Carli Petrus
Multimedia Journalist
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Carli Petrus is a multimedia journalist for 13abc Action News. She joined the team in the spring of 2022. Carli grew up in Northeast Ohio, but she is excited to continue learning about the Northwest side of the state.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2023 at 4:18 PM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“I mean we’ve already got a shortage on parts. We got parts that are on back order for weeks that we can’t even get even before this, so it will only get worse.”
Updated: Sep. 22, 2023 at 6:48 PM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 5:29 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“Had I had this education I wouldn’t have been abused for six years. I’m confident I would have spoken up.”
Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 5:54 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
THS said the two dogs were taken into the shelter on August 17, held for 10 days per protocol, and then adopted out separately on August 29.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2023 at 6:23 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“It’s not only dog, it’s family.”
Updated: Sep. 13, 2023 at 11:27 PM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“It was like, we have to do something. We have to do something big but what we’re going to do has to also be sustainable."
Updated: Sep. 13, 2023 at 6:36 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
"It’s just so sad that she went so violently because she was such a caring and giving person, and her last thought was to save me.”
Updated: Sep. 12, 2023 at 6:44 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“I’ve had people question me about my decision to allow him to start college early, but I really feel like I’d be holding him back if I said no.”
Updated: Sep. 9, 2023 at 9:26 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“You need to have it. People are getting killed and injured constantly."
Updated: Sep. 8, 2023 at 6:10 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
It’s going to take time, there’s still a distrust between the city and residents here."
Updated: Sep. 6, 2023 at 6:56 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“I was like literally like scooping water into the tub Friday just trying to figure out what to do, and I called my dad and he was like, stop touching that, that’s human feces."
Updated: Sep. 5, 2023 at 6:32 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
Tall corn makes it hard to see the intersection or the stop sign ahead of it.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2023 at 10:00 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“It’s just a prime example of somebody seeing something and saying something."
Updated: Sep. 1, 2023 at 6:15 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
The Executive Director, Tammy Thies says her team was one of the first on the Michigan property. “They’re very hungry and have good appetites, but we’d like to see a little more weight on them. They’re definitely settling in.”
Updated: Aug. 30, 2023 at 9:07 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“Each leaf and node is $100 to $125, so if you take this plant home and grow it, you can go on Facebook Marketplace and sell cuttings from your plant.”
Updated: Aug. 29, 2023 at 5:29 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“The Red Cross has been responding to disasters on a chronic level, all year long.”
Updated: Aug. 23, 2023 at 6:43 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
He's alive and he's with us today thanks to these young girls and the adults jumping into action."
Updated: Aug. 19, 2023 at 11:20 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
"It basically said that they're conducting a private investigation and I had no idea what it was for."
Updated: Aug. 18, 2023 at 6:20 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“Landscaping went in yesterday at five, she was putting the landscaping in and then it got crushed at nine something."
Updated: Aug. 17, 2023 at 5:50 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“I can’t believe somebody’s like really just coming in here and just jumping, and drinking, and whatever. Eating all of our snacks that we bring in and it’s constantly at that it’s not like it was just one time."
Updated: Aug. 15, 2023 at 6:00 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“I’m like oh my god it’s happening in Toledo and it’s the same pic of the same little kid."
Updated: Aug. 12, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“It’s like a slap in the face for my mom and dad because she worked hard to get her kids to graduate. That was her one dying wish before she left this earth."
Updated: Aug. 11, 2023 at 6:22 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“Honestly I feel cheated because I was staying in a place that was supposed to be a healthy, clean environment like they promised but I had to leave early and lose out on money that I was going to make for my future basically, and now I can’t get that."
Updated: Aug. 10, 2023 at 7:00 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
"Mr. Keeler’s repeated attempts to avoid federal inspection and oversight have resulted in needless and substantial harm to the animals in his care."
Updated: Aug. 9, 2023 at 5:58 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
"It's going to be transformational for the community."
Updated: Aug. 8, 2023 at 11:10 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
Lucas County commissioners declared a state of emergency on June 17, 2023, but this report says preliminary estimates of tornado damage show point place is unlikely to qualify for state or federal disaster relief funds.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2023 at 6:17 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
"Nowadays we’re in danger sometimes and I think it’s really important that we learn to fight back.”
Updated: Aug. 3, 2023 at 6:51 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“I just reacted. I saw somebody in distress and knew that I needed to get out there and do something."
Updated: Aug. 2, 2023 at 7:23 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
”I was busy getting the mail to deliver and the next thing I know I felt his gun in the side of my arm and the side of my ribs."
Updated: Aug. 1, 2023 at 12:58 PM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
"Somebody’s got to know what’s going on because these folks, they’re not going to make it right because I’ve been here six months and I’ve been miserable ever since.”
Updated: Jul. 31, 2023 at 6:08 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
"I got an overwhelming response from the community as well as some of the businesses step up and sponsor as well as send us supplies from amazon or just bring them in."
Updated: Jul. 28, 2023 at 8:14 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
My medication is refrigerated so when I was told the power wasn’t going to come back on until Saturday, I needed to make arraignments."
Updated: Jul. 26, 2023 at 11:55 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
A resident says she’s been trying to contact property management about the problem for months. Less than a half-hour after Action News crews arrived, pest control showed up.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2023 at 11:34 PM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“I am someone’s mother, I am someone’s grandmother, aunt, niece, and I want to go home to my family.”
Updated: Jul. 21, 2023 at 6:18 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“We were packed and ready and making plans. I already put in for vacation days, so, I was getting nervous.”
Updated: Jul. 20, 2023 at 5:41 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
"It was never supposed to happen this way."
Updated: Jul. 18, 2023 at 5:40 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
"After the first time coming here, I’ve been changing. It’s like it change me a lot.”
Updated: Jul. 15, 2023 at 12:01 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“Tell me I can’t do something as a female, and I’m going to do it."
Updated: Jul. 14, 2023 at 6:32 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
"You hear, you see, and it really gives you the experience of you being in the home."
Updated: Jul. 12, 2023 at 5:19 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“It is important that we see this through because what happens a lot of times in the African American community and politics is that we say oh this is going to happen and then it never happens,"
Updated: Jul. 11, 2023 at 7:50 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“I think, if we altogether stop and reevaluate where we spend our time, we can collectively try to work together to set new cycles and break old cycles.”
Updated: Jul. 7, 2023 at 5:21 PM EDT
|By Nick Kremer and Carli Petrus
Due to recent vandalism, the Wauseon accessible playground has been temporarily closed to the public.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2023 at 6:22 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“You need people that care, that actually want to help."
Updated: Jul. 6, 2023 at 7:51 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“He suffered blunt force trauma to his lower right leg and underwent three hours of surgery."
Updated: Jul. 3, 2023 at 11:56 PM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
A woman says a contractor was hired by her landlord to fix her septic tank and do some foundation repairs but hasn’t been back to finish the job.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2023 at 11:53 PM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
"I just didn’t want to write a report and turn my back and say, oh we’re done.”
Updated: Jun. 29, 2023 at 11:32 PM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“I think it’s back and better than ever honestly."
Updated: Jun. 28, 2023 at 11:55 PM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“I was scared for my life.”
Updated: Jun. 27, 2023 at 7:25 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
"I just hope some type of professional can come out and do what I can’t do.”
Updated: Jun. 20, 2023 at 8:38 AM EDT
|By Carli Petrus
“The day they passed away I said to them, boys your lives will not be in vain. Your lives will mean something in this world."