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A Fort Wayne family is searching for answers after they say 21-year-old Jerome Wagstaff was attacked outside a local bar last Saturday. Wagstaff's girlfriend says they were celebrating a friend's birthday, when a group of men ganged up on her boyfriend.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA 21) -- Each month, ABC 21 partners with Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana to showcase 'Young Entrepreneurs' in our area. For June, We introduced 17-year-old Grant Giszewski. Grant started an Instagram page where he re-posted pictures of shoes he liked when he was in sixth grade. The page got a lot of traction with over 30,000 followers. Two years later, Grant sold the Instagram page to a company in New York for $1,400. He followed that ...
Firefighters worked a major house fire at a two-story duplex on Guilford Street, between East Tipton Street and East Park Drive in Huntington.
Owners of several lakeside properties in the Barbee Chain of Lakes area say they've been hit with unfair utility bills while another owner -- a former regulatory board member -- got a far better deal.
5:00 UPDATE: All severe warnings have expired as of 4:48 pm.
A shooting in southwestern Fort Wayne left a man in critical condition Thursday evening. The shooting happened shortly after 5 pm in the 4000 block of Hoagland Avenue.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA 21) -- A man was critically hurt and three other men are in good condition after a stabbing that took place in a parking lot in the 6800 block of South Hanna Street early Sunday Morning. Police say they were called to the scene around 12:42 a.m. When they got there, they found two men with stab wounds. They were both okay. Officers soon learned of another two men who were stabbed arriving at a local hospital. One was in critical condition, the other in good c... More>>
HUNTINGTON, Ind. (WPTA 21) - One person is dead after a house fire in Huntington. The fire broke out Friday night around 10:30 in the 700 block of Guilford Street. Police were initially advised that a woman was located in the second floor apartment of the building, but they were unable to gain access to the building due to the intensity of the fire. According to the Huntington County Coroner, once fire crews arrived, they found the woman located in the bathroom of the apa... More>>
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA 21) -- Police say they found a man shot dead inside a car in the parking lot of the Walgreen on North Coliseum Blvd. early Saturday morning. Police say a Walgreens employee called them just after midnight Saturday to alert them about an unconscious man inside the car as they were closing up the store. When paramedics arrived, they pronounced the man dead. Police say he was suffering from at least one bullet wound. In a statement, Officer Chris Felt...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA 21) -- One person was seriously hurt during a shooting near the intersection of West Columbia Street and South Harrison Street in downtown Fort Wayne early Saturday morning. The call came in at about 2:50 a.m. The shooting took place near Columbia Street West, but there haven't been any indications that the parties involved were ever inside the bar. Check back later for updates.
A colleague of the accused April Tinsley killer talks about what it was like to work alongside John D. Miller for more than a dozen years. She says, "He hated children."
Two of four public school districts in Allen County have asked the governor for hand-held metal detectors, to boost school safety. We looked at which ones applied, which ones didn't, and why that might not be the final chapter of the story.
Sometimes you look at an old photo and realize how chilling it actually is. That is the case in a three-year-old Instagram photo taken by a man showing the suspect in April Tinsley's brutal rape and murder.
Health officials are investigating a multi-state salmonella outbreak.
A speeding coach met the sensitive side of a retiring state trooper earlier this week.
John Dale Miller of Grabill, accused of brutally raping and killing young April Tinsley in 1988-- one of Fort Wayne's most known cold cases--appeared Thursday before a judge and the victim's family. The encounter happened in Allen Superior Court Judge John Surbeck's courtroom, as the prosecution of Miller got out of the starting gates.
Tuesday, an iguana was rescued after being stuck in a tree for two days.
Indiana school corporations had until the end of Thursday afternoon to submit a request for state-funded handheld metal detectors -- and the four systems in Allen County have split on the question of participation at this time.
Two kids were hospitalized in critical condition Thursday morning after a fire on Smith St. in Fort Wayne.
I was here in February shooting a special report for our spring weather feature, but i didn't get a chance to see much of the town of Van Wert. On this trip, I did a bit more exploring. My travels first took me to the Wassenberg Art Center, housed in what used to be a National Guard armory. Director Hope Wallace told me the story of its restoration. "The art center was looking for a place to move to, and at that time, the building was slated for demolition, and in the last...
It is truly a world class treasure, thousands of books, manuscripts, documents and photographs about Abraham Lincoln and his presidency. It's called the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection and it lives right here in 21 Country. “These are things that people have considered important,” says Allen County Public Library genealogist Curt Witcher, “married to just cool things that we thought people may not know about and might want to see.” If you don't know a... More>>
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