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 12 The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio has filed a suit against the agency that manages One Government Center, accusing it of illegally stopping free speech on its grounds. The class-action lawsuit, filed yesterday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, says the Ohio Building Authority illegally prevents […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 48 Ben Friedman has had enough. He’s sick of watching upper-middle-class boys start dull alt-rock bands so they can whine about their problems. And he’s tired of seeing Nashville pump out cloned country music stars who sing about lost love at the ripe old age of 13. But […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Don Monroe is trying to prove a point. Home builders tell him they can’t make money building in Toledo. The real money is out in the suburbs, they say, where green pastures have been giving way to backyards for decades. He’s not buying it. “You can make […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 15 WAUSEON — Robert Wyse, a farmer who kept his family together through decades of Sunday dinners, died of cancer Saturday at his home. He was 70. Mr. Wyse was born in Tedrow, O., to a farming family, and lived in the area for his entire life, his […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 A tight cell of extremely severe weather pounded a path across southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio last night, spawning funnel clouds, one tornado that touched down along the Lake Erie coastline, and injuring at least 30 people. Ottawa County’s Carroll and Erie townships – near the Davis-Besse […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 21 Janet Skeldon, mother of Toledo city councilwoman Tina Skeldon Wozniak whose loves included her family, her hometown, and baseball, died yesterday at Mrs. Wozniak’s home of complications from respiratory disease. She was 74. Born and reared in Toledo, Mrs. Skeldon attended Libbey High School. It was there […]
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 20 This is the first in an occasional series that looks at how people are savoring the pleasures of summer around the Toledo area. A kiddie pool is a glorified puddle. Let’s be clear about that – it’s some cement, a foot of water, and a ton of […]
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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 […]