HOUSTON — They looked old and outmanned. Their star quarterback was frazzled, their stingy defense was a sieve.
BOWLING GREEN — I must confess, I was not thrilled when Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow.
COLUMBUS — For nine Ohio State freshmen, there barely was time to blink between signing a national letter of intent and an unpleasant introduction to the Buckeyes’ conditioning program.
Audrey Berling, a 16-year-old sophomore at Northview, has an athletic career taking her from sea to sea, but she still is relatively unknown in her hometown.
Toledo Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson’s 2017 State of the City Address will be 5:30 p.m. Thursday in Fifth Third Center Auditorium at One SeaGate. The event is free.
Recently released inspection reports of Lucas County food-service operations.
A newly formed citizens group is hosting a rally near Waterville at 2 p.m. Wednesday to discuss a Bowling Green State University researcher’s claim that northwest Ohio is too quake-prone for a massive natural gas transmission pipeline to coexist with it.
It is estimated that 14 percent of the U.S. population has chronic kidney disease, which is an umbrella term for many conditions that can cause ongoing injury to the kidneys.
David P. Sieja, a retired phone company worker by day and magician by night, died Feb. 1 at LanePark of Oregon assisted living facility in Oregon. He was 86.
Gov. John Kasich’s proposed budget is enough to make the angels weep (Jan. 31, ‘‘Kasich vows to reduce tax brackets”).
By now, your snowbird friends have all been enjoying warmer weather in Florida for two or three months. From Toledo to Tiffin, from Bowling Green to Blissfield, from Sandusky to Sylvania, they packed up their SUVs and headed for the other end of I-75, the end where it never snows.
NEW YORK — Messages about America, inclusiveness — and, yes, even “four years of awful hair” — kept bubbling up in Super Bowl 51 ads from Airbnb, the NFL and a line of personal care products. But there was still plenty of escapism and light humor for those who weren’t into the politics.
MONROE — The bevy of Monroe County residents at last year’s fair who were unable to identify how their county got its name won’t have any excuses after a yearlong celebration ends.
Four Ottawa Hills Elementary School students made chess history as the youngest team to take home the gold in the 2017 Beach Tournament at Rossford High School.
Hundreds of people filed into the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo on Sunday afternoon to show that Toledo supports its Muslim community.
The Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority has scheduled public hearings next week to discuss adding regular buses along King and Brint roads to a new library branch and nearby shopping and elder-care destinations.
MARBLEHEAD, Ohio — Taylor Wilhite is an 18-year-old college freshman who loves her psychology classes at Tiffin University and volunteering with Make-A-Wish Foundation. It’s a life made possible thanks to three rounds of chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant nearly a decade ago.
Ohio’s governor, John Kasich, is bringing out a new book. Advance word has it that the book will criticize the tone of American politics and call for “unity,” which sounds like motherhood and apple pie but is, we know, in the eye of the beholder, and hard to attain under any definition.
For Reggie Peacock, the fact that his old friend, Ralph Warren, is coming home after nearly three decades behind bars is an answer to his prayers.
One person’s wood blocks are another person’s art.
VALDOSTA, Ga. — The Rev. Floyd Rose preaches from the pulpit of a southern Georgia church whose sloped wood-paneled ceiling resembles the upside-down hull of a slave ship.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — An out-of-control cargo truck crashed into a bus on a highway outside Honduras’ capital today, killing 16 people and injuring 34, authorities said.
HOUSTON — The Latest on Super Bowl 51 (all times local to Houston):
BUCHAREST, Romania — The largest anti-government crowds since the violent 1989 revolution that toppled dictator Nicolae Ceausescu succeeded today in pressuring Romania’s new government to repeal a hastily adopted decree that would have eased penalties for official corruption.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump said he respects Vladimir Putin, and when told the Russian leader is “a killer,” Trump said the United States has many of them.
