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• What to expect from gas prices in 2025

  06-01-2025 18:06 via wane.com
  
  (TestMiles) - In 2025, the landscape of fuel prices in the United States is set to remain a topic of heated debate and economic impact. Despite earlier political promises of sub-$2-per-gallon gas, industry experts predict the average price will stay comfortably above $3 per gallon. Let’s dive into the key factors shaping this forecast, what it means for Americans, and why we may never see the fabled “cheap gas” era again.What are the predictions for 2025?According to GasBuddy,
  
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• Allen County's Imagination Library receives $10K from Do it Best Foundation

  08-01-2025 03:40 via wane.com
  
  ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) -- The Allen County branch of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library received a boost Tuesday after the Do it Best Foundation presented a $10,000 check to the Allen County Public Library (ACPL) foundation to put toward the program.ACPL Executive Director Susan P. Baier said the latest donation represents the latest example of the overwhelming support the program has received since its launch in November."It makes a world of difference," Baier said. "A gift like this makes c
  
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• Russ Jehl becomes next president of Fort Wayne City Council

  08-01-2025 01:11 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Each year, Fort Wayne City Council votes to establish a new president within the government body.For 2025, 2nd District Councilman Russ Jehl will assume the role.During the first City Council meeting of the new year, councilmembers voted to make Jehl president and At-large Councilman Marty Bender vice president. Jehl received a unanimous 9-0 vote, and Bender earned the nomination with a 6-3 vote after all Democratic councilmembers voted for 5th District Councilman Geof
  
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• Komets legend Szydlowski announces retirement

  08-01-2025 01:06 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - After 13 seasons of professional hockey - including ten with the Komets - Shawn Szydlowski announced his retirement on Tuesday night.
  The 34-year old from St. Clair Shores, Mich., tallied 189 goals and 322 assists in 528 regular season games with Fort Wayne. His 511 points are 10th all-time in Komets history, He is ninth in franchise history in games played, 11th in assists, and 12th all-time in goals.His best individual season in Fort Wayne came during the 2017-18 seas
  
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• Shigs In Pit to close original location on Fairfield Avenue

  07-01-2025 22:29 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- After more than a decade of business, Shigs In Pit will be closing its original location that launched the barbeque restaurant in 2012, the company announced on Facebook Tuesday.The closure will be effective Jan. 18. In the Facebook post, Shigs In Pit partially attributed the decision to soaring rent costs."Our lease is set to expire this year, and with the cost of our rent tripling last year, challenges of an old building and a smaller parking lot, it does not make se
  
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• ISP: Officer shoots armed suspect in Peru

  07-01-2025 21:52 via wane.com
  
  PERU, Ind. — One suspect has been shot by police in Peru after a "strange man" was found in a pregnant woman's garage.According to state police and local law enforcement, the shooting occurred on Tuesday morning at a mobile home park in the 1600 block of State Road 19.A neighbor told FOX59/CBS4 that a pregnant woman lives in the home and had been leaving to head to the hospital for a C-section when she spotted a "strange man" in her garage. Police were called to the scene and the confronta
  
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• New Haven High School Girls' Wrestling State Championship forever memorialized

  07-01-2025 21:45 via wane.com
  
  NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) — 2024 was a big year for the New Haven Wrestling program, and now their success is forever memorialized with a sign along SR 930.Digital view of the sign dedicated to the New Haven Girls Wrestling Championship Team
  The Mayor of New Haven Steven McMichael, city officials and New Haven High School dedicated a sign along State Road 930 E in honor of the historic 2024 Girl's Wrestling State Championship.After just six years of participating in the Indiana High School Gi
  
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• Cold days continue with a few more snowflakes

  07-01-2025 21:44 via wane.com
  
  Our evening temps will decrease through the 20s and drop to the upper teens for late night and early morning. Our light breezy from the NW may produce a scattered snow showers or two tonight with little accumulation.Snow showers are likely to be a little more numerous, but still scattered, across the region tomorrow. Our NW winds have the potential to focus most of the snowflakes over spots to the north/northeast of Fort Wayne.
  Some snow is possible Wednesday afternoon and evening. Most spots se
  
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• Indianapolis named 2nd most competitive housing market in 2025, Zillow report predicts

  07-01-2025 20:41 via wane.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) — While the national housing supply recently reached a four-year high, buying a home in some U.S. cities may be especially difficult in 2025, a new Zillow report suggests.To make its predictions, Zillow reviewed multiple factors — including how quickly homes have been selling, and its own forecast for home value growth — in the 50 most populated cities nationwide.Overall, Zillow's analysis determined cities primarily on the East Coast could have the hottest housing ma
  
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• Parkview becomes first StormReady healthcare facility in Indiana

  07-01-2025 18:51 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The National Weather Service recognized Parkview Health Tuesday with a certificate for achieving StormReady Community status. This is the first health system in the state to achieve this status recognized by the NWS.
  A formal ceremony was held on Monday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Parkview Business & Technology Center on Production Road.
  Northeast Indiana is no stranger to all types of severe weather. Matt Eckroth, the corporate director of Emergency Management
  
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• Fort Wayne wants public input on major bridge project on southeast side

  07-01-2025 18:38 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The City of Fort Wayne is hosting an open house to inform the public about the upcoming Bluffton Road Bridge Project.The Bluffton Road Bridge crosses the St. Marys River near the intersection of Broadway and Bluffton on the southeast side of Fort Wayne.The meeting will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 7 p.m. at Sears Pavilion, 1701 Bluffton Road. Representatives from the City of Fort Wayne and Milestone Contractors, LP. will be present to provide updates on the pr
  
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• Court docs: Stabbing suspect claims man was harrassing woman at Promenade Park

  07-01-2025 17:41 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Court documents reveal an alleged motive for the fatal stabbing of a man at Promenade Park on Saturday.The Fort Wayne Police Department announced Monday officers arrested Lamont Cooley, 23, in connection to the stabbing. He faces a murder charge in the case and admitted to his role in the stabbing.
  Cooley told police the man who was stabbed, 48-year-old Anthony "Africa" Wamue, had been harassing a woman in the bathroom where he would later be found dead, according to Al
  
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• Here's when Girl Scout Cookie Season starts

  07-01-2025 16:01 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) It's almost that time again! Girl Scout Cookie Season; touted as the largest entrepreneurial program in the World.
  Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana will begin selling boxes on January 17. The 2025 cookie lineup includes Thin Mints®, Caramel deLites®, Peanut Butter Patties® and more. At the close of the 2025 Cookie Season, the beloved cookie flavor, Toast-yay!®, will be retired. Toast-yay!® enthusiasts can get their hands on the last of these fa
  
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• 2 found dead in compartment of JetBlue plane at Florida airport

  07-01-2025 15:17 via wane.com
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA) — Two people were found dead in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the airline announced.The two people were found dead during a routine post-flight maintenance inspection on Monday, according to JetBlue.The flight had traveled from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. 5th arrest made in murder of Florida rapper Julio Foolio"This
  
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• Their remains were found decades ago. A new push could identify all of a serial killer's victims

  07-01-2025 12:54 via wane.com
  
  WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments on a suspected Indiana serial killer’s property, a renewed quest is playing out in laboratories to solve a long-running mystery: Who were they?A new team working to identify the unknown dead says the key to their success will be getting relatives of men who vanished between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s to provide samples of their own DNA.Those samples can then be scre
  
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• CFPB finalizes rule barring medical debt from credit reports

  07-01-2025 12:33 via wane.com
  
  (The Hill) - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday finalized its rule barring medical debt from being included on credit reports, potentially freeing up billions in credit.The finalized rule will prevent medical bills from being included on credit reports used by lenders and will prohibit lenders from using medical information in their decision-making.The CFPB estimated this rule will remove $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports for roughly 15 million American
  
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• Temps stay in the deep freeze with no break from the cold

  07-01-2025 09:36 via wane.com
  
  Cold temperatures continue today and it doesn't look like we'll see highs above freezing for quite a while with highs in the 20s for the foreseeable future.
  High temperatures will only top out in the upper 20s todayIt will stay cloudy and cold through the morning with temperatures only in the middle 20s by noon.Wind chills will be in the teens this afternoonThe afternoon will be slightly warmer with a high in the upper 20s with light winds.
  A fast-moving wave of low pressure brings light snow an
  
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• Streetdance jumps back to life in Fort Wayne

  07-01-2025 05:14 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A local dance program is celebrating hip-hop dance and culture. Neustalgic Grooves hosted their opening night "Intro to Street Dance" program Monday Night at East Ende Eclectic on Berry Street.The program teaches street styles, which includes popping, locking and breaking, or what many know as break dancing.The creators of the program say street dance has had its feet in Fort Wayne for decades, with many of the dance instructors being from the area themselves
  
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• 2 people, 2 dogs rescued from house fire

  07-01-2025 04:56 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Two people and two dogs are now safe after firefighters rescued them from a house fire on Fort Wayne's southeast side.Fort Wayne Firefighters were called to 3319 Winter Street on reports of a house fire, just after 9 p.m. Monday night. When firefighters arrived on scene they found smoke coming from the attic of the home.The fire took 22 minutes to extinguish and get fully under control.Firefighters rescued two people who were still in the home when fire crews arrived.
  
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• Tracking a stretch of below freezing January days

  07-01-2025 04:31 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Freezing January temperatures have settled in across northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. There's no sign we'll be able to thaw out anytime soon, as a series of arctic airmasses will continue to influence our weather. This comes after we saw plenty of warmth to close out December... 19th wettest December helps alleviate droughtOur last day above freezing is when we briefly climbed above 32° on Thursday, January 3rd. We made it up to 33° that day after we starte
  
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• 'No price tag for murder:' FWPD clears homicides at rate no other city can match

  07-01-2025 00:53 via wane.com
  
  *WARNING - The contents of this story may be graphic to some readers. Discretion is advised.*ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) --- It was a gruesome and disturbing discovery this September when Fort Wayne police recovered the bodies of two homicide victims in the St. Marys River downtown. They’d been shot, strangled, suffocated and stabbed.But in the usual FWPD fashion, and in record time, city homicide detectives nailed their accused killer in Richmond where the victims lived.Court docs: 2 found
  
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• Seeking a Remedy: The Allen County Coroner's Office is working with RemedyLIVE to fight against fentanyl

  07-01-2025 00:00 via wane.com
  
  ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - Allen County is ramping up efforts to combat the growing fentanyl crisis, with local officials and organizations working to address the alarming rise in youth overdoses.Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. A dose as small as the tip of a pencil can be lethal. “That one pill a friend gives you for a headache or anxiety could be the last one you ever take,” the coroner warned. “You could b
  
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• Lane restrictions on Coliseum Boulevard starting Tuesday

  06-01-2025 23:52 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Beginning Tuesday a section of Coliseum Boulevard near Coldwater Road will have lane restrictions as crews work to repair a water main.Starting at 8 a.m. an eastbound lane in the 500 block of East Coliseum Blvd. will be closed for City Utilities crews to repair a water main. The closure will last until late afternoon.
  Motorists wanting to access Fresh Thyme Market are being asked to use the Coldwater Road entrance.
  
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• Walgreens $100M settlement proposal: If finalized, who qualifies?

  06-01-2025 23:17 via wane.com
  
  Related: White House pushes for lower cost prescription drugsFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Some Walgreens customers who bought prescription drugs from the pharmacy could be eligible to receive part of a proposed class action settlement.Walgreens, which is accused of charging some customers more for generic drugs, agreed to a $100 million settlement deal last fall, according to a Nov. 1, 2024 court filing.Despite agreeing to the settlement, which has not yet been finalized, Walgreens den
  
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• First US bird flu death reported in Louisiana, health officials say

  06-01-2025 23:12 via wane.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (WVLA) — The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) confirmed the first U.S. human death from bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or H5N1.
  The patient, who has not been identified, was over the age of 65 and had underlying health conditions. Health officials previously confirmed the person had contracted the virus after exposure to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds.The individual had been hospitalized before their d
  
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• Staying cold, a few more snowflakes coming this week

  06-01-2025 22:29 via wane.com
  
  Our stretch of cold weather continues. The next 10 days will be below freezing at all points of the day. Highs will be in the 20s with lows in the teens and, sometimes, in the single digits.For this evening, our temps have started off in the 20s and we fall to 15° for our morning low by daybreak tomorrow. A northwesterly breeze brings a slight chance for some occasional, scattered snow showers.
  With these winds continuing tomorrow, and a weak disturbance moving through, a few more snowflakes
  
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• When do Fort Wayne neighborhoods get roads salted, plowed?

  06-01-2025 22:21 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- Recent winter weather has brought snow and ice to northeast Indiana, leaving roads in need of maintenance in order to keep them safe for travel.While busy thoroughfares are the first to receive attention, roads within hundreds of residential neighborhoods across Fort Wayne are the last to be treated.According to the City of Fort Wayne Street Department, plow trucks will move to residential streets if snow accumulation reaches three inches or more. Plowing residential s
  
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• Senator Banks: a 'Columbia City fighter'

  06-01-2025 21:47 via wane.com
  
  WASHINGTON (WANE) -- Damien Stafford admits that he was a bit of a bully during his days at Columbia City High School.But he never picked on classmate Jim Banks."He was one of those people I never bothered," confessed Stafford. "I think it's because he just had this aura. Some people are born leaders."Both men went to the military and became politically active. Stafford is the Whitley County Republican Party Secretary.Banks, of course, became a United States Senator on Friday."Less than one perc
  
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• Allen County Council denies nearly $12 million in tax dollar spending requested by Commissioners

  06-01-2025 21:10 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)— Allen County Council failed to approve the use of $11.6 million as requested by the County Commissioners at their meeting Monday morning.The $11.6 million would come from the county's CEDIT fund. The CEDIT fund is local income tax used for economic development in the county. About one-third of income tax paid by Allen County residents is used for economic development through the CEDIT fund.
  County Council had already approved the 2025 funds for spending related to
  
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• Allen County Council denies $12 million in tax dollar spending requested by Commissioners

  06-01-2025 21:10 via wane.com
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)— Allen County Council failed to approve the use of $11.6 million as requested by the County Commissioners at their meeting Monday morning.The $11.6 million would come from the county's CEDIT fund. The CEDIT fund is local income tax used for economic development in the county. About one-third of income tax paid by Allen County residents is used for economic development through the CEDIT fund. County Council had already approved the 2025 funds for spending related to
  
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