Lucas County News

If you own property in Lucas County, expect to receive a notice in the mail showing how much your property value has dropped.

A man was charged with aggravated murder and felonious assault yesterday for allegedly killing an 88-year-old woman and critically injuring her husband during a break-in at the couple's North Toledo home in the spring.

Three men and three women made initial appearances in Oregon Municipal Court yesterday, hours after Oregon police arrested them on drug trafficking-related charges and seized cocaine valued at nearly $6 million.

Toledo Police have charged Edgar Howard, 47, in the death of Frances Fox and the beating of her husband, Kenneth, ages 88 and 74, respectively.

Two women from Lorain, Ohio, are facing felony drug charges after Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers seized 5 kilos of cocaine, valued at $750,000, during a traffic stop yesterday on the Ohio Turnpike in Lucas County.

John Kasich, a Republican candidate for governor and a former nine-term U.S. congressman from Ohio, will headline the Lucas County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner July 30.

A Lucas County grand jury indicted an Ottawa Hills police officer today on charges related to a police-involved shooting last month.

A Toledo man described as a fugitive has been charged with two counts of felonious assault after the shooting of two men early Thursday in the parking lot of a North Toledo bar, authorities said.

After deliberating for about four hours, a Lucas County Common Pleas Court judge found Dana Todd Rister guilty of murder in the strangulation death of a woman whose body was found last June in a shed near the former Southwyck Mall.

TOLEDO, Ohio - A children's science museum that closed nearly two years ago has a new name and a new life.

Lucas County officials are expected Monday to announce a deal reached to help keep plans for a coking facility and co-generation power plant on the East Toledo-Oregon border from being scrapped.

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In the near future, portions of Lucas County may go without police protection. The sight of Lucas County sheriff cruisers may become a thing of the past in eight townships across the county.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is on the scene of a fatal accident that happened around 10:30 a.m. at the intersection of South Berkey Southern Rd.

New figures show Toledo had the highest unemployment rate among Ohio's largest cities last month, at 14.3%. That's up from from 12.7% percent in April.

Clyde Scoles, the director of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, on Monday called "devastating" budget cuts that have been proposed by Ohio Gov.

The attractive brunette wades in her pool in the glossy magazine photo, hand on hip, talking on her cell phone.

The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Middle Jun. 19--Toledo firefighters at one time could tell from the color of a fire hydrant if it was on a low-volume water main, information that might have helped save a home in Toledo's Westmoreland neighborhood that burned down last week.

Thomas Zich has been found guilty of murder by a Lucas County jury.A He was sentenced to 15-years to lifeA for the 1991 murder of his wife, Mary Jane.

When: Thursday, June 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. How: As many across Northwest struggle to make ends meet, the Northwest Ohio based Joint Utility and Social Services Committee presents a Utility Bill Assistance Fair.