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• Metalsmith educates fairgoers at Johnny Appleseed Festival

  22-09-2024 19:44 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – As visitors stroll around the Johnny Appleseed Festival, John Motz's hammer thuds can be heard from several tents over as he pounds his sheet of metal.
  Clang, clang clang.
  "We're out here demonstrating traditional silversmithing, which is what Paul Revere did," Motz said.Motz is a metalsmith who has been to every single Johnny Appleseed Festival since it's inception, 49 years ago. At almost every festival he has been in the Demonstration Area, showing off his trad
  
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• Former Boar's Head sanitation manager recounts where Virginia plant went wrong

  22-09-2024 19:44 via wane.com
  
  GREENSVILLE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Boar’s Head deli meat plant in Jarratt, Virginia, was shut down indefinitely earlier this month after being linked to a deadly listeria outbreak. Nexstar's WRIC sat down with its former sanitation manager, Terrence Boyce, to find out where it all went wrong."One thing I did find out about Boar's Head is they were just not open to new ideas," Boyce said. "Just not open at all.”Boyce, who was hired in January 2023, said he was told h
  
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• Mass shooting kills 4 and wounds 17 in nightlife district in Birmingham, Alabama

  22-09-2024 18:56 via wane.com
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A mass shooting killed four people and wounded 17 others in a popular nightlife area in Birmingham, Alabama, with many of the victims caught in the crossfire, police said Sunday.
  Police Chief Scott Thurmond said at a news conference that authorities believe the intended target was among the dead and that the shooting may have been “a hit” conducted in exchange for payment.
  Investigators believe the other victims were caught in the crossfire and that ther
  
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• Mass shooting kills 4 and wounds 18 in nightlife district in Birmingham, Alabama

  22-09-2024 17:44 via wane.com
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A mass shooting killed four people and wounded 18 others in a popular nightlife area in Birmingham, Alabama, with many of the victims caught in the crossfire, police said early Sunday. Authorities asked the public for tips as they searched for the shooters.The shooting happened shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday in Five Points South, a district filled with entertainment venues, restaurants and bars that is often crowded on weekend nights.Multiple suspects pulled up in a
  
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• Election 2024: Indiana’s Third Congressional District race

  22-09-2024 17:02 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS -- After the decision from U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, R-District 3 to run for Indiana's open U.S. Senate seat, two candidates are running to take his position in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  Kiley Adolph, a Democratic candidate, is running for the position against former U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, a Republican who was last elected to Indiana's third district seat in 2014. Election 2024: Indiana’s Second Congressional District raceThis comes after Banks first announced his run
  
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• Fan who caught Ohtani's 50/50 ball turned down huge payday from Dodgers: report

  22-09-2024 16:52 via wane.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani hit a historic home run on Thursday, and a lucky fan could get a historic payday.Ohtani, the $700 million man and likely 2024 National League Most Valuable Player, became the first player in MLB history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in the same season on Thursday. He finished the pursuit of that milestone with a monstrous 6-hit, 3-home run game in Miami against the Marlins.Shohei Ohtani receives a standing ovation af
  
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• Bank warns of voice-based AI scams that could utilize your social media posts

  22-09-2024 16:12 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – Forget about the complexity of your online password, your own voice could be the tool criminals use to access your money, new research warns.Starling, a UK-based online bank, said Wednesday in a news release that "millions" of people are at risk of falling victim to voice cloning scams. The data, based on a representative survey of roughly 3,000 UK adults, found that 28% of people said they had been targeted by an AI voice cloning scam at least once in the past year. Forty-six
  
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• Coliseum ramps to Washington set to close for paving

  22-09-2024 16:00 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Ramps connecting State Road 930/Coliseum Boulevard with Washington Boulevard are set to close on Monday, September 23.
  Crews will be paving ramp on S.R.930/Coliseum Boulevard at the junction with Washington Boulevard. Work is expected to last for one day. All work is weather-dependent and schedules are subject to change.During paving, the ramp from southbound S.R. 930 to westbound Washington Boulevard and the ramp from westbound Washington Boulevard to southbound S.R. 930
  
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• Wolcottville community grieves together at candlelight vigil for family's death

  22-09-2024 14:40 via wane.com
  
  WOLCOTTVILLE, Ind. (WANE) — The community of Wolcottville rallies to support each other at a candlelight vigil Saturday.Community members poured in to pay their respects to the mother and her three children who were found dead in following a wellness check Tuesday.
  "Everybody's grieving in their own way," said local pastor Mike Stanley. "If we come together, and we share that and feel that love. You know there are people here that I don't know from the community, and I've lived here for tw
  
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• Caitlin Clark heads to first WNBA postseason and Aces look for threepeat as playoffs begin Sunday

  22-09-2024 14:07 via wane.com
  
  Caitlin Clark will make her first appearance in the WNBA playoffs in the arena where she started her professional career.The Indiana Fever will play in Connecticut on Sunday as the league's postseason gets underway with four best-of-three series. The two-time defending champion Las Vegas Aces will host Seattle, top-seed New York will play Atlanta and Minnesota faces Phoenix.Clark, who had a record-breaking rookie season, will try to lead Indiana to its first playoff win since 2015 when curr
  
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• Beer and merriment flow at the 189th Oktoberfest in Munich

  22-09-2024 13:57 via wane.com
  
  MUNICH (AP) — Bridie O'Halloran drank the first beer of her life at Oktoberfest.The 19-year-old Australian pronounced it “the best I've had” after finishing roughly a quarter of her liter (33 fluid ounce) mug on Saturday. Wearing a pink dirndl dress she’d bought just a few hours earlier, O'Halloran was surrounded by tens of thousands of other — likely more experienced — beer-drinkers for the first of 16 days of the 189th Oktoberfest in Munich.Th
  
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• Rain and cooler temperatures to start fall

  22-09-2024 13:32 via wane.com
  
  Our stretch of dry days finally came to an end on Friday, when for the first time in two weeks, the Fort Wayne International Airport recorded measurable rainfall. Some areas saw a good soaking from the showers and storms that moved through on Friday, while others did not see much rainfall at all. Unfortunately, the storms also caused some damage. Click the link below to learn more. Friday storms end dry spell and cause damageTemperatures soared up into the 90s on both Friday and Saturday, which
  
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• Fall begins Sunday with rain and cooler air

  22-09-2024 04:00 via wane.com
  
  Our stretch of dry days finally came to an end on Friday, when for the first time in two weeks, the Fort Wayne International Airport recorded measurable rainfall. Some areas saw a good soaking from the showers and storms that moved through on Friday, while others did not see much rainfall at all. Unfortunately, the storms also caused some damage. Click the link below to learn more. Friday storms end dry spell and cause damageTemperatures soared up into the 90s on both Friday and Saturday, which
  
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• Partly cloudy and mild night ahead

  22-09-2024 02:00 via wane.com
  
  Our stretch of dry days finally came to an end on Friday, where for the first time in two weeks, the Fort Wayne International Airport recorded measurable rainfall. Some areas saw a good soaking from the showers and storms that moved through on Friday, while others did not see much rainfall at all. Unfortunately, the storms also caused some damage. Click the link below to learn more. Friday storms end dry spell and cause damageTemperatures climbed back up into the 90s today, which is fitting for
  
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• Summer ends on a hot and dry note this evening

  22-09-2024 00:00 via wane.com
  
  Our stretch of dry days finally came to an end yesterday, where for the first time in nearly two weeks, the Fort Wayne International Airport recorded measurable rainfall. Some areas saw a good soaking from the showers and storms that moved through on Friday, while others did not see much rainfall at all. Unfortunately, the storms also caused some damage. Click the link below to learn more. Friday storms end dry spell and cause damageTemperatures have climbed back up into the 90s today, which is
  
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