Erie County Sheriff's deputy resigns over racial slur
SANDUSKY — An Erie County Sheriff’s deputy recently resigned after he made a racially-charged comment toward an attorney in front of co-workers, according to Sheriff Paul A. Sigsworth.
SANDUSKY — An Erie County Sheriff’s deputy recently resigned after he made a racially-charged comment toward an attorney in front of co-workers, according to Sheriff Paul A. Sigsworth.
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy via his attorney Monday.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — With the winds dying down, fire crews gained ground as they battled the wildfires that have devastated California wine country and other parts of the state over the past week, and thousands of people got the all-clear to return home.
As a voter in the Football Writers Association of America/National Football Foundation Super 16 poll, it’s always a challenge to figure out how much to punish a team that loses with a drop in the poll — especially when the loss comes to a team that is not in the poll.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya police shot dead a street vendor as opposition supporters held demonstrations calling for electoral reform, a senior police official said Monday, while human rights groups said police killed had dozens of people who protested after August’s now-annulled presidential election.
As a voter in the Associated Press college football poll, my inbox each week includes emails from various university public relations folks — and a sleuthing Mississippi State fan — asking to keep their football teams in mind.
The strange things I wonder about surprise even me occasionally.
I want to applaud The Blade for providing coverage of the citizens task force that reviewed health department operations (Oct. 7, “A Health Crisis”).
CARACAS, Venezuela — Pro-government candidates have swept to an unforeseen victory in Venezuelan gubernatorial races according to official results that have quickly been challenged by the country’s opposition.
The Nasby Building, on the corner of Huron Street and Madison Avenue, has been a big headache for the city since the Finkbeiner administration acquired it in 2000.
Remember the “you might be a redneck if” tests employed by the comic Jeff Foxworthy a few years back?
LOS ANGELES — Thousands of women are responding to actress Alyssa Milano’s call to tweet “me too” to raise awareness of sexual harassment and assault following the recent revelation of decades of allegations of sexual misconduct by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
More than seven out of 1,000 babies born in Lucas County die before their first birthday. If the baby is African-American, its chances are even worse — 14.2 out of 1,000 die before the age of 1.
PORT ARTHUR, Texas — The church was empty, except for the piano too heavy for one man to move. It had been 21 days since the greatest storm Wayne Christopher had ever seen dumped a year’s worth of rain on his town, drowning this church he’d attended his whole life.
The CFP Watch projects the country's four best teams each Monday during football season.
No hiding this report card from the parents.
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“The past is a foreign country,” E.C. Bentley wrote in his 1913 novel Trent’s Last Case. “They do things differently there.”
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Michael Griswold, a longtime Realtor and active member of local Republican organizations, died Thursday in his North Toledo home. He was 86.
LOS ANGELES — Justin Turner hit a three-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 4-1 on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the NL Championship Series.
NEW YORK — Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick filed a grievance against the NFL on Sunday, alleging that he remains unsigned as a result of collusion by owners following his protests during the national anthem.