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• Teen suspect faces felony charges regarding theft, kidnapping, vehicle pursuit

  14-12-2022 23:39 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — A 17-year-old suspect is being charged as an adult and faces multiple felony charges stemming from a Dec. 8 theft and police pursuit, according to court documents.Court documents say the suspect, Swa Hid, was riding his bicycle back home Dec. 8 when he noticed a 2005 Honda Odyssey running in a driveway, entered the vehicle and drove away.The owner of the van said in court documents he had been dropping off groceries for a friend and left the van running in the dri
  
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• Court Docs: Teen suspect faces felony charges regarding theft, kidnapping, vehicle pursuit

  14-12-2022 23:39 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — A 17-year-old suspect is being charged as an adult and faces multiple felony charges stemming from a Dec. 8 theft and police pursuit, according to court documents.Court documents say the suspect, Swa Hid, was riding his bicycle back home Dec. 8 when he noticed a 2005 Honda Odyssey running in a driveway, entered the vehicle and drove away.The owner of the van said in court documents he had been dropping off groceries for a friend and left the van running in the dri
  
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• Grant to help DeKalb County add housing units

  14-12-2022 23:26 via wane.com
  
  AUBURN, Ind. (WANE) -- A $1.5 million grant from the Northeast Indiana Regional Development Authority is going toward housing projects in DeKalb County.The grant was given to the Sweitzer Family Office. The money is going toward two different projects.The first is at the former Days Inn along W Seventh Street, which is being converted into 28 emergency housing units. The project will also offer programs such as work-training to help people get themselves into better situations.That project is be
  
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• Help Not Handcuffs says it's "locked out" of jail discussions with Commissioners

  14-12-2022 21:32 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Help Not Handcuffs, an activist group opposing the construction of a new jail in Allen County, got a boost in August when federal judge Damon R. Leichty added the organization to a lawsuit filed by the Indiana ACLU and local inmates.At the Aug. 25 status hearing held at the federal courthouse downtown, Leichty allowed Diana Bauer, attorney for Help Not Handcuffs, inside the rail and accepted the group as an amicus curiae, or friend of the court.
  Leichty said he ho
  
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• Embassy Theatre announces cancellation of second round of Holiday Pops; musicians plan another free concert

  14-12-2022 21:01 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — On Wednesday, the Embassy Theatre announced the second round of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Holiday Pops shows has been canceled.The shows were initially scheduled for Dec. 17 and Dec. 18.The Embassy also sent out a message about Holiday Pops tickets to all ticketholders, and anyone with questions can contact the Embassy for more information. Former Philharmonic president criticizes management’s stance on strikeThe Philharmonic released a statement on its Fa
  
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• Embassy Theatre announces cancellation of second round of Holiday Pops

  14-12-2022 21:01 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — On Wednesday, the Embassy Theatre announced the second round of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Holiday Pops shows has been canceled.The shows were initially scheduled for Dec. 17 and Dec. 18.The Embassy also sent out a message about Holiday Pops tickets to all ticketholders, and anyone with questions can contact the Embassy for more information. Former Philharmonic president criticizes management’s stance on strikeThe Philharmonic released a statement on its Fa
  
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• Indiana high court reinstates Gary man's murder conviction

  14-12-2022 18:49 via wane.com
  
  CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — Indiana’s high court has reinstated a Gary man's criminal convictions, months after the state appeals court overturned his convictions in a fatal shooting at a gas station.In Tuesday's 5-0 ruling, the Indiana Supreme Court said that notwithstanding conflicts and uncertainties that could have led jurors to harbor reasonable doubt about Marquis Young’s guilt, there's no basis for undoing their weighing of the evidence and reasonable inference he was guilt
  
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• Deputy dressed as Grinch gives onions to speeding drivers

  14-12-2022 17:32 via wane.com
  
  MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — Several motorists who were speeding through an elementary school zone on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway received an odorous onion as a reminder to slow down from a county sheriff’s deputy dressed as the Grinch.Col. Lou Caputo, a 37-year veteran of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office who conjured up the concept more than 20 years ago, was back on the streets Tuesday.In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, a Maryland motorist, left, accepts
  
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• 'He was drunk'; Investigators release texts, bar receipt after Pendleton man in fatal crash now accused of being intoxicated

  14-12-2022 17:00 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS -- The Marion County Prosecutor's Office has added a slew of charges for a Pendleton man previously charged with reckless homicide in a crash that killed a Lyft passenger.Connor Gaskill was originally charged with reckless homicide on October 21 in the September crash on the near north side that killed 22-year-old Rashid Conteh.He now faces eight additional charges including causing death when operating a vehicle while intoxicated and four counts of criminal recklessness. Pendleton
  
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• Demolition of former Byron Health Center underway

  14-12-2022 16:57 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A fixture on Allen County's north side for more than 100 years is in the process of being demolished. Crews began the tear down of the former Byron Health Center facility located just north of Carroll Road off of Lima Road Tuesday evening.
  Back in July, the Allen County Commissioners approved the installation of a fence around the facility in anticipation of the demolition.According to the Byron Wellness Community website, the land the structure being demolished sits on w
  
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• More Chinook salmon to be stocked in Lake Michigan

  14-12-2022 15:37 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WANE) The Indiana Department of Natural Resources announced Wednesday it will increase the number of Chinook salmon stocked in Lake Michigan.
  The change will increase the annual production target for Chinook from 225,000 to 275,000 starting in the spring of 2023.
  Baitfish populations have rebounded from an all-time low in the mid-2010s after lake-wide stocking reductions made by all state agencies during the past decade.Ben Dickinson, Indiana DNR’s Lake Michigan biologi
  
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• AG Rokita wants TikTok age rating changed

  14-12-2022 14:44 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WANE) Currently the age rating for the TikTok app in the Google Play store is "Teen," and in the Apple App Store it's "12+," but Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita wants those ratings changed to "Mature" and "17+" respectively.
  “Sexual content, profanity and drug references run rampant in TikTok videos,” Attorney General Rokita said. “This kind of material threatens the mental and physical health of young Hoosiers, and not only TikTok but also vendors must
  
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• US storm brings tornadoes, blizzard-like conditions; 2 dead

  14-12-2022 14:02 via wane.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — A destructive storm marched across the United States, spawning tornadoes that touched down in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, where two deaths were reported, and it delivered blizzard-like conditions to the Great Plains and threatened more severe weather Wednesday in the South.A young boy was found dead in the Pecan Farms area of Keithville, Louisiana, where his home was destroyed Tuesday after a tornado hit about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Shreveport, and his moth
  
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• 5 ways inflation is shaping the economy 

  14-12-2022 13:53 via wane.com
  
  (The Hill) -- For anyone who grew up in the Clinton, Bush or Obama eras, inflation was a chapter in an economics textbook, a quaint piece of history from the Carter years. And then, in the second half of 2021, the consumer price index (CPI) took off. The 12-month inflation rate peaked in June 2022 at 9.1 percent, the highest figure recorded since 1981. Here are five ways inflation has shaped the nation’s economy — and will affect the year to come. Soaring interest rate
  
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• Party like it's 2019? Company holiday parties are back - but with some restraint

  14-12-2022 13:38 via wane.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Say goodbye to virtual wine tastings, and bust out the karaoke. Love them or hate them, company holiday parties are back — in a toned-down kind of way.After more than two years of working in pajama bottoms and clinking glasses over Zoom, many office workers seem to be yearning for a bit of glamour. The same is true for some front-line workers who saw festivities canceled even as they showed up to work every day during the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic.“It just
  
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• Indiana man arrested for kidnapping woman, 3 children in Iowa

  14-12-2022 13:08 via wane.com
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa -- An Indiana man was arrested after police said he shot himself after holding a woman at gunpoint at an Iowa bus depot.Iowa City police received a request for a welfare check on Monday afternoon at the Court Street Parking Ramp bus depot. A woman had sent a text to a third party saying she had been taken to the depot against her will by her spouse, and he had a gun.Carldale Hunter booking photo
  Responding officers located the man, identified as 33-year-old Carldale Hunter from I
  
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• City Council: Philharmonic protest, affordable housing and more

  14-12-2022 04:47 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — From All in Allen, to the proposed grocery store on Pontiac Street, Fort Wayne City Council tackled a plethora of notable city developments during Tuesday's meeting.The Fort Wayne Philharmonic musicians also stopped by Citizens Square during the meeting as the group continued to strike amid negotiations with Philharmonic management.Philharmonic Musicians Attend MeetingMembers of City council voiced their support for the musicians during the meeting, but Councilman
  
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• Paulding County Sheriff's Office announces passing of county's first K-9, Jano

  14-12-2022 00:41 via wane.com
  
  PAULDING COUNTY, Ohio (WANE) — The Paulding County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) announced Jano, the county's first K-9 officer, died Dec. 10.Jano became the first K-9 officer in Paulding County after county Sheriff Jason K. Landers implemented a K-9 unit.At the time, the PCSO assigned Deputy Gary Deitrick as Jano's handler. Police make arrest in double homicide in Paulding County"When I was elected sheriff 10 years ago, I had a goal to implement a K-9 team," Landers said. "Our community support
  
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