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• GM faces hard road getting compensated for Venezuela factory

  21-04-2017 23:22 via wane.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — General Motors became the latest corporation to have a factory or other asset seized by the government of Venezuela, and the Detroit automaker faces an uphill battle to recover any damages.
  GM said Thursday that its only factory in Venezuela was confiscated a day earlier, as anti-government protesters clashed with authorities in a country that is roiled by economic troubles. GM said assets such as vehicles were taken from the plant, causing the company irreparable damage.
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• US Treasury rejects Exxon Mobil request to drill in Russia

  21-04-2017 23:17 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has denied a request from Exxon Mobil to waive U.S. sanctions against Russia to allow the company to resume oil drilling around the Black Sea.
  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday in a brief statement that the administration “will not be issuing waivers to U.S. companies, including Exxon, authorizing drilling prohibited by current Russian sanctions.”
  Exxon said it understood the decision, while suggesting that the outcome will
  
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• Indiana lawmakers seek to buy new lethal injection drugs

  21-04-2017 23:08 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers slipped a provision into the state’s proposed budget that authorizes the state to purchase new lethal injection drugs while preserving the anonymity of the suppliers.
  The measure was not debated in committee and was only revealed Friday once the budget proposal was released on the last day of this year’s legislative session.
  Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma says the state’s supply of lethal injection drugs, used in the execution o
  
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• Fort Wayne state police post honors Trooper of the Year

  21-04-2017 22:51 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The Indiana State Police Fort Wayne post has honored a 2 1/2-year veteran with its 2016 District Trooper of the Year award.
  Indiana State Police Trooper Anthony RepassTrooper Anthony Repass was honored Friday at a ceremony held in the Government Center South in Indianapolis.
  The Trooper of the Year award is given to troopers who personify “professionalism, integrity, a well-rounded work ethic and community involvement as determined by the district command,” st
  
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• City Utilities: “Water is safe,” boil water advisory lifted

  21-04-2017 21:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A boil water advisory for most of Fort Wayne has been lifted, according to a statement from Fort Wayne City Utilities.
  The water is now safe and free of any contamination, according to City Utilities.
  City Utilities spokesman Frank Suarez said in an emailed statement to NewsChannel 15 that tests showed the water is safe. Residents can resume normal use of water for drinking and cooking.
  No further precautions are necessary, according to Suarez.
  An advisory was iss
  
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• Boil water advisory in place throughout Fort Wayne

  21-04-2017 21:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A boil water advisory has been ordered for water customers throughout the city of Fort Wayne.
  City Utilities spokesman Frank Suarez said a power surge at the substation near Lawton Park around 7:30 a.m. Friday disrupted operations at the city’s Three Rivers Water Filtration Plant. The plant’s generators kicked in and the plant came back up within minutes after the surge.
  Through the day, officials at the plant studied data from the distribution system and foun
  
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• Boil water advisory could be lifted Saturday afternoon

  21-04-2017 21:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Fort Wayne could lift the boil water advisory Saturday afternoon according to a city official. This comes hours after the advisory was ordered for water customers throughout the city.City Utilities spokesman Frank Suarez said a power surge at the substation near Lawton Park around 7:30 a.m. Friday disrupted operations at the city’s Three Rivers Water Filtration Plant. The plant’s generators kicked in and the plant came back up within minutes after the surge.
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• Boil water advisory continues for majority of Fort Wayne

  21-04-2017 21:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Fort Wayne could lift the boil water advisory Saturday afternoon according to a city official. This comes hours after the advisory was ordered for water customers throughout the city.
  The boil advisory is in effect until further notice for a portion of the City bounded by Washington Center Road in the north, a portion of Maplecrest and Meyer Road in the east, the Hillegas Road and St. Marys River in the west and Tillman Road in the south.
  The city’s 311 call center
  
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• Dozens compete in planking challenge for charity

  21-04-2017 20:52 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The third annual Planking Challenge to benefit local charities was held Friday at Parkview Field.
  More than 80 plankers participated in the rigorous event to benefit Lifeline Loves, Crosswinds Cares and Helpers & Heroes, up from just 23 a year ago.
  Organizers pledged to funnel the first $5,000 raised to help eligible employees who are experiencing economic hardship due to emergency situations. Dollars raised beyond that were destined for the Helpers & Heroes fund,
  
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• Fresno killing suspect shouts out during 1st court hearing

  21-04-2017 20:25 via wane.com
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The suspect in this week’s racially motivated shooting rampage in Fresno entered a cramped courtroom early Friday shouting that natural disasters striking America will increase.
  Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, then shouted twice during a brief hearing: “Let black people go” and a phrase similar to “in reparations” that was not clearly enunciated.
  He was charged Thursday with killing unarmed security guard Carl Williams at a Motel 6 a week earlier.
  
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• 3 arrested in 2 drug raids

  21-04-2017 20:02 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Three people were arrested on drug charges early Friday in two separate police raids.
  Just after 10 a.m. Friday, Fort Wayne Police vice detectives and the police department’s Emergency Services Team served two separate search warrants as part of the same investigation at a home at 2737 W. Washington Center Road Lot No. 49 and another home at 2515 Princeton Ave.
  At the West Washington Center Road home, police arrested 59-year-old Simone Bryant on felony charges of De
  
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• Fort Wayne bank exec named to IEDC

  21-04-2017 19:37 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A Fort Wayne banking executive has been named to the Indiana Economic Development Corporation’s board of directors.
  Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb on Friday appointed STAR Financial Bank Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President Kristin M. Marcuccilli to the board. Marcuccilli was appointed along with five others from around the state, including two other women.
  Kristin M. Marcuccilli“To take Indiana’s economy to the next level, we need the experience
  
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• Former Wayne player Auston Robertson dismissed from Michigan State

  21-04-2017 18:01 via wane.com
  
  EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State defensive end Auston Robertson, who played football at Wayne High School in Fort Wayne, was dismissed from the team Friday hours after being charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct in an alleged rape earlier this month.
  Robertson, 19, is accused of forcing a woman to have sex with him at her apartment the night of April 8 in Meridian Township, near the East Lansing school. Coach Mark Dantonio released a statement after the charge against
  
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• Former Wayne, current Michigan State player charged with criminal sexual conduct

  21-04-2017 18:01 via wane.com
  
  EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State football player has been charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct.
  File photo of Auston Robertson during his playing days at Wayne High School.Ingham County prosecutors announced the charge on Friday against 19-year-old Auston Robertson. Robertson played in Fort Wayne at Wayne High School and was highly recruited.
  The charges stem from an April 9 incident in Meridian Township, near the East Lansing school.
  Prosecutors say they don’
  
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• Sedan rear-ends semi on I-69

  21-04-2017 17:43 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A driver rear-ended a semi tractor-trailer along Interstate 69 on Friday.
  Fort Wayne Police were called around 10:50 a.m. Friday to the northbound lanes of Interstate 69 just south of the U.S. 30/Goshen Road interchange ramp on a report of a crash there. Officers arrived to find a white sedan with heavy front-end damage along the shoulder of the highway, and a semi stopped just in front of it.
  It’s not clear why the driver rear-ended the semi. No injuries were repor
  
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• Trine to close Arizona campus

  21-04-2017 17:34 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Trine University will close its Arizona campus at the end of the academic year.
  Trine University’s Peoria, Arizona campus is shown. (Google Maps)The Angola-based university will shutter its Peoria, Arizona campus June 12, Trine spokesman James Tew confirmed to NewsChannel 15. Tew said closing the campus will allow the university to “refocus more efforts on our strength, which is the education provided at our main campus and education centers in Indiana and Mic
  
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• IPFW to become Purdue University Fort Wayne

  21-04-2017 17:21 via wane.com
  
  The following news release was issued by IPFWIndiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) released the following statement Friday about the action taken at the Purdue University Board of Trustees meeting regarding the future name of the Fort Wayne campus:
  “During the Purdue Board of Trustees meeting earlier today, the trustees approved a resolution to designate ‘Purdue University Fort Wayne’ as the new name for the campus that will arise from the realignment pro
  
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• Volkswagen to pay $2.8 billion in US diesel emission scandal

  21-04-2017 16:48 via wane.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen has been ordered to pay a $2.8 billion criminal penalty in the United States for cheating on diesel emissions tests.
  Federal Judge Sean Cox in Detroit followed the deal negotiated by VW and the U.S. Justice Department. The sentence was ordered Friday, six weeks after the German automaker pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
  VW admits that nearly 600,000 diesel cars in the U.S. were programmed to turn on pollution controls during testing and off
  
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• Ohio family members plead for tips to solve massacre of 8

  21-04-2017 16:40 via wane.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Tearful family members are pleading for information that could help solve the massacre of eight people in Ohio a year ago, in a video released Friday.
  Geneva Rhoden, who lost two sons, three grandchildren and a nephew, said she is begging anyone with information to step up.
  A poster asking for information about the unsolved killings of eight family members in southern Ohio on April 22, 2016, is displayed at the Ohio Attorney General’s Office during a press confe
  
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• Dust control application deadline looms

  21-04-2017 16:28 via wane.com
  
  The following is a release from the Allen County Public Information Office
  ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. — Time is running out for Allen County residents who want the County Highway Department to apply dust control material to their stone and gravel roads this spring. Residents have until April 28 to sign up in person for the applications at the following locations:
  Highway Department Main Office, 200 East Berry Street, Suite 280, weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  North Maintenance Facility, 2234 Car
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II turns 91 with quiet day, gun salutes

  21-04-2017 16:20 via wane.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Britain marked Queen Elizabeth II’s 91st birthday on Friday with gun salutes, as the monarch celebrated quietly at home.
  A troop of the Royal Horse Artillery rode horse-and-gun carriages past Buckingham Palace before staging a 41-gun salute in Hyde Park at noon.
  FILE – This is a Tuesday, April 11, 2017 file photo of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as she meets residents during a visit to Priory View, an independent living scheme for older residents, in Dunstable,
  
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• Indiana lawmakers face big list of bills at session’s end

  21-04-2017 16:03 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers are entering what is expected to be the last day of their session with a hefty list of bills that still must be approved.
  House Speaker Brian Bosma says he anticipates that Friday’s floor session will stretch into early Saturday.
  Republican leaders reached agreement on a roads funding plan that will pump $1.2 billion more a year into infrastructure by raising fuel taxes and fees. But they still have to vote on that plan, as well as Indiana’
  
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• Researchers to look for CTE evidence in Hernandez’s brain

  21-04-2017 15:57 via wane.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Boston University researchers will study Aaron Hernandez’s brain to determine if the former NFL star suffered from the same degenerative brain disease as Hall of Famer Junior Seau and former Bears defensive back Dave Duerson, who also took their own lives.
  Hernandez hanged himself in prison early Wednesday, days after winning an acquittal in a 2012 double homicide case. He was already serving a life term in a 2013 killing.
  After a brief public dispute between Massachuse
  
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• Indiana to conduct audit of untested sexual assault kits

  21-04-2017 14:56 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana State Police plan to conduct an audit of untested sexual assault kits that may have lingered in evidence collection rooms across the state for years.
  The Indianapolis Star reports (http://indy.st/2oRfKZW ) the update comes after the Indiana Senate on Wednesday approved a resolution urging state police to do an audit.
  The measure by Republican Sens. Michael Crider and Eric Houchin requested a “thorough audit” of all untested evidence gathered from sex
  
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• US Defense Sec’y Mattis: Syria still has chemical weapons

  21-04-2017 12:49 via wane.com
  
  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says Syria still possesses banned chemical weapons.
  At a news conference in Tel Aviv, Mattis also said that in recent days the Syrian Air Force has dispersed its combat aircraft. The implication is that Syria may be concerned about additional U.S. strikes following the cruise missile attack earlier this month in retaliation for alleged Syrian use of sarin gas.
  Mattis spoke alongside Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Later
  
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• Prosecutors: Man arrested over attack on German soccer team

  21-04-2017 12:47 via wane.com
  
   
  BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say a 28-year-old German-Russian citizen has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out the bomb attack against a bus carrying members of the Borussia Dortmund soccer team.
  A Dortmund player and a policeman were injured in the triple blasts last week as the bus was heading to the stadium for a match against AS Monaco.
  Investigators found notes at the scene claiming responsibility in the name of Islamic extremists, but quickly doubted their authenticity.
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• Arkansas conducts first execution since 2005, plans 3 more

  21-04-2017 07:16 via wane.com
  
  VARNER, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas carried out its first execution in nearly a dozen years despite a flurry of legal challenges that had spared three convicted killers, but courts still could scuttle the remainder of the nation’s most ambitious death penalty schedule since capital punishment was restored in 1976.
  Ledell Lee was pronounced dead at 11:56 p.m. Thursday, four minutes before his death warrant was due to expire at midnight, capping a chaotic week of legal wrangling. Arkansas ori
  
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• Arkansas carries out first execution since 2005

  21-04-2017 07:16 via wane.com
  
  VARNER, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has executed an inmate for the first time in nearly a dozen years as part of its plan to execute several inmates before a drug expires April 30, despite court rulings that have already spared three men.
  Ledell Lee’s execution was the first in the state since 2005. He was pronounced dead at 11:56 p.m. Thursday, four minutes before his death warrant was due to expire.
  Lee, 51, was put on death row for the 1993 death of his neighbor Debra Reese, whom Lee st
  
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• WB U.S. 30 closed near Van Wert due to semi fire

  21-04-2017 06:34 via wane.com
  
  VAN WERT, Ohio (WANE) – The westbound lanes of U.S. 30 are closed at U.S. 224 in Van Wert due to a tractor-trailer fire, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
  Emergency dispatchers reported the semi was “fully engulfed” shortly before 11:30 p.m. Thursday.
  Fire personnel and police are on scene.  No one was hurt.
  OSHP said he truck was carrying insulation.
  It’s unclear how the long the road will be closed.
  The incident is under investigation.
  
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• Semi fire closes portion of U.S. 30 near Van Wert

  21-04-2017 06:34 via wane.com
  
  VAN WERT, Ohio (WANE) – The westbound lanes of U.S. 30 are back open at U.S. 224 in Van Wert after a tractor-trailer fire.
  Emergency dispatchers reported the semi was “fully engulfed” shortly before 11:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
  Firefighters put out the flames but closed down the highway for nearly four hours. The highway was back open around 4 a.m. Friday, according to the Van Wert County Sheriff’s Department.
  OSHP said the tr
  
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• Potts delivers in extra innings as TinCaps beat Loons

  21-04-2017 05:53 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Hudson Potts is playing well beyond his years.
  The 18-year-old TinCaps infielder knocked in two runs in the 11th inning to help the TinCaps top the Great Lake Loons on Thursday night, 7-5. He finished with two hits and two RBI.
  Starting pitcher Josh Allen went 5.0 inning and didn’t give up a hit. The lefty struck out seven on the day.
  Fort Wayne faces the Loons again Friday at 6:05 P.M.
  
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• James, Cavs come from 26 down, beat Pacers to take 3-0 lead

  21-04-2017 04:52 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — LeBron James finished with 41 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists, and the Cleveland Cavaliers set an NBA postseason record by erasing a 25-point halftime deficit to beat the Indiana Pacers 119-114 on Thursday night and take a 3-0 lead.
  James passed Kobe Bryant for No. 3 on the NBA’s career playoff scoring list and tied another NBA record by winning his 20th consecutive first-round game.
  The Cavaliers will try to sweep the series Sunday.
  The incredible rally r
  
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• Jeff Saturday talks Colts, Hall of Fame at Kendallville banquet

  21-04-2017 03:46 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Jeff Saturday takes the accolades gracefully – even if that might one day be the NFL Hall of Fame.
  The former Colts and Packers center spoke the Kendallville Chamber of Commerce annual banquet. He shared wisdom from more than a decade in the league.
  The six-time Pro Bowler and long-time center to Peyton Manning in Indianapolis, Saturday will be eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2018. His four years of retirement have flown by and he’d be humbly grateful
  
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• Colts have easiest schedule as NFL unveils full calendar of games

  21-04-2017 02:59 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WANE) – Finish 8-8 might be a disappointment this season for the Colts.
  The NFL unveiled the upcoming schedule for the entire league. Indianapolis has the easiest strength of schedule – their opponent winning percentage from a year ago is .424 – out of all 32 team. Here is the full list of games:
  Week 1 @ LA RamsWeek 2 vs. ArizonaWeek 3 vs. ClevelandWeek 4 @ Seattle – Sunday Night FootballWeek 5 vs. San FranciscoWeek 6 @ Tennessee – Monday Night
  
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