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The State High­way Patrol reports Labor Week­end fatal­i­ties were down this past hol­i­day, with arrests for dri­ving impaired and drugs up. Dur­ing the period of August 29 through Sep­tem­ber first, 11 peo­ple died on Oho road­ways, com­pared to 16 the year before. 804 peo­ple were arrested for OVI, up 4.3% …

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 …

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, …

A two-vehicle crash Wednes­day morn­ing in Put­nam County left one man dead. I hap­pened on Ohio 115 near Put­nam County Road M in Union Town­ship just before 5:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing, when a trac­tor trailer dri­ven by 36 year old Shane Baker of Fre­mont, Indi­ana was attempt­ing to back into a …