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Aug 16, 2024 | 
13abc.com | Sophie Bates
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - New numbers show more and more people are applying to become part of the Toledo Police Department. The increase comes after a decline which was fueled by souring public sentiment toward law enforcement. In 2022, 432 people applied to the academy. A year later, that number jumped to 520, and this year, 603 people submitted their names for consideration. It’s a change that could bring more qualified people into the department. “We don’t just want to bring anyone in.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
13abc.com | Sophie Bates
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - The Salvation Army Service Center of Ottawa County is helping with the financial burden of back-to-school time by giving local families free school supplies. “I appreciate all the help I can get,” said Mary Cooley, who is raising her three grandchildren. “I got custody of them, and my husband just passed away this year, so it’s just me now.”It’s just her, but on Friday, Cooley and 110 other families got some help from the Salvation Army’s Tools for School program.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
13abc.com | Sophie Bates
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - People living in a south Toledo neighborhood say they’re fighting a spreading cockroach infestation and the bugs are all coming from one neglected property near the corner of Courtland and Western Avenue. The I-TEAM spoke with four neighbors about the issue. They all want to remain anonymous, but say they’re desperate for help. “This is a health issue.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
13abc.com | Sophie Bates
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Just weeks after a Toledo couple trying to rent a home lost thousands in a scam, the same thing is happening again -- this time in Perrysburg. Almost everything Held owns was packed into boxes, awaiting his move to a Perrysburg apartment complex on Hofford Road, when he realized the move wasn’t going to happen. “Oh my god. I just got scammed,” Justen Held said. “I can’t believe I’m one of the ones who got scammed. I thought it was safe. I thought it was secure.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
13abc.com | Sophie Bates
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A Toledo woman who faked having cancer and took donations to pay for treatments she did not need was sentenced to six months in jail today, after pleading guilty to theft last month. “The remorse I carry with me every day is so much that if I could go back in time, I would,” Titkemeier said in court, reading from a statement. In addition to serving time, Lisa Titkemeier will be on probation for the next three years.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
13abc.com | Sophie Bates
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - From sticky traps to windows and floor, hundreds of flies are taking over Syaria Howard’s Toledo home. “This is just crazy,” Howard said. “They’re coming in like herds of zombies.”Howard says the problem started bout two weeks ago, and seems to be coming from her basement. “Man, you seen what’s in that basement. The basement was just crazy. I cried going down there. I was like I can’t do it,” she said.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
13abc.com | Sophie Bates
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A Toledo man arrested Wednesday for illegally selling fireworks out of his home on the 1900 block of Ketner Avenue is speaking out. “I had no idea I couldn’t even sell fireworks. I didn’t know that was a thing,” Edward Deluna, 35, said. Deluna estimates he had $40,000 dollars worth of fireworks in his garage when officers from the Toledo Police Department and Toledo Fire and Rescue Department’s Joint Arson Unit arrested him.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
13abc.com | Sophie Bates
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A Toledo landlord has spent more than 25 days trying to reclaim his property from squatters, and the process isn’t over yet. “You just can’t go into somebody’s property, take possession and you don’t own it,” Jeff Savage, the owner of Toledo Transformation and more than 500 properties across the county, said. Unfortunately for Savage, that’s not actually the case. Savage went to check on one of his properties after evicting a previous tenant last month.
