When award-winning author Stephen Jimenez visited Laramie, Wyo., following the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, he was seeking information for a screenplay about a gruesome crime everybody agreed had been committed against a gay man by a couple of redneck homophobes. Jimenez, who is gay ...
City Councilman Geoff Paddock, D-5th, will seek a third term this year. "It has been an honor to work with Mayor Tom Henry and my colleagues on the City Council for the past seven years," Paddock said in a statement. "Thanks to the leadership and guidance of Mayor Henry, Fort Wayne is poised ...
Mayor Tom Henry has proclaimed Tuesday "Intestinal Malrotation Awareness Day" in Fort Wayne. Henry made the proclamation at Westview Alliance Church in southwest Fort Wayne and was joined by Mary Rasor and Andy Brown, who lost their infant daughter, Mya Nicole Brown, last year to intestinal ...
The organization behind the Fort Wayne Adventure Games will use a new permanent location at Electric Works to bring adventure to northeast Indiana year-round. Sport Wayne Inc. has signed a letter of intent to design and open a sizable, state-of-the-art climbing gym and adventure park, named ...
The Fort Wayne Police are seeking the public's help in locating suspects connected to a Jan. 11 robbery at the Flagstar Bank in the 900 block of West State Boulevard. Initial information indicated a male black subject had produced a note and handed it to the teller, then had fled out of the ...
The Fort Wayne Police Departmengt and Allen County Prosecutors office have closed the 2003 homicide case of Joshua Salyer, which occurred on Nov. 24 of that year. The suspect in this case, Lawton Carter Jr, died in 2017 before he could be charged in the murder. Detectives received new ...
Fort Wayne Police officer Gary Griffith's retired K9 partner Bullet has died. Born July 3, 2006, she joined the K9 Unit May 4, 2009 and retired Feb. 1, 2017 after spending her entire career with Griffith. "She was a fantastic police work dog and a loyal partner to Gary," Sgt. Bob Theurer of ...
Area residents gathered at the Grand Wayne Center Thursday evening to offer their ideas for the next phases of Riverfront Fort Wayne. During the meeting, residents learned about the progress being made to design Riverfront Fort Wayne beyond Promenade Park. The next steps include creation ...
Thursday was "Bud and Jean Mendenhall Day" in Fort Wayne in honor of the couple that have been neighborhood leaders and community advocates for more than 30 years and recently announced their retirement from leadership with the Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association. “Bud and Jean are ...
I love the Beatles, but one of the most insipid songs of all time has to be the 1971 John Lennon anthem that gave his fawning disciples such wisdom as: "Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for . . ." Now, nearly 50 years later, that Star Trek vision of ...
Fort Wayne Metals has signed a letter of intent to lease space at Electric Works, with initial plans calling for materials research and development space on the former General Electric West Campus. “As we continue to be innovative leaders of life-saving, high-quality material solutions, we ...
Wednesday was the first day candidates could file for the May Allen County primaries, and three Republicans wasted no time in making their interest official. In successive morning news conferences, Fort Wayne mayoral candidate John Crawford, incumbent City Clerk Lana Keesling and New Haven ...
The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum has issued a traffic advisory for Coliseum Boulevard, Parnell Avenue and other roadways surrounding the complex on Tuesday, Jan. 15 in connection with the sold-out concert by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. The show is scheduled to begin at 7:30 ...
It's been barely a week since I wrote about how the left's embrace of identity politics would be "rendered unsustainable by the inevitability of conflict between aggrieved groups," and already I've been proven right. In the San Francisco suburb of Eureka, Calif., organizers of a planned ...
Allen County Right to Life will host the 45th annual March for Life in downtown Fort Wayne on Saturday, Jan. 26. Organizers expect nearly 2,000 people to peacefully protest the 1973 Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion across the country through all nine months of ...
Fort Wayne native Michael T. Douglass has been named a magistrate in the Allen Superior Court Civil Division. Douglass, 40, is currently an attorney with the law firm of Eilbacher Fletcher LLP and serves as a deputy Allen County public defender. As magistrate, Douglass will serve in the ...
U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, R-3rd, has made two changes to his Washington, D.C., staff. Fort Wayne native David Keller has been promoted to chief of staff. Keller previously served as deputy chief of staff and has worked on multiple Indiana political campaigns, serving as campaign manager for Banks ...
City Councilman John Crawford, who this week plans to become a formal Republican candidate in the May Republican mayoral primary, is also expected to be elected council president for 2019 at Tuesday's annual organizational meeting. "I was vice president (in 2018), and the vice president ...
The Lutheran Foundation Monday announced a $1.5 million grant toward construction of a new Rescue Mission in downtown Fort Wayne. The mission, currently located on Superior Street, is planning a $23 million project that will result not only in a four-story,325-bed facility at East Washington ...