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Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Westbound I-475 near downtown Toledo reopens to traffic
Westbound I-475 reopened at I-75 in central Toledo Friday evening after an afternoon crash in which a truck struck an overhead sign. Cranes were dispatched to the scene just west of Auburn Avenue to remove the damaged sign, but this necessitated closing the freeway for more than three hours, until shortly before 7 p.m. Streets in nearby neighborhoods were jammed for the evening rush hour by ...


Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Toledo police arrest man accused in sexual assault and robberies of women
BLADE STAFF Toledo police have arrested a 20-year-old man who is accused of targeting women in five robberies over eight days in early March, including one that escalated to a sexual assault. De’Lexis Andre Maloy, 20, of Toledo, was arrested at 12:57 p.m. Friday in South Toledo, Chief Mike Navarre said. He is charged with five counts of aggravated robbery, four counts of kidnapping, and one ...


Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Ottawa County horse-cruelty case goes to court
By CLAUDIA BOYD-BARRETT BLADE STAFF WRITER PORT CLINTON - The Oak Harbor woman accused of mistreating 42 Arabian horses by allegedly keeping them in emaciated condition on her farm appeared in court for the first time yesterday. Robin Vess, 54, testified in Ottawa County Municipal Court to support her request that Judge Frederick Hany throw out the evidence in her animal-cruelty case because she ...


Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Proposed coke plant for Toledo area clears another hurdle
BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU COLUMBUS - An appeals panel has kept a proposed coke plant on the Toledo-Oregon border alive, dismissing appeals that could have killed a pollution permit issued by the state. The Ohio Environmental Review Appeals Commission issued summary judgment on Wednesday in favor of backers of the controversial FDS Coke Plant, ruling against the Sierra Club and residents of Harbor ...


Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Bicyclist killed after being struck by tractor-trailer in Dundee
DUNDEE — A bicyclist was killed late Thursday when he was struck by a tractor-trailer on U.S. 23 south of M-50 in Monroe County’s Dundee Township, authorities said. Douglas A. Ladd, 46, of Petersburg, was dead at the scene. Mr. Ladd was northbound on U.S. 23 about 10:50 p.m. Thursday when he was struck by a northbound tractor-trailer driven by Eugene S. Moreland, 41, of Charlestown, Indiana ...


Fri, 19 Mar 2010
13-year-old from Luckey wins regional spelling bee
By MARK ZABORNEY BLADE STAFF WRITER Lucas Liner, 13, competed in the 2008 and 2009 Blade Northwest Ohio Championship Spelling Bees. At the 2010 bee, the Eastwood Middle School student became a champion with the spelling of the word "suasible" - capable of being induced into some mental position. "It seems like this time was definitely more nerve-wracking than before," said Lucas of Luckey, Ohio ...


Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Prosecutor argues against hearing of Noe's appeal
By ERICA BLAKE BLADE STAFF WRITER Saying that all the legal issues had been heard before, the Lucas County Prosecutor's Office argued in a brief filed yesterday that the Supreme Court of Ohio should decline to hear an appeal filed by Tom Noe. In a 30-page brief, the prosecutor's office argued Noe did in fact receive a fair trial when convicted in 2006 on several theft and corruption charges. The ...


Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Correction centers on notice
By JIM PROVANCE BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF COLUMBUS - Three northwest Ohio community corrections institutions have been put on notice that recidivism rates for offenders coming out of their programs are too high, and they run the risk of losing state funding support. The facilities are Northwest Community Corrections Center in Bowling Green, Crosswaeh Community Based Correctional Facility in ...


Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Looking good in Maumee
Dan Prater, building engineer at Wayne Trail Elementary School in Maumee, lets students know all went well after photographing them in the shape of a soft-drink company’s logo.


Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Davis-Besse scrutinized
By TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER OAK HARBOR, Ohio - Federal regulators want to know what, if any, lessons from Davis-Besse's latest relapse can be applied to the nation's 103 other nuclear plants, according to one of the key members of the special inspection team dispatched to the site by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Jay Collins, a senior materials engineer at the NRC's headquarters in ...