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• "It's a great project": County Commissioners sign off on rezoning for 'Project Zodiac'

  01-12-2023 22:38 via wane.com
  
  ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) --The Allen County Commissioners Friday took steps to ensure the large tract of land at Tillman and Adams Center roads will become a $4 - $5 billion data center campus by an unidentified Fortune 100 company.By a unanimous vote,  Commissioners Therese Brown, Nelson Peters and Richard Beck voted to rezone 640 acres of county land annexed by the City of Fort Wayne from agricultural to zoning called BTI for Business, Technology and Industry Park. The rezoning for the t
  
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• Lingering, staring, following: Man accused of passing explicit note to child at downtown library

  01-12-2023 22:23 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A Fort Wayne man arrested Friday is accused of staring at, following and lingering near a preteen child at the downtown public library for hours before handing him a sexually explicit note, according to newly released Allen Superior Court documents.
  Allen County prosecutors on Friday formally charged 36-year-old Otha J. Muirhead with a Level 5 count of child solicitation. A warrant for his arrest was issued and he was booked into Allen County Jail later that day, accord
  
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• Auburn man arrested on felony charges including child molesting, bestiality

  01-12-2023 22:11 via wane.com
  
  DEKALB COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - An Auburn man was arrested Thursday morning on charges including child molesting and bestiality following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.According to a release from the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, a cyber tip led to an investigation involving 54-year-old Craig C. Cobbs from the 1100 block of CR 34.
  Details are scarce, but the release said detectives arrested Cobbs and took him to the DeKalb County Jail on preliminary charges of
  
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