Swanton News

Two Ohio families and their pastor filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis this week accusing some "confusingly intertwined" Twin Cities investment advisers and a dozen business entities of fraud, misrepresentation and other breaches in the handling of their life savings.

SWANTON, OHIO: A family dog lost during a car crash on the Ohio Turnpike has been reunited with his Minnesota owners two weeks later.

Sunday is one of the two remaining Open Art Days at Toledo Botanical Garden. Buildings and studios in the garden's Artists' Village will be open from noon to 4 p.m. and will offer creative activities in stained glass, pottery, photography, painting, drawing, and more, for adults and children.

Sheriff's deputies have patrolled the western and eastern reaches of Lucas County for years, fulfilling the department's vague mandate in the Ohio Revised Code to "preserve the public peace," with the entire county funding the bill.

Heavy thunder showers are leaving many areas water-logged and without powerA Friday morning.A More rain is expected throughout the day.

Thomas Zich has been found guilty of murder by a Lucas County jury.A He was sentenced to 15-years to lifeA for the 1991 murder of his wife, Mary Jane.

A man accused of strangling his wife and stuffing her body into a car trunk nearly 18 years ago was convicted of murder Wednesday.

Jurors weighing a murder charge against a man accused of strangling his wife and stuffing her body into a car trunk in 1991 will not hear from the woman's daughter, who was 3 at the time of the killing.

Desiree Andaverde was 3 years old when she told police she watched "daddy put mommy in the trunk." A few days later, police found her mother's frozen body in a car outside a bar where she was a regular.

One person is dead after semi overturned and exploded. It happened on the turnpike at the route 64 overpass on the north side of Swanton.

Fulton County authorities are investigating a theft last month in which a golf cart was stolen in Swanton.

With her fingers wrapped around her neck, Hope Ott showed a jury in Lucas County Common Pleas Court how she had been attacked one night by her ex-husband. Using her arm to illustrate how she elbowed him away from her throat, Sharyn Bonderud tearfully recounted the night the man she had married had threatened her.

Desiree Andaverde was just 3 when, according to prosecutors, she saw her stepfather put her mother's body in a trunk.

Safety officials surround the wreckage of a tractor-trailer that crashed and burst into flames on the Ohio Turnpike near Swanton.

A Swanton man accused of killing his wife nearly 18 years ago will face three other ex-wives during his murder trial.

The National Federation of Independent Business/Ohio has named Larry Schmidt, managing partner of Smith Brothers Inc.

For the most part, the task of finding enough labor should not be problematic for Ohio vegetable growers this season.

Area resident Jon Eaton has given the shirt off his back to raise money for breast cancer treatment and research.

Five people were injured, at least one seriously, when a sport utility vehicle struck a car pulling out from a driveway Tuesday evening in Lucas County's Richfield Township.

Memorial Day is over and the gates of summer have opened. Instead of responding by hitting the road, how about hitting the trails? It's a suggestion the Metroparks of the Toledo Area in its none-too-subtle way would like you to consider.