Changes are on the way for TARTA riders. The Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority's board of trustees' routes and schedules committee has approved a 12-percent reduction in services. TARTA says they've been experiencing a decline in government revenue and ridership. Click here to learn about these new changes.
Toledo police want to find whoever vandalized the new Lucas County Arena. Crews today worked to clean up the arena section along Jefferson Avenue. The vandals had spray-painted on that part of the facility. If you know anything, call Crimestopper at 419-255-1111.
TPS says just 182 students were vaccinated in a weekend H1N1 clinic that had over 8,000 doses available. Parents we talked to said they weren't informed. Superintendent John Foley blames the last minute notice, and the OSU-Michigan game for the low turnout.
A shoplifter is behind bars after punching a cashier. Toledo police say the shoplifter was trying to steal shampoo and soap from the Family Dollar on West Sylvania Avenue when he was confronted by that cashier. The male suspect then punched the female clerk and took off running. TPD caught up with the shoplifter a short time later and arrested him.
We have new information tonight about a knife-wielding suspect who robbed the Vito's Pizza on North Main Street in Findlay over the weekend. Findlay police say Christian Kryling, 38, walked into the business, showed a knife and demanded money. After a brief investigation, they arrested Kryling and charged him with aggravated robbery.
A Monroe County man will soon stand trial in his wife's murder. John Bausman is accused of strangling his wife, 68-year-old Kay Bausman. Deputies found her body at the couple's Milan Township home in July. Bausman's arraignment is set for December 11.
A Monroe woman avoids trial by pleading "guilty" for her role in a drug-related death. Police say Tiesha Wandt gave Jacob Zubkoff the heroin that lead to a lethal overdose in November 2008. Wandt was the first person in Monroe to be charged with "delivery of a controlled substance causing death." But she pleaded "guilty" to a lesser charge of heroin delivery. She faces up to 20 years in prison at her sentencing in January.
A northwest Ohio refinery is recommending that nearby residents toss out food, including pet food that may have come in contact with oil mist accidentally discharged over the weekend. Husky Energy is also offering car washes to people whose vehicles were coated by the mist, which was released yesterday morning from a storage tank at the company's Lima facility. Husky says it does not believe the mist is harmful to people or animals and that any residue can be removed with soap and water.
Ohio governor Ted Strickland granted clemency to a Toledo man who has spent more than a dozen years behind bars. Willie Knighten Junior, 37, was one of 78 inmates granted clemency today after the governor reviewed requests that went back more than three years. Knighten was serving 18 years to life for killing a man and wounding another back in 1996. However, the judge who sentenced him had become convinced Knighten did not commit the crime and asked the parole board to release him.
A police task force that hunts fugitives throughout northern Ohio, including Toledo, has made its 20-thousandth arrest. The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive task force is run by the U.S. Marshals service out of Cleveland. Today, members hit the milestone arrest when they took Leonardo "Joker" Rodriguez into custody on charges that included aggravated robbery. Since 2003, the multi-agency organization has tracked down suspected killers, con artists and rapists.
Officials at Pennsylvania's nuclear power plant Three Mile Island are investigating how workers cutting a pipe stirred up some radioactive dust. A spokesman for the plant says the public wasn't in danger Saturday when a dozen workers were exposed to the radiation. The plant has two reactors. One suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 and isn't operating. The other's been shutdown for a generator replacement.
Governor Strickland is vowing to veto any bill that doesn't allow local government to regulate casino projects in Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati. Casino developers already submitted a proposal to lawmakers that specifies that no local zoning rules can stop the development in those four cities. The proposal also says there can be no "unreasonable delays" in building permits. Ohio lawmakers must pass legislation to implement the casino constitutional amendment voters approved on November 3.
Astronauts are back inside the International Space Station after the third and final spacewalk of the shuttle Atlantis mission. They installed a huge oxygen tank today and quickly accomplished everything else on their list. Atlantis and its crew of seven will depart the space station on Wednesday. The shuttle is due to land back at Kennedy Space Centre on Friday.
The doctor at the center of Michael Jackson's death is back on the job. Dr. Conrad Murray was greeted at his Houston clinic this morning by a couple patients and the pastor of his church. Murray didn't speak with reporters, but his attorney says he is looking forward to getting back to work. Murray has been the focus of a homicide investigation since telling police he gave Jackson a powerful operating room anesthetic to help him sleep.
President Barack Obama is calling his war council together tonight as he moves toward a decision on whether to add more U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The president has said he would announce his plans by year's end. He first called the high-powered national security team together in August as he began wrestling with a new plan for Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan where the al-Qaida leadership is believed hiding.
The death toll continues to climb following a mine explosion in China over the weekend. Officials there now say 104 people are confirmed dead, 4 are still missing. The weekend explosion is the country's deadliest mining accident in two years.
In Spain, 7 bulls broke loose on the set of a new movie starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Two women were hurt as the animals stampeded through the streets. The bulls were eventually rounded up on a nearby beach. Cruise and Diaz begin filming next weekend.
At the age of 76, a Nepal man has been honored for becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. The man climbed the 29,035 foot peak in May of 2008, and was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records today.
