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• Court Docs: 'Spendthrift' accused of misusing Auburn school's PTO funds

  03-08-2023 23:13 via wane.com
  
  AUBURN, Ind. (WANE) -- An Auburn woman described by investigators as a "spendthrift" has been accused of stealing thousands of dollars from an Auburn school's Parent Teacher Organization (PTO), according to DeKalb Superior Court documents.According to court documents, Carolynn Carteaux, the former PTO president at McKinney-Harrison Elementary School, reportedly stole nearly $9,000 from the PTO's checking account during her time as president.Carolynn Carteaux mugshot (Photo provided by the DeKalb
  
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• Trump pleads not guilty to Jan. 6 charges

  03-08-2023 22:28 via wane.com
  
  Former President Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday on charges he faces stemming from his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election. Trump faces four counts, including on efforts to defraud the U.S. and obstruct Congressional proceedings, as the Justice Department contends his plot to remain in power was “fueled by lies.” His motorcade arrived around 3:15 p.m. at Washington's federal courthouse, blocks from the U.S. Capitol, where a mob of his supporters riot
  
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• Court Docs: Former DeKalb County teacher accused of stealing nearly $3K worth of school equipment

  03-08-2023 22:16 via wane.com
  
  DEKALB COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) -- A former teacher at DeKalb High School faces multiple felony charges after reportedly selling nearly $3,000 of school equipment for personal gain, according to Dekalb Superior Court documents.In June, multiple school officials informed authorities about Trace Dean, a teacher in the school's Agricultural Department, and claimed Dean had sold school-owned items from the department in 2022.During the investigation, authorities learned that Dean had reportedly taken two
  
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• Kentucky fugitive caught while trying to swim away from Grant County officers

  03-08-2023 21:35 via wane.com
  
  GRANT COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - A man wanted in Kentucky on charges including strangulation and robbery was caught Tuesday in Grant County after running a stop sign and leading officers on a pursuit that ended in a pond.The suspect, Matthew Weherman, was driving a Ford Focus with a passenger inside and drove past a stop sign on Lagro Road. A Grant County deputy conducted a traffic stop, but when he got out of his vehicle, the suspect drove away.Weherman led officers on a chase over State Road 9, cou
  
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• 'Toxic environment': Attorney behind lawsuit against Praxis speaks out

  03-08-2023 21:10 via wane.com
  
  MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WANE) – An attorney who represents several former patients who received treatment at the Praxis by Landmark Recovery in Mishawaka is speaking out about the conditions his clients lived through.
  This comes after three addiction treatment centers in Indiana said they are closing following multiple patient deaths.
  Trevor Crossen, an attorney who owns the Carmel-based practice Crossen Law, reached out to WANE 15 Thursday to speak about a current lawsuit he and eight other
  
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• More than 200 townhomes proposed on East Dupont Road at North Clinton Street.

  03-08-2023 21:01 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Designs have been submitted to the Allen County Plan Commission this week for a new apartment complex, The Commons at Wood Creek, on nearly 12 acres at East Dupont Road and North Clinton Street.The apartments proposed by Homestead Development, a Columbus, Ohio-based firm, are on land zoned for a commercial center (SC).According to graphics submitted with the proposal, the apartments will be 3-stories and Homestead is requesting a waiver to build up to 45 feet in height
  
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• Wells Street temporarily closed at Superior Circle roundabout

  03-08-2023 20:14 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A week-long closure on Wells Street has been extended a few more days, the city announced Thursday.Since Monday, Wells Street has been temporarily closed at the Superior Circle roundabout. The city's traffic engineering department said the work has been extended until at least Aug. 11.Traffic on Wells Street is being redirected to Fourth Street instead of the roundabout, and traffic heading south should use Clinton or Van Buren.The work, which is part of a project that
  
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• 87-year-old woman fights off home invader, then feeds him snacks

  03-08-2023 20:03 via wane.com
  
  BRUNSWICK, Maine (WTVO/NEXSTAR) — An 87-year-old woman living in Maine managed to fight off a teenage attacker who broke into her home in the middle of the night and then fed him snacks because "he was awfully hungry."On July 26, Marjorie Perkins was sleeping in her home when she awoke to find an intruder standing over her bed, according to a news release shared by the Brunswick Police Department. He then threatened to cut her with a knife, police said."I thought to myself, 'If he's going
  
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• Overstock is now Bed Bath & Beyond. Here are the details

  03-08-2023 19:32 via wane.com
  
  BestReviews is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission. Details.If you were heartbroken by the news that home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond was going out of business, you’re going to want to read this. A month after the news that Overstock.com bought Bed Bath & Beyond’s remaining assets, the company has ditched its name and morphed its website into something you’ll recognize.Bed Bath & Beyond is back, babyEarlier this week, Overstock
  
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• Hundreds of Fort Wayne leaders gather to get better so 'everyone wins'

  03-08-2023 19:29 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- More than 1,500 hundred local leaders from all sectors gathered Thursday at the Grand Wayne Center to be part of the Global Leadership Summit (GLS), which organizers call "the largest leadership experience in the world."Huntington, Kendallville and Wabash also hosted sites for the GLS, which continues Friday.Most GLS sites are small, as participants gather in their company or church conference room. This year marked the 20th time Fort Wayne has tried to create dynamic
  
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• 'More will die': Indiana addiction treatment center responds to shutdown

  03-08-2023 18:49 via wane.com
  
  MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WANE) - Three addiction treatment centers in Indiana are reportedly shutting their doors following multiple recent patient deaths that led to the centers' licenses being revoked, and the company responded Thursday saying they "believe more will die" due to this decision.It was announced July 27 that Indiana's Division of Mental Health and Addiction revoked the license for Praxis Landmark Recovery in Mishawaka and its sister facilities in Bluffton and Carmel.A representative of t
  
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• These cars and trucks are stolen most often, national crime data shows

  03-08-2023 17:28 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – More than 700,000 vehicles are stolen in any given year, but not all cars are equal targets.
  The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) analyzed federal crime data to determine which cars and trucks were most frequently reported stolen in 2022. They found two pickups took the top spots nationwide.
  The most frequently stolen vehicle was the full-size Chevrolet pickup truck, followed by full-size Ford pickups, according to the NICB analysis.It's no surprise thieves target Chevy a
  
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• Fort Wayne projects announced with $22M in state funds

  03-08-2023 17:22 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Specific projects to improve the city of Fort Wayne were named Thursday, made possible with more than $22 million in state funding.A local income tax supplemental distribution from the state was announced in May. Proposed projects include investments in neighborhoods, infrastructure and the riverfront.Neighborhoods:
  Pontiac Streetscape Phase II - $2.4 millionNeighborhood park playgrounds - $2 million – Lawton, McMillen, Kettler, Foster, Bob Arnold Northside, Tillm
  
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• Taylor Swift bringing 'Eras Tour' to Lucas Oil Stadium in November 2024

  03-08-2023 16:29 via wane.com
  
  Music superstar Taylor Swift is coming to Indianapolis next year.Her "Eras Tour" will hold three shows at Lucas Oil Stadium on Nov. 1, Nov. 2 and Nov. 3, 2024.Verified fan registration is open at the singer’s website.“Turns out it’s not the end of an area,” according to a post on Swift’s Facebook page. “Miami, New Orleans, Indy and Toronto: The Eras Tour is coming to you in 2024.”Swift will play three dates each in Miami and New Orleans as part of her No
  
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• NIPSCO electric rate hike takes effect in August

  03-08-2023 16:26 via wane.com
  
  MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (WANE) - NIPSCO customers will see a price hike on electric bills starting in August.Customers will see a monthly increase of about $12, or 10%, for the average residential electric customer using 668 kilowatt hours per month. The company said the multi-step changes start in August and extend into 2024.NIPSCO said its natural gas rates are not affected.NIPSCO said in a release the newly approved rates support the company's investment of about $700 million in electric transmiss
  
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• Woman's escape from cinder block cell likely spared others from similar nightmare, FBI says

  03-08-2023 16:03 via wane.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a homemade cinder block cell at a home in southern Oregon likely saved other women from a similar fate, authorities said, by alerting them to a man they now suspect in sexual assaults in at least four more states.Negasi Zuberi posed as an undercover police officer when he kidnapped the woman in Seattle, drove hundreds of miles to his home in Klamath Falls and locked her in the garage cell until she bloodied
  
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• VIDEO: School bus crashes into Chicago home

  03-08-2023 15:51 via wane.com
  
  CHICAGO (WGN) — At least one person was injured after a school bus crashed into a house on Chicago's Northwest Side.The accident happened around 8:20 a.m. Wednesday. Police said a 63-year-old bus driver hit a parked vehicle, a city utility pole and crashed into a home.There were three people on the bus at the time of the accident: the driver, a child in a wheelchair and the child's 43-year-old female caretaker — who was transported in stable condition to a hospital with neck pains. N
  
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• Federal appeals court upholds ruling giving Indiana transgender students key bathroom access

  03-08-2023 15:25 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that transgender students in Indiana must have access to the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identities.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday upheld a preliminary injunction from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana last year ordering the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville and the Vigo County Schools to give the transgender students such acces
  
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• Reenactment of Florida school massacre will bring gunfire back to Parkland campus

  03-08-2023 14:00 via wane.com
  
  PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Gunfire will again ring out at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday as a reenactment of the 2018 massacre that left 17 dead, 17 wounded and hundreds emotionally traumatized is conducted as part of lawsuits filed by the victims' families and the injured.Ballistics experts for the families will conduct the test, firing up to 139 shots inside a three-story classroom building as part of the lawsuit against the families' p
  
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• Asphalt repairs on I-69 ramp to Jefferson set to begin

  03-08-2023 13:32 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Crews will begin working at approximately 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 3, to repair the asphalt on the southbound Exit 302 ramp. Work is expected to be complete by the afternoon.During the work, drivers can expect restrictions and slowed traffic in the area. Motorists should consider taking an alternate route for the morning commute.INDOT encourages drivers to consider worker safety by slowing down, using extra caution and driving distraction-free when travelling in and
  
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• 6 safely escape from early morning fire on Fort Wayne's south side

  03-08-2023 11:18 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Fort Wayne firefighters are investigating the cause of a fire that forced six people to evacuate an apartment building Thursday morning in south Fort Wayne.Shortly before 1 a.m., firefighters responded to reports of a fire in an apartment in the 300 block of East Dewald Street. FWFD said when fire crews arrived, they found smoke coming out of the second floor of a house split into multiple apartments.First responders at the scene of the early morning fire in the 300 blo
  
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• 6 safely escape from early morning fire

  03-08-2023 11:18 via wane.com
  
  Fort Wayne, Ind. (WANE) - Shortly before 1:00 a.m. Thursday morning, Fort Wayne firefighters responded to reports of a fire in an apartment in the 300 block of East Dewald Street; that's south of downtown Fort Wayne. The Fort Wayne Fire Department says when fire crews arrived, they found smoke coming out of the second floor of a house split into multiple apartments.First responders at the scene of the early morning fire in the 300 block of East Dewald StreetFWFD says firefighters had to force th
  
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• 6 people self-evacuate from early morning fire

  03-08-2023 11:18 via wane.com
  
  Fort Wayne, Ind. (WANE) - Shortly before 1:00 a.m. Thursday morning, Fort Wayne Police responded to reports of a fire in an apartment in the 300 block of East Dewald Street; that's South of Downtown Fort Wayne. The Fort Wayne Fire Department says when fire crews arrived, they found smoke coming out of the second floor of a house split into multiple apartments.First responders at the scene of the early morning fire in the 300 block of East Dewald StreetFWFD says firefighters had to force their wa
  
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• Fort Wayne UNITED Ten Point Coalition hosts book bag giveaway

  03-08-2023 04:53 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)- Over 500 book bags and supplies were passed out Wednesday in southeast Fort Wayne.Families could drive up to Weisser Park Youth Center and pick up bags for their child or teen.Fort Wayne UNITED Ten Point Coalition, along with Weisser Park Youth Center and the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department hosted the event.
  Healthier Moms and Babies were also out at the event passing out diapers to families in need.Ten Point Coalition's Coordinator Lewis King says he was thri
  
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• Reaction to 2 merchants leaving Union Street Market at Electric Works

  03-08-2023 04:15 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Fort Wayne residents reacted to the announcement of two merchants leaving Union Street Market at Electric Works while at the Fort Wayne Farmer's Market Wednesday.B&B Market is set to leave Union Street Market, and Bragg A Lot Sweets and Drink has already left. One vendor cited reasons like high rent, market officials taking a percentage of profits, vendors having to pay for employee parking, and that market officials are now asking for back utilities. Another reaso
  
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• Parlor Doughnuts announces opening date of first Fort Wayne location

  03-08-2023 04:01 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Parlor Doughnuts, a new doughnut and coffee shop coming to Fort Wayne, has announced the date for its grand opening.The company announced it will open for business Saturday, Aug. 5 with special "grand opening weekend hours" from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.Located at 11936 Lima Crossing Drive near the intersection of Lima and Carroll roads, Parlor Doughnuts offers "an array of unique bakery items, including famous 'layered' doughnuts."Parlor Doug
  
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• 30 dead dogs found in freezer at 'horrible' Ohio animal rescue, owner arrested

  03-08-2023 02:59 via wane.com
  
  MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (WCMH) — Deputies have arrested an Ohio woman after finding animals at her dog rescue in "the most horrible conditions ever seen,” according to the Butler County Sheriff's Office.On Wednesday, 60-year-old Ronda Murphy was arrested on three charges, including two misdemeanor counts and one felony count of cruelty to a companion animal. The sheriff's office said as the investigation continues, more charges could be filed.
  Ronda Murphy. (Courtesy Photo/Butler County She
  
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• 'Best message on the planet:' Christian radio king in Fort Wayne tops Nielsen charts

  03-08-2023 02:32 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Nielson ratings are a helpful system that try to calculate how many viewers listen to or watch a station's content.
  "The Nielson's were created for television and radio for commercial stations, solely for the purpose so stations would know how much to charge for the commercials," said Ross McCampbell, the executive director at 90.3 WBCL.
  But despite the Christian Radio Station not running any commercials, thus not needing the data to help price out commercial
  
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• Authorities warn residents to avoid area by US 30 in New Haven

  03-08-2023 01:54 via wane.com
  
  NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) -- Authorities are warning residents to avoid the area of U.S. 30 and Doyle Road in New Haven where a heavy police presence is currently in the area.Police sent a mobile push notification around 7:40 Wednesday evening telling residents to avoid the area, but no other details were provided.Google Maps shows moderate traffic at the intersection.WANE 15 has a crew heading to the scene to learn more.
  
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• Fort Wayne hosts unique Paralympic sport Boccia

  03-08-2023 00:14 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - USA Boccia 2023 National Championship will be at Turnstone this weekend, Boccia is the world's most inclusive sport. This is the first time for a Boccia national to be held in Indiana.
  What is Boccia?
  Boccia is best described as a combination of three sports. Bocce ball, curling and chess it is a very strategic sport. You take a white ball and throw it out on the court some place then you have colored balls and you throw those out as well to try and get those as close a
  
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