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• Home prices still rising in Fort Wayne and it's hitting property tax bills

  12-05-2025 23:41 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Fort Wayne’s housing market isn’t just impacting buyers it’s now showing up in property tax bills.Monday marks the deadline for Allen County homeowners to pay their spring property taxes. And with rising home values across the region, many are noticing bigger bills.Local real estate agents say the increase in prices is being fueled by a national housing shortage and strong demand right here in northeast Indiana. Features like finished kitchens, u
  
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• 'If you need to call the cops, I get it': Noble County Fair Treasurer arrested for theft of over $360K

  12-05-2025 20:55 via wane.com
  
  NOBLE COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) -- The Treasurer of the Noble County Fair was arrested Friday after admitting to police that she stole over $367,000 from the corporation.Robin Lee Laymon was arrested on a charge of Theft with the Value of at least $50,000, a Level 5 Felony.
  Photo of Robin Laymon provided by the Noble County Jail.
  According to court documents, the President of the Noble County Community Fair Corporation contacted police that Robin Lee Laymon, the treasurer, had "embezzled a large sum o
  
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• Man faces attempted murder charge for shooting in home on State Boulevard

  12-05-2025 20:48 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A man is now in custody for his role in a shooting this past Thursday at a home on State Boulevard.The Fort Wayne Police Department arrested Andre Lee, 44, on charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery.Thursday night, police investigated a shooting in the 4300 block of East State Boulevard that left a man with life-threatening injuries. FWPD determined Lee was the suspect, and he was taken into custody Monday in the 3300 block of West Coliseum Boulevard.Lee is b
  
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• Man wanted for separate case in Allen County accused of abducting 6-month-old: ISP

  12-05-2025 19:10 via wane.com
  
  ELKHART COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - Over the weekend, a man wanted in Allen County was caught several counties away with a 6-month-old child he did not have custody of.Shaquile Booker, 30, identified by Indiana State Police as a non-custodial parent, is accused of abducting the infant from the Plymouth area and taking the child nearly an hour away.Before daylight Saturday morning, Master Trooper Brian Hoffman spotted an SUV that matched the description of one that was linked to the infant's disappeara
  
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• Crash causes slowdown on I-69 near Fort Wayne's northern edge

  12-05-2025 18:12 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A crash on Interstate 69 led to a traffic backup Monday on the northern edge of Fort Wayne.The crash happened shortly before noon around the 317 mile-marker, near Union Chapel Road. The left northbound lane was temporarily shut down, according to the Indiana Department of Transportation.It's unclear what exactly led to the crash. Any injuries have not been confirmed.Around noon, a tow truck was at the scene to remove a pickup truck from the ditch. A short time later, tr
  
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• Fort Wayne mother sentenced in connection to 4-year-old's fentanyl death

  12-05-2025 17:39 via wane.com
  
  Video shows footage from when the couple was arrested at the beginning of 2023.FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Monday, a Fort Wayne woman was sentenced to nearly two decades in prison in connection with the fentanyl-related death of her child.A judge in Allen Superior Court sentenced Noel Wood to 18 years in prison. She was given more than two years of jail credit for time served as her case wound through the legal system.The child was pronounced dead at a hospital on July 15, 2022, after police were
  
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• Rite Aid customer deadline for returns, rewards 'approaching fast' amid bankruptcy

  12-05-2025 17:02 via wane.com
  
  (WHTM) — Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is warning Rite Aid customers that the deadline to use Rite Aid gift cards, coupons, or other rewards is approaching after the retailer announced it is filing for bankruptcy.According to Sunday, consumers have until June 6 to use Rite Aid gift cards, coupons, or other rewards. The stores will also stop accepting returns or exchanges on June 4.“I am encouraging Rite Aid customers to make returns and exchanges, and redeem gif
  
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• Broadway at the Embassy announces lineup for 2025-2026 season

  12-05-2025 16:00 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Broadway at the Embassy has announced its show lineup for the 2025-2026 season.The season is said to be the Embassy's "biggest season yet" with seven shows set to hit the Embassy Stage. The season features three Tony award-winning musicals from classics to new shows.
  The season will kick off with the Book of Mormon on September 23. The season's lineup continues with:
  Mrs. Doubtfire on October 28 & 29, 2025Kinky Boots on January 27 & 28, 2026CLUE Live on Stage o
  
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• Defense concedes Sean 'Diddy' Combs had violent outbursts, but say no federal crimes occurred

  12-05-2025 13:57 via wane.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The public knew Sean “Diddy” Combs as a larger-than-life cultural icon and business mogul, but in private he used violence and threats to coerce women into drug-fueled sexual encounters that he recorded, a prosecutor said Monday in opening statements at Combs' sex trafficking trial.“This is Sean Combs,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson told the Manhattan jury as she pointed at Combs, who leaned back in his chair. ”During this trial you are
  
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• Trump promises to order that the US pay only the price other nations do for some drugs

  12-05-2025 13:50 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he'll sign an executive order on Monday that, if implemented, could bring down the costs of some medications — reviving a failed effort from his first term on an issue he's talked up since even before becoming president.The order Trump is promising will direct the Department of Health and Human Services to tie what Medicare pays for medications administered in a doctor's office to the lowest price paid by other countries.“I will be
  
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• US and China agree to pause sky-high tariffs for 90 days

  12-05-2025 12:38 via wane.com
  
  GENEVA (AP) — U.S. and Chinese officials said Monday they had reached a deal to roll back most of their recent tariffs and call a 90-day truce in their trade war for more talks on resolving their trade disputes.Stock markets rose sharply as the globe's two major economic powers took a step back from a clash that has unsettled the global economy.U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the U.S. agreed to drop its 145% tariff rate on Chinese goods by 115 percentage points to 30%, while
  
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• Cesar, the Unsung Hero of First Wayne Street Church

  12-05-2025 12:00 via wane.com
  
  Inside every great community, there are people who go about their day making an impact that often goes unnoticed by most.Each year, Downtown Fort Wayne honors "Unsung Heroes" at their annual Celebrate Downtown event.Cesar Anzaldua, the Facility Manager at First Wayne Street United Methodist Church was recognized for his humble servanthood."There is no one more deserving for an unsung hero award than Cesar," says Audra Reinders, Director of Congregational Life and Nurture at First Wayne Street. "
  
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• Warm week ahead with periodic rain, storms

  12-05-2025 10:35 via wane.com
  
  After a warm and sunny Mother's Day weekend, clouds return, along with a period of unsettled weather for the workweek, with multiple rain/storm chances in the forecast.At least for Monday morning, though, we are rain-free. Temperatures have fallen into the 40s for many, so perhaps wear a light jacket heading off to work. Temps after sunrise climb into the 50s and into the 60s ahead of lunchtime.Another warm day ahead with 70s this afternoon.
  It will be another warm day with highs in the upper 70
  
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• 'Soccer moms are so important': Fort Wayne FC kicks off season with Mother's Day match

  12-05-2025 04:48 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Players on the Fort Wayne Football Club, or Fort Wayne FC, made their moms proud on Sunday, walking away from their first game of the season against the Sueno Football Club two to nothing.But some fans and staff said without the support of their moms, many players and fans would have never attended the game."Soccer moms are so important, and moms are just so important in all sports," Justin Cohn, Fort Wayne FC director of communications, said. "So obviously w
  
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• 'Soccer moms are important': Fort Wayne FC kicks off season with Mother's Day match

  12-05-2025 04:48 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Players on the Fort Wayne Football Club, or Fort Wayne FC, made their moms proud on Sunday, walking away from their first game of the season against the Sueno Football Club two to nothing.But some fans and staff said without the support of their moms, many players and fans would have never attended the game."Soccer moms are important, and moms are just important in all sports," Justin Cohn, Fort Wayne FC director of communications, said. "So obviously we have
  
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• Unsettled weather returns after the great weekend

  12-05-2025 04:30 via wane.com
  
  What a wonderful Mother's Day Weekend we enjoyed! It was filled with sunshine and warm temperatures. We hope you didn't get too used to it though, as the forecast becomes more unsettled as the new workweek gets underway...Look for skies to become partly cloudy by the time we get to daybreak Monday. Temperatures will be down in the 40s for most of the area, although some southern communities may stay in the 50s.Skies will be partly cloudy by early Monday morning.
  For Monday, the day starts off dr
  
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