Fort Wayne news

• Remembering Don Wolf by wearing jeans

  16-10-2019 23:45 via wane.com
  For many, Friday is the day for jeans in the workplace but Wednesday, October 16, it was a day to wear jeans to remember a community leader.Don Wolf served as the first president of Big Brothers of Greater Fort Wayne, which eventually lead to the creation of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana. This day was selected by Big Brothers Big Sisters as a day for community members from around the city of Fort Wayne to wear jeans in memory of Wolf, who passed away in September at the age of 90
  
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• Employee at GM supplier affected beyond picket lines

  16-10-2019 22:32 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Even with a tentative deal being reached between United Auto Workers and General Motors, the ripple effect of the strike will continue. The Woodall family moved from Idaho in August for a job opportunity at a GM supplier.The family of
  7 had no idea what they’d face in their short month in the Summit City.“On my second day of work, actually at the facility is when I got told there might be a strike. And then a week later it was pretty okay, yeah there&r
  
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• Former FWPD chief Hamilton joins prosecutor’s office

  16-10-2019 21:43 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Former Fort Wayne Police Chief Garry Hamilton is joining the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office.Hamilton will serve as a Special Crimes Investigator with the office. His duties will include directing and managing special projects, assisting attorneys with local law enforcement training, and supervision of support staff.The prosecutor’s office announced the hire on Wednesday.Hamilton retired from the Fort Wayne Police Department in June after more than 24
  
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• Woman’s trial for 3 bus stop deaths gets underway

  16-10-2019 21:04 via wane.com
  ROCHESTER, Ind. (AP) — Testimony is underway in the trial of an Indiana woman who allegedly killed three children by striking them with a pickup truck as they crossed a two-lane state highway to board a school bus.Twenty-four-year-old Alyssa Shepherd faces three counts of reckless homicide and other charges in the Oct. 30, 2018, crash.Her trial began Wednesday, a day after jurors were chosen in northern Indiana’s Fulton County. The first person testifying was the mother of 6-year-old
  
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• Home, car struck by gunfire near where man was killed 2 days earlier

  16-10-2019 20:00 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — A home and car near where a man was gunned down Sunday were battered by gunfire Tuesday afternoon, Fort Wayne Police confirmed.Now, investigators are working to determine if the incidents are linked.Just after 5 p.m. Tuesday, officers were called to the 800 block of Runnion Avenue, near Main Street and Leesburg Road, on a report of shots fired. Officers arrived to find “evidence of gunfire,” including damage to a house and at least one car, according t
  
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• Police investigating armed robbery at Dollar General store

  16-10-2019 19:50 via wane.com
  Fort Wayne Police investigate an armed robbery at the Dollar General at 3903 S. Anthony Blvd. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019.FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Fort Wayne Police are investigating a report of an armed robbery at a southeast-side discount store.Authorities were called just before 1:30 p.m. to the Dollar General at 3903 S. Anthony Blvd. on a report of an armed robbery. Dispatchers would only confirm to WANE 15 that an armed robbery was reported there.A store cashier told a WANE 15 report
  
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• Judge blocks Michigan’s ban on flavored e-cigarettes

  16-10-2019 18:19 via wane.com
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge temporarily blocked the state’s weeks-old ban on flavored e-cigarettes Tuesday, saying it may force adults to return to smoking more harmful tobacco products and has irreparably hurt vaping businesses.Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens put the prohibition on hold until “further order of this court.” The preliminary injunction will be appealed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who ordered the creation of the emergency rules in a bid to co
  
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• Man who ran red light and hit school bus in Decatur dies

  16-10-2019 18:17 via wane.com
  DECATUR, Ind. (WANE) — The man who authorities said hit a Northern Wells school bus in a crash last week has died.
  The Allen County Coroner’s Office has confirmed that 93-year-old DeWayne Steiner died of blunt force trauma from a motor vehicle accident on Saturday.
  Steiner was driving the car that ran a red light at the intersection of 13th Street and Nuttman Avenue in Decatur, according to police. The bus had just dropped off some vocational students at Bellmont High School and was
  
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• GM and union reach tentative deal that could end strike

  16-10-2019 17:52 via wane.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Bargainers for General Motors and the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative contract deal that could end a monthlong strike that brought the company’s U.S. factories to a standstill.The deal, hammered out Wednesday after months of bargaining, won’t bring an immediate end to the strike by 49,000 hourly workers. They will likely stay on the picket lines for at least two more days as two union committees vote on the deal. Then members have to approve it.Terms
  
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• Indiana attorney general tries barring testimony against him

  16-10-2019 17:44 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Lawyers for Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill are trying to block two women from testifying about previous sexual misconduct allegations as he faces claims that he drunkenly groped four women at a bar last year.The state’s attorney disciplinary commission wants the women to testify about Hill’s actions when he was the Elkhart County prosecutor before becoming attorney general in 2017. The Journal Gazette reports one woman could testify about Hill’s
  
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• Trot the Trails: Horses allowed on Fort Wayne trail system Saturday

  16-10-2019 17:24 via wane.com
  (CITY OF FORT WAYNE) — The City of Fort Wayne and Allen County are partnering to allow for a one-time horse trail ride to take place along the Wabash and Erie Canal Towpath Trail.The event will be on Saturday, Oct. 19. Registration begins at 9 a.m. The meeting place will be Frontier Communications at 8001 West Jefferson Blvd., also known as Olde Canal Place, across from the entrance to Lutheran Hospital. Horses and their owners will be able to start the 7.7-mile roundtrip ride on the Towpa
  
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• Charity donates 800 pairs of shoes to Prince Chapman Academy students

  16-10-2019 17:06 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — A charitable organization that distributes shoes to those in need donated hundreds of shoes to an East Allen County school.The Changing Footprints organization donated more than 800 pairs of shoes to students at Prince Chapman Academy on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019.The Changing Footprints organization on Wednesday donated more than 800 pairs of shoes to students at Prince Chapman Academy at 4808 E. Paulding Road.Changing Footprints works to provide shoes to “ho
  
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• Downtown Improvement District names new president and CEO

  16-10-2019 16:45 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)The Fort Wayne Downtown Improvement District (D.I.D.) has named a new president and CEO for the organization.Michael Galbraith succeeds Bill Brown who stepped down from D.I.D. back in July.Galbraith most recently served as Director of the Road to One Million at the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership.In that role, he managed regional talent attraction efforts, quality of place initiatives, the $42 million Regional Cities Initiative in northeast Indiana, and the Northeas
  
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• Nats sweep Cards; DC in World Series for 1st time since ’33

  16-10-2019 14:58 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Washington Nationals moved a party 86 years in the making from their ballpark’s infield to a booze-filled clubhouse, manager Dave Martinez paused near the dugout and thrust the silver NL Championship Series trophy overhead, to the delight of loud, delirious fans still in the stands.Who would have thought this was possible five months ago, when the team was flailing, trade talk was swirling around Washington and folks figured Martinez’s job was in jeopar
  
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• Thomas Redus and daughter Terra Brantley going on 34th honor flight

  16-10-2019 06:01 via wane.com
  Eighty-one veterans will travel to Washington D.C. Wednesday for the 34th Honor Flight Northeast Indiana.79-year-old Thomas Redus will be one of the 81 veterans that will take the honor flight to Washington D.C. This will be the 34th flight out of Northeast Indiana.
  “I’m looking forward to it, and seeing old soldiers, I might run into somebody I know,” said Redus.Redus is a Cold War veteran who served three years as a private first class in the late 1950s and remembers his time
  
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• Terra Brantley’s father to lay wreath at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as part of Honor Flight

  16-10-2019 06:01 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Eighty-one veterans are traveling to Washington D.C. Wednesday for the 34th Honor Flight Northeast Indiana.79-year-old Thomas Redus is one of the 81 veterans taking the Honor Flight to Washington D.C. This will be the 34th flight out of Northeast Indiana.
  “I’m looking forward to it, and seeing old soldiers, I might run into somebody I know,” said Redus.Redus is a Cold War veteran who served three years as a Private First Class in the late 1950s a
  
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• Huntington family seeks approval to have emotional support goats within in city limits

  16-10-2019 02:12 via wane.com
  HUNTINGTON, Ind. (WANE) A family in Huntington is hoping the city will approve an accommodation that would allow two emotional support goats back to their home.
  Attorney Justin Wall is representing the owners of 227 West Taylor Street in Huntington and the family that rents the property.The single-family home is rented by a family that owns a pair of goats. Those goats are emotional support animals for their disabled child.
  However, back in September, Wall says the family was forced to re-home g
  
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• Huntington family seeks accommodation to bring emotional support goats back into city limits

  16-10-2019 02:12 via wane.com
  HUNTINGTON, Ind. (WANE) A family in Huntington is hoping the city will approve a reasonable accommodation that would bring their emotional support goats back to their home.
  Attorney Justin Wall is representing the owners of 227 West Taylor Street in Huntington and the family that rents the property.The single-family home is rented by a family that owns a pair of goats. Those goats are emotional support animals for their disabled child.
  However, back in September, Wall says the family was forced
  
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• Mother arrested in eastern Indiana school shooting investigation

  16-10-2019 01:18 via wane.com
  WAYNE COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) — The Indiana State Police say they have arrested the mother of a deceased Indiana teen.In the morning on December 13, 2018, Indiana State Police and Wayne County police agencies responded to a report of an armed teen possibly going to Dennis Intermediate School in Richmond to commit an act of violence. Dispatchers notified the school and area police.Richmond police officers arrived at the school as the teen suspect shot out the glass in a side door and entered th
  
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• Possible robbery at Chase Bank ATM on east side of Fort Wayne

  16-10-2019 00:42 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Police say a robbery may have occurred at an ATM at a Chase Bank on the east side of Fort Wayne.Around 3:00 p.m., police responded to a report of a possible armed robbery at the bank.Police later clarified they were responding to the ATM outside of the bank, not the bank itself.Police said no further information was immediately available.
  
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• Possible robbery at ATM on east side of Fort Wayne

  16-10-2019 00:42 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Police say a robbery may have occurred at an ATM at a Chase Bank on the east side of Fort Wayne.Around 3:00 p.m., police responded to a report of a possible armed robberynear the Chase Bank at 6704 E State Blvd .Police later clarified they were responding to the ATM outside of the bank, not the bank itself.Police said no further information was immediately available.
  
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