Friday, March 4, 2016

Fort Wayne's Muslim community offering $10K reward in E. Lewis St ... and other top stories.

  • Fort Wayne's Muslim community offering $10K reward in E. Lewis St ...

    March 4, 2016 Updated Mar 4, 2016 at 6:33 PM EST FORT WAYNE, Ind. (21Alive) -- Those in the Fort Wayne Muslim community are offering a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest in that "execution-style" killing of three young men on East Lewis Street. POLICE: Three males found in E. Lewis Street home shot dead execution style Even though Muslim leaders and investigators insist that last month's "execution-style" killings were not racially motivated, the religious community is ..
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  • Fort Wayne woman puts new meaning to 'long run'

    Fort Wayne woman puts new meaning to 'long run'
    FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Running on a treadmill all day may not be your cup of tea, but a Fort Wayne woman made it hers Friday. Suzi Swinehart is trying to break the Guinness World Record for the longest run on a treadmill in 12 hours. Suzi Swinehart, 43, is trying to break a world record. To do that, she’ll need to run more than 68.54 miles in 12 hours exactly. As of 5:30 p.m., Swinehart had run 59 miles. For the 43-year-old, running is more than a hobby. It’s a passion. Quick jogs around ..
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  • Trio of coaching friends make Fort Wayne a college basketball hotbed

    Trio of coaching friends make Fort Wayne a college basketball hotbed
    Trio of coaching friends make Fort Wayne a college basketball hotbed Coffman, LaCross, Peckinpaugh bring momentum to postseason A column by Reggie Hayes, rhayes@news-sentinel.com Friday, March 04, 2016 1:02 AM Connect the coaching dots and it’s easy to see why Fort Wayne’s men’s college basketball success feels like a shared experience. * Saint Francis coach Chad LaCross is a friend and golfing buddy of former IPFW coach Tony Jasick, so he met current IPFW coach Jon Coffman when ..
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  • Woman reportedly attacked by gang members outside Fort Wayne's ...

    Woman reportedly attacked by gang members outside Fort Wayne's Glenbrook Square By Ellie Bogue ebogue@news-sentinel.com Friday, March 04, 2016 12:00 AM A group of people told Fort Wayne Police that several gang members, one of whom was armed with a gun, beat a woman Wednesday evening outside Glenbrook Square. According to a Fort Wayne Police Department report the following occurred: Officers responded at 6:08 p.m. to a call of a fight in the JCPenney parking lot. Dispatch told o..
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  • Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation day and extended travel has a lot ...

    Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation day and extended travel has a lot ...
    More Information All aboardHere is a sample of the trips that Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation day and extended travel will be holding this year. More information can be found online at the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation website at www.fortwayneparks.org under “Day and Extended Travel” after clicking on Programs and in the Fun Times brochure distributed by Parks and Recreation. Or call 427-6000.WHAT: Chicago Flower and Garden ShowWHEN: Leaves Fort Wayne at 8 a.m. March 12, returns by 10:30 p.m...
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  • Man found dead inside home after 4-hour standoff in Fort Wayne

    Man found dead inside home after 4-hour standoff in Fort Wayne By Bob Caylor bcaylor@news-sentinel.com Friday, March 04, 2016 12:22 AM About four hours into a standoff on the near northwest side of Fort Wayne Thursday evening, police using a mobile robot discovered the corpse of a man they had tried to persuade to leave a surrounded home. The man’s identity has not been released. Typically the Allen County Coroner’s Office releases the names of victims of violence or accidents a..
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  • Vigil Friday for victims of Fort Wayne shooting

    A vigil is planned for Friday to commemorate the lives of three men fatally shot and found in a Fort Wayne home last week. Student organizations including the Muslim Student Association and Bloomington Against Islamophobia will gather with the public at the Sample Gates at 6:30 p.m. Friday. Denisa Jashari, one of the organizers of the vigil, said speakers will include friends of the victims and Indiana University professors Purnima Bose and Abdulkader Sinno. ..
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  • SDSU's Daum, Fort Wayne Top Summit Picks

    SDSU's Daum, Fort Wayne Top Summit Picks
    Fort Wayne’s Max Landis was selected as The Summit League Men’s Basketball Player of the Year in a vote of the league’s nine head coaches, sports information directors and select media members. Each of the league’s top-three finishers totaled a pair of individual accolades. Jon Coffman was named Coach of the Year after guiding Fort Wayne to a share of the league’s regular season title. Mike Daum of co-champion South Dakota State earned Sixth Man of the Year and Freshman of the Year honor..
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  • Fort Wayne Killings: Fostering Distrust in Policing

    Fort Wayne Killings: Fostering Distrust in Policing
    ABOUT THE AUTHORSpearIt is a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding and author of the ISPU report: Facts and Fictions about Islam in Prison: Assessing Prisoner Radicalization in Post-9/11 America. He is also an Associate Professor at Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University.MORE BY THIS AUTHOR It has been a week since three young Black men were killed in Fort Wayne, Indiana. All three victims of these “execution-style” killings descend from immigrant familie..
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  • IAB wins 2015 Super Service Challenge

    IAB wins 2015 Super Service Challenge
    Forgotten Children and Honor Flight Northeast Indiana recently benefited from IAB Financial Bank contributions. IAB took first place in last year’s Super Service Challenge and, because Forgotten Children was its charity partner in the national service contest, the competition’s top $50,000 prize was awarded to the Bluffton-based charity focused on combating poverty and human trafficking. “We are honored to have been chosen to assist the organization in this way,” Sid Schwartz, IAB vice presid..
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