This week­end is a big push to get cats and kit­tens adopted by the Toledo Area Humane Soci­ety. It is low­er­ing adop­tion fees briefly. Through Sun­day, all felines are half-off and if you adopt two at the same time, you’ll get half off the reduced fee for the sec­ond ani­mal. …

Mei­jer is hir­ing 17-hundred new employ­ees in Ohio. The Defi­ance Mei­jers will have open­ings. The com­pany announced Wednes­day they’ll beef up employee lev­els by nearly ten-thousand nation­wide wide as the com­pany con­tin­ues to expand. The extra staff is also in prepa­ra­tion of the fall and hol­i­day sell­ing sea­sons. Online appli­ca­tions …

The Bowl­ing Green Fal­cons are only one game into the new sea­son and quar­ter­back Matt John­son is out for the year. He injured his hip dur­ing the team’s opener last week against West­ern Ken­tucky. Head coach Dino Babers says there are sur­gi­cal and non-surgical options for John­son, but no deci­sion …

Uni­ver­sity of Toledo is one of four col­leges nation­wide under inves­ti­ga­tion for its han­dling of a sex­ual assault case. The Title Nine and Clery Act com­plaints were filed Wednes­day with the U.S. Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion on behalf of stu­dent vic­tims by a Berkley-based advo­cacy group called End Rape On Cam­pus. …

Roller Coaster afi­ciona­dos are plan­ning their trips to Cedar Point to pay their respects to the Man­tis, who has ful­filled his duty as a world-class thrill ride for 18 years. When it was built in 1996, the Man­tis was billed as the world’s tallest, fastest and steep­est stand-up roller coaster …

The Williams County fair begins tomor­row. It will kick off with a cham­pi­onship rodeo. Other events planned this year include lots of coun­try music, and great entertainment.The fair will run through Sept. 13. Admis­sion to the fair is $5 with chil­dren age 12 and younger admit­ted for free. A weekly …

Paul L. Abbey, age 47, of Archbold, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday evening, September 2, 2014, in his home. He was a former Security Guard for Campbell foods in Napoleon. Paul was born in Jamestown, New York on June 9, 1967, the son of Richard and Kay (Kahler) Abbey. He …

Betty Jane Damman, age 80, devoted wife, loving mother, adoring grandmother and doting great grandmother, passed away peacefully at Hospice of Northwest Ohio on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 from the combined complications of pneumonia and congestive heart failure. Betty was born to Carl and Emma Clark on April 12, 1934 …

Another reminder that you shouldn’t drink and drive, or drink in pub­lic. Not only is it dan­ger­ous and ille­gal, but it will even­tu­ally catch up with you, and it will cost you a lot in the end. Bryan Police nabbed some­body for it yes­ter­day, and now they are on the …

Demand is up at some local food pantries, and that’s trou­ble­some news. The Bryan Times reports that Open Hands Car­ing Hearts wor­ship cen­ter, the site of a food give­away on Tues­day night, was filled with peo­ple eager to get their hands on boxes of food such as grapes, bread, meat, …