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Flooding sends northwest Ohioans scurrying for high ground

Business owners and residents in Grand Rapids, Ohio were scrambling Wednesday afternoon to come up with plans to save items in basements after flooding turned out far worse than expected.

Firefighters and others said heavy rain that fell Tuesday night was causing major problems for the village along the banks of the Maumee River.

Village Administrator Chad Hoffman said the flooding was a no

Local kidney chain receives recognition in medical journal

Nearly two years after the world’s longest chain of kidney transplants started with an altruistic donor from Michigan, an article about the locally coordinated approach to generate more and better matches is appearing Thursday in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

University of Toledo Medical Center transplant surgeon Dr.

Former Pilkington land site of proposed casino

COLUMBUS — Toledo riverfront property could become home to one of four Ohio casinos if voters approve the latest attempt to legalize Las Vegas-style gambling in the state.

The owners of Toledo’s Raceway Park and the Cleveland Cavaliers filed language for a proposed constitutional amendment with state Attorney General Richard Cordray on Wednesday, the first step in the process of putting

Initial flights from Toledo to metro N.Y. to cost $49 one way

Toledo will be getting air service to metropolitan New York, beginning June 1, three days a week.

The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority held a new conference Wednesday morning at Toledo Express Airport to announce the new service.

The carrier will be Air Azul, which will fly three times per week between Toledo and Newark, N.J.

Heavy rains causing problems in Monroe

MONROE — The city of Monroe has received nearly 300 telephone complaints in the last 24 hours from residents about water backing up into basements.

Barry LaRoy, director of water and wastewater utilities, said the sewage treatment system has reached its capacity because of the recent heavy rains coupled with moisture in the ground.

The Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment Plant is currently

Lucas County hoping drivers will come around to concept

Traffic soon will be going in circles in western Lucas County.

A Napoleon firm has received a construction contract to build Lucas County's first roundabout at a Springfield Township intersection.

For $712,369, Gerken Paving is to build the modernized version of a rotary - or traffic circle - at King Road and Nebraska Avenue.

Lucas County Engineer Keith Earley said most constr

Former Nazi camp guard charged 29,000 times

BERLIN — German prosecutors said Wednesday they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the U.S.

Demjanjuk is accused of participating in the murders while he was a guard at the Nazi camp in occupied Poland between March and Septembe