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• Manchester University to announce new president on Monday

  30-04-2023 23:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The Manchester University Board of Trustees is scheduled to vote on the school's next president Monday morning.The university will then introduce its 16th president to students and colleagues in two different sessions. One at its main campus in North Manchester and one at its Fort Wayne campus.Manchester grad Dave McFadden became the school's 15th president back in 2014 after spending 20 years as a senior leader for the university.Last year, McFadden announced he would
  
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• Manchester University to announce new president Monday

  30-04-2023 23:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The Manchester University Board of Trustees is scheduled to vote on the school's next president Monday morning.The university will then introduce its 16th president to students and colleagues in two different sessions. The first will be at noon at its Fort Wayne campus. The second will follow at 3:30 p.m. at its main campus in North Manchester.Manchester grad Dave McFadden became the school's 15th president back in 2014 after spending 20 years as a senior leader for th
  
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• Manchester University announces new president

  30-04-2023 23:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- An alumna of Manchester University is the school's next president.Dr. Stacy H. Young was unanimously appointed to the position, and will start as the school's new president July 1.The Manchester University Board of Trustees voted Monday morning. Young has worked in higher education for more than 24 years and is currently president of Montcalm Community College in Sidney, Michigan. She graduated from Manchester in 1996. This Indiana restaurant ranked among Yelp’s
  
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• May begins with rain, snow, wind, and cold

  30-04-2023 23:00 via wane.com
  
  Below average temperatures have returned to northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio to wrap up the weekend. We're also seeing numerous scattered showers this evening, so make sure you take the umbrella with you if you have any additional weekend plans.Showers will continue into tonight and winds will be elevated. Look for some gusts up to 30 mph. Low temperatures will drop down into the upper 30s.The month of May will start off feeling more like February or early March. We'll see periods of rain, m
  
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• Roof collapse at house near Ohio State University injures 14

  30-04-2023 22:08 via wane.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Part of a house collapsed and 14 people were injured near The Ohio State University Saturday evening when people climbed onto a roof that was not designed to hold significant weight, authorities said.Columbus Division of Fire Battalion Chief Steve Martin said his department received a report around 7:40 p.m. of a roof collapse on East 13th Avenue and arrived to find the roof above a front porch had collapsed while the rest of the home remained intact.“The few pe
  
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• 30 artists bring their ideas to life at 2023 Choreographer's Lab

  30-04-2023 21:33 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Local artists premiered 33 original dance works today at Fort Wayne Dance Collective's 2023 Choreographer's Lab performance.
  According to a release, Fort Wayne Dance Collective hosted its annual performance at Elliot Studio. Four performances spanned the weekend and were open to the public. Over 30 artists participated in this year's event.
  The Choreographer's Lab is a unique program to FWDC, per the release. Artists are "provided with tools to aid them" as they choreo
  
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• Fired Big Lots manager says she was just trying to get shopping cart back from shoplifter

  30-04-2023 20:27 via wane.com
  
  BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – You wouldn’t think that a retail store manager would have to make a decision between recovering store property and keeping her job, but that’s exactly what a Big Lots manager in California says happened to her.On April 5, at a Big Lots store outside Bakersfield, a customer had apparently loaded his shopping cart with 15 big orange jugs of Tide laundry detergent and headed straight out the door.
  Two Big Lots managers followed him out – but
  
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• What's behind shortages of Adderall, Ozempic and other meds?

  30-04-2023 19:47 via wane.com
  
  (AP) - Shortages of drugs like Adderall are growing in the United States, and experts see no clear path to resolving them. For patients, that can mean treatment delays, medication switches and other hassles filling a prescription.In recent months, unexpected demand spikes, manufacturing problems and tight ingredient supplies have contributed to shortages that stress patients, parents and doctors. For some drugs, such as stimulants that treat ADHD, several factors fueled a shortage and make it ha
  
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• Teenagers ride tank to prom

  30-04-2023 18:37 via wane.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Sherman Bynum certainly made an entrance to his prom Saturday night.The junior at Camas High School, near the Oregon-Washington border, rode in an M3A1 Stuart tank to prom at the Portland Art Museum. That's right, a tank.Bynum wanted to do this since February when he found out the school would set up a special parking lot for students to arrive in style.Camas student Sherman Bynum arrived to his prom at the Portland Art Museum in an M3A1 Stuart tank, April 29, 2023 (KOIN
  
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• Utah high schoolers take children's monster drawings, bring them to life as plush toys

  30-04-2023 17:02 via wane.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) – Students from Bella Vista Elementary and Jordan High School in Utah came together this spring to complete a special project – bringing monsters to 3D reality.
  It all started with a challenge given to Keven Proud's sculpture class at Jordan High. For this challenge, the high school students were told to create plush toys based on drawings made by third graders in Rebecca Allen's class at Bella Vista Elementary earlier this year.Grandmother delivers her own gran
  
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• List of most expensive ZIP codes released

  30-04-2023 16:38 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – If you want to live in California, you've got expensive taste – whether you like it or not.Real estate brokerage Clever recently released an updated list of the most expensive ZIP codes in the U.S., and the top 10 is dominated by exclusive enclaves around the Golden State.
  Beverly Hills' 90210 may be the most famous ZIP code in the country – thanks to the 1990s TV show – but it's actually not the priciest. That honor goes to Atherton, home to some of Sili
  
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• Facebook agrees to pay $725M settlement: What's the deadline to file a claim?

  30-04-2023 15:43 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – If you haven't submitted your claim for a piece of the $725 million Facebook has agreed to pay in a class action privacy lawsuit, you still have time.
  Facebook users have just about four months until the claim deadline on Aug. 25, 2023, to submit an application online or by mail.
  To be more specific, not all Facebook users are eligible – but more than 100 million are. Basically, anyone who was a Facebook user in the U.S. between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022. (Doub
  
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• Cooler temps are here and it will get even colder

  30-04-2023 15:19 via wane.com
  
  Today brings our first area of chillier air and over the next 24 hours, it gets even colder with record-setting maximum temperatures for the start of May.
  It won't get a lot warmer this afternoon with a high in the lower 50s. Rain will develop during the middle to later part of the afternoon.A second even stronger wave of low-pressure moves in overnight and into early Monday dragging temperatures even further down. In fact, high temperatures will only be in the upper 30s for the first day of May
  
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• 150 years later, Dixon bridge tragedy among nation's worst

  30-04-2023 14:28 via wane.com
  
  DIXON, Ill. (AP) — Gertie Wadsworth was in the arms of her grandmother that bright day when sunshine dissolved distasteful memories of a long, brutal winter. Christan Goble held the 3 1/2-year-old girl in a crowd of more than 200 on the bridge over the Rock River. After a procession down Galena Avenue from the Baptist Church on May 4, 1873, the Rev. J.H. Pratt began baptizing parishioners in the brisk, rapid current.Then, with a sharp crack and a crescendo of shrieking spectators loaded on
  
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• Willie Nelson inhales the love at 90th birthday concert

  30-04-2023 14:07 via wane.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Are there any more real cowboys?” Neil Young sang Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl on a rare evening when he was neither the headliner nor, at age 77, even close to the oldest artist on the bill.Providing an instant answer, Willie Nelson, wearing a cowboy hat and red-white-and-blue guitar strap, slowly strolled on to the stage on his 90th birthday, bringing the crowd of more than 17,000 to its feet.Nelson sat in a chair — one of the few onstage con
  
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• Texas mass shooting suspect could be anywhere, sheriff says

  30-04-2023 13:51 via wane.com
  
  CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — The search for a Texas man who allegedly shot his neighbors after they asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard stretched into a second day Sunday, with authorities saying the man could be anywhere by now.Francisco Oropeza, 38, remained at large more than 18 hours after the shooting that left five people dead, including an 8-year-old boy. San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said Saturday evening that authorities had widened the search to as far as 20 miles
  
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• Which elections can Allen County residents vote in? What to know for Tuesday's municipal primaries

  30-04-2023 12:00 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Primary elections are happening on Tuesday in Fort Wayne to elect the next mayor, city council members and city clerk.With these elections coming up, some voters may be confused about what they are allowed to vote in based on where they live in Allen County.Residents who live within the city limits of Fort Wayne are allowed to vote in this year's municipal elections, but for people who live just outside city limits, they are not able to elect the mayor of Fort Wayne and
  
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• One dead after five vehicle wreck on I-465, ISP reports

  30-04-2023 04:28 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - At 7:58pm on Saturday, April 29, Indiana State Police Dispatchers received emergency calls regarding a multi-vehicle crash near the 38.9-mile marker on I-465 Northbound.
  When first responders arrived at the scene, they found the driver of one car unresponsive and unconscious. After several lifesaving attempts were unsuccessful, the man was pronounced dead at the scene. A driver and passenger in another vehicle were transported to a local hospital with non-life-threateni
  
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• ISP reports one dead after five vehicle wreck on I-465

  30-04-2023 04:28 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - At 7:58pm on Saturday, April 29, Indiana State Police Dispatchers received emergency calls regarding a multi-vehicle crash near the 38.9-mile marker on I-465 Northbound.
  When first responders arrived at the scene, they found the driver of one car unresponsive and unconscious. After several lifesaving attempts were unsuccessful, the man was pronounced dead at the scene. A driver and passenger in another vehicle were transported to a local hospital with non-life-threateni
  
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• ISP Troopers track and chase stolen car, make drug arrests after chase

  30-04-2023 04:13 via wane.com
  
  MUNCIE, Ind. (WANE) -- Indiana State Police announced two drug arrests Saturday, which included charges for possession of methamphetamine.
  According to ISP, Trooper Michael Thiron was alerted to details regarding a stolen vehicle around 11:00 p.m. Friday night.The stolen car was said to be southbound on Madison Avenue near Washington Street in Muncie.The trooper spotted a 2007 black and silver Chevrolet Silverado matching the description in that area and called for backup before initiating a tra
  
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• Motorcyclist hospitalized after crash on CR 64

  30-04-2023 01:46 via wane.com
  
  AUBRUN, Ind. (WANE) - At approximately 3:44pm Saturday April 29, a 28-year-old driver was traveling West on CR 64 just past CR 81 on a Hondo CBR (Motorcycle) before losing control of her motorcycle in the left-hand curve, according to a release.
  The motorcycle slid off the North side of the road and fell into the ditch area.
  The driver was taken to a local hospital by Parkview Dekalb EMS for medical treatment on left arm and shoulder pain.
  The motorcycle was estimated to have suffered roughly $2
  
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• Driver, 28, hospitalized after motorcycle accident on CR 64

  30-04-2023 01:46 via wane.com
  
  AUBRUN, Ind. (WANE) - At approximately 3:44pm Saturday April 29, a 28-year-old driver was traveling West on CR 64 just past CR 81 on a Hondo CBR (Motorcycle) before losing control of her motorcycle in the left-hand curve, according to a release.
  The motorcycle slid off the North side of the road and fell into the ditch area.
  The driver was taken to a local hospital by Parkview Dekalb EMS for medical treatment on left arm and shoulder pain.
  The motorcycle was estimated to have suffered roughly $2
  
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