Article published November 02, 2009
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Bed mattresses, standing upright, block the front window view at the South Toledo home of a woman accused of pimping her 13-year-old daughter. Jessica Cooper, 32, has been charged with promoting prostitution at three locations, including in Toledo and Fulton County. She was arrested just ahead of a nationwide underage-sex-trade sting announced last week.
Perrysburg Township police arrested two people and were looking for two others suspected in connection with a hit-and-run that injured another man early Sunday at a trailer park. Police said a fight started at Perrysburg Estates on the 23700 block of Lime City Road at about 1:40 a.m. Four suspects got in a car and started dragging the victim, township police said.
A 20-year-old Monroe man was killed early Sunday morning in a single vehicle crash in Raisinville Township, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said. Kyle E. Stefko lost control of his sport utility vehicle while eastbound on Bluebush Road east of Stadler Road. He drove into a ditch on the south side of Bluebush, where the vehicle struck a driveway culvert. After impact with the culvert, the vehicle overturned and Mr. Stefko was thrown from the SUV, deputies said.
A West Toledo man was killed Friday night after he drove off after a hit-and-run accident and struck a fire hydrant and utility pole in the 3800 block of South Avenue. Anthony Darden, 44, of 3121 Cheltenham Ave., was taken to University of Toledo Medical Center, formerly the Medical College of Ohio Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A Swanton Township woman was killed Friday when her sport utility vehicle struck the rear of a tractor-trailer rig stopped to make a turn on Airport Highway, the Ohio Highway Patrol said. Ashley Snyder, 20, of 2986 U.S. 20A, was driving east on Airport, also known as State Rt. 2, and struck the rear of an eastbound rig stopped to turn north on Berkey-Southern Road about 12:20 p.m., troopers said. She died at the scene.
A distraught woman armed with a shotgun during a 90-minute standoff surrendered to police Friday. Police fired tear gas into the home in the 400 block of East Poinsetta Avenue. There were no injuries, and police took the unidentified woman to Rescue Crisis for evaluation. Officers said the standoff began shortly before 2 p.m. when the woman barricaded herself in her house at 458 East Poinsetta after a dispute with a neighbor.
Dayton native Chad Sokol is the new sports director at WTVG-TV, Channel 13. He is replacing former sports director Rob Powers, who recently left WTVG to work as weekend sports anchor at WABC-TV in New York, the top-rated station in the nation's No. 1 market. Sokol, 35, comes to the Toledo area as former weekend sports anchor at WNCN, the NBC affiliate in Raleigh, N.C.
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