Maumee News

Lucas County commissioners yesterday approved a six-year contract that assures area residents of a 5 percent discount on electric rates and provides the county with a check for just over $1 million.

Posted on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 9:59 p.m. Detectives in the Cindy Sumner homicide investigation say tips have slowed down significantly since they found the disabled womana s body in a vacant warehouse two months ago today.

Ed Schmidt Automotive Group will close its Chevrolet dealership in Maumee on Nov.

Chamber Music Toledo will open its 2009-2010 Artist Series with a concert featuring 16-year-old guitarist Chaconne Klaverenga at 3 p.m. Nov.

Rosalyn Nagel remained calm sitting just rows away from her mother's killer yesterday, as a judge ruled that William Thomas was mentally retarded and should be spared the death penalty.

Plans to start a $43 million environmental restoration project along the Ottawa River have hit another scheduling snag, though the federal official in charge of the unprecedented two-year project said it could get under way later this month.

James Raven will speak about his new book, The Artist's Eyes: Vision and the History of Art, at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Little Theater at the Toledo Museum of Art.

Donald Miller wrote a book while looking in the mirror with A Million Miles in a Thousand Years .

Dana Corp. reported a $38 million loss in the third quarter, a substantial improvement from the $256 million loss during the same period last year.

Kathy Gabel of Maumee estimates she tried on 25 to 30 dresses before finding the dress to wear at the Oct.

A standoff on Bennett Ave. FridayA afternoon held police at bay for more than an hour, but ended peacefully with one suspect in custody.

With the election just five days away, independent candidate Mike Bell yesterday accused Democratic opponent Keith Wilkowski of exaggerating his role in economic development deals of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

SWANTON, Ohio -- The Lexington High School Marching Band of Gold earned the Grand Champion trophy on Saturday night at the 10th annual Swanton Bulldog Bowl near Toledo.

Area residents can obtain low-cost firewood for the upcoming winter through an Ohio Department of Natural Resources firewood-cutting program ongoing in the Maumee State Forest, about five miles southwest of Swanton.

Two former employees of Belmont Country Club were indicted by a Wood County grand jury this week on charges they stole thousands of dollars from the private club in Perrysburg Township.

TARTA buses would run for fewer hours on Sundays, not at all on six major holidays, and less frequently during off-peak hours the rest of the week under a package of proposed cuts intended to offset a forecasted decline in the agency's levy revenue.

The story that a little boy had floated away in a giant helium balloon was a hoax concocted to land a reality television show, authorities said Sunday, and the boy's parents will likely face felony charges.

Six-year-old Falcon Heene listens to questions during a news conference outside the family's home in Fort Collins, Colo., after Falcon Heene was found hiding in a box in a space above the garage on Thursday, Oct.

Police are getting closer to identifying the suspects in aA wild shootoutA at a bar that sent patrons scrambling for cover.

PORT CLINTON -- Larry LeBay used to take the Ohio Turnpike from Maumee to the Fremont/Port Clinton interchange every day.