joseph Chappell, 39, she could not have known how […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 11 An elderly husband and wife, each facing illness, were found shot to death yesterday in their Washington Township mobile home, the apparent result of a murder-suicide. Robert Cook, Sr., 71, and Goldie, 85, his wife of 25 years, were pronounced dead in their bedroom at 1:05 p.m., […]
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By Mike Bartell and Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writers Page 17 A spectacular fire, fanned by winds gusting to 25 mph, shot flames and spewed heavy smoke from all four sides of the two-story Toledo Metal Spinning Co. building in the central city last night. The flames shot at least 75 feet skyward, as ember-laden […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 17 Imagine Tom Cruise escaping from a band of terrorists trying to take over the LaSalle Apartments. Jim Carrey mugging for the camera while riding the suspended bicycle at COSI. Kate Winslet acting droll in a 19th-century period piece set in the Old West End. Can you picture […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 8A Although facts are still hard to come by, local clergy have begun fielding questions from their congregations about the latest Clinton crisis. “I hear both sides: people who are tired of hearing about the President’s personal life, and people who think, if he’s immoral in this, what […]
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