Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 1:36 PM EDT
|By WPTA Staff
ABC21 is the recipient of two 2022 Regional Edward R. Murrow awards -- each presented for an entry featuring the station’s “21Country” reports.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 12:33 PM EDT
|By WPTA Staff
Day two of testimony in the trial for 21-year-old Cohen Hancz Barron began Thursday morning.
Updated: May. 4, 2022 at 4:32 PM EDT
|By WPTA Staff
Soccer fans will again have the opportunity to experience international competition when the “Club Tigres” reserve unit visits Fort Wayne FC in June.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 4:49 PM EDT
|By WPTA Staff
The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo opens for the season this Saturday, April 30.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 9:51 AM EDT
|By WPTA Staff
The Allen County Sheriff’s Department (ACSD) says an inmate at the Allen County Jail battered and seriously injured a confinement officer Thursday night.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2022 at 4:06 PM EDT
|By WPTA Staff
This Saturday marks the return of Record Store Day at shops nationwide--including the Summit City’s own Wooden Nickel Music.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2022 at 11:18 AM EDT
|By WPTA Staff
Granite Ridge Builders has sites all over our area ready for you to build your new home!
Updated: Mar. 31, 2022 at 3:14 PM EDT
|By WPTA Staff
The sister of the boy Jay County police say was killed by his mother last week told police she witnessed his abuse.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2022 at 4:56 PM EDT
|By WPTA Staff
Indiana State Police is recruiting a new batch of troopers.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 3:52 PM EDT
|By WPTA Staff
An exhibition opening at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art opening tonight may be the first of its kind in the entire world.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 11:05 AM EDT
|By WTHR and WPTA Staff
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has its national response team joining the investigation into the Walmart fulfillment center fire in Plainfield, Indiana.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2022 at 10:17 AM EDT
|By WTHR and WPTA Staff
Firefighters are still working Thursday morning to put out a fire that erupted at a warehouse in Plainfield Wednesday afternoon.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2022 at 6:18 AM EDT
|By WPTA Staff
A deadly two-vehicle crash happened at the intersection of U.S. 27 and Hessen Cassel Road, Wednesday morning.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2022 at 2:07 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
Looking for a summer job? The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo is looking for staff for the upcoming season.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2022 at 4:45 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
Surveillance video shows the moment a Jimtown High School teacher struck a student in the hallway.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2022 at 4:07 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
A now-former Fort Wayne parole officer is facing various sexual misconduct charges after documents say he assaulted a minor in his home after giving him alcohol back in 2020.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2022 at 3:28 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
Indiana State Police (ISP) say they are investigating after an 18-year-old crashed into an Elkhart shop while fleeing a traffic stop early Monday morning.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2022 at 11:30 AM EST
|By WPTA Staff
A parent charged in the death of his 11-month-old daughter has been given the maximum sentence.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2022 at 10:20 AM EST
|By WPTA Staff
The Allen County Coroner’s Office says a former North Side standout turned Indiana Hoosiers football star was found dead in his car in Fort Wayne.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2022 at 3:11 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
The Indiana Department of Health is making changes to its COVID-19 guidance for K-12 schools and child care programs.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2022 at 3:55 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
A controversial bill that would keep transgender girls in Indiana from participating on girls’ sports teams at school is one step closer to becoming law.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 7:47 AM EST
|By WPTA Staff
WPTA-TV announces that weekend morning anchor, Tony Betton Jr., will join Kayla Stewart and Meteorologist Nick Marusiak this month as co-anchor of ABC21 Morning News, airing daily from 4:30 until 7 a.m.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2022 at 5:09 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
The United States Attorney’s Office Northern District of Indiana says a local man was sentenced Wednesday after he admitted to distributing child pornography.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2022 at 3:59 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
A man is facing felony charges of rape and murder in the death of an 80-year-old woman at an Indianapolis health care center last week.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2022 at 2:11 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
A Butler University professor is out of a job after being charged with multiple felony child pornography crimes, WPTA affiliate station WTHR reports.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2022 at 9:01 AM EST
|By WPTA Staff
Fire crews say they are responding to a house fire on the south side of town Wednesday morning.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2022 at 10:50 PM EST
|By Brien McElhatten and WPTA Staff
Police are investigating a shooting in which two people were seriously hurt.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2022 at 10:38 AM EST
|By WPTA Staff
WPTA’s ABC21 television channel will introduce a 7 p.m. newscast in February, providing the region with a new option for live, local news and weather coverage.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2022 at 9:04 AM EST
|By WPTA Staff
Allen County officials warn that untreated roads from yesterday’s freezing rain are still icy Tuesday morning.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2022 at 12:46 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
A Travel Advisory has been issued for Wabash and Huntington counties due to slick conditions caused by Freezing rain/drizzle Monday morning.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2022 at 11:20 AM EST
|By WPTA Staff
The Indiana Department of Health says State Health Commissioner Dr. Kris Box tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2022 at 8:51 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and WPTA Staff
Congressman Greg Pence (R, Ind.) watched the Jan. 6 insurrection unfold from an extraordinary perch.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2022 at 10:04 PM EST
|By Brien McElhatten and WPTA Staff
Campus safety authorities warned of a “dangerous situation” developing on the campus Monday night.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2022 at 4:51 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
The Bradley, Illinois, police sergeant killed in the line-of-duty last week is being remembered as “a leader in community policing.”
Updated: Jan. 3, 2022 at 2:54 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
The Allen County Coroner’s Office says the man who traded gunfire with police on Saturday died by suicide.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2021 at 2:02 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
Court documents show a plea agreement has been filed in the case against a man facing child seduction charges stemming from an alleged relationship with a teen while he was a track coach.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2021 at 12:58 PM EST
|By Brien McElhatten and WPTA Staff
A woman was killed on South Anthony Boulevard by a driver who did not bother to stop, police said Friday evening.
Updated: Dec. 24, 2021 at 9:37 PM EST
|By Brien McElhatten and WPTA Staff
Firefighters spent Christmas Eve battling a large barn fire in northern Steuben County
Updated: Dec. 24, 2021 at 8:17 PM EST
|By Brien McElhatten and WPTA Staff
Former WOWO talk show host and Army veteran Gary Snyder, a Democrat, is hinting at a bid to unseat Representative Jim Banks in 2022. On Twitter Friday morning, Snyder posted “I’m all in for #IN03...Details coming soon.”
Updated: Dec. 23, 2021 at 11:04 PM EST
|By Brien McElhatten and WPTA Staff
Police rushed to the scene of a shooting at home on Lima Road late Thursday night.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2021 at 2:42 PM EST
|By Brien McElhatten and WPTA Staff
During a television interview, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita openly questioned whether people have died from COVID-19 and insisted he doesn’t trust “the numbers” because they’ve been “politicized.”
Updated: Dec. 22, 2021 at 9:10 PM EST
|By Brien McElhatten and WPTA Staff
Hospitals in Northeast Indiana are closer to reaching their breaking points as a flood of COVID patients taxes resources and healthcare workers who are already busy treating other patients.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2021 at 9:46 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
An SUV smashed into a semi-truck on I-69, slowing down traffic on Monday night.
Updated: Dec. 17, 2021 at 9:03 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
A man has been charged with kidnapping and auto theft after prosecutors said he stole a car with a baby in the back seat.
Updated: Dec. 17, 2021 at 8:41 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff and The Associated Press
A federal appeals court panel on Friday allowed President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for larger private employers to move ahead.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2021 at 10:00 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
A man is under arrest after a home break-in and subsequent car chase in Noble County. Two teens were in the house when burglars broke in.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2021 at 9:52 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
A “potential threat” to campus safety is forcing North Adams Schools to move to online learning on Friday.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2021 at 8:53 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff and Brien McElhatten
The Senate passed a measure Wednesday night to repeal the federal government’s vaccine mandate by a vote of 52 to 48. It will almost certainly fail in the House.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2021 at 5:19 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
A man connected to social media accounts now linked to the Delphi killings investigation is charged in a separate child exploitation case.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2021 at 10:46 PM EST
|By WPTA Staff
A man from Akron, Indiana is facing charges after police said he hit an Amish buggy with his car and drove away.