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• '100 tons:' Fort Wayne bulk garbage program grows, still needs education

  29-06-2023 23:31 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — When Fort Wayne switched garbage providers in May, they decided to take on the task of bulk garbage pickup on their own.
  The switch meant a whole new system where residents have to contact the city in order to get a sofa or mattress picked up.
  "We get about 100 orders a day where we go and collect bulk. We pick up three items from you per week, but you do have to schedule ahead of your collection day," said Matt Gratz, Fort Wayne's Solid Waste Manager.
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• Public hearing starts bargaining process for FWCS teacher contracts

  29-06-2023 20:43 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Teachers at Fort Wayne Community Schools will have a new contract at the beginning of the 2023-2024 school after the recent Indiana Legislative Session. FWCS help a teacher contract public hearing on Thursday, to open the discussion for the public to give input about what they would like to see in teachers' contracts.
  Sandra Vohs, President of Fort Wayne Education Association explained how only certain items are allowed to be discussed during these public hearings.
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• Coroner ID's driver killed in crash on US 33

  29-06-2023 20:35 via wane.com
  
  ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - The coroner has identified the driver killed Wednesday by a truck that hit him after he was in a separate crash.The Allen County Coroner has identified the man as 30-year-old Ethan Russel Owen Richardson of Fort Wayne. Driver killed in crash on U.S. 33 in northwest Allen CountyThe Allen County Sheriff’s Department determined a car was heading north on U.S. 33 shortly before 5 p.m. when the driver of an SUV attempted to get onto U.S. 33 from Cook Road, right into
  
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• Ohio fire chief dies after responding to house fire

  29-06-2023 20:06 via wane.com
  
  DEFIANCE, Ohio (WANE) -- Matthew "Matt" Hanenkrath died Tuesday after responding to a house fire.
  The call was received by the South Richland Fire Department, the station Hanenkrath was the chief of, and Jewell Fire Department. The home was originally thought to possibly have someone still inside, with visible flames, and Hanenkrath responded to the call.Hanenkrath was 40 years old and is survived by his wife, Ashley, and three children Haleigh, Brynn, and Bentley. Matt was heavily involved in h
  
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• PLEA DEAL: Accused gas station killer pleads guilty to murder

  29-06-2023 20:02 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The man accused of killing two and wounding a third at a gas station in 2021 has pleaded guilty to murder charges and took a plea deal Thursday, according to court documents.Allen Superior Court documents show Joseph D. Bossard pleaded guilty to two counts of murder along with attempted murder and a penalty for the use of a firearm. The sentences for those charges will run consecutively.A murder conviction in Indiana carries a term of 45 to 65 years in prison and an enh
  
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• Saying strike is "imminent," UPS gets a Friday deadline from union to come up with a better contract

  29-06-2023 19:40 via wane.com
  
  Frustrated by an “appalling counterproposal” earlier this week, the head of the union representing 340,000 UPS workers said a strike is imminent and gave the shipping giant a Friday deadline to improve its offer.The International Brotherhood of Teamsters walked away from negotiations Wednesday, demanding that UPS give its “last, best, and final offer” no later than June 30.Teamsters officials did not say what time the Friday deadline was or what actions it might take if i
  
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• Bed races canceled for Three Rivers Festival

  29-06-2023 19:02 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — A fan-favorite event will not return to this year's Three Rivers Festival. Organizers canceled the bed races because of lack of entries.
  A festival classic, the event features tricked-out bed frames on wheels. Teams then race them down the street.
  Despite repeated calls for entries and efforts to get businesses to enter teams, Three Rivers Festival Board President John Nichter said the interest just wasn't there. Board members and volunteers were even calling past
  
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• Bed race canceled for Three Rivers Festival

  29-06-2023 19:02 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — A fan-favorite event will not return to this year's Three Rivers Festival. Organizers canceled the bed race because of lack of entries.
  A festival classic, the event features tricked-out bed frames on wheels. Teams then race them down the street.
  Despite repeated calls for entries and efforts to get businesses to enter teams, Three Rivers Festival Board President John Nichter said the interest just wasn't there. Board members and volunteers were even calling past
  
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• Manchester Community Schools loses $1.2M in internet scheme

  29-06-2023 18:00 via wane.com
  
  NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. (WANE) -- Manchester Community Schools lost $1.2 million through an internet scheme that directed payments to a fraudulent account instead of a trusted vendor.When learning of the scam, the school's superintendent reported the incident to Indiana's State Board of Accounts and law enforcement, according to a release from the board of school trustees. The superintendent also contacted the two financial institutions involved and the school's insurance company. What happened t
  
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• 'It could have gotten a lot worse:' Fort Wayne man faces arson charge after damaging ankle monitor

  29-06-2023 17:00 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- A Fort Wayne man recently sentenced for torching several vehicles at two car lots is now accused of damaging his GPS ankle monitor and putting its battery pack in a microwave.Dewey Fredrick, 80, had recently pleaded guilty to four counts of arson connected to the destruction of four vehicles at two area O'Daniel lots last year that cost in excess of $75,000.
  At his sentencing last month, he was ordered to serve an executed portion of his time in Allen County Community
  
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• Winning Powerball ticket set to expire

  29-06-2023 16:59 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WANE) -- A winning Powerball® with Power Play® ticket purchased in December 2022 is set to expire Thursday.
  The ticket is said to be purchased at Speedway #6688 located at 9299 Broadway in Merrillville and worth $150,000.The winning Powerball numbers for Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022, are 18-37-44-50-64 with the Powerball of 11 and Power Play of 3X. The winning ticket must be claimed no later than 4:30 p.m. ET June 29, 2023 at the Hoosier Lottery Prize Payment office l
  
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• What happened to the fountain at Jefferson Pointe?

  29-06-2023 16:27 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - If you've been shopping at Jefferson Pointe recently, you may have noticed the landmark fountain has been destroyed.The fountain was vandalized this week, according to a statement from the shopping center's developer.
  On Wednesday, June 26, the water fountain at our shopping center was vandalized, causing it to collapse. Currently, the fountain is inoperable, but it has not caused any disruptions in business. The situation is in the hands of Jefferson Pointe’s ins
  
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• Teen, inspired by Spider-Man, behind fountain collapse at Jefferson Pointe: FWPD

  29-06-2023 16:27 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - If you've been shopping at Jefferson Pointe recently, you may have noticed the landmark fountain has been destroyed.The fountain was vandalized last week, according to a statement from the shopping center's developer.
  On Wednesday, June 21, the water fountain at our shopping center was vandalized, causing it to collapse. Currently, the fountain is inoperable, but it has not caused any disruptions in business. The situation is in the hands of Jefferson Pointe’s ins
  
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• Teen, inspired by Spider-Man, behind fountain collapse at Jefferson Pointe

  29-06-2023 16:27 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - If you've been shopping at Jefferson Pointe recently, you may have noticed the landmark fountain has been destroyed.The fountain was vandalized last week, according to a statement from the shopping center's developer.
  On Wednesday, June 21, the water fountain at our shopping center was vandalized, causing it to collapse. Currently, the fountain is inoperable, but it has not caused any disruptions in business. The situation is in the hands of Jefferson Pointe’s ins
  
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• FWPD: Teen, inspired by Spider-Man, behind fountain collapse at Jefferson Pointe

  29-06-2023 16:27 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - If you've been shopping at Jefferson Pointe recently, you may have noticed the landmark fountain has been destroyed.The fountain was vandalized last week, according to a statement from the shopping center's developer.
  On Wednesday, June 21, the water fountain at our shopping center was vandalized, causing it to collapse. Currently, the fountain is inoperable, but it has not caused any disruptions in business. The situation is in the hands of Jefferson Pointe’s ins
  
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• Supreme Court upends affirmative action in college admissions

  29-06-2023 16:13 via wane.com
  
  The Supreme Court in a pair of cases Thursday severely limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions, upending decades of affirmative action programs that U.S. institutions have used to select students from their applicant pools.In rulings that broke along ideological lines, the court’s six conservative justices invalidated Harvard’s and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s (UNC) admissions practices by ruling they did not comply with the 14th Ame
  
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• Supreme Court hands down blow to college affirmative action

  29-06-2023 16:13 via wane.com
  
  The Supreme Court severely limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions, upending decades of affirmative action programs that U.S. institutions have used to select students from their applicant pools.The court’s six conservative justices invalidated Harvard’s and UNC’s admissions scheme by ruling they did not comply with the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection.DEVELOPING
  
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• Supreme Court deals serious blow to affirmative action in college admissions

  29-06-2023 16:13 via wane.com
  
  The Supreme Court severely limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions, upending decades of affirmative action programs that U.S. institutions have used to select students from their applicant pools.The court’s six conservative justices invalidated Harvard’s and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s (UNC) admissions scheme by ruling it did not comply with the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection."Both programs lack sufficiently fo
  
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• Lunch on the Square canceled Thursday due to poor air quality

  29-06-2023 14:30 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Fort Wayne's popular Thursday afternoon lunch series, Lunch on the Square, has been canceled Thursday, June 29.Events and Programming Manager for Downtown Fort Wayne, Rick Zolman, told WANE 15 Thursday morning that the cancellation is in response to the Air Quality Alert issued by the National Weather Service of Northern Indiana.
  Lunch on the Square will return Thursday, July 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Freimann Square in downtown Fort Wayne.
  
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• What cops in Ohio found in car's trunk had them laughing

  29-06-2023 14:04 via wane.com
  
  MASSILLON, Ohio (WJW) – Toria Townsend was in a hurry.On June 13, she was late for a hair appointment in northeast Ohio that was 45 minutes away."Anybody that knows me knows when I'm in a rush, I'm not thinking," she told Nexstar's WJW on Wednesday.On her drive home, she couldn't help but notice the glares of strangers and passersby. Police bust drug lab disguised as pizzeria"People kept mugging me and giving my dirty looks. I'm like, 'Why did everyone wake up on the wrong side of the bed?
  
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• Police release body camera video of an officer killing the gunman who killed 8 at a Texas mall

  29-06-2023 13:30 via wane.com
  
  ALLEN, Texas (AP) — Police released video footage on Wednesday of an officer killing a neo-Nazi gunman, quickly ending a mass shooting that left eight people dead and seven others wounded at a Dallas-area shopping mall.The edited five-and-a-half-minute video details the final moments of Mauricio Garcia, 33, after he unleashed a rain of bullets from an AR-15-style rifle at the Allen Premium Outlets on May 6.Warning: Video contains graphic material some may find disturbing
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• Air Quality Action Day now includes high ozone levels

  29-06-2023 13:06 via wane.com
  
  The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) says high ozone levels are now a health concern in addition to particulate matter in the air from Canadian wildfires. It added high ozone to the Air Quality Action Day already issued for Thursday.The agency had already called for an Air Quality Action Day for Wednesday and Thursday because of high levels of fine particles (PM2.5) in the air. It includes the following regions: 
  Central/East Central Indiana, including the cities o
  
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• Why you'd better get used to a hot, smoky summer

  29-06-2023 12:02 via wane.com
  
  The only break much of America can hope for anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smoke from fire-struck Canada is brief bouts of shirt-soaking sweltering heat and humidity from a southern heat wave that has already proven deadly, forecasters say.And then the smoke will likely come back to the Midwest and East.That’s because neither the 235 out-of-control Canadian wildfires nor the stuck weather pattern that's responsible for this mess of meteorological maladies are showing si
  
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• Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán throws 24th perfect game in MLB history

  29-06-2023 11:46 via wane.com
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Since arriving in the big leagues six years ago, Domingo Germán has been anything but perfect.Until now.The New York Yankees right-hander pitched the 24th perfect game in major league history Wednesday night, retiring every Oakland batter in an 11-0 victory over the Athletics.It was the first perfect game since Seattle Mariners ace Félix Hernández threw one against the Tampa Bay Rays on Aug. 15, 2012. There were three that season — but none
  
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• Indiana State Police trooper hit, killed by stolen car during pursuit; suspects arrested

  29-06-2023 05:18 via wane.com
  
  UPDATE (6/29/23): Two individuals were arrested Thursday morning in connection to the deadly incident involving the trooper. ISP says the driver identified as 18-year-old Eddie P. Jones, Jr. of Missouri was preliminarily charged with murder, Level 1 Felony. The passenger identified as 19-year-old DeMareon l. Curry was preliminarily charged with auto theft, Level 5 Felony.
  A 15-year-old female passenger, listed as missing from Missouri was turned over to authorities but not charged in connection
  
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• Indiana State Police trooper hit, killed by stolen car during pursuit

  29-06-2023 05:18 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana State Police trooper has died after being hit by a suspect's car during a stolen vehicle pursuit on the city's west side.According to ISP officials on scene, the collision occurred around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on Interstate 70 eastbound near 6 Points Road on the west side of Indianapolis.ISP Master Trooper Nick Klingkammer said that the incident began as a police chase after troopers with ISP's Indianapolis district spotted a stolen car on the city's southwest side.
  
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• City of Fort Wayne welcomes McKinnie Commons: the city's newest park

  29-06-2023 02:40 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- On Wednesday, the City of Fort Wayne celebrated the grand opening of its newest park: McKinnie Commons.The park, located at the northeast corner of McKinnie Avenue and Anthony Boulevard, represents one of the highlighted projects in the city's Southeast Strategy plan to reinvigorate Fort Wayne's southeast side."McKinnie Commons is a vital addition to the enhancements being made in southeast Fort Wayne," said Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry. "I continue to be enthusiastic an
  
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• 1 year later post Indiana no-permit carry bill - what changes police have seen

  29-06-2023 01:59 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - July 1 will mark one year since Indiana House Bill 1296 went into effect. It repealed the law to require Hoosiers to have a permit to carry a handgun.Under the new law, many people still aren't allowed to carry a handgun. This includes felons and people younger than 18.Detective Marc DeShaies of the Fort Wayne Police Department's Gang and Crime Unit said he went to lawmakers a year ago before the bill was passed to express his opposition. He said he supports the second
  
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• 1 year after Indiana no-permit carry bill: What changes police have seen

  29-06-2023 01:59 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - July 1 will mark one year since Indiana House Bill 1296 went into effect. It repealed the law to require Hoosiers to have a permit to carry a handgun.Under the new law, many people still aren't allowed to carry a handgun. This includes felons and people younger than 18.Detective Marc DeShaies of the Fort Wayne Police Department's Gang and Crime Unit said he went to lawmakers a year ago before the bill was passed to express his opposition. He said he supports the second
  
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• 1 year afte Indiana no-permit carry bill: What changes police have seen

  29-06-2023 01:59 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - July 1 will mark one year since Indiana House Bill 1296 went into effect. It repealed the law to require Hoosiers to have a permit to carry a handgun.Under the new law, many people still aren't allowed to carry a handgun. This includes felons and people younger than 18.Detective Marc DeShaies of the Fort Wayne Police Department's Gang and Crime Unit said he went to lawmakers a year ago before the bill was passed to express his opposition. He said he supports the second
  
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• Letters from jail: Prison guards accused of calling Richard Allen 'kid killer,' wife had to abandon home for safety

  29-06-2023 01:18 via wane.com
  
  CARROLL COUNTY, Ind. — In a letter written to the Carroll County Clerk, dated April 11, an inmate at Westville Correctional Facility claimed that Richard Allen was being abused and mistreated by inmates and guards alike.
  The inmate said prison guards would call Richard Allen "a kid killer" while also teasing him by claiming that he had family visiting.Knives, confessions and search warrants: Judge in Delphi murder case unseals more than 100 court documentsThe inmate went on to claim that p
  
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• Presumed human remains recovered from Titan wreckage, Coast Guard says

  29-06-2023 00:36 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) - Potential human remains have been found in the recovered wreckage of the Titan submersible, which returned to land Wednesday, according to authorities.
  A formal analysis of the "presumed human remains" will be conducted by U.S. medical professionals, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a news release.
  Five people were killed when the submersible imploded earlier this month: Ocean Gate CEO and pilot Stockton Rush; two members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulem
  
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