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• Facebook to release Russia ads to Congress amid pressure

  21-09-2017 22:19 via wane.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook will provide the contents of 3,000 ads bought by a Russian agency to congressional investigators.
  The move Thursday comes amid growing pressure on the social network from members of Congress, who pushed it to release the ads. Facebook has already handed over the ads to federal authorities investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is “actively working” with the U.S. government
  
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• Western Indiana woman guilty of neglect of 15-pound boy

  21-09-2017 22:07 via wane.com
  TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A western Indiana jury has found a woman guilty of nine counts of neglect in the death of a 9-year-old blind boy with cerebral palsy who weighed just 15 pounds.
  The Tribune-Star reports the Vigo County jury deliberated three hours Thursday before convicting 54-year-old Robin Kraemer of Fontanet. She’s scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 19 and faces a potential prison term of 20 to 40 years on the most serious charge.
  Cameron Hoopingarner weighed only 15 pounds wh
  
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• Business owners react to problem property ordinance

  21-09-2017 22:07 via wane.com
   
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Business owners around the Summit City reacted Thursday to the proposal of a ordinance fighting problem properties.
  Fort Wayne City Council President Tom Didier laid out the plan Wednesday while standing along side with Fort Wayne’s police chief and Mayor Tom Henry, among others.
  If the ordinance passes, businesses who are cited 12 times in 90 days by police, fire or neighborhood code, will be fined.
  Didier and Police Chief Steve Reed both stressed the ordina
  
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• Family of black man killed by Indianapolis police sue city

  21-09-2017 22:02 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The family of an unarmed black man fatally shot by Indianapolis police during a traffic stop is suing the city, its police department and two officers, alleging excessive force.
  The federal lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Aaron Bailey’s constitutional rights were violated when the two officers fired on him June 29. It contends that Officers Carlton Howard and Michael Dinnsen used excessive force that was “objectively and subjectively unreasonable”
  
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• Cougars prepare for toughest challenge yet in no. 11 St. Xavier

  21-09-2017 21:07 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – After dispatching St. Ambrose 49-21 last Saturday top-ranked St. Francis will face its biggest challenge of the young season when the Cougars welcome no. 11 St. Xavier (Ill.) to Bishop D’Arcy Stadium on Saturday night.
  Kick is set for 6 p.m.
  The Cougars are 3-0 and have outscored opponent 172-51 this season.
  St. Xavier is 3-0, including a win over then-fifth-ranked Marian in week one.
  
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• A stunned Puerto Rico seeks to rebuild after Hurricane Maria

  21-09-2017 20:31 via wane.com
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Rescuers fanned out to reach stunned victims Thursday after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, knocking out electricity to the entire island and triggering landslides and floods.
  The extent of the damage is unknown given that dozens of municipalities remained isolated and without communication after Maria hit the island Wednesday morning as a Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds, the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in over 80 years.
  Uprooted trees and w
  
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• New report shows who’s doing the hiring

  21-09-2017 20:23 via wane.com
  The job market has steadily improved since the Great Recession and a new report from careerbuilder.com shows who’s been doing the hiring.
  
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• On work trips, DeVos flies on her plane at own expense

  21-09-2017 19:45 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos flies on her personal plane at her own expense when she visits schools around the country, according to her office, as other Cabinet secretaries’ flying habits at taxpayers’ cost have drawn scrutiny.
  Education Department Press Secretary Liz Hill said in a statement to The Associated Press that DeVos travels “on personally-owned aircraft” at zero cost to taxpayers. Speaking with the AP on Thursday, Hill would not disc
  
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• DNR issues fall foliage forecast

  21-09-2017 19:38 via wane.com
  The following information was provided by the Indiana Department of Natural ResourcesFall colors have begun to appear in some parts of the state thanks to an unusually cold start to September.
  While temperatures in recent days have been above normal, daytime highs in early September in Indianapolis were in the 60s and 70s, with overnight lows in the 40s on some days.
  The best fall color formation happens with bright, warm days, cool nights and moist soils, according to Carrie Tauscher, DNR Divis
  
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• Kendallville man, 45, reported missing

  21-09-2017 18:58 via wane.com
  KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (WANE) Police in Kendallville are searching for a 45-year-old man who has been missing since late August.
  Brian R. LashBrian R. Lash was last seen by friends and family on August 30 at the Best Western hotel in Kendallville. No one has heard from him since, according to Kendallville Police.
  The police department received a missing person report on September 13.
  Lash is described as a 45-year-old white man, 6 feet tall and 180 pounds, bald with brown eyes.
  Anyone with any infor
  
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• Crash closes NB lane of I-69

  21-09-2017 18:38 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A two-vehicle crash along Interstate 69 briefly closed one northbound lane of the highway in southern Allen County midday Thursday.
  Police and medics were called just before 12:30 p.m. to the 299 milemarker, at the Airport Expressway and Lower Huntington Road interchange, on a report of a crash there. Dispatchers told NewsChannel 15 that two vehicles collided and minor injuries were reported.
  No other information was available.
  Police closed one northbound lane at the cra
  
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• Police: Woman steals ID numbers of fellow students to make online purchases

  21-09-2017 18:03 via wane.com
  MADISON, Ind. (WANE)  A southern Indiana woman faces multiple charges for allegedly using the personal ID numbers of fellow students at Ivy Tech’s Madison, Indiana campus to make online bookstore purchases for herself.
  According to Indiana State Police, an investigation began on September 11 when Ivy Tech became suspicious of a large number of purchases made by several students that were being delivered to the address of a single student. Ivy Tech was also able to determine those purc
  
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• GOTW Preview: Wayne at Snider

  21-09-2017 18:01 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Two of the top teams in the SAC will clash at Spuller Stadium on Friday night when Wayne meets Snider in the Highlight Zone “Game of the Week!”
  Wayne is 3-2 but riding a three-game winning streak in which the Generals have scored an average of 41 points a night.
  Snider is 5-0 on the season and coming off a 52-31 win over Homestead at Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday. The Panthers moved up one slot to no. 2 in this week’s 6A poll.
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• $165M city budget supports public safety, infrastructure

  21-09-2017 17:08 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry on Thursday presented the $165 million city budget he’ll present to City Council next week that calls for additional police officers and firefighters and funding for infrastructure improvements.
  The budget – a balanced plan that Henry said reflect’s Fort Wayne’s position as a leader in economic development and quality-of-life amenities – allows for a $3 million investment in maintenance projects in city parks, and t
  
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• Toyota marks 5 millionth vehicle made at Indiana factory

  21-09-2017 16:46 via wane.com
  PRINCETON, Ind. (AP) — Toyota has marked the production of its 5 millionth vehicle from its southwestern Indiana factory that opened 19 years ago.
  Gov. Eric Holcomb joined company officials for a ceremony Wednesday celebrating the production milestone at the Princeton assembly plant.
  The factory about 25 miles north of Evansville has about 5,000 workers building Highlander and Sequoia SUVs and Sienna minivans. The Evansville Courier & Press reports Toyota estimates its presence has led
  
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• Police: Indianapolis homicide is city’s 100th of 2017

  21-09-2017 16:30 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police say the fatal shooting of a man in downtown Indianapolis is the city’s 100th homicide of the year.
  Indianapolis police said the man’s shooting death early Thursday in the city’s downtown bar district is a criminal homicide, giving Indiana’s capital city 100 to date for 2017.
  That’s slightly fewer than the 110 such killings the city had at the same time last year.
  Indianapolis ended 2016 with a record 149 criminal homicides that were
  
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• Purdue names chancellor to lead IPFW transition

  21-09-2017 15:49 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) IPFW’s next chancellor will begin his duties starting November 1 according to a news release issued by Purdue University Thursday morning.
  Ronald Elsenbaumer will replace Vicky Carwein who retired after serving as the school’s chancellor since 2012.Elsenbaumer is a Purdue alumnus who is currently a special advisor to the president at the University of Texas Arlington.Elsenbaumer will oversee IPFW’s transition to Purdue University Fort Wayne as part of th
  
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• Indiana studying statewide bike path

  21-09-2017 15:25 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) Should Indiana have a 500-mile bike path around the state? A state task force is looking into the idea of connecting bike paths across Indiana and that is an idea it is entertaining.The General Assembly created the Indiana Bike Trails Task Force this past year. While the group only met for the first time a month ago, the plan for a 500-mile bike path is one that generated excitement.
  Indiana has more than 1,500 miles of path for biking. But state officials and cyclists say to
  
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• Traffic stop leads to meth bust, marijuana grow operation

  21-09-2017 10:17 via wane.com
  LAGRANGE, Ind. (WANE) – A LaGrange man is behind bars after a traffic stop Wednesday evening, according to the LaGrange Marshal’s Department.
  Investigators said an officer stopped a minivan at State Road 9 and County Road 200 North in LaGrange shortly before 9 p.m.
  This photo shows a bag of suspected crystal methamphetamine found during a traffic stop in LaGrange on Sept. 20, 2017. (Photo Courtesy: LaGrange Marshal’s Department)A department statement said an officer smelled bur
  
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• Jake LaMotta, boxer who inspired ‘Raging Bull,’ dies at 95

  21-09-2017 10:14 via wane.com
  Jake LaMotta, an iron-fisted battler who brawled his way to a middleweight title and was later memorialized by Robert De Niro in the film “Raging Bull,” has died. He was 95.
  The former middleweight champion died Tuesday at a Miami-area hospital from complications of pneumonia, according to his longtime fiancee, Denise Baker.
  FILE – In this June 16, 1949, file photo, Jake LaMotta, left, pounds Marcel Cerdan in third round of a world middleweight title bout in Detroit, Mich. LaMo
  
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• Google buys HTC’s Pixel team in $1.1B bet on devices

  21-09-2017 10:09 via wane.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is biting off a big piece of device manufacturer HTC for $1.1 billion to expand its efforts to build phones, speakers and other gadgets equipped with its arsenal of digital services.
  It’s buying the HTC engineering team that built the Pixel smartphone for Google in a cash deal, the companies said in a joint statement Thursday. Google is also getting a non-exclusive license for Taiwan-based HTC’s intellectual property to help support Pixel phones.
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• Son of Chicago’s public housing chief charged in murder

  21-09-2017 10:03 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The 18-year-old son of the Chicago Housing Authority’s CEO has been charged in connection with a fatal shooting in Indianapolis.
  The Metropolitan Police Department announced Eugene Jones turned himself in Tuesday, questioned and then taken into custody. He was later charged with the robbery and murder on Sunday of 18-year-old Deante Williams.
  Police said Williams was sitting in a car with his girlfriend when he was shot. Authorities refused to release additional i
  
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• Emails point to Manafort offer to brief Russian in campaign

  21-09-2017 10:00 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In the middle of Donald Trump’s presidential run, then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort said he was willing to provide “private briefings” about the campaign to a Russian billionaire the U.S. government considers close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  Manafort’s offer was memorialized in an email exchange with a former employee of his political consulting firm in July 2016. It was first reported by The Washington Post, which said portions of Man
  
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• NKorea minister calls Trump’s threat ‘sound of dog barking’

  21-09-2017 09:55 via wane.com
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  FILE – In this Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017 in New York described as “the sound of a dog barking” Trump’s threat to destroy his country. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s foreign minister has described as “the sound of a dog
  
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• Watchdog: Airfares for many travelers rise due to bag fees

  21-09-2017 06:53 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Travelers who check at least one bag when flying domestically are paying more overall than they did before airlines began unbundling fares in 2008 and charging separately for checked baggage, a government watchdog said Wednesday.
  A report by the Government Accountability Office said airline officials told GAO investigators that base air fares are now lower than before airlines began separately charging passengers for checked bags, reservation changes, priority boarding a
  
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• Bernie Casey, pro football player turned actor, dies

  21-09-2017 06:47 via wane.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bernie Casey, a professional football player turned poet, painter and actor known for parts in films such as “Revenge of the Nerds” and “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka,” has died. He was 78.
  Casey died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a brief illness, his talent agent Erin Connor said.
  Born in West Virginia in 1939 and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Casey excelled in track and field and football and attended Bowling Green State University on an athletic sc
  
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• SEC reveals 2016 hack that breached its filing system

  21-09-2017 06:45 via wane.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday that a cyber breach of a filing system it uses may have provided the basis for some illegal trading in 2016.
  In a statement posted on the SEC’s website, Chairman Jay Clayton said a review of the agency’s cybersecurity risk profile determined that the previously detected “incident” was caused by “a software vulnerability” in its EDGAR filing system.
  The statement said the software was
  
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• Mueller investigators seek documents from the White House

  21-09-2017 06:43 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators is seeking information from the White House related to Michael Flynn’s stint as national security adviser and about the response to a meeting with a Russian lawyer that was attended by President Donald Trump’s oldest son, The Associated Press has learned.
  Mueller’s office has requested a large batch of documents from the White House and is expected to interview at least a half-dozen current an
  
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• Carroll grad Tranquill ready to lead Notre Dame against MSU

  21-09-2017 05:36 via wane.com
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WANE) – Brutal honesty. That’s what you get with Carroll High School grad Drue Tranquill.
  That is one of the reasons Tranquill is a captain now for the Irish.
  On Saturday the senior safety will lead a Notre Dame team into East Lansing bound and determined to make up for last year’s 36-28 loss to Michigan State.
  The 2-1 Irish will play at 2-0 Michigan State on Saturday at 8 p.m.
  Click on the VIDEO tab to hear what Tranquill had to say about playing MSU.
  
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• One killed in crash on U.S. 30 in Van Wert

  21-09-2017 03:33 via wane.com
  VAN WERT COUNTY, Ohio (WANE)  One person was killed in a crash on U.S. involving three vehicles Wednesday morning.
  Police said a semi driven by a Pennsylvania man was heading west on U.S. 30 in Van Wert County, Ohio and slowed for traffic in a construction zone.
  Bert Helsel, 63, of Minster, Ohio, was directly behind the semi and also began to slow down.
  Another semi hit Helsel’s car from behind and pushed it into the back of the first semi.
  Helsel died at the scene. Neither semi drive
  
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• #HighlightZone #2MinuteDrill Week Five

  21-09-2017 00:38 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Week five had so much amazing action – including a bonus SAC showdown Saturday night at Lucas Oil Stadium – that this week’s #HighlightZone #2MinuteDrill is closer to a two and a half minute drill.
  Click on the VIDEO for the best sights and sounds of week five of the prep football season.
  We mic’d up East Noble coach Luke Amstutz as he led the Knight into the Highlight Zone “Game of the Week” against Leo – and we snagged h
  
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