Rossford News

Today, 180 soldiers will leave behind their friends and family to begin 45 days of intense training before being deployed to a small town north of Baghdad.

Boisterous tea party protesters, described by an event moderator as clinging to their guns and Bibles, rocked downtown Perrysburg on Independence Day, demanding that the federal government curb spending.

Numerous local Post Offices willA have varied hoursA Friday due to the holiday. Some offices will be open regular hours, while some will close early.

ART OF DECORATING: : Janet LeGolvan tries on a pair of earrings as her husband, Dennis, center, and artist David Haun watch at the Crosby Festival of the Arts preview party.

Brian Hughes, president of the Rossford school board, chats with the schools' Bulldog mascot, played by school board member Jackie Brown, during groundbreaking for the first phase of Rossford High's $14 million athletic complex.

In a surprise decision, Gov. Ted Strickland has announced a proposal to balance the state budget by slashing public library funding by 50 percent.

With a just-baked dog biscuit in his pocket, and the palm of his hand wet with paint, 7-year-old Jesse Babiuch bubbled over with unbridled excitement.

State Rep. Randy Gardner and Wood County Commissioner Tim Brown have called a public meeting for Sunday to discuss increasing water rates at Friendly Village manufactured home park in Perrysburg Township.

In 1979, the landscaping at 285 Riverside Drive in Rossford's Eagle Point Colony consisted of one tree peony, a couple of big pine trees, and a solid yard of dandelions.

The shelves are stocked and the merchants are ready. So where are the shoppers for Father's Day gifts? Sorry, dads, but the sad fact is that the day devoted to you traditionally doesn't match that of moms' special day.

Lima Senior's athletic teams are facing the possibility of playing as an independent again, starting in 2011, with the departure of Napoleon from the Greater Buckeye Conference.

Don't call it a comeback, but it looks like reality television is giving one more rapper a second chance.

A fatal vehicle accident on Schrier Rd. in Rossford has left one man dead. Officers found a male driver unconscious behind the wheel of the vehicle after it hadA driven off of the right side of the roadway.A A Investigators say the vehicle, driven by Michael G. Haas, 60, of Northwood, struckA several mailboxes, and thenA ran into a telephone pole.

A Northwood man died in a single-vehicle crash early Tuesday morning in Rossford.

Toledo mayoral candidate Mike Bell says if he's elected, he'll work to set up agreements with neighboring communities over water distribution within 30-days of taking office.

The water study recently announced by Wood County Commissioner Tim Brown is just another attempt by an exclusive suburban area to export underfunded development cost to Ottawa County.

The way State Rep. Randy Gardner sees it, fighting over water in an area that has plenty of it is just crazy.

This month marks the 1,684th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, a conference of Christian bishops from around the world who met to resolve a growing dispute within the church.

By 7 o'clock tonight, it was no longer possible to step through a 4-foot-wide hole in the wall in turn 1 at Columbus Motor Speedway.

There are so many different "nutritional call-outs" on food packaging that make consumers think they are picking healthy choices.