May 3
1838 - First church building opens in Toledo at corner of Superior and Cherry Street.
1842 - City of Toledo builds a new fire station on Summit Street between Adams and Cherry Streets.
1889 - The Pemberville Leader begins publication.
1903 - Tragedy strikes a large group of Polish travelers from Toledo when many of the group are run over by a locomotive in Detroit. Hundreds had been waiting on the tracks for a return train to Toledo when they were hit. Nine people are killed and scores injured.
1954 - Grant Murray Field at Waite High School is dedicated.
1966 - WDHO TV, Channel 24, owned by Daniel H. Overmyer, begins broadcasting in Toledo. It is the city s third commercial TV station and later changes its call sign to WNWO-TV.
EXCLUSIVE: Actor Rob Mayes speaks about shooting âNeon Highwayâ in Columbus with Beau Bridges Rob Mayes stars in Neon Highway which recently wrapped up filming in Columbus (Source: WTVM) By Alex Jones | April 9, 2021 at 4:55 PM EDT - Updated April 9 at 4:56 PM
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - Columbus is heading back to the big screen. The newest film being shot in the Fountain City is âNeon Highwayâ starring Beau Bridges and Rob Mayes.
You might recognize Rob Mayes from films like cult-classic âJohn Dies at the End,â âBurning Blueâ and even a brief scene in âThor: Ragnarok.â He also starred in two seasons of ABC drama âMistresses.â
The history of how Virginia acquired its first electric chair
Virginia s ultimate sanction was carried out for more than a century on an oak chair from Trenton, N.J. used to execute 267 people who were deemed too vile or dangerous to live among us.
Their limbs and torsos bound by straps and heads crowned with a metal helmet and brine-soaked sponge, the last moments and thoughts of some of the state s most egregious criminals were spent in an electric chair first installed at the Virginia State Penitentiary in 1908.
If the chair was a symbol of extreme, immutable justice, it was also a tool of racial intimidation for much of its history. In modern times, a more diverse group of offenders were electrocuted or killed by injection on a gurney first used in 1995.
Future of Virginia s 113-year-old electric chair and lethal injection gurney in limbo roanoke.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from roanoke.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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