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• FWCS expands before and after school program partnership with the YMCA, Champions

  08-05-2025 23:32 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Fort Wayne Community Schools has entered a partnership with the YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne and Champions on Thursday, announcing the expansion of their before-and-after-school program for students.The expansion offers childcare services for elementary students, from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.The program, launching in the 2025-2026 school year, offers before-school programs from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., after-school programs from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. The progra
  
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• FWCS announces before and after school program partnership with the YMCA

  08-05-2025 23:32 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Fort Wayne Community Schools entered a new partnership with the YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne on Thursday, announcing a new before-and-after-school program for students.
  The new program offers childcare services for elementary students, from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.
  The program, launching in the 2025-2026 school year, offers before-school programs from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., after-school programs from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. The program also offers extended care
  
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• Fort Wayne nears approval of more than $2M in road resurfacing projects

  08-05-2025 22:08 via wane.com
  
  *The video above is from 2024 and explains how PASER works.FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- The City of Fort Wayne is one step closer to getting two major road resurfacing projects approved following Tuesday's Fort Wayne City Council meeting.During the meeting, the Public Works Division presents two separate plans for the city's southeast and southwest quadrants. The southeast project will cost more than $1.3 million, while southwest work will cost more than $720,000.Between the two projects, some of
  
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• Friday sunshine, slightly cooler than average

  08-05-2025 21:34 via wane.com
  
  Clouds have increased as a minor weather disturbance moves south through the region. A slight chance of a scattered shower or two exists through the evening. The bigger story, though, is just how far our temperatures will be dropping overnight.For the evening, our temps start near 60° and fall through the 50s. They keep falling overnight and drop all the way to the upper 30s during the hours right before dawn. This will lead to some patches of frost across the region. Cover up any newly plan
  
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• 18-year-old charged in shooting that stemmed from fight over stolen liquor

  08-05-2025 21:32 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - An 18-year-old now faces charges in connection to a shooting from this past December.Tyshawn Chambers is charged with a Level 5 felony count of dangerous possession of a firearm as a child who has previously been convicted of being a child in possession of a firearm. He's also charged with a Level 6 felony count of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon.Chambers was 17 at the time of the Dec. 26, 2024 shooting that stemmed from an alleged fight between a group of ki
  
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• Robert Prevost becomes first American pope of the Catholic Church: What to know

  08-05-2025 19:21 via wane.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.He is the 267th pope to lead the Catholic Church, elected by his fellow cardinals on the second day of their conclave. Prevost appeared on the loggia of St. Peter's Square wearing the traditional red cape of the papacy — a cape that Pope Francis
  
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• Stretch of South Anthony in Fort Wayne to close for most of the summer

  08-05-2025 18:00 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The City of Fort Wayne will begin work next week intended to improve safety for both vehicles and pedestrians on a key section of the South Anthony Boulevard corridor.Due to the work, South Anthony Boulevard from Creighton Avenue to East Pontiac Street will be closed beginning Monday, May 12 until mid-August. A detour route will be posted.According to a news release announcing details of the project, southeast side residents identified South Anthony Boulevard as a priorit
  
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• Major road construction project to begin on U.S. 24 in Allen County next week

  08-05-2025 17:40 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Motorists who travel a stretch of U.S. 24 in southwest Allen County will have to deal with a construction project starting next week.The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) announced Thursday that starting Monday, May 12, work will begin on a stretch of the highway from Homestead Road to CR S 800 East. The work is expected to last until the end of October.
  According to INDOT, during construction, traffic will be reduced to a single lane in each direction using th
  
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• Florida man gored by bison at Yellowstone National Park

  08-05-2025 16:53 via wane.com
  
  MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (WFLA) — A Florida man was injured after getting too close to a bison at Yellowstone National Park.The incident happened Sunday afternoon in the Lake Village area of the park, according to a news release from Yellowstone National Park. Woman tossed from canoe, killed in alligator attack identifiedThe 47-year-old man from Cape Coral suffered minor injuries after being gored by the bison. Park officials said he had approached the bison.Park staff urge visitors to ke
  
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• Woman allegedly exposes herself after being clocked going 100 mph in a 55 mph zone in northwest Indiana

  08-05-2025 16:42 via wane.com
  
  LOWELL, Ind. (WANE) A Merrillville woman faces multiple misdemeanor charges after she was clocked driving 100 mph in a 55 mph zone on an interstate in Lake County, Indiana early Thursday morning.Just after 2 a.m., a trooper stopped the vehicle for speeding and other traffic violations in the eastbound lanes of I-80 according to a press release from Indiana State Police.After stopping the vehicle, the trooper determined that the woman may have been drinking and at one point during the traffic sto
  
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• Fan sues NFL for $100M after Shedeur Sanders' late draft pick

  08-05-2025 15:38 via wane.com
  
  DENVER (KDVR) – A fan filed a lawsuit against the National Football League, citing "emotional distress and trauma" after quarterback Shedeur Sanders was drafted later than expected.The lawsuit, which was filed on May 1, stated that an anonymous fan in Georgia and a "dedicated fan of Colorado football" filed the civil action.
  The fan, known as John Doe in the lawsuit, said they followed the son of Hall of Famer Deion Sanders closely throughout his time with the University of Colorado Buffal
  
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• Students deliberately short-circuiting school laptops as part of social media trend

  08-05-2025 15:27 via wane.com
  
  DENVER (KDVR) — School district officials are warning students against a social media trend directing them to short-circuit their school-issued laptops after multiple fires were reported in recent weeks.Officials say it's all part of a social media trend where videos show students how to short-circuit their laptop or puncture the lithium batteries. The short-circuit or puncture causes the battery's temperature to rise uncontrollably, which can lead to a fire or explosion. It also releases
  
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• More than 300 layoffs announced at two LaGrange County RV plants

  08-05-2025 14:55 via wane.com
  
  HOWE, Ind. (WANE) More than 300 employees at multiple recreational vehicle manufacturing plants in LaGrange County will be out of a job as of June 20.On April 21, two separate WARN notices were filed with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
  One involves 251 workers at five Cruiser RV plants located in Howe. The second affects 51 workers at the DRV plant in Howe. Both notices listed the layoff date as June 20.Cruiser RV makes travel trailers and DRV makes fifth-wheel RVs. Both compan
  
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• US and UK expected to announce a trade deal that Trump says will cement their relationship

  08-05-2025 13:14 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Britain are expected to announce a trade deal on Thursday that will lower the burden of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and deliver a political victory for U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that a deal due to be announced at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) will be a “full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many yea
  
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• Toyota reports booming sales but stays cautious on profit because of various costs

  08-05-2025 12:46 via wane.com
  
  TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top automaker Toyota reported record sales for the fiscal year through March on Thursday, but its profit for the latest quarter faltered partly because of a certification scandal.Toyota Motor Corp.’s January-March net profit totaled 664.6 billion yen ($4.6 billion), down from 997.6 billion yen the same period a year ago. Quarterly sales totaled 12.36 trillion yen ($85.9 billion), up from 11 trillion yen.Toyota has been strengthening the testing system of it
  
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• White smoke pours from Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling a new pope on second day of voting

  08-05-2025 12:27 via wane.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled Thursday after cardinals elected the 267th pope to lead the Catholic Church on the second day of their conclave.The crowd in St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers, priests made the sign of the cross and nuns wept as the crowd shouted “Viva il papa!” after the white smoke wafted into the late afternoon sky at 6:07 p.m. Waving flags from around the
  
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• Robert Prevost elected the first American pope in history, will take the name Leo XIV

  08-05-2025 12:27 via wane.com
  
  UPDATE: Pope Leo XIV, the American Robert Prevost, said “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a message of peace and dialogue “without fear.”From the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, history’s first American pope recalled he was an Augustinian priest, but that he was above all a Christian and a bishop, “So we can all walk together.”He spoke in Italian and then switched to Spanish, recalling his many years spent as a missionary and
  
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• Cardinals return to Sistine Chapel for more rounds of voting

  08-05-2025 12:27 via wane.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke billowing up through the Sistine Chapel chimney after two more inconclusive rounds of conclave voting.With no candidate securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89 votes, the world will need to wait longer for a new leader of the Catholic Church. The 133 cardinals took a lunch break before returning to the Sistine Chapel for Thursday's afternoon voting s
  
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• Black smoke: No decision after Cardinals hold morning votes on new pope

  08-05-2025 12:27 via wane.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke billowing up through the Sistine Chapel chimney after two more inconclusive rounds of conclave voting.The black smoke poured out at 11:50 a.m. (0950 GMT) after the second and third ballots to elect a pope to lead the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church.With no one securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89 votes, the 133 cardinals will return to the Vatican residences
  
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• Cloudy & cooler day with summer heat returning soon

  08-05-2025 09:46 via wane.com
  
  Another fast-moving weather system will take temperatures down about 10 degrees from yesterday afternoon. But the cooldown won't last long, highs will be near 80 by the weekend.High temperatures will only be in the mid-60s this afternoonWinds will be gusty at times through the morningA cold front moves through this morning, bringing more clouds to the area and increasing wind speeds with gusts up to 20 mph. Temperatures will only be in the mid-50s by noon.Sunshine will return with much warmer te
  
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• Toledo tops Komets in double OT to even series

  08-05-2025 05:43 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Toledo's Tyler Spezia banged home his own rebound just 26 seconds into double overtime as the Walleye bested the Komets 3-2 in game four of the Central Division Finals to even the series at two games apiece.For the first time in this series it was Toledo scoring first, with Colin Swoyer burying a shot 13:34 into the first frame to give Toledo a 1-0 lead.After a scoreless second period Toledo increased its lead to 2-0 8:47 into the third period with Colby Ambrosio goal.
  
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• 'The backbone of healthcare': What National Nurses Week means to 2 Fort Wayne nurses

  08-05-2025 04:32 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — National Nurses Week runs from May 6 to May 12 nationwide to highlight and appreciate their contributions to society, and local nurses are feeling the love.After speaking with two nurses with Lutheran Health Network, they both appreciate the recognition after everything they do."It's been amazing to see the whole hospital come together and celebrate us nurses," Macy Hall, Registered Nurse at Lutheran Hospital, said. "It feels good to be celebrated and see how much
  
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• Cooler Thursday afternoon

  08-05-2025 04:22 via wane.com
  
  There is not a huge chill that develops in the early morning hours of Thursday. Our overnight lows only dip down to around 50° as daybreak approaches.Temps fall to around 50° in the early morning.A cold front moving through into Thursday means we won't be able to get into the 70s for highs like on Wednesday. Instead, there's a slight chance of some scattered rain and high temps only reach the mid-60s.Some scattered rain is possible on Thursday, but most of the day is dry.At night into Fr
  
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• Family, police and doctors testify in 2nd day of trial for New Haven woman accused of killing husband

  08-05-2025 02:38 via wane.com
  
  ***WARNING: The following story contains graphic content***FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)— Eight witnesses for the prosecution took the stand in what was a long day in court Wednesday, the second day of Alison Davis' murder trial.Davis is accused of killing her husband, Kevin, in their New Haven home in Aug. 2023 after he was found unresponsive at the bottom of a staircase in a pool of blood.The three main focuses of Wednesday's witnesses and their testimony were what first responders thought abo
  
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• Former DeKalb County sheriff passes away

  08-05-2025 01:35 via wane.com
  
  DEKALB COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) -- Former DeKalb County Sheriff Don Lauer, who served in the position for most of the 2010s, has died, the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday.Don Lauer (Photo provided by the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office)
  Lauer started working with the department in 1991 and served as sheriff from 2011 until retiring in 2018. He then returned to the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office in 2023 and served in a part-time role until his death."Sheriff Lauer was dedicated to prot
  
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• Fort Wayne man sentenced 210 months for selling meth to DEA informant

  08-05-2025 01:24 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- A Fort Wayne man received a sentence of more than 17 years in prison in U.S. District Court Tuesday after pleading guilty to several drug counts, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.Willie J. Hatch, 32, was sentenced to 210 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty to five drug counts, and a jury also found him guilty of a firearm offense. Feds: Fort Wayne man accused of selling a pound of meth to informantAccording to documen
  
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