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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ABC21 is the recipient of two 2022 Regional Edward R. Murrow awards -- each presented for an entry featuring the station’s “21Country” reports.
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Day two of testimony in the trial for 21-year-old Cohen Hancz Barron began Thursday morning.
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Soccer fans will again have the opportunity to experience international competition when the “Club Tigres” reserve unit visits Fort Wayne FC in June.
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The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo opens for the season this Saturday, April 30.
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The Allen County Sheriff’s Department (ACSD) says an inmate at the Allen County Jail battered and seriously injured a confinement officer Thursday night.
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This Saturday marks the return of Record Store Day at shops nationwide--including the Summit City’s own Wooden Nickel Music.
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Granite Ridge Builders has sites all over our area ready for you to build your new home!
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The sister of the boy Jay County police say was killed by his mother last week told police she witnessed his abuse.
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Indiana State Police is recruiting a new batch of troopers.
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An exhibition opening at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art opening tonight may be the first of its kind in the entire world.
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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.
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Firefighters are still working Thursday morning to put out a fire that erupted at a warehouse in Plainfield Wednesday afternoon.
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A deadly two-vehicle crash happened at the intersection of U.S. 27 and Hessen Cassel Road, Wednesday morning.
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Looking for a summer job? The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo is looking for staff for the upcoming season.
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Surveillance video shows the moment a Jimtown High School teacher struck a student in the hallway.
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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.
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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.
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A parent charged in the death of his 11-month-old daughter has been given the maximum sentence.
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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.
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The Indiana Department of Health is making changes to its COVID-19 guidance for K-12 schools and child care programs.
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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.
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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.
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The United States Attorney’s Office Northern District of Indiana says a local man was sentenced Wednesday after he admitted to distributing child pornography.
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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.
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A Butler University professor is out of a job after being charged with multiple felony child pornography crimes, WPTA affiliate station WTHR reports.
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Fire crews say they are responding to a house fire on the south side of town Wednesday morning.
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Police are investigating a shooting in which two people were seriously hurt.
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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.
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Allen County officials warn that untreated roads from yesterday’s freezing rain are still icy Tuesday morning.
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A Travel Advisory has been issued for Wabash and Huntington counties due to slick conditions caused by Freezing rain/drizzle Monday morning.
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The Indiana Department of Health says State Health Commissioner Dr. Kris Box tested positive for COVID-19.
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Congressman Greg Pence (R, Ind.) watched the Jan. 6 insurrection unfold from an extraordinary perch.
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Campus safety authorities warned of a “dangerous situation” developing on the campus Monday night.
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The Bradley, Illinois, police sergeant killed in the line-of-duty last week is being remembered as “a leader in community policing.”
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The Allen County Coroner’s Office says the man who traded gunfire with police on Saturday died by suicide.
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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.
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A woman was killed on South Anthony Boulevard by a driver who did not bother to stop, police said Friday evening.
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Firefighters spent Christmas Eve battling a large barn fire in northern Steuben County
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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.”
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Police rushed to the scene of a shooting at home on Lima Road late Thursday night.
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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.”
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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.
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An SUV smashed into a semi-truck on I-69, slowing down traffic on Monday night.
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A man has been charged with kidnapping and auto theft after prosecutors said he stole a car with a baby in the back seat.
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A federal appeals court panel on Friday allowed President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for larger private employers to move ahead.
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.
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A “potential threat” to campus safety is forcing North Adams Schools to move to online learning on Friday.
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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.
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A man connected to social media accounts now linked to the Delphi killings investigation is charged in a separate child exploitation case.
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A man from Akron, Indiana is facing charges after police said he hit an Amish buggy with his car and drove away.