A 25-year-old Wales Township man is facing charges of soliciting sex from minors online as the result of an undercover sting, Attorney General Mike Cox announced Wednesday.Joseph Michael Peraino was arraigned Wednesday in St. Clair County District Court on five counts of using the Internet to commit child sexually absuve activity and three counts of [...]

A 27-year-old Toledo woman who has a lengthy loitering and solicitation record was indicted by a Lucas County grand jury yesterday for soliciting sexual acts knowing she is HIV positive.Elizabeth Curtis of 1222 Baker was charged with engaging in solicitation after a positive HIV test. She faces up to five years in prison if convicted.According [...]

Elizabeth Curtis, of 1222 Baker, was charged with engaging in solicitation after a positive HIV test. She faces up to five years in prison if convicted.According to a police report, she tested positive for HIV in March, 2008.Ms. Curtis was arrested Nov. 17 on Lagrange Street after she approached the parked car of undercover officers [...]

… You work with getting their life under control,” Buchanan said. “It’s a Catch-22 for lots of folks if they can’t afford medicine and their case worsens and they lose their income and wind up on the streets. We try to reverse that.”The sadness comes from seeing patients who cannot seem to help themselves.“I think [...]

Prostitution in Toledo…It’s an organization designed to help victims of prostitution and human trafficking.…Williamson calls Toledo an “origin city.” Right now, she says, the FBI ranks it fourth in the nation for investigations, arrests and rescues of children; children forced into prostitution. You may not see them here, but what’s here under the surface, according [...]

Construe this, if you wish, as the ranting of a sore loser. But I reject NIMBY arguments when it comes to necessary facilities. We can’t get along without landfills, power plants and prisons. They have to be sited somewhere. Certainly, nobody wants one in his or her backyard, and that’s why we [...]

However, Gov. Ted Strickland correctly pointed out that it’s a bit late to start complaining about the cards voters dealt themselves. As he put it: “Elections have consequences.”Unless Columbus reshuffles the deck, Toledo’s challenge will be ensuring that “Hollywood Casino Toledo” doesn’t suck the economic life out of its host city. Progress has been made [...]

Toledo police are asking for help in solving two possible murders dating to 1999.The victims were two white women in their late 30s or older who regularly worked as prostitutes on Lagrange Street between Bancroft Street and Delaware Avenue.Both women were drug users who smoked crack cocaine. Both were very thin. Police believe they were [...]

Robert Bell, 43, said casinos will increase problems such as crime and gambling addiction in Ohio. That was the No. 1 reason opponents gave for turning thumbs down to Issue 3.The architect from Oxford, in southwest Ohio, said he is against gambling in general and that Ohioans “don’t need more low-wage jobs.”William Miller of Middleburg [...]

After four previous failed attempts to legalize casino gambling in Ohio, backers of state issue 3 finally won voters over with their proposal to a casino in each of four Ohio cities.Cavs owner Dan Gilbert, a principle backer of Issue 3, was flanked by supporters and other casino investors in celebrating a thumbs up from [...]

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