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• Kentucky’s Calipari in Fort Wayne to recruit North Side’s Brooks

  18-09-2017 23:56 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – University of Kentucky head coach joined a long list of big time college basketball coaches to make their way to the Summit City to watch North Side junior Keion Brooks Jr. in person.
  Calipari was at North Side for an open gym session Monday evening.
  Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, IU’s Archie Miller, and Purdue’s Matt Painter are among the college coaches that have made recent visits to By Hey Arena to recruit Brooks.
  Brooks currently has offers from
  
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• Colts buckle down in attempt to dig out of another 0-2 start

  18-09-2017 23:49 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts safety Darius Butler understands why short-term memories are so crucial in the NFL.
  The ability to move beyond past mistakes is essential to future success.
  Butler learned that lesson the hard way while playing cornerback and now that he’s changed positions, Butler wants his younger teammates to understand how it pertains to the big picture: avoiding a 0-3 start.
  Indianapolis Colts cornerback Darius Butler watches from the sidelines during the s
  
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• Allen County Courtroom gets upgrades

  18-09-2017 22:32 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A courtroom inside the historic Allen County courthouse has received some upgrades. First floor courtroom 107 had not been updated since the early 1990s. It is primarily used by Civil Division Judges who require modern audio/video presentation and recording systems for their cases.
  Prior to the renovation, the room was small with limited seating and juror space. Its presentation technology was outdated and jurors had to head elsewhere in the Courthouse for br
  
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• Indiana nursing home company sues former executives

  18-09-2017 22:11 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana nursing home management firm has sued former executives accused of embezzling more than $16 million from the company.
  The Indianapolis Star reports that American Senior Communities filed the lawsuit Friday against several individuals, including former CEO James Burkhart, and 16 shell companies.
  The lawsuit alleges they advantage of the company. Burkhart’s attorney says he’s innocent.
  Federal agents enter the home of the American Senior Communities
  
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• Holcomb names OB-GYN to be next health commissioner

  18-09-2017 22:02 via wane.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Eric Holcomb has named an Indianapolis OB-GYN to be Indiana’s next heath commissioner.
  The Republican governor’s office announced Monday that Dr. Kristina Box will start in her new role on Oct. 16.
  She is replacing Dr. Jerome Adams, who left the post to become President Donald Trump’s surgeon general.
  Box has been an OB-GYN with the Community Health Network for more than 30 years.
  She earned her bachelor’s degree at Indiana University in Blo
  
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• Tattoo and piercing advice for teens

  18-09-2017 21:55 via wane.com
  Tattoos and piercings have become a common trend for young adults. Now for the first time – the American Academy of Pediatrics is weighing in, offering its recommendations for teenagers.
  
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• Missing 23-year-old located

  18-09-2017 21:45 via wane.com
  SHIPSHEWANA, Ind. (WANE) A missing 23-year-old man out of LaGrange County has been located.
  Kyle MillerPolice said Monday that Kyle Anthony Edward Miller was last seen around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. In a news release Monday, police said Miller suffers from bipolar disease and schizophrenia.
  Police said he may be in Fort Wayne.
  Anyone with any information on Miller’s whereabouts was asked to call police.
  Just after 4 p.m. Monday, police said Miller had been located. No other details were provi
  
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• Earth sweltered to 3rd hottest August, summer on record

  18-09-2017 21:10 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth just sweated through the third hottest August and summer on record.
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday the globe last month averaged 61.5 degrees (16.43 Celsius), which was a degree-and-a-half higher than the 20th century average, but behind 2016 and 2015.
  The average temperature for June through August was 61.47 degrees (16.41 Celsius).
  So far the year to date has edged out 2015 and is the second hottest January through August, averagin
  
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• Luers tabs Will Hubertz as head boys basketball coach

  18-09-2017 21:08 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Bishop Luers had named former Indiana Wesleyan standout Will Hubertz as head boys basketball coach.
  Hubertz, a Lafayette native, scored over 1,000 point in his college career at IWU where he was a four-year starter.
  Hubertz takes over for J.J. Foster, who left Bishop Luers to become the head coach at South Side. Foster spent the past four seasons leading the Knights, going 19-8 last year with an appearance at 3A semi-state.
   
  
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• White House details Trump’s Indianapolis visit

  18-09-2017 19:25 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) President Donald Trump will visit Indianapolis this week to champion his tax reform agenda.
  The White House said Monday that the president will speak at the Indiana State Fairgrounds on Wednesday, around 5 p.m. Trump is expected to detail his tax reform plan, the White House said.
  Trump will be joined by State Rep. Holli Sullivan of Evansville, State Republican Chairman Kyle Hupfer, Tom Farms owner and former Congressional candidate Kip Tom of Leesburg, small business own
  
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• Trump to visit Indianapolis next week

  18-09-2017 19:25 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) President Donald Trump will visit Indianapolis next week, NewsChannel 15 has confirmed.
  Allen County Republican Party Chairman Steve Shine told NewsChannel 15 that he’d learned of the president’s plan to visit the state capital on Wednesday. Shine could not say exactly where Trump will visit or which day next week.
  NewsChannel 15 reported earlier this week that Trump was planning to visit Indiana next week to champion his tax reform agenda. On Tuesday, the Ind
  
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• Trump to visit Indiana to talk tax cuts

  18-09-2017 19:25 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (WANE) President Donald Trump is expected to visit Indiana next week to champion his tax reform agenda.
  It’s not clear when the president will travel to Indiana. White House aides have said they’re still working out exact details, including where Trump will visit.
  The trip would be the president’s third trip out of Washington to talk about tax cuts after events in North Dakota and Missouri. Trump has said he’ll seek to lower the top corporate tax rate from 35 t
  
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• Mars research crew emerges after 8 months of isolation

  18-09-2017 19:05 via wane.com
  HONOLULU (AP) — Six NASA-backed research subjects who have been cooped up in a Mars-like habitat on a remote Hawaii volcano since January emerged from isolation Sunday. They devoured fresh-picked tropical fruits and fluffy egg strata after eating mostly freeze-dried food while in isolation and some vegetables they grew during their mission.
  The crew of four men and two women are part of a study designed to better understand the psychological impacts a long-term space mission would have on
  
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• Maria grows to a Cat 3, nears already battered Caribbean

  18-09-2017 18:51 via wane.com
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Maria grew into a Category 3 storm on Monday as it barreled toward a potentially devastating collision with islands in the eastern Caribbean. Forecasters warned it was likely to grow even stronger.
  The storm was on a path that would take it near many of the islands already wrecked by Hurricane Irma and then on toward Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Maria could hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as a Category 3 or 4 hurricane, said Ernesto Morales wi
  
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• New name expected for Klipsch Music Center

  18-09-2017 18:02 via wane.com
  NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Central Indiana’s largest outdoor music venue could soon have a new sponsor name after nearly a year of not being paid for the naming rights.
  File photo of Klipsch Music CenterThe five-year sponsorship deal for Klipsch Music Center in Noblesville expired in October 2016. Klipsch CEO Paul Jacobs tells the Indianapolis Business Journal that continuing the sponsorship didn’t fit the Indianapolis-based speaker manufacturer’s future strategy.
  Jacobs sa
  
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• Woman arrested after infant tests positive for heroin, morphine

  18-09-2017 17:52 via wane.com
  WABASH, Ind. (WANE) A Wabash woman is facing a felony charge of neglect of dependent after a six-week old boy tested positive for heroin and morphine.
  Emma Moore, 22, was served an arrest warrant last week at the Wabash County Jail where she’s currently being held in connection with a previous arrest according to a news release from Indiana State Police.
  A detective with Indiana State Police began an investigation on August 9, after he was notified by the Wabash County Division of the Indi
  
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• Hampton Inn to rise in downtown Fort Wayne

  18-09-2017 17:05 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A new hotel will be built in downtown Fort Wayne.
  Hampton Inn & Suites announced Monday it plans to build a 125-room hotel along West Jefferson Boulevard, across from the Grand Wayne Convention Center between the Courtyard by Marriott and Parkview Field. The site is currently a parking lot.
  The hotel is expected to open as early as summer 2019.
  A rendering of a Hampton Inn & Suites that will be built in downtown Fort Wayne is shown.The new development – a $2
  
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• GasBuddy: Indiana among states with lowest gas prices

  18-09-2017 16:44 via wane.com
  GASBUDDY — Average gas prices have dropped in 45 of the nation’s fifty states with the national average declining nearly 5 cents per gallon to $2.60 in the first weekly drop since Hurricane Harvey’s damaged caused refinery shut downs weeks ago.
  “As we welcome back winter gasoline across most of the country, gasoline production has continued to recover after Harvey, leading much of the country to enjoy falling gasoline prices along with fall weather,” said Patrick De
  
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• IPFW has enrollment drop ahead of split

  18-09-2017 16:43 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Enrollment at the Indiana University-Purdue University campus in Fort Wayne is down 13 percent this fall semester as the schools prepare to split into separate entities next year.
  File Photo – IPFWThis fall’s enrollment of 10,414 students at IPFW is down almost 1,600 from a year ago and total class hours being taken has declined about 10 percent.
  IPFW vice chancellor Carl Drummond tells the (Fort Wayne) Journal Gazette that the upcoming Indiana-Purdue sp
  
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• Trial set to start in Indiana 9-year-old’s starvation death

  18-09-2017 16:26 via wane.com
  TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Trial proceedings are set to begin for one of four adults charged in connection with a 9-year-old Indiana boy’s starvation death earlier this year.
  The (Terre Haute) Tribune-Star reports a judge has ordered potential jurors to appear Monday in Vigo Superior Court for jury selection in the case against 54-year-old Robin Kraemer. She faces felony neglect charges among other counts in the February death of Cameron Hoopingarner.
  Authorities say the boy weighed on
  
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• Boy, 16, killed in crash

  18-09-2017 15:50 via wane.com
  KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) A 16-year-old boy was killed and a 13-year-old boy was badly hurt in a single vehicle crash in Kosciusko County midday Sunday.
  Police and medics were called around 1 p.m. Sunday to a stretch of S.R. 650 North near C.R. 700 West just north of Atwood on a report of a vehicle crash there. Crews arrived to find a 1994 GMC Jimmy crashed off the roadway, its body separated from its frame.
  A GMC Jimmy was mangled in a crash that killed its 16-year-old driver Sunday, Sept.
  
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• GM workers go on strike at Canadian SUV factory

  18-09-2017 15:10 via wane.com
  DETROIT (AP) — About 2,500 workers at a General Motors factory in Canada that makes the Chevrolet Equinox SUV are on strike in a dispute over job security.
  Members of Unifor Local 88 in Ingersoll, Ontario, west of Toronto, stopped working when their contract expired at 10:59 p.m. Sunday.
  The union says GM won’t designate the factory as lead producer of the Equinox. GM moved production of the GMC Terrain, which is similar to the Equinox, to Mexico in July. About 600 workers were laid
  
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• H.O.P.E. For Animals is Positively Fort Wayne

  18-09-2017 11:00 via wane.com
  Fort Wayne, Ind. (WANE) – Supporting pets and their families is what H.O.P.E For Animals is all about. The Fort Wayne veterinary clinic has been in operation since 2010. It is located at 1333 Maycrest Drive. “We offer low-cost spay and neuter as well as low-cost wellness services to pets not only in our community but anyone from outside our community as well,” said Allison Miller, H.O.P.E. director. “We turn no one away.”
  Pet owner Wendy Walker decided to take
  
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• Indiana sees decrease in residents without health insurance

  18-09-2017 10:19 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A U.S. Census Bureau report has found that the number of people in Indiana without health insurance has decreased over the past few years.
  The report released last week found that about 8 percent or 530,000 Indiana residents lacked medical insurance in 2016, compared to 14 percent or 903,000 residents in 2013.
  Those figures are close to the national uninsured rates of 14.5 percent in 2013 and 8.6 percent in 2016.
  The Journal Gazette reports that the decrease follows
  
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• New South Bend-area VA clinic set for opening

  18-09-2017 10:16 via wane.com
   
  MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — A new Veterans Affairs Clinic for the South Bend area is set to start serving its first patients.
  The $38 million clinic in Mishawaka is opening Monday after almost two years of construction. Officials say the new clinic will offer more outpatient services than the previous clinic in downtown South Bend, with the number of patients expected to grow from about 8,000 to 13,000 over the next two years.
  Clinic associate director Jay Miller tells the South Bend Tri
  
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• 5-year-old boy drives jet ski onto beach, injuring woman

  18-09-2017 10:13 via wane.com
  MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say 5-year-old boy started a jet ski along a Lake Michigan beach in northwestern Indiana, which ran onto shore and badly hurt a woman.
  Indiana Conservation Officers say the boy’s father was helping another jet ski operator with mechanical troubles Saturday afternoon at Michigan City Beach when the boy climbed on the jet ski and pushed the ignition button. The boy became scared and turned the throttle as he grabbed onto the handle bars.
  Officials
  
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• How Trump’s advisers schooled him on globalism

  18-09-2017 10:10 via wane.com
   
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  In this Sept. 15, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks to military personnel and their families at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. At this week’s U.N. General Assembly, Trump will find there are serious concerns among world leaders about his priorities, his support for the organization he is addressing and a series of spiraling global crises. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)NEW YORK (AP) — On a sweltering Washington summer day, President Donald Trump’s motorcade pull
  
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• ‘Veep’ and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ win top Emmy Award prizes

  18-09-2017 07:13 via wane.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The dystopian vision of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the deeply cynical Washington comedy “Veep” and the ever-topical “Saturday Night Live” won top series honors Sunday in an Emmy Awards ceremony that took almost nonstop aim at President Donald Trump in awards and speeches.
  “Go home, get to work, we have a lot of things to fight for,” producer Bruce Miller said in accepting the best drama trophy for “A Handmaid&rsquo
  
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• Shooting in Marion leaves man critically hurt

  18-09-2017 04:54 via wane.com
  MARION, Ind. (WANE) – Law enforcement in Marion are investigating a shooting that left a man in critical condition Sunday, according to a statement from the Grant County Sheriff’s Department.
  Grant County Sheriff’s Department Spokesman Lt. Shelby Taylor said officers were dispatched around 4:20 p.m. to an area near Colonia Park Drive and Home Avenue for a reported shooting.
  Taylor said officers arrived and found a man who was shot in the left leg. Police said a man was seen run
  
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• Woman thrown from motorcycle hit by passing car, killed

  18-09-2017 04:26 via wane.com
  COESSE, Ind. (WANE) – A woman was killed and a man was seriously hurt after crashing a motorcycle in Whitley County Sunday night.
  The crash was reported around 10:00 p.m.
  Emergency crews responded to the westbound lanes of U.S. 30 between County Road 600 East and County Road 500 East near Coesse.
  Indiana State Trooper Jeremy Brice said Michael Miller, 40 of Cromwell may have lost control of  the motorcycle while changing lanes.  There is uneven pavement in that area due to ongoin
  
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• Fatal motorcycle crash closes U.S. 30 in Whitley County

  18-09-2017 04:26 via wane.com
  COESSE, Ind. (WANE) – Westbound U.S. 30 is closed in Whitley County while police investigate a fatal motorcycle crash.
  Emergency crews have closed the westbound lanes between County Road 600 East and County Road 500 East near Coesse.
  The crash was reported at 10:01 p.m. Sunday.
  Police on scene confirmed to NewsChannel 15 Overnight Reporter Michael Kuhn that one woman died, and a man was taken to a hospital in serious condition.
  Investigators said it appeared the motorcycle may have lo
  
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• 1 dead, 1 seriously hurt in motorcycle crash on U.S. 30

  18-09-2017 04:26 via wane.com
  COESSE, Ind. (WANE) – A woman was killed and a man was seriously hurt after crashing a motorcycle in Whitley County Sunday night.
  The crash was reported around 10 p.m.
  Emergency crews responded to the westbound lanes of U.S. 30 between County Road 600 East and County Road 500 East near Coesse.
  Police on scene confirmed one woman was pronounced dead at the scene, and a man was taken to a hospital in serious condition.
  Investigators said it appeared the motorcycle may have lost control on th
  
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• Volunteers angry after TX shelter dogs transported to Fort Wayne

  18-09-2017 01:34 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A group of around 100 shelter dogs arrived in Fort Wayne late last night from Texas, but how those dogs got here – in a box truck, in a 30-plus hour trip… has a lot of people angry.
  The Rescue the Animals (RTA) shelter in Abilene, Texas needed to free up space to host animals affected by Hurricane Harvey. The shelter transported the dogs they had before the storm to Fort Wayne in coordination with animal rescue and adoption organization G.R.R.O.W
  
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