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• Coldest night of fall tonight

  19-10-2022 23:51 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Temperatures in Fort Wayne haven't officially fallen into the 20s yet, but they're forecast to reach that range by early morning, delivering us our coldest morning of the season to date.Thursday morning lows will be as low as the upper 20s across the region. So, protect those plants and bring in the pets to keep them warm.Thursday morning's conditions are the coldest in the 10 Day Forecast.Warmer air is getting ready to move in and it's going to send high temperatures b
  
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• COVID-19 linked to increase in US pregnancy-related deaths

  19-10-2022 22:55 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 drove a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the U.S. last year, a crisis that has disproportionately claimed Black and Hispanic women as victims, according to a report released Wednesday..The report lays out grim trends across the country for expectant mothers and their newborn babies.Close Thanks for signing up!Watch for us in your inbox.Subscribe Now Daily NewsSIGN UP NOWIt finds that pregnan
  
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• Clean & Green team adds 18 trash cans to downtown Fort Wayne

  19-10-2022 22:47 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Fort Wayne residents can expect to see many more trash cans across downtown thanks to a local partnership.
  In a partnership with the City of Fort Wayne, Downtown Fort Wayne's Clean & Green team installed 18 new streetscape "litter receptacles" throughout the 99-block Downtown District and its neighboring corridors."Our Clean & Green team is the foundation of everything we do to make Downtown Fort Wayne the vibrant, urban core of northeast Indiana," said Do
  
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• Clean & Green team adds 18 litter receptacles to downtown Fort Wayne

  19-10-2022 22:47 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Fort Wayne residents can expect to see many more litter receptacles across downtown thanks to a local partnership.
  In a partnership with the City of Fort Wayne, Downtown Fort Wayne's Clean & Green team installed 18 new streetscape litter receptacles throughout the 99-block Downtown District and its neighboring corridors."Our Clean & Green team is the foundation of everything we do to make Downtown Fort Wayne the vibrant, urban core of northeast Indiana," s
  
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• Chipotle at Jefferson Pointe moving to old Bob Evans, and adding a drive-thru

  19-10-2022 22:37 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The Jefferson Pointe Chipotle is moving to a stand-alone, larger location a few hundred feet away.A Chipotle representative confirmed to WANE 15 that the fast casual eatery was relocating from inside the shopping center to the old Bob Evans location at 1715 Apple Glen Blvd.Close Thanks for signing up!Watch for us in your inbox.Subscribe Now Daily NewsSIGN UP NOWChipotle already has a sign up on the building.The Chipotle representative said it will add a "Chipotlane dig
  
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• Baseball, parks and knitting celebrated in Nebraska Neighborhood mural

  19-10-2022 22:33 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Baseball and knitting are highlights of a new mural celebrating the history of the Nebraska Neighborhood.
  The Fort Wayne Art Commission dedicated the mural on Wednesday.Part 2: Local artist is living the dream
  Located on the facade of 1804 W. Main St. - the building for Earth Adventures right next door to O'Sullivan's Italian-Irish Pub - the mural incorporates the Kekionga Baseball team, the Wayne Knitting Mills, Camp Allen, Jaenicke Gardens and Swinney Park, according
  
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• Temps in the 70s for multiple days

  19-10-2022 22:32 via wane.com
  
  Evening temperatures drop out of the 50s and into the 40s.We won't be dropping all the way to the upper 20s like last night. However, we will still have a significant chill in the air with temps falling as low as the mid-30s.A light wind will linger, so we should not have much frost forming across the region.Friday's forecast offers a lot of sunshine and the arrival of some significantly warmer air gusting in from the SW.We'll have occasional afternoon wind gusts as highs as 30 mph and high temp
  
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• Will we see a rough flu season? DeKalb County's Health Officer shares his answer.

  19-10-2022 21:24 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- As the weather has cooled down, flu clinics are opening up around northeast Indiana for people to get their flu shot.The DeKalb County Health Department has held several walk-in clinics for flu shots, and Super Shot is hosting one Wednesday night in Fort Wayne at Come As You Are Church on Anthony Blvd.Health professionals regularly recommend getting an influenza vaccine, but Dr. Mark Souder believes it's very important to get one this year.Dr. Souder is the DeKalb Coun
  
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• Indiana State Police mourn loss of K-9 that came out of retirement

  19-10-2022 20:12 via wane.com
  
  BRISTOL, Ind. (WANE) A K-9 who patrolled with Indiana State Police for six years and helped with a slew of criminal arrests has been euthanized after battling a sudden illness for several days according to a department news release.
  Zeus was an 8-year-old German Shephard/Belgian Malinois mix who patrolled with Trooper Logan Hensley for the last year on the Indiana Toll Road.  Zeus had previously been partnered with Sgt. Tyson Waldron of the Ft. Wayne Post for five years.   Angola polic
  
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• Stepmom accused of beating Fort Wayne 9-year-old to death has a new plea deal; won't testify against her spouse

  19-10-2022 20:11 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The 9-year-old victim was told to call her “Dad.”In mid-December of last year, Alesha Miller aka “Dad,” beat to death her stepson, Elijah Ross, while his two older brothers watched, according to a probable cause affidavit.Close Thanks for signing up!Watch for us in your inbox.Subscribe Now Daily NewsSIGN UP NOWNow, Alesha Miller, 31, who also liked to be called “Hood,” has worked out a new plea deal with her new attorney, Robert Scre
  
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• Trine professor arrested in child porn investigation

  19-10-2022 19:05 via wane.com
  
  ANGOLA, Ind. (WANE) -- A tip and a lengthy investigation led to the arrest by Angola police of a Trine University professor on 15 counts of felony child exploitation.Officers with the Angola Police Department took Steven Messer, 32, into custody on Tuesday. Close Thanks for signing up!Watch for us in your inbox.Subscribe Now WANE 15 Breaking News AlertsSIGN UP NOWAccording to a news release posted on the department's Facebook page, the investigation began after it received a tip from the Nationa
  
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• Angola police arrest man on 15 counts of child exploitation

  19-10-2022 19:05 via wane.com
  
  ANGOLA, Ind. (WANE) A tip and a lengthy investigation have led to the arrest by Angola police of a man on 15 counts of child exploitation.Officers with the Angola Police Department took Steve Messer, 32, into custody on Tuesday.
  According to a news release posted on the department's Facebook page, the investigation began after it received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. No other details regarding the investigation were revealed, however it was determined that n
  
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• Court docs: New details released in stabbing; woman accused of killing boyfriend

  19-10-2022 18:54 via wane.com
  
  WARNING: The following story contains graphic details and language not suitable for all readers
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Before he arrived at the downtown fire station looking for help, and before he died at a local hospital from a stab wound to his torso, 38-year-old Robert Lee Higginbotham III turned to a woman on the front porch of a southeast side home, lifted his shirt to show a blood and a gash and told her:
  "My (expletive) stabbed me."
  That's according to newly released Allen Superior Co
  
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• New video: Gabby Petito seen alive for last time at Wyoming Whole Foods

  19-10-2022 17:38 via wane.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Previously unseen video shows Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie shopping together at a Wyoming Whole Foods store not long before her death.The video, obtained from the Town of Jackson Police on Tuesday, was taken Aug. 27, the day Petito's family said they last spoke with her. They claim Laundrie told his parents he killed Petito the next day.In the video, Petito and Laundrie are seen pulling into the parking lot in her white Ford Transit van. The couple shopped for about
  
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• East State closed after crew hits gas line

  19-10-2022 17:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- A section of East State Boulevard has been closed in Fort Wayne after a gas line was ruptured.A construction crew hit a gas line in front of Blackhawk Christian School, at Lahmeyer Road, according to a letter from Blackhawk Christian School Principal Mark Harmon obtained by WANE 15.Close Thanks for signing up!Watch for us in your inbox.Subscribe Now WANE 15 Breaking News AlertsSIGN UP NOW
  East State Blvd was closed in the area.Harmon said the Fort Wayne Fire Depar
  
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• East State back open after crew hits gas line

  19-10-2022 17:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- A section of East State Boulevard was closed for several hours in Fort Wayne after a gas line was ruptured.A construction crew hit a gas line in front of Blackhawk Christian School, at Lahmeyer Road, according to a letter from Blackhawk Christian School Principal Mark Harmon obtained by WANE 15.Close Thanks for signing up!Watch for us in your inbox.Subscribe Now WANE 15 Breaking News AlertsSIGN UP NOWEast State Blvd was closed in the area. Crews were able to open
  
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• Courts: Fort Wayne man sentenced to 15 years for drug, gun crimes

  19-10-2022 17:09 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A 50-year-old Fort Wayne man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after admitting to drug and gun charges, U.S. attorneys announced Wednesday.
  Adrian L. Johnson previously pleaded guilty to possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, according to U.S. District Court records.California man sentenced for 1999 rape of woman in Warsaw
  According to court documents, Johnson was stopped in DeK
  
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• Father says 'no joy' in Kristin Smart murder conviction

  19-10-2022 15:51 via wane.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The father of Kristin Smart, the California Central Coast college student who vanished from campus 26 years ago, says a murder conviction hasn't ended the “agonizingly long journey" to find the truth about his daughter.“Without Kristin, there’s no joy or happiness in this verdict,” Smart’s father, Stan Smart, said at a news conference after a jury on Tuesday found Paul Flores — the last man seen with Smart — guilty of first-degre
  
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• When do clocks fall back for Daylight saving time in 2022?

  19-10-2022 14:37 via wane.com
  
  It's almost time to "fall back" the clocks as Daylight saving time comes to an end on Sunday, November 6, 2022. You'll set your clocks back an hour at 2 a.m., meaning you get an extra hour of sleep that night!However, this also means sunsets will be earlier in the afternoon. Sunrise times will also change.
  We will continue to lose roughly two minutes of sunlight until the first day of Winter, on Wednesday, December 21. The first day of Winter will be the shortest day of the year, with only 9 hou
  
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• 8 in 10 say economy and inflation will factor heavily on their votes: poll

  19-10-2022 14:24 via wane.com
  
  Eight in 10 Americans in a new poll said that the economy and inflation will play a major role in deciding who they vote for in November’s midterm elections.As the elections loom just weeks away, 81 percent of respondents said the economy will factor heavily in their vote, while 80 percent said the same of inflation, according to a Politico-Morning Consult poll released on Wednesday.The next closest factor for voters was crime, with 64 percent saying that issue would play a major
  
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• IRS announces tax inflation adjustments – why your paycheck could see a bump

  19-10-2022 14:01 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – Millions of Americans could take home more pay in 2023 thanks to inflation adjustments to the tax code announced by the IRS Tuesday.Among the dozens of changes prompted by the soaring costs of food, rent, gasoline, and other items, the IRS is hiking the standard deduction for tax year 2023 by roughly 7 percent.
  The standard deduction – which reduces the amount of income on which you're taxed – will go up $1,800 for married couples filing jointly to $27,700. For sing
  
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• How to keep children with food allergies safe during trick-or-treating

  19-10-2022 12:13 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Trick or treaters will be getting their fair share of candy this Halloween, but what do you do if your child is allergic to certain ingredients?According to the CDC, food allergies are thought to happen in 4-6% of children and 4% of adults.Allergic reactions include rash, hives, swelling, vomiting, or in severe reactions, shortness of breath or wheezing. These can become life threatening if not treated immediately.In 2006, The Food Allergen Labeling and Consu
  
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• Health: Keeping children with food allergies safe during trick or treating

  19-10-2022 12:13 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Trick or treaters will be getting their fair share of candy this Halloween, but what do you do if your child is allergic to certain ingredients?According to the CDC, food allergies are thought to happen in 4-6% of children and 4% of adults.Allergic reactions include rash, hives, swelling, vomiting, or in severe reactions, shortness of breath or wheezing. These can become life threatening if not treated immediately.In 2006, The Food Allergen Labeling and Consu
  
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• Lack of 'forever chemicals' testing could be leaving most victims in the dark

  19-10-2022 12:02 via wane.com
  
  Sandy Wynn-Stelt had thought her Michigan home was across the street from a Christmas tree farm, but she said in a lawsuit settled earlier this year that it was actually a toxic dump that contaminated her water.In 2017, the state’s Department of Environmental Quality came to Wynn-Stelt’s house to test her water, a test she believed at the time to be random. The test, however, turned up high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemic
  
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• Warmer air moves closer to our area today

  19-10-2022 09:38 via wane.com
  
  We are going to see a dramatic warm-up over the next 48 hours. While it will be slightly warmer today the biggest temperature swings will begin Friday with temperatures near 70. It gets even warmer Friday with a high in the middle 70s.Skies will be cloudy through much of the morning with gradual clearing by late morning and temperatures warming to around 50 by noon.
  Afternoon sunshine will help to warm us up to the middle 50s today.It won't be as cold overnight with a low in the upper 30s.You'll
  
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• Crash at Lafayette, Pontiac leaves car standing on its front end

  19-10-2022 05:29 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Police are investigating a crash at the intersection of Lafayette and Pontiac streets where a car crashed into a building and was left standing on its front end.The vehicle hit Conceptos Ariel Beauty Salon, which is at the corner of the intersection.There were six police vehicles and three firetrucks at the scene as first responders investigated the scene.
  It is not yet known how many people were involved in the crash, and the conditions of anyone involved are als
  
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• US to announce release of 15M barrels of oil from strategic reserve

  19-10-2022 04:36 via wane.com
  
  (The Hill) - The U.S. will release 15 million barrels of oil from its strategic reserve, Biden administration officials plan to announce Wednesday.The 15 million barrels are the final tranche of a disbursement of 180 million announced in March and come as energy prices threaten to rise again less than a month before Election Day.Rising prices have emerged as a drag on Democrats as polls show the economy is one of the issues most top of mind for voters as they head to the ballot box. Early voting
  
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• Blues legend Buddy Guy to visit the Embassy during farewell tour

  19-10-2022 00:55 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Embassy Theatre and Honeywell Arts & Entertainment announced Friday that Blues legend Buddy Guy will perform at the Embassy as part of his farewell tour.Guy's tour will bring him to Fort Wayne on Feb. 23, 2023. John Mellencamp announces 2 shows at Embassy TheatreThroughout his career, Guy, 86, has garnered eight Grammy awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys in 2015 and a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.Guy's stop in Fort Way
  
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• Irish legend Rocky Bleier speaks at NIBCC lunch

  19-10-2022 00:12 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Irish football legend Rocky Bleier spent his Tuesday afternoon in the Summit City as the featured speaker at the latest luncheon held by the Northeast Indiana Baseba Community Council.Bleier served his country in Vietnam in 1968, interrupting his professional football career with the Pittsburgh Steelers.Bleier was a member of the 1966 national championship team at Notre Dame, and was a captain his senior season in 1967. He was a 16th round draft choice by Pittsburgh fol
  
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