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• Grace College professor discusses freshwater jellyfish after sighting in Whitley County lake

  21-09-2023 23:51 via wane.com
  
  WHITLEY COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) -- When people think of jellyfish, they also likely think of salty breezes, sand between their toes and waves crashing onto beaches.However, with a little luck, jellyfish can even be found in northeast Indiana waters.This week, a WANE 15 viewer provided a photo of a freshwater jellyfish in Crooked Lake in Whitley County.A WANE 15 viewer provided a photo of a freshwater jellyfish in Crooked Lake in Whitley County.
  According to the Indiana Department of Natural Resource
  
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• Judge orders Famous Taco back to the Planning Board; says finding of facts are lacking

  21-09-2023 23:10 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Those longing for Famous Taco on West Jefferson Boulevard shouldn’t give up hope.An Allen Superior Court judge Thursday sent the Famous Taco “no go” decision back to the Fort Wayne Plan Commission with fairly stern language to reconsider the application."The court believes the best remedy for the November 14, 2022 entry of inadequate findings by the Plan Commission is for the Court to remand this case to the Plan Commission to enter findings of fact th
  
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• 'Pretty intense,' Fort Wayne GM workers react to impending strike decision

  21-09-2023 23:07 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2209 held a solidarity rally once a month, to support fellow union workers.
  "We do it the third Thursday of every month, it's just to build solidarity," said Rich Letourneau, the Bargaining Chairman for the Local 2209. "We serve breakfast for all three shifts."But over the food and fun that Union members were sharing hung an unmistakable tension.UAW Local 2209 holds monthly Building Solidarity Day as contract talks continue"The ener
  
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• Alex Murdaugh pleads guilty to federal financial crimes

  21-09-2023 20:23 via wane.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty to 22 federal financial crimes charges in a downtown Charleston courtroom on Thursday morning.Murdaugh appeared before Judge Richard Gergel and admitted that he stole millions of dollars from his former clients. The disbarred attorney-turned-convicted-murderer had agreed to plead guilty to those charges in a court filing earlier this week.Those charges include conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering. ‘Mur
  
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• Traffic backed up after motorcycle, vehicle crash at Lima Road intersection

  21-09-2023 20:04 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A motorcycle and a vehicle crashed Thursday afternoon, leaving traffic backed up near a busy Fort Wayne intersection.Dispatch confirmed to WANE 15 a motorcycle and another vehicle crashed near Lima and Ley roads sometime around 1:45 p.m.Any injuries have not been confirmed. WANE 15 has a crew on the way to the scene to learn more.
  
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• Man in life-threatening condition following motorcycle crash

  21-09-2023 20:04 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A man is in life-threatening condition after a motorcycle crashed Thursday afternoon, closing down lanes at Ley and Lima Road.A preliminary investigation by Fort Wayne Police indicated that the motorcyclist was driving southbound on Lima Road when he lost control of the motorcycle, crashing at the intersection. The adult male rider was then transported to a local hospital in life-threatening condition. The rider was not wearing a helmet.Witnesses on the scene indicated
  
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• How will El Niño affect winter? New long-range outlook released

  21-09-2023 19:22 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – As it looks increasingly likely a strong El Niño will stick with us through winter, we're getting a peek at how the climate phenomenon might impact the weather this holiday season.
  The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center released a new long-range weather outlook Thursday, previewing what the next three months of weather might look like. The forecast includes the early part of winter — but the outlook doesn't look very wintery just yet.70% chance of
  
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• Split Council: While County Council mulls income tax for new jail, some members want other options

  21-09-2023 19:21 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - While Allen County Council members say they are waiting for more information from the Allen County Commissioners before they make a decision on the proposed local income tax that would fund a new jail, the Council itself appears to be divided.The council has been working on funding a new $300 million jail on Meyer Road, and a proposal that has been nixed once but may come up for a vote again in the future is a .2 percent local income tax that would go toward constructin
  
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• City of Fort Wayne unveils proposed 2024 budget plan

  21-09-2023 19:03 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - City officials announced the proposed 2024 budget plan Thursday afternoon.Mayor Tom Henry and City Controller Garry Morr highlighted plans including $235.1 million for the Civil City budget- or public safety- and a combined $47.6 million for neighborhood infrastructure projects and maintenance.Here's a more in-depth plan provided in a release from the city:
  Balanced budget with a 4.6% reduction in the City’s tax rateContinuation of commitment to neighborhood infra
  
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• POLICE: .259 blood-alcohol-content leads to felony OWI arrest

  21-09-2023 18:46 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A New Haven man who once performed at WrestleMania is accused of driving with a blood-alcohol-content of .259%, according to the Ashley-Hudson Police Department.
  Zachary J. BurnsideOfficers pulled over 27-year-old Zachary J. Burnside this past Saturday night after watching a vehicle he's accused of driving swerve over the center line and also over the side fog line while going south on Interstate 69 around 8 p.m.
  Burnside consented to a chemical breath test at the scene
  
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• UAW Local 2209 holds monthly Building Solidarity Day as contract talks continue

  21-09-2023 18:30 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE/AP) On the day before the UAW has vowed to expand its strike against the Big Three automakers, members of Local 2209, which represents 4,000 workers at GM's Fort Wayne Assembly, took part in a monthly "Building Solidarity Day."
  The event is taking place at the union hall in Roanoke and happens on the third Thursday of every month. The workers build full-size Chevrolet and GMC pickups.
  The UAW hit the picket line at three plants last week, one for each automaker. UAW Presid
  
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• 48,000 mattresses sold at Costco recalled over mold risk

  21-09-2023 17:22 via wane.com
  
  (WHTM) -- A Pennsylvania-based manufacturer is recalling 48,000 mattresses that were sold at Costco due to the risk of mold exposure, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.FXI Inc. is recalling the Novaform ComfortGrande 14-inch and Novaform DreamAway 8-inch mattresses. The company has received 541 reports of mold on the mattresses so far. No injuries were reported.Kraft Heinz is recalling some American cheese slices over choking hazard
  The ComfortGrande mattress has a blue base wi
  
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• Indiana woman admits to mistakenly stabbing baby niece instead of dog that ate her sandwich, police say

  21-09-2023 17:13 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) – An Indianapolis woman is accused of stabbing a baby inside a hotel while attempting to stab a dog for eating her chicken sandwich.The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department responded to a report of a stabbing shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday at a Days Inn in the city's Castleton neighborhood.IMPD said they found a 1-year-old girl stabbed in the neck. A short time later, police found the suspect hiding near a bush outside the hotel.Police arrested the girl's 32-year
  
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• Fort Wayne native, 2-time plane crash survivor speaks at Bishop Luers

  21-09-2023 16:43 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A Fort Wayne native who survived two plane crashes and is now a motivational speaker shared his story with high school students Thursday.Students at Bishop Luers High School gathered in the gym at 9:30 a.m. to hear Austin Hatch, a former basketball standout and University of Michigan graduate, speak on the concept of grit and thriving in the midst of adversity.Hatch's mom and two siblings tragically died in a fiery plane crash in 2003; in 2011, his dad and stepmom died
  
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• Goalball championships to be played in Fort Wayne

  21-09-2023 16:13 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The U.S. Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) has announced the 2023 USABA Goalball National Championships are returning to Turnstone Center in Fort Wayne.Goalball is similar to soccer and played like reverse dodgeball, but designed for athletes who were born blind or lost their sight. It is a 3 on 3 sport played on a volleyball court. The ball has bells embedded inside of it. All players are blindfolded, so instead of seeing the ball come at them, they can only
  
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• Woman rescued from outhouse toilet after climbing in to retrieve Apple Watch, Michigan police say

  21-09-2023 15:55 via wane.com
  
  BAGLEY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A woman was rescued Tuesday from an outhouse toilet in northern Michigan after she climbed in to retrieve her Apple Watch and became trapped.The woman, whose name was not released, lowered herself inside the toilet after dropping the watch at the Department of Natural Resources boat launch at Dixon Lake in Otsego County's Bagley Township, state police said Wednesday in a release.First responders were called when the woman was heard yelling for help. The toilet
  
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• Intersection to close as part of Pontiac Streetscape project

  21-09-2023 15:26 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Starting Monday, September 25, the intersection of Hanna Street and Pontiac Street will close. The stretch of Pontiac from Hanna to Oliver will also close.The closures are necessary for road resurfacing. The closure will last through Friday, Sept. 29, weather permitting.The work is part of the Pontiac Streetscape project which among other things includes the following:
  Making sidewalks more ADA accessible.Install new traffic lights with pedestrian push buttons.Implementin
  
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• Moose charges, headbutts and stomps on woman walking her dog on Colorado trail

  21-09-2023 15:01 via wane.com
  
  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A woman walking her dog on a wooded trail in Colorado's Rocky Mountains spooked a cow moose Wednesday and it charged, headbutting the hiker and stomping on her before she escaped back down the trail, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.Authorities said the woman was taken to a hospital but they declined to provide information on the woman's injuries or condition. They said the moose had stomped on her “several times” and that the dog had minor injurie
  
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• USA Wrestling brings kids tournament to Fort Wayne

  21-09-2023 14:35 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Five thousand young wrestlers are expected to visit the Summit City in 2024 to compete in a USA Wrestling championship.The Kids Folkstyle Nationals are being held at the Memorial Coliseum on Jan. 26 - 28, 2024. Part of the USA Wrestling Triple Crown, the tournament features matches for boys and girls as they compete in their respective events.When the event was created in 1997, it only had a competition for boys. The USA Wrestling Girls Folkstyle Nationals was created i
  
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• YLNI named #1 farmers market in Indiana for second year

  21-09-2023 14:15 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - For the second year in a row, a farmers market in Fort Wayne has been named the favorite for Hoosiers.The YLNI Farmers Market brought home first place for the state in the 2023 America’s Farmers Market Celebration. Not only did the market win for Indiana-- it was also awarded third place in the Midwest, and sixth in the nation. The competition, organized by American Farmland Trust and the Farmers Market Coalition, awards prizes including cash rewards to
  
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• FWCS phone lines, internet working again

  21-09-2023 12:57 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Fort Wayne Community Schools had to deal with technology issues Thursday morning.
  A Facebook post early Thursday morning indicated that all phone lines are down as well as the internet. The post was updated to reflect everything is working again.
  The Facebook post did not give a timeline for when systems would be back to normal.
  
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• FWCS phone lines, internet down

  21-09-2023 12:57 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Fort Wayne Community Schools are having to deal with technology issues Thursday morning.
  A Facebook post early Thursday morning indicated that all phone lines are down as well as the internet.
  The Facebook post did not give a timeline for when systems would be back to normal.
  
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• First Bob Ross TV painting goes on sale for nearly $10 million

  21-09-2023 12:11 via wane.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — What would Bob Ross think?The artist who brought painting to the people, with works completed for PBS viewers in less than a half-hour with little more than a large bristle brush, putty knife and plenty of encouragement, certainly wouldn’t have envisioned one of his works going up for sale for nearly $10 million.But that’s the price a Minneapolis gallery is asking for “A Walk in the Woods,” the first of more than 400 paintings that Ross produced o
  
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• Powerball jackpot climbs to 8th-largest ever after no one wins prize

  21-09-2023 11:43 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) - The Powerball jackpot has grown again after no one won the big prize in Wednesday night's drawing.
  The winning numbers were 16, 27, 59, 62, 63 and the Powerball was 23. There were $2 million winners in Georgia and Texas and a $1 million winner in Georgia.
  The prize has now grown to an estimated $725 million, with a lump sum cash option of $345.7 million. The next drawing will be on Saturday.At this size, the jackpot is now the eighth-largest in Powerball’s history. In February,
  
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• Jeep maker Stellantis makes a new contract offer as auto workers prepare to expand their strike

  21-09-2023 09:42 via wane.com
  
  (AP) - General Motors and Stellantis announced fresh layoffs Wednesday that they blamed on damage from the United Auto Workers strike, and the labor standoff grew more tense just two days before the union was expected to call for new walkouts.Stellantis provided a glimmer of hope for a breakthrough by giving the union a new contract proposal. However, a company spokeswoman said the offer primarily covered non-economic issues.It was not clear whether the Stellantis offer would satisfy union Presi
  
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• Hundreds attend event for scholarship fund in Henry Najdeski's name

  21-09-2023 04:44 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- On Wednesday, hundreds gathered at Ash Brokerage to raise money for a Canterbury School scholarship fund in the name of Henry Najdeski.Henry Najdeski (Credit toBarrett McNagny LLP)
  Najdeski, who graduated from Canterbury School in 1989, died in April after being hit and killed by a truck driven by an on-duty Fort Wayne Police officer.The scholarship will go to students with a commitment to serving others.Wednesday's event featured items that were auctioned off to raise
  
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• NACS board members discuss 2024 budget, new projects for the district

  21-09-2023 04:23 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Northwest Allen County Schools (NACS) Board met Wednesday night to discuss the budget for the upcoming year.Just last month, the district provided renderings for an expansion of Carroll High School and a brand-new middle school; however, the price of the construction project wasn't included in the 2024 budget.That's because the board separately approved a General Obligation Bond, and now, a little over $19 million will go toward funding the beginning of the pr
  
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• Parkview closing two birthing centers part of a national trend

  21-09-2023 04:04 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The president of the Indiana Hospital Association said the decision by Parkview Health to close two birthing centers is part of a national trend.Brian Tabor said fewer medical students are choosing obstetrics, opting for medical jobs with more predictable 9-to-5 hours."There are fewer and fewer physicians that are looking for that kind of practice where they're on call and following the mom at any point when they're going to deliver," Tabor said.Tabor said regulations
  
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• FWFD: Fire leaves Fort Wayne home with heavy damage

  21-09-2023 00:33 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- A house on Fort Wayne's east side suffered heavy fire and smoke damage after a fire Wednesday afternoon, according to the Fort Wayne Fire Department (FWFD).At roughly 4:38 p.m., firefighters responded to a house fire in the 1400 block of Wabash Avenue after neighbors had seen fire and smoke coming from the home and called 911.When crews arrived a few minutes later, they found a "small two-story" house with heavy smoke coming from the back of the house. ‘I just sh
  
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• FWFD: Blaze leaves Fort Wayne home with heavy fire, smoke damage

  21-09-2023 00:33 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- A house on Fort Wayne's east side suffered heavy fire and smoke damage after a fire Wednesday afternoon, according to the Fort Wayne Fire Department (FWFD).At roughly 4:38 p.m., firefighters responded to a house fire in the 1400 block of Wabash Avenue after neighbors had seen fire and smoke coming from the home and called 911.When crews arrived a few minutes later, they found a "small two-story" house with heavy smoke coming from the back of the house. ‘I just sh
  
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