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By: Kevin Leininger
If you could entice hundreds of thousands of people and millions of dollars to Fort Wayne every year — at the visitors' expense, no less — what would you say? Supporters of a proposed 1 percent increase in Allen County's hotel tax are ...
July 11, 2019
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The city will use $3.86 million in unanticipated income taxes collected by the state to improve quality and life and the city's cash reserves, Mayor Tom Henry announced Thursday. The city's portion is part of the $6.8 million recently returned ...
July 11, 2019
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July 11, 2019
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Allen County residents need to be alert to a nationwide outbreak of intestinal illnesses caused by a parasite that can infect people in swimming pools, splash pads, water playgrounds, hot tubs and spas. While Allen County is not seeing any ...
July 12, 2019
When a 9-year-old girl and her 6-year-old twin brothers were killed and a fourth student injured when struck by a pickup while crossing Indiana 25 near Rochester to board a bus for school in October, the tragedy focused Indiana’s attention on ...
July 10, 2019
What would Betsy Ross say? Former NFL player Colin Kaepernick has complained about special Nike shoes that came out last week with a symbol of the first stars and stripes flag the Philadelphia upholsterer is believed to have sewed in 1776, ...
July 8, 2019
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Agricultural officials say this year’s Indiana corn crop is expected to be among lowest quality in three decades following planting delays caused by excessive spring rainfall. Greg Matli is a statistician with the ...
July 11, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s attorney general says the state’s school districts are free to use extended stop arms to prevent other vehicles from passing school buses. Curtis Hill says in an official opinion that no federal or state laws ...
July 9, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS -- All Indiana emergency dispatchers will have a year to complete training in telephone CPR under a new law taking effect Monday. Officials say at least 10 percent of the nearly 2,400 people working in 911 call centers around the ...
July 1, 2019
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Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation will begin constructing a new restroom building near the Johnny Appleseed Park playground on or around Monday, July 29. This project has been highly anticipated by park visitors and will help create more ...
July 26, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
More than 200 feet below the surface, "MamaJo" has traveled unseen for about 1,500 feet. But she still has about 24,000 feet -- nearly five miles -- left on the $150 million journey that will dramatically reduce the amount of raw sewage that ...
July 25, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
Fort Wayne's riverfront Promenade Park won't open until next month, but its artistic centerpiece will be unveiled Friday. Weighing 2,400 lbs. and standing 19 feet tall, the sculpture "Convergence" by Florida artist Linda Howard, suggests the ...
July 25, 2019
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Social media has become a breeding ground for misinformation. It is an all too easy tool to broadcast and amplify outlandish claims and bogus stories. That’s why we applaud the Knight Foundation for committing nearly $50 million in research ...
July 26, 2019
Over the years I have been a blood donor partly due to the many surgeries my family members have had and because I, therefore, recognized the good that giving blood could do. A few weeks ago I received a card in the mail from the American ...
July 26, 2019
More than 21 percent of adult sin Indiana smoke, ranking the state 45th among all states and the District of Columbia. California has the lowest percentage of adult smokers at 11.3 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...
July 24, 2019
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FREMONT, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a married couple died after the SUV they were riding in was struck by an Indiana State Police trooper who was heading to a crash scene in northeastern Indiana. The crash happened Tuesday afternoon along ...
July 24, 2019
ANGOLA (AP) -- Authorities on Sunday identified a Michigan woman who was found dead 20 years ago in a northeastern Indiana field, renewing the investigation into her “suspicious” death. The Steuben County Sheriff’s Department said they ...
July 23, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Prosecutors filed reckless homicide charges on Thursday against a Missouri semi driver for a highway construction zone crash in Indianapolis that killed a woman and her 18-month-old twin daughters. Documents filed by Marion ...
July 19, 2019
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By: Kevin Leininger
Forty-four years after his 1776 Declaration of Independence America celebrates every Fourth of July, Thomas Jefferson took a razor and glue to the New Testament and was left with something he called "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth ...
July 4, 2019
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July 4, 2019
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Universal Dedicated of Fort Wayne (Universal Dedicated), a full-service provider of customized transportation and logistics solutions, will expand its Indiana operations, creating up to 130 new jobs in Allen County by the end of 2020. The ...
July 3, 2019
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Allen County’s Commissioners voted last week to implement rules that would prohibit swingers clubs and other businesses involving live sex acts and to require licenses for new sexually oriented businesses. Some may scratch their heads at the ...
July 5, 2019
Hundreds of new laws took effect in Indiana this week as a result of the General Assembly’s legislative session earlier this year. One we are especially pleased about requires all Indiana emergency dispatchers have a year to complete ...
July 3, 2019
Twenty years can slip by in the blink of an eye. You don’t have to tell that to Fort Wayne’s South Side High School Class of 1999. Beginning on Friday, June 21st, and over the course of the weekend that followed, the adults who left behind ...
July 2, 2019
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INDIANAPOLIS -- All Indiana emergency dispatchers will have a year to complete training in telephone CPR under a new law taking effect Monday. Officials say at least 10 percent of the nearly 2,400 people working in 911 call centers around the ...
July 1, 2019
BRIDGMAN, Mich. -- Fort Wayne-based Indiana Michigan Power is planning $478 million in improvements at Cook Nuclear Plant in southwestern Michigan and is asking for higher rates to help pay for it. The utility says the work at the plant along ...
June 25, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration has announced nine Indiana airports will share more than $3 million in infrastructure grants. The largest of the grants announced Monday was more than $1 million to Madison Municipal ...
June 25, 2019
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By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
VA Northern Indiana Healthcare System will host a benefits fair at the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation June 20 from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Benefits classes will be held at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. during the ...
June 14, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
According to a new Rueters report, many news organizations are in decline, financially and otherwise, because the business models that served them so well for so long have been rendered obsolete by the abundance of "free" information on the ...
June 13, 2019
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June 13, 2019
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Garry Hamilton became Fort Wayne’s first black police chief in 2014 at a time when law enforcement officers across the country were under fire?—?sometimes literally?—?due to shootings of black men. The Black Lives Matter movement ...
June 12, 2019
Back in January of 2018, the media reported that concerns were being reported with the new agency the city of Fort Wayne had contracted for garbage and re-cycle pickup. It seemed that Red River Waste Solutions was not living up to the ...
June 11, 2019
What I like about reading good fiction is that the best authors create stories that put you into the book?—?description, voice, emotion and all the senses combine to make you experience what you read. In my career as a journalist I ...
June 10, 2019
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MUNCIE (AP) — Ball State University says it was forced to eliminate 25 positions, curb travel and reduce supplies to avoid ending fiscal year 2019 with a budget shortfall. The Star Press reports the central Indiana school’s board of ...
June 13, 2019
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) plans to build and operate its largest solar generation facility. The proposed project would be located in St. Joseph County and have a capacity of 20 megawatts, which is enough energy to power 2,700 homes ...
June 13, 2019
ANGOLA (AP) — A northeastern Indiana man who pleaded guilty in a drunken-driving crash involving a horse-drawn carriage has been ordered to pay $427,000 in restitution to the crash victims. A Steuben County judge on Monday also sentenced ...
June 13, 2019
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By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Northeast Indiana has been designated as the inaugural 21st Century Talent Region by Gov. Eric Holcomb. At the Regional Chamber of Northeast Indiana’s annual meeting Thursday Holcomb, together with Indiana Secretary of Career Connections and ...
June 20, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
I've been hearing that old Beatles song in my head ever since I turned 64 last month and realized that thanks to Medicare I can become a ward of the state like (seemingly) everybody else in less than a year. Nothing particularly tragic or ...
June 20, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
A different month brought a much different result for a proposal to pay for $1.4 million in road improvements near the Parkview Regional Medical Center campus north of town. Members of Allen County Council, who in May deadlocked 3-3 over a plan ...
June 20, 2019
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Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry called a press conference back in April to tout what he called a significant decrease in crime in the first quarter of 2019. “As you can see by the statistics that have become available in the first quarter of 2019, ...
June 20, 2019
Fort Wayne native Susan Brooks is a case in point of how women can and have made an impact in politics. She is currently serving her fourth term as Indiana’s 5th District representative in Washington. Some Democrats, however, are responding ...
June 19, 2019
Fort Wayne has long been called the “City of Churches,” but it ranks 76th in the nation as post-Christian. How can that be? “Post-Christian” means there has been an observed decline in the influence of the church: Christianity is no ...
June 17, 2019
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Attorney General Curtis Hill has announced that his office has secured an agreement to obtain $5.4 million in debt relief for 602 former ITT Tech students in Indiana as part of a bipartisan multistate settlement involving 44 attorneys general. ...
June 20, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s attorney general is facing allegations of sexual harassment and defamation in a federal lawsuit filed by four women who say he drunkenly groped them during a party last year. The women and their lawyers ...
June 18, 2019
AUBURN, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a pretrial services coordinator in northeastern Indiana has been accidentally shot and wounded during a training exercise. DeKalb County Community Corrections says in a statement that the man was at the ...
June 18, 2019
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By: Kevin Leininger
With a five-mile, $200 million tunnel being bored 250 feet below ground to prevent raw sewage from flowing into the rivers, the cost of maintaining and upgrading Fort Wayne's aging subterranean utilities is obvious, if not always visible. But ...
June 27, 2019
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June 27, 2019
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Eight people face federal drug charges following the unsealing of indictments in U.S. District Court in Fort Wayne Thursday. The charges were announced by U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch and FBI Special Agent In Charge Grant Mendenhall in ...
June 26, 2019
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When it comes to issues that really matter to the average citizen of a city like Fort Wayne, trash collection has to be near the top. So you would assume that our officials would take such an issue seriously to make constituents happy. But the ...
June 26, 2019
I hope everyone read Froma Harrop’s excellent column on page 5A (the News-Sentinel page) of the Saturday edition. I have held for many years that high heels are an unmitigated evil, not as much because they imply vanity, but primarily ...
June 25, 2019
Oregon has become the 15th state to give its electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. This is exactly what the small state representatives did not want to occur when drafting the U.S. Constitution?—?allow large states with larger ...
June 25, 2019
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BRIDGMAN, Mich. -- Fort Wayne-based Indiana Michigan Power is planning $478 million in improvements at Cook Nuclear Plant in southwestern Michigan and is asking for higher rates to help pay for it. The utility says the work at the plant along ...
June 25, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration has announced nine Indiana airports will share more than $3 million in infrastructure grants. The largest of the grants announced Monday was more than $1 million to Madison Municipal ...
June 25, 2019
SOUTH BEND (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg faced criticism Sunday from angry residents of South Bend at an emotional town hall meeting a week after a white police officer fatally shot a black man in the city where he is ...
June 24, 2019
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By: Kevin Leininger
On the same day Fort Wayne's newest hotel opened, members of Allen County Council appeared likely to defeat a proposed increase in the innkeeper's tax before postponing the vote until next month. The Indiana Legislature this year gave the ...
July 18, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
To the doggedly pessimistic, Tuesday's news that another $234,400 will apparently be needed to remove and monitor contamination on the so-called "North River" site confirmed their belief that City Council was duped into paying $4.63 million ...
July 18, 2019
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Fort Wayne’s latest public art display pays homage to one of the city's most famous historical residents: John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. The “Making Children Smile” statue unveiled Thursday during the grand opening of ...
July 18, 2019
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Friday’s launch of a pilot program that will put 71 sober living beds in three locations has been called Allen County’s most ambitious effort to fight substance abuse disorder. We have praised Allen County’s aggressive efforts in the past ...
July 17, 2019
Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing of a spacecraft on the moon when Apollo 11 touched down and two astronauts set foot on the lunar surface, first Purdue University alumnus and Commander Neil Armstrong, followed by ...
July 15, 2019
While the Indiana Legislature’s commitment to public education was notable this year, the lack of a pay increase for teachers was disappointing. Indiana’s average pay is $50,218 a year, which is between $2,000-$10,000 less than teachers in ...
July 13, 2019
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MUNCIE (AP) — A Muncie city official and a local contractor have been indicted on federal charges that are the latest to come out of a probe of public corruption in the central Indiana city. Federal prosecutors say 44-year-old Debra Nicole ...
July 17, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police say a semitrailer’s computer data says it was going above the speed limit when it slammed into a line of vehicles on an Indianapolis highway, killing a woman and her 18-month-old twin daughters. State police say ...
July 17, 2019
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb brandished his front-runner status Saturday as he kicked off his re-election campaign with a rally extolling the state’s economy while brushing off any criticism of his record. Holcomb made his announcement before ...
July 15, 2019
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By: Kevin Leininger
Confirming plans The News-Sentinel first reported in February, a New Jersey manufacturer of food containers is planning a massive expansion of its plant at 3511 Engle Road. Sabert Corp. has filed an application with the Allen County ...
June 6, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
I ran into Mayor Tom Henry as we both shopped for clothes at Stein Mart last week, but it didn't take long for the conversation to shift to Electric Works — especially since some people (including the developers, apparently) believe he ...
June 6, 2019
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June 6, 2019
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Fort Wayne’s festival season, which began last weekend, includes a series of celebrations of immigration?—?Arab Fest, Germanfest, Greekfest?—?in which people in our community share the cultures, customs and cuisines of the ...
June 5, 2019
Nearly 30 million people in the United States are victimized by an eating disorder. Only one in 10 people seek treatment. Most people that are struggling with an eating disorder find it hard to discuss that they have these issues. Eating ...
June 4, 2019
Since college has been a thing, the problem of the debt that is accumulated has been a hot topic. In fact, 70 percent of college graduates have debt of some kind, and when they all owe on average $37,172, it becomes increasingly hard to help ...
June 4, 2019
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Dozens of Indianapolis political and civic leaders Monday joined a tribute for former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar outside the building where he served as the city’s mayor before winning the first of his six Senate terms. Democratic Mayor Joe ...
April 30, 2019
The Indiana State Police have released new information about its investigation of the murder of Abigail (Abby) Williams and Liberty (Libby) German, whose bodies were discovered on Feb. 14, 2017, in a wooded area near the Delphi Historic Trail, ...
April 22, 2019
(From staff, wire reports) INDIANAPOLIS -- A citizens’ panel said Tuesday that Indiana’s Supreme Court should discipline the state’s attorney general over allegations he drunkenly groped a lawmaker and three legislative staffers at a ...
March 20, 2019
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By: Kevin Leininger
The city of Fort Wayne has been providing animal-care services for the rest of Allen County since 1993, so when the time came to renew the arrangement last month the County Commissioners' unanimous approval seemed as predictable as a dog ...
August 8, 2019
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Two years after construction began, the $20 million first phase of Fort Wayne's riverfront development will be unveiled Friday at 5:30 p.m., kicking off a weekend of festivities. "We’re celebrating a momentous occasion in Fort Wayne’s ...
August 7, 2019
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The owner of a 10,000-square-foot building on West Jefferson that has been in limbo for months because of construction and zoning concerns has suggested several changes designed to get the project moving again. As The News-Sentinel first ...
August 6, 2019
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Flags are flying at half-staff throughout Allen County and the rest of the country this week following the mass shootings over the weekend in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas. Gov. Eric Holcomb ordered the flags to be lowered from Sunday ...
August 7, 2019
The news that two relatives of 1930s gangster John Dillinger plan to have his remains exhumed because they have "evidence" the body buried in an Indianapolis cemetery may not be him has resurrected the legend of the infamous bank ...
August 5, 2019
The Indiana Department of Child Services released a report last week that says deaths from child neglect and abuse increased during fiscal year 2017. That report details 65 deaths that resulted directly from abuse or neglect. That’s tragic ...
August 5, 2019
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indiana women who died last month are among only a handful of American women who have donated their uterus so that other women might have a chance to give birth to their own children. Sherry Quire, director of organ ...
August 5, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Eric Holcomb has ordered flags across Indiana be flown at half-staff in honor of victims in mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. Holcomb is directing flags be flown at half-staff from Sunday until Thursday. He’s also ...
August 5, 2019
Two relatives of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger who plan to have his remains exhumed as part of a television documentary say they have “evidence” the body buried in an Indianapolis cemetery may not be him and that FBI agents ...
August 2, 2019
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Goshen Avenue has a long history that's seen many changes over the years. In 1913, the road was part of the Lincoln Highway and was outside of the city limits. In the mid-20s, it became U.S. 33 until that route moved over to follow the Coliseum ...
August 1, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
When I first wrote about the Champagne Club, City Councilman Geoff Paddock said he had asked the city's legal department to investigate after receiving a complaint from a resident of the nearby Indian Village neighborhood. Only now, nearly ...
August 1, 2019
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Editor's note: This story has been updated to provide a correct mailing address for donations. Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation and Friends of the Parks of Allen County have launched a fundraising campaign for the restoration of Foster Park ...
August 1, 2019
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One year ago, we wrote here saying former Fort Wayne resident Dan Coats was between a rock and a hard place as President Trump’s national security director. With Coats under fire, we expressed our desire that he keep his job. “We have been ...
July 31, 2019
We live in an age of videos that show anything and everything any time and almost anywhere and make life more and more difficult to keep private. People can’t do anything without being recorded, it seems, because someone’s smartphone or a ...
July 29, 2019
A year ago, we wrote about the alarming increase in the rates of suicide in Allen County, Indiana and across the nation. This week we learned that the rate of suicides among African-American adolescents in the U.S. is even worse. Statistics a ...
July 27, 2019
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The body of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger is expected to be exhumed in September from a concrete-encased grave at an Indianapolis cemetery more than 85 years after he was killed by FBI agents outside a Chicago ...
July 31, 2019
SYRACUSE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a worker was fatally struck by a vehicle while directing traffic at a northern Indiana construction site. The Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department says the construction flagger was hit Friday afternoon ...
July 29, 2019
KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A Kendallville man has died weeks after being shot in the stomach by gun that was tossed onto a bed. An obituary for 20-year-old Jerremmy Hall says he died Tuesday at a Fort Wayne hospital where he was taken ...
July 26, 2019
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E-cigarettes were supposed to be an alternative to tobacco, a means to help people stop smoking. But any benefits have been eclipsed by nationwide concern over the negative effects of “vaping” on young people. That concern has been ...
August 14, 2019
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FORT WAYNE – A Fort Wayne man has been sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay more than a half million dollars in restitution for his role in a scheme to bilk aerospace firm BAE out of more than $800,000 in education reimbursement ...
August 13, 2019
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Loretta Rush, Indiana’s first female chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, faces a vote this month to be reappointed to a second term. Chief justice appointments occur every five years. News-Sentinel.com believes Indiana’s Judicial ...
August 12, 2019
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E-cigarettes were supposed to be an alternative to tobacco, a means to help people stop smoking. But any benefits have been eclipsed by nationwide concern over the negative effects of “vaping” on young people. That concern has been ...
August 14, 2019
You may have certain expectations as to what you might see when you enter your dentist’s office, but a beautifully framed full-sized American flag might not be on the list. But that is exactly what you will see in the offices of Gebfert-Park ...
August 13, 2019
I live about five miles south of the DeKalb County Airport, as the crow flies. So it’s common for airplanes of various kinds to fly overhead on their way to or from the airfield. Monday I heard an unusually loud rumbling in the sky. As a ...
August 12, 2019
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indiana women who died last month are among only a handful of American women who have donated their uterus so that other women might have a chance to give birth to their own children. Sherry Quire, director of organ ...
August 5, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Eric Holcomb has ordered flags across Indiana be flown at half-staff in honor of victims in mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. Holcomb is directing flags be flown at half-staff from Sunday until Thursday. He’s also ...
August 5, 2019
Two relatives of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger who plan to have his remains exhumed as part of a television documentary say they have “evidence” the body buried in an Indianapolis cemetery may not be him and that FBI agents ...
August 2, 2019
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You're invited to "Be a Tourist in Your Own Hometown 2019" on Sunday, Sept. 8th, from noon to 5 p.m. You will be able to visit 17 of Fort Wayne’s museums and attractions for free during the 21st anniversary of the event by picking up a free ...
August 23, 2019
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A Fort Wayne man will be among the speakers at the Third International Conference of the Parental Alienation Study Group to be held Sept. 12-14 in Philadelphia. This international conference will feature presentations on many aspects of ...
August 23, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
It was the city's first urban renewal project and now, 54 years later, $5 million in planned improvements to a 354-unit hi-rise apartment complex could be seen as vindication of a downtown-improvement movement that is finally starting to bear ...
August 22, 2019
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We have written here frequently about the issue of school bus safety since last year’s tragedy in Rochester when three children were killed by a pickup as they crossed a road to board their bus, which had its lights flashing and stop-arm ...
August 21, 2019
By the beginning of June the nation had experienced the wettest 12-month period in recorded history with rainfall more than six inches above average. And farmers across the country were taking a hit. A June 15 News-Sentinel.com editorial ...
August 17, 2019
What do you do when you hear a tornado siren in your area? The joint Fort Wayne-Allen County outdoor warning siren system is activated when a tornado warning is issued for any part of the county. When you hear the outdoor emergency warning ...
August 16, 2019
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Larry Bird likes the mural, but not the tatts. A lawyer for the former NBA star has asked an artist to remove certain tattoos from a large painting of Bird on an Indianapolis multi-family residence. The tattoos include two ...
August 21, 2019
BLUFFTON (AP) — Restoration work has been completed on a 100-foot-tall fire tower in a northeastern Indiana state park that dates to the 1930s. The state Department of Natural Resources is planning a dedication ceremony on Friday for the ...
August 21, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indiana women who died last month are among only a handful of American women who have donated their uterus so that other women might have a chance to give birth to their own children. Sherry Quire, director of organ ...
August 5, 2019
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By: Kevin Leininger
Developers of the Electric Works project are likely receive another extension in deadlines to meet leasing, financial and other benchmarks. RTM Ventures, whose original development deal by the city established a June deadline, in April saw ...
August 29, 2019
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In one sense Janie Garrison is an American anachronism, living above the "Simply N Style" boutique she recently opened on the first floor of the newly renovated century-old house at 1401 Fairfield Ave. just south of downtown. That sort of ...
August 29, 2019
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August 29, 2019
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A toddler died after she was mistakenly left in a hot car in Brownsburg after her family returned home from church Sunday. It’s the kind of story that gets reported all too often each year, and we want our readers to be keenly aware of this ...
August 28, 2019
I’m all for personal freedom and property rights, even if I may disagree with what people do legally in the privacy of their own home or elsewhere. But in the wake of a proposed zoning ordinance and the ensuing debate in Allen County ...
August 27, 2019
News-Sentinel.com advocated for the use of red flag laws early this month following the mass shootings that killed 31 in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas. The Kokomo Tribune recently reported on a case in Greentown in Howard County last month ...
August 26, 2019
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Sports betting is just days away from becoming legal in Indiana, and the state’s casinos are lining up to start collecting wagers. Indiana becomes the 12th state with sports betting when a state law adopted this spring ...
August 28, 2019
CHICAGO (AP) — An appeals court has upheld a lower-court decision to block part of a 2017 Indiana law that would make it tougher for underage girls to get an abortion without their parents’ knowledge. A 2-1 ruling posted Tuesday by the ...
August 28, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal appeals court has sided with critics of an Indiana law who argue it would allow officials to illegally remove voters from the state’s election rolls. The Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld ...
August 28, 2019
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A misdemeanor battery charged filed against Allen County Sheriff Dave Gladieux on Thursday will be dismissed after one year if he complies with the terms of a pretrial agreement that included his issuance of a public apology. Madison County ...
September 12, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
What do you get when you combine on-line education, a brick-and-mortar charter school and a not-for-profit tutoring and mentoring business? The answer is in the former Early Childhood Alliance building at 3320 Fairfield, where the partnership ...
September 12, 2019
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Dr. Philip Downs, superintendent of the Southwest Allen County Schools, has been named the Indiana Superintendent of the Year for 2020 by the Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents (IAPSS). As such, he becomes Indiana’s ...
September 12, 2019
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Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill has halted implementation of a procedure for people to change their gender on driver’s licenses and IDs, according to the state’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles. The BMV currently requires either a birth ...
September 11, 2019
Some University of Kansas faculty members want America’s favorite restaurant removed from campus for being what they call a “bastion of bigotry.” Bigotry means intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself; obstinate ...
September 9, 2019
Drivers caught in traffic during their daily commute to work in Fort Wayne may take some solace in a report that highlights how much worse things are in other cities across the country. The 2019 Urban Mobility Report, published by The Texas ...
September 9, 2019
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The History Channel has dropped out of a planned documentary on 1930s gangster John Dillinger that would have featured the proposed exhumation of his grave in Indianapolis sought by two relatives of the notorious criminal ...
September 12, 2019
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Purdue University says it has set an enrollment record for the third straight year at its main campus in West Lafayette. Purdue officials say the campus has 44,551 students for the start of the new fall semester. ...
September 12, 2019
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — The founder and CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes says an infant has been safely left at a new baby box in northwestern Indiana. Monica Kelsey says a baby girl was left Friday in the baby box at Hammond’s Franciscan Health ...
September 11, 2019
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Many people are storing corrosive, toxic or ignitable products in our house without thinking about the hazards they present. So now is the time to round up such items and discard them at Tox-Away Saturday on Sept. 7 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The ...
September 6, 2019
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Fort Wayne residents are Allen County residents, too. That’s the message the Allen County Board of Commissioners hopes to get across at the first “County Night Out” to be held in downtown Fort Wayne. The first of the three fall events ...
September 6, 2019
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The Indiana Department of Transportation is scheduled to close the intersection of Hillegas and West California road on or after Monday, Sept. 9, weather permitting, as contractors rebuild and realign the sharp curve on West Coliseum Road that ...
September 6, 2019
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A federal appeals court has ruled that an Indiana law would wrongly allow the purging of voter registrations without notification. News-Sentinel.com believes that ruling could protect some voters in Indiana from being wrongly ...
September 6, 2019
For months News-Sentinel.com and others have been warning drivers to stop for school buses, not only because it’s against the law to disregard school bus stop arms, but because it’s a threat to the lives of our children. But drivers are ...
September 4, 2019
Following a visit to the historic West Baden Springs Resort last weekend to get our first look inside the amazing domed hotel, my wife Beth and I decided to make our way home through Salem, 31 miles east of French Lick/West Baden via Indiana ...
September 2, 2019
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GAS CITY, Ind. (AP) — A woman who reported her 10-year-old stepdaughter missing last weekend was arrested Wednesday in the girl’s death after her body was found hidden inside a plastic trash bag in a shed behind their home. Amanda D. ...
September 5, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Eric Holcomb says farmers in all 92 Indiana counties are eligible for disaster assistance from the federal government after excessive rain and flooding. The governor’s office says farmers can apply for low interest ...
September 3, 2019
The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) has announced a three-pronged strategy to reduce vaping among Indiana youth. According to the 2018 Indiana Youth Tobacco Survey (IYTS), vaping has increased more than 300 percent since 2012, and ...
August 30, 2019
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Fort Wayne Police searched a former abortion clinic on Inwood Drive Thursday morning, apparently looking for fetal remains. The search follows the discovery of more than 2,200 medically preserved fetal remains at the home of a late doctor who ...
September 19, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
The quality of work depends to a large degree on the skill and integrity with which it is done. That is especially true when lives and property are at stake, which is why the latest flareup between Fort Wayne firefighters and the department's ...
September 19, 2019
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Calling it the city's strongest budget in at least 20 years, Mayor Tom Henry on Thursday announced the city of Fort Wayne’s proposed spending plan for 2020 -- a budget he said will continue his administration’s commitment to investing in ...
September 19, 2019
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Chuck Bavis might have been an NBA star. The former 7-foot-tall Garrett High School and Purdue University basketball player, however, crashed his car while driving intoxicated early on a Saturday morning in 1969 near Garrett. It cost him the ...
September 18, 2019
Four years ago I wrote in this column about Christian films following the release of a Kendrick brothers production called “War Room.” I pointed out that an earlier film called “Fireproof” (2008), directed by Alex Kendrick, who co-wrote ...
September 16, 2019
After lawyers for Indiana’s Department of Child Services and Gov. Eric Holcomb attempted to have records sealed in a federal class action lawsuit against the agency, we have to ask why. The lawsuit accuses the child welfare agency of ...
September 16, 2019
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CHICAGO — The discovery of more than 2,200 medically preserved fetal remains at the Illinois house of a late doctor who had performed abortions in Indiana -- including Fort Wayne -- has left authorities in the two states trying to figure out ...
September 18, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s attorney general says he is supporting the tentative multibillion-dollar settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma because it would get money flowing to help deal with the deadly national opioid crisis. The ...
September 18, 2019
GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — Public health officials say a rare mosquito-borne virus that has caused deaths in other states has been detected in some insects and animals in northern Indiana. The Indiana State Department of Health says eastern equine ...
September 18, 2019
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Mayor Tom Henry on Thursday expressed his support for an extension to the economic development agreement for the Electric Works project. RTM Ventures has made a formal request to have the agreement extended to allow for additional time to ...
October 3, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
The proposed expansion of two special taxing districts could help pay for millions of dollars in downtown improvements — including a "mixed use" project near Parkview Field. They're called "tax increment financing" areas, or TIFs, and by ...
October 3, 2019
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October 3, 2019
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Seven people died after a World War II-era B-17 bomber that visited DeKalb Airport in August crashed into a de-icing facility Wednesday morning while trying to land at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn. News-Sentinel.com ...
October 4, 2019
Electric Works has cleared another hurdle, and News-Sentinel.com believes it’s a good sign the developers will, indeed, transform the former General Electric campus on Broadway into a commercial, residential and innovation center as ...
October 2, 2019
I learned some things about country music during the last couple of weeks. And one was that country musicians have a sordid history of lives scarred by addictions to drugs and alcohol. Over the past two weeks, I watched the riveting ...
September 30, 2019
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — More than 2,200 sets of preserved fetal remains found in the Illinois garage of a late Indiana abortion doctor have been returned to Indiana. Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill said Thursday that the fetal remains ...
October 3, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Sports betting is ready to go legally online in Indiana on Thursday, a little more than a month after the state’s casinos started taking game wagers. Chicago-based Rush Street Interactive and Boston-based DraftKings both ...
October 3, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man convicted in the 2000 killing of an Indiana University student has been ordered released from prison by a federal judge who ruled the man’s trial attorney was so ineffective that his Sixth Amendment rights were ...
October 2, 2019
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An economic development agreement is now in place for construction of The Lofts at Headwaters Park, a proposed mixed-use development along Clinton and Superior streets in downtown Fort Wayne that would feature housing, retail, and a parking ...
October 10, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
Otto von Bismarck famously observed that "Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made." But ignorance is seldom really bliss, so it's good to see an evolving debate over non-profit Hoosier health care and a possible ...
October 10, 2019
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October 10, 2019
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News-Sentinel.com has, from time to time, commented on studies or surveys that rank cities and states for various traits?—?most recently, for example, the 125 best places to live in the U.S., the 50 worst commutes and a ranking of the 50 ...
October 9, 2019
There is a lot being said these days about the growing threats to religious freedom in the U.S. as faith-based organizations, businesses and traditions are more and more often attacked as discriminatory. But I was encouraged this past week to ...
October 7, 2019
As we expected, Local 124 of the Fort Wayne Professional Firefighters fell short in their annual Fill the Boot campaign for the Muscular Dystrophy Association for the second straight year since being prohibited from soliciting donations on major ...
October 7, 2019
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities in Illinois discovered additional fetal remains Wednesday stashed in a car that had belonged to a doctor who performed abortions in Fort Wayne and other Indiana cities, a month after his death led to the ...
October 10, 2019
RENSSELAER, Ind. (AP) — A load of frozen bagels ended up toasted and strewn along a northwestern Indiana highway after a semi-trailer’s rear axle caught fire. State police say an off-duty trooper noticed smoke pouring from the rear of a box ...
October 8, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s health commissioner is urging Hoosiers to get their flu shots soon because flu cases are already appearing around the state. State Health Commissioner Kris Box says Indiana residents should “take steps ...
October 8, 2019
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By: Kevin Leininger
The city will begin its latest effort to boost the southeast side later this month in the shopping center at 7500 S. Anthony Boulevard. It's an appropriate venue. When I was growing up in the Village Woods area, the plaza was anchored by a ...
October 17, 2019
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
City Street Department crews will begin leaf collection Nov. 4 -- a little later than usual because leaves are staying on the trees longer than usual. “This important neighborhood service is something we hear from residents about every year. ...
October 16, 2019
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Fort Wayne's latest homicide victim has been identified by the Allen County Coroner's office. Pablo Guzman Vasquez, 40, of Fort Wayne, was found on the lawn in the 600 Block of Runnion Avenue on Sunday, Oct. 13. Cause of death was gunshot ...
October 16, 2019
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Kevin Leininger’s column on Tuesday questions the credibility of Turning Rust to Gold without successfully contradicting any of its facts. Instead, he focuses on a presumed struggle over who gets credit for developments in Fort ...
October 17, 2019
Does anyone remember when Tom Didier beat now-Mayor Tom Henry by 141 votes in the 3rd District City Council race 16 years ago? That was Didier’s first of four consecutive terms on the council, and News-Sentinel.com is endorsing him for a ...
October 17, 2019
One of the big questions in the Nov. 5 election in Fort Wayne is who will fill the void left by City Council President Dr. John Crawford's failed run for mayor in this year’s Republican primary election. Crawford is in his fifth term on ...
October 16, 2019
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Authorities have determined that new fetal remains discovered this week in the trunk of a car in Illinois are the bodies of 165 unborn children, Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill said Thursday. That brings the total count of fetuses ...
October 11, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana health officials are reporting two more state residents have died of severe lung injuries linked to vaping. The new deaths reported Thursday by the Indiana State Department of Health brings the total number of ...
October 11, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities in Illinois discovered additional fetal remains Wednesday stashed in a car that had belonged to a doctor who performed abortions in Fort Wayne and other Indiana cities, a month after his death led to the ...
October 10, 2019
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Due to the inclement weather expected Thursday night, outdoor trick or treating in Fort Wayne and most of Allen County has been postponed until Saturday, Nov. 2, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Events scheduled for Thursday in New Haven will ...
October 31, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
A judge threw out the city's "pay to play" ordinance in June, but the link between money and politics goes on — and not just because the firm that filed the lawsuit, Witwer Construction Inc., has donated $2,700 to Mayor Tom Henry's ...
October 31, 2019
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The victim of a fatal fire Wednesday in the 2200 block of Broadway has been identified by the Allen County Coroner's office as Richard Walls, 81, of Fort Wayne. The fire was contained to a number of rented storage units, and once the blaze was ...
October 31, 2019
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In talking to candidates for Fort Wayne’s Nov. 5 election, both Republican and Democrat, News-Sentinel.com’s editorial board found one of the prominent topics of discussion was public safety and how the city should work to improve relations ...
October 30, 2019
The growing number of suicides in our community and throughout the U.S. leave many victims in their wake, anguishing families and friends haunted by questions without answers: the whys and the what-ifs. Many who contemplate suicide suffer in ...
October 28, 2019
During the 2018-19 deer hunting season, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources conducted targeted surveillance in northeast Indiana and other areas in the state for chronic wasting disease, a highly contagious, fatal disease they said could ...
October 28, 2019
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CHICAGO (AP) — Dr. Ulrich Klopfer competed so avidly in the 1970s to perform the most abortions each day at a Chicago clinic that it was said he would set his coffee aside, jump to his feet in the break room and rush to the operating table ...
October 25, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s attorney general testified Thursday that he did nothing wrong at a party where a state lawmaker and three legislative staffers say he drunkenly groped them, allegations that could threaten his law license and ...
October 25, 2019
BERNE, Ind. (AP) — A northeastern Indiana sheriff says an 11-year-old boy has died after he was accidentally shot by a younger sibling. Adams County Sheriff Daniel Mawhorr says the shooting occurred Wednesday afternoon at a rural address. The ...
October 25, 2019
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Fall property tax payments are due Tuesday, Nov. 12, according to Allen County Treasurer William Royce. Payments must be in the treasurer's office or postmarked by Nov. 12 to avoid penalty. The office will be closed on Monday, Nov. 11, in ...
November 8, 2019
In observance of Veterans Day, city of Fort Wayne and Allen County government offices will be closed on Monday, Nov. 11. They will reopen on Tuesday, Nov. 12. There will be no city leaf pickup on Monday. Garbage and recycling collection will ...
November 8, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
I'll turn 65 in May, and if the prospect of joining the ever-growing ranks of the government-dependent is appealing — and it is — retirement offers risks as well as rewards. "We get about 25 calls a week about the Social Security scam," ...
November 7, 2019
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Did you set your clocks one hour earlier or one hour later Saturday night so you would get to church on time Sunday morning? If you set them later, you were really late. Don’t forget the daylight saving time memory trick: Spring forward; ...
November 6, 2019
In the many years I taught a beginning news writing and reporting class as an adjunct faculty member at IPFW while working as a journalist full-time at The News-Sentinel, I made a point of trying to get across to my students the concept of being ...
November 4, 2019
Fort Wayne residents will head to the polls Tuesday to elect a mayor, city clerk and nine City Council members. Following is a recap of then News-Sentinel Editorial Board’s endorsements in the election. Fort Wayne mayor: Tim Smith, ...
November 4, 2019
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the IndyCar Series were sold to Penske Entertainment Corp. in a stunning move Monday that relinquishes control of the iconic speedway from the Hulman family after 74 years. Tony Hulman bought the dilapidated ...
November 4, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana will be home to the Midwest’s first National Guard cyber battalion, according to officials. The 127th Cyber Battalion will be comprised of nearly 100 soldiers who will be trained on cyber security and cyber ...
November 4, 2019
WARSAW, Ind. (AP) — A manufacturer is shutting down its northern Indiana facilities, which will cost about 100 people their jobs. Winona PVD Coatings has notified state officials it expected to permanently close both of its Warsaw sites at ...
November 4, 2019
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By: Kevin Leininger
When Visit Fort Wayne CEO Dan O'Connell gives his annual report to members of city and county councils next week, it's a good bet he'll be asked to explain how his organization plans to spend the extra $750,000 the recent 1 percent increase in ...
November 14, 2019
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Fort Wayne Animal Care & Control is now providing animal control services to the residents of New Haven. Fort Wayne and the city of New Haven have entered into an agreement allowing Fort Wayne officers to uphold New Haven’s ordinances ...
November 14, 2019
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November 14, 2019
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As our city hosts The Violins of Hope through Dec. 1, News-Sentinel.com wants to acknowledge the collaborative partners and supporters helping stage what they say is “the largest community arts and cultural collaboration of its kind in the ...
November 13, 2019
Harriet Tubman was a real-life female superhero. I’ve always been a fan of women in such roles in the movies — Ellen Ridley in “Alien,” Sarah Connor in “Terminator,” Rey, Princess Leia and Padme in “Star Wars,” Batgirl, Wonder ...
November 11, 2019
Since his 2016 presidential campaign, the socialist ideas of Vermont’s Democrat Sen. Bernie Sanders have become more popular among some Americans, especially the younger generation. Sanders, one of many Democratic presidential candidates ...
November 11, 2019
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb isn’t promising any quick action in response to educators who want more teacher pay, but says he shares their concerns and respects the decisions of school districts calling off classes for a ...
November 14, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Navy has agreed to name a warship in honor of late Indiana Sen. Richard G. Lugar. Sen. Todd Young announced Wednesday that Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and members of the Lugar family will attend a private ...
November 14, 2019
Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill announced Wednesday that he will seek re-election in 2020. In a statement, Hill said that "Over the last three years, I have worked to fulfill my pledge to Hoosiers: from cracking down on violent criminals ...
November 14, 2019
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The city of Fort Wayne’s Summit City Entrepreneur & Enterprise District (SEED) is partnering with a nationally ranked startup accelerator to launch a program for local emerging businesses. genera8tor is a national accelerator that offers ...
November 29, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
Depending on the translation, "thanks" or some variation of the word appears in the Bible about 140 times. And as you might expect, most are appropriate themes for a holiday Abraham Lincoln established in 1863 as "a day of thanksgiving and ...
November 28, 2019
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November 28, 2019
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A public hearing held Monday detailed a proposal for $130 million in capital improvements, called REPAIR 2020, to upgrade dozens of Fort Wayne Community Schools properties. FWCS officials outlined the goals and the specific needs for fixing ...
November 28, 2019
Thanksgiving provides us the opportunity to pause and remember that for which we truly are blessed. That may seem difficult at a time when the partisan divide is as great as ever. Washington is in the midst of an impeachment process that has ...
November 28, 2019
We’ve been sounding the alarm all along, but the problem continues to spread in Indiana: Vaping is harming people in our state. Four have died so far. The increase in vaping among youth is rising at such an alarming rate the U.S. surgeon ...
November 27, 2019
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HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman has pleaded guilty to providing financial support to the Islamic State group. Samantha Elhassani, 33, entered her plea Monday in a deal in which federal prosecutors agreed to drop more serious conspiracy ...
November 27, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers are voicing support for raising the state’s legal age to buy tobacco and vaping products. Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma said Monday that he supports raising the age from 18 to 21, along with the ...
November 25, 2019
GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — Nearly 1,200 surgical patients may have been exposed to hepatitis, HIV and other infectious diseases due to a sterilization failure, a northern Indiana hospital says. A Goshen Hospital sterilization technician failed to ...
November 21, 2019
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The Army Navy Union No. 57, the Allen County Council of Veterans and the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum will host a Pearl Harbor Day Remembrance Ceremony in Memorial Hall on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 2 p.m. to mark the 78th anniversary of the ...
November 22, 2019
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Larger displays, more interactivity and some special touches will greet visitors to Blue Jacket's Fantasy of Lights, which will be from Nov. 26 through New Year's Eve at Franke Park. This year's event is open from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through ...
November 22, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
So far as I can tell, city officials were right this week when they denied Electric Works developers' request to provide a taxpayer-funded guarantee for a $23 million loan they say would have been "the final piece that will allow this project ...
November 21, 2019
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The turnout of public school teachers and others at the Statehouse Tuesday for “Red for Ed Day” was an impressive show of support — perhaps 20,000 strong — for issues that educators and parents are all concerned about: higher teacher pay ...
November 22, 2019
Indiana has added a Safe Haven Baby Box this week in Angola that allows people to anonymously leave newborns in hospitals and fire stations. That increases the number of baby boxes in the state to 16. We think that’s great news. The ...
November 20, 2019
The Questa Foundation for Education was in the news last week due to a failed request for support from the Fort Wayne Legacy Fund, even though it has received Legacy Fund monies for several years for its Legacy Scholars program. Questa offers ...
November 18, 2019
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GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — Nearly 1,200 surgical patients may have been exposed to hepatitis, HIV and other infectious diseases due to a sterilization failure, a northern Indiana hospital says. A Goshen Hospital sterilization technician failed to ...
November 21, 2019
NDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The longest-serving leader of the Indiana House announced Tuesday that he will retire after the 2020 legislative session. Republican Speaker Brian Bosma told lawmakers that he would continue in the powerful position that ...
November 20, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Several thousand teachers wearing red surrounded the Indiana Statehouse on Tuesday calling for better pay and more respect from the Republican-dominated state government in a protest that closed more than half of the ...
November 19, 2019
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By: Kevin Leininger
The question is not new, and will only become more common now that House Democrats have announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump: Why do so many Christians continue to support such an obviously flawed man? Despite ...
December 12, 2019
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December 12, 2019
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ARCH Inc., the historic preservation organization serving Allen County and Northeast Indiana, invites everyone who knows of a historic building that has been successfully preserved in the past two years to nominate it for a 2020 ARCHie ...
December 12, 2019
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Sunday’s public open house to honor retiring New Haven Mayor Terry McDonald was an apt tribute to a dedicated public servant. Following five consecutive terms spanning 20 years, McDonald will be on the sidelines beginning Jan. 1. He decided ...
December 11, 2019
It doesn’t appear the 15,000 Indiana teachers who spent Nov. 19 demonstrating in Indianapolis on Red for Ed Day can expect much for their efforts. Nearly 300 school districts closed across the state that day as teachers attended the rally to ...
December 9, 2019
A recent report by the American Lung Association has brought to light the seriousness of an ongoing problem in Indiana?—?lung cancer. According to the association’s 2019 “State of Lung Cancer” report, Indiana ranks 44th in the ...
December 9, 2019
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NDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s governor on Tuesday threw his support behind a statewide ban on drivers using handheld cellphones as well as a plan to raise the minimum age for smoking and vaping to 21. Announcing his agenda for the 2020 ...
December 11, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana National Guard soldier with the 384th Military Police Company was found unresponsive at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center on Saturday. He was immediately transferred to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced ...
December 10, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana trucking company with nearly 4,000 employees said Monday it filed for bankruptcy and will shut down all operations, just days after two former officials were charged in a fraud scheme. Celadon Group has faced ...
December 10, 2019
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"Parents just don’t understand" is a common phrase, so First Presbyterian Church and the Fort Wayne Police Department are teaming up to shed some light on what is misunderstood to help parents understand the vaping epidemic, social media ...
January 2, 2020
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Tickets are now on sale for the NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship, to be held on March 20 and 21 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. Tickets start at $45 for adults; $35 for students/seniors/military. Tickets include all ...
January 2, 2020
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Northwest Allen County Schools will host a job fair for adults at least age 18 seeking part-time or full-time employment. The fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 29, at Carroll Middle School, 4027 Hathaway ...
January 1, 2020
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While some employees think they are being responsible or strong by “sucking it up” and going to work even though they feel lousy, the truth is, they may be spreading their illness to others, resulting in lower productivity at their ...
January 1, 2020
On Christmas evening, some of my family gathered around the TV to watch one of my favorite actors, Jimmy Stewart, in a charming Christmas movie. And it wasn’t “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Many have likely never heard of “Mr. Krueger’s ...
December 30, 2019
A report released Dec. 17 showed a decline in capital punishment in the U.S. for the fifth straight year with only a few states carrying out executions. Although there have been more than 1,500 executions in the 42 years since the death penalty ...
December 30, 2019
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WINAMAC, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana county’s 125-year-old courthouse will be saved from demolition and renovated as part of a $6 million preservation project. Pulaski County officials had announced plans in 2018 to tear down the ...
December 30, 2019
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana University has started a yearlong test of using license plate reading cameras for parking regulation enforcement on its Bloomington campus. The project that began in November involves a camera mounted on a ...
December 30, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An electric car-sharing service that debuted in Indianapolis in 2015 is pulling the plug on its network of rechargable cars after residents failed to embrace the vehicles. Blue Indy will end its collaboration with the city ...
December 30, 2019
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By: Kevin Leininger
First New Haven did it. Then so did Huntertown and Woodburn. Now the movement to pass pro-life resolutions appears ready to go county-wide. The Allen County Commissioners on Friday are expected to approve a resolution stating that "human life ...
December 20, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
Ground was broken Thursday on IU Health's latest addition to the Fort Wayne medical market — a $20 million ambulatory surgery center on seven acres at Aboite Center and Dicke roads on the city's southwest side. The project, first reported by ...
December 19, 2019
By: Kevin Leininger
I made my annual journalistic safari to Glenbrook Square Wednesday searching for signs of Christmas and, of course, to do a little shopping on company time. My quest yielded no purchases but no shortage of evidence that plenty of people don't ...
December 19, 2019
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It’s that time of year as you step out of your car that you hear the familiar chimes of the bells. Then as you approach the entrance of your favorite Kroger or Walmart, or any other establishment that welcomes them, you see the bell ringers. ...
December 19, 2019
Friday’s funeral service for By Hey at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Lutheran Church on Crescent Avenue will be a tribute to a Fort Wayne icon. Byard (By) Dwight Hey, born in 1928, who died Friday at age 91, is most widely known as the former North ...
December 18, 2019
Maximizing America’s Prosperity Act merits support We all know that America isn’t perfect. Ever since its creation, both the country and its people have met and overcome several obstacles. Today, our country, and we as its people, face an ...
December 18, 2019
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ROCHESTER, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman who plowed her pickup truck into four children, killing three of them, while they crossed a highway to board a school bus was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison. Alyssa Shepherd, 25, could have ...
December 19, 2019
VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) — A preservation group that saved an ornate southwestern Indiana church from demolition has found a buyer who plans to turn it into a rural retreat. Indiana Landmarks spent seven years trying to find a buyer for the ...
December 16, 2019
Former Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher, who became one of the first black mayors of a big U.S. city when he was elected in 1967, has died. He was 86. Hatcher died Friday night at a Chicago hospital, said his daughter, Indiana state Rep. Ragen ...
December 16, 2019
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Three men were arrested Sunday, Jan. 19th, after police found them in possession of a large amount of drugs and two handguns. At approximately 2:53 p.m., Allen County Police Officer Joe Kearby responded to the area of I-69 around the 302 mile ...
January 23, 2020
By: Kevin Leininger
The fighting between Republicans and Democrats in the Indiana General Assembly was so bitter that members of one party refused even to show up in order to prevent action by the other. That's not a description of the current legislative ...
January 23, 2020
By: Kevin Leininger
The Allen County-Fort Wayne Capital Improvement Board on Thursday agreed to buy the so-called "fast food block" west of the Grand Wayne Center for $6 million. The CIB, which oversees county food and beverage tax revenues, acquired an option to ...
January 23, 2020
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While Indiana’s 2018 decrease in its infant mortality rate was the biggest in six years, the news isn’t quite as good as it sounds. Newly released data from the Indiana Department of Health show the infant mortality rate in 2018 dropped ...
January 22, 2020
A small news item out of Evansville recently announced the naming of the new Indiana state poet laureate. When I think of the term “poet laureate,” I think of Robert Frost, who had the title of United States Poet Laureate in 1958 and 1959, ...
January 20, 2020
Gov. Eric Holcomb teased prior to his State of the State address last week that he would announce something special about teacher pay in Indiana, a huge issue brought to a head at November’s Red for Ed Day, when thousands of Hoosier teachers ...
January 20, 2020
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Fort Wayne-based Steel Dynamics Inc. (STLD) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $121.4 million. On a per-share basis, the Fort Wayne, Indiana-based company said it had profit of 56 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring ...
January 23, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers have rolled back a proposal that aimed to require a poster with the national motto “In God We Trust” and the American and state flags be displayed in all public school classrooms. The Indiana Senate ...
January 23, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A proposal aimed at making it more difficult for Indiana electric companies to close additional coal-fired power plants faces objections from consumer and environmental groups who argue it could stifle growth in renewable ...
January 23, 2020
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Sweetwater experienced another record-setting year in 2019. The Fort Wayne-based retailer of music instruments and pro audio gear reported sales of $805 million, up 11 percent from $725 million in 2018, which was also a record-breaking year. ...
January 10, 2020
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Denise Anderson has been named Vincent Villages new executive director and will begin her duties Jan. as the organization celebrates its 30th year of service. Anderson was selected after a national search to replace Denise Andorfer, who ...
January 10, 2020
By: Kevin Leininger
When the Allen County-Fort Wayne Capital Improvement Board approved a bond of up to $45 million for Electric Works in November 2018, it capped nearly a year of examination and debate over a public financing commitment totaling $65 ...
January 9, 2020
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As someone who has deployed to foreign soil, I know how important it is to have a commander in chief that has your back. President Trump has communicated in the last few days to Americans across the world: “I have your back.” Americans ...
January 10, 2020
Is Gov. Eric Holcomb changing his tune on the urgency of increasing teachers’ pay? More than a month ago Holcomb said that while he supported getting the state’s teachers to salary levels that ranked in the top three in the Midwest, ...
January 9, 2020
The reaction was immediate and hostile by Democrats following President Trump’s authorization of a drone airstrike that killed Iran’s top military leader, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a terrorist responsible for the deaths of American troops ...
January 8, 2020
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers are looking to toughen the penalties stores face for selling tobacco products to underaged customers as they raise the state’s minimum age for smoking and vaping from 18 to 21 to conform with the new ...
January 9, 2020
An Indiana House committee rejected a Democratic proposal on Tuesday that would have directed $291 million in unexpected state tax revenue toward one-time teacher pay bonuses. The Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee voted 13-7 ...
January 8, 2020
Indiana's governor opened the door Monday to potentially boosting school funding and teacher pay after weeks of refuting any plans on such action until next year. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb didn’t give any details of what he would propose ...
January 7, 2020
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After breaking ground in September 2017, the new $23.1 million Rescue Mission at 404 E. Washington Blvd. is expected to open this summer. The Rescue Mission has raised $19.1 million so far and is in the process of raising the final $4 ...
January 17, 2020
By: Kevin Leininger
Are Indiana's teachers underpaid? Gov. Eric Holcomb certainly seems to think so, recommending in his State of the State address Tuesday that the Legislature next year transfer $250 million from Indiana's surplus into teacher retirement funds, ...
January 16, 2020
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Judge Nancy Eshcoff Boyer, the first woman ever to serve as an Allen County judge, will retire effective June 15. Boyer officially communicated her intent to retire to Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Loretta Rush Thursday after spending ...
January 16, 2020
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When News-Sentinel.com joins the chorus of newspapers and news web sites across Indiana and the nation in encouraging voters to exercise their right to vote, it is with pride in our country’s freedom and our desire to keep it that we make such ...
January 15, 2020
In August, my wife Beth and I drove to the French Lick Resort in southern Indiana, two hours south of Indianapolis, to see the historic domed lobby of the West Baden Springs Hotel and the sites of the sulfur springs there and at the French Lick ...
January 13, 2020
In August, News-Sentinel.com wrote that the Indiana Department of Child Services had just published a report showing deaths from child neglect and abuse increased to 65 during fiscal year 2017, which ended on June 30, 2017. Now a new state DCS ...
January 13, 2020
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit alleging an Indiana university breached its contract by provided substandard living assignments to thousands of students staying in residential halls where mold was ...
January 16, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 102-year-old man who is Indiana’s oldest state employee is retiring after nearly six decades on the job, saying that “your body tells you when it’s time to go.” Bob Vollmer plans to report to work for the last ...
January 16, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s governor on Tuesday outlined to state legislators how to free up tens of millions of dollars to boost teacher pay but said he didn’t want them to act on it until next year. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb told ...
January 15, 2020
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By: Kevin Leininger
Nearly 200 districts and individual structures in Fort Wayne have officially been designated "historic" by one level of government or another. There could soon be one more, and it would be a worthy addition to the list. At the request of the ...
January 30, 2020
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A police chase that began in New Haven late Wednesday and ended near Fort Wayne International Airport Thursday morning and resulted in charges against an Ohio man. At approximately 11:49 p.m., New Haven Police attempted to make a traffic stop ...
January 30, 2020
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The Community Recycling Drop-off Site located at Sam’s Club on Lima Road, scheduled to close Friday, will relocate to the parking area adjacent to the Byron Health Center at 12101 Lima Road starting Tuesday, Feb. 4. The Allen County ...
January 30, 2020
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In the past 20 years in Allen County many serious health issues have posed challenges. And Health Commissioner Deborah McMahan, M.D., has led the charge in each battle in her role with the Allen County Department of Health. At the Allen County ...
January 29, 2020
The story of the week in men’s college sports was Tuesday’s basketball brawl at the Kansas State-Kansas game at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan., home court of the Jayhawks, who won the game easily, 80-61. The incident began when, with ...
January 27, 2020
The growth and prosperity of Fort Wayne and Northeast Indiana seems to be positively affecting Fort Wayne International Airport, which has reported setting records for passenger traffic 10 years in a row. The days of travelers bypassing FWA to ...
January 27, 2020
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican legislators agitated with an Indianapolis prosecutor’s refusal to press charges for possessing small amounts of marijuana are seeking to empower the state attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to ...
January 29, 2020
ROCHESTER, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman convicted in a crash that killed three children who were crossing a highway to board a school bus is appealing her conviction, contending that the tragedy was “just an accident and not a crime,” her ...
January 28, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers could make it more difficult for anyone younger than 18 to get married. The bill is advancing after a House committee heard from women who were 15 or 16 when their parents forced them to marry men who had ...
January 28, 2020
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By: Kevin Leininger
Calling it "one of the worst kept secrets" in city history, the president and CEO of Do it Best Corp. confirmed his company's 440-emoployee headquarters will move to Electric Works and create up to 90 additional jobs. "This will be a ...
February 13, 2020
By: Kevin Leininger
After a foul ball fractured Jennifer Myers' face and took out eight teeth during a 2015 game at Parkview Field, the TinCaps responded admirably by adding 90 feet of protective netting down each foul line at a cost of $22,500. Two years later, ...
February 13, 2020
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Jeremiah Montel, 40, of Fort Wayne, has been sentenced to 180 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to the sexual exploitation of minors. Montel also faces five years of supervised release and was ...
February 13, 2020
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The suspense behind the identity of the proposed anchor tenant of the Electric Works development continues, but at least the deadline extension needed to move the $230 million project forward has cleared another hurdle. And just as we ...
February 12, 2020
I understand our reluctance in this nation to have government dictate our conduct through what can be perceived as legislative overreach. But I also understand how those in government justifiably seek solutions to problems that harm us. We have ...
February 10, 2020
On the heels of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a bill sponsored by City Council members Michelle Chambers, D-at large, and Russ Jehl, R-2nd, is asking the Fort Wayne Public Art Commission to consider possible ways to honor the civil rights ...
February 10, 2020
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SOUTH BEND (AP) — More than 2,000 sets of fetal remains found last year at the suburban Chicago garage of one of the Midwest’s most prolific abortion doctors were buried Wednesday at an Indiana cemetery where the state’s attorney general ...
February 13, 2020
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — More than 2,400 sets of fetal remains found last year in the Illinois garage and a car of an Indiana abortion doctor after he died will be buried Wednesday at a northern Indiana cemetery. The 2,411 sets of fetal ...
February 11, 2020
DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — Relatives of two teenage girls slain in northern Indiana in 2017 are holding a food drive and a pet supply donation drive to mark the three-year anniversary of their unsolved slayings. The donation drive will be held ...
February 10, 2020
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By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Developers of Electric Works plan to reveal the project's anchor tenant next week. RTM Ventures has scheduled a press conference on the former General Electric campus for 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 13, at which time "state, regional and local leaders ...
February 6, 2020
By: Kevin Leininger
In Hans Christian Andersen's short story about "The Emperor's New Clothes," two weavers give their leader a new suit they insist is invisible to those who are stupid or incompetent. Utterly convinced of his own brilliance, the emperor proudly ...
February 6, 2020
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February 6, 2020
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What should we think about the Indiana Legislature’s move Monday that stalled a proposal to require Indiana businesses to provide greater protections against discrimination for pregnant or breastfeeding employees? Senate Bill 342, ...
February 5, 2020
It was my privilege to be in the Indiana Statehouse the last two days to assist pro-life legislators Sen, Liz Brown and Rep. Ben Smaltz in passing a milestone bill (SB299) that has the potential to drastically change the way the abortion ...
February 4, 2020
How many times have we read about some prisoner who has been on death row for years being exonerated due to new evidence or DNA tests that overturn a false conviction? A film I saw recently tells the true story of such a case. “Just Mercy” ...
February 3, 2020
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana teachers who carry guns in schools would need to undergo annual training under a proposal advancing in the state Legislature. The state Senate voted 42-7 Tuesday in favor of the bill that specifies a 40-hour ...
February 5, 2020
NAPPANEE, Ind. (AP) — A popular tourist attraction in northern Indiana that provides a glimpse into the life and history of the Amish is going on the auction block later this week, a newspaper reported Sunday. It’s not clear if ...
February 3, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican legislators agitated with an Indianapolis prosecutor’s refusal to press charges for possessing small amounts of marijuana are seeking to empower the state attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to ...
January 29, 2020
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By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Beginning Monday, March 23, garbage and recycling crews will collect only City of Fort Wayne-issued carts used for residential collection. Workers will not pick up additional personal containers, bags, boxes or bulk items. Following public ...
March 20, 2020
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
E-scooters have returned to Fort Wayne and will be joined by pedal bikes that can also be rented for short trips. Veo, a shared mobility company based in Chicago, has released 300 e-scooters that were in storage for the winter months, as well ...
March 20, 2020
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
With the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory currently closed to the public, the Painted Lady Butterfly Release scheduled for this Saturday, March 21, at the Conservatory has been cancelled. For those who have hatched a Painted Lady ...
March 20, 2020
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The hoarding of groceries and other products, such as toilet paper, has become an unnecessary problem. And it's up to all of us during the COVID-19 pandemic to use common sense and unselfishness. The nation's irrational rush to overbuy ...
March 20, 2020
The warnings have been there all along, but they keep getting sterner and more specific: Practice social distancing to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus throughout the U.S. But the warnings have not been taken seriously, and ...
March 18, 2020
In March 16's "Ten Commandments may be religious, but they set a standard of good conduct for all people," Kerry Hubartt erroneously assumes that the Ten Commandments should be the foundation of American civics, and prejudicially asserts ...
March 18, 2020
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Two people in Indiana have died from the coronavirus in two days, state health officials announced. The latest person to die was a Johnson County resident in their 60s who had been hospitalized, the Indiana State ...
March 19, 2020
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce has created a statewide employer resource page providing information under three umbrellas: Health, Tools You Can Use and Government and Community Assistance. The group is also taking specific business questions ...
March 19, 2020
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a disaster declaration for the state of Indiana, offering financial assistance for Hoosier small businesses impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the state. The declaration ...
March 19, 2020
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By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Just days before Easter, Gov. Eric Holcomb and State Health Commissioner Kris Box, M.D., FACOG, have issued stricter guidance for places of worship in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. Holcomb's executive order 20-18 states all public ...
April 9, 2020
By: Kevin Leininger
With so many Fort Wayne residents and businesses struggling with the devastating economic impact of COVID-19, the high-end cars that once gave Austin Ash and his father so much joy suddenly became an uncomfortable luxury. So they decided to sell ...
April 9, 2020
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Another two Allen County residents have died from COVID-19 and 14 have tested positive, bringing the total to 112 cases and nine deaths Thursday. Updates to positive cases and deaths in Allen County are found at the top of the Department's ...
April 9, 2020
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The coronavirus pandemic has an upside: It has inspired the best in many individuals and organizations. We can all tell stories of people who have stepped up to help others during this tumultuous time. Rather than sulking and suffering in ...
April 10, 2020
As you might expect, something as all-encompassing and worrisome as the COVID-19 coronavirus has become fertile ground for scammers - on the phone, through e-mail, texts, you name it. We want to join with others across Indiana in warning ...
April 8, 2020
"The Road to Coronavirus Hell Was Paved by Evangelicals" - seriously? That was the headline on the March 27, 1,387-word op-ed piece in The New York Times, written by Katherine Stewart. Her column has received, and deserves, scathing ...
April 6, 2020
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GREENSBURG, Ind. (AP) - The coronavirus pandemic surged into Sean Durbin's farm-speckled Indiana county much faster than most other parts of rural America, contributing to at least 10 deaths and dozens of serious illnesses. Decatur County ...
April 9, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Forty-two more Indiana residents have died from COVID-19, marking the largest single-day jump in the state's death toll during the pandemic and pushing those deaths to 245, state health officials said Thursday. The 42 ...
April 9, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Thirty more Indiana residents have died from COVID-19, pushing the state's death toll during the pandemic past 200 as its confirmed coronavirus cases neared 6,000, state health officials said Wednesday. The 30 new deaths ...
April 8, 2020
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By: Kevin Leininger
Even as he was speaking, Dr. Scott Stienecker realized the irony of gathering 200 community leaders in a confined space to combat a virus that has already affected more than 94,000 people worldwide, killed more than 3,000 and - sooner of ...
March 5, 2020
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Demonta Huddleston, 28, formerly of St. Joseph, Mich., has been sentenced to 120 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to two distribution of a controlled substance charges. According to court ...
March 5, 2020
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Foellinger Foundation has announced a four-year, $1.05 million grant to provide support to Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Fort Wayne (YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne) to manage Great KIDS Make Great COMMUNITIES (Great ...
March 5, 2020
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May will be an important month for Fort Wayne Community Schools. For one thing, the May 5 primary election will include a referendum on "Repair FWCS," a plan to renovate the district's schools by beginning the third phase of the ...
March 6, 2020
While Indiana lawmakers were eager to pass legislation that would supposedly help control the high costs of health care for Hoosiers, we are glad to see that common sense prevailed this week before a bad idea got made into law. Legislators ...
March 4, 2020
I watched the entire 1954 Indiana high school basketball boys state championship game on my iPad last week, thanks to an enhanced version of the grainy original film made 66 years ago. What's more, the remastered video included audio ...
March 2, 2020
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WASHINGTON (AP) - He opened February by sharing victory with one of the Democratic Party's best-known figures and ended it with a humbling defeat at the hands of another. Yet Pete Buttigieg's unlikely path over the last 30 days exceeded ...
March 2, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A federal judge has ordered the attorney general's office to pay the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana more than $180,000 in legal fees for successfully challenging the 2016 genetic abnormality abortion law ...
March 2, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana lawmakers on Monday rolled back a proposal that could cut how much insurance companies pay for medical services performed at offices located away from a hospital's main campus. That action came after hundreds of ...
March 2, 2020
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By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
Another Allen County resident has died and 35 have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to 231 cases and 19 deaths Thursday. Updates to positive cases and deaths in Allen County are found at the top of the department's COVID-19 ...
April 16, 2020
By: News-Sentinel Staff Reports
U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., has been selected by President Donald Trump to serve on a bipartisan Congressional Economic Task Force that force will provide counsel to the president on the re-opening of America in the wake of the coronavirus ...
April 16, 2020
By: Kevin Leininger
In the midst of a deadly pandemic, Wisconsin voters went to the polls last week after the state and U.S. supreme courts overturned Democratic Gov. Tony Evers'' last-minute attempt to delay the vote. The result, according to media accounts, was ...
April 16, 2020
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While today is April 15 and normally the deadline for filing federal and state income taxes and making payments, the due date has been moved to July 15 because of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The United States Treasury had received a flood of ...
April 15, 2020
Having kids at home instead of in school for the past several weeks - and likely several more ahead - has created a heretofore unprecedented dilemma regarding how to continue their education while waiting out the COVID-19 coronavirus during ...
April 13, 2020
It is common in Fort Wayne and other cities in Indiana to see people standing by the side of the road at intersections with a cardboard sign saying they are homeless and asking for money. In many Hoosier cities pedestrians walking downtown may ...
April 13, 2020
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana's number of coronavirus-related deaths in one month has tripled the state's typical level of flu deaths over a seven-month period. More than 100,000 people also filed new unemployment claims in Indiana last week ...
April 16, 2020
Governors Eric Holcomb (IN), Gretchen Whitmer (MI), Mike DeWine (OH), Tony Evers (WI), Tim Walz (MN), JB Pritzker (IL), and Andy Beshear (KY) have announced that they will work in close coordination to reopen the economy in the Midwest region. ...
April 16, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana's health commissioner voiced some hopefulness Wednesday about the coronavirus outbreak spread throughout the state even as its death toll has grown by more than 300 people in the past two weeks. Dr. Kristina Box ...
April 16, 2020
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Fort Wayne Newspapers is adjusting staffing and features in response to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, said President and CEO Scott Stanford. "Our journalism mission is as important as ever," Stanford said. "That puts great ...
April 23, 2020
By: Kevin Leininger
Even if Electric Works'' developers persuade Fort Wayne officials to give them more time to secure millions of dollars in private financing - and that is by no means assured - the city has already withdrawn a significant financial ...
April 23, 2020
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April 23, 2020
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As with any good communication tool, someone will always find a way to profane it and use it for nefarious purposes. That doesn't necessarily make the tool a bad thing. It means customers need to employ caution and common sense to use it ...
April 22, 2020
I found out just in time about a new movie that had originally been intended to come out in theaters this month, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic had been sidelined. So it was available for rental in an online premier just for the ...
April 20, 2020
The announcement at the end of last week that President Trump has given the country's governors a three-phase plan to reopen the economy is a good, while cautious, first step in U.S. recovery from the COVID-19 coronavirus. And that could ...
April 20, 2020
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana's first coronavirus infections occurred at least a couple weeks before the first illness for a resident was confirmed in early March, the state health commissioner said Wednesday. That would indicate the virus ...
April 23, 2020
LOGANSPORT, Ind. (AP) - Tyson Foods Inc. announced Wednesday that it will temporarily close its meatpacking plant in north-central Indiana after 146 employees tested positive for cornavirus. The Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Logansport produced ...
April 23, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana's coronavirus death toll has topped 700 people in about five weeks with 45 additional fatalities announced Thursday by state health officials. More than half of the newly recorded COVID-19 deaths occurred Tuesday ...
April 23, 2020
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By: Kevin Leininger
It''s been eight years since structural problems forced the closure of the Scott''s Food store at North Anthony Boulevard and Crescent Avenue, four years since the now-defunct Marsh grocery chain expressed interest in the property and two years ...
March 27, 2020
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After two Allen County residents tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday, another nine tested positive Thursday, bringing the total to 19. Updates to positive cases and deaths in Allen County are found at the top of the Department's COVID-19 ...
March 26, 2020
By: Kevin Leininger
Last Sunday''s bulletin at Zion Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne included an admonition to practice "social distancing" in the pews, information about how to deal with COVID-19 both physically and spiritually, a "prayer for our nation, under ...
March 26, 2020
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Invitations to participate in the 2020 Census were mailed this month with reminder letters delivered this week. It's vitally important that we all respond as soon as possible. The official deadline is April 1. The United States Census ...
March 27, 2020
Give Allen County Health Commissioner Dr. Deborah McMahan a break. Some local and state officials are accusing the head of the Allen County Board of Health of attacking the rights of area churches to practice their religious freedoms. McMahan ...
March 25, 2020
Is this all too much to ask to save lives and stop a pandemic? When our government officials give orders, make suggestions and list guidelines for us all to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, do we take them seriously? Or do ...
March 23, 2020
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Gov. Eric Holcomb on Thursday signed a new executive order in a continuing effort to slow the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The order includes: . The Department of Workforce Development (DWD) has suspended the one-week waiting ...
March 26, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana's prison populations are still eating meals together in large groups and mixing during outdoor recreation even as Hoosiers are keeping their distance as a stay-at-home order took effect Wednesday aimed at slowing ...
March 26, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Two more deaths from illness related to the coronavirus were reported Wednesday in Indiana, giving the state a total of 14 deaths as a statewide stay-at-home order took effect to limit the spread of the virus. Indiana's ...
March 25, 2020
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In an effort to prevent local hospitals from being overwhelmed by the need to treat an onslaught of COVID-19 patients, the Allen County Department of Health seems poised to recommend or impose limits on various public activities, from schools to ...
March 12, 2020
By: Kevin Leininger
First came the white coverall, followed by the protective mask and gloves. Only then was Alyssa West cleared for action. But West was not preparing for combat against COVID-19. Rather, she had just paid to participate in that other great ...
March 12, 2020
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A person who later tested positive for the COVID-19 virus after attending the recent Home and Garden Show at the Memorial Coliseum posed a "very low" risk of exposure during the event, local health officials say. Allen County Department of ...
March 12, 2020
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Get ready for the new normal. The coronavirus outbreak has become a pandemic, and the world is reacting with steps we never imagined. Where and when it stops, nobody knows. Life is required to change for awhile, even here in Allen County, in a ...
March 13, 2020
Contrary to some critics, Vice President Mike Pence is leading an aggressive attack against the COVID-19 virus that has infiltrated the U.S. Reported illnesses of the coronavirus in Indiana have ranged from mild symptoms, including fever, ...
March 11, 2020
An Associated Press story last week began with the following words: "Imagine an NCAA Tournament with no fans in the arenas." That seemingly ridiculous possibility has been posited as a result of the coronavirus that has afflicted more than ...
March 9, 2020
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Five more people in Indiana have been sickened by the coronavirus, including three in the same suburban Indianapolis county, boosting the state's tally of cases to 11, health officials said Wednesday. Johnson County, ...
March 12, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Negotiations fell apart among Republican legislators Wednesday on a proposal that could have forced Indiana's attorney general from office if his law license is suspended over allegations that he drunkenly groped four ...
March 12, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana agencies are not allowed to use an "X" gender designation on identification documents for residents who don't identify as male or female, the state attorney general said. On Monday, Indiana Attorney General ...
March 11, 2020
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By: Kevin Leininger
Two major downtown projects got a big financial boost from the Capital Improvement Board Thursday - one of them receiving nearly twice the $13.25 million originally sought by city officials in November. In unanimous votes, the CIB approved ...
February 27, 2020
By: Kevin Leininger
With millions of dollars at stake, Parkview Health has a strong incentive to keep its largest commercial contract. And yet, as I first reported locally earlier this month, Anthem Inc. plans to sever ties with the local medical network if new ...
February 27, 2020
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The victims of the fatal shooting in the 2400 block of Barnhart Ave. early Wednesday have been identified by the Allen County Coroner''s office. Mon Ong, 21, from Fort Wayne, was pronounced dead at the scene. Cause of death was a gunshot wound ...
February 27, 2020
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Beware the ides of March, as Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar. Caesar didn't listen, and it cost him his life. For Indiana drivers, the old expression could mean beware of your condition when you are behind the wheel of your car this ...
February 26, 2020
My wife and I spend as much time as we can with our grandchildren?-?some more than others in order to help out where most needed in child care and transportation. Whenever we are "in charge" of those precious lives, we are ...
February 24, 2020
Since arriving on the West Lafayette campus as Purdue University's president in January 2013, former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has instituted a tuition freeze. And, according to a Lafayette Journal and Courier report last week, tuition will ...
February 24, 2020
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GRANGER, Ind. (AP) - Construction is expected to start this spring on a project more than doubling Indiana Michigan Power's electricity production from solar energy sources. The Fort Wayne-based company has won approval from the Indiana ...
February 24, 2020
GOSHEN (AP) - A northern Indiana judge has rejected a man's plea agreement in a fatal 2015 car crash, frustrating the victim's parents, who say they want the long-running case behind them. Justin Gladieux, 23, was driving a car in May ...
February 24, 2020
MONTICELLO, Ind. (AP) - A northern Indiana amusement park that entertained generations of visitors with rides, midway attractions and lakeside concerts for nearly a century has closed, park officials said Wednesday, citing the park's ...
February 20, 2020
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By: Kevin Leininger
The year was 1798, and three American diplomats had just stormed out of Paris after French officials demanded a $12 million loan, a $250,000 bribe and a personal apology from President John Adams before even discussing business and political ...
February 20, 2020
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A 15-year-old boy is dead following a shooting Wednesday night. At approximately 7:07 p.m. Fort Wayne Police responded to the 2800 block of Euclid Avenue reference a shooting. Officers arrived and located the victim lying in the alley between ...
February 20, 2020
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A healthy newborn baby was safely, legally and anonymously surrendered in a Safe Haven baby box at a fire station in New Haven Wednesday. The box was dedicated Dec. 31. The infant was then transported to a local hospital. "We are proud to ...
February 20, 2020
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Justice isn't totally blind. It was wrong of a grieving mother to attack the woman who killed her children after the latter's sentencing on Dec. 18 in the Fulton County Courthouse. But it also was right that the special prosecutor assigned ...
February 19, 2020
Former Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight's return to what is now called Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall for the game against Purdue on Feb. 8 was an event that deeply moved many people emotionally associated with Hoosier ...
February 17, 2020
A News-Sentinel editorial in 2005 lauded the principle behind a joint Fort Wayne-Allen County comprehensive plan called Plan-it Allen!, saying the process "truly is local. It involves local officials talking about their mutual needs and a ...
February 17, 2020
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MONTICELLO, Ind. (AP) - A northern Indiana amusement park that entertained generations of visitors with rides, midway attractions and lakeside concerts for nearly a century has closed, park officials said Wednesday, citing the park's ...
February 20, 2020
MUNCIE (AP) - A white Ball State University professor who called police to his classroom after a black student refused to change seats will not be teaching for the remainder of the semester, the school said in a written statement. No formal ...
February 19, 2020
WEST LAFAYETTE (AP) - Purdue University's tuition freeze will continue for a ninth year, the Indiana school's president told alumni this weekend. President Mitch Daniels announced Saturday that Purdue's tuition and fees will remain at ...
February 19, 2020
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