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• Building the Future: FWCS students leaving impact on community

  05-12-2022 23:50 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - For most students in high school, their focus is on school, extracurricular activities and hanging out with their friends. But for some students involved in the Fort Wayne Community Schools ANTHIS program, they are leaving a legacy - all while helping their community.Some seniors have dreamed of getting into their chosen field since they were little kids, while others wanted to get involved to gain some valuable experience."This has honestly been a goal of mine since li
  
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• Concordia Lutheran High School to dedicate new basketball court

  05-12-2022 23:26 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Concordia Lutheran High School announced plans to dedicate the school's new basketball court Friday, Dec. 9.The court will be named in remembrance of Eugene Parker, a 1974 Concordia graduate and member of the Concordia Athletic Hall of Fame.
  Eugene ParkerParker also founded a sports agency where he served professional clients in athletics and entertainment, including Emmitt Smith, Deion Sanders and Rod Woodson. Blackhawk Christian dedicates basketball court to lat
  
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• Do It Best moves into Electric Works

  05-12-2022 21:34 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - December 5, 2022 was a big day for Do It Best, Corp. It's the first day in 75 years employees reported to work at a location other than the offices on Nelson Road in New Haven.
  Do It Best is the anchor tenant of Electric Works and moved its corporate headquarters to Building 26 on the Electric Works campus. On Monday, about a quarter of the nearly 500 Do It Best employees arrived. More employees will move in the rest of this week.
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• Trine University receives $4M grant for Fort Wayne project

  05-12-2022 21:21 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Trine University received approval for a $4 million Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative (READI) grant Monday for an upcoming facility in Fort Wayne.Announced in June, Trine's Fort Wayne campus will employ 100 faculty and serve nearly 700 students in Trine's College of Health Professions. Trine’s new health program in Fort Wayne gets $3 million from Surack foundation"These investments in northeast Indiana will attract and retain more peo
  
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• Townhomes proposal adds to growing development outside Huntertown

  05-12-2022 19:46 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Townhomes are the latest addition coming to housing development in the area around northwest Fort Wayne and Huntertown.This month, Oakmont Development Company II is proposing to build 74 townhomes on nearly 18 acres on Hathaway Road. The townhomes will be built just north of where Oakmont’s lead developer, Jeff Thomas, is building 322 homes on 165 acres off Bethel Road. Both developments are called Sonora. Arizona-based company plans ‘luxury garages’ in Hunt
  
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• Townhomes proposal adds to growing development in northwest Fort Wayne

  05-12-2022 19:46 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Townhomes are the latest addition coming to housing development in northwest Fort Wayne.This month, Oakmont Development Company II is proposing to build 74 townhomes on nearly 18 acres on Hathaway Road. The townhomes will be built just north of where Oakmont’s lead developer, Jeff Thomas, is building 322 homes on 165 acres off Bethel Road. Both developments are called Sonora. Arizona-based company plans ‘luxury garages’ in HuntertownThe latest proposal is zo
  
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• The Oyster Bar on Calhoun Street is under new ownership for first time since 1987

  05-12-2022 19:37 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- In 1987, Steve and Brenda Gard bought The Oyster Bar just south of downtown Fort Wayne. It began their run as the longest tenured owners in the business' history.On Monday, final papers were signed to pass the baton to new owners Tony and Kara West.The Oyster Bar first opened as a saloon in 1888 in its current location at 1830 Calhoun Street. Since then, it has had a handful of owners and operated under various names. It even survived the prohibition, but did close for
  
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• The Oyster Bar is under new ownership for first time since 1987

  05-12-2022 19:37 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- In 1987, Steve and Brenda Gard bought The Oyster Bar just south of downtown Fort Wayne. It began their run as the longest tenured owners in the business' history.On Monday, final papers were signed to pass the baton to new owners Tony and Kara West.The Oyster Bar first opened as a saloon in 1888 in its current location at 1830 Calhoun Street. Since then, it has had a handful of owners and operated under various names. It even survived the prohibition, but did close for
  
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• Self-storage business totaling 127K square feet coming to Illinois Road

  05-12-2022 19:20 via wane.com
  
  The self-storage business is booming, here in Allen County and around the U.S.Last week, WANE 15 brought you the proposal to build up to 140 luxury toy garages off Lima Road in Huntertown.This week, there’s a proposal to build seven self-storage buildings on 9.5 acres at 14431 Illinois Road, for a total of 127,000 square feet of storage. The site is already zoned for commercial use, according to the Allen County planning department. It sits west of West Hamilton Road South and South Noyer
  
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• Police: Faux gun deal leads to homicide

  05-12-2022 18:36 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A teenage boy is facing a felony murder charge as an adult in connection to a robbery under the guise of a gun deal that left a 27-year-old man dead late last month, according to newly released Allen Superior Court documents.Allen County prosecutors on Monday formally charged 17-year-old Lonnel Tinker with felony murder and robbery causing serious bodily injury in connection with the shooting death of Johnny Ray Yates, Sr. Police investigate shooting on Fort Wayne's sou
  
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• Idaho college killings: Roommates of slain students break their silence

  05-12-2022 17:36 via wane.com
  
  (NewsNation) — Weeks after the Nov. 13 killings of four college students in a rental home near the University of Idaho, two surviving roommates have made statements.The police have said they won't put out any more information unless it is completely vetted and won't harm the ongoing investigation.But that silence has been deafening for the victims' families, who are desperate for any new development that could crack the case.Meanwhile, the two roommates, who were also in the house at the t
  
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• Wells County prosecutor publicly reprimanded

  05-12-2022 17:17 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WANE) - An investigation into the conduct of Wells County Prosecutor Andrew J. Carnall during a police traffic stop involving his son this past summer has ended in a public reprimand from the Indiana Supreme Court.Indiana Supreme Court files complaint against Wells County prosecutor
  The disciplinary commission of the state's highest court found that Carnall violated a rule for professional conduct which "prohibits engaging in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justi
  
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• Gas price average drop to lowest level since January

  05-12-2022 17:14 via wane.com
  
  (GasBuddy) For the fourth straight week, the nation’s average gas price has fallen, declining 15.8 cents from a week ago to $3.36 per gallon Monday according to GasBuddy data compiled from more than 11 million individual price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country. The national average is down 43.0 cents from a month ago and 1.5 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has fallen 13.6 cents in the last week and stands at $5.06 pe
  
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• DHS delays REAL ID deadline another two years

  05-12-2022 17:00 via wane.com
  
  (The Hill) -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it was extending the deadline by roughly two years for air passengers to use a REAL ID when traveling.The agency announced on Monday it will begin enforcing the more stringent identification requirement on May 7, 2025, after previously setting a deadline of May 3, 2023. The announcement marks DHS’s third extension.REAL ID-compliant documents, which are generally signified by a small star, are already required for people to e
  
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• Public gets chance to learn, weigh in on U.S. 30 plans

  05-12-2022 16:38 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The public will get a chance to learn more and weigh in on future improvements to a multi-county stretch ofU.S. 30 during a meeting Monday evening.The meeting takes place at 5 p.m. at Sweetwater located at 5501 US 30 West.
  The meeting will go over the Indiana Department of Transportation's effort to streamline the gathering of information related to mobility, safety, economic development, land use, environmental impacts and other factors.There are two stretches of U.S. 30
  
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• Oxford Dictionaries names 'goblin mode' its word of the year

  05-12-2022 15:18 via wane.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Asked to sum up 2022 in a word, the public has chosen a phrase.Oxford Dictionaries said Monday that “goblin mode” has been selected by online vote as its word of the year.It defines the term as “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.” What headline? ‘Gaslighting’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of 2022First seen on Twitter in 2009,
  
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• Flu activity and related deaths ramp up in Indiana

  05-12-2022 14:40 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The number of flu-related deaths continues to rise, according to the Indiana Department of Health.Officials say 11 people have died from the flu so far this season. This is 7 more deaths than the previous week.Of the deaths this season, 3 were between 50-64 years old and 8 were at least 65 years old.While there have been no pediatric flu deaths in Indiana, there have been 14 pediatric deaths nationwide. Riley Hospital for Children reported 314 cases of patients with th
  
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• Shootings at power substations cause North Carolina outages

  05-12-2022 13:15 via wane.com
  
  CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) — Two power substations in a North Carolina county were damaged by gunfire in what is being investigated as a criminal act, causing damage that could take days to repair and leaving tens of thousands of people without electricity, authorities said Sunday.In response to ongoing outages, which began just after 7 p.m. Saturday across Moore County, officials announced a state of emergency that included a curfew from 9 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday. Also, county schools will
  
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• World Cup fans find booze at hotels, Qatar's 1 liquor store

  05-12-2022 13:06 via wane.com
  
  DOHA, Qatar (AP) — In a dusty neighborhood on the outskirts of Qatar's capital, guards stand duty at a gated compound ringed with razor wire, carefully checking passports and permits before allowing anyone inside. But this isn't a prison or a high-security area associated with the ongoing World Cup.It's the liquor store.Rigid limits on alcohol are a fact of life in this conservative Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, which follows the same strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islam as its
  
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• "Happy Smallidays" reminds us to enjoy the little things

  05-12-2022 12:15 via wane.com
  
  A new holiday exhibit at the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatorycomes with a valuable lesson for those young and old. The exhibit is a collaboration with local author/illustrator Talitha Shipman. The "Happy Smallidays" exhibit is inspired by a recently published children's book of the same name.It tells the story of how it feels to be very small when the plans, events, and celebrations around you are very big. Shipman, who grew up in Leo, was thrilled to work with a place she likes to cal
  
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• USF hosts annual Lighting of the Lake and Living Nativity

  05-12-2022 10:16 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The University of Saint Francis held its annual Lighting of the Lake and Living Nativity Sunday evening at its campus on Spring Street.A crowd gathered at the USF Chapel and Mirror Lake for the event which honors the Christmas tradition started by Saint Francis in the year 1223.The annual event at USF reenacts the birth of Christ, and university community members portray the living nativity scene. There's also a blessing of the luminaries that light the lake."We had one
  
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• Community gathers for annual Wassail celebration

  05-12-2022 10:05 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -An annual Wassail celebration was held at the Jennings Youth Center Sunday afternoon.The first Wassail held at the Jennings Center was in 1952. Wassailing is an ancient custom that involves toasting to good health.There were performances of Wassail`s past and refreshments for the people in attendance. Organizers say it's a great way to get together and celebrate with neighbors and the community."We get to hear some great songs and some great stories but also have the Was
  
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• Warmer but wet week ahead

  05-12-2022 09:33 via wane.com
  
  Even though we won't see much sunshine today we will see warmer temperatures. Highs will be in the upper 40s today and near 50° by the middle of the week.
  We will see more clouds today but you won't need your umbrella. You'll still need a coat and gloves this morning with temperatures just into the lower 40s by noon.Clouds will stick around but temperatures will be in the upper 40s by late afternoon.
  Skies will stay cloudy overnight and temperatures won't be as cold with a low in the middle
  
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