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• Full marathon runner loses 270 pounds

  27-09-2017 23:26 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Pete LaFaucia weighed more than 470 pounds at his heaviest.  He said, “I was a heavy athletic guy up until high school, ran track, played football. But after that I went to college, every meal became a buffet, and stopped exercising. And then I went from being a hefty lineman type guy that threw shot and discus in track to just becoming a fat guy. And it just grew and grew and grew and grew from there.”
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• Trump, GOP tax plan would cut rates for many Americans

  27-09-2017 22:25 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are proposing a far-reaching, $5 trillion plan Wednesday that would cut taxes for corporations and potentially for individuals, simplify the tax system and nearly double the standard deduction used by most Americans.
  The plan is sweeping in scope but omits critical, controversial details that are likely to take months to work out in a bitterly divided, GOP-led Congress. The political stakes are high for Republicans and
  
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• NY village changes controversial official seal … kinda

  27-09-2017 21:33 via wane.com
  WHITESBORO, N.Y. (AP) — More than 200 years after local lore says a settler named Hugh White bested an Oneida Indian in a friendly wrestling match, he’s still grappling with his opponent — at least on an upstate New York village’s newly revised official seal.
  Whitesboro found itself making national news in early 2016 when it held a public vote on whether to change the village seal, which depicted a white man besting a Native American in a hand-to-hand struggle. Some consi
  
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• Arena study delayed; more answers needed

  27-09-2017 20:42 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The results of a feasibility study on a potential downtown arena have been delayed.
  Steve Brody, secretary of Allen County Fort Wayne Capitol Improvement Board, told NewsChannel 15 the group was expecting to share the results of the study around Labor Day. It could take 30-45 more days to complete.
  “It has gotten complicated,” Brody said. “They are doing a lot of great research and a lot of great work. We’re happy with what they’ve done to th
  
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• Police fire at actor filming armed robbery scene for movie

  27-09-2017 19:52 via wane.com
  CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. (WANE) Early Tuesday evening the Crawfordsville Police Department responded to a 911 call of an apparent armed robbery in progress at a local bar.
  Upon arriving, officers saw a man come out of the bar wearing a ski mask and carrying a handgun. Officer then fired at the man after telling him to drop the gun.He immediately did so and took off the ski mask. He then told the officers they were on the set of a movie production.An investigation by an Indiana State Trooper determin
  
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• Louisville places Rick Pitino, AD on administrative leave

  27-09-2017 19:11 via wane.com
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville has placed coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich on administrative leave amid a federal bribery investigation.
  Interim university President Greg Postel said at a news conference Wednesday that Jurich is on paid leave, while Pitino is on unpaid leave. The coach’s attorney, Steve Spence, told the Courier-Journal that Louisville has “effectively fired” Pitino.
  Neither Pitino nor Jurich attended the news conference.
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• Attorney: Louisville has ‘effectively fired’ Rick Pitino

  27-09-2017 19:11 via wane.com
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Rick Pitino’s attorney has told the Courier-Journal that Louisville has put the basketball coach on administrative leave, but has “effectively fired” Pitino amid a federal bribery investigation.
  Steve Spence told the paper Tuesday the coach was out before a scheduled news conference at the school.
  Pitino’s exit comes after the school acknowledged on Tuesday that the men’s program is part of a federal investigation into alleged bribery of
  
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• Klipsch Music Center now officially Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center

  27-09-2017 18:15 via wane.com
  NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (WANE)  The name of the 24,000 seat amphitheater in Noblesville that was first known as Deer Creek when it opened back in 1989 is now officially known as the Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center.
  The announcement of the title sponsor change from Klipsch Music Center to Ruoff was announced Wednesday.
  The timing of the naming rights coincides with the company’s efforts to take their branding to the next level. They have been ranked on the Inc. 500/5000 Fastest Growing Comp
  
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• Police: Fort Wayne woman tried to kill baby with tainted milk

  27-09-2017 17:44 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) An arrest warrant has been issued for a Fort Wayne woman accused of plotting to kill her brother’s 11-week-old child with breast milk containing a potentially fatal amount of an over the counter pain medicine.
  Sarai Rodriguez-Miranda was charged Monday in Allen County with one felony count of attempted murder and she’s believed to have fled to Michigan upon learning she was under investigation by police.
  According to the affidavit for probable cause, the inves
  
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• Court documents: Grandmother tips off police to daughter’s plot to kill infant

  27-09-2017 17:44 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)  An arrest warrant has been issued for a Fort Wayne woman accused of plotting to kill her brother’s 11-week-old child with breast milk containing a potentially fatal amount of an over the counter pain medicine.
  Sarai Rodriguez-Miranda was charged Monday in Allen County with one felony count of attempted murder and she’s believed to have fled to Michigan upon learning she was under investigation by police.
  According to the affidavit for probable cause, the
  
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• Butler police thank citizens for help in arrest

  27-09-2017 16:46 via wane.com
  BUTLER, Ind. (WANE) The Butler Police Department thanked several people who helped an officer who struggled to arrest a man Friday.
  In a Facebook post, the department said Officer Jacob Smith stopped a semi, driven by Nicholas J Gaetz, for crossing the center line.
  The post also said: “During the stop without provocation Nicholas J Gaetz became aggressive and extremely belligerent. As Officer Smith attempted to detain the driver due to his extremely aggressive behavior the driver then bega
  
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• Killer dubbed ‘a known Hannibal Lecter’ set to plead guilty

  27-09-2017 16:07 via wane.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After Casey Pigge was taken into custody last year for using a brick to kill his cellmate by repeatedly smashing his head, he made one thing clear to investigators.
  “Pigge denied any desire to be a serial killer, but could not promise that he wouldn’t kill again,” a prison social worker said after interviewing him.
  On Feb. 1, just two days after pleading guilty to beating cellmate Luther Wade to death, Pigge was placed in a prison transport van with
  
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• NIPSCO requests natural gas rate hike

  27-09-2017 15:29 via wane.com
  (WANE) Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) is asking the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) to increase its natural gas base rates according to a news release issued by the utility Wednesday morning.
  The request will go through a regulatory review process which includes public comment before it’s acted upon.  NIPSCO says it’s been 25 years since its base natural gas rates have increased and in 2010 there was a slight decrease following a regulatory re
  
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• Need more room? Twitter testing 280-character limit

  27-09-2017 10:21 via wane.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Need more room to type those deep thoughts? Twitter is testing a 280-character limit for tweets, doubling the current length restriction that’s been in place since the company’s founding 11 years ago.
  The test is being made available to a small subset of users and applies to languages other than Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. That’s because in those languages, Twitter notes, you can convey about double the amount of information in one character as you can
  
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• ‘Saturday Night Live’ adds 3 new cast members for season 43

  27-09-2017 10:16 via wane.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” is adding three new cast members for its new season.
  NBC said Tuesday that the trio will join the show when it returns Saturday for its 43rd season.
  The newcomers are Heidi Gardner of Kansas City, Missouri, Luke Null of Cincinnati and Chris Redd of St. Louis.
  Gardner is the voice of Cooch in Crackle’s “SuperMansion” and is in the 2018 Melissa McCarthy movie “Life of the Party.”
  Luke Null is a Chicago-based m
  
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• NFL’s Amazon deal could be test for more streaming games

  27-09-2017 10:11 via wane.com
   
  Amazon begins its foray into live streaming of NFL games Thursday night when it will air a matchup between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers on its Prime Video service.
  It’s another option to the traditional broadcasts on CBS and the NFL Network. Amazon will stream 10 Thursday night games and one Christmas game this season, and the success of those transmissions could determine how quickly the NFL is ready to offer one of its packages exclusively to a streaming company.
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• Trump aides told not to use personal phones _ but some do

  27-09-2017 10:05 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials are clearly instructed: Don’t use your personal phones for official business. But some aides appear to have done it anyway, and it’s getting fresh scrutiny along with questions about the use of personal email accounts.
  FILE – In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her Blackberry from a desk inside a C-17 military plane upon her departure from Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea, bound fo
  
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• Trump suddenly focuses on Puerto Rico, promises visit, aid

  27-09-2017 09:58 via wane.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Suddenly, just about all President Donald Trump can talk about is Puerto Rico.
  After not mentioning the hurricane-devastated island for days, Trump on Tuesday pushed back aggressively and repeatedly against criticism that he had failed to quickly grasp the magnitude of Maria’s destruction or give the U.S. commonwealth the top-priority treatment he had bestowed on Texas, Louisiana and Florida after previous storms.
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• Man struck by minivan, seriously hurt

  27-09-2017 08:59 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A man was seriously hurt after he was struck by a minivan early Wednesday morning.
  Fort Wayne police said the crash happened around 1:15 a.m. at Hanna and Eckart Streets.
  Police said a man was crossing the Hanna Street when he was struck by a minivan going northbound. Police said the driver of the minivan said he never saw the man.
  There are no crosswalks on Hanna Street at Eckart.
  The man who was struck was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
  
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• Robinson named Indiana Superintendent of the Year

  27-09-2017 06:55 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – FWCS Superintendent Dr. Wendy Robinson was named Indiana Superintendent of the Year for 2018 by the Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents.
  Robinson has served as the district’s chief since 2003. Prior to her appointment as superintendent, she served as an assistant principal, principal, area administrator, assistant superintendent, and deputy superintendent. Robinson has been a school administrator for more than three decades.
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• Police: 9 Kokomo officers exposed to ‘unknown chemical agent’

  27-09-2017 06:24 via wane.com
  KOKOMO, Ind. (WANE) — Several police officers in Komoko were hospitalized Tuesday night after executing a search warrant, according to a statement by the Kokomo Police Department.
  The department said members of the Kokomo Police Department Drug Task Force were investigating suspected drug activity at 1805 North Wabash Street around 8:15 p.m.
  Police said after officers made entry into the home they were exposed to “… an unknown chemical agent.”
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• One year later, still no justice for Amber Pasztor’s first alleged victim

  27-09-2017 06:19 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) On a straight stretch of West Wallen Road is a faded and weather worn cross. It reads Frank McComber and notes two dates; the day McComber was born and the day he was allegedly murdered by Amber Pasztor.
  Pasztor is notoriously associated with the murder of her own children, 7 year-old Liliana Hernandez and 6 year-old Rene Pasztor on September 26th, 2016. She was sentenced on June 29th, 2017 in Elkhart County to 160 years in prison for their deaths. 65 years in prison for
  
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• 4 coaches, Adidas executive charged in college bribe scheme

  27-09-2017 05:44 via wane.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men — including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches — were charged Tuesday with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes’ choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, even tailors.
  Some of the most explosive allegations appeared to involve Louisville, one of college basketball’s biggest powerhouses, which is alread
  
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• Honor Flight sending 25th group to Washington, D.C.

  27-09-2017 05:10 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Honor Flight Northeast Indiana will send 85 veterans to Washington, D.C. Wednesday.
  The group consists of 11 veterans from WWII, 69 from the Korean War, four Vietnam veterans, and one veteran from the Cold War.
  HFNEI has sent 1,710 veterans to D.C. at no cost over the last seven years.
  The 25th trip is sponsored by Steel Dynamics, Inc.
  “We are humbled by the sacrifices of our veterans and are honored to support a Northeast Indiana Honor Flight,” said M
  
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• ISP: Steuben Co. man arrested for threatening 2 judges, police officer

  27-09-2017 04:15 via wane.com
  STEUBEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) – Indiana State Police arrested a Steuben County man for threatening two judges and a police officer, according to a statement released by the agency.
  Investigators said 57-year-old Alan D. Krontz was jailed on three counts of intimidation.
  ISP said Krontz is believed to have made two threatening phone calls in the early morning hours of Sept. 23 to the homes of DeKalb County Superior Court 1 Judge Kevin P. Wallace and DeKalb County Superior Court 2 Judge Monte
  
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• Mastodons silence Thundering Herd

  27-09-2017 03:07 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Fort Wayne men’s soccer never trailed in their 2-1 victory over Marshall on Tuesday (Sept. 26) evening at the Hefner Soccer Complex.
  Fort Wayne grabbed the lead in the 14th minute when Oscar Uyamadu used a low bouncing shot to put the Mastodons up 1-0. Erick Turner assisted on the goal. It was Uyamadu’s third of the season.
  The Mastodons took the 1-0 lead to the break.
  Fort Wayne goalkeeper Will Hathaway made a diving save t
  
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• Flags4Fallen represents at Fort4Fitness Fall Festival

  27-09-2017 00:58 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Richard Clark ran the Fort4Fitness half marathon in 2012.  The night before the race, he went to Walmart and bought a full-size American flag to carry with him during the race.  “I was touched by all these stories from Iraq and Afghanistan,” Richard said.  As he ran through the tunnel into Parkview Field, he unfurled the flag he was carrying. “As I was running around the field I’m thinking, ‘this could be something.&rsq
  
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• TOTW: Homestead Girls Golf

  27-09-2017 00:38 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Homestead didn’t flop.
  The Spartans clinched the regional title for a second straight year and we’re proud to honor the Homestead girls golf team as the Optimum Performance Sports Team of the Week.
  Emma Schroeder took honors at Noble Hawk Golf Course on Saturday by shooting a 67. She also had the low round at sectionals Teammates also played well including Makenna Hostetler (75), Rylie Parker (76),Sydney Rybolt (78) and Morgan Dabagia (82).
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• Mother: ‘Our family deserves justice and closure’

  27-09-2017 00:35 via wane.com
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A homicide victim’s family is on a mission to find who shot and killed 20-year-old Spencer Smith. It has been more than a month since Smith was gunned down outside of East Central Tower Apartments. Now, his family is voicing frustration with the lack of progress in the case.Fort Wayne Police responded to several reports of shots fired around 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 19. When officers got to the scene, they found Smith near a building suffering from apparent gunshot
  
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