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• Salamonie Mills locations up for auction, Agland Grain claims hearing date announced

  29-06-2020 22:36 via wane.com
  
  HUNTINGTON, Ind. (WANE) — An online auction date has been announced to sell off grain mills and land connected to Salamonie Mills.Simpson Grain, located in Huntington county, Hemp Mill, and the Railroad Facility located in Warren, and the Markle Elevator located in Markle are all on the auction block. Land located on 1000 South in Warren and a pullet barn located in Liberty Center is also being auctioned off. Each location can be purchased separately or together.
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• Judge warns of possible move of trial in George Floyd death

  29-06-2020 21:53 via wane.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota judge on Monday warned that he’s likely to move the trials of four police officers charged in George Floyd’s death out of Minneapolis if public officials and attorneys don’t stop talking about the case.Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill stopped short of issuing a gag order on attorneys, but he said one is likely if public statements continue. Cahill added that such a situation would also make him likely to grant a change-of-venue motion if o
  
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• Poll: Majority of Americans think US virus response ‘going badly’

  29-06-2020 21:48 via wane.com
  
  A CBS News poll released on Sunday shows how Americans feel about wearing masks, and what they think about the US response to coronavirus. 59% of Republican respondents said they think it’s a personal choice to wear a mask in public. 76% of Democrats said it’s a public responsibility. The poll also found that 62% of Americans think the United States’ handling of coronavirus is going badly.
  
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• Two Landing businesses plan July opening, others under construction

  29-06-2020 21:24 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Progress continues on The Landing in downtown Fort Wayne.Two businesses have planned to open in the historic 100 block of W. Columbia Street in July.Utopian Coffee and Kitchen is expected to open Monday, July 6.If all goes to plan, Landing Beer Company should follow suit a week or two later.
  “It’s been amazing,” Landing Beer Co-founder Brendon Maxwell told WANE 15. “It’s really an honor to be a part of what the Model Group (developer)
  
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• Fort Wayne investing $24 million in neighborhood improvements

  29-06-2020 18:51 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Fort Wayne will invest $24 million to improve city streets, roads, alleys, sidewalks and trails.Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry, along with neighborhood leaders from the Fairfield Terrace neighborhood, members of the Fort Wayne City Council and staff members from the Public Works Division, gathered Monday to announce projects for 2020. “I’m encouraged that we’re in position to move forward with several neighborhood infrastructure improvements,&rd
  
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• Driver ejected after pickup goes airborne in Steuben County crash

  29-06-2020 18:50 via wane.com
  
  STEUBEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) — Hudson man was airlifted to a hospital after being ejected from his pickup truck in a crash in Steuben County Sunday afternoon.On Sunday, at approximately 5:20 p.m., Indiana State Police responded to a vehicle crash on CR500W north of CR400S, near Hudson in Steuben County. Officers arrived to the scene to find a pickup truck rolled over on the east side of the road.Mitchell Musser, 24, of Hudson was found laying in the grass next to the pickup truck. The exten
  
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• Hydrochloric acid spilled at New Haven business

  29-06-2020 18:30 via wane.com
  
  NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) — Cleanup is underway after a large chemical spill occurred at a New Haven business Monday.Crews were called around 10:30 a.m. to chemical wholesaler Brenntag Great Lakes at 1615 Estella Ave., just off Maplecrest Road near S.R. 930, on a report of a “hazardous materials incident.”According to a report from the New Haven Adams Township Fire and EMS, a chemical truck carrying hydrochloric acid was emptying product into a tank at the facility when “an
  
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• Chemical spill reported at New Haven business

  29-06-2020 18:30 via wane.com
  
  NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) — Authorities are on the scene of a chemical spill at a New Haven business.Dispatchers told WANE 15 that a spill was reported Brenntag Great Lakes at 1615 Estella Ave., just off Maplecrest Road near S.R. 930. Brenntag is a chemical wholesaler.Nelson Road is closed to traffic while officials investigate.
  
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• Indiana tops 45,000 virus cases

  29-06-2020 17:50 via wane.com
  
  The following are daily reports released by the Indiana State Department of Health, presented verbatim:MONDAY, June 29The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) today announced that 312 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 45,228 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total.I
  
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• No jail time for Fort Wayne YMCA worker had child porn on company computer

  29-06-2020 17:45 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — A Fort Wayne man who had images of naked boys on a computer he was using while working at a Fort Wayne YMCA will avoid jail time.Allen Superior Court Judge Wendy Davis on Monday sentenced 28-year-old Isaac W Lengacher to 2 1/2 years of probation for one count of felony Possession of Child Pornography.According to a probable cause affidavit, Fort Wayne Police received a “cyber tip” from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in February
  
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• Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo to open to public July 4

  29-06-2020 16:34 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo will open to the public on Saturday,with precautions in place to keep guests safe.The zoo will be open to all guests from noon until 7 p.m. daily starting Saturday, July 4. The zoo had been open to members only since June 14.“Zoo members have enjoyed the past few weeks and starting Saturday, July 4th, we will open for the general public,” said the zoo’s executive director, Jim Anderson. “The Zoo looks bea
  
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• Stimulus check round 2: Where we stand on more relief money for Americans

  29-06-2020 16:03 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Despite President Donald Trump’s recent comments suggesting that a “very generous” second round of economic relief payments to Americans may be on the way, it’s unclear when, how and if that might happen.“We will be doing another stimulus package,” President Trump said in an interview last week.The president offered few details, however, saying, “It will be very good. It’ll be very generous.”When asked h
  
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• Supreme Court refuses to block upcoming federal executions

  29-06-2020 15:56 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block the execution of four federal prison inmates who are scheduled to be put to death in July and August.The executions would mark the first use of the death penalty on the federal level since 2003.The justices rejected an appeal from four inmates who were convicted of killing children. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor noted that they would have blocked the executions from going forward.The court’s action leav
  
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• Allen County adds 21 new virus cases; death toll at 107

  29-06-2020 15:45 via wane.com
  
  The following are updates from the Allen County Department of Health:MONDAY, June 29Another 21 Allen County residents have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to 2,649 cases and 107 deaths Monday.Updates to positive cases and deaths in Allen County are found at the top of the Department’s COVID-19 webpage at www.allencountyhealth.com/covid-19 and will be time-stamped to keep the public informed with the latest local data.Basic demographic information on Allen County cases is p
  
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• Fauci says vaccine still might not get US to herd immunity

  29-06-2020 15:10 via wane.com
  
  (CNN/WFLA) — Dr. Anthony Fauci says the U.S. still may not have full herd immunity by the time it gets a vaccine for COVID-19.The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said at this point, he would settle for a vaccine that is 70% to 75% effective.“I doubt seriously that any vaccine will ever be 100% percent protective. The best we’ve ever done is measles, which is 97 to 98% effective,” Fauci said. “Um, oh, that would be wonderful if w
  
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• Mississippi surrenders Confederate symbol from state flag

  29-06-2020 14:49 via wane.com
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.A broad coalition of lawmakers — Black and white, Democrat and Republican — voted Sunday for change as the state faced increasing pressure amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.Mississippi has a 38% Black population, and critics have
  
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• Allen County Library announces reopening plans

  29-06-2020 14:35 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The Allen County library announced Monday it plans to open all of its locations to the public on July 6, however policies will be in place as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Patrons should be aware of the following changes before visiting the main library or one of its branches:
  Masks will be required for all library staff and visitors over the age of two. Masks will be available to library visitors who do not bring their own.Touch-free technology has been installed at
  
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• Trump denies he was briefed about reported Russian bounties on US troops

  29-06-2020 12:22 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has denied that he was made aware of U.S. intelligence officials’ conclusions that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan. The Trump administration was set to brief select members of Congress on the matter on Monday.The intelligence assessments came amid Trump’s push to withdraw the U.S. from Afghanistan and suggested that Russia was making overtures to militants as the U.S
  
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• California’s alleged Golden State Killer set to plead guilty

  29-06-2020 12:09 via wane.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Forty years after a sadistic suburban rapist terrorized California in what investigators later realized were a series of linked assaults and slayings, a 74-year-old former police officer is expected to plead guilty Monday to being the elusive Golden State Killer.The deal will spare Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. any chance of the death penalty for 13 murders and 13 kidnapping-related charges spanning six counties. In partial return, survivors of the assaults that spann
  
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• Retiring USF President sits down with WANE 15’s Terra Brantley

  29-06-2020 11:00 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) –The longest serving president in the history of the University of Saint Francis will retire June 30. Sister M. Elise Kriss has served the university for 37 years. She was an undergraduate dean and academic vice president for the first 10 years. The last 27 she has served as president.Under her leadership the University of Saint Francis has experienced tremendous growth such as expanding beyond its main campus on Spring Street and starting a football program. Sister
  
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• Jaylon Smith launches “iCRYO” location in Fort Wayne

  29-06-2020 06:01 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Over the weekend, Dallas Cowboys linebacker Jaylon Smith was back in the Summit City and opened up his new “iCryo” location that focuses on cryotherapy treatment.Smith felt it was important to get a recovery tool like this in his hometown to help the next wave of young athletes get more out of their bodies.Smith was in business mode for the event, but he did look ahead to the upcoming NFL season,and he’s staying optimistic that we’ll see so
  
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• ACPL cancels Rock the Plaza concert series due to pandemic

  29-06-2020 01:43 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Allen County Public Library has decided to cancel their summer concert series for 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.The library typically holds the free concert series every Saturday evening between Memorial Day and Labor Day. In a press release, ACPL said they had hoped they would be able to put on part of the season’s concerts but chose to cancel as more COVID-19 cases come in and other large events cancel and postpone.“As we make plans to re
  
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