Bowling Green State University's efforts to attract international students have encountered some financial trouble.
For years, the university used fee waivers to attract students from other countries, who then would be relieved of paying out-of-state tuition and general fee expenses.
But that practice has led to a more than $2 million deficit in the Center for International Programs - and the university as a result had to say no more.
Howard Pinkley remembers when water skiers soared over ramps and sailboats raced on the Ottawa River.
Gradually, however, the conduit to Lake Erie has become mired in muck, he said, and it's taking the local boating industry with it.
"We've had very low water over the last few years," said Mr. Pinkley, whom many consider the unofficial leader of Point Place, an unincorporated community in northern Toledo. "A bird can walk across the Ottawa River today."
Going into the Nov. 4 election, Lucas County had 61,209 inactive voters - people who don't vote year after year but are kept on the board of elections' registration rolls.
Wood County had more than 30,000.
Other counties have reported similar numbers of phantom voters.
Officials say complicated federal election laws governing voter purges require them to keep former voters on the rolls long after they've quit voting or left the county.
Each morning when Luke King wakes up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he flips the light switch to see if the electricity works. Then it's off to the shower to see if there is running water.
"That kind of sets the tone for the day," the 33-year-old Toledo native said.
D.J. Bork sat motionless, paralyzed with pain over the death last month of his 3-year-old daughter, Kaycie, who had been severely abused.
He uttered only a few words about how she used to run through the house looking for her daddy.
"I miss that the most," Mr. Bork said, wearing a T-shirt and button adorned with a picture of the little girl relatives called Peanut.
Kaycie Bork died Oct. 23 in St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, four days after she arrived with severe head injuries, police said. Her death was ruled a homicide.
TUKWILA, Wash. ? Shots erupted in a packed Seattle-area shopping mall Saturday after an apparent argument between a gunman and two other young men, killing one of the men, creating panic among shoppers, and sending police on a store-to-store search for the shooter, authorities said.
The Southcenter Mall in Tukwila was locked down as police tried to find the gunman. Officer Mike Murphy, a police spokesman,said there were ?thousands? of shoppers at the mall when the shooting occurred just before 6:45 p.m. (Toledo time).
JOHANNESBURG ? Zimbabwe has refused to let Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, and a South African human rights advocate visit the impoverished country for a humanitarian mission, the three said Saturday.
The former U.N. secretary general, the ex-U.S. president, and rights advocate Graca Machel had planned to assess the southern African country?s needs. They are members of The Elders, a group formed by former South African President Nelson Mandela to foster peace and tackle world conflicts.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ? Astronauts stepped out for the longest and hardest spacewalk of their mission Saturday to wrap up greasy repair work on a gummed-up joint at the international space station.
As spacewalk No. 3 was getting under way, a new recycling system for converting urine into drinking water broke down again.
The 700 block of Jackson Street was closed for about two hours Saturday afternoon while authorities investigated a suspicious envelope found on a police car parked outside the Safety Building.
Police said once the envelope was opened, they learned it did not contain a threat or hazardous material ? rather a 3.5-inch computer disk. The envelope was addressed to ?Toledo Police? and had no return address, Sgt. Jason Brown said.
FORT JENNINGS, Ohio ? A 20-year-old man was pronounced dead in a Lima hospital early Saturday soon after he was found in a burning house just east of this Putnam County community, authorities said.
Michael Pollock Jr., who was home alone at the time of the fire, was taken to St. Rita?s Medical Center, Lima, Ohio, according to the county sheriff?s office.
Mr. Pollock was pronounced dead before 4 a.m. Saturday, according to the sheriff?s office. The cause of death was pending an autopsy scheduled at the Lucas County Coroner?s Office, a nursing supervisor at the hospital said.
