https://www.katierausch.com/moments-1 daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912825334-WW0BK51NJ07JUZFBMOVL/Reportage+10.JPG Moments Gail Hammett holds her hand up to the glass in the Jackson County Jail on W. Wesley Street to match her son, James, who also raised his hand. Gail has been walking about two miles each way every Thursday since August to spend 15 minutes in county lockup visitation with her son. James Hammett was later sentenced to 19 to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree home invasion, felonious assault and two felony weapons violations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912825334-WW0BK51NJ07JUZFBMOVL/Reportage+10.JPG Moments Gail Hammett holds her hand up to the glass in the Jackson County Jail on W. Wesley Street to match her son, James, who also raised his hand. Gail has been walking about two miles each way every Thursday since August to spend 15 minutes in county lockup visitation with her son. James Hammett was later sentenced to 19 to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree home invasion, felonious assault and two felony weapons violations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862457877-LWPKJ4AYIJ6YVH2V5W93/Moments_09.JPG Moments Relonna Alexander, 7, inspects her new bunk bed after it was delivered and assembled by volunteers from Extreme Results gym along with other donated furniture Friday, December 23, 2016, at Birmingham Terrace in East Toledo. Vincent Ceniceros, CEO of the gym, grew up in Birmingham Terrace and wanted to donate to someone at the complex for Christmas. He reached out to Rosalyn Koontz, whose neighbors know her as Ms. Toni Warren, a longtime resident of the complex to find a family in need. Ms. Koontz thought of Nakesha Phillips and her five children, including Relonna, who had been living in the complex for five months without any real furniture. Now, her children will have beds, a table to eat Christmas dinner and a couch to join their Christmas tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1528700768499-A0GTPJLH9GPCL7Q5TK9Y/CTY+Serenity06p_KDR01_040518_edited-1.jpg Moments "She was our oxygen," Kendra Hunter, 40, said as she clutched Minnie Mouse dolls belonging to her granddaughter Serenity Hunter, 1, who died April 4, 2018, after allegedly being hit and thrown into the couch, pictured, at her home in Toledo. Joshua Herron, 30, the boyfriend of Serenity's mother, is charged with the murder. Prosecutors allege Herron was responsible for Serenity's fatal injures when he was watching the toddler alone on Easter Sunday. Serenity's homicide is the third case in 2018 where a mother's partner is charged with killing a young child. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862447759-ONITP0184OUMTZZ7T980/Moments_03.JPG Moments Rojelio Sanchez, left, smiles back as his two-year-old son Rojelio III, peers through a hole in the screen door at the family's home in Napoleon. Since being released from prison after serving 11 years for attempted murder, Rojelio has made it his goal to provide a better life for his family. He and his wife Rebecca recently relocated their family of six from North Toledo to Napoleon. Sanchez works as the manager of Evergreen Seed Supply, where he does everything from managing the warehouse, to administrative work to truck driving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862445326-RFNC71MOMBJ3KAR9729I/Moments_02.JPG Moments "Each room you go into you enter into another story," Joyce Rimmelin, right, said. Rimmelin embraced Claire Campbell, 82, on her volunteer rounds at ProMedica's Ebeid Hospice Residence in Sylvania. Rimmelin has been a believer in hospice care for many years. After the death of her husband in hospice at Ebeid House, Rimmelin decided to continue visiting and volunteering with staff and patients. "For that brief period of time, with not having any family of my own, they become my family," she said. "The best days of my week are the days that I am present in-patient unit." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862472979-FWF6MT71ESZQTOGWYAP2/Moments_18.JPG Moments Jan Duke, center, has a word with her granddaughter, Mira, 4, in between a conversation with her mother, Mary Miller, 91, at her home in Leoni Township. Since being diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer on her grand daughter's wedding day last October, Duke has been working on spending as much of her remaining time as possible with her large family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1528700796372-2KD279RJ1SSNJJM8PRSE/ShipsXX_KDR13_032118_edited-1.jpg Moments Workers weld "razorback" pieces inside the hold of the Lake Freighter John J. Boland as she is docked alongside other ships for repairs and modifications Wednesday, March 21, 2018, at the at H Hansen Industries slips, which they rent from the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority. About a dozen large cargo freighters are docked at the company's yard to undergo repairs while the Great Lakes remain covered in ice. The razorbacks are raised metal pieces that help the cargo, like coal or iron ore, move more easily during loading and unloading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862465592-KNQ6QHYZ3O33Y946BV6Z/Moments_11.JPG Moments Surfers take advantage of high waves generated by a storm over Lake Michigan to hit the waves at Grand Haven State Park. Surfers who brave the great lakes often take to the water when the waves are higher during the winter months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688359299283-DH68AL1BCAQMCMTVMXE2/jeepfest12_KDR34_081118.jpg Moments A Jeep rolls by with cheering riders at the second Toledo Jeep Fest parade in downtown Toledo, Ohio, on Saturday, August 11, 2018. More than 1,300 Jeeps rolled through downtown in the parade, and the afternoon included food, live music, Jeeps parked along the streets of downtown and other attractions. Toledo is the birthplace of the brand, and the Jeep Wrangler continues to be assembled in the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1539809230363-OA4SFC3KLU0JBKFEDZDN/FEST16p_KDR02_061618.jpg Moments Karmero Sims, center, dances to music playing as other children jump into the newly-opened Roosevelt Pool during the seventh annual Smith Fest June 16, 2018, in Smith Park in Toledo. The festival featured horse rides from the Toledo Horsemen Club, a number of sports lessons, the opening of Roosevelt Pool, and a bike give-away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912707643-5F2DPS984DP17QWY0ZOX/Reportage+02.JPG Moments "I can't get my hair back!" Mckayla Mejia, 15, laughed as she checked her phone after school Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in central Toledo. High winds swept through the greater Toledo area Thursday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862454057-2Z0N4BU458AYBEV4OC6Q/Moments_07.JPG Moments Latara Walker, 12, lends her shovel to the effort to clear the driveway of her cousin's home as falling snow gathers on her eyelids in West Toledo. Snow fall from early Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, through 1 p.m. of Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, totaled 9.1 inches. Snowfall throughout the end of 2013 and beginning of 2014 broke numerous local records. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688429612222-PBKEAC9GRCD2URP34DVL/KDR_FEA_Quinceanera8_030510.jpg Moments While quinceañera Clara Male, 14, left, finishes her makeup, Logan Raczkowski, 14, center, and other members of Male’s court do a last minute check of their dresses before the start of the ceremony in Jackson on March 5, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688361391458-P2MJ9EKHAUMC6NEGSLRB/10_FS_Queens.jpg Moments ''I've been doing this my whole life and I'm very passionate and very serious about everything I do,'' Yaisha Lockett-McCants, right, said. ''I literally, actually, love each and every one of my students.'' Lockett-McCants prayed before her fourth attempt to sew part of a quilt together as her goddaughter, Antoinette Garth, left, fed Lockett-McCants’ youngest daughter, 15-month-old Lolade, before dinner one night at their home in Flint, Mich. Lockett-McCants feels called to mentor young women and Garth is one of her oldest students. Together the pair teach African dance at a local elementary school. ''I treat them like I treat my own children,” Lockett-McCants said, adding, “and anybody that knows me knows that I love my babies, love 'em.'' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862466989-LVWSMOTO62TT7XRHAOP1/Moments_13.JPG Moments Raelyn Fenton Gogol, 12, holds her soon-to-be uncle Isaac, 1, who is blind, as he feels her face while their extended family visits together during a weekly dinner at the home of Kriste and Jeff Little in Walbridge. The Little's have been foster parents for more than 20 years and have adopted several of their foster children. In total, 10 of their kids live in the house right now, though Kriste says she doesn't differentiate between those whom she and Jeff have legally adopted and those who are staying with them as fosters. Kriste and Jeff are in the process of adopting Isaac and his two triplet brothers Elijah and Isaiah, each of whom have medical issues stemming from their premature birth and in utero drug exposure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862463028-ZLFWNCTUISKM2MX6Z2UZ/Moments_12.JPG Moments Devin Whaley, 10, left, D.J. Ferrell, 9, center, and Zyaire Whaley, 6, play together on their block in South Toledo. The kids had forwent their squirt guns even though the City of Toledo had declared the tap water safe to drink earlier Monday, August 4, 2014. Toledo's water was declared unsafe for consumption in an emergency after officials detected heightened levels of a toxic algae byproduct in the water. Though the water was declared safe to drink, many local residents remain skeptical. D.J.'s mother, Krystalynn Ferrell, said she didn't trust the water just yet. "I'm pregnant, so I'm not taking any chances," she said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912775417-D9UQZSSCQ0REQ2D14IEA/Reportage+07.JPG Moments "That's my baby," a woman sobs, left, as another woman cries out, "That's my brother," while holding one another in the front yard as Toledo police investigate a shooting Tuesday, October 10, 2017, at 729 Brighton Ave. in South Toledo. Toledo police spokesman Sgt. Kevan Toney said an 18-year-old man and 18-year-old woman had been pronounced dead after the shooting. Police later identified the victims as Gregory Stone and Deiyana Porter, who were shot while in a car parked behind the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1539809530884-A8EL7MY6MPARXYB3103F/CTY+TwinOaksFire19p.jpg Moments Toledo firefighters battle a blaze August 18, 2018, at Twin Oaks Bowling Alley in Toledo after the fire broke out in the late afternoon. Toledo Fire Pvt. Sterling Rahe, a department spokesman, said no injuries were reported but that the historic bowling alley was a total loss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1539809242482-9SGU1U4WQ1DDTHGA7931/CTY+Death18_KDR08_051718.jpg Moments Torice Jackson, 3, clings to his mother Brooklyn Ruiz, as she talks with other mourners while Toledo Police investigate a shooting death that occurred in the early afternoon of May 17, 2018, on Highland Avenue near North Detroit Avenue in Toledo. Police dispatch confirmed officers responded at 12:42 p.m. for calls of a person shot. Ms. Ruiz said she knew the victim and his family well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862472929-K5Z4OM0XINU3DRSULU42/Moments_16.JPG Moments "I feel like I'm in a dream, like I'm going to wake up any time," Lasandra Lucas said. Lucas' granddaughters, Keondra, 1, and Leondra Hooks, 2, were shot as they slept in their great-grandmother's house Friday in Moody Manor. Keondra died as a result of her wound, though Leondra remains at the hospital in critical condition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862471378-JWKP4VXRPYP4O9V87EMR/Moments_17.JPG Moments Evelyn Mackey, 91, is hoisted off a ladder as her apartment building burned behind her Sunday afternoon at Rosehaven Manor Retirement Living Community off of Atherton Road in Flint. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Though no fatalities were reported, ten people were injured, the worst with second-degree burns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688362318409-PTUWEW986QHS9OX32LU3/fertilityxx_KDR07_012115.jpg Moments Ashley Schardt consults a nurse over the phone before continuing to mix her fertility medication in preparation to self-administer a shot to trigger ovulation at her home in Bowling Green, Ohio. Ashley and her husband, Matt, had been struggling to with infertility the past four years. Though much of their fertility treatment is done through Ashley's obstetrics and gynecology doctor, the couple have begun visiting the Fertility Center of Northwest Ohio, located in ProMedica Toledo Hospital. Slated to close in 2015, the lack of a local fertility clinic is leaving the future of some clients who face barriers of distance and finances, like the Schardt's, up in the air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688360363601-U94B09OYVOZOLOVYFLEA/naturalization18_KDR11_091718.jpg Moments U.S. District Court Judge Jack Zouhary, left, leads several hundred people, including a group of new American citizens, in the Pledge of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony Monday, September 17, 2018, at the University of Toledo's College of Law. Judge Zouhary administered the oath of citizenship to 67 new Americans. THE BLADE/KATIE RAUSCH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1455584377765-X729DNRF9TH1HEJD6YY2/Moments+01.JPG Moments Chris, 14, and Nikolus Johnston, 12, center, make the trick-or-treat rounds with their friend Jared Dionne, 13, right, on Halloween in Jackson. The three are dressed as Juggalos, as the fans of the music group Insane Clown Posse are known. "We're all Juggalos." Dionne said, adding, "Well, mostly just me, but them too."   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862454308-HA7NJ9QZH2EQOH0QAEZQ/Moments_06.JPG Moments Gavin Boggs, 11, left, helps his brother Zachary, 9, with his iPad game "Clash of Clans" at the family's home in Rossford. Gavin was diagnosed last year with a rare form of bone cancer called localized Ewing's Sarcoma. Since then he has undergone weeks of chemo treatment and surgery to replace the humerus bone in his right arm. The brothers have become closer during Gavin's illness; he was unable to leave the house or see many other children for months on end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862452535-2QULR6RUV3HBTVGRX359/Moments_04.JPG Moments Bruce Burkett, right, and Alyssa Wilson, a veterinarian technician, pull a sick cow into position for surgery. "I figured I'd be a large animal vet all my life," said Bruce, one of two veterinarians at Somerset Animal Hospital. "It was a profession I could stay in touch with agriculture through." But he said large-animal work now only makes up 15 percent of his business. Mennonite farmer Mervin Weber, background, owns this cow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912854652-GDQTDQU3AZZUKIFIAXRI/Reportage+11.JPG Moments Lt. Pete Traver can't cover Tabari Triplett, 11, as he plays football with some friends from the neighborhood Monday, June 5, 2017, after Toledo firefighters had extinguished a blaze at a house on Cherry Street in Toledo. Battalion Chief Brent Wettle said the fire was reported at about 8:15 p.m. Monday evening in the 3300 block of Cherry Street, and caused an estimated $50,000 in damage. No injures were reported and the fire was under control within half an hour. The Red Cross was contacted to provide aid to seven residents of the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912705854-GCIFJ8BHXCD8YLRE9GY1/Reportage+01.JPG Moments Maddie O'Dell, 13, left, and Sophie Twigg, 13, light their sparklers before the start of this year's fireworks display Monday, July 3, 2017, at Fort Meigs in Perrysburg. Thousands of area residents turned out on both sides of the Maumee River to watch the show, which included carnival rides and food at Fort Megs. The third of July is Maddie's birthday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1539809008050-D8KNZ85IM77O3IPZ4E3Y/OhioStateFair29_KDR14_072818.jpg Moments Andrew Troy of Durst, left, rests in the shade with his daughters Samantha, 8, center and Lydia, 11, near their show Duroc Gilt swine July 28, 2018, at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus. Among sundry attractions, the fair features rides, food, agricultural expos, as well as arts and crafts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862456154-5P2GB7BNXCT3WRQKE71N/Moments_08.JPG Moments Wanda Flory, of Swanton, center, watches with Terry, left, and her husband Richard, center right, who declined to give their last name, as Thea Grabiec, right, kisses Sarah Shovan, at the Westfield Franklin Park Mall in Toledo. Graviec and Shovan were participating in "National Same Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A," a protest staged in response to Wednesday's "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day." Flory, who had waited in line for three hours on Wednesday to purchase Chick-fil-A in solidarity with President Dan Cathy's comment that his company is supportive of, "the Biblical definition of the family unit," said her support was about free speech. "It isn't an issue over homosexuals versus non-homosexuals," she said. "He's a citizen of his country and has the right to free speech." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862448551-HRR81MHR685DD5R9O5I9/Moments_01.JPG Moments Chris, 14, and Nikolus Johnston, 12, center, make the trick-or-treat rounds with their friend Jared Dionne, 13, right, on Halloween in Jackson. The three are dressed as Juggalos, as the fans of the music group Insane Clown Posse are known. "We're all Juggalos." Dionne said, adding, "Well, mostly just me, but them too." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862451725-RQYW4GXKEC7SNCVJF1NI/Moments_05.JPG Moments Abayomi Miller, left, gets his clippers ready to cut hair for his neighbor Jason Johnson, center, on Miller's front porch Wednesday, May 21, 2014 in North Toledo. With temperatures climbing into the low 80's, Darren McCadney, right, and his son Zavyn, 4, were also out in the sunshine. Mr. Miller said he often cuts hair for his family and neighbors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862468760-FE6FH917RAA7XJ8J1C5V/Moments_14.JPG Moments Brandy Nelsey, of West Branch, nuzzles Prince, her eight-year-old Tennessee Walker mix, after showing him to more than forty fifth graders Monday morning at Springport Elementary. Nelsey and her sister Ashley are two weeks into a ten state horse back ride from Michigan to Texas. The women are looking to raise money for the Church of the Nazarene's service project, Horseback for Haiti. The sisters are hoping to raise $15,000 to pay for the installation of three wells, which cost $5,000 each, that will be installed in church's in Haiti. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688370275658-II1OAPBC2U2XLMKB9QXE/KDR_FEA_Fog01_092011-2.jpg Moments - Early Fog CITIZEN PATRIOT • KATIE RAUSCHLarry Kramer, of Jackson, makes his way through the mist alongside Spunky, his eight-year-old Jack Russell mix, at Ella Sharp Park in Jackson, Mich., early in the morning of Oct. 7, 2011. https://www.katierausch.com/portraits daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912315681-R70QHR7RKW6CYLM78JNU/Portraiture_01.JPG Portraiture Melody Halsey checks the surgery staples on her foster dog Mekos, a seven-year-old male Bulldog mix, at her home in Toledo. Mekos came to the Halsey family through Planned Pethood with heart worm and needing surgery for a swallowed poker chip. Like many members of rescue organizations, Ms. Hasley is fiercely committed to helping animals in need. She and her husband have three young children and usually fosters more than five dogs at a time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912315681-R70QHR7RKW6CYLM78JNU/Portraiture_01.JPG Portraiture Melody Halsey checks the surgery staples on her foster dog Mekos, a seven-year-old male Bulldog mix, at her home in Toledo. Mekos came to the Halsey family through Planned Pethood with heart worm and needing surgery for a swallowed poker chip. Like many members of rescue organizations, Ms. Hasley is fiercely committed to helping animals in need. She and her husband have three young children and usually fosters more than five dogs at a time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688367964994-OTCUNL6I0X0ATZ6ADN6C/Portfolio+03.JPG Portraiture Jenny Hughes hugs her son Gabe, 23, as they stand in their living room in Walbridge, Ohio, on May, 11, 2018. Jenny has two sons on the autism spectrum who are mostly nonverbal, including Gabe. She was concerned about their possible interactions with police so she advocated for a state-wide system to alert officers on traffic stops when someone nonverbal could be inside the vehicle. The confidential information would come up only when the officer runs a license plate. A bill to implement the new system recently passed in the Ohio state legislature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912403319-9MNU8PG69PWDU7CU8I9T/Portraiture_03.JPG Portraiture Mistella Mekonnen, a resident of Hillsdale, wore a special hat her friend custom made to Rosa Parks' funeral. Mekonnen had driven an hour and a half and, like many other people, had arrived several hours early to wait in an increasingly long line for limited public seating. The funeral of the civil rights icon was attended by thousands of both dignitaries and local citizens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688370749227-AE5B8YVIB78NAX3U21Q9/KDR_FEA_PearlHarborVet01_120611.jpg Portraiture Ival Hendrick, 93, holds a photograph of himself taken a few months before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Hendrick was stationed near the harbor when the Japanese attacked. The truck he caught on the way to the harbor got stuck in the road, leaving him and the men in it open targets for the Japanese who flew overhead. From his position he could see the ships under heavy fire. "I could see the boys in the burning water," Hendrick said. "Dec. 7 we didn't have no ammunition, we didn't have no guns. The only thing I had was a 1903 Springfield rifle." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688365705428-0FSY5SGSPN91231K5E3R/Portraits_10.JPG Portraiture John Sutton and his wife, Mamie, decided to paint their home on Toledo's north side pale purple with a pink-maroon trim for a number of reasons. The pair, who have lived in the house for about two years, wanted to honor Ms. Sutton's sister and friend, both of whom had breast cancer, and for their female grandchildren. Sutton said that part of his choice to paint the house was to make a statement in the neighborhood, which has a number of homes that are in disrepair. "I just stuck it to the neighborhood. I said, 'You can do better than this.'" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688365575620-U1HB9G8A86OPV7VNXTEX/Portraiture+05.JPG Portraiture Hunter Gandee, 15, carries his brother Braden, 8, on his back for long walks to raise awareness of Cerebral Palsy, which Braden has, and promote, "a truly accessibly world." The brothers were walking through Temperance, Mich., on May 30, 2015, to distribute fliers in advance of their 57-mile-long walk to Ann Arbor, which will take place From Friday, June 11 through Sunday, June 7, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1455586083276-UKP3DA56D7DIL78BL0DC/Portraiture+01.JPG Portraiture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688369067296-4VOOAGFAG0M6VSSUKEET/KDR_FEA_ElderHomeCare3_011410.jpg Portraiture "He's not like he was, but I roll with the punches. You got to enjoy the time you have left," Jean Alexander said after checking on her husband, Carl, in their bedroom. Jean has been caring for Carl, who has Parkinson's related dementia and diabetes, full time since 2004. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912346321-E31I5MQBSH88I5N5AOJ2/Portraiture_02.JPG Portraiture "He wouldn't save me from that accident without a purpose and every day I give Him thanks," Diana Dixon said. Ms. Dixon was driving a tractor-trailer through the Toledo area at around 5 a.m. on Aug. 4, 2011, when she witnessed a car accident on northbound I-475 in Maumee and stopped to help. While out of her rig, another tractor-trailer hit one of the cars involved in the initial accident and careened toward Ms. Dixon. She leapt off the freeway viaduct and fell 30 feet to the Ohio Turnpike’s median, shattering her pelvis, among other injuries. Three people were killed in the wreck. Now, she's healed and back to driving a big rig. Ms. Dixon credits her faith to helping her recover, and wants to spread the word of Christ by ministering on the road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1528701042947-P8Z4SPQ9HS0FCPP6Y19J/COMMUNION13_KDR04_042118_edited-1.jpg Portraiture Sisters Peg Coutcher and Therese Kralovic keep good care of a First Communion dress made from the fabric of their maternal grandmother's wedding gown worn in 1908. The First Communion dress has been worn by at least 14 girls over more than four generations, including the 10 holding the dress, pictured. The dress is made from fabric of a wedding gown worn by Emily Schimpf on her wedding on September 30, 1908, to her husband Michael. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688368262624-W7PL831FUAF8XGHYSGAR/KDR_FEA_Pirates1_090509.jpg Portraiture Mary Shannon of Michigan Center, Mich., center, laughs while she and other participants board their boats shortly before the start of a pirate-themed scavenger hunt at Michigan Center Lake on Sept. 5, 2009. This is the first time the scavenger hunt has been held in more than 20 years. Participants were given team names and had to locate clues, decipher them and then race to the next. A prize was awarded to the first team to make it back to the starting point with all the clues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688370537113-91EZI7EVLLW4PQTSORZF/KDR_FEA_CancerWalk01_101411-2.jpg Portraiture Tom Murphy, 17, leads the Springport high school and elementary school on a march for breast cancer awareness near their schools in Springport, Mich., on Oct. 14, 2011. Murphy's mother, Katrina, is currently undergoing treatment for stage 4 breast cancer. Though Springport hosts fundraising events for Breast Cancer Awareness Week every year, this year they decided to funnel the proceeds from a number of events over the week to the Murphy family. Tom, who helped organize the walk, said he was pleased with how everything came together. "To see it actually fall into place," he said, 'It's unreal." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688441385371-CI6698CVUQ1KJCJ7DKZX/PUMPERNICKELS02p_KDR04_040115.jpg Portraiture - PUMPERNICKELS02p PUMPERNICKELS02pOwner Dennis Lange has reopened Pumpernickel's Deli, located at 2489 Collingwood Blvd. in Toledo's Old West End, after the restaurant shut its doors about 10 years ago. The lunch spot is open Monday through Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and on Saturday's from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.THE BLADE/KATIE RAUSCH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688368367422-TBL4D1A0RRH1PNRDWV5D/KDR_FEA_Dixon1_100709.jpg Portraiture Juanita Dixon, 89, of Jackson, attributes her faith as motiving her to spend the last 23 years writing letters, visiting and trying to help three federal inmates, who she believes are innocent, to get new trials or parole. "God has a purpose for everyone,” she said. “My purpose is to write to people who don't have anybody. Everybody needs somebody." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1528701015537-8Y4EXVH9XQQCQXBCBDVK/Suspensions14_KDR02_041318_edited-1.jpg Portraiture April Taylor had her son Marshaun, 15, recently transferred to Rogers High School for a fresh start. He was suspended three times in the past school year from his previous high school. Ms. Taylor said she didn't feel the punishments were warranted. Black students make up 43 percent of the Toledo Public Schools student population, but account for 67 percent of suspensions in the past year. The number reflect a similar trend of higher rates of suspensions for black students across the country, according to a recent study from the congressional Government Accountability Office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484863085768-C7ND5U2R1R4PSSO92G5H/Portraiture_09.JPG Portraiture "Sometimes you have to make a miracle," Jeff Albring, top, said of seeking treatment to help his son Nathaniel, 12, bottom. Jeff and his wife Jill are looking to raise $50,000 to pay for stem cell treatment for Nathaniel, who is severely impaired as a result of drowning when he was two. The amount will also cover the travel expense for the couple, who are headed to Russia for the treatment over four days in mid-July. The couple say there isn't much doctors can do here to help their son at this point because this form of stem cell treatment is currently unavailable in the United States, but the Albrings aren't giving up hope. "It's your child,"Jill said. "You just do what you have to do for them." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912544245-WOB2XO13ZO61DB07GFUG/Portraiture_10.JPG Portraiture Laura Baldwin holds her son Logan as she takes turns feeing the rest of her quadruplets at the home she shares with her husband, Bill, and their three-year-old daughter, Leah, in Swanton. The babies, from left, Reghan, Madalyn and Ryan, are fraternal quadruplets. They were born three months ago at thirty weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484863086200-X39L79UP1JRWOU7GT4DF/Portraiture_07.JPG Portraiture Norma Jean Williams, 72, stands near a flooded area of Norwood Court, an old brick road located just outside downtown Toledo. Ms. Williams has lived at a home located on Norwood Court since 1991 and has watched it crumble into severe disrepair. The court's six houses are nearly inaccessible via the road, which is deeply bowed and often flooded. Though the City of Toledo is responsible for the trash, sewer and ploughing of the road, it is technically private and therefore remains in severe disrepair. The City of Toledo is strapped for cash, spending only $20 million a year on the $1.3 billion it would need to repair the roads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484863087986-FMLV1POJVLGKSSQOFW11/Portraiture_12.JPG Portraiture Eddie McCants, 7, peers out the window of his living room while waiting for dinner to begin at his home in Flint. McCants, whose Yoruba name is Akindele or The Honored One Enters the Home, is being raised by his parents with a strong focus on African culture and history. In addition to attending the Nsoroma Institute, an African centered K-8 school in South Field, Eddie plays djembe along with his father, who is a teacher at the school, and older brother, as well as helping his mother perform traditional African drum and dance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484863088052-MII725ERN3RQOEDXLYQ4/Portraiture_11.JPG Portraiture Ival Hendrick, 93, holds a photograph of himself taken a few months before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Hendrick was stationed near the harbor when the Japanese attacked. The truck he caught on the way to the harbor got stuck in the road, leaving him and the men in it open targets for the Japanese who flew overhead. From his position he could see the ships under heavy fire. "I could see the boys in the burning water," Hendrick said. "Dec. 7 we didn't have no ammunition, we didn't have no guns. The only thing I had was a 1903 Springfield riffle." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912556289-VBAT1MX0M7CNN4WYC76V/Portraiture_11.JPG Portraiture Jared Townsend, of Thetford Township, displays the AR-15 he sported in a YouTube.com video question about gun control that was played during the July 2007 Democratic debate. Townsend said his overall goal was to raise the issue among the candidates, and he felt he did, both at the debate and amid the subsequent publicity from local media. Townsend, who owns 11 additional guns, said, ''We shouldn't ban guns, we should go after the criminals that use them.'' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912458270-W6SF98LKZ36MFFHK3LED/Portraiture_06.JPG Portraiture Clara Male, 14, takes a moment to herself while waiting in front of 150 guests for her father to bring over her high heels, which symbolize her ascension into young womanhood on her 15th birthday. As the only Hispanic girl in her class to have a Quince Años celebration, Male had to write letters to the parents of schoolmates she wanted on her court, explaining the traditional Latin American ceremony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1481571157634-E2XTAWSK2XSCVM4JE9CQ/AUTHORS26_KDR05_102616.jpg Portraiture Political pundit James Carville waits backstage before debating with Tucker Carlson Wednesday, October 26, 2016, at Stranahan Theater in south Toledo. The pair were featured writers in this year's Authors! Authors! lineup. The event is sponsored by The Blade and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688365508228-14CMOS0ORNWZBHNAVMQ4/Portrait+06.jpg Portraiture - SHOP02 Mike Janiszewski, Jr., is the owner of the Fix It Shop, a vacuum seller and repair shop in North Toledo, which has been operating at its current location since 1964. Originally opened in 1926 as a small appliance repair and sale shop, Mr. Janiszewski began working for his father at the store in 1969, making $1 an hour. The Blade/Katie Rausch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1528701025480-8ONEB7HO3XQ4DU35P4FU/produce09_KDR01_060818_edited-1.jpg Portraiture "I keep them to remind me of where we come from," David D. Johnson said of the dried cotton and peanut plant he hangs in his produce store in Toledo. Mr. Johnson is the owner of Johnson Produce Market, which is located in a neighborhood whose residents have few options for fresh, affordable produce. He grows a large portion of what he sells, both at a greenhouse around the corner from his store and on a five acre farm outside Toledo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688365681197-P7LQK51HDVTTNX7ANPSJ/Portrait_03.JPG Portraiture Juanita Dixon, 89, has been writing letters, visiting and trying to help three federal inmates get new trials or parole for 23 years. "God has a purpose for everyone. My purpose is to write to people who don't have anybody. Everybody needs somebody." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912482254-BPCGCJEAFRQTKUZRNFBS/Portraiture_08.JPG Portraiture Cardinal Stritch's boys basketball team, from left, Jordan Burton, Collin Yost, Terrance Taylor Jr., Alex Adams, Jeff Dunsmore, Little Anderson, and Joey Holifield are predicted 2017-2018 season champions of the Toledo Area Athletic Conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520912493123-WO99QC9GDXQ0MSHP3RJ6/Portraiture_07.JPG Portraiture Greg Stone holds his 3-month-old son, Malaki, in his apartment just outside of Jackson. Stone is an aspiring hip-hop artist and self-professed Juggalo, or fan of the band Insane Clown Posse. Before turning to music Stone had briefly run a local backyard wrestling tournament and had a stint as a mall Easter Bunny. Stone says the birth of his son has inspired him to pursue his own music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1528701032326-28UZH57IOHZH0MDEHPCA/Markey09_KDR14_010618_edited-1.jpg Portraiture Les Lashaway, a member of the Toledo Ice Yacht Club, sits in his 1960 Renegade ice boat as the sun sets over the frozen shoreline of Lake Erie Saturday, January 6, 2018, in Point Place. Cold temperatures have helped to freeze the bays and rivers in the area, opening them up for various kinds winter sporting. The yacht club plans to race the boats Sunday, January 7, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1528701098269-3TCASWNGS4TUY4UUG5Q0/Easter14_KDR06_010918_edited-1.jpg Portraiture Robert Easter, Jr. continues to train where he got his start: Glass City Boxing Gym in Toledo. Easter, the IBF lightweight champion, successfully defended his title against Javier Fortuna on Jan 20, 2018, at the Barclays Center Brooklyn. https://www.katierausch.com/sports daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913407134-AWY8TOLFTN9PMJJLON1P/Sports_22.JPG Sports Vandercook Lake's senior Chad Marriott is congratulated by his coach after his team's win of Thursday night's home game against East Jackson. The Jayhawks were able to overcome an early deficit to pull ahead and win a share of the Cascades Conference championship for the first time since their 1969-70 season. They won, 53-45. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1480363704107-O58U3JU8KIVBUIQ7C56J/Sports_01.JPG Sports Bedford's senior Jeremy Harris (90) Lucas Mayo (21) Boss Brad (2) Alec Hullibarger (11) and Jack Maison (35) carry their teammate Colton Durbin's number three jersey off the field before the start of the Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, match up between Monroe Jefferson and Bedford. Bedford senior Colton Durbin was taken off life support Thursday after being injured in a car accident Wednesday. In addition to a moment of silence held before the beginning of the game, Colton's family and friends wore buttons, face painting and held his number aloft in his honor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913407134-AWY8TOLFTN9PMJJLON1P/Sports_22.JPG Sports Vandercook Lake's senior Chad Marriott is congratulated by his coach after his team's win of Thursday night's home game against East Jackson. The Jayhawks were able to overcome an early deficit to pull ahead and win a share of the Cascades Conference championship for the first time since their 1969-70 season. They won, 53-45. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1528701270425-111IE1RJ9F7UFNIBGEBX/Mills09_KDR15_060818_edited-1.jpg Sports The sun pushes through the clouds as the Maverick, owned by Mark Keesey, heads toward the start line with the JAM C class at the President's Trophy race Friday, June 8, 2018, in Lake Erie north of Toledo. Sailboats in three races, the Mills Trophy Course, the Governor’s Cup Course, and the President’s Trophy Course, began at the same place and will end at Put-in-Bay in the Erie Islands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688359473558-RPIE7IB4NWXV2ICLJ88M/Stryker25_KDR36_082418.jpg Sports The Stryker football team is led by Max Wonders (80) Alex Grice (55) and Wyatt Short (21) as they take the field for their season home opener Friday, August 24, 2018. This was the first varsity game for the high school since 1931. The team began with junior varsity two years ago and made their varsity debut Friday against Holgate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1528701277533-G1TT572QGOVGNFC11NDR/RogersgirlsBBK17_KDR24_031718_edited-1.jpg Sports Rogers' Tanaziah Hines, center left, and Tasya Gant, center, right, embrace as their teammates celebrate after the Rams beat Gilmour Academy in the Saturday, March 17, 2018, OHSAA Division II state championship game at Value City Arena in Columbus. Rogers beat Gilmour Academy, 51-37, to win their first state championship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913380692-Q3U29KHEG4PDT9TW4CA9/Sports_04.JPG Sports Nick Scholl, of Deerfield, left, congratulates his daughter Megan, 15, right, on bringing down her first pheasant while hunting Saturday, October 31, 2015, on land near Clinton, Mich. Megan and her sister Erika,18, were pheasant hunting for the first time as part of a youth hunt organized by Gene Merx, 79, who lives on the land. Both girls said that while hunting isn't particularly popular with their friends, they were excited to get into the sport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913392560-CU30ATMH6IZELSFKQ9JQ/Sports_11.JPG Sports Southview's freshman Helen Waldie catches her breath after running with three other teammates in the 4 by 200 meter relay during the Northern Lakes League track and field championship meet at Maumee High School. Southview's team won the relay. The tennis ball halves Waldie held are used to mark runner position on the track. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688359554549-W8LFDVP3WOPRDQPQ9Z26/CTY+mud25p_KDR06_082518.jpg Sports Jessica Black, center, slips as she tries to help a teammate up as they climb out of the submerged volleyball court in the seventh annual Mud Volleyball Tournament at the Lucas County Fairgrounds in Maumee, Ohio, on Aug. 25, 2018. The event was organized by Toledo Sport and Social Club to raise money for the Kidney Foundation of Northwest Ohio. More than 1,000 people participated in this year's tournament, including 800 players. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1455586680596-AT9QUZNR7H1I5O8G90SD/Sports_01.JPG Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688573097809-HD1M1M2UCRRISEOR55W1/CTY+mud25p_KDR17_082518.jpg Sports Mason Smith, 13, kept his shoes taped on in the mud during the seventh annual Mud Volleyball Tournament at the Lucas County Fairgrounds in Maumee, Ohio, on Aug. 25, 2018. The event was organized by Toledo Sport and Social Club to raise money for the Kidney Foundation of Northwest Ohio. More than 1,000 people participated in this year's tournament, including 800 players. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913403386-0SDJG99WN9XOI95R98Y5/Sports_19.JPG Sports Brunswick's Andre Bollam-Godbot, right, keeps an eye on the Brunswick's Game Szalay in the 1600 Meter Run at the Division I Region II Track and Field Championship meet Friday, May 26, 2017, at Amherst Steele High School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688358327317-811ZCCN9IU8M12RRICGE/CTY+BicycleRover24p_KDR02_072413.jpg Sports Alton Moran of Fostoria, center, flies down a mound as he and other riders work on creating a new jump park in a vacant area of West Toledo, Ohio, on July 24, 2013. The new BMX park I a grassroots effort by riders from around the region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913373110-NK7BGW3IIEE9NQEFTEBF/Sports_01.JPG Sports Southview's Lauren Micham smiles as she crosses the finish line to win the Division I 100 meter hurdles at the OHSAA 43d Annual Girls State Track and Field Tournament Saturday, June 3, 2017, at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus. Her time of 13.66 seconds broke the stadium record and put her in second place for the all-time state record in all divisions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688369738041-RPI1UN75SNFYGZYLEF31/KDR_FEA_Gordon2_061611-2.jpg Sports Deb Tilton, of Clinton, Mich., screams as she waited in line with her poster of NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon in downtown Brooklyn, Mich., ahead of meeting Gordon on June 16, 2012. Tilton said she had been a fan of the driver for nearly 15 years. Gordon was in town the day before Michigan International Speedway’s race weekend to hand off a check for $10,000 on behalf of Jeff Gordon, AARP and AARP Foundation to the Food Bank of South Central Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/482ecd15-e2c3-4878-bd3c-6c7465897d8a/SPT+mis18p_KDR17_061817.jpg Sports Driver Darrell Wallace, Jr. greets fans before the 49th Annual FireKeepers Casino 400 race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., on Sunday, June 18, 2017. Thousands of fans turned out for the first of the speedway’s two annual NASCAR race weekends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913376682-L0RANO8YDSQKZQ4X4QBK/Sports_02.JPG Sports Toledo's Taylor Adway (2) reacts after being fouled but sinking his shot during the second half of the Tuesday, February 28, 2017, men's basketball match up against Ball State at the University of Toledo's Savage Arena. Ball State won, 82-74. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913393686-5Y5IC0ZLXTI5TE80AWOD/Sports_13.JPG Sports Darrell Wallace, Jr. greets fans during the driver introduction before the 49th Annual FireKeepers Casino 400 race Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., on Sunday, June 18, 2017, a Thousands of fans turned out for the first of two NASCAR race weekends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1528701255359-548PDDUSRFSAHAVPSWAS/ErmeRelays28p_KDR04_042718_edited-1.jpg Sports St. Ursula's April Galloway attempts nine feet, six inches in the pole vault Friday, April 27, 2018, at the Nancy Erme Relays track meet at Whitmer High School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687904773555-H40FO0FZWM9T1RL5UOQH/D2girlsBBK02_KDRgame2_08_030118.jpg Sports Perkins' Maria Schoder (34) and Central Catholic's Maverick Delp dive for a loose ball in the OHSAA Division II Northwest District Semifinal matchup at Anthony Wayne High School in Toledo on March 1, 2018. Perkins won, 49-42. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688357331190-J2RD8M8FWGKI3H8Y9RP0/SPT+rosslake19p_KDR05_121812.jpg Sports Lake seniors Forrest Bennett, 17, center, and Casey Blank, 17, right, lead the student section as they attempt to distract Rossford's sophomore Nate Childress during a free throw in the the second quarter of the game at Lake High School on Dec. 18, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913386728-99EG7NI64QWJPMPO59U2/Sports_08.JPG Sports Indianapolis' Eric Wood (14) Christopher Bostick, center and Gift Ngoepe, right, can't make the catch off a Mud Hens hit in the bottom of the first inning during the Saturday, April 15, 2017, baseball match up at Fifth Third Field in downtown Toledo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688370697421-CWZQL1BAHAH0AU1TA184/KDR_FEA_BuckPole02_111511.jpg Sports Joel Portincasa, of Clinton, took his 9-month-old daughter Gwenlyn to see the buck pole at Jerome Country Market near Jerome, Mich., on Oct. 15, 2011. On opening day of rifle season many municipalities and private companies host buck poles, where hunters bring the deer they harvested that day for public viewing. Prizes are often awarded for the buck with the most points and the largest bucks, among others. The events draw community members, continuing a decades-long tradition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913401076-5596O8O0MJ932TGOIFJI/Sports_18.JPG Sports Austin Proctor, 8, center, broke from his group's huddle to look back at his opposing teammates in a scrimmage during basketball team practice at Fairfield Elementary in Maumee. The Panthers have taken to wearing colorful socks to augment their uniforms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913382658-LM97UB122JGYD8418JAF/Sports_07.JPG Sports Eastwood's senior Cade Boos is embraced as his teammates head in at halftime during the Friday, October 6, 2017, at Otsego High School in Tontogany. Boos, three-sport standout, fractured his eg four plays into the team's season-opener. He is supporting his team from the sidelines during a great season. Eastwood beat Otsego, 39-0. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913407361-5ZWDTSTKMGX8HXV9MH15/Sports_20.JPG Sports Northview's goalie Preston Due (30) embraces his teammate Cody Estrel (12) as their student section goes wild after the team clinched the Saturday, March 1, 2014, district final match up against St. John's Jesuit at Tam-O-Shanter in Sylvania. Though St. John's Jesuit scored two goals early in the first period, Northview came back to win, 4-2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/0c2c566c-2471-4352-bec5-32b819656128/utw12p_KDR29_031117-2.jpg Sports From left, Toledo's Janice Monakana is hugged by Kaayla McIntyre as Mariella Santucci, center, embraces by Sara Rokkanen (1) and Jay-Ann Bravo-Harriott (11) hugs Sophie Reecher, right, after the team beat Northern Illinois to clinch the MAC championship at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday, March 11, 2017. Toledo won, 82-71. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913379164-8XNF65NT18ONDEXDMT1L/Sports_05.JPG Sports Michigan's Chris Evans (12) leaps over the Michigan State defense on the run in the first half of the Saturday, October 7, 2017, football match up at the Big House in Ann Arbor. Michigan State won, 14-10. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688362549139-27HD7C24E2MQ4V4QTC3H/Sports_10.JPG Sports Toledo Walleye Martin Frk (19) bypasses fallen South Carolina Stingrays defender Wade Epp (27) in pursuit of the puck during the first period of the series Game 6 match up at the Huntington Center in downtown Toledo, Ohio, on May 26, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913376657-BJ4NDAFQO2O9C07ZQKBD/Sports_03.JPG Sports Notre Dame's Sydney Unverferth, left, rushes to cheer Lexa Bauer (20) after she scored against Brunswick's Cece Peer (13) keeper Allison Mysliwiec (5) and Emily Kazimore (3) in the second half of the Saturday, November 5, 2016, Division I Region II Championship soccer match up against Brunswick at Perkins High School in Sandusky. Notre Dame won, 1-0. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913384683-R564RT3B6RPYRY6INQM6/Sports_09.JPG Sports Ashland's Healther Jamieson is carried off the track after collapsing at the finish line of the 1600 Meter Run at the Division 1 Region 2 Track and Field Championship meet Friday, May 26, 2017, at Amherst Steele High School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687904800371-4JZ96JXWC9PDWJ2QG8WH/Easter14_KDR15_010918.jpg Sports Young boxers practice as Robert Easter, Jr., bottom right, talks with assistant coach Michael Stafford during a work-out at Glass City Boxing Gym in Toledo, Ohio, on Jan. 9, 2018. Easter, the IBF lightweight champion, still works out in his neighborhood gym when he’s home. He will defend his title against Javier Fortuna on Jan. 20, 2018, at the Barclays Center Brooklyn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913391646-GJXF2KW5AH5D3PEJ1XPT/Sports_12.JPG Sports Erian Gambriell, 12, left, leads the pack as he and other children run through basketball drills together during the 2015 Dribbling with Dads Initiative Saturday, June 20, 2015, at the Frederick Douglass Community Center in West Toledo. About 125 children attended the 1k walk, dribbling basketballs with their parents and families through the neighborhood around the Frederick Douglass Community Center. The event was organized by the Lucas County Metropolitan Housing Authority for the fourth year of their Fatherhood Initiative Celebration, held to recognize fathers and support male involvement in children's lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913399059-NF092SSC43FRMT6FJJS9/Sports_14.JPG Sports Springfield's Kevin Brake, left, and Shawn Oliver, center, force Perrysburg's Connor Meredith (1) to fumble on the tackle in the first quarter of the Friday, September 16, 2016, football match up at Springfield. Perrysburg recovered the fumble. Springfield won, 48-17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913401231-6UIA7JKJESRBP0LJ8P46/Sports_17.JPG Sports Bedford's senior Jeremy Harris (90) Lucas Mayo (21) Boss Brad (2) Alec Hullibarger (11) and Jack Maison (35) carry their teammate Colton Durbin's number 3 jersey off the field before the start of the Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, match up between Monroe Jefferson and Bedford. Bedford senior Colton Durbin was taken off life support Thursday after being injured in a car accident Wednesday. In addition to a moment of silence held before the beginning of the game, Colton's family and friends wore buttons, face painting and held his number aloft in his honor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913397602-3KQCB93EECH08F8642BB/Sports_16.JPG Sports Maumee's Jordan Key (4) is comforted by teammate Bryan Pouter (18) after being beat to first in the Thursday, June 1, 2017, Division II state semifinal against Tallmadge at Huntington Park in Columbus. Tallmadge won, 4-1, ending Maumee's season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1520913389200-U1D2PJX2CQ7MK7OBG7L2/Sports_10.JPG Sports Napoleon's Andrew Pettit, center, his coaches and supporters cheer together as Pettit pins Maumee's Brandon Phillips during the 220 pound weight class match at the Saturday, February 7, 2015, Northern Lakes League Championship meet at Springfield high school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688370749227-AE5B8YVIB78NAX3U21Q9/KDR_FEA_PearlHarborVet01_120611.jpg Sports - Pearl Harbor Anniversary CITIZEN PATRIOT ¥ KATIE RAUSCHIval Hendrick, 93, holds a photograph of himself taken a few months before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Hendrick was stationed near the harbor when the Japanese attacked. The truck he caught on the way to the harbor got stuck in the road, leaving him and the men in it open targets for the Japanese who flew overhead. From his position he could see the ships under heavy fire. "I could see the boys in the burning water," Hendrick said. "Dec. 7 we didn't have no ammunition, we didn't have no guns. The only thing I had was a 1903 springfield riffle." https://www.katierausch.com/living-with-tax-foreclosure daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861785808-AHG3HBYDB9EXXBV239RU/Tax+Foreclosure+02.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Annie Osborne stands in front of the house she has called home for more years than she can remember. Osborne lost her home to tax foreclosure after being unable to pay her taxes for two years. Though Jackson County officially took possession of her home in on April 1, Osborne stayed in the house until late July. She was unclear about whether or not she would be forced to move, regardless of the notices left on her door and the personal visit to her home made by the county treasurer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861785808-AHG3HBYDB9EXXBV239RU/Tax+Foreclosure+02.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Annie Osborne stands in front of the house she has called home for more years than she can remember. Osborne lost her home to tax foreclosure after being unable to pay her taxes for two years. Though Jackson County officially took possession of her home in on April 1, Osborne stayed in the house until late July. She was unclear about whether or not she would be forced to move, regardless of the notices left on her door and the personal visit to her home made by the county treasurer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1491450171389-2PWECG9A2QOLELT5JF7Y/tax+foreclosure+description.jpg Living with Tax Foreclosure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861790907-EVOZALM3SELQWBNM7HXI/Tax+Foreclosure+07.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Annie Osborne sorts some of her possessions while moving out of the house she lost to tax foreclosure. After living in her home for many years Osborne found packing up to be a daunting challenge. When push came to shove she ended up having to abandon a number of possessions when she left the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861786913-UEG7Z4L2CC1RQ6QWTM0M/Tax+Foreclosure+05.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Annie Osborne speaks with one of her sons before beginning to move out of the house she lost to tax foreclosure. Though Annie was reluctant to tell most people in her family she was losing her home, when it was time to move many of her siblings, grand children and great-grandchildren turned out to help. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861784932-V47EYL53C5DGDPHG522K/Tax+Foreclosure+03.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure "When stuff is steady coming on you, you wonder, 'What is this person going to do?'" Annie Osborne said of her struggle with tax foreclosure. Osborne lost her home to tax foreclosure after being unable to pay her taxes for two years. She was unclear about whether or not she would be forced to move, regardless of the notices left on her door and the personal visit to her home made by the county treasurer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861787892-QWCAYI6CNYGBDSDXFAYH/Tax+Foreclosure+04.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Annie Osborne sits on her porch contemplating her next move as the clock winds down toward the deadline for her to be out of the property. Osborne had been given an extension on her eviction though the weekend to move out of the home that has been in her family for decades after losing her home to tax foreclosure. Though her family was able to get a number of her possessions out of the house over the weekend, when the deadline passed on Monday morning Annie had not finished moving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861791420-9MHFJ8ULM46F9C4S9VE1/Tax+Foreclosure+06.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Annie Osborne's great-grandson, Eric, center, checks his arm for scratches after hauling a box out to their U-Haul. Osborne was unable to save her home from tax foreclosure after two years of delinquency. Though the county officially took possession of the property in April, she remained living there until late July. When it became apparent Osborne was not going to be able to stay in her home until the annual auction many members of her family scrambled to help her clear the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861793793-3VUAVIW5TBJZ20DMEPRJ/Tax+Foreclosure+08.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Annie Osborne, left, sorts through her possessions while her great-grandson, Eric, hauls a box out to their U-Haul. Osborne was unable to save her home from tax foreclosure after two years of delinquency. Though the county officially took possession of the property in April, she remained living there until late July. When it became apparent Osborne was not going to be able to stay in her home until the annual auction, when her son plans to repurchase the house, many members of her family scrambled to help her clear the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456370923767-YZNVCD8SK0ZC9ZVAZJYH/Tax+Foreclosure+02.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861796153-WSF3UAJZ0YY3JZ2Z5JX8/Tax+Foreclosure+10.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Because there is no penalty on a credit report for allowing a property to be taxed foreclosed, often someone will purchase a property at auction with the intent of renovating and end up allowing the house to go back to the county. This house, located in Jackson, has been tax foreclosed on at least once before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861795201-RU7VKXVQW2YLT45LSW0W/Tax+Foreclosure+09.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Annie Osborne takes a break in between carting boxes out of her former home in Jackson. Tax foreclosure, an increasingly common issue in Jackson County, often claims homes fully owned by their occupants. Though Annie's family had owned her home outright for several years, her inability to pay her taxes ultimately lost the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861796752-MSFEQU29RSUAAY1CNYEC/Tax+Foreclosure+11.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Karen Coffman, Jackson County treasurer, glances around a house filled with the personal effects of the last residents while making the rounds after the yearly tax foreclosure acquisitions by the county. Many people simply leave behind most of the possessions when they lose their homes. Though they aren't under any obligation, Jackson County does clean out the homes and work on their upkeep during the months they're in the county's possession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861798857-VMJYAU3LOJ5JEZY0XMTE/Tax+Foreclosure+12.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Personal belongings litter the floor in a tax foreclosed house in Jackson. Often families will wait until forcibly evicted to leave the house and end up leaving behind much of their property. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861801008-AMK5HW4IVW3BGTOFX1W6/Tax+Foreclosure+13.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Pat Cripes, right, and her daughter, Heidi Fagerholm, check out a basement bathroom in a house the county has taken possession of due to tax foreclosure. The pair assess the houses, looking for potential maintenance issues as well as trying to discern which are more likely to sell in the upcoming annual county auction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861800841-VE6SL5MC2CYY3VOZX6RE/Tax+Foreclosure+14.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Pat Cripes, right, speaks with a neighbor of one of the tax foreclosed properties she is assessing. Pat and her husband fix up tax foreclosed properties after the county has taken possession in preparation for their auction. The neighbor expressed interest in buying the house next door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861803987-KUA5PZ6USS7YX6OEE2CX/Tax+Foreclosure+15.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure The red tape that usually accompanies tax foreclosure notices is present on one property with lake access that is delinquent for $1,094.92. Many people loose their property to tax foreclosure for no more than a few thousand dollars. Because tax foreclosure numbers are low when compared with mortgage foreclosure rates little local or federal attention has been turned to relief. Often, homeowners have no organizations they can turn to for aid when they run into trouble paying their taxes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861802571-HCMALYH2VG21RWI7XB35/Tax+Foreclosure+16.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure A member of Pat and Reuel Cripes' crew cleans out a kitchen in a property Jackson County had taken possession of due to tax foreclosure. Though not all the homes in the county's possession are cleaned to such an extent, the few that will be shown in open house before the annual auction are throughly scrubbed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861805947-LOO5FTCFOHJX3YIF93FF/Tax+Foreclosure+17.JPG Living with Tax Foreclosure Jordan Cannon, 7, center, hugged her cousin's girlfriend, Misty Johnson, as the two stood on the steps of a home during a tax foreclosure open house in Jackson. Cannon's father, Rev. Gordon Cannon, far left, said he was looking into buying the home for his son, not pictured, after he graduated high school. This two bedroom, one bathroom ranch house was going up to auction with a minimum bidding price of $4,650. Minimum bids begin at the price of back taxes on a property. The low price can allow families to purchase homes who might have bee unable to do so otherwise. https://www.katierausch.com/unionizing-tobacco-workers daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862021103-FBGR8HM5MY09534LA799/FLOC_11.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite A tobacco worker, who came to the United States on an agricultural guest worker program VISA, pauses as he suckers and tops tobacco plants near Dudley, N.C. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC) is encouraging local farmers to use the guest worker program, which they say protects the rights of migrant workers. The union's efforts are ongoing as they struggle to bring attention to the workers, many of whom remain hidden in plain sight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862021103-FBGR8HM5MY09534LA799/FLOC_11.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite A tobacco worker, who came to the United States on an agricultural guest worker program VISA, pauses as he suckers and tops tobacco plants near Dudley, N.C. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC) is encouraging local farmers to use the guest worker program, which they say protects the rights of migrant workers. The union's efforts are ongoing as they struggle to bring attention to the workers, many of whom remain hidden in plain sight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687888987572-C09XIB9XATGYZ637CJ2L/FLOC.jpg Tobacco Workers Unite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456886960598-PXFZNSE6W1WLI8X8HUST/FLOC+01.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite Inside The Farm Labor Organizing Committee's fight to unionize North Carolina's tobacco workers. A migrant camp is tucked behind a line of trees, out of view of anyone driving along the nearby road. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC) is working to unionize tobacco workers in North Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1491594095610-FJLYN8G43GSIL8VEDJC3/FLOC+Description+.jpg Tobacco Workers Unite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862005375-DUYCDB4JLBW7KP1OMDDU/FLOC_02.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez, left, speaks with a migrant worker, who agreed to be photographed but declined to be named, outside the cinder block building where he lives. The union, which was founded in Ohio, has been expanding into the South. Many tobacco workers are undocumented immigrants and fear reprisal from their employers for union involvement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456372169386-8QHFWQ52R2HR6G5EMB2G/FLOC+01.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862007077-T7FQNZ9SHJENI149KY4Z/FLOC_03.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite Handwritten payment slips, delivered to migrant workers, are inspected during a tour of migrant laborer camps organized by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee outside Raleigh, N.C., on July 28, 2014. British Members of Parliament Ian Lavery and James Sheridan toured two migrant camps with FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez. Handwritten pay slips are a violation of North Carolina labor law. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862008132-OFV66AIF991743NBITBW/FLOC_01.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite A migrant camp is tucked behind a line of trees, out of view of anyone driving along the nearby road. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC) is working to unionize tobacco workers in North Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862012502-UTGS67P0X7OJJW0QCUS1/FLOC_04.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite A sleeping area housing seven men is part of a migrant camp hidden from the nearby roadway by a line of thick trees. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC), has convinced some of the laborers who live and work here to join up with the union, though many remain skeptical of the organization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862010252-7UPFIA9Y44NDKBTKV38W/FLOC_05.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite British Member of Parliament James Sheridan, center, pauses after touring the living quarters in a migrant laborer camp in between Wilson and Raleigh, N.C. Organized by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC), Sheridan and his fellow British Member of Parliament Ian Lavery toured two migrant camps. Once back in the United Kingdom, the Labor Party politicians said they will push to exert pressure on British American Tobacco, which owns the biggest share of tobacco giant Reynolds American Inc., to make changes that improve the lives of migrant workers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862016004-G33I1PAOP9W61TTB63EB/FLOC_08.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite British Member of Parliament James Sheridan, left, speaks with AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre share a word at the headquarters of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC), near Dudley, North Carolina. U.S Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) was joined by British Members of Parliament Ian Lavery and James Sheridan for a tour of tobacco workers' homes and a tobacco field where worker's were suckering and topping plants as part of an effort by FLOC to garner political support for their campaign to unionize North Carolina's tobacco workers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862018554-8UJAA6EU1DR0ANM4T51R/FLOC_09.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite More than 100 FLOC members, supporters and allies gather Sunday, July 28, 2014, for a round table discussion with British Members of Parliament Ian Lavery, at table center, and James Sheridan, at table right, after their two-day-long tour of migrant laborer camps in between Dudley and Raleigh, North Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862021120-VB4FHH7HAV68AX8LBV5Z/FLOC_10.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite Biridiana Campos, center, cries after she finished speaking about the sexual exploitation female tobacco workers face on the job. Campos spoke during a town hall meeting put on by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC), for workers to share their stories with union and political leaders Saturday, July 26, 2014, near Dudley, North Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862017399-N4BRLH2IF2JYXIYUNZBL/FLOC_07.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite Garcia's finger remains bandaged after it was caught a mechanical tobacco harvester while working. When he can work, Garcia makes about $7 an hour, less than the $7.25 minimum wage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484862012410-2JCRW7G7KAEGG1GK1ZDQ/FLOC_06.JPG Tobacco Workers Unite Santiago Garcia, a tobacco worker from Guatemala, pauses as he speaks of his inability to work while standing near the single wide trailer where he and four other men near Dudley, North Carolina. Garcia, who had to turn the deed to his property in Guatemala to the smuggler who helped him get the the U.S., had part of his finger amputated recently in an on-the-job accident. His employer pays no workman's compensation, and Garcia is going to be soon unable to make rent. Facing the potential of deportation and the subsequent loss of his property in Guatemala, Garcia turned to the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC) for help. They are engaged in a campaign to unionize North Carolina tobacco workers. https://www.katierausch.com/medical-marijuana daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456887596812-1QZMEWBSMM0R6AK1RKU1/Medical+Marijuana+01.JPG Medical Marijuana In 2008 Michigan voters passed a ballot initiative legalizing medical marijuana. Now, an organization called The Ohio Rights Group has submitted a petition to put the issue of medical marijuana on the 2014 ballot in Ohio. This essay explores the impact medical marijuana has had both on Michigan, where it is now legal, and in Ohio, where its growth, sale and use remain outside the law. Marijuana users smoke openly during this year's, "Hash Bash" in Ann Arbor. With a recent Pew Research Center study indicating 52 percent of people favor marijuana legalization, Michigan-based supporters say they feel complete marijuana legalization in inevitable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456887596812-1QZMEWBSMM0R6AK1RKU1/Medical+Marijuana+01.JPG Medical Marijuana In 2008 Michigan voters passed a ballot initiative legalizing medical marijuana. Now, an organization called The Ohio Rights Group has submitted a petition to put the issue of medical marijuana on the 2014 ballot in Ohio. This essay explores the impact medical marijuana has had both on Michigan, where it is now legal, and in Ohio, where its growth, sale and use remain outside the law. Marijuana users smoke openly during this year's, "Hash Bash" in Ann Arbor. With a recent Pew Research Center study indicating 52 percent of people favor marijuana legalization, Michigan-based supporters say they feel complete marijuana legalization in inevitable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1491594383533-NPUAUNDXRIB62TIY3IND/MJ+Description+.jpg Medical Marijuana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456372318700-PQ0MSXKHPYY8K2BWOI14/Medical+Marijuana+01.JPG Medical Marijuana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456887608820-7C8V5AAEAPOAUUM8DU65/Medical+Marijuana+02.JPG Medical Marijuana John Evans peers into a makeshift room containing his growing marijuana plants. A proponent and user of medical marijuana, Evans moved to Michigan in 2010 to become a registered care giver, the term used for a legal grower of medical marijuana who supplies a registered patient. Evans became passionate about medical marijuana after watching his grandmother struggle with traditional pain management options during her time in hospice. He says he sees medical marijuana and the decriminalization or legalization of recreational marijuana use to be completely separate issues. "Let's discuss medical marijuana on the merits of its medicinal value," Evans said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456887639031-KI5JRXP0VJF2HBM3HNB8/Medical+Marijuana+03.JPG Medical Marijuana John Evans pulls back the plastic sealing off one of his medical marijuana growing rooms in the basement of his home near Ann Arbor, Mich. Evans grows marijuana with almost no THC. Instead, his contains more CBD, a chemical compound that has been shown to relieve pain and curb seizures and convulsions. Evans can net up to $20,000 a year for his medical marijuana supply, though he says it is presently his only income. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456887660787-TMQAP87YS9E7F2MWUF4N/Medical+Marijuana+04.JPG Medical Marijuana John Evans works with his dried marijuana as he processes the plants for consumption in his living room. A proponent and user of medical marijuana, Evans moved to Michigan in 2010 to become a registered care giver, the term used for a legal grower of medical marijuana who supplies a registered patient. Evans became passionate about medical marijuana after watching his grandmother struggle with traditional pain management options during her time in hospice. He says he sees medical marijuana and the decriminalization or legalization of recreational marijuana use to be completely separate issues. "Let's discuss medical marijuana on the merits of its medicinal value," Evans said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456887679770-DLPY0GN5W2L86AUO3X5I/Medical+Marijuana+05.JPG Medical Marijuana Medical marijuana activist Tim Beck hoists a joint up as he addresses the hundreds of people assembled for, "Hash Bash," an annual gathering of marijuana rights supporters, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Beck has been working to legalize marijuana in the state of Michigan for more than a decade, and has been a major force behind the passage of the state's medical marijuana legislation. "Marijuana legalization is inevitable," Beck said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456887700516-VJQFF53WQ975SV6JOSXJ/Medical+Marijuana+06.JPG Medical Marijuana Marijuana supporters gather at this year's, "Hash Bash," in Ann Arbor, Mich. Many openly smoked marijuana at the gathering, which included speeches from many local and regional marijuana rights activists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456887756063-TERKMIT9DYAPY0X0S6BO/Medical+Marijuana+07.JPG Medical Marijuana "I got my card because I believe all use of marijuana is medicinal," Holice Wood, a medical marijuana user said. Wood runs an organization called TRANSLove Energies in Detroit. The group, which he describes as a private medical marijuana compassion club, is closed to the public. Because the legislation surrounding medical marijuana is vague Wood says he will continue to run his club by invite only. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456887766166-O2CAZIHLI2VDD8RIOHK4/Medical+Marijuana+08.JPG Medical Marijuana Adam Michilak, left, and Joshua Bennett, right, are led out a South Toledo home by police after Toledo Narcotics and SWAT officers raided the house at 3034 S. Byrne Road on April, 12. Police valued the confiscated materials, including up to 65 hydroponic marijuana plants, seven pounds of processed marijuana, and an SKS assault rife, and a Dodge Charger at an estimated $115,800. Much of the marijuana seized was hydroponically grown, a shift officials say has been impacted by the higher potency marijuana commonly used by medicinal marijuana users in Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456887803984-HUTKUFO1GW1YNSEAZ1RZ/Medical+Marijuana+09.JPG Medical Marijuana Marijuana confiscated by Toledo Narcotics and SWAT officers from a house at 3034 S. Byrne Road in South Toledo on April, 12 sits in bags outside the property. Police valued the confiscated materials, including up to 65 hydroponic marijuana plants, seven pounds of processed marijuana, and an SKS assault rife, and a Dodge Charger at $115,800. In 2008 Michigan passed a law legalizing medical marijuana and leading to a surge in hydroponics. An organization called The Ohio Rights Group has submitted petitions to institute medical marijuana on the 2014 ballot in Ohio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1456887811766-XVVX9Q1U4E0T0TJ7G74U/Medical+Marijuana+10.JPG Medical Marijuana Stacy Saville, center, stands in municipal court for a preliminary hearing on Friday, May 3, 2013. The home Saville was living at in South Toledo was raided by police, who turned up an estimated $115,800 in evidence of an expansive marijuana grow operation. Another defendant, Adam Michilak, was also living in the same house. Much of the marijuana seized was hydroponically grown, a shift officials say has been impacted by the higher potency marijuana commonly used by medicinal marijuana users in Michigan. https://www.katierausch.com/finding-a-way-to-survive daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861364539-LY9NFZ22DQSP2GUSD7AC/Josianne01.JPG Life, After Death Josianne Thomas kneels at the grave of her two eldest children, Joscelyn and Johnny, who were 16 and 14 when they were murdered in the fall of 2015 by Joscelyn's boyfriend. Josianne survived being stabbed more than a dozen times in the same attack. She visits the cemetery weekly, often with her two surviving children, now 4-year-old twins Tiffany and Hailey. "It feels like I should have a calling for something, some reason why I'm still here," Josianne said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861364539-LY9NFZ22DQSP2GUSD7AC/Josianne01.JPG Life, After Death Josianne Thomas kneels at the grave of her two eldest children, Joscelyn and Johnny, who were 16 and 14 when they were murdered in the fall of 2015 by Joscelyn's boyfriend. Josianne survived being stabbed more than a dozen times in the same attack. She visits the cemetery weekly, often with her two surviving children, now 4-year-old twins Tiffany and Hailey. "It feels like I should have a calling for something, some reason why I'm still here," Josianne said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687887230216-M7DBN41XX1TJT9J96I5V/Josianne.jpg Life, After Death https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1480645227819-7QT15V9YD42C8ZOPEHBN/Josianne01.JPG Life, After Death Josianne Thomas kneels at the grave of her two eldest children Joscelyn and Johnny, who were 16 and 14 when they were murdered in the fall of 2015 in an attack by Joscelyn's boyfriend. Josianne survived being stabbed more than 12 times in the same attack. She visits the cemetery weekly, often with her two surviving children, four-year-old twins Tiffany and Hailey. "I want to be with Johnny and Joscelyn in heaven but I know I need to be here with Hailey and Tiffany," she said. "It feels like I should have a calling for something, some reason why I'm still here." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1491449350393-AGPO14O52J9ECPMMSP6U/Josianne+Description+.jpg Life, After Death https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861365963-SQDW9UBBNC6H756IBEGG/Josianne03.JPG Life, After Death "People forget, and I just don't want them to ever be forgotten," Josianne Thomas said of her two murdered children, Joscelyn Jones, 16, left, and Johnny Jones III, 14, right. Both teens were killed by Joscelyn's former boyfriend Devonte Brown in an attack at their home that lasted hours on Aug. 10, 2015. Now, their mother is struggling to make sense of why she survived more than a dozen stab wounds in the same attack. Often she says she feels like she's ready to die now and see her children again. "It's much harder the second year," she said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688443443342-HRM7DF1MEQYMESKGL9O2/domesticXX_StartHighSchool_032216-2.jpg Life, After Death "People forget, and I just don't want them to ever be forgotten," Josianne Thomas said of her two murdered children, Joscelyn Jones, 16, and Johnny Jones III, 14, who were pictured at center in a cabinet at their high school in Toledo, Ohio, as part of a showcase of students who had been killed in acts of domestic violence on March 22, 2016. Both teens were killed by Joscelyn's former boyfriend Devonte Brown in an attack at their home that lasted hours on Aug. 10, 2015. Now, their mother is struggling to make sense of why she survived more than a dozen stab wounds in the same attack. Often she says she feels like she's ready to die now and see her children again. "It's much harder the second year," she said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861366711-JOUT2AWGM57UD4S5RXCE/Josianne02.JPG Life, After Death Devonte Brown, then 16, is wheeled out of the courtroom after being arranged before Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Ian English on Oct. 8, 2015, on two counts of aggravated murder, one count of attempted murder, and other charges for stabbing to death his estranged girlfriend and her brother, and injuring their mother Josianne Thomas on Aug. 10, 2015. Brown was certified to stand trial as an adult and entered an Alford Plea, where a defendant acknowledges there is enough evidence for a conviction. Judge English found Brown guilty of two counts of aggravated murder for the slayings, sentencing him to life in prison as well as an additional 22 years for the attempted murder of Thomas. Now 17, Brown is currently the only juvenile in Lucas County serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861368333-02L1K5RY5SBOXXXKJIL0/Josianne04.JPG Life, After Death Josianne struggles with the guilt of having outlived her two eldest children, who were murdered in a brutal attack by her daughter's boyfriend in August, 2015. She and her husband Mike, not pictured, work hard to care for her remaining children, twin girls Hailey, center left, and Tiffany, right, then 3-years-old, often with the help of Josianne’s father David Page, left. Still, Josianne often worries she's not engaging enough with the kids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861371502-U2D8WWJJEGXQ1ND45WFD/Josianne07.JPG Life, After Death Josianne Thomas survived more than a dozen stab wounds, including two to the side of her neck, pictured, in the Aug. 10, 2015, attack by Devonte Brown at her home in Toledo, Ohio. Brown was the former boyfriend of Josianne's 16-year-old daughter Joscelyn, who died as a result of the attack, along with Josianne's son Johnny Jones III, 14. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861370601-5AEM96ZAMNW0OEM1Z1V4/Josianne06.JPG Life, After Death Mike Thomas, left, helps his wife Josianne clam their daughter Hailey down during a late-night temper tantrum as Hailey and her twin sister Tiffany, both 4, color together at the family's kitchen table. Though the twins were sleeping in bed with Josianne when she was attacked, they were unharmed. Josianne concentrates on doing the best she can for the pair, though she says it's sometimes hard to focus on the girls when she becomes overwhelmed with the weight of the deaths of her two eldest children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688443821383-KYT1KOX9TOW2229T0S6X/domesticXX_KDR08_051016.jpg Life, After Death Josianne Thomas talks with her clinical therapist Bonita L. Roberts during a session Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Thomas has been seeing the therapist weekly to help her process the deaths of her two oldest children. Joscelyn, 16, and Johnny Jones III, 14, were murdered in their home in 2015 by Joscelyn's boyfriend. Thomas was attacked as well, surviving more than 12 stab wounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688445382463-AZWJNZIACHFT03O4UHBQ/domesticXX_Vigil11_100316.jpg Life, After Death Brenda Hendricks, left, Josianne Thomas, center left, the Rev. Johnny Jones, center right, and Tammie Jones, right, pray with other family and friends over the graves of siblings Joscelyn Jones, 16, and Johnny Jones III, 14, in Ottawa Memorial Park in Toledo on Oct. 3, 2016. The two teenagers were murdered in 2015 by Devonte Brown, then 16, who was the ex-boyfriend of Joscelyn. Josianne had organized the gathering to remember her children more than a year after their deaths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688444514199-4GNUXGGCVVBBKDU2HF8H/KDR_2179.JPG Life, After Death Josianne Thomas, center, tries to help her daughter Hailey, 4, wind down for the night as Hailey’s twin sister Tiffany wakes their father, Mike, up to ask him to head for bed at their home on Sept. 29, 2016. The attack on their family has made sleeping a challenge. The twins still sleep with Josianne and Mike, but Josianne says she often stays up to clean into the early hours of the morning. "I have to be totally exhausted so I don't dream," she said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861374449-U2AT1RXK3YJ749KFHFYY/Josianne08.JPG Life, After Death Mike Thomas sleeps with his twin 4-year-old daughters, though his wife's side of the bed remains empty, at about 2 a.m. Josianne Thomas was sleeping with her daughters in bed on Aug. 10, 2015, when she was attacked by Devonte Brown, then 16. Brown stabbed Josianne more than a dozen times, murdered her son Johnny Jones III, 14, and assaulted and raped her daughter Joscelyn, 16, in the same attack. Joscelyn later died as a result of her injuries, though the twins were unharmed. Brown in serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. After the attack Josianne often has trouble sleeping. The twins still sleep with Josianne and Mike, but Josianne says she often stays up into the early hours of the morning. "I have to be totally exhausted so I don't dream," she said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861369009-TZLVKQKHCDGJ275FRX6G/Josianne05.JPG Life, After Death Josianne Thomas visits the graves of her two eldest children, Joscelyn and Johnny, often with her two surviving children, 3-year-old twins Tiffany and Hailey, pictured. "I want to be with Johnny and Joscelyn in heaven but I know I need to be here with Hailey and Tiffany," Josianne said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861374518-WCTB0ZBIC0NEWZBR7IYX/Josianne10.JPG Life, After Death Josianne Thomas speckles inside the home she and her husband Mike bought about outside of Toledo, Ohio. Josianne was sleeping in bed with her two-year-old twin daughters when she stabbed more than a dozen times by the boyfriend of her eldest daughter, who murdered Josianne's two eldest children in the same attack. After she was released from the hospital Josianne said she knew she couldn't live in their family's North Toledo house anymore. She and Mike moved out of Toledo and are working to rebuild their lives with their two surviving children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688445978174-9E7TFTYD9XKZUCFV91P3/domesticXX_SilentWitness08_100416.jpg Life, After Death Josianne Thomas lingered after her daughter, Joscelyn Jones, had her story read aloud at the Northwest Ohio Silent Witness Project Unveiling Ceremony in Maumee, Ohio, on Tuesday, October 4, 2016. Sponsored by the Women's Center at Bowling Green State University, the annual event is held to remember the girls and women in Lucas County who have been killed by intimate partners or stalkers in the past decade. Each woman has a silhouette unveiled with a volunteer to read their story aloud. This year Joscelyn, who was 16 at the time of her death, was included among the women. THE BLADE/ KATIE RAUSCH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861377749-VP7JC0EMF9NP9L23TR4Z/Josianne11.JPG Life, After Death Josianne Thomas, center, her father David Page, left, and her mother Brenda Hendricks, right, cry together as Josianne's daughter, Joscelyn Jones, has her story read aloud at the Northwest Ohio Silent Witness Project Unveiling Ceremony in Maumee, Ohio, on Oct. 4, 2016. Sponsored by the Women's Center at Bowling Green State University, the annual event is held to remember the girls and women in Lucas County, Ohio, who have been killed by intimate partners or stalkers in the past decade. Each woman has a silhouette unveiled with a volunteer to read their story aloud. This year Joscelyn, who was 16 at the time of her death, was included among them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861372629-J6UD1BN593KLKZLDHAO5/Josianne09.JPG Life, After Death Josianne Thomas, left, and her husband Mike Thomas, center, are stoic at the plea agreement hearing for Devonte Brown, 17, right, on June 3, 2016, before Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Ian English. Brown entered an Alford plea and was found guilty by Judge English of two counts of aggravated murder and one count each of attempted murder, rape, kidnapping, and failure to comply with the order of a police officer in the Aug. 10, 2015, attack on Joscelyn Jones, 16, her brother, Johnny Jones III, 14, and their mother, Josianne Thomas, 37. In an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit to committing a crime, but acknowledges evidence is sufficient for a conviction that could result in a more severe sentence. The court treats an Alford plea as a guilty plea. As part of Brown's plea agreement, two counts of murder and one count of aggravated robbery were dismissed. Judge English sentenced Brown to life in prison without the possibility of parole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688447162398-63WX990DPZ1NFR5O6OHJ/domesticXX_KDR08_042916.jpg Life, After Death Johnny Jones Jr., left, embraces his ex-wife Josianne Thomas during the 17th annual Lucas County Children Services Child Memorial for children killed by violence, abuse or neglect held at the agency’s offices in downtown Toledo, Ohio, on Friday, April 29, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688444133810-1RUIQO90TUPNXZ20ZNWI/domesticXX_KDR08_081616.jpg Life, After Death On the first anniversary of the attack on her family, Josianne Thomas struggles to get through the day. She kept her surviving daughters busy with games, but it was challenging for her to engage with the children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688446569545-RWUW8X7T6YT6QB4T4JO9/domesticXX_KDRHouse12_091716.jpg Life, After Death Josianne Thomas laughs as she and her husband Mike, right, take a break from renovating their new home on Sept. 17, 2016. Josianne and her twin 4-year-old daughters survived the same attack that claimed the lives of her two eldest children, and after Josianne was released from the hospital she never went back to the house where the attack occurred. She and Mike immediately moved out of Toledo to Whitehouse and haven't looked back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1484861377027-LHFZ4IKIACFJ3IFG9997/Josianne12.JPG Life, After Death "I trusted him. I took him to the zoo with my kids this time last year. I let him live with my family," Josianne Thomas said of the teenager who dated and then murdered her daughter and teenage son in August of 2015. Thomas, who survived the same attack that claimed the lives of her two eldest children, visits the cemetery weekly. She often speaks directly to her deceased daughter Joscelyn and son Johnny as well. "I just wish you were both still here," she said, "or that I was in heaven with you." Her twin daughters Hailey and Tiffany, pictured, were 3 years old at the time of the attack. As they grow, their memory of the event has faded, along with memories of their slain siblings. https://www.katierausch.com/daily daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1641414628659-8AZLC9H09SMXZ5Y8QJM7/2021_12_31_A1.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1641414628659-8AZLC9H09SMXZ5Y8QJM7/2021_12_31_A1.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1709663644245-15KBUGMV5VTPVFGSF7BB/0229.DY.MAIN.ZSW.001.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503734104-ITTJILK4ZJ611L8WJM1H/Copy+of+0722.DY.MAIN.ZSW.001.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1709663641331-6M6T6MNOT3WKSHQ0YZM7/0229.DY.SPA.ZSW.001.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1709663650017-OZLL2G3KMU3BET5M88D4/0229.DY.SPA.ZSW.006.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1709663649554-UBIMLPGX7PXJP5R8ZXE3/0229.DY.SPA.ZSW.012.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1667187019387-CNA53E5QKVQLJ0U08UVY/Fire01.jpg Daily Work Click here to see more photos from the Marshall fire, which destroyed more homes than any other wildfire in the history of the state. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1631650795816-9I7SH9EBI12J1DSAYK62/2021_09_12_A1.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687397566166-6ZNYV6WJ62J1ER4BCTMN/3-23-2023-1.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1631654134037-QLXS8B6RLHRB1BA5CB6K/2021_01_07_A1.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1631655312398-S2R5VD13W43RXLY4RFOC/Jan_07.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1591573807269-SUQFV0RV4NBFG6X8H2JV/2020_06_07_GeorgeFloyd.jpg Daily Work Click here to see photos from 10 days of Coloradans protesting, filled with grief, anger and resolve in response to the death of George Floyd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687811362178-UKIDZLBMACMEE4Q6OMES/2020_11_22_a01_Pandemic.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687811493501-8H4J67PFSL471884A5Q2/2020_11_22_a10_Pandemic.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1656431736739-WB8IQUVL3ZTDCHQBKJKQ/A1_ASection_Regional_16_0_1527597456.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687810721040-R16T7QNICDU74PBN0YF8/2020_11_22_a12_Pandemic.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1608353749472-OGT5YX69E7WIKRN2XESZ/11222020_ThirdWave.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687810935562-D8EARBR28BSPALFEYPXA/TDP_2020_04_01-1_Pandemic.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1667187177138-7C1G7ASG99550L1KD2OR/2020_05_18_FirefightersCombined.jpg Daily Work Click here to read more about how Denver South Metro firefighters worked during the pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1677202633632-IPDP76O354OZLZ89F8F7/Hospital+Visitation.jpg Daily Work Click here to read more about the Gillham family and their experience with loss during the pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687393704458-I2UABGB7V7P3GRE8AJFA/Denver+Homicide+Numbers-1.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1586465199659-Y8FRIZZXGDWUY0749LXY/2020_03_22_CoronavirusFull.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687393554199-1T46YH8HBNE3NH7G6Y3W/Denver+Homicie+Numbers+4.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1675374088787-CIUUODATSM3EYEIUFH3P/Halfway+Houses01.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1675374346693-C7KN6ZVAAJMA8023EAMV/Halfway+Houses04.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1677202882597-1DDR9GVS9DKLBA78GAX9/12+Tribes.jpg Daily Work Click here to read the stories of former members of the Twelve Tribes cult. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1626904856185-JQV940WO6F9HAB7TT5G6/2021_05_31_A1.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1626904874874-YK9SH74Z1CKNVA0JSUPT/2021_05_31_A8.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1689709213720-WTG7HGIW0DE8C2O5JWXZ/07-09-2023.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1692209450535-D6BS6B8CBJQ3F3IUFAXK/08_26_2023-1.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1598463957973-B6GFB7RC4E9QFDH10D1O/08232020_DenverPost2.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1692209526339-EDEL707KVMG97E3O060C/08_26_2023-3.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1591574180542-AQK0O32URN6BMK1ZIGCN/2020_06_07_GerogeFloydFull.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1677201093768-15YZDNMZH2W51LSAEARD/Screen+Shot+2023-01-17+at+6.59.07+PM.png Daily Work Click here for more on the Colorado onion harvest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1581285432801-BWSTRZ578VPOZLA74PHJ/Drought.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1601344777862-4QB6VCTDBCDSER3FG7GK/09272020_CrisisPoint.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1581283677487-B4GDP6T21XFN0NUU4C3C/TDP_2019_02_15_TeacherStrike-2.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1581284937838-Q9MYX5FATGYJ4B6W661O/Yampa.jpg Daily Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1718169743973-2X9RIB66NJ3IV98FNUSM/0512.DY.MAIN.ZSW.001.jpg Daily Work - 0512.DY.MAIN.ZSW.001.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1581293885853-KWCQ6QIOD4W94TGRO88V/Christmas.jpg Daily Work https://www.katierausch.com/sports-editing daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687389796152-JDYG7MR8JYR41JENCMVB/6-13-2023-1.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687389796152-JDYG7MR8JYR41JENCMVB/6-13-2023-1.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503954019-L4V211ZHO153SS6MDAM1/1117.DY.SPTS.ZSW.001+%281%29.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503969304-9PERTJBXZ2JOV7R43ZAV/1117.DY.SPTS.ZSW.006.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503806295-8XXQ6YA48WPP4V4MXILI/Copy+of+1208.DY.MAIN.ZSW.001.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503823094-2G28VJU00F7MO00L619E/Copy+of+1208.DY.MAIN.ZSW.010.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503840484-CLBBR57FD7BHHD4BU7UI/Copy+of+1208.DY.MAIN.ZSW.012-13.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1608154483540-QX0B5UY1UGZE0OXNF005/10132019_Black14.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1581286729011-RU08FKD61YZX3BHXUBPU/RaisedToRace.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503890068-PIU7CTJ51USVBL1ASVCX/1021.DY.SPTS.ZSW.001.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503904492-6VSLWKQT7S2VBGTCQ6C6/1021.DY.SPTS.ZSW.002.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1657817258044-0HTOZZKSXC0UIMPYR2X7/Game6.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687389797282-DIBDJDWZMSNE2X1LJP0J/6-13-2023-2.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1677205383374-R1218ZA3FS8JDGTR3PGH/Game+6.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503979202-12YIQG9ZZVXTV8Z763SD/1215.DY.SPB.ZSW.003.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1688572417151-YTHWSCIGEP7X4M5RFBQQ/06-05-2023.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1718169641871-YSBI2V798Z3QX76PYYFS/0513.DY.SPTS.ZSW.001.jpg Sports - 0513.DY.SPTS.ZSW.001.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1718169641945-0KHHVNU8KJ5OCIOIMSFG/0527.DY.SPTS.ZSW.001.jpg Sports - 0527.DY.SPTS.ZSW.001.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503878372-OZMB02FRHX9TFGBZUQGP/0520.DY.SPTS.ZSW.001.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1705382783738-X5JBKEKZNTCPFKY6I6Q5/TDP_DLY_230925_B_001.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1705382788323-M7L0S3VWJUYV90HCVTT4/35.JPG Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503944180-G0AVQOARUC8A5RO0ZTLN/1104.DY.SPTS.ZSW.004-5.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1705382876117-I1CYTJUSD8USEZSUFYVP/1225.DY.SPTS.ZSW.004.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1675373557652-SJMDCOAKGHBZZJAYEWFQ/TDP_DLY_221007_B_001.jpeg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687811016048-XKI0W3XWTLAP4ZCS3LCH/DP-20211018-B004-BroncosInside.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687811066526-B2TSXFG9BCEI15ODMGWC/TDP_2019_09_16+%282%29-29.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687400212947-9JU5VTQ0DC4YJ3ZBWZJ0/9-19-2022-3.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687396345720-IXFMQACU306X8P1DDPIR/4-7-2023.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503867246-P6LGRQZEPBTC3H5X6D29/0327.DY.SPTS.ZSW.001.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1581286221557-Q3MVWIJ2KVR134N6QE5O/HomeOpener19.jpg Sports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687811007268-IQ3MS0YUUC5HT4LG4MC1/DP-20211115-B004-MON_TDP.jpg Sports - DP-20211115-B004-MON_TDP-C https://www.katierausch.com/print-project-tear-sheets daily 1.0 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739502231792-ZLNVGYNJD0KHX0OYNLD4/01_Charter09152024.JPG Print Projects Most Minnesota charter schools are failing to make good on their promises. Click here to read Part I of the Minnesota Star Tribune series Failing Grades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739502231792-ZLNVGYNJD0KHX0OYNLD4/01_Charter09152024.JPG Print Projects Most Minnesota charter schools are failing to make good on their promises. Click here to read Part I of the Minnesota Star Tribune series Failing Grades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739502251578-ETLNU2NVHBHP6G8D85X8/02_Charter09152024.JPG Print Projects Most Minnesota charter schools are failing to make good on their promises. Click here to read Part I of the Minnesota Star Tribune series Failing Grades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739502252095-K5QCC2LVBC6FFYOVGLBR/03_Charter09152024.JPG Print Projects Most Minnesota charter schools are failing to make good on their promises. Click here to read Part I of the Minnesota Star Tribune series Failing Grades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739502272608-UTX8KTUHBXFTT65I4PFS/04_Charter09152024.JPG Print Projects Most Minnesota charter schools are failing to make good on their promises. Click here to read Part I of the Minnesota Star Tribune series Failing Grades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739502287204-DD1TS149SSQIBF5AF91Z/05_Charter09152024.JPG Print Projects When Minnesota charter schools fail, vulnerable students pay the price. Click here to read Part II of the Minnesota Star Tribune series Failing Grades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739502305955-JO3YHNVKGIKY1WU8S6JU/06_Charter09152024.JPG Print Projects When Minnesota charter schools fail, vulnerable students pay the price. Click here to read Part II of the Minnesota Star Tribune series Failing Grades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739502333231-L3SE99MOFBY479HNFAY7/07_Charter09152024.JPG Print Projects How Rhode Island's charter schools succeeded where Minnesota’s failed. Click here to read Part III of the Minnesota Star Tribune series Failing Grades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739502335786-9XUHZ83IZFDBZI3K3L89/08_Charter09152024.JPG Print Projects How Rhode Island's charter schools succeeded where Minnesota’s failed. Click here to read Part III of the Minnesota Star Tribune series Failing Grades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739502991007-423PVZV6LTBBOR7B8L2T/17_Portfolio.JPG Print Projects They kept this Minnesota slaughterhouse running. Then it went bust, abandoning guest workers. Click here to read Part I of the Minnesota Star Tribune series False Hopes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739502987635-H96QX0ZNI605Q46D9CRN/18_Portfolio.JPG Print Projects They kept this Minnesota slaughterhouse running. Then it went bust, abandoning guest workers. Click here to read Part I of the Minnesota Star Tribune series False Hopes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503010241-3XBG2YECCW9MRSBOI4OA/19_Portfolio.JPG Print Projects They kept this Minnesota slaughterhouse running. Then it went bust, abandoning guest workers. Click here to read Part I of the Minnesota Star Tribune series False Hopes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503015092-LA68RLFU6FNIJE8AK9QN/20_Portfolio.JPG Print Projects Broken promises shatter workers’ American dreams. Click here to read Part II of the Minnesota Star Tribune series False Hopes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739503049042-B0TOVMYMYSDF3IKUGEZG/21_Portfolio.JPG Print Projects Guest workers torn between holding family together and making a living. Click here to read Part III of the Minnesota Star Tribune series False Hopes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1705382543551-7K1A9NSWKTD0BZXDOBC3/11.JPG Print Projects Click here to read this installment of “In Harm’s Way”, a series exploring how Minnesota’s child protection system failed to save some of the state’s most vulnerable residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1705382546249-LX20CHA780IXY13286R1/12.JPG Print Projects Click here to read this installment of “In Harm’s Way”, a series exploring how Minnesota’s child protection system failed to save some of the state’s most vulnerable residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1709657011422-CQM4EJJ65NPU5WT9NMO5/09.JPG Print Projects Click here to read this installment of “In Harm’s Way”, a series exploring how Minnesota’s child protection system failed to save some of the state’s most vulnerable residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1705382585302-5HLD7JZGBVDL3IC4BDAE/10.JPG Print Projects Click here to read this installment of “In Harm’s Way”, a series exploring how Minnesota’s child protection system failed to save some of the state’s most vulnerable residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1705382605550-OA5SLZM51KCLY631GRL1/04.JPG Print Projects Click here to read this installment of “In Harm’s Way”, a series exploring how Minnesota’s child protection system failed to save some of the state’s most vulnerable residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1705382617779-8YCGNZ689P4FW0MVQYXX/05.JPG Print Projects Click here to read this installment of “In Harm’s Way”, a series exploring how Minnesota’s child protection system failed to save some of the state’s most vulnerable residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1709657627616-9QS06JR787OV6NALZVB9/0303.DY.MAIN.ZSW.001.jpg Print Projects A tumor in her brain is ticking like a time-bomb. Nancy Uden wants the option to die peacefully — before it’s too late. Click to read her story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1709657629853-P9GW4AXDH9ZEZ8RGBTFT/Endoflife_1.jpg Print Projects A tumor in her brain is ticking like a time-bomb. Nancy Uden wants the option to die peacefully — before it’s too late. Click to read her story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1739502948560-VMJHH352N837C4V3A69B/16_Portfolio.JPG Print Projects Read the conclusion of Nancy Uden’s story here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1642109734748-SB9IH58HB4D882VPQ7Q9/Aid+In+Dying.jpg Print Projects Click here to read more about Merrily and her choice to use Colorado’s End-of-Life Options Act. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1705382617130-1RLZL2KBIXTZ7SU0QL8V/06.JPG Print Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1626900741849-I1W5GRNHRNMLVNIWBTM9/A1_ASection_Regional_16_0_839800181.jpg Print Projects Click here to read more about Vanessa Peoples and her story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1626900999016-3NS66XSK0MWFBV9LMH9D/2021_07_18_A12.jpg Print Projects Click here to read more about Vanessa Peoples and her story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1626901281139-C6R3MY5FDRQ4QR3M6PPQ/Untitled-1.jpg Print Projects Click here to read more about Vanessa Peoples and her story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1677195723050-9PR429AP4ML024YJ9S1Q/Screen+Shot+2023-01-17+at+6.39.02+PM.png Print Projects Click here to read the three-part special report from The Denver Post: “Looted: Stolen relics, laundered art and a Colorado scholar’s role in the illicit antiquities trade” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1642908982037-PL1QIPOQFIANUV31LHVU/2021_10_03_A1.jpg Print Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1642909036369-LY0UG5RNPO1GBQFG8VLJ/2021_10_03_A10.jpg Print Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1642908665587-XZ36EXQIHIEZMTLQ44XN/LongCovidJump.jpg Print Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1581285670565-RHTD9K6TQ2NG47M3HVLL/TheLongShadow.jpg Print Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687403687862-82UP48OKG89B426S2230/TDP_2019_06_30_Shadow-1.jpg Print Projects Click here to see more photos from The Long Shadow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687403931979-VI3NVC76F8JLAJ7PUTJM/Long+Shadow+2.jpg Print Projects Click here to read the full story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1687403940757-3I38RN9C8ASYK20P9SKG/Long+Shadow+3.jpg Print Projects Click here to read the full story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1601865235274-BVP9ANEYM2O6HWDWP69A/09272020_CrisisPointDB.jpg Print Projects Click here to read personal stories, poems and songs by Colorado teens about mental health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1601865228881-O5GYULLQO8XRAHVS4FYP/09272020_CrisisPoint03.jpg Print Projects Click here to read personal stories, poems and songs by Colorado teens about mental health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1581287546078-EROOGPD2GI3E7CM1NRAO/RV%27s.jpg Print Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1658711202425-PC6R3RW89V4Y9Y98H4IZ/ColoradoRiver01.jpg Print Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1658711198266-KPHTCMFA47063RI9BOZT/A10_ASection_Regional_16_0_1572980702.jpg Print Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1658711205523-8ZYJ6K0LV0H20ISJTMRE/ColoradoRiver03.jpg Print Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1718169529732-OJFKG8ISMC5JO63OY95D/0512.DY.SPA.ZSW.002-3-small.jpg Print Projects - 0512.DY.SPA.ZSW.002-3-small.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1718169530850-299VR0TCVO752G2ABXTS/0512.DY.SPA.ZSW.004-5-small.jpg Print Projects - 0512.DY.SPA.ZSW.004-5-small.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1677202517669-12YGCDVYEJ37K5U6UDLM/Ballroom.jpg Print Projects Click here to read about Denver’s Ballroom culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1581287560553-U2I6P9UPCIEBFGT4S3RN/TheColoradoPlate.jpg Print Projects Click here to see the video series “The Colorado Plate” from The Denver Post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/1601865233390-H88VM2W31O33ILNIPOLZ/09272020_CrisisPoint01.jpg Print Projects https://www.katierausch.com/about daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c26b3f8a65e284f1d7f122/d7453573-2721-4870-ae76-6edb0a55b06d/Katie+Rausch.jpeg About Katie Rausch is the Assistant Managing Editor of Photography and Video at the Minnesota Star Tribune, where she oversees an incredible team. In 2026, the staff of the Star Tribune was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting. Katie has spent her career in local journalism, where her work has often focused on stories and issues impacting people who have been underserved or underrepresented by traditional media organizations. Previously, Katie served as the Deputy Director of Photography at The Denver Post, and as a staff visual journalist with The Blade in Toledo, Ohio, and the Jackson Citizen Patriot in Jackson, Mich. In 2025, Katie was awarded Picture Editor of the Year – Community by the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism. That same year she was also recognized with an Award of Excellence in the Visual Editor of the Year category of the 82d POY. Her work as a photojournalist has also been recognized by multiple organizations, including BOP, POY, the Michigan Press Photographers Association, and the Ohio News Photographers Association. All images on katierausch.com are copyrighted to the Star Tribune, The Denver Post, The Blade, the Jackson Citizen Patriot, The Flint Journal, The State News and Katie Rausch. https://www.katierausch.com/the-harmonica-man daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://www.katierausch.com/ohio-in-transition-aran-1 daily 0.75 2026-06-19