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• Group encourages Hoosiers to fight cigarette tax hike

  23-03-2017 23:44 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – You Should Be Furious! That’s what it says on the new anti-tobacco tax fliers that area gas stations are passing out.
  The organization behind the fliers is called Citizens for Tobacco Rights and they are determined to stop Indiana politicians from raising tobacco prices.
  Proposals to raise state taxes on tobacco have been as much as a $1.50 and the organization hopes that by connecting Hoosiers to their lawmakers to protest the proposed cigarette tax co
  
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• Six Northrop seniors sign to play college sports

  23-03-2017 22:50 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Nick Craghead, Nick Doerhrman, Keana Price, A.J. Cambron, Billy Guerrero and Ben Yoss all put pen to paper on Thursday afternoon as the Northrop seniors signed to play college sports.
  Nick Craghead – Football – Indiana Wesleyan
  Nick Doehrman – Football – Bluffton
  Keana Price – Volleyball – Indiana Tech
  Alexander (A.J.) Cambron – XC/Track – Indiana Tech
  Billy Guerrero – Soccer – I.U. East
  Ben Yoss –
  
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• Owner of former police HQ building calls for demolition; set for next week

  23-03-2017 22:37 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A historic building on Fort Wayne’s southeast side that once was the headquarters of a gas pump company and the Fort Wayne Police Department will be demolished.
  John Perlich, spokesman for the city of Fort Wayne, said just after 5 p.m. Thursday that the owner group of the Bowser buildings at 1302 Creighton Ave. has indicted it wants the buildings torn down.
  Work began on Thursday, March 17 to demolish the Bowser buildings, once used as the Fort Wayne police headquar
  
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• City Utilities gives file of customer info to user with sign-in issue

  23-03-2017 22:06 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) When a Fort Wayne City Utilities customer emailed the office for help, he got back more than he asked for.
  The customer told us he had an issue signing in to his account on the city’s new utility page. When he asked for help, an employee sent him directions and a spreadsheet filled with other customers’ email addresses, account numbers and customer numbers.
  The customer posted what happened on Reddit, along with a screenshot of the spreadsheet. The p
  
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• Ex-con sentenced to 20 years for running drug house

  23-03-2017 21:45 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A previously convicted felon was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in running a drug house.
  Mugshot of Christian D. Shelton, 39, provided by the Allen County Sheriff’s Department.The acting United States Attorney of the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford Johnson announced Thursday that 39-year-old Clifford D. Shelton was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a term of supervised release of two years.
  Shelton was found guilty by a jury on th
  
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• Tip leads police to meth lab, weed, gun; 3 arrested

  23-03-2017 21:26 via wane.com
  
  AUBURN, Ind. (WANE) An anonymous tip about suspected drug activity led to the arrests of three people in Auburn.
  Just after noon Thursday, members of the Auburn Police Narcotics Enforcement Team “APNET” and Officers of the Auburn Police Department went to a home at at 132 S. Cleveland St. to investigate an anonymous drug tip. The homeowner allowed police to search the home, according to a release.
  Pictured are Scarlett R. Murray (left), Skyler W. Davidson (center), and Joshua C. Patt
  
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• Butz, Mangas, Williams named to IBCA “Supreme 15” All-State squad

  23-03-2017 21:19 via wane.com
  
  Fifteen seniors and 15 underclass boys basketball players have earned IBCA/Subway “Supreme 15” All-State honors for 2016-17, it was announced Thursday (March 23).
  For the third year, the IBCA also named Large School All-State teams (15 seniors, 16 underclass because of a tie) and Small School All-State players (15 seniors, 15 underclass).
  The “Supreme 15” is the top honor awarded, and players were voted to that group without regard to school size. The Large Scho
  
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• From football to baseball, Donovan Clark alters path from IU to IPFW

  23-03-2017 21:07 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Donovan Clark is reinventing himself.
  “Just enjoying a whole new sport and new people. It’s definitely a fresh start,” he said.
  This is the change-up that the South Side grad needed.
  As a highly recruited football player in 2014, Clark signed to play cornerback on the Indiana University football team. After a promising start a tumultuous tenure in Bloomington – that included a back injury that required surgery and cost him his sophomore yea
  
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• Concordia athletic director Dean Doerffler retiring

  23-03-2017 21:03 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. – After 18 years of dedicated service to Concordia Lutheran High School, Dean Doerffler will retire at the end of this year.
  Doerffler has served as Concordia’s athletic director since 1999 with nine of those years as the head football coach. This summer, he will retire after 25 years in the profession and 40 years in education.
  A 1973 graduate, he came to CLHS in 1999 at the request of current athletic director, Neil Reincke, from his job as the athletic director at
  
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• Ivy Tech rolls out food truck, asks for help naming it

  23-03-2017 20:35 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Ivy Tech Community College’s Hospitality Administration program will send a food truck onto Fort Wayne’s streets this spring, and the university has asked for the public’s help to name it.
  Ivy Tech announced the roll-out of the truck on Thursday. It’s not clear when it will make its first appearance or where it will appear and how regularly it will be out.
  The university did say, though, that the food truck menu will rotate regularly. The food truc
  
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• 3 arrested, 5 children removed from home in drug raid

  23-03-2017 19:44 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Three people were arrested and five children were removed from a home during a drug raid Thursday afternoon.
  According to Fort Wayne Sgt. Mark Brooks, police served a narcotics search warrant at 1:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of Huestis Avenue.
  During the search, detectives located over $1000 in cash, along with drug paraphernalia, two handguns and over 30 grams of cocaine, with an estimated street value or over $2500.
  Fort Wayne police conducting a drug raid at
  
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• Senate votes to undo privacy rules that protect user data

  23-03-2017 19:35 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led Senate moved Thursday to undo Obama-era regulations that would have forced internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon to ask customers’ permission before they could use or sell much of their personal information.Senators voted along party lines, 50-48, to eliminate the rules. The Federal Communications Commission, then controlled by Democrats, put the regulations in place in October. They’re not in effect yet.
  The regulations would
  
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• New canal boat to offer cruises on Fort Wayne rivers

  23-03-2017 18:30 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Local river promoter Friends of the Rivers will offer cruises along Fort Wayne’s rivers with a new canal boat.
  The interior of a canal boat that will provide cruises on Fort Wayne rivers in summer 2017 is shown.Local river promoter Friends of the Rivers on Thursday unveiled its new 54-foot, 1840s-style flat-bottom boat in a special ceremony at Greater Fort Wayne Community Foundation. The boat will be used for guests to “experience the rivers and the potential
  
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• 6 arrested, 3 hotel rooms searched in drug raid

  23-03-2017 18:11 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Fort Wayne Police Department arrested six people after serving drug-related search warrants at a hotel on the city’s eastern side.
  Fort Wayne police served three separate search warrants on individual hotel rooms just before 6 a.m. Thursday morning at the Coliseum Inn, 1020 N. Coliseum Blvd, according to a press release.
  An investigation started after FWPD received several drug tips and complaints about the hotel, the press release said. 6 arrested in Co
  
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• Indiana school district settles sex abuse case for $1.4M

  23-03-2017 17:11 via wane.com
  
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana school district has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a lawsuit over a former employee’s sexual misconduct with a woman when she was a 15-year-old high school student.The South Bend Tribune (http://bit.ly/2mwaMSV ) reports the woman sought more than $20 million in her lawsuit against the South Bend Community School Corp.
  The former student sued the school district in 2013, alleging the district negligently hired Stephen A. Rokop and failed to sup
  
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• 2 Fort Wayne restaurants make Yelp’s Top 50

  23-03-2017 17:02 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A pair of Fort Wayne restaurants are among Indiana’s most reviewed on Yelp.
  Junk Ditch Brewing Company is now open at 1825 W. Main St.Banh Mi Barista at 5320 Coldwater Road and Junk Ditch Brewing Company at 1825 W Main St. were both named among the Top 50 places to eat in Indiana based on Yelp data. Junk Ditch was ranked at No. 30 in the state; Banh Mi Barista came in just behind at No. 33.
  Thirty-five of the 50 restaurants ranked are in Indianapolis, including nine
  
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• Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb supports GOP ‘Obamacare’ repeal

  23-03-2017 16:29 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb says he supports congressional Republican’s bill to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law.
  Holcomb’s support is somewhat at odds with his own statements calling on Washington Republicans to spare Medicaid funding, which pays for a state program covering poor people.
  The state stands to lose almost $1 billion a year in estimated funding.
  Holcomb spokeswoman Stephanie Wilson said Thursday that the Re
  
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• Census figures show Indiana with stagnant population growth

  23-03-2017 14:18 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Newly released Census Bureau estimates show Indiana continuing its slowest period of population growth in three decades.
  The population figures released Thursday show that Indiana added about 20,000 people last year for a 0.31 percent population growth.
  Indiana University demographer Matt Kinghorn tells The Indianapolis Star the last two years have been the state’s slowest period of population gains since the late 1980s.
  He says a long-running trend of people movi
  
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• Indiana students curate NCAA social media during tournament

  23-03-2017 14:11 via wane.com
  
  MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — NCAA officials say a crew of about 30 Ball State University students is helping with social media content during the college men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.
  The Indianapolis Business Journal reports that students have been working on official NCAA Twitter accounts like @marchmadness, @ncaawbb and @FinalFour. The students started with the First Four games on March 14 and since then they’ve been curating and filtering content, responding to fan
  
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• Indiana district OKs alcohol tests for students at dances

  23-03-2017 13:45 via wane.com
  
  FORT BRANCH, Ind. (AP) — A southwestern Indiana school district is cracking down on underage drinking by requiring all students to pass a Breathalyzer test before they can attend school-sponsored dances.
  The South Gibson School Corp. board on Tuesday unanimously approved spending $16,000 to buy 40 Breathalyzer devices for the district’s new alcohol-testing effort.
  Superintendent Stacey Humbaugh says all students and their guests who attend Gibson Southern High School’s prom on
  
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• 4 arrested, 5 locations searched in drug raid

  23-03-2017 11:43 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Fort Wayne police arrested four people Wednesday morning after searching 5 locations connected to a drug distribution ring.
  Detectives with the Department’s Vice and Narcotics Division served related search warrants to residences at 2526 S. Harrison Street, 7151 Stellhorn Road, 4120 Covington Road along with Eclipse Tanning at 2612 E. State Boulevard and Self Storage at 411 S. Thomas Road.
  Alexander McGrew (top left), Benjamin Crance (top right), Brenda Schau (botto
  
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• Wabash judge a finalist for Indiana Supreme Court position

  23-03-2017 11:06 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) The Judicial Nominating Commission named 11 finalists for an open Supreme Court judicial position, including a judge from Wabash.
  On May 12, 2017 Justice Robert D. Ruck will retire from the five member Supreme Court. The Indiana Constitution requires the seven member commission to recruit and select candidates to fill the vacancy on the state’s highest court.
  The commission did 20 public interviews with applicants on March 21 and 22. Eleven have been invited back for se
  
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• Legacy Joint Funding Committee approves money to renovate Clyde Theatre

  23-03-2017 10:49 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The Legacy Joint Funding Committee approved a loan to renovate the old Clyde Theatre Wednesday night.
  Even Keel Holdings asked for temporary funding from the Legacy Fund, which has helped pay for multiple projects around the city. The company’s request passed with an 8-0 vote and now heads to city council for final approval.
  The city, Chuck and Lisa Surack, Even Keel and the state are working together to make the revitalization project in Quimby Village happen.
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• Prospects dim for vote on GOP health bill in House

  23-03-2017 10:06 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Prospects for the Republicans’ showcase health care bill looked grimmer by the minute Thursday as President Donald Trump failed to get a deal with a bloc of balky conservatives, leaving the legislation short of votes in the House.
  GOP leaders were meeting behind closed doors to determine next steps, but with moderate-leaning Republican lawmakers also bailing on the legislation, it looked increasingly unlikely the vote planned for later Thursday would happen.
  The bi
  
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• GOP health bill on the brink hours from House showdown vote

  23-03-2017 10:06 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP’s long-promised legislation to repeal and replace “Obamacare” stood on the brink just hours before Republican leaders planned to put it on the House floor for a showdown vote. Short of support, GOP leaders looked to President Donald Trump to close the deal with a crucial bloc of conservatives, in the first major legislative test of his young presidency.The stakes could hardly be higher for a party that gained monopoly control of Washington largel
  
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• London defiant as IS claims attack by British ex-con, 52

  23-03-2017 09:49 via wane.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Authorities on Thursday identified a 52-year-old Briton as the man who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a policeman to death outside Parliament in London, saying he had a long criminal record and once was investigated for extremism — but was not currently on a terrorism watch list.As millions of Londoners returned to work a day after a rampage that killed four victims and injured at least 30, British Prime Minister Theresa May had a message for other attackers: &ldquo
  
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• 7 arrests made in connection with London attack

  23-03-2017 09:49 via wane.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — British police raided several properties and arrested seven people in connection with the attack outside Parliament that left four dead, including the man who mowed down pedestrians on a bridge and fatally stabbed an officer, a senior police official said.Metropolitan Police counterterrorism chief Mark Rowley said that he believed the attacker acted alone and was “inspired by international terrorism.”
  Police raided six addresses, including some in the central city
  
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• Notre Dame says all students in London safe after attack

  23-03-2017 09:08 via wane.com
  
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The University of Notre Dame says all of its 167 students currently studying in London are safe following an attack there that left at least five people dead.The university says nine of the 167 were serving in internships with Parliament at the time of Wednesday’s attack.
  A knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage, plowing a car into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer to death inside the gates of Parliament. Be
  
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• Mastodons to play at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Sunday in C.I.T. Quarterfinals

  23-03-2017 03:54 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Fort Wayne Mastodons will travel to Corpus Christi, Texas to play the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders on Sunday (March 26) in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) Quarterfinals. Tip is set for 3 p.m. ET.
  The 20-12 ‘Dons defeated Ball State in the opening round last week and earned a bye to the CIT Quarterfinals.
  Sunday’s contest will be streamed for free through Facebook Live. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi is 22-11 on the season.
  
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• Komets shoot down Admirals in 6-3 victory

  23-03-2017 03:50 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Gabriel Desjardins tallied two goals to lead the Komets to a 6-3 win over the Norfolk Admirals at War Memorial Coliseum on Wednesday night in the first-ever meeting between two franchises.
  Travis Ewanyk scored his 19th goal of the season in the first period, staking the Komets to a 1-0 lead after one.
  Trevor Gerling beat Pat Nagle less than three minutes into the second period to knot the game at 1-1, but Desjardins would net his 16th goal of the season 18 minutes
  
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• Road woes continue for Pacers in loss at Celtics

  23-03-2017 03:45 via wane.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) – Isaiah Thomas scored 25 points, Avery Bradley had 18 with eight rebounds and the Boston Celtics beat the Indiana Pacers 109-100 on Wednesday night for their fifth win in six games.Al Horford added 15 points with eight boards and eight assists, and Jae Crowder also scored 15 points for Boston, which won for the 12th time in 13 home games.Paul George led the Pacers with 37 points and Jeff Teague had 25. Indiana has alternated by winning and losing in its last 15 games.The Celti
  
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• Literacy Alliance impacted by federal budget proposal

  23-03-2017 03:37 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)-President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget could mean big cuts to social service programs across the Fort Wayne area. The Fort Wayne Literacy Alliance is one of many programs that would be impacted. Mike Landram, Executive Director, said less federal funding could result in fewer students being served.
  According to Mayor Tom Henry, the city could lose $1.8 million annually in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and $775,000 yearly in HOME Investment
  
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• Dons drop Toledo 9-7 in home opener

  23-03-2017 02:15 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. – A six-run fifth inning propelled the Fort Wayne softball team to a 9-7 victory in its home opener over Toledo.
  Lauren Watson led the Mastodons going 3 for 3 at the plate with two RBIs and a double. Caitlyn DeLong went 2 for 3 with three runs scored and an RBI. Brooke Imel also had two RBIs for the ‘Dons.
  The Rockets took an early lead with four runs in the top of the first, which included a three-run home run. Fort Wayne got a run back in the second on an RBI singl
  
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• Northrop picked by coaches to repeat as winner of SAC

  23-03-2017 02:03 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – In a preseason coaches poll, Northrop is picked to repeat as champions of the Summit Athletic Conference.
  The Bruins finished 20-5 a season ago but fell in the 4A regional semi-finals of the IHSAA state tournament. Snider was selected to finish second while Bishop Dwenger came in third.
  According to the IHSAA, games can begin being play on March 27.
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