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• Football's long history in the Hoosier state

  14-08-2023 23:27 via wane.com
  
  HENDERSON, Ky (WEHT) - Basketball is not the only popular sport in Indiana. While basketball might be the most popular, football is not far behind it.Football in Indiana has a long history, dating back to the late 1800s. The first football game played in the state was between Purdue and Butler universities.In the years since, football has become one of the favorite pastimes for Hoosiers with large crowds at high school, college and professional games. Indiana and its deep history with basketball
  
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• City officials to soon decide on Veo's attempt to keep scooters in Fort Wayne

  14-08-2023 22:26 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The fate of Veo scooters in downtown Fort Wayne could be decided this week, according to the City of Fort Wayne.A city spokesperson issued a statement to WANE 15 Monday regarding the appeal Veo has made to reverse the City of Fort Wayne's decision to end its partnership with the scooter company.Although officials did not provide an exact date, the City of Fort Wayne's Right-of-Way Department will make a decision regarding the appeal this week, but it is unclear if the
  
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• What job openings are still available in Allen County school districts?

  14-08-2023 21:47 via wane.com
  
  ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - While all area school districts are back in school, all of them still have job openings to fill.
  As of Monday, Fort Wayne Community Schools (FWCS) has 66 openings, East Allen County Schools (EACS) has four, Southwest Allen County Schools has more than 60, and Northwest Allen County Schools (NACS) has more than 70 full and part-time positions available. WANE 15 spoke with the superintendents of all four districts in Allen County
  
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• Teen hurt in shooting at Garrett trailer park; suspect in custody

  14-08-2023 19:39 via wane.com
  
  GARRETT, Ind. (WANE) - Indiana State Police are investigating a shooting Monday that injured a 16-year-old in Garrett.
  A public information officer with state police confirmed ISP detectives and a crime scene investigator were helping the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department in a shooting investigation at a trailer park on Garrett's north side around 11:45 a.m. Officers could be seen around a pond in North Pointe Crossing.A release later that day said a 16-year-old boy was taken to a local h
  
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• Teen hurt in shooting at Garrett trailer park; suspect faces attempted murder charge

  14-08-2023 19:39 via wane.com
  
  GARRETT, Ind. (WANE) -- A 21-year-old Detroit man has been arrested in connection to a shooting in Garrett Monday that injured a teenager, according to Indiana State Police (ISP).Authorities arrested Kerry Jamar Hawkins Tuesday and charged him with one count of attempted murder, a Level 1 felony.Hawkins is currently being held in the DeKalb County Jail on a $200,000 cash bond.A public information officer with ISP confirmed detectives and a crime scene investigator were helping the DeKalb County
  
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• Police investigating shooting at trailer park in Garrett; suspect in custody

  14-08-2023 19:39 via wane.com
  
  GARRETT, Ind. (WANE) - Indiana State Police are investigating a shooting Monday that injured a 16-year-old in Garrett.A public information officer with state police confirmed ISP detectives and a crime scene investigator were helping the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department in a shooting investigation at a trailer park on Garrett's north side around 11:45 a.m. Officers could be seen around a pond in North Pointe Crossing.A release later that day said a 16-year-old boy was taken to a local ho
  
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• Police investigating possible shooting in Garrett

  14-08-2023 19:39 via wane.com
  
  GARRETT, Ind. (WANE) - Indiana State Police are assisting in an investigation of a possible shooting Monday in Garrett.A public information officer with state police confirmed ISP detectives and a crime scene investigator are helping the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department in a shooting investigation on Garrett's north side. No details have been confirmed so far.WANE 15 has a crew headed to the scene to learn more.
  
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• Police investigating possible shooting at trailer park in Garrett

  14-08-2023 19:39 via wane.com
  
  GARRETT, Ind. (WANE) - Indiana State Police are assisting in an investigation of a possible shooting Monday in Garrett.A public information officer with state police confirmed ISP detectives and a crime scene investigator are helping the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department in a shooting investigation at a trailer park on Garrett's north side. Officers could be seen around a pond in North Pointe Crossing.No details have been confirmed so far. WANE 15 has a crew at the scene to learn more.
  
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• Florida police officer exposed to fentanyl while testing narcotics, Narcan administered and transported to hospital

  14-08-2023 18:18 via wane.com
  
  FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. (WANE) -- A Flagler County Florida Sheriff's Office deputy is recovering after exposure to suspected fentanyl that resulted in the deputy receiving Narcan and being taken to the hospital.
  According to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office Facebook page, on August 10 911 received multiple calls in regards to a reckless driver who had fled a hit and run. According to reports the vehicle had run off the road several times, almost causing additional crashes. The vehicle came to a
  
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• Man sentenced to 87 years in 2017 homicide

  14-08-2023 17:29 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Six years after a shootout at a Fort Wayne nightclub, a man convicted of homicide was handed a prison sentence that will likely mean life behind bars.James Ellis Starks III was sentenced Monday to 87 years, just short of the maximum sentence of 93 years.Starks was 23 when the shootout happened on April 9, 2017 in the former Bleu Diamond nightclub. In July of this year, a jury found him guilty of murder in the death of Marcus Rogan, who Starks shot 10 times before woundi
  
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• 'I will always hate you': Man sentenced to 88 years in 2017 homicide

  14-08-2023 17:29 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Six years after a shootout at a Fort Wayne nightclub, a man convicted of homicide was handed a prison sentence that will likely mean life behind bars.James Ellis Starks III was sentenced Monday to 88 years, just short of the maximum sentence of 93 years. He was given 250 days credit for time served in Allen County Jail while his case wound through the legal system.
  Starks was 23 when the shootout happened on April 9, 2017 in the former Bleu Diamond nightclub. In July of
  
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• 'I will always hate you': Man sentenced to 87 years in 2017 homicide

  14-08-2023 17:29 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Six years after a shootout at a Fort Wayne nightclub, a man convicted of homicide was handed a prison sentence that will likely mean life behind bars.James Ellis Starks III was sentenced Monday to 87 years, just short of the maximum sentence of 93 years.Starks was 23 when the shootout happened on April 9, 2017 in the former Bleu Diamond nightclub. In July of this year, a jury found him guilty of murder in the death of Marcus Rogan, who Starks shot 10 times before woundi
  
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• Here's why gas prices continue to rise as Labor Day approaches

  14-08-2023 15:48 via wane.com
  
  (GasBuddy) For the fifth straight week, the nation’s average price of gasoline has climbed, rising 2.5 cents from a week ago to $3.82 per gallon Sunday according to GasBuddy data compiled from more than 11 million individual price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country. The national average is up 29.1 cents from a month ago but 9.6 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has risen 12.3 cents in the last week and stands at $4.270 p
  
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• Driver pronounced dead after crash near Maplecrest and Trier

  14-08-2023 15:27 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A crash involving multiple vehicles has caused traffic issues on Fort Wayne's northeast side and the driver of one of the vehicles involved has died according to a Fort Wayne Police Department spokesperson.
  The crash took place just after 8 a.m. near the intersection of Maplecrest and Trier. WANE 15 has confirmed two vehicles are involved and the crash took place on Maplecrest between Landmark Drive and Trier. Southbound traffic on Maplecrest is slowed or stopped.
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• North Dakota teen survives nearly 100-foot fall at North Rim of Grand Canyon

  14-08-2023 14:37 via wane.com
  
  GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — A 13-year-old North Dakota boy has survived a fall of nearly 100 feet at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon during a family trip.Authorities said it took emergency crews two hours to rescue Wyatt Kauffman after he slipped on a cliff Tuesday and plunged nearly 100 feet (30 meters) at the Bright Angel Point trail.The teenager was airlifted to a Las Vegas hospital for treatment of nine broken vertebrae plus a ruptured spleen, a collapsed lung, a concuss
  
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• No more hot summer nights or chilly winter days; Fort Wayne assists residents with cost of new heating and air conditioning units

  14-08-2023 14:27 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The Office of Housing & Neighborhood Services will start accepting applications Tuesday for the new City of Fort Wayne Heating & Air Conditioning Program.The program looks to assist homeowners with a zero percent interest loan for the replacement and installation of new heating and air conditioning systems for their homes. The requirements for the program ask that applicants must own their homes, must have it be their primary residence and the home must be loca
  
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• Pilot and crew member safely eject before Soviet-era fighter jet crashes at Michigan air show

  14-08-2023 14:09 via wane.com
  
  BELLEVILLE, Mich. (AP) — A pilot and crew member escaped serious injury when they ejected from a vintage jet that crashed during a Michigan air show Sunday, officials said.The MiG-23 demonstration plane crashed during the Thunder Over Michigan Air Show shortly after 4 p.m., the Wayne County Airport Authority said in a statement.The Soviet fighter plane crashed into a parking lot and struck unoccupied vehicles at a nearby apartment complex in Belleville, about 30 miles (48.2 kilometers) wes
  
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• Amazon is rolling out a generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews

  14-08-2023 14:05 via wane.com
  
  Amazon is rolling out a new generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews for customers.The feature, which the company began testing earlier this year, is designed to help shoppers determine at a glance what other customers said about a product before they spend time reading through individual reviews. It will pick out common themes and summarize them in a short paragraph on the product detail page.The company wrote in a blog post published Monday that the AI-generated reviews are now av
  
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• Fort Wayne focus at Summer Nights at the Embassy

  14-08-2023 13:02 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - For over a month in the summer, the Embassy Theatre opens up its doors on Wednesday nights for music and companionship in the community. It also serves as a platform for local artists to showcase their talents in an intimate setting."I love it. I love the atmosphere. I love everything about it, and that you can have the option upstairs on the rooftop and come back here," explained Nancy Sanders as to why she goes to Summer Nights at the Embassy.Between the music, dancin
  
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• Officials, scientists warn that after Maui flames flicker out, toxic particles will remain

  14-08-2023 12:30 via wane.com
  
  LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — When flames swept through western Maui, engulfing the town of Lahaina, residents saw toxic fumes spewing into the air as burning homes, pipes and cars combusted, transforming rubber, metal and plastic into poisonous, particulate matter-filled smoke.Retired mailman and Vietnam veteran Thomas Leonard heard a boom as a propane tank at a nearby home exploded, leaving a cloud that looked like “a gigantic mushroom” in its wake.Thirty-seven year old Mi
  
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• Maui fire death toll rises to 96 with estimated loss of $5.6 billion

  14-08-2023 12:16 via wane.com
  
  HONOLULU (NEXSTAR) - The Maui Police Department updated the number of confirmed deaths to 96 around 9 p.m. Sunday, Maui County said in a statement.In a video update released earlier on Sunday, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said more than 2,700 structures were destroyed in Lahaina and “an estimated value of $5.6 billion has gone away.”Can Lahaina’s famed banyan tree really survive?
  Green said the response has been “comprehensive” in the past several days: “We are
  
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• Hawaii mourns the dead in ferocious wildfires; officials warn full toll not yet known

  14-08-2023 12:16 via wane.com
  
  HONOLULU (NEXSTAR) - As Hawaii residents mourned those killed in ferocious wildfires, officials warned that the full human and environmental toll was not yet known and the recovery only just beginning from the destruction wrought by flames that galloped a mile every minute.Twenty dogs and dozens of people will make their way through neighborhoods reduced to ash, searching burnt out cars and homes for the dead. With the toll at 96, this is already the deadliest U.S. wildfire i
  
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• Blame the pandemic: Dog bites are on the rise

  14-08-2023 11:01 via wane.com
  
  The pandemic seems to have triggered an uptick in dog bites, some of them disfiguring, a few of them fatal.Multiple studies point to a rise in U.S. emergency room visits for canine bites since the start of COVID-19. Britain, too, has seen a surge in dog bites, an upward trend that began before the pandemic and may continue beyond it.Researchers and dog experts can only guess at the reasons. One likely factor is the wave of pandemic pet adoptions, which put dogs in millions of homes that hadn&rsq
  
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• A central Kansas police force comes under constitutional criticism after raiding a newspaper

  14-08-2023 06:50 via wane.com
  
  MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner and publisher, seizing computers and cellphones, and, in the publisher’s view, stressing his 98-year-old mother enough to cause her weekend death.Several press freedom watchdogs condemned the Marion Police Department's actions as a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution’s protection for a free press. The Marion
  
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• Police investigate the death of a man in Huntington County

  14-08-2023 02:38 via wane.com
  
  HUNTINGTON COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - Huntington County officials are investigating the death of a man after they believe he had a medical emergency while in the Salamonie Reservoir on Sunday afternoon, according to the Huntington County Coroner's Office.Witnesses reported that 69-year-old Robert S. Smith launched his boat when it began to take on water. Boaters in the area started helping Smith and provided a life flotation device to him. He grabbed onto the device and exited the boat.
  The coroner's
  
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• Man dies after launching boat in Huntington County, investigation underway

  14-08-2023 02:38 via wane.com
  
  HUNTINGTON COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - Huntington County officials are investigating the death of a man after they believe he had a medical emergency while in the Salamonie Reservoir on Sunday afternoon, according to the Huntington County Coroner's Office.Witnesses reported that 69-year-old Robert S. Smith launched his boat when it began to take on water. Boaters in the area started helping Smith and provided a life flotation device to him. He grabbed onto the device and exited the boat.
  The coroner's
  
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• Autopsy completed on man who died after launching boat

  14-08-2023 02:38 via wane.com
  
  HUNTINGTON COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - The Huntington County Coroner's Office has released the cause of death of a man who died after launching his boat at the Salamonie Reservoir on Sunday
  Witnesses reported that early Sunday afternoon, 69-year-old Robert S. Smith launched his boat when it began to take on water. Boaters in the area started helping Smith and provided a life flotation device to him. He grabbed onto the device and exited the boat.
  The coroner's office says that as Smith was being pulle
  
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