Maumee News

Heavy rain this year in northwestern Ohio has nearly doubled the average amount of phosphorus that washes off farm fields each spring and flows down the Maumee River to Lake Erie.

St. Joseph Parish in Maumee, Ohio posted this note to their Facebook page on Wednesday : As many of you know, our seminarian Deacon Scott Carroll has been battling cancer for some time.

Tiffin Calvert has been accepted as the ninth full-time member of the Toledo Area Athletic Conference, and will begin competing in boys and girls sports in the conference during the 2014-15 school year.

Thresh old Choir members, from left, Teresa Teifke, Joyce Treat, Lynne Dunlap, Marie Wolfram, Amey Raihala, and Theresa Kusner sing to people who are terminally ill at two local hospice centers.

The Rev. Scott R. Carroll, who sustained his interest in becoming a Roman Catholic priest through an 18-year career as a middle school teacher and coach, died Friday in the Maumee home of his father, Robert.

A downtown space at 117 Louisiana Ave. that had been a travel agency opens today to the public as a frozen yogurt shop.

Hannah Hagman, 5, looks up at her brother Connor's new therapy dog, Murray, during the Assistance Dogs for Achieving Independence's spring graduation Thursday in Maumee.

A performer entertains the crowd at the Piccadilly Circus at the Lucas County Recreation Center in Maumee.

Robert G. Bennett, who founded one of the largest food franchise firms in the Toledo area and who rode to the rescue nearly two years ago and bought Tony Packo's, the legendary Toledo restaurant group, died Wednesday in the Cleveland Clinic.

The Toledo Zoo's twin polar bear cubs are ready to make their big splash - starting with new names! After nearly 3,000 entries in the Zoo's naming contest, Suka won by more than 400 votes; Sakari won by more than 750 votes.

F. Joseph Cory, who was Maumee's Mr. Infrastructure, overseeing streets and sidewalks, water and sewer lines, parks and trees, and refuse collection as city service director, died Tuesday in Ridgewood Manor, where he had lived since 2006.

Laura Schetter next to a fish tank with tilapia. On top is a garden. The water from the tank goes into the garden, where the roots of the plants clean the water which is then returned to the tank.

A Toledo native who was behind the wheel the night his best friend died in a car crash pleaded no contest Monday to one count of aggravated vehicular homicide.

At 7 p.m. today 72 of the area's honored high school band musicians will be performing at Owens Community College for Owens High School Band Honors Day after 10 hours of preparations.

Re-enactors fire cannons to mark the First Siege of Fort Meigs that occurred on May 1, 1813.

Control System Integrators Association named a new chairman, directors, and award winners, at the CSIA annual executive conference.

Kids playing basketball spotted smoke from a fire at an apartment complex on Saturday afternoon and alerted residents to get out of the building.

At the Funny Bone Comedy Club: Fat Fish Blue, 6140 Levis Commons Blvd., comedian John Caparulo has shows at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday; at 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday, and at 7 p.m. Sunday.

Volunteers Lindsay Czerniak of Toledo, left, and Robin Rayner of Bowling Green towel off Ella Mae, an American fox hound mix, after giving her a bath at the Lucas County Dog Warden's Office in preparation for a 'Fido and Feline Fiesta' mega-adoption event this weekend.

For nine months, a former Wood County Park District ranger secretly videotaped women - and one young girl - while they changed clothes in park facilities before he was caught.