Swanton News

The new Toledo law will take effect January first. Toledo City Council has passed a ban on texting while driving.

A crash victim's sister is reaching out to schools hoping to speak to teenagers and convince them to put down the phone and focus on the road It appears to have happened again.

Area football coaches should have received information in the mail regarding the process for Northwest District football nominations.

Lower-than-expected costs for projects using federal stimulus funds have allowed the Ohio Department of Transportation to reinstate bridge construction at railroad crossings in Fostoria and Swanton that had been put on hold.

The man accused of killing a Swanton girl in 1985 allegedly has made a jail-house confession, telling an inmate that he beat a 14-year-old girl to death because she wanted to break up with him, and he couldn't handle it.

Friday, November 06, 2009 at 6:09 p.m. A -- To anyone born after the Nixon Adminisatration the new blue neonA "Swanton" sign on Airport Highway looks like a new sign.

The Lucas County Health Department is looking into whether a pregnant Swanton woman died from the H1N1 virus.

Bed mattresses, standing upright, block the front window view at the South Toledo home of a woman accused of pimping her 13-year-old daughter.

Detention Facility Sunday Rickey A. Sheetz, 28, Swanton, arrested by the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office for assault, $4,025 bond.

Posted on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 3:22 p.m. Snow lets up in West, Plains; heavy rain, strong winds lash South, causing flood worries Read story Lucas Co.

One person is dead after a collision between a tractor-trailer rig and a sport utility vehicle at the intersection of northbound Berkey-Southern Road and Airport Highway in Swanton Township, according to the Ohio Highway Patrol.

County Commissioner Pete Gerken and Lucas County Dog Warden Tom Skeldon has a proposal to expand the relationship between the Dog Warden Department and the Toledo Area Humane Society to promote the adoption of dogs.

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.

Police say 21-year-old Ysidro Mora from Swanton was shot and killed in his pick-up truck Friday morning.

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.

Toledo police have identified the man who was fatally shot and found inside a vehicle in West Toledo on Friday morning.

A Defiance man was injured seriously Sunday morning when his tractor trailer hit a bridge pillar on the Ohio Turnpike, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.

A Fulton County woman died Monday afternoon following a crash that occurred in Swan Creek Township, west of the village of Swanton.

The Mid States Rodeo Association is having their year end finals October 2-4, 2009 at WB Ranch .

FREMONT -- Local harpist Karen Svanoe Westgate will perform at the next Music on Sunday concert.