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• Retired Ball State prof reaches plea in molestation case

  13-02-2018 23:54 via wane.com
  MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A retired Ball State University professor accused of molesting a boy has agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge in the case.
  Eighty-one-year-old Melvin Lee Sharpe agreed last week to plead guilty to a felony count of battery resulting in bodily injury.
  A Delaware County judge set an April 5 hearing to decide whether she’ll accept the plea. If she does, Sharpe will be sentenced at that time.
  He was accused of sexually assaulting a boy over a five-year period sta
  
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• Peyton Manning to lead field to green flag at Daytona 500

  13-02-2018 23:41 via wane.com
  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Peyton Manning is leading one more drive on a big stage.
  Peyton Manning (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
  The two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback will serve as honorary pace car driver for the 60th running of the Daytona 500. Manning will be behind the wheel of the Toyota pace car and lead the 40-car field to the green flag to start “The Great American Race” on Sunday.
  Manning joins a list of Daytona 500 celebrities that includes Academy Award winner Charlize Th
  
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• Reich embraces new role with Colts as coaching backup plan

  13-02-2018 23:26 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Frank Reich has been introduced as the Indianapolis Colts new head coach.
  The former Philadelphia Eagles’ offensive coordinator accepted the job two days earlier then signed his contract at the home of team owner Jim Irsay later that night.
  The announcement came exactly one week after the Colts had agreed to a deal with New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. Eight hours later, McDaniels backed out of the deal and decided to remain with the Pats
  
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• South Side’s Johnson heading to Marian

  13-02-2018 23:12 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – One of the area’s top defensive linemen will continue his career at Marian University as South Side senior Isaac Johnson signed with the Knights on Tuesday.
  Johnson tallied a team-best 11 sacks last fall for the Archers. He had 44 total tackles and was named first team All-SAC.
  Johnson is listed at 6-foot-4, 215 pounds.
  
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• Mardi Gras parade honors New Orleans’ tricentennial

  13-02-2018 22:18 via wane.com
  VIDEO: People are partying in New Orleans today. It is Mardi Gras! Here’s a look at some of the celebrations. (CBS)
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers descended on New Orleans streets for parades and rowdy fun as Mardi Gras capped the Carnival season in a city with a celebration of its own, its 300th anniversary.
  The anniversary of this Louisiana port city will feature prominently in Fat Tuesday’s festivities.
  Rex, New Orleans’ oldest parading Carnival grou
  
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• Indiana Supreme Court rejects challenge to execution combo

  13-02-2018 22:03 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court has ruled prison officials can change execution drugs without going through a public review.
  The Indianapolis Star reports the court Tuesday rejected a challenge by death row inmate Roy Ward. The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled last June that the Department of Correction didn’t follow proper procedures in selecting a new three-drug combination in 2014.
  However, the Supreme Court in a unanimous nine-page ruling said the state’s new th
  
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• BBB: Millions fall victim to online ‘romance scams’

  13-02-2018 22:00 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The number of online dating scams is on the rise. A recent study done by the Better Business Bureau revealed that victims were scammed out of nearly $1 billion over the last three years and it is estimated there are more than a million victims across the country.
  BBB’s study, “Online Romance Scams: How Scammers Use Impersonation, Blackmail, and Trickery to Steal from Unsuspecting Daters” looks at how these scams work, who the scammers are, a
  
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• Man accused of killing Colts player, Uber driver in crash now facing additional charges in Boone Co.

  13-02-2018 20:45 via wane.com
  BOONE COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) — The man accused of killing Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and Uber driver Jeffrey Monroe will now face additional charges stemming from a previous arrest.
  The Boone County Prosecutor’s Office announced the new charges Tuesday in connection to a previous arrest of Manuel Orrego-Savala in Boone County in 2017.
  Orrego-Savala now faces charges of perjury, forgery, identity deception and false informing after officials said he gave them false informat
  
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• North Pointe Dental care offers free service on April 14

  13-02-2018 20:34 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) North Pointe Dental Care is offering the community free dental service for one day. On Saturday April 14, Dr. Angela Coleman, Dr. Andrew Orman and their team are putting on Free Dentistry Day.
  This includes free cleanings, fillings and extractions. The special will only allow one service per person.
  “We look forward to helping our neighbors, counterparts and those in our community, and we greatly appreciate your assistance,” North Pointe Dental Care.
  
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• Reports: Police recommend indictments of Netanyahu

  13-02-2018 20:31 via wane.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Tuesday recommended that Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted in a pair of corruption cases, media reported, in an embarrassing blow to the embattled prime minister that is likely to fuel calls for him to step down.
  The recommendations marked a dramatic ending to a months-long investigation into allegations that Netanyahu accepted tens of thousands of dollars in lavish gifts from a Hollywood mogul and offered to give preferential treatment to a newspaper publi
  
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• $50 million grant to help improve FWCS

  13-02-2018 20:11 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Fort Wayne Community Schools is getting a big boost through a federal grant. “We don’t just have money readily available, so that’s where this kind of grant really helps,” Krista Stockman with FWCS said.
  A $50 million grant (U.S. Department of Education Teacher and School Leadership Incentive Program Grant) will be spread over a five year period.
  A big part of it will go toward staff development including ongoing training and conferenc
  
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• Indiana Senate leader David Long to retire

  13-02-2018 19:26 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS — The leader of the Indiana State Senate, President Pro Tem David Long (R-Fort Wayne), announced today that he will retire from the Senate in November. Long, who has served in the Senate for 22 years, the past 12 as the Senate leader, said that 30 years of public service, including eight as a Fort Wayne city councilman prior to his service in the Senate, was long enough.
  “It’s difficult to leave a job that you love and that you believe you were born to do,” s
  
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• New burger spot BurgerFi offering free food for ‘Grand Opening’

  13-02-2018 19:23 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) More than two months after it opened in Fort Wayne, gourmet burger eatery BurgerFi will hold official grand opening this weekend at its north Fort Wayne location.
  It will mark the occasion by offering free food to eaters.
  A burger from BurgerFi is shown.
  BurgerFi opened Dec. 11 at 7777 Coldwater Road, in the strip mall with Salsa Grille and Courtney’s Bakery just north of Cook Road. It serves a variety of craft burgers, hand-cut fries and onion rings, and a propriet
  
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• Man convicted in killings could be released from prison

  13-02-2018 19:04 via wane.com
  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio inmate who admitted taking part in three slayings with his brother in a killing spree that left nine dead during the 1970s and ’80s could soon be released.
  The Blade of Toledo reports attorneys for 59-year-old Nathaniel Cook are expected to file for his judicial release as early as this week under terms of his plea agreement.
  Cook pleaded guilty to attempted murder and two counts of kidnapping, for a 20-year sentence that ends Tuesday.
  Prosecutors say Cook
  
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• Allen Co. Highway Department to install stop signs on Lower Huntington Road

  13-02-2018 17:51 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The Allen County Highway Department will install stop signs on Lower Huntington Road. Stop signs will be placed on Lower Huntington Road to stop traffic as it approaches the intersection with Aboite Road.
  The signs currently on Aboite Road will be removed and drivers will no longer have to stop at the Lower Huntington Road intersection. The Allen County Board of Commissioners signed an ordinance Friday, February 2 to have the stop control at the intersection cha
  
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• Officers raid home, find drugs and guns

  13-02-2018 17:36 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Two people are facing drug charges after police found marijuana and edible drugs inside a home. After an investigation, the Gang Unit and SWAT team searched a home in the 2100 block of Crescent Avenue near Forest Park Elementary around 3:45 p.m. Monday, February 12.
  Once inside, officers found various drugs including: over 3,200 grams of marijuana, over 280 grams of edibles, more than $14,000 in cash and five different firearms.
  Police arrested 22-year-old Tyler Turnwald
  
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• Coffee shop set to open in old Flashback Landing location

  13-02-2018 17:17 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Downtown business Utopian Coffee is set to move from its current location on Pearl St. to the former Flashback location on W. Columbia St.
  In a release, Utopian Coffee Brendon Maxwell stressed the importance of The Landing project in the early stages of development.
  “We’ve been roasting downtown for years and we’re honored and excited to be a part of The Landing, which is such a significant development for Northeast Indiana,”  Maxwell
  
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• Mayor touts Fort Wayne’s ‘rise’ in State of the City Address

  13-02-2018 16:07 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry declared Fort Wayne a city “on the rise” during his State of the City Address Wednesday.
  Henry delivered his annual address Wednesday at the Grand Wayne Convention Center in downtown Fort Wayne, the area of the city that Henry placed an emphasis on. The speech also focused on neighborhood infrastructure projects and a commitment to public safety.
  The address was Henry’s 10th as mayor.
  “There’s no doubt Fort Wayne is
  
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• Mayor to discuss Fort Wayne’s ‘rise’ in State of the City Address

  13-02-2018 16:07 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry is set to deliver his 2018 State of the City Address.
  Henry will address the city at noon Wednesday from the Grand Wayne Center. He’s expected to highlight the successes Fort Wayne enjoyed in 2017 and look ahead to plans for the city for 2018.
  The theme for the speech is “Fort Wayne – On the Rise.”
  The mayor’s State of the City Address is free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to arrive by 11:45 a.m.
  
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• ‘LOVE’ returns: Philadelphia park gets its sculpture back

  13-02-2018 15:26 via wane.com
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — “LOVE” will be back in Philadelphia, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
  The famous 1976 Robert Indiana sculpture is returning to its home Tuesday — and will make a number of stops in a parade around Philadelphia before its reinstallation.
  The sculpture was temporarily installed at nearby City Hall in 2016 while its home, a downtown park, was going through a renovation.
  It was taken off view a year ago for repairs ahead of the park’s reopenin
  
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• Ex-Notre Dame employee pleads guilty in $200,000 theft

  13-02-2018 14:57 via wane.com
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A former University of Notre Dame employee accused of taking about $200,000 from the law school’s Clinical Law Center has pleaded guilty in the case.
  Jennifer Ihns is awaiting sentencing April 13 after entering a plea last week to charges including forgery and theft. The 44-year-old will be required to pay $199,000 in restitution to Notre Dame.
  The South Bend Tribune reports an internal audit performed by the university in 2016 of the Clinical Law Center&rsquo
  
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• Kochs launch $4M campaign against Dems in Missouri, Indiana

  13-02-2018 14:27 via wane.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Koch brothers are spending millions to attack two vulnerable Democrats for voting against the Republican tax overhaul.
  The Koch-backed group Americans For Prosperity plan to launch a $4 million advertising campaign against Missouri’s Sen. Claire McCaskill and Indiana’s Sen. Joe Donnelly. An AFP spokesman said Tuesday the ad campaign will run on TV and the internet for three weeks beginning Thursday.
  The ads accuse the senators of “voting against tax cu
  
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• Indiana police hope anniversary of teens’ murders spurs tips

  13-02-2018 14:16 via wane.com
  DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — Police investigating the unsolved murders of two northern Indiana teenage girls are hoping the crime’s one-year anniversary spurs a wave of tips from the public that can lead them to the killer.
  Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby says State Police and the FBI have increased staffing to field an anticipated increase in tips about the murders of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams.
  The girls vanished last Feb. 13 while hiking near their hom
  
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• Korean Word of the Day for February 13

  13-02-2018 12:00 via wane.com
  Today’s Korean Word of the Day is “champion.”
  
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• Hidden History: La Amistad

  13-02-2018 11:00 via wane.com
  New Haven, CT. (WTNH) – La Amistad was a slave ship caught in the middle of an international controversy during the 1890’s. The ship was holding slaves that were to be sold in the U.S. During the voyage the captives revolted, killing some of the crew members.
  Once the ship was captured by the U.S.S. Washington, a long court battle ensued to decide the captives’ fate. It’s a case that made it all the way to the Supreme Court setting a precedent. Now, that very ship is tea
  
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• 18-year-old critically hurt in Butler crash

  13-02-2018 07:06 via wane.com
  BUTLER, Ind. (WANE) – One man is in critical condition after being involved in a crash in DeKalb County Monday night.
  Police responded to State Road 8 and State Road 1 near Butler around 8:30.
  Investigators said Nikalys McKean, 18, Auburn, was driving north on State Road 1 and failed to stop at a stop sign at State Road 8.
  Judy Watson, 65, St. Joe, was driving east on State Road 8 and hit the side of McKean’s car, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s department.
  Both vehicl
  
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• City Council to vote on legacy fund resolution for baseball field lights

  13-02-2018 06:37 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – It may still be winter, but one Fort Wayne organization is looking ahead to baseball season.
  World Baseball Academy unveiled three new turf fields at the ASH Centre in October, but one major aspect is still missing – lights.
  Now the organization is hoping to change that with help from the Fort Wayne City Council.
  Councilmen Tom Didier and Geoff Paddock introduced a resolution to invest $600,000 from the Legacy Fund to complete the fields by adding lights.
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• Her fight with the flu changed her life

  13-02-2018 05:40 via wane.com
  FORT WANE, Ind. (WANE) Fort Wayne resident Lisa Bockelman spent months in the hospital and rehab after she caught the flu. It nearly took her life, and the only way doctors could save her was by taking her leg. Now she has a message for anyone who will listen. Get the flu shot.
  
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• 2/12 Prep Basketball Recap

  13-02-2018 04:06 via wane.com
  COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (WANE) – West Noble nipped Columbia City in overtime at Donald S. Weeks Gymnasium to headline area prep hoops action on Monday evening.
  West Noble, who won 64-59, improves to 9-9 with the win while Columbia City falls to 8-13.
  
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• Mooney’s hot hand not enough at North Carolina

  13-02-2018 04:03 via wane.com
  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Theo Pinson scored 14 of his 16 points after halftime to go with 10 rebounds, helping No. 14 North Carolina pull away late to beat Notre Dame 83-66 on Monday night.Joel Berry II added 21 points for the Tar Heels (20-7, 9-5 Atlantic Coast Conference), who closed a tough stretch with their third game in five days. The first two were emotional rivalry wins, the first coming at home against Duke and Saturday’s coming at North Carolina State.This time, UNC needed
  
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• Homestead’s McArdle ready for RedHawks

  13-02-2018 03:26 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Homestead soccer standout Samantha McArdle made her college choice official on Monday night by signing with the Miami University RedHawks.
  McArdle says she’s excited to continue her soccer career and do it on the D-1 level relatively close to home.
  
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• PHOTOS: Women’s Ski Jumping Competition 2018

  13-02-2018 03:03 via wane.com
  PHOTOS: South Korea Women’s Ski Jumping 2018Sara Takanashi of Japan makes a jump during the Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Ski Jumping (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images) Katharina Althaus of Germany makes a jump during the Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Ski Jumping (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images) Gold medalist Maren Lundby of Norway looks onduring the victory ceremony after the Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Ski Jumping Final (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images) Bronze medalist
  
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• Angola senior is USF Pay it Forward scholarship finalist

  13-02-2018 00:40 via wane.com
  ANGOLA, Ind. (WANE)  An Angola high school student is one of three finalists for the University of St. Francis Pay it Forward Scholarship.
  Two incoming freshmen will each receive a scholarship for half tuition and one will get a scholarship for full tuition, renewable for four years.
  Luis Sosa Manubes isn’t like most kids in his Spanish class. He grew up in Mexico and already speaks the language fluently. The experiences he had there as a child shaped him into the young man he’s
  
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• Air bag danger: Ford, Mazda add pickups to do-not-drive list

  13-02-2018 00:03 via wane.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Ford and Mazda are adding more than 35,000 pickup trucks in North America to a list of vehicles that should not be driven because they have Takata air bag inflators with a high risk of exploding.
  The warning includes 33,428 Ranger and 1,955 Mazda B-Series small pickups from 2006 model year, according to both companies. Ford, which made the B-Series for Mazda, found test results showing that the trucks had inflators that ruptured or recorded high internal pressure readings, s
  
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• Police: Body of infant found buried in yard

  13-02-2018 00:01 via wane.com
  RIVERSIDE, Ohio (AP) — Police say the body of an infant has been found buried in a yard in southwest Ohio and the death is under investigation.
  Riverside police say there are no immediate suspects in what is currently listed on police records as an investigation of corpse abuse. The Montgomery County coroner’s office says no cause of death has been determined.
  Police say officers went to a home around 5:30 p.m. Sunday on a report of a dead infant and found the baby’s body burie
  
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