WPTA Staff
Digital News Staff
Fort Wayne, IN
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Fort Wayne’s leading source for weather, news and sports.
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Admitting a previously passed ordinance did little to help, councilors repealed a set of rules governing strip clubs and similar businesses Tuesday evening.
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A thief stole a car with a baby inside. The baby was reunited with his worried parents a short time later.
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The ABC21 Scholar Athlete of the Week is Bishop Luers senior offensive lineman Billy O’Connor.
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Download the Color your own Christmas Tree on Broadway for your chance to win Christmas gifts and cash.
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A pastor who had a big impact as a community activist in Fort Wayne before moving back to his native Tennessee returned to northeast Indiana this week and hailed the changes that have taken place in recent years.
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Fort Wayne Police say two subjects are in custody after police had to barricade an apartment early this morning.
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Why Work at Television Park in Fort Wayne, Indiana?
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The ABC21 Scholar Athlete of the Week is Canterbury senior soccer player Zach Hobbs.
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The vision to bring a soccer stadium, a hotel and new housing to a long-dormant piece of land near downtown Fort Wayne is very much alive, officials tell ABC21.
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Attracting good paying jobs is always among the biggest priorities for a place like Fort Wayne.
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The ABC21 Scholar Athlete of the Week is New Haven senior volleyball player Kylie Rowland.
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A 28-year-old Wabash man was killed in a collision between the mini-van he was driving and a semi-tractor Thursday morning.
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The Fort Wayne Police Department is a 2021 recipient of the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act Program Grant.
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On the 40th anniversary of the killing, the FBI is hoping a reward of up to $20,000 will prompt new leads on the suspect who remains on the run.
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The annual Veterans Day parade will be staged in Fort Wayne on the morning of November 6, organizers announced on Thursday.
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Fort Wayne police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting deaths of two women in April.
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A former Fort Wayne Police Sergeant who admitted to strangling his wife will spend no time behind bars for the crime.
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Court documents reveal the events that lead up to a 3-year-old child being hospitalized with critical injuries.
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One of the men charged in the murder of a Fort Wayne man has filed a guilty plea.
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Allen County prosecutors have filed formal charges against two Elkhart County men who stand accused of killing and then dismembering a beloved member of the local Vietnamese community.
The subject of a Silver Alert whose remains were recovered on Sunday had been killed and dismembered at a Fort Wayne storage unit, according to a probable cause affidavit that includes accounts from two men now facing charges.
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The company contracted to provide trash collection for the City of Fort Wayne has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Bishop Kevin Rhoades on Tuesday said there had been “no red flags” regarding the conduct of a priest who is now “credibly accused” of sexual misconduct.
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The second alleged victim in the investigation into a local priest who is facing several sex crime charges has now come forward.
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A 61-year-old grandmother shot in a Fort Wayne driveway died at the hospital, and detectives are investigating whether she was the intended target.
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Three years after the release of a list of 18 priests and deacons who faced "credible allegations" of sexual misconduct with children, updated data from the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese shows the inclusion of additional findings of suspected misbehavior.
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Court records show the 29-year-old man arrested in the murder of an elderly woman at her Lake James home is now facing additional charges.
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Allen County Council member Joel Benz will tender his resignation to the Council once he assumes the lead role at the Three Rivers Ambulance Authority.
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Dozens of refugees from Afghanistan are slated to resettle in Fort Wayne and begin their new lives here.
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Fort Wayne police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting deaths of two women in April.
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According to court documents, Purdue Fort Wayne’s women’s volleyball team assistant coach Alexis Meeks-Rydell is being accused of abusing former players.
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Police have arrested a woman who was initially named as a person of interest in the double homicide on Third Street earlier this year and are looking for the public’s help in locating a second suspect.
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Southwest Allen County school board president Brad Mills says superintendent Park Ginder will give a report at tonight’s board meeting about the latest COVID-19 data.
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The man accused of wounding two people and killing one more at a Kendallville gas station appeared in court to face charges Wednesday.
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The man who police believe is responsible in the slayings of a mother and her three children has pleaded not guilty to the crime.
A 21-year-old man accused of killing four people has been formally charged with their deaths.
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The Allen County Coroner’s Office has identified the two women found shot at a home on Third Street Tuesday evening.
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Thanks to an anonymous donation, the Delphi double murder investigation’s reward fund has swelled to $325,000.
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A former Fort Wayne Police Sergeant who admitted to strangling his wife will spend no time behind bars for the crime.
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Contractors are now buzzing around the old General Electric campus along Broadway, signalling the start of the long-awaited Electric Works project.
The Allen County Board of Commissioners announced they’ve wired a lump sum of cash to the developers of the Electric Works project.
The announcement of a new investor and a new co-developer could breathe new life into the development of the Electric Works project.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a lawsuit against the City of Fort Wayne and the Allen County Sheriff demanding officers stop using tear gas and firing rubber bullets at protesters.
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John D. Miller, the man who admitted to abducting, raping, and killing 8-year-old April Tinsley, learned his sentence Friday.
The man who police say raped and murdered 8-year-old April Tinsley 30 years ago pleaded guilty Friday.