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• House OKs GOP bill expanding gun owners’ rights

  06-12-2017 23:33 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans rammed a bill through the House on Wednesday that would make it easier for gun owners to legally carry concealed weapons across state lines, the first significant action on guns in Congress since mass shootings in Nevada and Texas killed more than 80 people.
  The House approved the bill, 231-198, largely along party lines. The measure would allow gun owners with a state-issued concealed-carry permit to carry a handgun in any state that allows concealed weapons.
  
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• Airline group says holiday travel will be higher than 2016

  06-12-2017 23:29 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — About 51 million Americans are expected to fly on U.S. airlines in the three weeks around Christmas and New Year’s Day, a 3.5 percent increase over last year.
  That’s the forecast Wednesday from Airlines for America, a trade group for most of the leading U.S. airlines.
  The group credits an improving economy and airfares that have lagged below the rate of inflation.
  The forecast counts domestic and international flights between Dec. 15 and Jan. 4.
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• Snider’s Johnson, Leo’s VonGunten win positional Mr. Football awards

  06-12-2017 23:07 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Snider’s Lawrence Johnson and Leo’s Ben VonGunten are the best at their position in the state of Indiana according the Indiana Football Coaches Association.
  The IFCA released its IndyStar Mr. Football position awards winners on Wednesday, with Johnson earning the nod as the state’ top player on the defensive line and VonGunten as the state’s best punter.
  Johnson, a Purdue recruit, tallied 50 tackles. He had seven TFLs and three sacks as Sni
  
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• Central Indiana 1-year-old suffocates under folded SUV seat

  06-12-2017 22:34 via wane.com
  SWAYZEE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a 1-year-old central Indiana girl has died after her parents were unaware the rear seat of an SUV had collapsed on top of her.
  Grant County Sheriff Department Detective Erin Keppeler says Khloe Villarreal of Kokomo died Sunday afternoon while the unidentified parents helped a relative move belongings.
  Keppeler says the girl was sleeping on the seat when her mother pressed a button that automatically folded the seat down so the woman could load the rear
  
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• Indiana Ed. board approves new grad requirements

  06-12-2017 22:33 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) The Indiana State Board of Education has approved changes to the state’s high school graduation requirements.
  The board on Wednesday voted 7-4 to approve new requirements for graduation that include a series of tasks in place of a test, as currently mandated in Indiana high schools. Under the new requirements, students will have to complete coursework, demonstrate employable skills through service or work projects and show they are ready for post-secondary study through
  
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• Surveillance photos of carjacking suspect released

  06-12-2017 22:05 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Fort Wayne Police have released a series of surveillance photos that they say show a suspect in a carjacking that happened earlier this week within the Canterbury Green Apartments complex.
  Just after 6 p.m. Monday, police responded to a report of an armed carjacking outside an apartment in the 2600 block of Northgate Boulevard. There, a man told police that he’d just gotten home to his apartment and parked in his carport when a man approached him as he was getting o
  
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• Boys and Girls Clubs planning new facility

  06-12-2017 21:47 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The Boys and Girls Clubs of Fort Wayne will build a new facility, the organization announced Tuesday.
  The Boys and Girls Club of Fort Wayne said on its website that it will erect a 42,000 square foot facility at Fairfield Avenue and Pontiac Street, in place of its current building at 2609 Fairfield Ave. Construction on the $7.7 million facility is expected to begin after the current building is demolished in January and be completed within 2018.
  The Clubs wrote on the web
  
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• Behind-the-scenes look at the Allen County Courthouse

  06-12-2017 21:17 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – More than 100 years ago, community leaders convinced taxpayers to help build the Allen County Courthouse. Today it’s marked as a national historic landmark with ceilings of gold and stories displayed throughout.
  Inside the courthouse, there’s incredible art around a place that thrives on civic pride. Along the tour, you can see the four courtrooms, each with different stories in the marble and gold ceilings.
  But it didn’t always look like it does
  
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• Donnelly calls for Franken to resign, announcement to come Thursday

  06-12-2017 18:41 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (WANE/AP) Democratic Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly has joined with other members of Congress in calling for Al Franken to resign. Donnelly tweeted out a statement early Wednesday afternoon.
  Joe is calling for Senator Franken to resign. pic.twitter.com/ff5i1rnhJs
  — Senator Joe Donnelly (@SenDonnelly) December 6, 2017Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Patty Murray, D-Wash., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., have all
  
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• ‘Silence Breakers’ named Time magazine’s Person of the Year

  06-12-2017 18:31 via wane.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The “Silence Breakers” — those who have shared their stories about sexual assault and harassment — have been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year.Numerous women have spoken out publicly since October about sexual misconduct by dozens of high-profile men in entertainment, media, business and sports. Time praised those who have given “voice to open secrets, for moving whisper networks onto social networks, for pushing us all to stop acc
  
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• Addison Agen talks strategy, possibility of winning ‘The Voice’

  06-12-2017 18:29 via wane.com
  Addison Agen of Fort Wayne advanced to the Top 8 of NBC’s singing competition “The Voice” on Tuesday night. In a phone interview with NewsChannel 15 on Wednesday, the 16-year-old Concordia Lutheran High School student discussed why she chose to sing a Britney Spears song Monday night, what it’s been like under the tutelage of coach Adam Levine, who she’s grown close to and what it would be like to win “The Voice.”
  
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• Voters to decide on new NACS elementary school

  06-12-2017 16:30 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The popular statement, “If you build it, they will come,” isn’t true for Northwest Allen County Schools.
  Quite the opposite, in fact. The district already has residents coming – they just need to build it.
  It, in this case, is a new elementary school. The district on Tuesday held a preliminary determination hearing to discuss the demand for a new school to meet the need in its growing community.
  Northwest Allen County Schools is considering buildin
  
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• Mother of boy who fatally OD’d on cocaine gets probation

  06-12-2017 15:14 via wane.com
  YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — The mother of a 9-year-old Ohio boy who fatally overdosed on cocaine has received probation instead of prison.
  The sentencing Tuesday for 38-year-old Raenell Allen, of Youngstown, on a child endangering charge comes days after her boyfriend, 38-year-old Kevin Gamble, received 4 ½ years in prison for the death last December of 9-year-old Marcus Lee.
  Prosecutors and a defense attorney recommended the sentence as part of a plea deal after Allen agreed to testify
  
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• Runaway from Ohio found riding on semi in Indiana

  06-12-2017 15:07 via wane.com
  SEYMOUR, Ind. (WANE) A 17-year-old boy who had been reported as a runaway from northern Ohio was found Tuesday nearly 300 miles away riding between the cab and trailer of a semi in southern Indiana according to Indiana State Police.
  A motor carrier inspector operating a weigh station on I-65 north of Seymour spotted the boy at around 9 a.m. riding on the catwalk of the semi.He got the driver to stop and despite the boy’s efforts to hide, he was taken into custody.
  Police determined the boy
  
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• Police: 2 dead after 5-vehicle crash in northern Indiana

  06-12-2017 14:42 via wane.com
  LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say two people are dead following a five-vehicle crash involving four trucks and a car along Interstate 65 in northern Indiana.
  Police say a truck driven by a Michigan man was stopped for a crash Tuesday near Lafayette in Tippecanoe County and a truck pulling a flatbed driven by a man from Sherman, Illinois, was stopped behind him along with a car.
  Police say a box truck driven by 62-year-old man from Florissant, Missouri, was slowing when a truck pulling
  
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• IOC: Russians can compete at Olympics, but without flag

  06-12-2017 07:36 via wane.com
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russian athletes will be allowed to stand on the medal podium at the Winter Olympics — just not with their anthem playing or their nation’s flag rising above them.
  The International Olympic Committee barred Russia and its sports leaders from the upcoming games in South Korea after its lead investigator concluded members of the Russian government concocted a doping scheme at the 2014 Sochi Games that “caused unprecedented damage to Olympism an
  
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• Former Muncie volleyball coach facing child seduction, sexual misconduct charges

  06-12-2017 06:24 via wane.com
  MUNCIE, Ind. (WISH) – A former Muncie Central High School volleyball coach is facing charges after he admitted to having inappropriate relations with an underage player on the team, according to WANE-TV sister station WISH-TV in Indianapolis.
  Mugshot of 24-year-old Nolan BrandAn investigation into 24-year-old Nolan Brand’s behavior began Monday. Police said a mother made a report with officers after finding inappropriate text messages on her 15-year-old daughter’s phone.
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• Seekers of justice support 2-year-old who died last week, suspect heads to court

  06-12-2017 06:04 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Family, friends, and even those who didn’t know 2-year-old Malakai Garrett were pitching for justice Tuesday night.
  About two dozen people gathered at Headwaters Park and marched to the Allen County Courthouse. There they used sidewalk church to cover the area in the hashtag “JusticeforMalakai.
  Malakai died last week, according to Fort Wayne police. Emergency crews were called to a home in the 6900 block of Palmetta Court Nov. 29 after a report of a ch
  
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• No extra money for fighting Indiana’s opioid crisis

  06-12-2017 05:42 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (WANE)-  The fight against Indiana’s opioid crisis won’t be getting any extra state money next year. But, lawmakers say it won’t be a problem. Opioids have many Hoosiers in its talons.
  Katie Butler, Substance use Program Supervisor for Families First in Indianapolis said  “Opioids…they really grab hold of a person. It’s a much harder one to deal with, to withdraw from.”
  It is a problem that is taking a lot of money to fight. But s
  
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• Police search for suspects in armed robbery

  06-12-2017 03:05 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)  Police are looking for two men who robbed the One Main Financial at gunpoint Tuesday night.
  Investigators say the suspects were wearing black hoodies and had covered their faces with black bandanas when they walked into the business at 7619 Southtown Crossing around 6:40 p.m.
  They demanded cash from the two employees, took the workers’ cell phones, and were seen driving away in a dark-colored car. The phones were recovered a short time later in the intersectio
  
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• Addison Agen moves on to Top 8 on “The Voice”

  06-12-2017 02:13 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)  Concordia High School student Addison Agen is advancing to the Top 8 on “The Voice.”
  Agen was the second person named to move on in the singing competition.
  Monday night she sang “Lucky” by Britney Spears, as the Top 10 competed for a spot in the Top 8.
  
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• Coldwater Confusion: Drivers get stuck in new medians

  06-12-2017 00:35 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) New medians in the middle of Coldwater Road have been causing problems for drivers navigating the city’s north side.
  “We see some folks driving over some of the medians and hitting some of the curbs out there,” The city’s traffic engineer Shan Gunawardena told NewsChannel 15. “Once you do it one time, you won’t do it again.”
  Gunawardena said drivers need time to adjust to the new design.
  “We’re trying to change driver
  
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• Cincinnati Zoo to open expanded gorilla habitat

  06-12-2017 00:03 via wane.com
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati zoo’s gorillas can be viewed by the public year-round at the facility’s new expanded gorilla habitat, which includes an indoor viewing area.
  The zoo drew global attention in 2016 when a special response team killed a gorilla after a small child fell into his enclosure. Harambe’s death sparked a storm of social media comment, some mournful and some satirical.
  The expanded Gorilla World habitat opening Wednesday is the result of a $12 millio
  
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