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• Full House Resorts to host public meeting on proposed casino in New Haven

  13-09-2024 23:33 via wane.com
  
  NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) -- New Haven residents will soon have the opportunity to hear more details about a proposed casino in the city straight from the source.Full House Resorts, which owns and operates gaming facilities in Indiana and across the country, will host a public information meeting Monday, Sept. 23, where residents will be able to ask the company questions about the its proposed casino. Annual gaming report shows why casino could move to New HavenThe meeting will also inform people a
  
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• NEW JAIL: Judge affirms Allen County's finance plan, start of construction still unclear

  13-09-2024 23:15 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - What Allen County Commissioners have described as the final hurdle before construction of a new jail could begin seemingly fell Friday.
  A special judge in the Indiana Tax Court affirmed another state agency's ruling that the commissioners could lease the Allen County Courthouse to its own building corporation as a funding mechanism for a new $300 million jail to be built on Meyer Road near New Haven.
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• 'I hope this isn't the last': Ossian Days in limbo as festival president prepares to step down

  13-09-2024 23:15 via wane.com
  
  OSSIAN, Ind. (WANE) -- For those planning to visit Ossian this weekend for the town's annual festival, they will be greeted with what festival staff have described as the biggest Ossian Days in recent memory.The festival's midway is full for the first time in years, and the standard festival fare of rides, events and concessions are aplenty along a few blocks of State Road 1 in downtown Ossian.There is also a chance this year's Ossian Days could be the last one.A.J. Reynolds serves as the presid
  
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• Fort Wayne and Allen County work together on creative way to allow more housing

  13-09-2024 22:18 via wane.com
  
  ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE)— Fort Wayne and Allen County are working together to create diverse housing options using zoning ordinance amendments.There are two amendments they are considering right now: to facilitate accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and zero lot line single family residential.An ADU is a second dwelling on a property zoned for single family residential, with separate cooking, sleeping, and bathroom facilities apart from the primary building of the property. A zero lot li
  
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• Jail opponents want new medical provider at the Allen County Jail

  13-09-2024 22:10 via wane.com
  
  ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) -- A new effort to remove the current medical provider at the Allen County Jail comes after Carmel-based Quality Correctional Care (QCC) asked for more than a 10% allocation for next year’s budget.Opponents of the construction of a new jail asked the commissioners Friday at their weekly meeting to search for alternatives to QCC, which they find deficient in medical treatment and mental health care.“We may be at some special crisis point, but we know tha
  
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• A hot, sunny weekend coming our way

  13-09-2024 22:03 via wane.com
  
  Last weekend, we received an early taste of fall with high temps near 70° both days. This weekend, however, high temps will be near 90° - about 20° higher. The high heat will continue to worsen the drought conditions across the region with no rain chances in our forecast in the near term. Drought expands and intensifies across NE Indiana and NW OhioHigh temperatures today reached the mid-80s and the warmth sticks around through the evening. For our Friday night football games, temps
  
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• Price of regular unleaded drops below $3 a gallon in Fort Wayne

  13-09-2024 20:09 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Gas has slipped below the $3 a gallon mark at some Fort Wayne stations and GasBuddy expects prices to fall even further.The price for a gallon of regular unleaded is listed at $2.99 at the Meijer on Illinois Road on Fort Wayne's west side. GasBuddy shows the Murphy USA at the Apple Glen Walmart is also selling regular unleaded for $2.99. As often happens, other stations will likely follow suit.Sign shows gas for $2.99 at the Meijer on Illinois Road in Fort Wayne on Septem
  
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• Fort Wayne teen sentenced for southeast side robbery and shooting

  13-09-2024 19:09 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A 17-year-old boy was sentenced Friday for his role in a robbery-turned-shooting in southeast Fort Wayne.A judge handed Raymond Angel Moore a 15-year sentence, with seven of those years suspended and credit for the one year he's already spent in jail as his case wound through the legal system. That means Moore will spend about seven years in prison.Moore was charged as an adult in connection to a shooting on April 24, 2023, that left a man with severe injuries.Police de
  
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• Car crashes into light pole on West Main Street

  13-09-2024 18:52 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A car crashed Friday on West Main Street, taking out a light pole.
  Car crashes into pole in front of Henry's Restaurant on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024.Car crashes into light pole on West Main Street
  Around 12:15 p.m., the car hit a pole in front of Henry's Restaurant downtown.Police at the scene confirmed there were minor injuries.While traffic on Main Street was temporarily slowed, a tow truck was clearing the scene before 1 p.m.
  
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• Pedestrian hit in northeast Fort Wayne crash

  13-09-2024 18:29 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A pedestrian was hit at a northeast Fort Wayne intersection Friday morning.St. Joe Center Road was blocked off at Running Brook Lane - near Arlington Elementary School - just before noon and reopened to traffic around 12:30 p.m.A Fort Wayne Police officer at the scene confirmed one car was involved, and a pedestrian was struck. Details have not been shared on what may have led to the crash.The condition of the pedestrian is unclear.
  
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• Standoff blocks road near downtown Fort Wayne

  13-09-2024 17:57 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A standoff Friday morning caused traffic to be diverted from a street near downtown Fort Wayne.The Allen County Sheriff's Department Warrants Division and Fort Wayne Police were at the scene starting around 10 a.m.Police were asking someone to come out of a house near the intersection of St. Marys Avenue and 3rd Street.Other officers were directing traffic away from the intersection.
  
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• No one home after police surround house near downtown Fort Wayne

  13-09-2024 17:57 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - After two hours of surrounding a house near downtown Fort Wayne on Friday morning, police didn't find the person inside they were looking for.The Allen County Sheriff's Department Warrants Division and Fort Wayne Police were at the intersection of St. Marys Avenue and 3rd Street starting shortly before 10 a.m. Police were asking someone to come out of a house in the area.Sgt. Adam Griffith with the sheriff's department later told WANE 15 that as it turns out, no one was
  
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• Power back on following outage on Fort Wayne's northeast side

  13-09-2024 14:41 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Nearly 2,000 Indiana Michigan Power customers were without electricity on Fort Wayne's northeast side for about an hour Friday morning.
  The utility's outage map shows showed the area affected as being centered in an area near Trier Road west of the intersection with Reed Road. The power went out shortly after 8 a.m. but was back on by 9 a.m.
  It's unclear what caused the outage.
  
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• Nearly 2,000 Indiana Michigan Power customers without electricity on Fort Wayne's northeast side

  13-09-2024 14:41 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Nearly 2,000 Indiana Michigan Power customers are without electricity on Fort Wayne's northeast side.
  The utility's outage map shows shows the area affected is centered in an area near Trier Road west of the intersection with Reed Road. The power went out shortly after 8 a.m.It's unclear what caused the outage, however the estimated time of restoration is listed as 11:30 a.m.
  
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• Corn maze and cows: Kuehnert Fall Festival 2024

  13-09-2024 14:31 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The annual Kuehnert Dairy Farm Fall Festival brings on classic autumn activities as it reopens for it's 11th season on Friday.Fall fanatics are able to entertain themselves with 24 different attractions, ranging from meet and greets with baby calves to driving down the Pedal Car Track. This year's corn maze is Scooby-Doo themed, but visitors must witness the labyrinth in person see it's full shape.The Mousetrap grilled cheese, hot dogs and other food items are ava
  
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• Corn maze and calves: Kuehnert Fall Festival 2024

  13-09-2024 14:31 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The annual Kuehnert Dairy Farm Fall Festival brings on classic autumn activities as it reopens for it's 11th season on Friday.Fall fanatics are able to entertain themselves with 24 different attractions, ranging from meet and greets with baby calves to driving down the Pedal Car Track. This year's corn maze is Scooby-Doo themed, but visitors must witness the labyrinth in person see it's full shape.The Mousetrap grilled cheese, hot dogs and other food items are ava
  
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• Feline Fall Festival assembles shelters for community cats

  13-09-2024 11:00 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Cold weather is coming, but Humane Fort Wayne invites the community to their clinic on Saturday to help ensure community cats, or strays, keep warm.The annual Feline Fall Festival assembles 150 portable, insulated shelters for more than 16,000 free-roaming cats in Allen County. Melissa Gibson, community relations manager for Humane Fort Wayne says the event is "a whole lot of fun work," supporting felines who aren't pets, but could use a home for themselves."They
  
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• High levels of lead detected in 12 cinnamon brands, report finds

  13-09-2024 10:34 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) -- A new Consumer Reports study has found elevated levels of lead in one dozen brands of cinnamon powders and multi-spice blends.The nonprofit, which evaluates the safety of various goods and services, purchased the cinnamon products from 17 stores in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and online.
  Twelve of the 36 products tested by Consumer Reports had lead levels exceeding 1 part per million. That concentration is high enough to trigger a recall in New York, the only U.S. state that r
  
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• Springfield bomb threat used 'hateful' language towards migrants, Haitians

  13-09-2024 10:33 via wane.com
  
  (The Hill) — The bomb threat which resulted in the evacuation of Springfield City Hall in Ohio on Thursday used harmful language against the city's immigrant community, aligning with recent false claims touted by Republicans, including former President Trump.Springfield Mayor Rob Rue told The Washington Post that the threat "used hateful language towards immigrants and Haitians in our community.”At the second presidential debate on Tuesday, Trump said migrants are "eating the dogs" i
  
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• Chad McQueen, star of 'The Karate Kid', dies at 63

  13-09-2024 10:28 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) — Chad McQueen, the son of actor Steve McQueen best known for his role as "Dutch" in "The Karate Kid" series, has died at 63, the actor and producer's family confirmed on Thursday. No cause of death has yet been released.In a post to Instagram, McQueen's children Chase and Madison and wife Jeanie wrote: "His remarkable journey as a loving father to us, along with his unwavering commitment to our mother, truly exemplified a life filled with love and dedication. His passion for rac
  
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• Tropical moisture stalls with a hot & dry forecast

  13-09-2024 09:43 via wane.com
  
  Don't expect any major changes in the forecast as afternoon temperatures will be in the upper 80s instead of clouds and rain from tropical remnants. The rain and clouds stay to the south today and through the weekend.
  Temperatures will be in the upper 80s again this afternoonExpect sunshine with a few clouds through the morning and temperatures in the lower 80s by lunchtime.More sunshine and some clouds this afternoon but, no big changes in the hot temperatures with highs in the upper 80s.
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• Hysterium Haunted Asylum opens Friday 13th

  13-09-2024 05:01 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Hysterium Haunted Asylum will be opening a few weeks early this year on Friday 13th.They will have a special promotion handing out shirts on a first come, first served basis and allowing unlimited trips inside the asylum with the purchase your ticket. Hysterium was named one of the top haunts of 2023 by the Haunted Attraction Association. It was the only local haunted attraction named to the list.Officials say it takes a lot to get in character and set up for
  
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• FWPD welcomes new officers

  13-09-2024 04:55 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Fort Wayne Police Department hosted a graduation ceremony for the 68th basic recruit class on Thursday.18 candidates made it to graduation.
  Each recruit had to complete a 23-week long training academy with the FWPD. After graduation, all of the new officers will begin six months of field training. The training will rotate officers on different patrols until they are ready to go by themselves. The next six months is an unsupervised probationary period.
  Mayor Sh
  
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• Parents told of unfounded threat at Columbia City schools

  13-09-2024 04:45 via wane.com
  
  COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (WANE) -- In a message to families Thursday, Whitley County Consolidated Schools leaders explained their response to an "unfounded" threat made over social media.The district said it would have increased police presence at Columbia City High School and Indian Springs Middle School on Friday.The letter said the threat was part of a multi-state trend and came after some East Allen County Schools parents were rattled by similar rumors on Wednesday, a threat which New Haven Polic
  
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• Firefighters respond to house fire on Fort Wayne's west side

  13-09-2024 01:49 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The Fort Wayne Fire Department is on the scene of a house fire in the 1800 blk of Steup Ave.The fire started in the living room of the home, according to a firefighter on scene. Several fire trucks are responding. There is visible damage to a window and house siding.One person has a minor injury from the fire. Other's inside made it out safely along with pets.
  WANE 15 has a crew on the scene working to learn more.
  
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• Motorcycle driver in life-threatening condition after morning crash

  13-09-2024 01:23 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A motorcycle driver has life-threatening injuries after a crash that happened around 6:45 a.m. Thursday near Tillman Rd and Calhoun St, according to the Fort Wayne Police Department.
  The motorcycle and an SUV were both driving west when there was a sideswipe collision. When police arrived, the driver of the motorcycle was injured on the ground. The driver was taken to a hospital in serious condition and was later downgraded to life-threatening.
  Alcohol and speed did not
  
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• Motorcycle driver in life-threatening condition after crash

  13-09-2024 01:23 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A motorcycle driver has life-threatening injuries after a crash that happened around 6:45 a.m. Thursday near Tillman Rd and Calhoun St, according to the Fort Wayne Police Department.
  The motorcycle and an SUV were both driving west when there was a sideswipe collision. When police arrived, the driver of the motorcycle was injured on the ground. The driver was taken to a hospital in serious condition and was later downgraded to life-threatening.
  Alcohol and speed did not
  
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• Drought expands and intensifies across NE Indiana and NW Ohio

  13-09-2024 00:45 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Over the past week, only 1 day saw measurable rain fall at the official weather reporting station at the Fort Wayne International Airport. This happened on Friday, September 6, when 0.47" of rain was measured.While that rainfall gave us a quick soaking, it was not enough to take us out of the Moderate Drought category that most spots in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio find themselves in.The outlook for rain over the next 10 days is not good at all. As of Thursday e
  
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• Greater Fort Wayne Inc. hosts 3rd annual Economic Development Summit

  13-09-2024 00:29 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)— Greater Fort Wayne Inc. (GFW), the main economic development organization in Allen County, hosted its third annual summit on Thursday.The goal of the Economic Development Summit is to celebrate the business accomplishments in the Fort Wayne metro area from the past year, and also to look toward the future.
  Just some of the notable achievements from the past year were securing the Google data center on Fort Wayne's southeast side, and being ranked one of the best pl
  
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