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• GOP still looking for poll workers, Democratic Party sees overwhelming number of applicants

  10-10-2024 23:41 via wane.com
  
  ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) – We're less than four weeks out from Election Day, and both the Allen County Democratic and Republican parties are working to tie up all loose ends ahead of the big night. Part of this is making sure they have the required number of poll workers to work the voting sites.Both the Democratic and Republican parties are responsible for filling those positions.The precinct board consist of the inspector, which will act as a manager of the precinct.In Allen County
  
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• Crash stalls traffic on I-69 in Grant County

  10-10-2024 23:11 via wane.com
  
  GRANT COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - A crash on Interstate 69 near Marion stalled traffic for miles Thursday afternoon.The Indiana Department of Transportation said around 3 p.m. the northbound lanes of I-69 were closed from US 35 to IN 5 at mile-markers 264-270.A WANE 15 viewer stuck in traffic said the jam lasted hours.It's unclear what led to the crash or if anyone was hurt.
  
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• Study: Proposed New Haven casino would bring millions in taxes to city, Indiana

  10-10-2024 23:04 via wane.com
  
  NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) -- A new study from a commercial real estate agency shows a proposed casino in New Haven would generate millions in tax dollars and thousands of jobs in the area.The proposed casino would be located on the corner of Doyle and Harper roads and will cost $500 million across two phases. Full House Resorts unveils location of proposed New Haven casinoThe study, commissioned by Full House Resorts and conducted by CBRE, claims the casino's first phase is projected to generate mo
  
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• Man allegedly admits to shooting woman in Kendallville parking lot: court docs

  10-10-2024 22:25 via wane.com
  
  KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (WANE) - A 23-year-old man who faces an attempted murder charge in Kendallville allegedly admitted to shooting a woman in the head, according to Noble Superior Court documents.Blake Frederickson was charged in connection to a shooting that happened early Saturday morning, according to court documents filed Wednesday.The Kendallville Police Department began investigating in the 1400 block of South Main Street after someone called 911 to report shots fired.
  An unresponsive woman
  
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• Northern lights forecast looks promising

  10-10-2024 22:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The sun's active pattern continues and, with many charged particles on their way to interact with the Earth's atmosphere Thursday night into Friday morning (October 10-11), conditions are looking promising for skywatchers around northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio to view the northern lights.
  A clear sky tonight will allow any colors to be easily spotted. All you have to do is go outside and look up. You may need to have some patience. (Being away from city lights will
  
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• Urban Trail vote delayed again as Washington Boulevard concerns persist

  10-10-2024 21:47 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- For a third time, Fort Wayne City Council has delayed a final passage vote to approve or deny a project that would extend the Fort Wayne Urban Trail in and around downtown Fort Wayne.City Council was responsible for the first two postponements Sept. 10 and Sept. 24, but the Fort Wayne Community Development Division itself requested a delay during Tuesday's meeting, which councilmembers obliged with a unanimous vote.The Fort Wayne Urban Trail currently exists along stre
  
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• Who could see northern lights Thursday thanks to 'severe' geomagnetic storm?

  10-10-2024 18:25 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) — A severe solar storm impacting Earth could bring the northern lights to portions of the U.S. on Thursday.Earlier this week, a massive solar flare was detected on the Sun, followed by a fast-moving coronal mass ejection (CME) directed toward Earth.The flare sparked solar radiation storm conditions on Wednesday, posing a risk to satellites, communication signals and GPS systems. NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) also issued a severe geomagnetic storm watch for the CME
  
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• How to help the recovery from Milton, Helene

  10-10-2024 18:22 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) — Just weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the Florida coast, many of the same areas now face damage from the impact of Hurricane Milton.
  The Category 3 storm made landfall late Wednesday in Siesta Key, about 70 miles south of Tampa.
  Nexstar, the parent company of this website, is teaming up to help support Red Cross efforts to offer critical resources. We’re asking readers to consider a donation to the non-profit as a way to fund hurricane relief and support t
  
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• Breast cancer screenings available Friday as part of fundraiser by Fort Wayne convenience store chain

  10-10-2024 18:22 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Breast cancer is the second most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States according to the Centers for Disease and Control.With it being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a Fort Wayne business has teamed up with Francine's Friends Mobile Mammography and Parkview Health to provide breast cancer screenings performed by professionals with the Breast Diagnostic Center.The screenings will take place Friday, October 11, from 9 a.m.
  
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• Ethel Kennedy, social activist and widow of Robert F Kennedy, dies after stroke

  10-10-2024 17:51 via wane.com
  
  BOSTON, Mass. (AP) — Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy who raised their 11 children after he was assassinated and remained dedicated to social causes and the family’s legacy for decades thereafter, died on Thursday, her family said. She was 96.Kennedy had been hospitalized after suffering a stroke in her sleep on Oct. 3, her family said.“It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother,” Joe Kennedy III
  
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• World Mental Health Day: Priorities in the workplace

  10-10-2024 17:22 via wane.com
  
  (CBS) - Thursday is World Mental Health Day. The World Health Organization (WHO) has made the workplace the focus of this year's campaign.
  At an Uber office in New York, employees have the option to work in a "quiet room" among other provisions the rideshare company has invested in for its workers.Learn more about World Mental Health Day on the website for WHO.
  
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• EACS students learn about public service careers

  10-10-2024 17:14 via wane.com
  
  NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) — Helicopters, firetrucks and police cars pull into the Eastern Allen County Schools' Career Center to educate students on possible public service careers on Thursday.Brian Dunkin, a criminal justice instructor at EACS,said Public Services Display day takes over 230 students out of the classroom for an hour and a half to learn about the "day in the life" of first responders.
  Dunkin said many students do not know about the daily trials and tribulations of public servi
  
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• A warm Friday on the way

  10-10-2024 17:03 via wane.com
  
  Another comfortable fall evening is upon us. High temps today have been near 70° and we'll back through the 60s as the evening goes on. Overnight, we'll fall as low as the low 40s.Our winds become southwesterly in the early morning and continue blowing in from that direction tomorrow. This flow of air will bring in added warmth to our region and afternoon high temperatures tomorrow will end up in the upper 70s.It will be a little cooler on Saturday with high temperatures in the low 70s. Our
  
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• Social Security recipients will get a 2.5% cost-of-living boost in 2025, smaller than in recent past

  10-10-2024 14:06 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Social Security recipients will get a 2.5% cost-of-living increase to their monthly checks beginning in January, the Social Security Administration announced Thursday.The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for retirees translates to an average increase of more than $50 for retirees every month, agency officials said.About 72.5 million people, including retirees, disabled people and children, get Social Security benefit.Commissioner Martin O’Ma
  
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• Social Security cost-of-living benefits increase announcement coming Thursday

  10-10-2024 14:06 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 70 million Social Security recipients will learn Thursday how big a cost-of-living increase they'll get to their benefits next year.In advance of the announcement, analysts predicted that the increase would be about 2.5% for 2025, smaller than increases the previous two years. Recipients received a 3.2% increase in their benefits in 2024, after a historically large 8.7% benefit increase in 2023, brought on by record 40-year-high inflation.The lower COLA for next
  
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• WATCH: Mother, 4 kids rescued from rapidly rising water in Florida home

  10-10-2024 13:23 via wane.com
  
  POLK COUNTY, Fla. (NEXSTAR) — A Florida mother and her four children were rescued from rapidly rising floodwaters early Thursday morning after heavy rains inundated their Lakeland neighborhood in Polk County. The family was saved by a combination of luck, helpful neighbors, and news crew from Nexstar's WFLA.Amber Henry told WFLA that the refrigerator in her home started to float and she and her children sat on an oven and counter to avoid the rising water."I called my mom and said I think
  
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• Watch: Satellite view of Milton's march across Florida

  10-10-2024 13:03 via wane.com
  
  Hurricane Milton slammed into Florida as a Category 3 storm, bringing powerful winds, heavy rain and tornadoes to much of the Gulf Coast, including communities already battered by deadly Hurricane Helene. By early Thursday, Milton — weakened, but still dangerous — was moving off Florida’s east coast as a Category 1 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (137 kph), the National Hurricane Center said. Milton was expected to continue to move away from the pen
  
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• More than 3 million without power as Hurricane Milton tears across Florida

  10-10-2024 12:29 via wane.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Milton barreled into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after plowing across Florida as a Category 3 storm, pounding cities with ferocious winds and rain, whipping up a barrage of tornadoes and causing an unknown numbers of deaths. It compounded the misery wrought by Helene while sparing Tampa a direct hit.LIVE COVERAGE: Hurricane Milton moves throught Florida VIDEO: High wind gusts tear roof off Tropicana Field, collapse crane in St. Petersburg
  
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• Milton knocks out power to millions and spawns slew of tornadoes. At least 5 dead

  10-10-2024 12:29 via wane.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Milton barreled into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after plowing across Florida, where it knocked out power to more than 3 million customers and whipped up a barrage of tornadoes. The storm caused at least five deaths and compounded the misery wrought by Helene while sparing Tampa a direct hit. LIVE COVERAGE: Hurricane Milton moves throught FloridaThe system tracked to the south in the final hours and made landfall late Wednesday as a Category 3
  
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• Milton knocks out power to millions and spawns 150 tornadoes. At least 4 dead

  10-10-2024 12:29 via wane.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Milton barreled into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after plowing across Florida, where it knocked out power to more than 3 million customers and whipped up 150 tornadoes. The storm caused at least four deaths and compounded the misery wrought by Helene while sparing Tampa a direct hit. ‘I’m fine’: Tampa’s ‘Lt. Dan’ survives Milton on his boat LIVE COVERAGE: Hurricane Milton moves throught FloridaThe system tra
  
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• Hurricane Milton plows across Florida, at least 4 dead

  10-10-2024 12:29 via wane.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Milton barreled into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after plowing across Florida, pounding cities with ferocious winds and rain, and whipping up a barrage of tornadoes. It caused at least four deaths and compounded the misery wrought by Helene while sparing Tampa a direct hit. LIVE COVERAGE: Hurricane Milton moves throught Florida VIDEO: High wind gusts tear roof off Tropicana Field, collapse crane in St. PetersburgThe storm tracked to the south
  
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• Although Milton has moved on, at least dead and millions in the dark

  10-10-2024 12:29 via wane.com
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Rescue teams plucked Florida residents from the flotsam of Hurricane Milton on Thursday after the storm smashed through coastal communities where it tore homes into pieces, filled streets with mud and spawned a barrage of deadly tornadoes. At least six people were dead.Arriving just two weeks after the misery wrought by Hurricane Helene, the system also knocked out power to more than 3 million customers, flooded barrier islands, tore the roof off a bas
  
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• Although Milton has moved on, at least 8 dead and millions in the dark

  10-10-2024 12:29 via wane.com
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Rescue teams plucked Florida residents from the flotsam of Hurricane Milton on Thursday after the storm smashed through coastal communities where it tore homes into pieces, filled streets with mud and spawned a barrage of deadly tornadoes. At least six people were dead.Arriving just two weeks after the misery wrought by Hurricane Helene, the system also knocked out power to more than 3 million customers, flooded barrier islands, tore the roof off a bas
  
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• Darlington celebrates 20 years of holiday shopping

  10-10-2024 10:07 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Festive toys and candy are stocked on the Darlington Holiday Warehouse shelves for shoppers to buy as the store opens for it's 20th season Friday morning.According to the Darlington Holiday Warehouse Facebook, almost two million items will be on sale for $2.49.
  Darlington Holiday Warehouse, located on 615 W Coliseum Blvd, opens on Friday at 10 a.m. To learn more about what brands are sold at Darlington, visit the warehouse's website.
  
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• Sunshine & heat to end the week

  10-10-2024 09:49 via wane.com
  
  More dry, warm weather will persist for the rest of the workweek. Today's temperatures will be in the lower 70s, increasing into the upper 70s on Friday to around 80! Our next chance of rain will be late Saturday night and early Sunday morning.Florida braces for impact of Hurricane MiltonYou'll need a sweatshirt or light jacket this morning, as temperatures will be in the lower 60s by noon. It will be sunny throughout the morning.High temperatures will top out in the lower 70s this afternoonMore
  
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• Watch: Massive 28-foot wave captured inside Hurricane Milton

  10-10-2024 03:52 via wane.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Drone footage captured a monstrous wave inside Hurricane Milton as the powerful storm passed through the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday.
  A sailing drone from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) measured the 28-foot wave with wind gusts of 75.98 miles per hour, located approximately 40 nautical miles from the center of Milton."This research represents a collaborative endeavor to better understand the role of the ocean in hurricanes," the agency poste
  
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• Taylor University hits $300 million in fundraising campaign

  10-10-2024 03:21 via wane.com
  
  UPLAND, Ind. (WANE) -- Taylor University announced Wednesday it had raised $300 million of its $500 million "Life to the Full" campaign."We are thrilled with the outpouring of generosity we've seen from so many supporters," Taylor President Michael Lindsay told WANE 15.The money will help the school expand, keep students with tuition and launch revitalization projects in Upland."People are excited to make an investment in Taylor, because Taylor made such a difference in their lives or the lives
  
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• Summit City Climbing Co. overcomes lengthy delay to reopen doors

  10-10-2024 02:49 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- After being closed for months following an initial soft opening in April, Summit City Climbing Co. hopes its return to business will be permanent.The company announced on Facebook that it would be reopening Thursday after having a "moving party" Wednesday afternoon to prepare.Alex Kenny, a helper during the moving party who bought a membership to Summit City Climbing Co. during its initial run, said he is happy to see the climbing gym will be available again."A friend
  
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• Safe Haven Baby Boxes founder receives Sagamore of the Wabash

  10-10-2024 02:17 via wane.com
  
  WOODBURN, Ind. (WANE) -- A Woodburn resident and founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes received the Sagamore of the Wabash Wednesday from a state representative.Monica Kelsey started Safe Haven Baby Boxes in Woodburn, and the initiative has since expanded to more than 200 locations across several states."I'm honored to have this award. I'm honored to be recognized for it, and I'm honored to work alongside these moms and these babies every day," Kelsey said.The Sagamore of the Wabash is the highest ho
  
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