By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 CRANSTON, R.I. — A convicted bank robber from Toledo fooled prison authorities here into letting him go by giving them fake release papers he had printed on a prison computer, federal authorities said. Within five hours of walking out of prison, they said, Scott Kelly Hansen had […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 A raffle of Thanksgiving turkeys could pluck away a Toledo yacht club’s liquor license. State liquor-control agents raided the Riverview Yacht Club, 5981 Edgewater Dr., Saturday to shut down what they considered an illegal “feather party.” More than 200 club members attended the party, which featured raffles […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 After a chase through a residential area, two Toledo police officers fired on a man who pointed a rifle at them yesterday in West Toledo, shooting him multiple times, police said. William Metcalf, 32, of Alma, Mich., who did not fire at the officers, was taken to […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 11 A 16-year-old boy who told police he “want ed to know what it was like to kill someone” pleaded guilty yesterday to murdering a 7-Eleven clerk last year as she walked home from work in East Toledo. Vicente Guevara pleaded guilty to the May 12, 1997, murder […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 15 Toledo police have released a composite sketch of a suspect being sought for a carjacking Sunday night in West Toledo. Police said two teenagers were sitting in a car in the parking lot of Fairgreen Lutheran Church, 3220 West Laskey Rd., about 10:45 p.m. when a man […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 8 By all accounts they were happy to get him. Neel Sheth had agreed to move to the village of Deshler to be the town doctor. For a decade, Deshler’s leaders had been trying to attract doctors to their tiny spot on the Henry County map. Some came […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 18 CLYDE — A Clyde High School teacher was one of 14 people arrested yesterday during a drug bust at the high school, police said. Social-studies teacher Jerry Evans was charged with cocaine trafficking and was being held last night in the Sandusky County jail. He was arrested […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 17 CYGNET — A tractor-trailer rig didn’t stop when it approached a traffic jam on southbound I-75 yesterday, slamming into stopped traffic and injuring six people, the Ohio Highway Patrol said. A total of eight vehicles were involved in the crash, which occurred about 4:30 p.m., about one […]
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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 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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