Toledo Shootout: Video Captured Shooting in Route 66 Kitchen

A wild-west style shootout involving at least 5 gunmen took place in a bar in Toledo, Ohio. Surveillance cameras in the bar, Route 66 Kitchen, caught the entire shooting on tape, and the police is trying to...

Daniel Brandon: Toledo Police Re-hired After Sex Assault Attempt

Women's group was outraged when Toledo police Sergeant Daniel Brandon was re-hired after a sexual assault attempt last year. He threatened to arrest the clerk if she did not have sex with him; the act was caught on surveillance video. "In the video, he said, "What if I take...

Point Shaving University Ball Players Linked to Gambling Mob

Article published May 06, 20098 indicted on bribery charges in UT point-shaving scandal From left to right: Ghazi "Gary" Manni, Scooter McDougle, Kashif Payne, and Keith Triplett. Zoom | Photo Reprints BLADE STAFFDETROIT — Two...

"Tattoo Revenge" Home Invaders Found Guilty

FROM THE TOLEDO BLADEArticle published March 24, 2009Man found guilty in home invasion, rape Cosme Zoom | Photo ReprintsBy ERICA BLAKEBLADE STAFF WRITER What led four men to a Harding Drive home early one November morning was revenge, a Lucas County...

Crooked Klepto Cop Nabbed in Safe Rob

Article published March 20, 2009Ex-officer admits he stole from police safeSylvania veteran faces up to 5 years in prison Beckman Zoom | Photo Reprints By ERICA BLAKEBLADE STAFF WRITERFor 20 years, Carl Beckman was assigned to oversee...

Local Prostitution Ring Connected To Human Trafficking

"CLEVELAND -- Gov. Ted Strickland signed a new law that cracks down on human trafficking, and a NewsChannel5 investigation found that it is a much bigger problem than you might think, and Ohio plays a big role.In a...

Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent

Good God, what's next?  Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General?"TOLEDO, Ohio – Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook. The Ohio man who became a household name during...

Measure takes aim at sexual slavery

"COLUMBUS — In an attempt to combat Ohio’s and especially Toledo’s  reputation as a hub for enslavement of people for the sex trade, state lawmakers have sent the governor a long awaited bill to increase...

Joe the Plumber Pens Prose

By TOM TROYBLADE POLITICS WRITERLike the two men whose campaigns for president he influenced with his unexpected step upon the national political stage, Joe the Plumber has published a book about his life. Samuel...

High School Teacher Gets Charged After Sex Romp with Student in Parked Car

By MARK REITER BLADE STAFF WRITER MONROE - The case of a Monroe High School teacher charged with indecent exposure after being accused of having sex with a male high school student in a parked vehicle has...

Mayor Carty Finkbeiner rejects Take Back Toledo recall effort

By TOM TROY BLADE POLITICS WRITER Mayor Carty Finkbeiner fired back at a recall effort yesterday that pledges to remove him from office, accusing the three main backers of ethical misdeeds. Speaking to...

Narco Cop Denies Charges; House Raided

Narcotics officer's house raided by Ray Kisonas , last modified December 05. 2008 11:28AM A Michigan State Police lieutenant who oversees narcotics investigations in Monroe County is on paid administrative...

OHIO OWES JOE

By JIM PROVANCEBLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF COLUMBUS - The state of Ohio owes "Joe the Plumber" an apology, the whistle-blower who helped expose government intrusion into his private life told lawmakers yesterday....

Phony flatfoot nabbed

Man who impersonated police gets deferred jail BOWLING GREEN - A former Bowling Green man who said he'd hoped to become a police officer was sentenced yesterday to 30 days in jail for pretending he was...

'Joe the Plumber' moves to electronics

Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher is now the pitchman for a program to spread around $1.34 billion in federal funds to help people transition from analog to digital TV The video sounds like a public service...

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