Новости за 16.06.2023

NEW YORK — Wall Street closed out its best week since March with a quiet finish on Friday, and stocks drifted to modest losses.

DETROIT — The new president of the United Auto Workers gave his strongest warning yet Friday that the union is preparing for strikes against Detroit's three automakers when contracts expire in September.

Lucas County Canine Care & Control is asking the public to sign up for an event called "Snout & About" that is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Local, state, county and federal offices are closed Monday in observance of Juneteenth.

The Toledo Lucas County Public Library will hold a Juneteenth job fair.

BOWLING GREEN — Several clinics for coronavirus vaccinations are coming up at Wood County senior centers.

Perrysburg City Councilman Barry VanHoozen, head of council's safety committee, was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a police report released Friday shows.

The storm seemed to come from nowhere.

TARTA will expand its Jeep Fest Express bus services to Star Elementary in Oregon during the Toledo Jeep Fest weekend to provide easier access for residents to get downtown, the organization announced Friday.

Mertis Darrington had told her daughter, Ashley, that the 2020 imprisonment of Ashley’s boyfriend for domestic violence was “a message from God that was your opportunity to get away” from him.

PITTSBURGH — The jury found Bowers guilty on the first 11 charges: obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death. Each charge was related to one of the 11 worshippers who was killed: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil and David Rosenthal, Bernice and Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax, Irving Younger.

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Supreme Court, voting 4-3 along party lines, on Friday refused to block an Aug. 8 special election for voters to consider a legislative proposal to amend the state constitution now so that it will be tougher to amend it in the future.

Country star Justin Moore will perform at the Stranahan Theater on Nov. 4, the venue announced on Friday.

This is the last article in a five-part series.

Blade photographers head out every day to capture the triumphs, tragedies, and oddities of life in Lucas County and beyond.

The University of Toledo is coming off its most successful season since 2017, as the Rockets won the Mid-American Conference championship and then closed the year with a victory in the Boca Raton Bowl.

BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green State University’s football program has certainly had some newsworthy moments recently, and The Blade wants to know how fans and those who follow the team feel about the Falcons.

DETROIT — A half-dozen grassroots organizations in Detroit will receive federal funding to help reduce violent crime in some of the toughest parts of the city.

Pixar’s Elemental conjures a diverse metropolis where the elements — fire, water, earth, and air — live like ethnicities mostly ghettoized from one other. For fire and water, especially, mingling can be combustible. A bad splash could consume fire; a strong flame could evaporate water. This is the rare kids’ movie where subway rides are actually more fraught with danger than in the real world.

“It's not nice to fool Mother Nature,” went a famous ’70s commercial catchphrase. But we learn in The Flash — the much awaited, long gestated new DC Studios offering — that it’s Father Time one musn’t cross. Because trying to change the past can really mess you up when you get back to the future and realize you’ve inadvertently changed that, too.

SAN DIEGO — David Fry hit a three-run shot for his first major league homer, José Ramírez had three hits and two RBIs, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the San Diego Padres 8-6 on Thursday.

A Congressional counterattack against the 37 felony count indictment of former President Donald Trump is being led by Ohio’s most MAGA members.

John Perry, a civil engineer with a specialty in roads and bridges, whose proclivity for building started in childhood, died Saturday at ProMedica Flower Hospital, Sylvania. He was 56.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Tarik Skubal was sharp on the mound in his first game at the AAA level since season-ending surgery last year, and the Toledo Mud Hens fought until the end to edge the Lehigh Valley IronPigs 4-3 in 12 innings on Thursday night.

Toledo and northwest Ohio’s primary marketing agency is calling on area imbibers to experience new drinks and destinations and meet new people on the 2023 419 Ale Trail adventure.