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Coast Guard finds body in Maumee River
TOLEDO, Ohio — Authorities are working to identify a body they located in the Maumee River near east Toledo Tuesday morning. In a Toledo police report, law enforcement said the US Coast Guard was conducting a training exercise in the Maumee River near Mondelēz International at approximately 11:45 a.m. when they located and recovered a body.
Jury to decide fate of two charged with killing teens
The aggravated murder case against two men accused of killing two teenaged boys in late 2022 after others lured them to a South Toledo house to confront one boy about a stolen gun was handed to a trial jury Tuesday evening. Defense lawyers’ and prosecutors summations concluded a trial day during which two defense witnesses testified, two others declined on self-incrimination grounds, and a Lucas County Common Pleas judge excluded a fifth that the defense tried to add to the witness list at the last minute. The potential witnesses against Charles Walker, 34, and Brent Kohlhofer, 42, who cited their Fifth Amendment rights were Carrissa Eames and Don Eames, Jr., separately indicted codefendants against whom charges remain pending. In their closing arguments, defense lawyers for both Walker and Corbin Gingrich repeated their introductory assertions that the allegations against their clients were made up by the Eamses and codefendants Gingrich and Cruz Garcia, who accepted plea bargains and turned state’s evidence, to hide their own direct roles in the boys’ deaths.
Good Samaritan in boat rescues kayaker who fell into Maumee River
TOLEDO, Ohio — A kayaker was rescued by a good Samaritan in a boat after falling into the Maumee River Sunday evening. According to Toledo police, they responded to 4 Main Street in east Toledo just before 7 p.m. after a 37-year-old fell into the river while in a kayak.
Woman dies after red-light crash in South Toledo
A South Toledo woman whose vehicle struck another after she ran a red light at Hill Avenue and Byrne Road late Saturday afternoon died that evening at a nearby hospital, authorities said. Daneasha Watson, 31, of the 2300 block of Victory Avenue, was pronounced dead at the University of Toledo Medical Center about three hours after the crash that was reported at 5:28 p.m. Saturday. A Toledo Police Department statement said Ms. Watson entered the intersection with a red light and while an oncoming vehicle driven by Autumn Twining, 19, of Springfield Township was completing a left turn begun before the light changed. Ms. Watson’s vehicle flipped, hit a pole, and landed right-side up, police said. Neither Ms. Twining nor her two teenaged passengers were injured, police said. The police report did not specify the vehicles’ direction of travel.
Port Clinton woman attacked by dog, flown to St. Vincent for treatment
PORT CLINTON, Ohio (WTVG) - A 30-year-old woman was so severely injured in a dog attack that she needed to be airlifted from Magruder Hospital to St. Vincent in Toledo on May 12. According to a Port Clinton police report, the dog attacked the mother after she yelled at a...
Investigation Underway After Fatal Crash on US 95
TENSED – The Idaho State Police are investigating a fatal crash that occurred at approximately 11:23 AM on May 14, 2024, on US 95 near milepost 379. The collision involved a grey 2019 Ford Escape, driven by a 45-year-old female from Pullman, Washington, and a 2020 Volvo Tractor Trailer operated by a 31-year-old male from Toledo, Ohio.
Gunfire strikes two south Toledo homes; authorities investigating
TOLEDO, Ohio — Police are investigating an incident in which two south Toledo homes were struck by gunfire Tuesday night. According to a Toledo police report, officers responded to the 1800 block of Airport Highway after receiving a call regarding shots fired. Police arrived at the location, where they said two homes in the same block had been struck by gunfire.
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