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• Vote for your favorite logo to represent historic Fort Wayne areas

  05-05-2025 23:58 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Following Mayor Sharon Tucker's city address, Engage Fort Wayne is asking for citizens' help by voting for the logo of two Fort Wayne areas.The new branding is a part of the Mayor's hope to continue with business revitalization along South Calhoun, East State Boulevard and Wayndale. Students at AMP Lab have been working with Fort Wayne Marketing to create and update branding for the three areas.While Waynedale logos are still being created, you can vote now on South Ca
  
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• Semi driver sentenced to 20 years in bus crash that injured 16 hockey players in Warsaw

  05-05-2025 23:26 via wane.com
  
  KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) -- A New York man faces up to two decades behind bars after admitting to his role as the driver of a semi that crashed into a school bus, injuring 16 hockey players in Warsaw.
  Then 58-year-old, Victor Santos pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday, to four Level 5 Felony counts of Operating While Intoxicated, causing bodily injury, and one Level 6 count of criminal recklessness using a deadly weapon.
  According to court documents, Police could smell alcohol on Santos
  
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• Comedian Jo Koy bringing tour to Embassy Theatre

  05-05-2025 22:26 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Comedian Jo Koy is set to bring his tour to the Embassy Theatre in October.
  Comedian Jo Koy will visit the Embassy Theatre on October 5 for his Jo Koy: Just Being Koy Tour, according to a Facebook post from the Embassy Theatre.Koy is most known for his film Easter Sunday and six comedy specials. Koy was also the host for the 81 Golden Globes in 2024.Tickets for the show go on sale for Embassy Members on Wednesday, and to the general public on Friday.
  
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• 'Fort Wayne's most prestigious tournament': 'Masters' kicks off big week of Summit City bowling

  05-05-2025 22:15 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- While the "tradition unlike any other" recently wrapped up in Augusta, Georgia, the Fort Wayne Metro USBC's "Masters" tournament is set to kick off Monday at MVP Lanes.Described by the organization as "Fort Wayne's most prestigious tournament," the Masters tournament has been hosted by the Fort Wayne Metro USBC more than 40 years and is ingrained in the local bowling community."If you are a Fort Wayne bowler, you want this trophy to be on your mantle ... it's the equiv
  
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• Allen County Spring Property Taxes are due soon

  05-05-2025 21:56 via wane.com
  
  Video above gives a breakdown of how property taxes are determined from March 2024.
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The Allen County Treasurer wants to remind residents that Spring Property Tax Bills are due soon.According to the Allen County Treasurer, Samantha Chernery, spring property taxes are due by May 12 to be considered on time.
  In the release from the Treasurer, Chenery told owners that all payments must be in the Treasurer’s office or postmarked by May 12 to be considered on time. A p
  
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• Scattered rain/storms continue

  05-05-2025 21:45 via wane.com
  
  Periods of scattered rain and some t-storms continue to fall this afternoon and evening as the same system that's brought us periods of rain over the past few days keeps sending raindrops in our direction.
  Evening temperatures start in the low 60s and will fall from there. Overnight temps drop to the low 50s.The scattered rain and storm chances remain overnight as our current storm system, an area of low pressure that's cut off from the fast-moving flow of the jet stream, slowly moves to the eas
  
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• Trump administration offers to pay plane tickets, give stipend to self-deporting immigrants

  05-05-2025 19:11 via wane.com
  
  McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) -- The Trump administration on Monday announced it will help pay travel costs and give up to $1,000 to undocumented immigrants who self-deport.Border Report Live: Trump marks 100 days in office with new set of executive orders
  The Department of Homeland Security called it a "historic opportunity" for those who are not legally in the country to facilitate travel back to their home country through the CBP Home App.This app - which used to be the CBP One app to schedu
  
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• Smoking semi shuts down lane of US 30

  05-05-2025 17:07 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A semi caught fire and temporarily shut down a lane of U.S. 30 Monday morning on the edge of Fort Wayne.There was a vehicle fire around 10:30 a.m. on the Goshen Road overpass near Interstate 69, according to the Indiana Department of Transportation.The right westbound lane is closed while crews clean up the scene.Details are scarce; any injuries have not been confirmed. It's unclear how the semi caught fire.The Fort Wayne Fire Department responded to the scene. By the t
  
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• Bluffton Road bridge to close for one-day later this week

  05-05-2025 17:06 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) An on-going project to improve a bridge over the St. Marys River in Fort Wayne will require its closure for a day later this week.The Bluffton Road bridge will be closed Thursday, May 8. It will open back up to traffic on Friday, May 9.The closure is part of a month's long project that isn't expected to be completed until sometime next year.
  According to the City of Fort Wayne, the Bluffton Road bridge project consists of concrete support beam replacement and a new bridge
  
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• Price cycling pushes gas higher, but prices might soon come down according to GasBuddy

  05-05-2025 16:40 via wane.com
  
  (GasBuddy) The nation’s average price of gasoline has risen for the first time in nearly a month, climbing 2.0 cents compared to a week ago and stands at $3.12 per gallon, 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 12.0 cents from a month ago and is 49.6 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has increased 0.2 cents in th
  
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• More rain on the way today

  05-05-2025 15:32 via wane.com
  
  It will be a cool and rainy start to this week. Even though it will be warmer than yesterday, we'll have to wait until the middle of the week for temperatures in the 70s.
  Temperatures will be a little warmer than SundayPatchy dense fog this morning, otherwise mostly cloudy skies with temperatures warming into the upper 50s by noon.Rain begins late in the afternoon and continues through the eveningSkies remain cloudy and high temperatures will be warmer than Sunday, with a high in the mid-60s. Ra
  
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• 3 dead, 5 injured in a shooting at Arizona restaurant, police say

  05-05-2025 15:12 via wane.com
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Three people are dead and five others were injured after a shooting at a restaurant in a Phoenix suburb Sunday night, police said.Police received calls reporting shots around 7:45 p.m. at El Camaron Gigante Mariscos & Steakhouse, Glendale Police Department Officer Moroni Mendez said during a briefing. Mendez said three people died from their injuries and five other people were injured by gunshots or shrapnel, KPHO-TV reported.“Obviously there was a lot
  
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• Trump says he'll reopen Alcatraz prison for 'America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders'

  05-05-2025 14:36 via wane.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.In a post on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, “For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering. When
  
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• Sean 'Diddy' Combs sex trafficking trial is set to start with jury selection

  05-05-2025 13:18 via wane.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs, the hip-hop entrepreneur whose wildly successful career has been dotted by allegations of violence, will be brought to a New York courthouse Monday to be tried on charges that he used the influence and resources of his business empire to sexually abuse women.Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the morning and potentially take several days. Opening statements by the lawyers and the start of testimony is expected next week.The 17-page indic
  
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• Botanical Conservatory's 'Herb Lady' is Positively Fort Wayne

  05-05-2025 12:20 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - This weekend is the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory's annual Mother's Day Plant Sale. This giant, mostly volunteer effort started in 1986, spearheaded by a newer volunteer. Forty-nine years later and at 97 years young, Louise Rennecker is still mostly running the show. It's what makes her Positively Fort Wayne.Never missing an opportunity to appreciate the beauty, Louise Rennecker is helping prep for the Botanical Conservatory's annual Mother's Day Plant Sale
  
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• Patchy fog and more rain on the way today

  05-05-2025 10:05 via wane.com
  
  It will be a cool and rainy start to this week. Even though it will be warmer than yesterday, we'll have to wait until the middle of the week for temperatures in the 70s.
  Temperatures will be a little warmer than SundayPatchy dense fog this morning, otherwise mostly cloudy skies with temperatures warming into the upper 50s by noon.Rain begins late in the afternoon and continues through the eveningSkies remain cloudy and high temperatures will be warmer than Sunday, with a high in the mid-60s. Ra
  
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• Warmer for Cinco de Mayo with more rain chances

  05-05-2025 04:00 via wane.com
  
  A stalled out area of low pressure continues to bring us cool and unsettled weather across northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. Have a jacket and an umbrella close by, as it will be a few days until we are clear from this system...A stalled out area of low pressure will stay nearby until the middle of the week.
  A band of heavy rain passed through Sunday morning, bringing rainfall totals of around an inch to some parts of the area. It also was a chilly day... In fact, it was the coldest May day
  
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• Only a few showers tonight after a soggy day

  05-05-2025 01:45 via wane.com
  
  A stalled out area of low pressure continues to bring us cool and unsettled weather across northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. Have a jacket and an umbrella close by, as it will be a few days until we are clear from this system...A stalled out area of low pressure will stay nearby to begin the workweek.
  A band of heavy rain passed through this morning, causing some flooding of low-lying areas. While the heaviest rain has departed, we have been left with some lingering showers and areas of driz
  
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