University of Toledo

At the start of the degree distribution for WVU's Eberly College of Arts & Sciences, administrators recognized a special graduate, Robbie Venturino. Venturino recently died of a rare bone cancer, but WVU officials still called his name, His mother and...

Tammy McKittrick is one of the proudest of mothers. Two weeks ago, her son Shawn Tompkins, Jr., 21, graduated from the University of Toledo. Today, her daughter, Shanice McKittrick, 23, graduates from Davis College. And Saturday, she graduates from...

Conservative Ohio groups more than a year ago raised the alarm that the Internal Revenue Service was holding up their applications for tax-exempt status, leading Ohio U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Urbana) to request the audit that led to the IRS's admission...

D. Michael Collins, Toledo city councilman, plans to announce his candidacy for mayor at 5:30 p.m. today at the closed West Toledo District Police Station, 2328 West Sylvania Ave. He has served on City Council since 2008 and he worked as a police...

The University of Toledo Board of Trustees met for two hours Monday without taking formal notice of a group of about 10 students and community members sitting in the audience who were there to urge university President Lloyd Jacobs to go to the rescue...

For three decades, Southview swimming coach Kris Moellenberg has taken pride in teaching life lessons to his athletes, and on Monday night he was rewarded for the impact he has made. Students, teachers, and coaches were honored at the BCSN awards...

Douglas Neckers, a distinguished professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University, wasn't happy with a story in The Blade about the son of accused Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro. The story, by staff writer Tanya Irwin, revealed that the son, who...

Sitting in her parent's Lima home, with a cooing 8-month-old on her lap, ShaCoya Warthem explained how her life has changed since she gave birth to her son. When she found out she was pregnant, she was in her senior year of high school. She was in the...

James A. King, a retired University of Toledo sociology professor whose studies of such diverse topics as drug use in teens, homelessness, and stress among Toledo police officers often made news, died Wednesday in his West Toledo home. He was 73. He had...

Seth Evans is used to the travel and demands of major college basketball, but even he admits the past several weeks have been particularly hectic for him. On March 28, Evans played his final game for Florida Southern College as it was eliminated from...

Will Benson sat behind the wheel of the University of Toledo's engineering students' Formula race car this week and in an instant he was gone, weaving through cones and slamming on brakes back at the starting circle. Four engineering teams met with...

Before Bob Savage celebrates his most recent honor, he took a step back to reflect on his past. It's a story that starts on Detroit Avenue, where his father owned a grocery market and cared for his nine children after their mother's death. It makes a...