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• Coffman previews C.I.T. Quarterfinals match up with Islanders

  24-03-2017 22:32 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Mastodons will head to Texas A&M Corpus Christi on Sunday to face the Islanders in the quarterfinals of the C.I.T.
  Head coach Jon Coffman  talked to WANE-TV about the match up following Friday’s practice at the Gates Center.
  The Dons enter the game with a 20-12 overall record following a victory over Ball State in the first round of the C.I.T. and a bye in round two.
  The Islanders are 22-11 on the season.
  Sunday’s game will tip at 3 p.m. e
  
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• Swanigan named first-team All-American by NABC

  24-03-2017 22:28 via wane.com
  
  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Caleb Swanigan added to his impressive list of accolades as he was named a first-team All-American by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), the organization announced this morning. 
  The NABC is considered one of the top organizations to honor All-America teams and is used to determine if a player is a consensus All-American. 
  Swanigan led the Boilermakers to a 27-8 overall record, a berth in the Sweet 16 and Purdue’s 23rd Big Ten cham
  
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• Colts release defensive tackle Arthur Jones

  24-03-2017 22:25 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The Indianapolis Colts released defensive tackle Arthur Jones on Friday.A six-year veteran, Jones was scheduled to cost the team $7.35 million next season. Indianapolis will save $5 million under the salary cap with the move.Jones did his best work while with Baltimore from 2010-14. He then signed a five-year contract for a total value of $33 million with the Colts, but struggled in Indy. He appeared in 17 games and managed only 1 1-2 sacks and 53 tackles for the Colts.
  
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• Feds close probe of Ford SUV door ajar lights without recall

  24-03-2017 21:47 via wane.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators have decided not to seek a recall after investigating complaints that door ajar warning lights won’t turn off on thousands of Ford SUVs.
  The probe began in September and found nearly 2,700 complaints and over 33,000 warranty claims due to the problem with the 2011 to 2013 Edge SUV. The complaints included 14 drivers who said doors had opened unexpectedly. Over 440,000 SUVs were covered by the investigation.
  But the National Highway Traffic Safety
  
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• Did you hear that earth-shaking boom? It was just dynamite

  24-03-2017 21:10 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A loud and earth-shaking boom in Huntington County mid-afternoon Friday caused a bit of panic, but law enforcement said it was just business as usual.
  Whitney McBride told NewsChannel 15 she heard a “large boom” that appeared to be an earthquake or sonic boom near Markle. McBride said she heard similar reports out of Ossian and Huntington. Other viewers told NewsChannel 15 the loud noise could be heard in Warren and Huntington and shook homes in the area.
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• Major I-469 construction project to begin Monday

  24-03-2017 21:08 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) plans to begin a $13.2 million project on Interstate 469 on Monday as long as the weather cooperates.
  The project includes an asphalt resurface, concrete repair, the rehabilitation of the I-469 bridge over I-69 (south junction), as well as maintenance on various bridges on I-469 and I-69.
  Motorists can expect I-469 to be reduced to one lane in either direction between mile marker 11 to 17 as contractors begin the co
  
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• Warsaw woman suffering dementia found 110 miles from home

  24-03-2017 20:07 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WANE) An elderly Warsaw woman suffering from dementia ended up stranded, 110 miles from her home on Thursday. She was safely reunited with her family hours after an Indiana state trooper and an INDOT Hoosier Helper came to her aid.
  Just after 10:30 a.m., INDOT Hoosier Helper Aaron Thomas spotted the woman’s disabled vehicle with a flat tire on I-65 in Indianapolis. When he spoke with the driver, Thomas quickly realized the 92-year-old woman seemed confused.  He cal
  
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• Cold beer license prompts heated lawmaker response

  24-03-2017 19:13 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A convenience store chain’s licenses to sell cold beer have Indiana lawmakers pledging to amend the state’s liquor law before the end of session.Convenience stores can sell warm beer or cold wine but the sale of cold beer for carryout long has been reserved for Indiana’s liquor stores. Indiana-based convenience store chain Ricker’s was able to bypass that restriction by obtaining two licenses typically reserved for restaurants.
  The loophole has p
  
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• Investigation of Indiana teens’ slayings enters new phase

  24-03-2017 19:09 via wane.com
  
  DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say the investigation into the slayings of two northern Indiana teenage girls has entered a new phase with fewer investigators actively working on the nearly six-week-old case.The FBI, Indiana State Police, The Carroll County sheriff and Delphi police announced Friday that the number of remaining tips and leads has become more manageable and that some investigators from other agencies will return to their home bases.
  They stressed the investigation hasn&rsqu
  
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• Signup for county dust control program begins in April

  24-03-2017 19:00 via wane.com
  
  ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) – Allen County residents who want the County Highway Department to apply dust control material to their stone or gravel roads this spring will be able to sign up early next month.
  According to a press release from the Allen County Public Information Office, residents will be able to choose applications of either Dustay, an asphalt emulsion or calcium chloride.
  The highway department will charge $2.75 per linear foot for Dustay, while the cost for calcium
  
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• Driver in fatal rollover crash sentenced

  24-03-2017 18:20 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The driver of a car that sped away from police and flipped in a crash that killed his passenger was sentenced Friday.
  Mugshot of Dylan Alan Hall, 21, provided by the Allen County Sheriff’s Department.An Allen County judge sentenced Dylan A. Hall, 21, to a total of 10 years. Broken down Hall will serve seven years in prison, to be followed by three years of probation.
  Hall was charged last month with resisting law enforcement, reckless homicide and criminal r
  
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• US imposes sanctions on China, North Korea entities, people

  24-03-2017 17:55 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on 30 foreign companies and people from 10 countries, including China.The State Department said Friday that the entities and people contribute to activity that “only serves to escalate regional conflicts further and poses a significant threat to regional security.”
  The statement says that a group of eleven entities and individuals were sanctioned for transfers of sensitive items to Iran’s ballistic missile p
  
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• Indiana jobless rate edges up to 4.1 percent in February

  24-03-2017 17:34 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s unemployment rate edged up to 4.1 percent in February from a month earlier and remains lower than the national rate of 4.7 percent.Figures released Friday by the state Department of Workforce Development show Indiana’s jobless rate rose from 4 percent in January. Indiana’s labor force increased by 7,912 over the previous month, with a 6,394 increase in employment and a 1,518 increase in unemployment.
  The state says Indiana’s total labor
  
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• Rolls-Royce moves into new jet engine facility in Indiana

  24-03-2017 17:32 via wane.com
  
  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — After over two years of planning and construction, Rolls-Royce has moved into a brand new, jet engine facility in Indiana.The Lafayette Journal & Courier (http://on.jconline.com/2mzdsiu ) reports the 55,000-square-foot building is the first occupant of the Pursue Research Park Aerospace District in West Lafayette, a city nearly 70 miles northwest of Indianapolis.
  The park is part of Purdue University’s planned $1 billion development district that aims
  
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• NFLer, former Harding star Rod Smith visits Prince Chapman students

  24-03-2017 17:32 via wane.com
  
  Video by Photojournalist Katherine Tsakkos
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Dallas Cowboys running back and former Harding Hawks standout Rod Smith returned “home” on Friday to visit with students at Prince Chapman Academy.
  Smith spoke to a group of students about the importance of education.
  “Sports is going to fade away,” Smith told the students. “Your athleticism is going to fade away. But education? It lasts you a lifetime. It’s powerful.”
  During the visit, S
  
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• Trump approves Keystone XL, calling it ‘great day’ for jobs

  24-03-2017 16:32 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared it a “great day for American jobs” on Friday as he formally green-lighted the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8 billion project to finally be completed.
  In a reversal of the Obama administration’s earlier decision, the Trump administration issued a presidential permit enabling Calgary-based TransCanada to build the pipeline. Appearing alongside TransCanada’s CEO in the Oval Office, Trump called it par
  
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• Rep. Banks remains committed to repealing Obamacare

  24-03-2017 15:35 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (WANE) – U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (R-3rd) says he remains committed to repealing and replacing Obamacare even after Trump and GOP leaders’ replacement bill was withdrawn from the House floor Friday.
  Banks released the following statement in a press release after the bill was pulled.
  I remain committed to repealing Obamacare and replacing it with conservative reforms that will increase competition, lower costs and create more choices. I am hopeful that House Republicans can
  
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• Rep. Banks: New healthcare bill ‘far, substantially better’ than Obamacare

  24-03-2017 15:35 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (WANE) Hours before what is expected to be a climactic House vote on a health care overhaul plan, U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (R-3rd) spoke with WANE-TV’s Terra Brantley about the proposal and how it would impact the American people.
  Banks called the bill “far, substantially better” than former President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act. The Congressman said the new bill would block grant medicaid funds to the states, which would allow Indiana to protect HI
  
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• 3 vehicles involved in I-69 crash near construction zone

  24-03-2017 15:27 via wane.com
  
  DEKALB COUNTY, Ind. (WANE)A crash involving three vehicles snarled traffic on I-69 in DeKalb County just after 4 pm. on Thursday.
  According to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department, the incident took place near the 333 mile marker when the driver of a minivan going south came up on slowed traffic near a construction zone where an another crash had taken place and collided with the back of another minivan, pushing it into a third vehicle.
  Two of the drivers were not injured, however the dr
  
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• Disney CEO: ‘Last Jedi’ not changed due to Fisher’s death

  24-03-2017 15:14 via wane.com
  
  SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP)Disney CEO Bob Iger says the upcoming “Star Wars” sequel has not been changed due to the death of Carrie Fisher.
  Fisher completed filming her role as Princess Leia in “The Last Jedi” before her death following a heart attack in December.
  Iger said in an interview at a University of Southern California tech conference Thursday that Fisher “appears throughout” the film and her performance “remains as it was.”
  Iger says Disney
  
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• RV components maker to build $19M plant in New Haven, add 140 jobs

  24-03-2017 14:28 via wane.com
  
  NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) An Elkhart-based RV components maker has announced plans to build a near-$20 million manufacturing plant in New Haven that will add 140 new jobs to the area.
  Lippert Components will erect a $19.17 million, 380,000-square-foot manufacturing plant along Ryan Road, according to a tax abatement request filed with Allen County’s Department of Planning Services. The company had previously bought a 52 acre tract of land there from the Allen County Redevelopment Commission l
  
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• Authorities: 1 wounded in Indiana officer-involved shooting

  24-03-2017 13:47 via wane.com
  
  MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a person has been wounded in an officer-involved shooting during a traffic stop in central Indiana.
  WISH-TV reports Indiana State Police say at least one Muncie Police Department officer fired shots at a male early Friday in Muncie.
  Police say the wounded man was taken to a hospital and TV station WRTV reports he’s expected to survive. His age wasn’t immediately released.
  No officers were injured.
  The city’s Police Chief Joe Winkle tell
  
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• No. 1 seed Kansas routs Purdue 98-66 to reach Elite Eight

  24-03-2017 11:13 via wane.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It took about 10 minutes for Kansas guards Frank Mason III and Devonte Graham to slow down, gain their composure and get everything under control in their Midwest Regional semifinal.
  When that happened, everything promptly sped up for Purdue.
  The pace of the game turning in their favor, the high-flying Jayhawks proceeded to wear down the bigger, stronger Boilermakers on Thursday night. And by the time Mason and Graham finished pouring in 26 points apiece, No. 1 seed
  
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• State trooper saves woman from burning Muncie home

  24-03-2017 10:45 via wane.com
  
  MUNCIE, Ind. (WANE) An off-duty Indiana State Trooper is being credited for saving the life of a woman trapped inside a burning Muncie home.
  Trooper Jacob Ridgeway was driving in his marked state police car in the city Wednesday night. As he passed a home at 1208 Cowing Drive, he saw white smoke coming from the back of the residence. Then, he noticed the smoke go from white to black in his rear view mirror.
  Ridgeway backed up in front of the house and got out off his vehicle. When he went up the
  
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• Maryland high school thrust into immigration debate

  24-03-2017 10:28 via wane.com
  
  BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Outside a Maryland high school dragged into the national immigration debate by an alleged rape, a makeshift sign reflects that strain: “Rockville Strong.”Rockville High School students and parents declined to comment Thursday about the case involving a 14-year-old girl and a suspect authorities say came to the U.S. illegally from Central America.
  One mother would only point to the sign made of red plastic cups in a ballpark fence.
  Protesters on both sides o
  
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• British police reveal more details of Parliament attacker

  24-03-2017 10:02 via wane.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Khalid Masood, who attacked Britain’s Parliament, killing four people and wounding some 50, was born Adrian Russell Ajao, London’s top counterterror officer said Friday.Mark Rowley revealed the name in a briefing outside Scotland Yard in which he also announced two more “significant” arrests had been made. That brings the total number of people in custody for the Wednesday attack to nine.
  “We remain keen to hear from anyone who knew Khalid Masood
  
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• The Latest: Ryan bemoans collapse of health care bill

  24-03-2017 09:15 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on an effort in Congress to pass a health care bill (all times local):4:50 p.m.
  House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is mocking House Republicans for failing to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health law.
  Pelosi says of President Donald Trump and the majority Republicans in Congress: “Quite frankly I thought they might have accomplished something in the first few months. They have absolutely no record of accomplishment.”
  At the Whi
  
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• No repeal for ‘Obamacare’ a humiliating defeat for Trump

  24-03-2017 09:15 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a humiliating failure, President Donald Trump and GOP leaders pulled their bill to repeal “Obamacare” off the House floor Friday when it became clear it would fail badly — after seven years of nonstop railing against the law. Democrats said Americans can “breathe a sigh of relief.” Trump said the current law was imploding “and soon will explode.”
  Thwarted by two factions of fellow Republicans, from the center and far right, Ho
  
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• House steers toward climactic vote on GOP health care bill

  24-03-2017 09:15 via wane.com
  
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans muscled their capstone health care overhaul past an initial barrier and toward a climactic roll call Friday, plunging ahead despite uncertainty over whether they had the votes to prevail in what loomed as a monumental gamble for President Donald Trump and his GOP allies in Congress.
  With Trump budget chief Mick Mulvaney and other White House officials heading to the Capitol to lobby recalcitrant Republicans, Friday&r
  
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• House sets risky health care vote after Trump demands it

  24-03-2017 09:15 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a gamble with monumental political stakes, Republicans set course for a climactic House vote on their health care overhaul after President Donald Trump claimed he was finished negotiating with GOP holdouts and determined to pursue the rest of his agenda, win or lose.House Speaker Paul Ryan set the showdown for Friday, following a nighttime Capitol meeting at which top White House officials told GOP lawmakers that Trump had decided the time for talk was over.
  “We
  
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• Epic collapse of GOP health care bill puts effort into limbo

  24-03-2017 09:15 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans passed roughly 60 bills over the past six years dismembering President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Other than minor tweaks, they knew the measures would go nowhere because the Democrat still lived in the White House.With a bill that counted Friday, they choked. It was an epic, damaging, self-inflicted collapse that smothered the GOP effort.
  “We’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future,” a flustered
  
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• Ministry goes all-in to find jobs for homeless veterans

  24-03-2017 02:19 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A local ministry is going all-in to help homeless veterans find jobs. The Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program is an all-encompassing program that helps vets get back to work.
  HVRP, an outreach program of Volunteers of America Indiana, doesn’t just throw their veterans into any job opportunity that pops up, but thinks it through and provides full support.
  First, they find out who the veteran is, what skills they have and what kind of j
  
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• Indiana judge expunges conviction of pardoned Chicago man

  24-03-2017 01:24 via wane.com
  
  GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana judge has expunged the armed robbery conviction of a Chicago man recently pardoned after spending more than eight years in prison for a wrongful conviction.Elkhart County Senior Judge Eugene Duffin granted the expungement Thursday to 46-year-old Keith Cooper, but didn’t rule immediately on whether he would remove the record of the arrest itself.
  Cooper was pardoned Feb. 9 by Gov. Eric Holcomb. His case gained national attention when then-Gov. Mike Pence
  
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• RV industry supplier building new northern Indiana plant

  24-03-2017 01:22 via wane.com
  
  GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — Construction is starting on a new recreational vehicle supplier’s factory in northern Indiana that comes amid strong sales for the industry that’s concentrated in the area.Genesis Products held a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for its new $10 million, 200,000-square-foot facility in Goshen.
  Genesis President Jon Wenger tells The Elkhart Truth (http://bit.ly/2nhHqqb ) the company will boost its production of laminated panels and interiorchi man pardone com
  
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