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• Family of homicide victim says he was turning his life around

  08-12-2016 05:35 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)- This has been a heartbreaking year for so many families across the Fort Wayne area. The number of homicides in Fort Wayne has hit an all time high, leaving many wondering when the violence will stop.The mother of the latest victim is speaking out after her son was gunned down in an alley near East State Boulevard. Codi Allen McCann, 22, was ruled the county’s 47th homicide of 2016.
  “Codi was a beautiful soul,” said Stacey Davis, his mother. “There
  
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• General Motors reports strong first-quarter profits as prices help offset small US sales dip

  23-04-2024 13:31 via wane.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Despite a small dip in U.S. vehicle sales, General Motors' first-quarter net income rose more than 25% on strong deliveries of pickup trucks and other higher-profit vehicles.The Detroit automaker said that while its average sales price per vehicle was down slightly from last year at just under $50,000, pickup sales remained strong, and it's not seeing the price erosion across its lineup that other companies have experienced.GM on Tuesday said it made $2.97 billion from Janua
  
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• No charges yet in weekend crash that killed 2 siblings at Michigan birthday party

  23-04-2024 12:59 via wane.com
  
  BERLIN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Investigators need more time to collect information before charges can be filed in the deaths of two young siblings who were killed by a suspected drunken driver at a child's weekend birthday party, a Michigan prosecutor said Monday.“We expect to make a charging decision” on Tuesday, Monroe County prosecutor Jeff Yorkey said in a brief statement.“We appreciate the public’s patience and know that you understand how important it is to hav
  
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• Showers and cooler temperatures today

  23-04-2024 09:38 via wane.com
  
  Keep the umbrella and the jacket handy today with periods of showers and cooler temperatures along with gusty winds making it feel even cooler.It will be cloudy this morning with winds continuing to pick up and the chance of late morning showers.Showers will be likely through the late afternoonShowers will be likely through this afternoon with most places getting about a half-inch to around three-quarters of an inch.
  Rainfall totals will be up to three-quarters of an inch or slightly higher amou
  
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• Fort Wayne's median home prices have doubled, so how does this affect homeowners?

  23-04-2024 05:05 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Fort Wayne's median home prices have doubled following a larger national trend of price increases, but how does this affect homeowners and homebuyers?
  Multiple factors have contributed to the price increases. Growing investment in Fort Wayne's social and economic infrastructure from the local government has led to increased housing demand in the last decade, according to the Director of Purdue Fort Wayne's Community Research Institute, Rachel Blakeman."So, we
  
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• Fort Wayne's median home prices have doubled, but how does this affect homeowners?

  23-04-2024 05:05 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Fort Wayne's median home prices have doubled following a larger national trend of price increases, but how does this affect homeowners and homebuyers?
  Multiple factors have contributed to these price increases. Growing investment in Fort Wayne's social and economic infrastructure from the local government has led to increased housing demand in the last decade according to the Director of Purdue Fort Wayne's Community Research Institute, Rachel Blakeman."So, w
  
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• New forecasting tool aims to identify the risk from extreme heat

  23-04-2024 04:45 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS), have launch a new tool to protect Americans from heat exposure. Heat inequities to be studied in Fort Wayne this summer“Heat can impact our health, but heat-related illness and death are preventable,” said CDC Director Mandy Cohen, M.D., M.P.H. “We are releasing new heat and health tools
  
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• 3 cats rescued after house fire caused by smoking materials

  23-04-2024 02:01 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Three cats were rescued after a house caught fire due to 'improperly disposed of smoking materials' on Monday night.According to a press release from the Fort Wayne Fire Department, firefighters responded to a fire at 2221 St. Louis Avenue just after 5 p.m. Monday. When firefighters arrived, they found smoke coming from the one-story home.When officers arrived at the scene they were told a woman and three cats were inside the home. Firefighters worked to extinguish the
  
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• Earth Day sustainable ideas and weather history

  23-04-2024 01:00 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Happy Earth Day! We hope you have enjoyed the beautiful day! Your Latest Live Doppler 15 Fury ForecastThe day was first established in 1970 and occurs annually on April 22nd. It is a day to celebrate our planet and take part in sustainable practices.Earth Day was first established in 1970 and occurs every April 22nd.
  There are plenty of sustainable solutions you can do to mark the occasion and employ throughout the year. You can recycle things often, especially cans, pa
  
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• How the Fort Wayne Police Department fights online child exploitation

  22-04-2024 23:39 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — You can find and connect with just about anyone on the internet.
  While the stories of reunited classmates and friends staying in touch across the globe are heartwarming, the ultra-connected environment also enables some more sinister things."There are monsters out there," said Detective Sgt. Todd Battershell with the Fort Wayne Police Department (FWPD). "You never know when you're talking to the next Charles Manson on the other end of that cell phone or
  
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• Woodburn music store offers unique instrument, sense of community

  22-04-2024 23:23 via wane.com
  
  WOODBURN, Ind. (WANE) -- In Woodburn, a music store tucked away between the local post office and a salon houses a unique instrument that cannot be found just anywhere: a dulcimer.Although the business has been around since 1968, Folkcraft Instruments has called Woodburn home since 2007."When Folkcraft came up for sale back in 2007, I was looking for something to expand my business -- I had a company that sold sheet music -- and Folkcraft had been around since 1968. It was an old company. It was
  
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• I-69 northbound lanes slowed after 2 vehicle crash involving motorcycle

  22-04-2024 23:06 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- I-69 northbound lanes are slowed, following a crash involving two vehicles just north of the Illinois Road exit on Monday evening.
  Dispatch confirmed with WANE 15 that two vehicles, a motorcycle and another vehicle, were involved in the crash, just north of the Illinois exit on I-69. Fort Wayne Police Department was initially called to the crash at 4:48 p.m.
  Photos, courtesy of INDOT's Trafficwise, show traffic is stopped as of 4:50 p.m.According to INDOT's Trafficwise
  
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• I-69 northbound lanes at a halt after 2 vehicle crash involving motorcycle

  22-04-2024 23:06 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- I-69 northbound lanes are at a halt, following a crash involving two vehicles just north of the Illinois Road exit on Monday evening.
  Dispatch confirmed with WANE 15 that two vehicles, a motorcycle and another vehicle, were involved in the crash, just north of the Illinois exit on I-69. Fort Wayne Police Department was initially called to the crash at 4:48 p.m.
  Photos, courtesy of INDOT's Trafficwise, show traffic is stopped as of 4:50 p.m.According to INDOT's Trafficw
  
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• 1 in life-threatening condition after motorcycle crashes into camper on I-69

  22-04-2024 23:06 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- I-69 northbound lanes are slowed, following a crash involving two vehicles just north of the Illinois Road exit on Monday evening.
  Dispatch confirmed with WANE 15 that two vehicles, a motorcycle and another vehicle, were involved in the crash, just north of the Illinois exit on I-69.
  In a press release from the Fort Wayne Police Department, they responded to the crash at 4:48 p.m. where they found a motorcycle had crashed into a 5th-wheel camper.
  Medics provided the el
  
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• Next round of rain and cooler air headed in

  22-04-2024 22:38 via wane.com
  
  Evening temperatures start in the low 60s and fall from there. Most of the night is spent in the 50s, but temps will drop as low as the mid-40s in the early morning.It will be cool tomorrow with scattered rain beginning before dawn and becoming widespread during the daytime. The rain won't taper off and end until nighttime into Wednesday.Showers will become likely, especially on Tuesday afternoonRainfall will be under three-quarters of an inch on TuesdayIt will still be cool Wednesday with, high
  
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• Late afternoon headlines Monday, April 22

  22-04-2024 22:00 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Here are your late afternoon headlines for Monday, April 22.
  
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• Court docs: Man charged with murder in connection to 2017 homicide at boat ramp near PFW

  22-04-2024 21:59 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A man was arrested Monday and charged with murder in connection to a 2017 case in which a man was shot 11 times at a boat ramp near Purdue Fort Wayne, newly released Allen Superior Court documents revealed.Fargo Bennett, 28, was taken into custody following a traffic stop Monday afternoon on Winchester Road. He faces a preliminary charge of murder in connection to the homicide case from nearly seven years ago.On Aug. 13, 2017, Fort Wayne Police responded around 8 a.m. t
  
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• 3 injured after SUV crashes into back of buggy

  22-04-2024 21:46 via wane.com
  
  ADAMS COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) -- Three were injured after an SUV ran into the back of a buggy carrying six in Adams County, Monday morning.Monday morning just before 10:30 a.m. the Adams County Sheriff's Office responded to a crash that occurred between two vehicles on County Road 400 West, a quarter mile south of State Road 218.
  According to a release from the Adams County Sheriff's Office, a preliminary investigation revealed that a horse-drawn buggy was traveling south on CR 400 when it was struc
  
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• Residents seeking answers on solar project planned for Huntington, Wells counties

  22-04-2024 18:05 via wane.com
  
  HUNTINGTON COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - More than 100 residents attended a meeting Monday in Huntington County to express concerns over an industrial solar project.During a county commissioners' meeting that lasted an hour and a half at the Huntington County Courthouse, residents voiced their frustrations with what they described as a lack of transparency from county leaders on the project.Paddlefish Solar - a global renewable energy company - is looking to place solar panels across more than 2,000 acr
  
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• Afternoon headlines Monday, April 22

  22-04-2024 18:00 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Here are your afternoon headlines for Monday, April 22.
  
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• Fort Wayne mayor-elect to be sworn in Tuesday

  22-04-2024 17:13 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Sharon Tucker is being sworn in Tuesday as the new mayor of Fort Wayne.The mayor-elect is being sworn in at the Clyde Theatre at 11:30 a.m., according to the city's Facebook page.WANE 15 will be live-streaming the ceremony on wane.com.The precinct chairs of the Allen County Democratic Party voted for Tucker in a historic caucus Saturday.
  
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• Here's when gas prices could start falling according to GasBuddy

  22-04-2024 16:55 via wane.com
  
  (GasBuddy) The nation’s average price of gasoline has risen for the third straight week, climbing 4.3 cents from a week ago to $3.64 per gallon Monday, according to GasBuddy® data compiled from more than 12 million individual price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country. The national average is up 10.8 cents from a month ago and 1.1 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has fallen 0.4 cents in the last week and stands at $4.
  
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• U.S. 24 to close in Roanoke for bridge repair starting April 29

  22-04-2024 16:11 via wane.com
  
  ROANOKE, Ind. (WANE) A section of U.S. 24 in Huntington County will be closed one direction at a time until the end of June so work can be done on a bridge.The closure will begin April 29 between E 900 N and 2nd Street in Roanoke according to a press release from the Indiana Department of Transportation.
  Work on the eastbound side of U.S. 24 will take place first and is expected to last approximately one month. Once work on the eastbound side is complete, crews will switch to the westbound side.
  
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• FWPD's Victim Assistance Department to host candlelight vigil for National Crime Victims' Rights Week

  22-04-2024 14:55 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The Victim Assistance Department within the Fort Wayne PD will be honoring those who have been lost to violent crime with a candlelight vigil this evening.While the vigil is hosted annually, the theme changes every year. The theme this year is "How would you help? Options, services, and hope for crime survivors.""It's really a call to action. It asks the community how you can rally around anyone who has been a victim, what can you do to support them, and how can you he
  
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• Fort Wayne Farmers Market making permanent move to Electric Works

  22-04-2024 14:39 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The location of the Fort Wayne Farmers Market has changed several times over the past several years, but it now appears it has found a permanent home for both the summer and the indoor season.In a Facebook post Sunday, the market announced it will be a permanent part of Electric Works. The market is currently wrapping up its indoor season at the old Kelley Chevrolet building located at 500 East State. Beginning May 18, it will move for the summer season to Dynamo Alley at
  
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• Morning headlines Monday, April 22

  22-04-2024 14:30 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Here are your morning headlines for Monday, April 22.
  
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• 3 semis crash on US 30 at Flaugh Road

  22-04-2024 14:17 via wane.com
  
  ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - Three semitrailers crashed Monday on US 30, slowing morning traffic in the area.It happened around 7:40 a.m. on US 30 eastbound near the intersection with Flaugh Road.According to INDOT TrafficWise, the right lane is closed. It's expected to reopen within an hour and a half.
  
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• With homelessness on the rise, Supreme Court to weigh bans on sleeping outdoors

  22-04-2024 12:59 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider Monday whether banning homeless people from sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.The case is considered the most significant to come before the high court in decades on homelessness, which is reaching record levels in the United States.In California and other Western states, courts have ruled that it’s unconstitutional to fine and arrest people sleeping in homeless encampments if shelt
  
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• Warmer temps today with showers coming our way

  22-04-2024 09:58 via wane.com
  
  You'll need the shades today and by this afternoon you'll be able to shed the jacket as temperatures will be warmer than it was this weekend. By Tuesday you'll need a coat and umbrella.Expect sunshine this morning with temperatures in the middle to the upper 50s. Winds will pick up by late this morning.It will be warmer with temperatures in the middle 60s and plenty of sunshine.
  Winds will increase overnight and so will clouds as temperatures only fall into the upper 40s.It will be cooler Tuesda
  
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• Man killed in crash in Williams County, Ohio

  22-04-2024 05:53 via wane.com
  
  JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WANE) -- The Defiance Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash. It happened shortly after 7:30 p.m. Sunday, at the intersection of County Road K & County Road 17 in Williams County.According to police, Steven Thompson, 36 of Edon, was driving west in a Ford pickup on County Road K. John Matthews, 72 of Bryan, was traveling south in a Chevrolet SUV on County Road 17. Thompson failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection, and travele
  
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