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Toy drive entering home stretch

Santa's helpers are busy collecting and sorting toys for the Review Times' annual Toy Store.
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Holiday ambience returns to downtown

A Holiday Open House will take place Friday and Saturday in the Fostoria Town Center area as select businesses take part in offering specials.

December programs set at park district

Seneca County Park District will host the following programs in December.

St. Wendelin opens season with win over Hardin Northern

DOLA -- Alisha Weis scored 15 points and made three steals and Katelyn Schiefer had a 12 point-12 rebound double-double Tuesday night as St. Wendelin opened its season with a 50-35 non-league victory over Hardin Northern.

Vandy visits BGSU tonight

BOWLING GREEN -- Major-college powers rarely venture into mid-majors' homes.

SW seventh-grade girls down Carey

Allie Rutter notched a triple-double of 16 points, 12 rebounds and 11 steals as St. Wendelin's seventh-grade girls basketball team beat Carey 28-14.

Answers sought in northern Wis. hostage situation (AP)

AP - Sam Hengel was by all accounts the least likely of 15-year-olds to bring two pistols, knives and more than 200 rounds of ammunition into his social studies class, taking several of his closest friends and other terrified classmates hostage before shooting himself to death.

Hometown of missing Mich. boys tries to keep hope (AP)

AP - Megan Nagy had kept quiet when she heard people whispering in the pizza shop where she works that the three missing brothers from the small Michigan town are dead.

Town that Disney built has 1st killing in 14 years (AP)

AP - Celebration, Disney's master-planned, picture-perfect central Florida community, has never reported a homicide in its 14-year existence — until this week.

The Death Penalty: Former Justice Stevens Joins the Debate (Time.com)

Time.com - As retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens frames the question, it isn't whether you believe in a death penalty -- it's whether you believe in the deeply flawed one the U.S. is using

WikiLeaks Founder Assange to TIME: Clinton 'Should Resign' (Time.com)

Time.com - In a Skype interview with TIME managing editor Richard Stengel, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange talks about more revelations and the role his organization is playing

JFK assassin's first coffin goes on auction block (AP)

AP - It's one of the most ghoulish — and overlooked — American artifacts of the 20th century: A modest wooden coffin stashed in a storage room of the Baumgardner Funeral Home in Fort Worth, Texas.

AP - Sweden's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a court order to detain WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for questioning over allegations of rape and sexual molestation.

SKoreans dismissed intel North might attack island (AP)

AP - South Korea's spies had information indicating North Korea might attack a front-line island in August, but the intelligence chief dismissed it as a routine threat.

Defect maybe caused superjumbo engine to blow up (AP)

AP - Australian investigators on Thursday identified the source of an oil leak that caused a superjumbo engine to blow apart in mid air last month, and said a suspected manufacturing defect in the Rolls-Royce engine was to blame.

AP - Rep. Charles Rangel faces an almost certain censure by the House, a devastating defeat for a 40-year veteran who insisted to the end that he never meant to violate House rules.

AP - After a year of watching auto sales slowly increase month by month, industry executives are finally willing to firmly declare that the U.S. market is in recovery.

AP - Prospects for a limited deal at the latest climate talks appeared to brighten with the U.S. and China narrowing differences on a key element: how to monitor greenhouse gas emissions.

Heisman Trophy favorite Cam Newton can focus on playing for the SEC championship instead of worrying about pay-for-play. The NCAA ruled Wednesday that Auburn's quarterback won't be punished for the payment scheme concocted by his father, Cecil. Instead, the younger Newton will lead the second-ranked Tigers into the Southeastern Conference championship game Saturday against South Carolina --...

Report: Cavs probing Heat chase of James (AP)

Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert insists he has moved on from LeBron James. But on to what? Gilbert has reportedly enlisted a law firm to investigate the circumstances leading to James leaving Cleveland to sign with the Miami Heat this summer. Yahoo! Sports reported on Wednesday that Gilbert has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Midwestern law firm to investigate suspicions that the Heat broke...

It didn't take Duke's Nolan Smith long during practice to notice something special about Kyrie Irving. "He'll be like, 'Get out of the way, I've got it,"' Smith said. "You don't really hear that too often, when a freshman will tell two seniors on the wings to get out of the way.

Steelers LB Harrison: NFL targeting me (AP)

Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison promises he's not changing his aggressive style of play, even if the NFL and his own coach agree he must. Harrison believes he is being unfairly targeted for hard hits that have drawn $125,000 in fines for four infractions since mid-October. His own teammates and at least one Baltimore Ravens player, linebacker Terrell Suggs, argued Wednesday the...

Brett Favre has faced demanding questions from the media for 20 years, never more than this season while he's been embroiled in a messy NFL investigation and struggled mightily on the field for the Minnesota Vikings. When he finally does decide to hang up the pads, which he insisted Wednesday will happen for good at the end of this long and trying season, the 41-year-old quarterback said that...

The Los Angeles Lakers have lost four straight for the first time since April 2007. Their latest loss, a 109-99 defeat by the injury-depleted Houston Rockets on Wednesday night, prompted a reporter to ask Kobe Bryant if the Lakers have considered that they aren't as good as they think they are. "How do you know how good we think we are?

Falcons again show why they're lords of the rings

"Play Like A Champion Today," reads the sign in the Notre Dame Stadium tunnel.

Mowatt put together amazing pitching run

Taryne Mowatt got a small, sympathetic round of applause as she walked out of the pitcher’s circle at Akron’s Firestone Stadium.