The way Visit Fort Wayne CEO Dan O'Connell sees it, three members of Allen County Council support a plan to promote tourism through a 1 percent increase in the hotel tax and three are firmly opposed — leaving Joel Benz as the swing vote. "We'll spend the next 30 days trying to document ...
Members of Fort Wayne City Council will have sex on their minds next week. Confirming previous News-Sentinel reports, two ordinances are scheduled for introduction that would regulate and license sexually oriented businesses and prohibit "live sex act businesses" such as swingers clubs. The ...
The Indiana Department of Local Government Finance will conduct a public hearing next week on whether the Allen County Commissioners acted legally when they voted to increase the bridge tax in April. County officials say increasing the bridge tax by $.0095 per $100 in a property’s assessed ...
A special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate an incident allegedly involving Allen County Sheriff David Gladieux at the Three Rivers Festival this week. The incident on July 16 is being investigated by the Indiana State Police and on Thursday, July 18, the Allen County Prosecutor’s ...
Seeking to promote career opportunities in the skilled trades, Greater Fort Wayne Inc. has assumed leadership of the Gateway Coalition, an alliance of Allen County educators and businesses committed to developing gateways to skilled-trades careers for young people. Going forward, the group ...
Fort Wayne Police are seeking the public's help in identifying a robbery suspect. This man is suspected in connection with the July 9 robbery of an automated teller machine at 3902 S. Clinton St. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers 260-436-7867 or the Detective Bureau ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Prosecutors filed reckless homicide charges on Thursday against a Missouri semi driver for a highway construction zone crash in Indianapolis that killed a woman and her 18-month-old twin daughters. Documents filed by Marion County prosecutors say computer data from the ...
On the same day Fort Wayne's newest hotel opened, members of Allen County Council appeared likely to defeat a proposed increase in the innkeeper's tax before postponing the vote until next month. The Indiana Legislature this year gave the seven-member council the option of increasing the tax ...
To the doggedly pessimistic, Tuesday's news that another $234,400 will apparently be needed to remove and monitor contamination on the so-called "North River" site confirmed their belief that City Council was duped into paying $4.63 million for a 30-acre former industrial site and assuming ...
Fort Wayne’s latest public art display pays homage to one of the city's most famous historical residents: John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. The “Making Children Smile” statue unveiled Thursday during the grand opening of the Hampton Inn & Suites in downtown Fort Wayne ...
New Haven will have a new police chief, effective this Sunday. Mayor Terry McDonald has appointed Jeffrey McCracken as chief following the retirement of Chief Henry McKinnon on July 12. In a statement, Mayor McDonald said “Chief McKinnon served the city of New Haven for nearly 24 years with ...
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The breast cancer treatment journey from initial diagnosis through medical care and beyond can be overwhelming, but patients don’t have to face it alone. That’s why the Lutheran Cancer Center and Pink Ribbon Connection are collaborating to give breast cancer patients the support they need ...
Leaders from the Mad Anthonys Children’s Foundation on Thursday presented Mad Anthonys Children’s Hope House with a check for $115,000 raised through the 2019 Red Coat Dinner and Charity Golf Classic held last month. “It’s an honor to continue our support of Hope House. At Mad ...
"Welcome to the future of health care in downtown Fort Wayne. Lives will be saved here." With that, Lutheran Health Network CEO Mark Medley welcomes the large crowd of employees. dignitaries and others who gathered at West Main and Van Buren streets Wednesday afternoon to witness the ...
Authorities say an officer shot and wounded an armed man who was fleeing police on foot Monday in the 1500 block of Goshen Road. Fort Wayne Police responded to a report about a suspicious person with a gun. Police say the man ran when officers approached him. Fort Wayne police Sgt. Chris ...
The Allen County Neighborhoods Association will hold its quarterly meeting July 25 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Omni Room on the lower level of Citizens Square, 200 E. Berry St. The will feature a panel of homeowners association leaders who will discuss various topics, ...
MUNCIE (AP) — A Muncie city official and a local contractor have been indicted on federal charges that are the latest to come out of a probe of public corruption in the central Indiana city. Federal prosecutors say 44-year-old Debra Nicole Grigsby of Muncie and 60-year-old Tony Franklin of ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police say a semitrailer’s computer data says it was going above the speed limit when it slammed into a line of vehicles on an Indianapolis highway, killing a woman and her 18-month-old twin daughters. State police say Interstate 465 traffic was slowed for a ...
The city paid $4.63 million for the 29-acre "North River" former industrial site in 2017. Now a federal grant of up to $283,400 will pay for additional environmental clean up and monitoring. The city’s Redevelopment Department will soon begin remediatio work at the former OmniSource scrap ...