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• Saturday marks 1 year since GFL took over trash and recycling pickups in Fort Wayne

  01-07-2023 23:23 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- On Friday, July 1, 2022, GFL Environmental officially took over as the solid waste collector in the city of Fort Wayne.One year later, it would seem that what many described as a nightmare -- Red River Waste Solutions -- is now a distant memory.On its final day of service, WANE 15 looked back on Red River's time in Fort Wayne, which included numerous issues.There were missed pickups across town from the moment the company took over in January of 2018. Red River was nev
  
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• Summer movie season is in full swing. Here's what's coming through Labor Day

  01-07-2023 18:22 via wane.com
  
  The summer movie season goes into high-gear in July, with the arrival of the seventh “Mission: Impossible” movie followed by the “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” showdown on July 21.
  Not that you have to choose one or the other — as Tom Cruise said on Twitter, “I love a double feature, and it doesn't get more explosive (or more pink) than the one with Oppenheimer and Barbie.”August also promises a new take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and in
  
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• Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists call it the 'new abnormal'

  01-07-2023 17:51 via wane.com
  
  (AP) - It was a smell that invoked a memory. Both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of an increasingly hot and occasionally on-fire world.Kuchlbauer had flashbacks to the surprise of soot coating her car three years ago when she was a recent college graduate in San Diego. Bomba had deja vu from San Francisco, where the air was so thick with smoke people had to mask up. They figured they left wildfire worries behind in Californ
  
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• Humid with more storm chances to track

  01-07-2023 17:24 via wane.com
  
  A round of rain/storms moved through late this morning into early this afternoon. We're now seeing a break before a second round of rain/storms will return later on this evening after 9pm. Our best chance for severe weather is possible during the overnight hours of 9pm-5am. Be sure to have your severe weather alerts active on your device, should you need to act.
  Flooding potential is the largest threat to be aware of today. Today's rain bands could produce a lot of heavy rain that could easily c
  
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• First round of rain/storms passing through

  01-07-2023 17:24 via wane.com
  
  We're watching the first round of rain and storms pass through our area right now. They will be making their way out of our area in the early afternoon hours. The second round of rain and storms will return later on this evening after 9pm. Our new best chance for severe weather is possible during the overnight hours of 9pm-5am. Be sure to have your severe weather alerts active on your device, should you need to act.
  Flooding potential is the largest threat to be aware of today. Today's rain band
  
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• Indiana woman, 61, found dead in a Utah national park

  01-07-2023 16:34 via wane.com
  
  MOAB, Utah (WXIN) – A 61-year-old Indiana woman was found dead this week at a campground inside a national park in Utah, officials said.The U.S. National Park Service said communication operators at Utah's Grand County Dispatch got a report Wednesday of an unresponsive woman at the Willow Flat Campground in Canyonlands National Park.No official cause of death was provided by NPS officials after a 61-year-old woman was found unresponsive at Canyonlands National Park in Utah on Wednesday. (A
  
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• PHOTOS: Explore a 'green' city at the Botanical Conservatory

  01-07-2023 16:14 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Explore a mini neighborhood full of plant life at the Botanical Conservatory's latest exhibit starting Saturday.Take a stroll through "An Herban Garden" until November 12 and learn about the community impact of urban gardening.
  Learn more about the exhibit here.
  
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• Indiana road rage shooter sentenced to 80 years after trying to hire hitman to kill witnesses

  01-07-2023 16:06 via wane.com
  
  FISHERS, Ind. (WXIN) — An Indiana man who was triggered into a fit of violence over a honk was sentenced to 80 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder during a road rage shooting in the city of Fishers.
  Trevor Dahl, 25, has a history of rage behind the wheel, one that reportedly spiked into violence at the mildest of occurrences. Dahl's attempted murder charges stem from a Nov. 2022 incident during which Dahl fired a gun at least three times at a driver who honked at him
  
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• Ohio troopers bust impaired driver for felony possession of drugs, firearms

  01-07-2023 15:25 via wane.com
  
  VAN WERT COUNTY, Ohio (WANE) - A driver was busted for felony possession of drugs, along with having two firearms in their vehicle, during a routine checkpoint set up Friday by the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP).OSHP said in a release troopers teamed up with officers in Delphos near State Road 66- North State Street- to conduct a saturation patrol and "aggressively combat impaired driving-related crashes", the release said. Seventeen vehicles were stopped for traffic violations, police said, a
  
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• What is a flash drought? An earth scientist explains

  01-07-2023 15:02 via wane.com
  
  (The Conversation) - Many people are familiar with flash floods – torrents that develop quickly after heavy rainfall. But there’s also such a thing as a flash drought, and these sudden, extreme dry spells are becoming a big concern for farmers and water utilities.Flash droughts start and intensify quickly, over periods of weeks to months, compared to years or decades for conventional droughts. Still, they can cause substantial economic damage, since communities ha
  
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• As if air travel isn't hard enough, 5G wireless signals could disrupt flights starting this weekend

  01-07-2023 14:08 via wane.com
  
  Airline passengers who have endured tens of thousands of weather-related flight delays this week could face a new source of disruptions starting Saturday, when wireless providers are expected to power up new 5G systems near major airports.Aviation groups have warned for years that 5G signals could interfere with aircraft equipment, especially devices using radio waves to measure distance above the ground and which are critical when planes land in low visibility.Predictions that interference woul
  
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• Morning-after pill vending machines gain popularity on college campuses post-Roe

  01-07-2023 14:00 via wane.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Need Plan B? Tap your credit card and enter B6.Since last November, a library at the University of Washington has featured a different kind of vending machine, one that's become more popular on campuses around the country since the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion last year. It's stocked with ibuprofen, pregnancy tests and the morning-after pill.With some states enacting abortion bans and others enshrining protections and expanding access to b
  
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• 'Everything to do with human rights' Indiana's abortion battle continues after Pro-Life win

  01-07-2023 03:08 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — "Abortion has nothing to do with religion, and it has everything to do with human rights," said Abigail Lorenzen, the education director of the northeastern Indiana branch of Right to Life.Her impassioned statement came on a day when her Pro-Life stance had the wind at its back.
  "We are always so excited when a court rules in favor of defending vulnerable lives. That's what Right to Life Northeast Indiana does," Lorenzen said.On Friday, the Indiana Supreme Co
  
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• Donovan Coley completes transformative run at Fort Wayne Rescue Mission

  01-07-2023 02:02 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Rev. Donovan Coley's time as CEO of the Fort Wayne Rescue Mission ended Friday.However, the changes he helped implement over the last 15 years will be around for decades.Most visible is the move of the men's shelter from its 50-year overcrowded home on Superior Street to the more accommodating and spacious four-story building on East Washington Boulevard.Or the modern move and expansion of Charis House for Women and Children from near the downtown Salvation Army to its
  
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• Weekend air quality shows signs of improvement

  01-07-2023 01:37 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - For the first time since the week started, we will not have an Air Quality Action Day in effect. Saturday's expected highest level of pollution, as predicted by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, only takes us to the "Moderate" level (Yellow) on the Air Quality Index (AQI) scale. Earlier in the week, we had moments in the "Very Unhealthy" category.The thickest smoke from the Canadian wildfires has blown out of our region and ground-level ozone amounts,
  
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• Police: Rollover crash on I-69 in DeKalb County sends 3 to hospital

  01-07-2023 01:12 via wane.com
  
  DEKALB COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) -- Three people are in the hospital following a single-vehicle rollover crash on Interstate 69 (I-69), according to the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office.At approximately 5:02 p.m. on Friday, 47-year-old Dawn Dedrick-Boyle had been heading north on I-69 just south of Auburn when traffic started to slow down due to a broken down semitruck.According to the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, a vehicle in front of Dedrick-Boyle "abruptly hit the brakes," and she swerved to the l
  
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• Smoke led to slower start to firework sales

  01-07-2023 00:32 via wane.com
  
  ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - As the 4th of July holiday approaches, you may be ready to purchase your annual supply of fireworks to celebrate the occasion. Firework sales though have been off to a bit of a slower start, thanks to the recent poor air quality. Air Quality Action Day now includes high ozone levelsWe stopped by three local fireworks stores to check on how business has been going. All three of them say business was slower earlier this week when the air quality was unhealthy.
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