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• Beautiful weather continues this weekend

  08-03-2025 23:00 via wane.com
  
  After wrapping up the workweek with a return to wintry weather, we are seeing a lot of sunshine now this weekend! We hope you can get out and enjoy the beautiful weather!Look for mostly clear skies to be in place this evening into tonight. Temperatures will be dipping down to around 30 degrees overnight.Skies will be mostly clear this evening into tonight.Temperatures drop to as low as 30° by daybreak Sunday.Don't forget the time change tonight! Turn your clocks ahead by one hour before you
  
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• Man steals over $75K from multiple Menards locations

  08-03-2025 21:05 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- A man was arrested and charged in connection with over $75,000 stolen from various Menards locations around Fort Wayne.According to the release, detectives found that 34-year-old Brandon Gerber, the alleged suspect, stole approximately $76,548.41, from May of 2024 to December of 2024. The total includes 41 separate 41 felony thefts and 53 separate misdemeanor thefts making up the over $75,000 total.
  According to the Fort Wayne Police Department, officers were contacted
  
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• 'We're not quitting, we're not going back': International Women's Day celebrated with protests at Allen County courthouse

  08-03-2025 20:45 via wane.com
  
  Video above shows our previous story regarding the protests.FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Saturday, protestors gathered at the Allen County Courthouse to celebrate International Women's Day.Protestors gathered on the Allen County Courthouse lawn alongside the Indiana National Organization for Women (NOW) and the Hoosier Human Rights Initiative.While many protestors focused on women's rights, in correlation to the international holiday, other issues were also featured such as racism, immigration and
  
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• TinCaps unveils 2025 season home jersey

  08-03-2025 18:05 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- With less than a month till opening day at Parkview Field, Fort Wayne TinCaps announced a new home jersey for the upcoming season Friday.
  The new jersey features a white base with pops of dark and light green and red. The jersey also features the team's apple logo on the sleeve.“Coming off our special edition 15th anniversary season home jerseys, we decided to go with a more traditional all-white jersey, which we’ve never done before, with both the gre
  
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• Public Safety Alert issued for 66 year old woman

  08-03-2025 16:55 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The Fort Wayne Police Department (FWPD) issued a Public Safety Alert for a missing 66-year-old woman Saturday.The FWPD sent out the alert Saturday morning just before 11 a.m. for Lori Jones, a 66-year-old black woman. She is described as 5 foot 6 inches tall and around 130 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black shirt under a blue zip up jacket, gray sweats and brown boots.She was last seen in the area of 5700 Wilkie Drive, which is just behind Time Corners Shopping
  
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• 66-year-old woman missing woman found after Public Safety Alert issued

  08-03-2025 16:55 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The Fort Wayne Police Department (FWPD) has found a missing 66-year-old woman after issuing a Public Safety Alert Saturday.Photo shows missing woman Lori Jones.
  The FWPD sent out the alert Saturday morning just before 11 a.m. for Lori Jones, a 66-year-old black woman. She was described as 5 foot 6 inches tall and around 130 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black shirt under a blue zip up jacket, gray sweats and brown boots.Jones was found around 1 p.m. on Saturday a
  
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• 66-year-old missing woman found after Public Safety Alert issued

  08-03-2025 16:55 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The Fort Wayne Police Department (FWPD) has found a missing 66-year-old woman after issuing a Public Safety Alert Saturday.Photo shows missing woman Lori Jones.
  The FWPD sent out the alert Saturday morning just before 11 a.m. for Lori Jones, a 66-year-old black woman. She was described as 5 foot 6 inches tall and around 130 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black shirt under a blue zip up jacket, gray sweats and brown boots.Jones was found around 1 p.m. on Saturday a
  
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• Right to Life of Northeast Indiana hosts legislative forum

  08-03-2025 15:01 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Saturday, get the opportunity to talk to elected officials face to face about current pro-life efforts in the state of Indiana.The legislative forum hosted by Right to Life of Northeast Indiana invites area residents to get to know current pro-life efforts in legislation and the legislators backing them, through a panel. It also gives the opportunity for those wanting to learn more to ask questions to a panel of state-level legislators.
  The panel includes Senator Liz B
  
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• Fall in love with a good book at northeast Indiana's first romance genre bookstore

  08-03-2025 13:00 via wane.com
  
  GARRETT, Ind. (WANE) — Romance readers have been anticipating the opening of Northeast Indiana’s first Romance bookstore. Slow Burn Books in Garrett is a romance genre bookstore. The bookstore offers new and used books for those looking to fall in love with a good book. Slow Burn Books was started by Hannah Ziko. She describes the bookstore on the Slow Burn FaceBook page as ‘eclectic’ and ‘feminine’. The store's walls are painted bubblegum pink
  
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• A sunshine-filled weekend

  08-03-2025 11:56 via wane.com
  
  The rain/snow showers many saw on Friday are long gone, and will leave us with a dry and quiet weekend ahead as high pressure takes over.
  While skies are mostly cloudy early this morning, many of us will see the skies clear to mostly sunny skies around daybreak. You'll need those glasses all day long, as we stay sunny through the daytime.It is a cold start to the weekend, though, with temperatures in the lower 30s and upper 20s for many, continuing to fall through sunrise. They at least climb ba
  
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• 3/7 Highlight Zone - Boys Sectional Semifinals

  08-03-2025 05:56 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The sectional championship match-ups have now been set as the Highlight Zone featured 23 sectional semifinal games on Friday night leading up to Saturday's title games, with Wayne besting SAC rival South Side for the second time this season in your "Game of the Week."
  
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• Sunny weekend ahead, getting warmer soon

  08-03-2025 04:24 via wane.com
  
  We've had a cold afternoon with temperatures in the 30s around the region. For a short time at midday, we did hit 40° in Fort Wayne. At times, the snow showers have been coming down at a good intensity, but accumulations are remaining minimal. The snow showers taper off and end later this evening with the radar becoming clear around northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio between 8 pm and midnight. Tonight's temperatures will fall to the mid-20s.Temps fall into the 20s by daybreak, as low as th
  
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