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An Ohio polygamist, her husband and her four lovers were thrown behind bars after they allegedly kidnapped and tortured a 26-year-old man held captive in a hotel room for a week – in a sick revenge scheme hatched by the group’s twisted matriarch. Martina Jones, 28; her husband Michael Esqueda, 28; and boyfriends Aaron Bradshaw, 49; Austin Bradshaw, 28; David Cessna, 26; and Chance Johnston, 27, were arrested on March 22 for terrorizing the victim at a Red Roof Inn in Maumee, according to the Toledo Police Department, WTVG reported. The deranged lovers, who reportedly share multiple children, brutally beat...

EAST TOLEDO -- An accident at the construction site of the new I-280 river crossing killed three people on Monday, and injured five more. A device called a "launching truss" fell on a semi-truck that was bringing bridge parts to the construction site. It happened just around 2:30 pm east side of the Maumee River near the Front Street exit. The equipment fell in the space between the northbound and southbound lanes on Interstate 280's approach to the bridge south of downtown, Toledo Fire Capt. Robert Krause said. Traffic was open as crews worked on a $277 million project build...