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• Some light rain/snow lingers this evening

  16-03-2025 23:00 via wane.com
  
  We started off the weekend with rounds of showers and thunderstorms. It was also a very windy day on Saturday. Check out the top wind gust reports below.It was a very windy Saturday across the area.
  It has still been windy today, but top gusts have only been around 30 mph. The bigger story has been the much colder air. Take a look at just how much colder it is outside when you compare 5 PM Saturday to 5 PM Sunday!Look at the big temperature change over 24 hours this weekend!
  Some nuisance rain/s
  
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• Vatican releases first photograph of the pope in more than a month

  16-03-2025 19:15 via wane.com
  
  ROME (AP) — The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of pope in more than a month, showing Pope Francis wearing a purple Lenten liturgical vestments sitting in a wheelchair in front of an altar in the hospital chapel.The Vatican said he was participating in the celebration of the Mass with other priests. No one else is visible in the photo. It is the first photograph of the pope since he was hospitalized on Feb. 14 with a severe case of bronchitis, which developed into double pn
  
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• 'Every person in America gets mail delivered': U.S Postal Workers rally at the Allen County Courthouse

  16-03-2025 16:46 via wane.com
  
  Video above shows ‘Delivering for America’: USPS works through cold temperatures, a previous WANE 15 story.ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) -- U.S. Postal Workers gathered at the Allen County Courthouse Sunday to share the importance of letter carriers nationwide and give the community the chance to meet the face behind their mail.
  Ken McNeill, Member of Local 116, the Summit City National Association of Letter Carriers said the point of Sunday's rally was not to be political."It's kind of
  
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• Dollar General to close nearly 100 stores: What we know

  16-03-2025 16:45 via wane.com
  
  (WHTM) — Dollar General is the latest company to announce plans to close dozens of locations in 2025 amid struggling consumer confidence.Company officials revealed in last week's fourth quarter and fiscal year 2024 report that they plan on closing 96 Dollar General store locations "in the first quarter" of the current fiscal year.Also expected to close are 45 of Dollar General's home decor stores, pOpshelf. Six pOpshelf locations will be converted into Dollar General locations.The decision
  
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• 59 dead, more than 150 injured in nightclub fire in North Macedonia

  16-03-2025 14:46 via wane.com
  
  KOCANI, North Macedonia (AP) — A massive fire tore through a nightclub in North Macedonia’s eastern town of Kocani early Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 155, authorities said.The blaze broke out around 2:30 a.m. during a concert by a local pop group at Club Pulse, Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski told reporters. He said 39 of the dead had so far been identified.He said, following an initial assessment, pyrotechnics likely caused the roof to catch fire. Videos showed ch
  
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• Thunderstorms and tornadoes move through central Indiana, cause damage and power outages

  16-03-2025 14:25 via wane.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — Multiple thunderstorms and tornadoes moved through central Indiana over the weekend.Local authorities began to issue a series of severe weather watches and warnings on Friday night and Saturday morning.FOX59 and CBS4 have been monitoring the power outages and damage this weekend's storms caused. Check out the live blog below for the latest updates on the severe weather impacting central Indiana:
  
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• At least 35 dead as tornadoes, wildfires, and blinding dust sweep across US

  16-03-2025 14:22 via wane.com
  
  PIEDMONT, Mo. (AP) — Residents pounded by unusually vicious weather across parts of the U.S. surveyed damage Sunday from violent tornadoes, high winds and blinding dust storms that decimated homes and other structures and left at least 35 people dead.National Weather Service meteorologist Cody Snell said tornado watches remained in effect Sunday morning for portions of the Carolinas, east Georgia and northern Florida. He said the main threat would be damaging winds, but there is the possib
  
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• At least 33 dead as tornadoes, wildfires, and blinding dust sweep across US

  16-03-2025 14:22 via wane.com
  
  PIEDMONT, Mo. (AP) — Violent tornadoes and high winds decimated homes, wiped out schools and toppled semitractor-trailers as a monster storm that also produced dust storms and icy conditions killed at least 33 people across the central and southern U.S.Missouri resident Dakota Henderson said he and others rescuing trapped neighbors found five bodies scattered in the debris Friday night outside what remained of his aunt’s house in hard-hit Wayne County. Scattered twisters killed
  
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• Not as windy to wrap up the weekend

  16-03-2025 12:13 via wane.com
  
  It was certainly a windy Saturday, with even some strong thunderstorms during the day for some. Check out the top wind gust reports from yesterday below.It was a very windy Saturday across the area.
  The good news is that while we may see lingering rain chances today, and perhaps a snow flurry or two, we are not expecting any thunderstorms, and it will certainly not be as windy today, with gusts only up to 30 mph.
  Although gusty at some times, it will certainly not be as windy as Saturday.Showers
  
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• Van-Del Drive-In screen 'flops' over

  16-03-2025 04:08 via wane.com
  
  MIDDLE POINT, Ohio. (WANE) — The Van-Del Drive-In staff has been preparing for its opening day all spring- raking cleaning and setting up its lot. But Saturday's storm toppled one of the drive-in's screens, adding one more thing to staff to fix."It's going to impact revenue quite a bit," Drive-In Manager Ronald Dunn said. "We won't be selling tickets on the screen until it's back up. So we will be relying on the revenue from just the one big screen ... That's how I know [the owners will] p
  
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• Much colder and windy end to the weekend

  16-03-2025 04:00 via wane.com
  
  Strong thunderstorms moved through the area Saturday afternoon. We received reports of wind damage, small hail, and even some rotation in the clouds. Check out the view from our Windows Doors & More camera in Fort Wayne.Rotation was spotted in the clouds Saturday afternoon in Fort Wayne.
  Saturday was a windy day, with gusts both in and out of thunderstorms topping 50 mph in some areas.It was a very windy Saturday across the area.
  Look for lingering rain showers to be scattering out by the ti
  
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