Lucas County News

Paula Watkins, left, hired Tammi Rounds from a home health-care agency when her husband, Keith, right, was battling brain cancer.

Years later, the Oak Harbor resident lost two brothers within six months; one of electric shock while working, the other, like their father, in an auto accident.

Those with stakes in Hollywood Casino Toledo probably hope their business has better luck with the law than the first gambling house in Toledo named Hollywood.

Two Toledo men, each recently returned to Lucas County, were arraigned in Toledo Municipal Court Saturday on unrelated murder charges.

Lucas County Common Pleas Judge James Bates will continue to preside over the capital murder case of a man charged in the 2011 asphyxiation deaths of a Springfield Township couple, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled Friday.

Jazmon Hoskins, 21, was found dead in an apartment at 3122 Parkwood Ave. on the outskirts of the Old West End.

Austin Good, 8, hugs his 10-week-old boxer, Duke. He wanted a puppy even though he was severely attacked last year by two boxers owned by his dad's best friend.

Lewis W. Saxby, Jr., a retired Owens Corning executive who helped oversee such ventures as insulating the trans-Alaska pipeline and installing an airline terminal roof of fiber-glass fabric, died Wednesday of heart failure in Hospice of Northwest Ohio, Perrysburg Township.

Two teenage boys -- one who took a loaded gun to school and another who disposed of it -- were sentenced in Lucas County Juvenile Court Thursday after being found delinquent in connection with illegal conveyance of a weapon in a school.

Various highways aren't Toledo's only targets of repaving projects this year -- the main runway at Toledo Express Airport also is due for a makeover.

Kevin Arnold pleaded no contest to aggravated robbery and a one-year gun specification.

It's an invite-only event. Guests have been staggered in all day to play the games and eat at the restaurants as a test run or controlled demonstration for state regulators.

Toledo has been awarded an $800,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that will be used to clean up and redevelop contaminated properties in the city.

From The BladeThe Blade has filed a lawsuit under Ohio's "Sunshine Law" against the Economic Opportunity Planning Association of Greater Toledo.At an EOPA board meeting on Monday night, during a discussion of the agency's Head Start grant application, board members entered what The Blade believes was an illegal executive session.The lawsuit, filed ... (more)

A Toledo man whose dogs were seized by the Lucas County dog warden said his due-process rights were violated and is asking the judge to order their return.

A new trial date was ordered Wednesday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court for the former North Toledo carryout employee charged in the death of a man who was attempting to rob him.

Dogs remain available at the Lucas County Dog Warden's Office, 410 South Erie St., Toledo.

Members of the Toledo Police Department SWAT unit move into a home after a shooting on Bricker near Doyle today.

Read more: Local , Economy , Business , Ohio , Toledo Ohio , Lucas County Ohio , Wood County Ohio , Hancock County Ohio , Jobs , Work , Unemployment , Jobless , Jobless Rates , Unemployment Rates TOLEDO -- The region's unemployment picture got a little brighter in April.

Several people were picked up during a bust at a local motel and taken to police headquarters for questioning Tuesday, leading to one arrest so far.