Новости за 11.01.2024

BOWLING GREEN — The Bowling Green Curling Club is the recipient of a $5,000 BG Ohio 2023 Tourism Grant.

COLUMBUS — Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday visited his new Ohio Department of Education and Workforce that usurped most of the duties previously carried out by the State Board of Education even as the law behind it remains under a cloud of legal uncertainty.

Perrysburg is rolling out the red carpet with the expected arrival of temperatures in the lower teens and more snow this weekend.

NEW YORK  — Barred from giving a formal closing argument, Donald Trump still seized an opportunity to speak in court at the conclusion of his New York civil fraud trial Thursday, unleashing a barrage of attacks in a six-minute diatribe before being cut off by the judge.

Here are where local high school wrestlers in The Blade’s coverage area rank in the week of Jan. 8. Rankings are courtesy of borofanohio.net (boys) and americanwomenswrestling.com (girls). Boys rankings are as of Jan. 10, while girls rankings are as of Jan. 3.

Hollywood Casino Toledo reopened Thursday afternoon, several hours after it temporarily closed so crews could fix a water main break.

A Lucas County judge has sent a teenaged boy who admitted to a peripheral role in a shooting outside a Whitmer High School football game in 2022 to juvenile detention for the balance of a year.

The Greater Port Clinton Area Arts Council announced its first solo exhibit of 2024, showing a collection of works from renowned Catawba Island Township fiber artist Johnny Hill. There will be a free public opening reception on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Arts Garage, located at 317 W. Perry St. in Port Clinton. Hill’s exhibit will be displayed until Jan. 31. For more information about events at the Arts Garage, visit gpcaac.org.

Dates are set for the 2024 Friends of the Library book sales.

Kathy Scheer, past president and current corresponding secretary of the Toledo Symphony League, says the league never lacks for entrants for the annual Young Artists competition.

When the Ohio High School Athletic Association released its first MaxPreps Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) rankings this week, a new era was ushered in for the transition from regular-season play to the state tournament for boys and girls basketball.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits inched down to its lowest level in nearly three months last week as the U.S. labor market continues to flex its muscle in spite of elevated interest rates.

The best live shows are electric, with audiences and performers feeding off each other for an experience that cannot be replicated.

The Lucas County Republican Party is asking candidates running in Ohio's 9th Congressional District race to screen with the executive committee.

The Taqueria El Gallo de Oro is easy to overlook in a strip mall on Secor Road. We opted to dine in the small dining area even though most diners appear to opt for carry out. The restaurant’s décor is colorful like most Mexican restaurants and the menu is mostly in Spanish, which prompted questions, all of which were patiently answered by staff.

There's a certain reality that goes along with being a player on a two-way contract in the NBA.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Six-time NFL champion Bill Belichick has agreed to part ways as the coach of the New England Patriots on Thursday, bringing an end to his 24-year tenure as the architect of the most decorated dynasty of the league’s Super Bowl era, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because it has not yet been announced.

Clark Lewis goes by the moniker “the Rouge Showman,” which is an appropriate title. He can do a lot of cool stuff, like sword swallowing, extreme balancing acts, and other feats that he calls “questionably safe activities.”

MANY events happened during the holidays that were not holiday affairs including anniversaries, retirements, and birthdays.

The city and county now have their feasibility study on an amphitheater in Promenade Park in downtown Toledo, and it shows that Toledo cannot afford one.

There is widespread acknowledgement that social media is harming America’s children, but that doesn’t mean anything will be done about it.

Where in Chris Talgo’s guest essay, “Jan. 6 was protest and riot, not insurrection,” Saturday, does he draw the line between a political “protest,” a “riot,” and an “insurrection?”

On Nov. 15, 2021, President Biden signed into law the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law created the largest investment in passenger rail since the creation of Amtrak, with a $66 billion total investment in rail.

DETROIT— For many years, under a variety of leaders, the Michigan Republican Party was one of the best and most efficient political organizations in the country.

By Kirk Walters / Special to The Blade