David Patch

3 days ago | toledoblade.com | David Patch

The I-475 widening and reconstruction project in and near Maumee isn’t quite done annoying motorists. Overnight, the ramp from westbound U.S. 24 to northbound I-475/U.S. 23 was scheduled to close and will stay that way until May 20, the Ohio Department of Transportation said. A portion of the roadway rebuilt in 2023 near the bridge over Monclova Road settled, spokesman Kelsie Hoagland said, and the contractor will be fixing that during this time. The mainline right lane also will be closed.

5 days ago | toledoblade.com | David Patch

For now, Collin Short sees getting good grades mainly as a way to please his mother, but a member of the Air Force Thunderbirds team who visited him in a local hospital Friday advised doing well in school will pay off in the future, too. “Keep up those grades,” Chief Master Sgt. Ryan Smith, the flight demonstration team’s senior adviser, told young Short during the morning visit on the eve of the Thunderbirds’ weekend performances at the Toledo Air Show.

6 days ago | toledoblade.com | David Patch

A teenager who killed a man and then set his body and car on fire beneath the Veterans’ Glass City Skyway 18 months ago received a 25-year prison term Friday after pleading guilty to reduced charges. “There is nothing rational about what transpired,” Judge Dean Mandros said in Lucas County Common Pleas Court before imposing the agreed-upon sentence on Kristaun Self, 17, for the Nov. 8, 2023, death of Josiah Gill, 20.

1 week ago | toledoblade.com | David Patch

The Ohio Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended the Ohio law license of Matthew Exton, the man accused of trying to kill an estranged or former wife in a Warehouse District restaurant last month. The state high court issued the order Tuesday after receiving a motion requesting the suspension by the Toledo Bar Association, which stated that the April 11 shooting inside the Sabira restaurant at 139 S. Huron St. demonstrated that Mr. Exton is a public safety threat.

1 week ago | toledoblade.com | David Patch

Construction staging is scheduled this week for a Secor Road project that will constrict traffic starting next week, the Toledo Department of Transportation announced. Secor will be reduced to one lane each way between Laskey and Alexis roads for the rest of the construction season once work begins May 12. The city said construction will start at the Laskey end and work north. The best alternatives to this part of Secor depend significantly on where particular drivers are traveling to and from.