We have written here frequently about the issue of school bus safety since last year’s tragedy in Rochester when three children were killed by a pickup as they crossed a road to board their bus, which had its lights flashing and stop-arm extended. Every day, there are nearly 200 school bus ...
Fifty years ago Sunday, the Woodstock music festival came to a close in upstate New York. Billed as a three-day event, “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music,” it was scheduled for Aug. 15-18, 1969, at the 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y., owned by Max Yasgur. Whatever you ...
By the beginning of June the nation had experienced the wettest 12-month period in recorded history with rainfall more than six inches above average. And farmers across the country were taking a hit. A June 15 News-Sentinel.com editorial reported an average of 36.2 inches of rain fell on ...
What do you do when you hear a tornado siren in your area? The joint Fort Wayne-Allen County outdoor warning siren system is activated when a tornado warning is issued for any part of the county. When you hear the outdoor emergency warning sirens, according to the Allen County Office of ...
E-cigarettes were supposed to be an alternative to tobacco, a means to help people stop smoking. But any benefits have been eclipsed by nationwide concern over the negative effects of “vaping” on young people. That concern has been compounded by new developments in Wisconsin and Illinois ...
You may have certain expectations as to what you might see when you enter your dentist’s office, but a beautifully framed full-sized American flag might not be on the list. But that is exactly what you will see in the offices of Gebfert-Park Family Dentistry. Of course there is a story ...
I live about five miles south of the DeKalb County Airport, as the crow flies. So it’s common for airplanes of various kinds to fly overhead on their way to or from the airfield. Monday I heard an unusually loud rumbling in the sky. As a big fan of airplanes and aviation history, I tend ...
I live about five miles south of the DeKalb County Airport, as the crow flies. So it’s common for airplanes of various kinds to fly overhead on their way to or from the airfield. Monday I heard an unusually loud rumbling in the sky. As a big fan of airplanes and aviation history, I tend to ...
Loretta Rush, Indiana’s first female chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, faces a vote this month to be reappointed to a second term. Chief justice appointments occur every five years. News-Sentinel.com believes Indiana’s Judicial Nominating Commission should approve her ...
News-Sentinel.com praised the Indiana Legislature earlier this year for passing Senate Bill 2, which raises penalties for violators who ignore school bus stop arms and gives schools the option to conduct referendums for funding to pay for stop-arm cameras. But the fact is, it takes extra work ...
When someone is sexually assaulted in the U.S. — and that happens every minute and a half — the victim may undergo a forensic examination soon afterward to collect evidence in what is commonly known as a rape kit, which can be used to bring the perpetrator to justice. Statistics show that ...
Dear Senator Braun and Congressman Banks, We are living in a difficult time in our country's history where extreme rhetoric is sensationalized and used as both a weapon for politicians and a source of revenue for media outlets through biased opinion pieces masquerading as news. I appreciate ...
Hobbies are great things. They take your mind off the drudgery of all those annoying, bothersome, daily duties. For Democrats in Congress that would include things like identifying problems, writing laws and allocating monies to fix those problems. But the Democrat clique has found a new hobby: ...
The city of Fort Wayne has been providing animal-care services for the rest of Allen County since 1993, so when the time came to renew the arrangement last month the County Commissioners’ unanimous approval seemed as predictable as a dog wanting to go for a walk. Instead, the razor-thin 2-1 ...
Flags are flying at half-staff throughout Allen County and the rest of the country this week following the mass shootings over the weekend in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas. Gov. Eric Holcomb ordered the flags to be lowered from Sunday through Thursday in Indiana and is asking businesses and ...
The Indiana Department of Child Services released a report last week that says deaths from child neglect and abuse increased during fiscal year 2017. That report details 65 deaths that resulted directly from abuse or neglect. That’s tragic news and a disappointing turn following the ...
The news that two relatives of 1930s gangster John Dillinger plan to have his remains exhumed because they have "evidence" the body buried in an Indianapolis cemetery may not be him has resurrected the legend of the infamous bank robber/killer. Good thing or bad, Dillinger has been a subject ...
You’ve just been scammed. Or maybe you think you have. What do you do? The answer is, do something. Don’t ignore it. Don’t be embarrassed about it. We’ve all been there — or if we haven’t, we will be. Today, scams of all kinds and through all means are rampant — maybe ...
One year ago, we wrote here saying former Fort Wayne resident Dan Coats was between a rock and a hard place as President Trump’s national security director. With Coats under fire, we expressed our desire that he keep his job. “We have been clear in our assessments of Russian meddling in ...
We live in an age of videos that show anything and everything any time and almost anywhere and make life more and more difficult to keep private. People can’t do anything without being recorded, it seems, because someone’s smartphone or a business or stoplight or home doorbell has a camera ...