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• Albion coffee roastery makes Final Four of 'Coolest Thing Made IN Indiana'

  02-12-2024 23:11 via wane.com
  
  ALBION, Ind. (WANE) -- While March Madness is still a few months away, a northeast Indiana company is currently in the last stages of a tournament pitting the best products in the state against each other.Country Roads Coffee, a roastery in Albion, is in the Final Four of the "Coolest Thing Made IN Indiana" tournament. The event, currently in its fourth year, is hosted by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and aims to celebrate the Hoosier State's "long manufacturing history."Featuring more than 90
  
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• Cold and windy this week with some snowflakes

  02-12-2024 22:58 via wane.com
  
  Our chances for lake-effect snow will last into the overnight hours, and even throughTuesday. Most accumulation will occur north and west of the Summit City, where parts of our area could see around an inch or less.Higher snow totals will be in far southwest Michigan through the South Bend, Indiana area. Regardless of accumulation, the snow could cause some slick/wet road conditions, drive safe in those snow showers!Multiple inches of snow (8+") fall from South Bend north to Niles and Benton Har
  
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• Infant thrown from car during speedy Ohio pursuit; driver arrested

  02-12-2024 22:49 via wane.com
  
  BRYAN, Ohio (WANE) - Monday, police arrested a man who led officers on a pursuit so reckless that a 9-month-old infant somehow fell out of the car.Zachary Chervenka, a man from Butler, Indiana who was wanted on an active arrest warrant, had been spotted Sunday at a store in Bryan, according to a Facebook post from the Bryan Police Department. Officers confronted the 32-year-old, who then got in his car with two children inside and led police on a pursuit around 9:30 p.m.Williams County court doc
  
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• Infant thrown from car during Ohio pursuit; driver arrested

  02-12-2024 22:49 via wane.com
  
  BRYAN, Ohio (WANE) - Monday, police arrested a man who led officers on a pursuit so reckless that an infant somehow fell out of the moving car.Zachary Chervenka, a man from Butler, Indiana who was wanted on an active arrest warrant, had been spotted Sunday at a store in Bryan, according to a Facebook post from the Bryan Police Department. Officers confronted the 32-year-old, who then got in his car with two children inside and led police on a pursuit around 9:30 p.m.During the chase, one of the
  
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• Fort Wayne Firefighters respond to fire in southeast neighborhood

  02-12-2024 22:33 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Fort Wayne Firefighters are working to put out a fire in a southeast neighborhood Monday afternoon.Dispatch confirmed with WANE 15 that they are working to put out a structure fire in the 6900 block of Selkirk Drive.
  Information is limited at this time. WANE 15 is at the scene and working to find out more.
  
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• 1 cat dead in garage fire in southeast neighborhood

  02-12-2024 22:33 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Fort Wayne Firefighters responded to a fire in a southeast neighborhood Monday afternoon.Dispatch confirmed with WANE 15 that they are working to put out a structure fire in the 6900 block of Selkirk Drive. Firefighters responded to the home just after 4 p.m. to find the garage and part of the attic in flames.
  When searching the residence firefighters found a dead cat. All three occupants of the home exited the home before firefighters arrived.
  Firefighters were able t
  
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• 'Nightmare': Ohio man recovering after alleged assault over McDonald's sandwich

  02-12-2024 21:05 via wane.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Ohio man is struggling to get back to normalcy after he says he was punched repeatedly by several McDonald's employees during a dispute over his Quarter Pounder in October.Karrigan Norwood was reportedly assaulted sometime after midnight on Oct. 17 at the McDonald's on East 17th Street in Columbus.He recently sat down with Nexstar's WCMH to talk about the experience, which he described as a "nightmare."Norwood said he had visited the McDonald's for a late-ni
  
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• Pay It Forward Finalist: Christian Bratina

  02-12-2024 21:00 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Christian Bratina finds the influence to Pay It Forward through his first name. He is one of three finalists for the University of Saint Francis Pay It Forward scholarship."They ask me what my name is, I say, "Christian." And that just brings to a whole other story of what I've done and what I want to do and my Christian aspect of life. And being in that Christianity helps show those people that I really do them and I'm not there just for the money," explains Christian
  
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• 155 year sentence in 2023 Christmas Eve killing

  02-12-2024 19:37 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Trivel D. Crum was found guilty on five separate charges after a jury decided that he killed a man last Christmas Eve.
  Between one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, unlawful carrying of a handgun for a prior felon, criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon and death resulting from using a gun - Crum was sentenced to 155 years behind bars.
  Javion Grandberry was killed in the shooting, but one other was shot and yet another person was in th
  
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• Fort Wayne man sentenced on trafficking charges in 2022 case

  02-12-2024 18:33 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A man was handed the same amount of prison time as his accomplice for charges that stemmed from a 2022 child sex trafficking case.Kirk Depoister, 49, was sentenced Monday to 10 years with four years suspended after pleading guilty to promotion of human sex trafficking. He also pleaded guilty to child exploitation, for which he was given a three-year sentence to be served at the same time, leaving a total of six years in prison for both felonies.He and Stephanie Followel
  
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• Man sentenced to 60 years for murder in connection to ambush shooting

  02-12-2024 17:59 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The last of four people linked to the killing of a man found dead in his car last year was sentenced Monday.A judge in Allen Superior Court sentenced 24-year-old Samuel Evans IV to 60 years in prison. Evans had pleaded guilty to murder in the death of 40-year-old Dennis Dwayne Starr, who was shot and killed in July 2023 near the intersection of Lower Huntington Road and Kruge Drive.The other three -- Lexus Evans, Samuel W. Evans III and Jesse Shears -- pleaded guil
  
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• US commits to $7.54 billion loan for Stellantis venture to build 2 electric vehicle battery plants

  02-12-2024 17:30 via wane.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — A Stellantis joint venture with Samsung SDI has won a commitment from the U.S. government for up to a $7.54 billion loan to help build two electric vehicle battery plants in Kokomo, Indiana.The project being built by StarPlus Energy LLC is expected to create at least 2,800 jobs at the plants and hundreds more at a nearby park for parts supply companies, the Energy Department said Monday in a statement.The loan still must be finalized, but the government said the commitment s
  
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• Standup comedian Nate Bargatze bringing world tour to the Coliseum in 2025

  02-12-2024 17:02 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A comedian who has gone viral with bits from his Netflix specials and Saturday Night Live is coming to Fort Wayne next year.Nate Bargatze is embarking on his world tour, "Big Dumb Eyes", in 2025, traveling around North America, Europe and the Middle East. He's scheduled to stop at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum on May 11. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m., with a presale Wednesday.
  Known as the "Nicest Man in Standup", Bargatze's material is clean and relatab
  
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• 'Brain rot': Meet the Oxford University Press word of the year

  02-12-2024 16:38 via wane.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Many of us have felt it, and now it’s official: “brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year.Oxford University Press said Monday that the evocative phrase “gained new prominence in 2024,” with its frequency of use increasing 230% from the year before.Oxford defines brain rot as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now p
  
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• Gas prices drop to lowest level in more than 3 years

  02-12-2024 16:04 via wane.com
  
  (GasBuddy) For the seventh straight week, the nation’s average price of gasoline has declined, falling 0.6 cents compared to a week ago, and stands at $3.00 per gallon Monday, the lowest level since May 2021, according to GasBuddy® data compiled from more than 12 million individual price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country. The national average is down 7.7 cents from a month ago and is 23.2 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of
  
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• Police investigating on Maplewood Elementary School's property

  02-12-2024 15:05 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Fort Wayne police officers were at Maplewood Elementary as kids walked into school Monday morning.Police were seen investigating on the school's property off Lower Huntington and Bluffton roads starting around 8 a.m. A security officer confirmed to WANE 15 that school was still in session for the day.
  Fort Wayne Police and school security at Maplewood ElementaryPolice were seen investigating near door 6 at Maplewood Elementary School on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024.
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• Police investigating at Maplewood Elementary School

  02-12-2024 15:05 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Fort Wayne police officers were at Maplewood Elementary as kids walked into school Monday morning.Police were seen investigating near door 6 at the school off Lower Huntington and Bluffton roads starting around 8 a.m.
  Fort Wayne Police and school security at Maplewood ElementaryPolice were seen investigating near door 6 at Maplewood Elementary School on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024.
  WANE 15 has a crew at the scene to learn more.
  
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• Police investigate on Maplewood Elementary School's property

  02-12-2024 15:05 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Fort Wayne police officers were at Maplewood Elementary as kids walked into school Monday morning.Police were seen investigating on the school's property off Lower Huntington and Bluffton roads starting around 8 a.m.
  A security officer confirmed to WANE 15 that school was still in session for the day. A spokesperson for Fort Wayne Community Schools later said neither a lockdown nor a lockout was needed, and staff kept the students away from the scene.
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• Body found near Maplewood Elementary School's property

  02-12-2024 15:05 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Fort Wayne police officers were at Maplewood Elementary School Monday morning after a body was found near the property.Police were seen investigating on the school's property off Lower Huntington and Bluffton roads starting around 8 a.m. It's unclear whether the body was found on school property, which borders a neighborhood in Waynedale.FWPD Captain Jeremy Webb later confirmed police were investigating a possible suicide.
  Fort Wayne Police and school security at
  
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• Supreme Court will hear arguments on flavored vape regulations imposed after youth vaping spike

  02-12-2024 13:39 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear a vaping case on Monday, weighing federal regulators’ decisions blocking sweet vaping products after e-cigarette use spiked among kids.The high court is taking up an appeal from the Food and Drug Administration, which has denied more than a million applications to sell candy- or fruit-flavored products that appeal to kids.Those decisions are part of a crackdown that anti-tobacco advocates say helped drive down youth vaping to a decade low
  
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• Cyber Monday shoppers expected to set a record on the year's biggest day for online shopping

  02-12-2024 13:05 via wane.com
  
  Consumers in the United States are scouring the internet for online deals as they look to take advantage of the post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon with Cyber Monday.Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of many people's regular routines and the holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday — a term coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation — has become the biggest online shopping day of the year, thanks to the deals and the hype the industry has created to fuel it.Adobe Analy
  
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• 2 Indianapolis police officers face trial in Black man's death during mental health crisis

  02-12-2024 12:48 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indianapolis police officers are set to stand trial Monday in the death of a Black man after police shocked him with a Taser and restrained him face down during a mental health crisis in his parents' home.Officers Adam Ahmad and Steven Sanchez were indicted by a grand jury in April 2023 in Herman Whitfield III’s 2022 death. The officers, who have been on administrative leave, are being tried together as co-defendants.The men both face one felony count each of
  
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• Building relationships one bark at a time, FWPD's K9 Tinsley is Positively Fort Wayne

  02-12-2024 12:21 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - K9s are a regular part of the Fort Wayne Police Department. Two years ago, the department acquired its first-ever K9 specifically meant to be a therapy dog.
  This K9 helps officers but also helps build relationships within the community, all while honoring a fallen officer. It's what makes K9 Tinsley Pawsitively Fort Wayne."He's an almost 3-year-old Blue Heeler... His original name was Frankie when I first met him… I worked with Officer David Tinsley for many year
  
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• More lake effect snow chances to start the week

  02-12-2024 10:43 via wane.com
  
  The start of meteorological winter has brought some fitting temperatures with it, as we only saw high temperatures in the upper 20s to start December. Brrr! November 2024 was the 7th warmest despite cold endA few areas of scattered lake effect snow showers are being seen across the area early this morning, even seeing some fly in Fort Wayne. Skies are mostly cloudy for Fort Wayne, but areas south are seeing a better clearing, such as Marion, Hartford City, and Portland to name a few communities.
  
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• Fire damages Concordia Lutheran High School building

  02-12-2024 06:32 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- A fire late Sunday night damaged a Concordia Lutheran High School building.It started around 10:15 p.m. in a maintenance garage near the school's baseball field. When Fort Wayne firefighters arrived, flames and smoke were coming from an attached bathroom. It took about 40 minutes to get the fire under control. Crews were able to contain the flames to the bathroom and prevent them from spreading to the larger maintenance building.The bathroom has heavy fire and water da
  
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• November 2024 was the 7th warmest despite cold end

  02-12-2024 05:33 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Despite the big blast of cold air we experienced to conclude November, it was ultimately a very warm month! If only it would have stayed warm by month's end, we could have been closer to the warmest ever... Drought conditions take a big stride towards improvementUltimately, November 2024 was the 7th warmest on record in Fort Wayne's history, with weather records dating back to 1897. It was also the warmest November since 2016. A total of 22 days saw above average warmth
  
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• Fort Wayne Fire Department responds to fire on Fort Wayne’s north side

  02-12-2024 04:57 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Fort Wayne Fire Department (FWFD) responded to a fire on the northeast side of Fort Wayne Sunday night.According to Allen County Dispatch, they began receiving reports of a fire around 10:16 p.m. in the 3600 block of N Anthony Blvd.A Wane 15 crew member is at the scene.Information is limited at this time. We will keep you updated with the latest.
  
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• Tracking cold air and scattered lake effect snow

  02-12-2024 04:45 via wane.com
  
  We saw a very cold ending to November and we're continuing on the arctic chill into the start of December. It certainly is fitting to also begin meteorological winter with winter-like temperatures. Continue to bundle up as you're heading out for any plans.Spotty lake effect snow was around throughout our Sunday and you can expect more of the same before daybreak Monday. Skies will range from mostly clear in our southwestern communities to overcast in more northern areas. Temperatures as you head
  
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• Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous pledges not to

  02-12-2024 02:05 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday night, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family members.
  The Democratic president had previously said he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence after his convictions in the two cases in Delaware and California. The move comes weeks before
  
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• Cold start to December continues

  02-12-2024 00:00 via wane.com
  
  We saw a very cold ending to November and we're continuing on the arctic chill into the start of December. It certainly is fitting to also begin meteorological winter with winter-like temperatures. Continue to bundle up as you're heading out for any plans.Spotty lake effect snow has been around throughout the day today and you can expect more of the same tonight. Skies will range from mostly clear in our southwestern communities to overcast in more northern areas. Temperatures will fall into the
  
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