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• STEM conference focuses on opportunity, engagement with girls

  20-05-2017 23:41 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Girls Scouts of Northern Indiana and Michigan and Fort Wayne Community Schools hosted the annual “STEM Conference for Girls” Saturday at Snider High School.
  STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
  The event gave girls from kindergarten through 12th grade opportunities to explore career fields using STEM.
  Older girls got a chance to learn more in breakout sessions while all girls got a chance to experience interactive exhibits.
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• Annual AIDS walk promotes research, treatment

  20-05-2017 23:27 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Hundreds walked at Parkview Field Saturday in the 21st Annual AIDS Walk.
  The Northeast Indiana Positive Resource Center hosted the event.
  The “Be A Hero” walk helps raise money and awareness for AIDS research and treatment. Money collected during Saturday’s walk will help programs and services at the Positive Resource Center.
  The walk featured food, music, and a raffle. Johnny TinCap also took part in the vent and Mayor Tom Henry (D-Fort Wayne) r
  
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• First pro baseball monument formally dedicated

  20-05-2017 23:22 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Despite it being installed several weeks ago, a formal dedication ceremony was held Saturday for a monument marking the playing of the first professional baseball game.
  The monument was placed at Camp Allen Park – the site of the game. Cold and rainy conditions earlier this month caused a postponement of formal proceedings.
  But Saturday, cold weather and rain again tried to spoil the party. City Councilman Geoff Paddock (D-5th) and Bill Griggs, local chairpe
  
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• First pro baseball game monument formally dedicated

  20-05-2017 23:22 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Despite it being installed several weeks ago, a formal dedication ceremony was held Saturday for a monument marking the playing of the first professional baseball game.
  The monument was placed at Camp Allen Park – the site of the game. Cold and rainy conditions earlier this month caused a postponement of formal proceedings.
  But Saturday, cold weather and rain again tried to spoil the party. City Councilman Geoff Paddock (D-5th) and Bill Griggs, local chairpe
  
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• 150,000 pounds of trash and debris collected during “Great American Cleanup”

  20-05-2017 23:12 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – More than 5,500 volunteers collected more than 150,000 pounds of trash and debris Saturday during the “Great American Cleanup.”
  Local volunteers collected items at more than a dozen locations across Fort Wayne.
  City officials said 1,050 tires were collected along with 170 televisions.
  Among the volunteers were 230 groups and organizations. Following cleanup that last through the morning hours volunteers gathered at Headwaters Park for a wrap-up party.
  
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• Police: Man failed to warn ‘significant number’ of sex partners of HIV status

  20-05-2017 22:04 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A HIV-positive man who police said had sex with a “significant number” of people and shared hypodermic needles without warning them of his disease has been arrested.
  Now, Fort Wayne Police are urging anyone who has sexual contact or shared needles with Temujin Kristofer Lapsley, also known as Tim Lapsley, to contact authorities.
  Temujin Kristofer LapsleyDetectives began to look at Lapsley for “narcotics use and distribution,” according to a news re
  
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• Dons Fall 5-0 To NDSU On Senior Day In Rain Shortened Game

  20-05-2017 21:09 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The 2017 Fort Wayne baseball season came to an end on Saturday (May 20) in a 5-0 loss to North Dakota State. The contest was shortened to five innings due to rain.
  Jake Weber, Jordan Martin, Mitchell Ley, Dru Sebastian, Tanner McAninch and Jackson Boyce were honored before the game for Senior Day festivities.
  North Dakota State scored two runs in the first inning and followed it with single runs in the second, third and fifth innings.
  Riley Johnson threw the final two in
  
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• Central Noble takes home first girls tennis sectional title

  20-05-2017 21:03 via wane.com
  
  KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (WANE) – This is exactly how Central Noble envisioned themselves celebrating their first ever sectional title in girls tennis. They were given the trophy in a shed due to rain.
  With No. 1 singles Elise Maneke clinching her win, the Cougars earned the victory and the championship over East Noble. The junior won 6-0, 6-0. The final match of No. 3 singles – although important to the individuals, it had no bearing on the outcome of the match – was calle
  
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• Fire damages home on Hanna Street

  20-05-2017 20:32 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Fire damaged a home on the city’s southeast side Saturday afternoon.
  Fire crews were called at 1:24 p.m. to 4038 Hanna Street.
  The first arriving crews found heavy smoke from the roof and forced entry through the front door. Inside they found fire in the attic and second floor.
  They were able to keep the fire from spreading and had flames under control in 25 minutes.
  The cause of the fire is under investigation.
  Fire crews said nobody was home at t
  
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• Fire damages home on city’s south side

  20-05-2017 20:32 via wane.com
  
   
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Fire damaged a home on the city’s south side Saturday afternoon.
  Fire crews were called at 1:24 p.m. to 4038 Hanna Street.
  The first arriving crews found heavy smoke from the roof and forced entry through the front door. Inside they found fire in the attic and second floor.
  They were able to keep the fire from spreading and had flames under control in 25 minutes.
  The cause of the fire is under investigation.
  Fire crews said nobody was home a
  
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• Employees at Lutheran show solidarity for buyout and CEO

  20-05-2017 20:00 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Lutheran Health Network employees say ‘we’re all in this together.’
  Several dozen gathered Saturday to show support for CEO Brian Bauer and physicians after it was announced a proposed buyout of parent company Community Health Systems was on the table.The meeting came after more than a week of questions.
  First, Lutheran Health Network announced a $500 million investment by CHS into local facilities. Then, employees said it’s
  
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• Low unemployment leaves county struggling to find workers

  20-05-2017 16:56 via wane.com
  
  ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Many businesses in Indiana’s Elkhart County are struggling to find workers as the area is experiencing the lowest unemployment rate in 17 years.
  The Elkhart Truth (http://bit.ly/2qwpHgf ) reports that the county’s unemployment rate in April was 2.8 percent. According to statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor, this is the lowest since October 2000’s rate of 2.2 percent.
  The low unemployment rate has hit the food service industry particularly hard, wi
  
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• Global Leadership Summit comes to Fort Wayne

  20-05-2017 16:35 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – It’s a leadership conference that impacts hundreds of thousands of leaders in more than 800 cities spread out through 120 countries. And, it’s happening right here in Fort Wayne.
  It helps leaders gain vision, inspiration and practical skills. The Executive Director of the Global Leadership Summit, Kelly Byrd, joined First News Saturday for more on the summit.
  The Global Leadership Summit is a 2-day leadership conference that impacts 260,000 leaders ac
  
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• Business and Professional Women Association gears up for purse auction luncheon

  20-05-2017 16:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – You can support the American Cancer and Alzheimer’s Association and get your hands on some designer purses. The Business and Professional Women Association Purse Auction Luncheon is coming up next weekend.
  Mae Pettie from the Business and Professional Women Association joined Rob and Sara for the details.
  The BPW Association emerged as a non-profit organization in light of the need to promote and protect the interests of women business owners and profession
  
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• Do you know how to make the best ribs for Memorial Day weekend? LongHorn can help.

  20-05-2017 16:05 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Kyle Holmes from Fort Wayne LongHorn Steakhouse joined Rob and Sara on First News Saturday to show how to grill up some delicious ribs and more.
  Memorial Day is right around the corner and with it is the return of summer grilling season. Here are some tips for selecting, seasoning and grilling the perfect steak and how to make delicious burgers, chicken and mac and cheese.
  Visit Longhorn’s website here.
  
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• My Hometown: The man with the boat

  20-05-2017 15:36 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – There are a lot of groups and individuals involved in all of the development on the river. For this My Hometown Sara Schaefer introduced you to a man who started one of those groups, the Tri-State Water Shed Alliance, and is on the board of a handful of others.
  He’s known as the man with the boat. Dan Wire has spent his entire life on the rivers. When asked why, he simply said he doesn’t know anything else.
  His father had a deep love for the wate
  
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• Dupont Hospital medical board votes “no confidence” in corporate leaders

  20-05-2017 14:51 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Dupont Hospital Medical Executive Committee issued a “no confidence” vote.
  Dupont Hospital is a branch of Lutheran Health Network, owned by Tennessee-based Community Health Systems.
  A source provided a document outlining a resolution on the matter was provided to NewsChannel 15. It was delivered to hospital administrators May 19.
  The resolution indicates the executive committee has, “…no confidence in CHS and the corporate le
  
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• Agency had open case for woman accused of shooting her kids

  20-05-2017 14:26 via wane.com
  
  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A child welfare agency in southwest Ohio says it has an existing case for the family that saw a mother shoot two of her children in the head.
  The 30-year-old mother has been jailed since her arrest shortly after the shootings Thursday in Dayton. An 8-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy remain in critical condition. An 11-year-old daughter who was home at the time wasn’t injured.
  Police say the woman put the two children on the front lawn after shooting them inside
  
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• After Times Square attack, calls for more sidewalk barriers

  20-05-2017 14:20 via wane.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fears of a terrorist attack prompted officials to ring many of the pedestrian plazas of Times Square with squat steel posts capable of stopping a speeding vehicle.
  But those barriers only cover so much ground. There were none of them Thursday at the corner where a man steered his car onto a busy sidewalk and began barreling through crowds of pedestrians, running down 23 people and killing one before one of the metal posts finally stopped him.
  The bollard that stopped the ca
  
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• In New Orleans, Confederate monuments are gone _ Lee last

  20-05-2017 14:14 via wane.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — They were among the city’s oldest landmarks, as cemented to the landscape of New Orleans as the Superdome and St. Louis Cathedral: a stone obelisk heralding white supremacy and three statues of Confederate stalwarts.
  But after decades standing sentinel over this Southern city, the Confederate monuments are gone, amid a controversy that at times hearkened back to the divisiveness of the Civil War they commemorated.
  The last of the monuments — a statue of Gen.
  
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• High society: Pippa Middleton marries at almost-royal event

  20-05-2017 13:52 via wane.com
  
  ENGLEFIELD, England (AP) — Pippa Middleton, radiant in a custom-made gown, married a wealthy financier Saturday with a party of senior royals, including her sister, looking on.
  She and hedge fund manager James Matthews married at a church in rural England.
  The wedding party included Prince George, a page boy at 3, and 2-year-old Princess Charlotte, a bridesmaid. Both wore special outfits when they arrived with their mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, Pippa’s sister.
  Prince William and
  
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• Investigators try to figure out why man disruptive on flight

  20-05-2017 13:42 via wane.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Soon after they boarded a flight to Honolulu, Mark and Donna Basden found a laptop computer in a seat pocket in front of them.
  The couple assumed someone on a previous flight left it there. But a flight attendant said it probably belonged to a man who was in the bathroom.
  A man Donna Basden described as a “disheveled looking fellow” emerged and Mark Basden gave him the laptop. The man scowled, took the laptop and opened it and closed it and then tried to sit in
  
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• Hawaii-bound passengers noticed unruly man before take-off

  20-05-2017 13:42 via wane.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — After landing in Honolulu on a flight from Los Angeles, passengers described a midair disruption involving an unruly man whose attempts to get to the front of the jetliner prompted flight attendants and passengers to subdue him. and fighter jets to escort the plane.
  Passengers noticed him before the plane even took off.
  Mark and Donna Basden were among the first to board the plane Friday and found a laptop in the seat pocket of Mark Basden. The Albuquerque, New Mexico, coup
  
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• Becker lifts Carroll to North Side boys track sectional title

  20-05-2017 06:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Justin Becker earned the victory in the 100M and 200M to lift Carroll to the sectional title.
  His brother Jonathan won the high jump as well at 6-02.
  The Chargers earned 168 points while Northrop finished in second place with 101 points and Snider came in third.
  Check out the full results: 2017 NORTH SIDE SECTIONAL TRACK RESULTS
  
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• Trine Walks Off To Win Super Regional Opener

  20-05-2017 06:00 via wane.com
  
  ANGOLA, Ind. — Lainey McCue‘s walk-off RBI single gave Trine a 7-6 victory over Wisconsin-Oshkosh in the opening game of the NCAA Division III Softball Angola Super Regional.
  McCue’s single up the middle scored pinch-runner Rene Finn (Clinton Township, Mich. / Chippewa Valley) from second base with the winning run in the bottom of the seventh. The Thunder had to fight back from an early 3-0 deficit after the Titans scored three in the top of the first inning. Trine improved to
  
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• Wayne leads way at New Haven boys track & field sectional

  20-05-2017 05:42 via wane.com
  
  NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) – Wayne won seven of the 16 events to take the team title at the New Haven boys track & field sectional.
  General Craig Young won the 100M with a time of 11.14 and also barely edged out teammate Patrick Cottom in the 200M race in a photo-finish. Check out the full results here: 2017 NEW HAVEN BOYS SECTIONAL RESULTSSectional Champions!!! The process begins! #winning @craig_young00 @iamdalynhart pic.twitter.com/erWhz6Zfe2
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• Bob Knight goes 1-on-1 with Glenn Marini

  20-05-2017 05:30 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Bob Knight shared the stage at the Embassy Theatre on Friday night with long-time adversary-turned-friend Gene Keady. But before he spoke the former Indiana University basketball coach sat down for an exclusive one-on-one interview with WANE-TV sports director Glenn Marini.
  In their 12-minute interview coach Knight discussed a wide range of topics, including his friendship with Keady, what he believes his legacy is in the state of Indiana, and his thoughts on Pres
  
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• Carroll girls tennis dominates in sectional finals

  20-05-2017 05:08 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Carroll only lost one game as they cruise to the sectional title.
  Sydney Jackson, Katelyn VanWyngarden and Bailey Newman all win 6-0, 6-0 in their singles matches. Mia Toscos and Lauren VanWyngarden wins 6-0, 6-0 while Hannah Wallace and Katie Beier earn the final victory 6-0, 6-1.
  The Chargers begin regionals at 4:30 PM at home.
  
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• Fort Wayne Drops Pitchers’ Duel to Great Lakes

  20-05-2017 04:54 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. – TinCaps starting pitcher Hansel Rodriguez made his longest start of the season with seven innings on the mound, but Fort Wayne lost to Great Lakes (Los Angeles Dodgers), 2-1, on Friday night at Parkview Field.
  For a fifth consecutive game, the TinCaps tallied 10-plus hits. However, the squad went 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position and left nine on base, plus had another three runners thrown out on the bases.
  Trailing by a run, Fort Wayne (16-25) put two runners on
  
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• Bishop Dwenger clinches outright SAC baseball title with win

  20-05-2017 04:30 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A chilly night didn’t stop Bishop Dwenger from celebrating.
  After winning a suspended game against South Side to secure at-least a share of the SAC title, the Saints won the scheduled contest in convincing fashion to clinch out the conference outright, 11-1. Junior Grant Richardson helped Dwenger score 10 runs in the fifth inning alone and then made the final put-out of the game.
  The Saints were obviously excited about their achievement but they have larger
  
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• Mastodons split with North Dakota State

  20-05-2017 02:49 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. – On Friday (May 19) Fort Wayne and North Dakota State finished a suspended game and played a regularly scheduled contest. The Mastodons lost the suspended contest 11-0 before winning game two 5-3. Aside from a brief downpour which the two clubs played through in the first game, the teams avoided rain for most of the day.
   
  Game One – North Dakota State 11, Fort Wayne 0 (7 innings)
  Win: Blake Stockert (3-1)
  Loss: Jake Weber (0-8)
   
  Play on Friday started in
  
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• Concordia’s Ashford to play basketball at Fisk University

  20-05-2017 02:45 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Concordia Lutheran High School’s Larson Ashford is heading to Nashville to play college basketball as the senior signed with Fisk University on Friday afternoon.
  As a senior, the 6-foot-5 Ashford averaged 8.1 points and 4.8 rebounds a game for the Cadets.
  Concordia went 3-19 last season.
  
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• Surveillance photos show theft suspects

  20-05-2017 02:18 via wane.com
  
  NOBLE CO., Ind. (WANE) Police are looking for multiple suspects who they say removed items from a rural home Tuesday morning. The Sheriff’s Department released three photos showing three different suspects leaving the home in Merriam Township.
  The Sheriff’s Department released three photos showing three different suspects.The Sheriff’s Department released three photos showing three different suspects.If you know anything about the incident or anyone involved call the Noble Coun
  
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• Report: FBI probe moves into White House

  20-05-2017 02:09 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told Russian diplomats last week his firing of “nut job” James Comey had eased the pressure on him, even as the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation had moved into the White House, according to reports Friday that pursued the president as he began his maiden foreign trip.
  White House hopes that Trump could leave scandalous allegations at home were crushed in a one-two punch of revelations that landed shortly after his departure.
  
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