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[] | 2016-08-26T20:48:39 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2FPhotos-of-the-Week-14931797.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13244682/14931791.jpg | en | null | Photos of the Week | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Samuel Hoffman | The Journal Gazette
Ft Wayne Museum of Art technical assistant Lauren Wolfer aligns a painting by famed Hoosier artist TC Steele, next to works by William Forsyth, center, and RB Gruelle, right, Wednesday in the main gallery. The new exhibit "200 Years of Indiana Art from the Haan Collection" runs August 27 - October 23, 2016 and features more than 50 pieces from Indiana impressionists.
"The Haan Mansion Museum in Lafayette, Indiana is home to hundreds of works of art by Indiana artists. This collection has been built over the years by Bob and Ellie Haan, who purchased the glorious mansion in 1984 and have been adding to its grandeur with fine art and furniture acquisitions ever since."
Cathie Rowand | The Journal Gazette
Indiana–Purdue Student Government Association Vice President of Legislation, Alex Sanderson, takes a dunk during IPFW Welcome Back activities on the Sceince Mall Monday. IPFW Students paid for the opportunity to dunk their student government representatives with the money going to Riley Hospital for Children. Monday was the first day of classes at IPFW, Ivy Tech , and Indiana Tech. Universtiy of Saint Francis starts next week.
Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette
A window washer scales the building and cleans off the windows on the Berry St. side of 1st Source Bank, 200 E. Main St. #100 on a sunny day in Fort Wayne, IN on Friday. Weather in Fort Wayne was sunny with a high in the 80's on Friday.
Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette
Bishop Dwenger's Marissa Godfrey watches the ball as it comes over the net during the Bishop Dwenger vs. Snider Pre-Season SAC Volleyball Tournament at North Side High School in Fort Wayne, IN on Saturday. GALLERY
Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette
North Side's Jackeline Palma, from Guatemala, throws the ball during a drill during the North Side girls soccer practice at Crossroads Soccer Fields in Fort Wayne, IN on Monday. The North Side girls soccer team has players from many different countries including Southeast Asia and central and South America. GALLERY
Cathie Rowand | The Journal Gazette
Former Olympian Lloy Ball signs his book "The Biggest Mistake I Never Made" for 5th grader Leah McCann. Ball spoke about his Olympic experience with the Woddlan Elementary School fourth and fifth graders Thursday. After his talk he signed and gave the students his book. video
Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette
Conductor Tom Nitza collects tickets during a ride on the Nickel Plate Road no. 141 caboose during the Annual Open House Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society in New Haven, IN on Saturday. Guests were able to experience a 400-ton steam locomotive up close and personal, take a short caboose ride, tour the newly upgraded shop of the historical society, visit World War II reenactors and much more during the event. VIDEO
Michelle Davies | The Journal Gazette
Noreen Walker, a volunteer at the Purdue Extension office with the Vegetable Team, checks on tomatoes Tuesday morning.
Michelle Davies | The Journal Gazette
Warren Weltner, rear, and Denny Smith, both of New Haven, bag up produce for Corinne Lampe, front, of New Haven, and Judy Meyer, of Fort Wayne, Wednesday afternoon at the New Haven Farmer's Market. The New Haven Parks and Recreation department hosts a farmers market in Schnelker Park on Wednesday evenings from 4:00 to 7:00pm through the end of September.
Samuel Hoffman | The Journal Gazette
Debby Vincent, right, and her team of Wild Walkers perambulate through Fogwell Forest in southwest Allen County early Friday. Wild Walkers is an adult hiking group that meets the second and fourth Fridays of each month for a hike in different natural areas in the region (parks, wetlands, nature preserve, etc.)
Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette
Adams Central's Gabe Schwaller #4, center, celebrates with his team after intercepting a ball during the first quarter of the Adams Central vs. Bellmont High School football game at Adams Central High School in Monroe, IN on Friday. GALLERY
Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette
Morgan Goetz, right, and boyfriend Trey Bowling sit on a log and play a game of Pokémon GO at the Historic Old Fort in downtown Fort Wayne, IN on Monday night. Crowds of people have been playing the game Pokémon GO at the Historic Old Fort daily in the evening hours.
Chad Ryan | The Journal Gazette
With one of his children looking out the window, Dustin Wood looks at rotating clouds as they move south of his home near Indiana 14 and Country Road 150 East on Wednesday. Supercell thunderstorms produced several tornado warnings in the area, including in Allen County, with confirmed funnel cloud touch downs.
Cathie Rowand | The Journal Gazette
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School first graders Look up at a drone flying over head before releasing their balloons Tuesday mornng. Attached to the balloons were notes asking people who find the balloons to write to the first graders and let them know how far their balloons traveled. The first graders in Jessica Patton and Julie Peters classes are tracking wind speed and how far the balloons traveled. They will also use mark locations on a map that will help them learn about geography.
Michelle Davies | The Journal Gazette
A bee gets busy at the Purdue Extension office Tuesday morning.
Cathie Rowand | The Journal Gazette
Home in the 8600 blk of Bull Rapids Rd that was in the path of a tornado that hit that area Wednesday. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/Photos-of-the-Week-14931797 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/8314678c12865a014a3d163989074ce0f295894b841a51ef24e9068c1352b5f7.json |
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"Jessica Contrera",
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] | 2016-08-29T06:50:19 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fentertainment%2Ftv%2FOsgood-bidsCBS-networkfond-goodbye-14958746.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13249171/14960073.jpg | en | null | Osgood bids CBS network fond goodbye | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | He started reporting for CBS in 1967. Now, 49 years later, Charles Osgood has bid the network farewell – with a melody.
“So long, it’s been good to know you. A long time since I’ve been home. I’ve got to be driftin’ along,” he sang on air Sunday as he announced he was stepping down as host of “CBS News Sunday Morning.” He will stay on through Sept. 25.
Osgood has been the face of the weekly program since 1994, when he took it over from its first host, Charles Kuralt. Osgood told his viewers that his friends and family frequently ask him why he’s still doing it, considering he’s 83 years old. “It’s just that it’s been such a joy doing it,” he said. “Who wouldn’t want to be the one who gets to introduce these terrific storytellers?”
His replacement has yet to be announced. The Associated Press reports that CBS regulars Jane Pauley, Anthony Mason and Lee Cowan are being considered. CBS News President David Rhodes released a statement praising Osgood’s career but made no indication of who will lead the show, which has a year-to-date audience of nearly 6 million viewers.
“Charles Osgood has one of the most distinctive voices in broadcasting, guiding each broadcast, making sure the words were just right, and being a calming, reassuring presence to our viewers,” Rhodes said.
Osgood isn’t completely retiring from the news business, however. He will still appear on his weekday morning radio show, “The Osgood File.”
– Washington Post | http://www.journalgazette.net/entertainment/tv/Osgood-bidsCBS-networkfond-goodbye-14958746 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/3db1a174379559befa0dae3aa0c670ac747f2e636701c7b18728e8efe50cfc06.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T06:49:24 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fpolice-fire%2FCouple-in-home-explosion-ID-d-by-Kosciusko-officials-14933647.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Couple in home explosion ID'd by Kosciusko officials | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | A married couple in their late 60s were identified as the two whose home exploded Thursday in southwestern Kosciusko County.
Kay A. Justis, 68, died in the explosion that occurred around 3:45 p.m. Her husband, Larry G. Justis, 67, was located by rescuers who heard his voice calling out under the rubble. The explosion that occurred at their home at 4678 South County Road 450 West in Claypool is still under investigation.
Justis was still listed in critical condition, according to a news release from the Kosciusko County Coroner. However, Chad Hill, Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department public information officer, said Friday afternoon that Justis was now considered “stable.”
Hill also said there were two dogs and a cat that died in the blast, although chickens that were located in cages on site survived.
“We are feeding them until the other family members have decided what to do,” Hill said. The Justis couple were the only occupants of the home.
Kosciusko Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine said the explosion had all the hallmarks of a gas explosion, but that he was speculating at this point. “The state fire marshal has not determined that.
“I’m glad our officers were able to respond that quick and get the survivor out from the rubble,” Rovenstine said. “The agencies worked good together. Hopefully, the subject we got out of there will survive.”
Kosciusko County Coroner Anthony Ciriello said an autopsy was scheduled Friday with the Northeast Indiana Forensic Center to assist in determining the cause of Kay Justis’ death.
jduffy@jg.net | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/police-fire/Couple-in-home-explosion-ID-d-by-Kosciusko-officials-14933647 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/71676ef241ee14f220926acbf106662f59c259790653d35eaef8137cbf0ab7b1.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T06:49:04 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2FEmbassy-gets--1-7-million-to-renovate-hotel-14928733.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13245466/14931173.jpg | en | null | Embassy gets $1.7 million to renovate hotel | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | The Embassy Theatre has received a grant of $1,745,180 from the Regional Cities Initiative to pay for the renovation of four floors of the former Indiana Hotel.
The upgrades include a two-story-high ballroom, a rooftop patio, breakout and rehearsal spaces, new administrative offices, classroom, a history center and improved access to concession areas.
The money comes from $42 million in state funds earned by the 11-county northeast region’s successful Road to One Million proposal. The Indiana Economic Development Corporation announced approval of the theater’s grant Friday.
The Northeast Indiana Regional Development Authority approved the Embassy’s application in July.
The Embassy improvements are part of an overall $10 million project.
The ballroom and most other improvements were largely completed last March and the spaces opened to the public.
Embassy Executive Director Kelly Updike said Embassy officials decided not to delay making the improvements until the hoped-for Regional Cities grant was awarded. The Embassy finished the project by arranging financing to pay for the work.
The grant will allow the Embassy to pay off the loan it took out and become debt-free, which is tremendous, Updike said.
“Now we can focus on our immediate needs and plan for the future,” Updike said.
fgray@jg.net | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/Embassy-gets--1-7-million-to-renovate-hotel-14928733 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/ad339b750064b0f8c3c478fbee47dd3457c1ed16ba10f83c30d7da12c7476aac.json |
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"Rosa Salter Rodriguez",
"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-29T20:49:58 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2FPurdue-seeks--17-million-for-IPFW-renovations-14975588.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Purdue seeks $17 million for IPFW renovations | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | No new buildings loom in the near future of the IPFW campus, but $17 million in needed renovations may be on the horizon.
Purdue University's board of trustees Friday included that much money among its 2017-2019 funding requests to the General Assembly.
The money, if approved, will continue work already begun on Kettler Hall, Neff Hall and the Liberal Arts building on campus, said Jay Harris, the campus physical plant director.
Harris said many buildings on campus were built 30 to 40 years ago, and while the structures themselves continue sound, systems such as heating, cooling and plumbing and interior finishes need updating.
"In the past (funding cycles), the focus has been almost entirely on new buildings. In more recent funding years, there's been a new focus on repairing and maintaining what we already have," he said.
"All the things we're doing now are priority projects and things to make it (the campus) better for students."
rsalter@jg.net | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/Purdue-seeks--17-million-for-IPFW-renovations-14975588 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/6b6616e3fca9cf29f0421dd4404d44aa1fbd4789ae7816bad161c15cce7e07f3.json |
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"Chris Goff",
"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-29T06:49:40 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fprofessional%2Ftincaps%2FNo-playoffs-for-TinCaps-14964339.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13249013/14961327.jpg | en | null | No playoffs for TinCaps | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | TinCaps vs. West Michigan When: 7:05 p.m. today Where: Parkview Field Tickets: $12.50, $10, $8, $5 (lawn) TV: Comcast Channel 81 Radio: 1380 AM
For the first time, Parkview Field will not play host to a Midwest League playoff game.
The TinCaps’ run of seven straight playoff appearances is over as Sunday’s 7-3 defeat to West Michigan eliminated Fort Wayne from the race for the Eastern Division wild card.
“Tough we did not make it for the first time in (the park’s eight-year) history,” pitcher Jake Nix said. “Sometimes the cards don’t fall your way. It’s very unfortunate. We had a lot of (roster) moves, guys going up and down this year. It kind of hurt us, part of the game.”
With seven games left, the TinCaps (60-73, 24-39 second half) have used a franchise-record 57 players, surpassing Fort Wayne’s 2004 squad (54).
“It is what it is,” TinCaps manager Anthony Contreras said. “It’s always nice if you can make the playoffs. But the season just hasn’t gone our way. So we take the best out of what’s been going on and try to improve on those things.”
Unlike his predecessor, Francisco Morales, Contreras never spoke openly with his team about setting the playoffs as a goal, preferring to focus first on development.
And on that front, the team has had several success stories, according to San Diego Padres general manager A.J. Preller.
“Two guys up with Lake Elsinore (San Diego’s high-A affiliate): Michael Gettys and Ruddy Giron,” Preller said. “I think for different reasons. As a repeat player in Fort Wayne, Michael made adjustments from an offensive standpoint, and the results started to come.
“Ruddy, another guy that repeated (low-A Fort Wayne), made mechanical adjustments with (TinCaps hitting coach) Vinny Lopez, ended up having a nice second half and getting promoted. Those have been two nice stories for us.”
What was also a nice story were those seven consecutive playoff trips, which made up the longest active streak in the minor leagues, a designation now held by Myrtle Beach, the Chicago Cubs’ high-A affiliate headed to the Carolina League playoffs for a sixth year in a row.
The TinCaps got off to a 34-26 start, led by Gettys and solid pitching, but are 26-47 in their last 73 games. Still, as recently as Aug. 5 they were a game back in the wild-card race. Being swept in four-game series by Lansing and Dayton changed that and made the elimination feel inevitable.
Sunday’s game, like many, had points the TinCaps could feel good about and others to look back upon with regret.
Leadoff man Kodie Tidwell came up in the bottom of the eighth down 5-3 with the bases loaded and two outs, but struck out swinging. That proved to be the last chance to salvage the game as Elvin Liriano allowed a two-run single to Brett Pirtle in the top of the ninth that essentially put it out of reach.
“We’re going to go about our business (today) the same we did Day 1,” Contreras said. “That’s the part about being a professional, and I wouldn’t let (anything else) happen. Can’t take a day off just because you’re out of a playoff race.”
cgoff@jg.net | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/professional/tincaps/No-playoffs-for-TinCaps-14964339 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/1189dc7682e051c64f652325d209d99b5a5ec3acfab08624bf9dec461523bec8.json |
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For a complete, updated list of schools under delay, click here. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/schools/School-delays--Aug--26 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/3de0a1e2653027fd454aa4ceb09379affb7634f4183a88a4ebc0918e2ae8eb2a.json |
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"Ryan Duvall",
"Restaurant Critic"
] | 2016-08-28T16:49:32 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Ffood%2Fdining-out%2FRe-opened-sports-bar-reinvents--improves-menu-14873255.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13239908/14873665.jpg | en | null | Re-opened sports bar reinvents, improves menu | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Mitchell’s ***1/2 Out of a possible five $$$
It might be cliché to say a once-closed restaurant rose like a Phoenix from the ashes, but in the case of Mitchell’s Sports & Neighborhood Grill, it is also pretty accurate.
It became one of my favorite spots not long after it opened in the Marketplace of Canterbury in 2011, but it burned to the ground in March 2013. I thought it was going to be one of those places I fondly remembered and wished was still open.
Original owner Todd Smith, who also owns Main Street Bistro, resurrected it in Westland Centre.
And it is again a place I love.
One thing I loved most about the old Mitchell’s was its looks. It was a sports bar through and through, but it was also modern and somewhat upscale. It was also family friendly.
The new Mitchell’s is all of that and then some.
It has the same cool sports quotes – real and fictional – randomly dotting its walls along with the normal bevy of big TVs and beer and sports signs all pubs feature.
But it is also about three times bigger than the original, and has added a retro arcade and cornhole games in its massive space. In the Westland mall’s hallways, the touches continued with nifty bleachers and a banner with pro and college sports schedules.
The menu has also taken a leap for the better. The same staples that made the original shine are still there, but this Mitchell’s has steaks. And those steaks are prepared on Green Egg grills.
The 10-ounce New York strip was perfect. It was lightly seasoned and had the smoky, slightly charred notes you look for in a charcoal-grilled steak. I added buttered mushrooms and onions on top and loved every morsel. The asparagus on the side lacked seasoning, however, and my mashed potatoes were overworked and gummy.
Another new item was the Canadian Poutine appetizer. I had tried Smith’s poutine at Main Street and was mildly impressed, but Mitchell’s flipped the script on the Canadian staple, and the result was brilliant.
Instead of traditionally topping the french fries with cheese curds and beef gravy, this poutine had slow-cooked pork, a silky white queso sauce and a touch of beef gravy.
The Boom-boom wings were a go-to for me at the original, but the ones I had this time disappointed. The sizable wings were not fried long enough and were so limp and rubbery I sent them back. The new ones were crisp, but the sauce on both servings was thick and globby.
There were no flaws with the Gourmet Grilled Cheese or the Mitchell’s Signature Split Bratwurst.
The grilled cheese had thick sourdough bread that was buttered and grilled to dark brown. The addition of fresh avocado added to the creaminess it already had from the oozing cheddar, Swiss and smoked gouda. There was also bacon and tomato as if that weren’t enough.
I paired the grilled cheese with the cheeseburger soup, and it was a perfect mate for it. This creamy yellow soup held big chunks of meat and bacon along with potatoes, and was topped with raw diced scallions. The consistency was also broth-like and not thick and heavy like many cream soups.
The French onion soup was also good, but not as impressive.
Putting a new spin on an old favorite like a bratwurst makes me happy. So I was all smiles when I tried Mitchell’s, which was topped with house-pickled apples, sauerkraut, caramelized onions and spicy brown mustard.
One new spin that I never want to have again was Mitchell’s version of chicken and waffles.
The tempura-battered chicken thighs and spot-on Belgian waffles were topped with peanut sauce and blackberry puree. When I inquired about them, my server said she did not care for the dish because of the peanut sauce. I should have listened to her.
The sauce had no complexity. I was expecting it to be more like an Asian peanut sauce, but this pasty sauce tasted like it was just melted peanut butter. The berry puree was nice and could have cut the peanut sauce nicely if there had been more of it and less of the peanut.
Another sauce-related issue came with the grilled chicken sandwich. It sounded more promising than your normal boring chicken breast sandwich because I figured it was cooked on the Green Egg and I liked that I could choose a wing sauce to have it coated in.
But it was not cooked on the grill – only steaks and pork chops are, which seems like a wasted opportunity – and instead of having it blanketed in sauce, I got a tiny cup of sauce on the side. It had a nice pretzel bun, fresh tomato and lettuce, and I got some really good baked beans as a side, but the chicken was not as good as it could have been.
The same could be said of Mitchell’s bloody Mary bar, which is available Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. It had all the fixings and then some – jumbo shrimp, three kinds of bacon, blue cheese- or pepperoni-stuffed olives, pickles, a bevy of hot sauces and dried spices and three types of bloody Mary mix.
The mixes were not chilled, however, so ice was necessary. I don’t like my Marys on the rocks because they are not the kind of drink you finish quickly, so it got watered down. Next time, I’ll ask for an extra small glass so I can temper the ice.
There will be a next time at Mitchell’s for sure. That grilled cheese, the poutine and the simply perfect service everyone there provided – right down to warning me about a dish I shouldn’t try – guaranteed that.
Restaurant: Mitchell’s Sports & Neighborhood Grill
Address: 6179 W. Jefferson Blvd.
Phone: 387-5063
Hours: 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday
Cuisine: American
Handicapped accessible: Yes
Alcohol: Full bar
Credit cards: Yes
Kid-friendly: Yes
Menu: Poutine ($8.99), wings ($6.99 for 6; $12.99 for 12), soup ($3 cup; $5 bowl), grilled cheese ($9.99), bratwurst ($7.99), NY strip ($32), chicken sandwich ($8.99), chicken & waffles ($11.99), bloody Mary bar ($11; includes vodka shot)
Rating breakdown: Food: *1/2 (3-star maximum); atmosphere: * (1 maximum), service: * (1 maximum)
Ryan DuVall is a restaurant critic for The Journal Gazette. This review is based on two unannounced visits. The Journal Gazette pays for all meals. Email him at rduvall@jg.net; call at 461-8130. DuVall’s past reviews can be found at www.journalgazette. net. You can follow him on Twitter @DiningOutDuVall. | http://www.journalgazette.net/food/dining-out/Re-opened-sports-bar-reinvents--improves-menu-14873255 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/4c3f0f57054d559e5fcfbfc7ba76ac93f1e56e5daf308e583b168eee336310b2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T16:48:22 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fentertainment%2Ftv%2F-Dr--Drew-on-Call--to-end-5-year-run-on-HLN-14928619.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13244437/14928621.jpg | en | null | 'Dr. Drew on Call' to end 5-year run on HLN | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- Dr. Drew Pinsky's series on the HLN channel is ending its run after five years.
HLN said Thursday that "Dr. Drew on Call" will air its final episode on Sept. 22. Pinsky's previous TV series includes "Loveline" and "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew."
His exit comes amid other changes at HLN, including the upcoming addition of CNN's Ashleigh Banfield to the channel's prime-time lineup and the planned October departure of longtime host Nancy Grace.
In a statement, Pinsky said he was excited to stay "within the CNN Worldwide family" as a contributor. CNN and HLN are part of the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner Inc. | http://www.journalgazette.net/entertainment/tv/-Dr--Drew-on-Call--to-end-5-year-run-on-HLN-14928619 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/261fd2344393ed37c2df42f1d3b807edd197f118c166ee78682f3cc8768380a3.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T20:49:18 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2FDeKalb-Classic-Cross-Country-Meet-14946411.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13247021/14945774.jpg | en | null | DeKalb Classic Cross Country Meet | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Chad Ryan | The Journal Gazette
DeKalb's Tyler Schwartz cruises to the finish line to win the girls race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet in 18:04, 29 seconds ahead of second place, on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
Chad Ryan | The Journal Gazette
DeKalb's Tyler Schwartz, right, is followed by East Noble's Kayla McCulloch, centern and DeKalb teammate Lauren Beckman aroud the first course marker post during the girls race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
Chad Ryan | The Journal Gazette
Columbia City's Jasmine Early strides to a fourth-place individual finish to lead the Eagles to the team title in the girls race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
Chad Ryan | The Journal Gazette
Columbia City's Jake Matteson runs in the second mile of the course in the boys race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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Snider's Ian Winebrenner sprints to the finish in the boys race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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Concordia Lutheran's Noah Steffen sprints to the finish to win the boys race and lead the Cadets to a team victory at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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Runners, from left, Concordia Lutheran's Noah Steffen, Roman Jennings of Snider, Northrop's Jack Brokaw, Snider's Jesse Hamlin and Luku Ojerinde of Indianapolis Pike group together as they run in the first mile of the boys race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School. Steffen pulled ahead to win the race in 15:54 with all four of the others finishing in the top 10.
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Spectators encourage the competitors in the second mile of the boys race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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Columbia City's Bailie Brown, right, leadsw the main pack of runners around the first course marker post in the girls race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School. With three runners in the top 10 finishers, including Brown at seventh place, Jasmine Early at fourth and Lillie Oddou at 10th, Columbia City won the team title.
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Snider's Ashtyn Roberston crosses the finish line in ninth place to lead the Panthers in the grils race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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DeKalb's Tyler Schwartz cruises to the finish line to win the girls race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet in 18:04, 29 seconds ahead of second place, on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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Runners in the boys race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet push off the starting line as the official fires the starter pistol on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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Snider's Jesse Hamlin, left, and Roman Jennings, push ahead of Northrop's Jack Brokaw and Indianapolis Pike's Luku Ojerinde as they chase Nothrop's Dustin Stames in the second mile of the boys race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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Northrop's Dustin Stames, right, races to an early lead after the start of the boys race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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Fans cheer on the Snider cross country runners at the start of the girls race at the DeKalb Classic on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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DeKalb's Tyler Schwartz cruises to the finish line to win the girls race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet in 18:04, 29 seconds ahead of second place, on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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East Noble's Kayla McCulloch races to the finish line to take second place in the girls race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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Snider's Roman Jennings cruises to a second-place finish in the boys race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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Concordia Lutheran's Noah Steffen runs with the main group before pulling ahead in the middle section of the course to win the boys race and lead the Cadets to a team victory at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School.
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Northrop's Dustin Stames built a huge early lead before being reeled in by the pack and falling to a sixth-place finish in the boys race at the DeKalb Classic Cross Country meet on Saturday at DeKalb High School. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/DeKalb-Classic-Cross-Country-Meet-14946411 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/6ea8ab29add202b06bbf212398436f71233297d22bb366942bcaa82556d0f61b.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T00:50:17 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fprofessional%2FConcussion-related-lawsuit-pending--Bouchard-out-at-US-Open-14994900.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Concussion-related lawsuit pending, Bouchard out at US Open | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | NEW YORK – Eugenie Bouchard wrung her hands at her post-match news conference. She rubbed her lower lip. She squeezed her left arm.
While her body language screamed discomfort Tuesday, when the main topic of discussion was Bouchard's ongoing lawsuit against the U.S. Open rather than her first-round loss, her words were measured. The once rising star answered every question.
A year ago at Flushing Meadows, Bouchard got a concussion from a fall at the facility and withdrew before playing in the fourth round, and then missed most of the rest of the season. She filed suit against the U.S. Tennis Association in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn in October, and that case is still pending, putting the 2014 Wimbledon runner-up in the odd position of competing this week at an event whose organizers she is suing.
"If I sit down and think about it, yeah, it's definitely a strange situation. But it's something that's so far in the back of my mind. I don't think about it on a daily basis, at all. I have people, lawyers, working on that side of it," Bouchard said. "So it's really not something I think about much at all. Obviously, being here, it's crossed my mind. But besides that, I mean, it has nothing to do with my day-to-day life."
Her 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 exit against 72nd-ranked Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic, a player who only once has been as far as the third round at a major tournament, was filled with 46 unforced errors by Bouchard, who also was treated for blisters on her feet. It represented the latest early loss for a 22-year-old Canadian who reached three Grand Slam semifinals two years ago — and none since.
In other first-round action on Day 2 at the year's last Grand Slam tournament, sixth-seeded and two-time champion Venus Williams got through a tougher-than-expected 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 victory over Kateryna Kozlova, while her older sister Serena was going to test her sore right shoulder against Ekaterina Makarova at night. Also due to play under the lights: Andy Murray against Lukas Rosol.
There were various upsets around the grounds during the afternoon, including 19-year-old American Jared Donaldson's 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-0 elimination of 12th-seeded David Goffin, and a loss by No. 29 Sam Querrey, who stunned Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon. Three seeded women departed, including former No. 1 and 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic.
When she was at her peak, and a seeded player, an early major loss by Bouchard was rather newsworthy. Her up-and-down 2015 and 2016 have changed that, in part because she is ranked only 39th now, after a best of No. 5.
She lost 14 of 17 matches leading into the 2015 U.S. Open but, after working a bit with Jimmy Connors, appeared to be back on the upswing in New York by reaching the fourth round. Then came her slip-and-tumble, and the concussion diagnosis, and she pulled out of what would have been a matchup against eventual runner-up Roberta Vinci.
It took her until January to return to the tour full-time.
"I didn't feel like, on the court, I was back to where I was," Bouchard said Tuesday, meaning that her level of play wasn't at its peak at the start of 2016. "But physically, since the beginning of the year, I've been feeling good."
USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier said the organization would not comment on the "substance" of litigation.
"However, it is truly unfortunate that a year after her accident, Genie's focus is on matters other than playing to her best ability," Widmaier said, noting that Bouchard's lawyers asked for an extension of the case.
He said the USTA "has remained ready, willing and able to bring the litigation to a conclusion as expeditiously as is possible, whether through settlement discussions or a fully litigated process."
Widmaier added that the lawsuit "had no impact on how Genie was treated at the U.S. Open in any manner."
Bouchard's coach, Nick Saviano, was asked whether her ability to play tennis Tuesday had been affected at all by any possible distractions created by the lawsuit.
"I can't really speak to that," Saviano said. "She was in a good frame of mind coming in. She went out, she was ready to play, and the other girl played well." | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/professional/Concussion-related-lawsuit-pending--Bouchard-out-at-US-Open-14994900 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/f048cd95d675fe9c8586ddc68a2ff3c2a464261e0134221a9b4f69ba2f007500.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T06:49:13 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fprofessional%2Fnfl%2FRodgers-throws-TD--pass-to-lead-Packers-past-49ers-21-10-64b2c70d.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13246374/ad5eb29534fa4ba5b9e149a3e2177538.jpg | en | null | Rodgers throws TD pass to lead Packers past 49ers 21-10 | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Aaron Rodgers made the most of his only appearance of the preseason, throwing a touchdown pass to Randall Cobb in the Green Bay Packers' 21-10 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Friday night.
Colin Kaepernick did not fare as well as he looked extremely rusty in his first game action since last November. He completed 2 of 6 passes and generated one first down on three drives.
Rodgers was held out of the first two preseason games despite being healthy and won't play the exhibition finale next week; the veteran quarterback needs little game work to get ready for the regular season.
Rodgers played two drives against the 49ers, going 6 for 9 for 60 yards.
After the first drive stalled because of penalties, Rodgers looked sharp the next time Green Bay got the ball. He moved around easily in the pocket and drew a 12-men-on-the-field penalty when he operated out of the hurry-up offense.
That play helped extend a 14-play, 87-yard drive capped when Rodgers threw a quick pass to Cobb, who juked Chris Davis and got into the end zone for a 6-yard score.
Despite Kaepernick returning after sitting the first two games with a tired shoulder, Blaine Gabbert once again got the start. He appears to have the inside track for that role when the season starts.
After a three-and-out on the opening drive, Gabbert led the Niners to a score on his final series. He had a nice run and two short completions before Carlos Hyde busted a 27-yard run. Quinton Patton then took a lateral from Gabbert and scampered into the end zone on a 3-yard run.
Kaepernick entered to applause on the next series, but did little to show he deserves the starting job. He was quick to leave the pocket when his first option was covered, and three of his passes were broken up by defenders. He finished 2 for 6 for 14 yards and added 18 yards on four runs.
ROOKIE WATCH
Packers: Joe Callahan, an undrafted rookie out of Division III Wesley College, replaced Rodgers in the second quarter with backup Brett Hundley out with an ankle injury. Callahan went 16 for 24 yards for 167 yards with an 18-yard TD pass to Jared Abbrederis.
49ers: First-round draft pick Joshua Garnett did not start but came in after two series to get time with the first-team at left guard.
INJURY UPDATE
Packers: LB Jayrone Elliott and S Chris Banjo left with hamstring injuries and RB John Crockett injured his shoulder. ... First-round DL Kenny Clark did not play because of a back injury.
49ers: DL Quinton Dial (knee) and WR Bruce Ellington (hamstring) left with injuries. ... DL Arik Armstead missed his third straight preseason game with a shoulder injury.
POSITION BATTLES
Packers: Free agent acquisition Jared Cook, competing with Richard Rodgers for the starting tight end role, caught four passes for 54 yards. Rodgers had one catch for 8 yards.
49ers: Anthony Davis, a former starter at right tackle, played right guard in a game for the first time since college. Davis sat out last year in a temporary retirement before returning to the team this summer. With Trent Brown entrenched at right tackle, Davis is trying to get back into the lineup at guard.
___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/professional/nfl/Rodgers-throws-TD--pass-to-lead-Packers-past-49ers-21-10-64b2c70d | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/b3ba0147eb5fb041a78aabbc41bbdba3fde82be072575f185f07889a2c293846.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T20:50:01 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fentertainment%2Fmovies%2FGene-Wilder--star-of-Mel-Brooks-movies--dies-at-83-14975477.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Gene Wilder, star of Mel Brooks movies, dies at 83 | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Gene Wilder, the star of such comedy classics as "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," has died. He was 83.
Wilder's nephew said Monday that the actor and writer died earlier this month in Stamford, Connecticut, from complications from Alzheimer's disease.
The frizzy-haired actor was a master at playing panicked characters caught up in schemes that only a madman such as Mel Brooks could devise, whether reviving a monster in "Young Frankenstein" or bilking Broadway in "The Producers."
But he also knew how to keep it cool as the boozy sheriff in "Blazing Saddles" and as the charming candy man in the children's favorite "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory." | http://www.journalgazette.net/entertainment/movies/Gene-Wilder--star-of-Mel-Brooks-movies--dies-at-83-14975477 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/32f2c26d041876ede0624625e257ed186ec83def56007236d7a381b9dab5fbc2.json |
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"Niki Kelly",
"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-31T14:50:25 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fblog%2Fpolitical-notebook%2FHolcomb-running-political-ads2016-08-31T06-27-44.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13170801/14326061.jpg | en | null | Holcomb running political ads | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb is now up on the air with television ads supporting his run for governor.
The move came just a month after he was chosen as the GOP nominee in a special caucus following Gov. Mike Pence's departure from the race.
In the ad - "Called to Serve" - Holcomb talks directly to camera about his joining the U.S. Navy after college. It is interspersed with Desert Storm footage and other patriotic images.
"Serving in the Navy certainly changed my life," he says in the ad. "It not only made me a much more disciplined individual but it also, it really taught me that everyone is as important as the other person.
"Boot Camp is the great equalizer. It really teaches you that you count on everyone to your left and to your right. And I see Indiana that way. And I can see how much we can accomplish together."
The biographical piece is meant to introduce Holcomb to Hoosiers in this shortened race and doesn't talk about any issues or policy positions.
If you want a different look at Holcomb go to his YouTube page and look for his "On the Road with Eric" snippets. There are lots of hello's, and interviews and speeches and bro-hugs.
He makes stops at an Indianapolis barber shop and sandwich shop, where he greets friends.
But it lacks the unscripted moments ala Mitch Daniels in 2004 when he ran RV-1 - long-form ads of a sort following his travels.
On that Daniels could be seen swatting flies in the RV; telling kids to squeeze harder when they shake hands and meeting voters who had no idea who he was.
One infamous moment was watching Daniels react to a delicate situation. When telling one man on a porch in rural Indiana that he used to work for President Bush, the man replies that "Bush lied, troops died and the rich got richer."
He turned out to be a local Democratic precinct committeeman. | http://www.journalgazette.net/blog/political-notebook/Holcomb-running-political-ads2016-08-31T06-27-44 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/90fc707c1292e382216cbd1f0c0830ac544eded459a74515612c2c888c379e84.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:17 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Findiana%2FIndianapolis-man-suspected-of-planning-domestic-terrorism-14990245.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Indianapolis man suspected of planning domestic terrorism | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | GREENWOOD, Ind. – Authorities say they believe an Indianapolis man was planning an act of domestic terrorism after a search of his car revealed a rifle, ammunition and liquids that when mixed form a toxic and combustible gas.
Thirty-one-year-old Christopher C. Byrne was pulled over by a Greenwood police officer on Aug. 15. Police say Byrne said he was a "sovereign national" and refused to provide identification. Police identified Byrne, determined that he'd recently pleaded guilty to a gun charge and a felony charge of being a habitual traffic offender, and arrested him.
Johnson County Deputy Prosecutor Rob Seet says the water bottles containing ammonia and bleach suggests Byrne might have been planning "something bad" and that the case is being investigated by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/indiana/Indianapolis-man-suspected-of-planning-domestic-terrorism-14990245 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/78198e4087a013cd35eaa9196ec0ea6bd99390487d66c4c6a2162a3f9962fcca.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T00:50:00 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fblog%2Ffull-count%2FGame-134--TinCaps--60-73--vs--West-Michigan--67-61--14978018.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Game 134: TinCaps (60-73) vs. West Michigan (67-61) | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | The TinCaps are looking for a series victory as they wrap up their four-game set against West Michigan at Parkview Field.
Fort Wayne was officially eliminated Sunday from contention for the Midwest League playoffs, so it's a chance for the coaching staff to get the first look at Taylor Kohlwey. Chosen by the San Diego Padres in the 21st round of the amateur draft in June, Kohlwey is playing center field and batting fifth since Brad Zunica has the night off.
Kohlwey, 22, is a left-handed hitter who was promoted Saturday from high-A Lake Elsinore. Across two Single-A levels, Kohlwey is hitting .244 with one home run and eight stolen bases in 46 games.
The pitching matchup is left-hander Logan Allen against Sandy Baez. The TinCaps have struggled against Baez this year, batting just .218 with a meager .559 on-base plus slugging percentage in 14 innings against the right-hander.
Here is the lineup for Fort Wayne.
Kodie Tidwell LF
Chris Baker SS
Austin Allen C
Carlos Belen 3B
Kohlwey CF
Tyler Selesky 1B
Alan Garcia RF
Jhonatan Pena DH
Peter Van Gansen 2B
Logan Allen P
And here is the Whitecaps' lineup.
Brett Pirtle 3B
Will Maddox 1B
Arvicent Perez C
Will Allen DH
Jose Azocar CF
Cam Gibson LF
Joey Havrilak RF
David Gonzalez 2B
Leo Laffita SS
Baez P | http://www.journalgazette.net/blog/full-count/Game-134--TinCaps--60-73--vs--West-Michigan--67-61--14978018 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/71650bf29e0f3f716e50b0b4e308ec67b6e7f1023142f2b30b08d9ecc2255265.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:58:22 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2FPicking-up-the-pieces-14912330.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13243121/14915575.jpg | en | null | Picking up the pieces | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | By the numbers Aug. 24 Indiana tornadoes Confirmed tornado touchdowns: 8, in Adams, Allen, Howard, Grant, Miami, Montgomery and Wells counties; with an EF-3 touchdown in Kokomo Counties with tornado warnings: 29, some with multiple warnings Total warnings and watches: 44 warnings, 4 watches First warning: 2:40 p.m. Last warning: 8:30 p.m. Statewide power outages: 13,480 Allen County damage: 17 homes, with 5 destroyed; 22 barns, with 7 destroyed; plus numerous outbuildings, downed wires, blown-down corn and damaged soybean crops Source: Indiana and Allen County Department of Homeland Security, as of 4:30 p.m. Thursday
Jonas Graber came home from a construction job late Wednesday afternoon to find a big dark cloud hanging just beyond his farm. His wife had supper ready and wanted him to sit down and eat.
“No,” he said. “We’re going to the basement.”
Not more than five seconds later, a tornado hit the farm along the east side of Brush College Road just south of Doehrman Road in Milan Township. The farmer’s barn was gone. Its big, long chicken house with about 23,000 chickens was lifted away, scattering dead poultry in fields for hundreds of yards. All that was left of Graber’s home was about four feet of wall above the foundation.
That’s how one of Graber’s relatives told the story Thursday of the devastation that descended on a corner of northeast Allen County from one of apparently several strong tornadoes Wednesday afternoon and evening that raked across central and northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio.
The National Weather Service had two teams on the ground in the area Thursday to assess damage from the storms. But no information on their strength or number had been released by Thursday afternoon.
But preliminary assessment of the northeast Allen County tornado found damage consistent with winds of 135 to 160 mph, which would merit an EF-3 rating, a weather service statement said.
It’s believed the same tornado or tornadoes continued into northwest Ohio. The storms were tracked for about 100 miles, said Nathan Masili, weather service specialist at the National Weather Service Northern Indiana office outside Syracuse.
The weather service Thursday afternoon also confirmed that another tornado occurred in southwest and south-central Adams County. The tornado lifted numerous times as it moved east generating winds of 90 to 100 mph, giving it a preliminary rating of EF-1, the weather service statement said.
The storms came as something of a surprise, said David Call, a meteorology professor at Ball State University. In a written statement, he said, “Most forecasters and computer models did not project them.
“(Wednesday’s) weather pattern typically does not result in a tornado outbreak,” he said. “In fact, there were doubts that thunderstorms would form at all.”
By noon Thursday, scores of men had descended on the Graber property and that of another damaged home across the road, where they crawled on an already-trussed roof affixing plywood.
Two huge bonfires of debris at the Graber farm sent up clouds of black smoke visible for miles, while a large yellow backhoe and several smaller loaders picked up wood, aluminum siding, downed tree limbs and clumps of pink insulation, and pickup trucks ferried the debris to large piles.
Groups of people from miles around worked all night picking up the dead birds, Graber’s relative said. No one was hurt, he said.
By mid-afternoon, a crew had started to frame out a large shed that will house family members and be used to feed workers while rebuilding continues. Family members may also stay in a tent on the property, said Graber’s relative, who estimated rebuilding time at three weeks.
Next door to the Grabers, Joe Kahre answered the front door of his home saying, “I’m blessed.”
His home, 20 feet or so from the Grabers’ drive, was not touched by the tornado, but two small barns not more than 10 feet away from the house “just left,” Kahre said. A large tree in the front yard was shattered down the middle.
Kahre said he was giving a voice lesson to a student in the front room when he felt the air pressure change.
“I pushed him back in the corner, and it was over that quick,” he said.
Kahre raises miniature horses and is national president of the International Miniature Horse Association. He said an international prize-winning stallion, a white miniature named Mr. Charm, was standing between two large trees near one of the barns. The tornado hit both trees, but their branches hooked above the ground and the horse was untouched.
“I was scared to go back there and look. I knew he was dead,” Kahle said. “I literally had to pick him up to get him out of there. But he was OK. Not a scratch.”
Kahle’s pickup truck, however, was totaled. A log four feet in diameter fell in its bed, but the tornado nonetheless picked up the vehicle and dropped it about 10 feet away.
On Ehle Road north and east of the Graber farm, Ronda Stuck said she was sleeping after having worked a night shift at Parkview Regional Medical Center. Her son roused her, and looking out the kitchen window, she saw a tornado coming at her house.
Thursday, she said, weather service investigators told her they thought it might have been two tornadoes that converged on a small woodlot behind her ranch home, snapping off tall trees that were perhaps 60 to 80 years old before continuing on to Bull Rapids Road.
Across the road, at her parents’ farm, an old evergreen was pulled out of the ground and a metal roof peeled off a barn.
After the storm passed, giant tree limbs littered the front of Stuck’s home, which suffered roof damage and a broken window.
“All these amazing people showed up who cleared things up,” Stuck said as a chain saw buzzed in the woodlot. “Last night people worked here, and people showed up at 8 o’clock this morning. They’ve been cleaning up debris, and it looks like a different house already.
“Well, it is a different house. It’s not my same house any more.”
Indiana Department of Homeland Security officials said Thursday that eight confirmed tornadoes were on the ground in Indiana on Wednesday, including one in Kokomo that was preliminarily rated an EF-3.
Bernie Beier, Allen County Department of Homeland Security director, said his unofficial count is four homes destroyed, five with heavy damage, five with moderate damage and three with light damage.
He said seven barns were destroyed or blown off their foundations, with 15 receiving major or moderate damage.
Numerous outbuildings were damaged or destroyed, he said. David W. Kane, Indiana homeland security director, visited the area Thursday afternoon and met with Woodburn Mayor Joe Kelsey and area residents whose property sustained damage, Beier said.
Indiana Michigan Power crews worked Thursday to restore power to individual customers and a major transmission line crossed by the tornado, Beier said.
Twenty-nine Indiana counties were placed under tornado warnings Wednesday, some more than once. Forty-four were issued between 2:40 p.m. and about 8:30 p.m.
Because of damage and high water, three northeast Allen County roads were closed to traffic Thursday morning – Bull Rapids Road from Ward to Ehle roads; Roemke Road from Doehrman to Doty roads; and Brush College Road from Ehle to Doty roads. The latter two were still closed Thursday afternoon.
The Allen County commissioners issued a statement Thursday urging residents to stay away from that area while cleanup continues.
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"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-26T13:03:38 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fentertainment%2FTaste-of-the-Arts-festival-grows-into-2-day-meal-14790136.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13242856/14881072.jpg | en | null | Taste of the Arts festival grows into 2-day meal | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | If you go What: Taste of the Arts When: 6 to 10 p.m. today and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday Where: Downtown arts campus, 300 block of East Main Street Admission: Free; food and drink tickets are $1 each More information: www.artsunited.org/tasteofthearts
Susan Mendenhall, president of Arts United, says a volunteer recently described the annual Taste of the Arts festival as the “most beautiful mayhem.”
“I thought it was perfect,” Mendenhall says, laughing.
Featuring 11 stages, 70 performances and more than 40 arts organizations providing hands-on activities, the mayhem only grows this year with the eighth annual Taste of the Arts festival stretching into a two-day event.
This year’s festival will feature a new “Beat Beethoven” 4-mile run/walk and last year’s standout, Busker Square. Local artists will take part in Artlink’s FortArtisan Fair, the gallery’s Wet Paint Auction fundraiser, and the Paint the Piano program, in which the public can help paint two pianos that will be donated to a music student without access to a piano and to Calhoun Street Soups, Salads and Spirits.
“Arts and culture exist in this community because of the community. It’s for the community, and because of the community, that we have an opportunity to celebrate the diversity of arts and cultural experiences that we have,” Mendenhall says. “Taste of the Arts really brings that home. It’s the one day a year, I think, for Arts United that we get to see our entire mission in action all over the place.”
The festival opens today with the WBOI’s “Meet the Music” concert kicking off the evening with Todd Harrold and Nick Bobay, Jane Heald and Sean Ellsworth-Hoffman, David Todoran and the Mobile Homewreckers and Randy Kimball Blues. The concert is a live session of the public radio program hosted by Julia Meek every Thursday with encores on Monday.
Following “Meet the Music,” dAnce.Kontemporary and Pyroscope will also perform on the Arts Campus, and the Living Fort Wayne Film Series will screen “It Happened One Night” to conclude the first night.
Dan Ross, vice president of community development for Arts United, says “Meet the Music,” which has been scheduled during the “Dessert” evening portion of the day in past years, has become a popular event for the festival since the concert’s first year in 2012.
“We changed the schedule up, and we’re really excited about that, and I know Julia Meek is excited about that, too,” Ross says. “We had always done it in the evening, and it just felt like it was going to be more a complete experience to let (the concert) stand on its own.”
As Meek puts it, having “Meet the Music” on Friday is like having dessert first. She explains that each year is about presenting four fresh acts that run the gamut of styles and genres.
Meek will co-host the concert with Rob Martinez.
“We are as proud as can be to be apart of it, and for the festival to be able to put a second day, it’s just fantastic. It’s a dream come true for the festival, and we know that,” Meek says.
On Saturday, the full day of events starts with the new “Beat Beethoven” run/walk, where participants will attempt to finish the course faster than it takes an orchestra to play Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
“I cannot run four miles faster than it takes a symphony to play Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, but you don’t have to. You can just walk, listen to the music and enjoy the experience. The trail goes through downtown and around the Rivergreenway,” Ross says. “But I loved the idea of pulling that arts component into an outdoor, physical activity. The way those things blend together as quality-of-life experiences for people, I think they just fit together.”
Meek believes the city is in the midst of one of its golden ages.
“If you grow up here and are around here long enough, you’ll see lots of golden ages,” she says, but it’s still exciting to see the number of events and venues focused on the arts expand. The Taste of the Arts is just a reflection of that, Meek says.
“It’s growing so big, and it’s like watching a child grow up,” Meek says. “It just speaks to the whole community that we can have such a celebration – and we deserve it, you know?”
kcarr@jg.net | http://www.journalgazette.net/entertainment/Taste-of-the-Arts-festival-grows-into-2-day-meal-14790136 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/ebad86a8423d6056eca956b237bb4f23c5eaef3eb552f7711441a40374bf175a.json |
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"Amir Shah",
"Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-31T12:50:22 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fworld%2FUS-evaluating-Taliban-video-of-captive-couple-in-Afghanistan-15002093.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13254647/15002095.jpg | en | null | US evaluating Taliban video of captive couple in Afghanistan | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | KABUL, Afghanistan – The State Department says it's evaluating a video released by the Afghan Taliban showing a Canadian man and his American wife warning that their Afghan captors will kill them and their children unless the Kabul government ends its executions of Taliban prisoners.
The video, which has not been independently verified by The Associated Press, shows Canadian Joshua Boyle and American Caitlan Coleman, who were kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2012, calling on Canada and the United States to pressure the Afghan government into changing its policy on executing captured Taliban prisoners.
Coleman has told her family that she gave birth to two children in captivity.
"I would tell you that the video is still being examined for its validity," State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday, in response to a question at his daily briefing. "We remain concerned, obviously, about the welfare of Caitlan and her family, and we continue to urge for their immediate release on humanitarian grounds."
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the AP that the video was not new and had in fact been recorded in 2015. Mujahid said Boyle and Coleman and their two children remain in captivity but in good health.
The AP could not immediately verify the date of the recording. However, even if the video was recorded in 2015, it would mark the first time the couple has appeared in a video since 2013.
The footage, which was uploaded Tuesday on YouTube, came to public attention through the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity online.
In a statement Tuesday, Global Affairs Canada spokesman Michael O'Shaughnessy said the government was aware of the latest video. He said the government will not comment further or release any information that might risk endangering the safety of Canadian citizens abroad.
In the video, the scraggily bearded Boyle says the couple's captors "are terrified of the thought of their own mortality approaching, and are saying that they will take reprisals on our family."
Coleman, wearing a black headscarf, then adds: "I know this must be very terrifying and horrifying for my family to hear that these men are willing to go to these lengths, but they are."
A phone message left at a number listed for Coleman's family in Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, was not immediately returned.
The couple set off in the summer of 2012 for a journey that took them to Russia, the central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and then to Afghanistan. Her parents, Jim and Lyn Coleman, last heard from their son-in-law on Oct. 8, 2012, from an internet cafe in what Josh described as an "unsafe" part of Afghanistan.
In 2013, the couple appeared in two videos asking the U.S. government to free them from the Taliban. The Colemans received a letter last November in which their daughter said she had given birth to a second child in captivity.
"I pray to hear from you again, to hear how everybody is doing," the letter said.
In July, Jim Coleman, speaking to the online news service Circa News, issued a plea to top Taliban commanders to be "kind and merciful" and let the couple go.
"As a man, father and now grandfather, I am asking you to show mercy and release my daughter, her husband, and our beautiful grandchildren," Jim Coleman said. "Please grant them an opportunity to continue their lives with us, and bring peace to their families."
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Associated Press writer Charles J. Gans in New York contributed to this report. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/world/US-evaluating-Taliban-video-of-captive-couple-in-Afghanistan-15002093 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/dab0e2c47977d3fb56b6b3a69f9add84c36803ce57b227177f6f888ff42fc58a.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T14:50:12 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fpolice-fire%2FStolen-car-pursuit-ends-in-Ohio-14986571.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Stolen car pursuit ends in Ohio | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | A chase involving a stolen car ended in Ohio Monday night.
Fort Wayne police told New Haven police that a car was stolen in Fort Wayne, a statement from the New Haven Police Department said today.
New Haven police were able to find the stolen car and tried to stop the driver by conducting a traffic enforcement stop, but the driver refused to stop, police said.
Police pursued the car until it crossed into Ohio, where New Haven officers ended the pursuit.
Ohio authorities were also advised of the stolen car and were able to find it, New Haven police said.
No other information was provided. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/police-fire/Stolen-car-pursuit-ends-in-Ohio-14986571 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/cb50ff0d7e4395a66b8b8eb143707618fbfef33ec8f32bea8e1571e2aab21ae6.json |
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"Niki Kelly",
"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-27T06:49:00 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Findiana%2FBoard-yanksabortion-doc-s-state-license-14925285.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13245641/14918667.jpg | en | null | Board yanks abortion doc's state license | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Medical Licensing Board early Friday took the medical license of a former Fort Wayne abortion doctor for failing to exercise reasonable care and violating several notice and documentation requirements.
The minimum six-month suspension for Dr. Ulrich Klopfer came after 12 hours of testimony and thousands of exhibits.
But it was a story that Klopfer told himself that struck a nerve with members of the board.
He spoke of a 10-year-old girl raped by her uncle who he performed an abortion on in an Illinois hospital but didn’t notify police about the child abuse. Instead, he let her go home with her parents, who knew of the rape and refused to prosecute.
It wasn’t part of the complaint filed by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office but appeared to shift the case, with several members of the board bringing it up during final discussion.
Board member Rebecca Moredock-Mueller described Klopfer as having a nonchalant attitude and lacked sound medical judgment.
“The thing that bothered me most was his professional incompetence,” she said.
Klopfer, 71, is likely Indiana’s most prolific abortion doctor in history, with tens of thousands of procedures in multiple counties over several decades.
Testimony during Thursday’s hearing – which ended Friday morning – showed a man who was essentially using abortion and sedation procedures from the 1970s and 1980s.
Klopfer told the panel he has never lost a patient in 43 years of doing abortions and has never even had a patient go into cardiac arrest.
“Women get pregnant, men don’t. We need to respect women making a decision that they think is best in their life,” he said. “I’m not here to dictate to anybody. I’m not here to judge anybody.”
The board specifically was bothered that he didn’t give pain medication to all women – only those under 16 and those who could pay extra. And when he did sedate women he didn’t have qualified staff to monitor them and didn’t follow best practices for administration of the drugs and emergency procedures.
Despite this, Klopfer had very few complications, which board members called amazing and lucky.
Klopfer can petition for reinstatement in six months – but only after he completes a laundry list of evaluations, continuing medical education credits and child abuse training. He also was fined $3,000.
The board found him guilty of five of nine charges. One of the charges related to not reporting abortions performed on two girls under the age of 14 within the three-day required timeline. Two referenced sedation and medical practices; two others were whether he followed state law requiring informed consent 18 hours before the procedure on a handful of women.
“Justice has been done,” said Cathie Humbarger, executive director at Allen County Right to Life. “We’re glad that he’s been held accountable for the inferior medical treatment that he has been responsible for over many, many years.”
Indiana Right to Life was instrumental in the censure after analyzing thousands of terminated pregnancy reports and other required documentation.
KIopfer has performed abortions in Fort Wayne, Gary and South Bend for years but is currently not practicing. All three of his abortion clinics have closed but he told the panel he wants to reopen when he can.
Mary Watts, Klopfer’s attorney, said the case is about forms and not about the standard of care patients received.
“He provided good medical care for his patients and did his best to follow the law,” she said. “It’s a question of documentation.”
She said any time deficiencies were found he corrected the procedure. Klopfer and Watts declined to speak at the conclusion of the hearing.
Klopfer began performing abortions in 1973 following the legalization of abortion by Roe v. Wade.
He had been affiliated with the Fort Wayne Women’s Health Organization since 1986 and became the owner in 2008.
Klopfer stopped performing abortions in Fort Wayne in January 2014 when he lost a backup physician required to meet the county’s admitting privileges law. The last of his clinics closed in November 2015.
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] | 2016-08-30T16:50:12 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fus%2FFlorida-woman-accused-of-killing-husband-in-hospital-bed-14987879.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Florida woman accused of killing husband in hospital bed | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A retired nurse from central Florida woman is facing a second-degree murder charge after authorities say she suffocated her husband in his hospital bed when he suffered life-threatening complications and became unresponsive following surgery.
Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood told news outlets that Jan Sochalski, 61, of Palm Coast was arrested Monday following the May 19 death of Henry Sochalski, 64.
According to an arrest report, Jan Sochalski had been complaining about her husband's care after he went into respiratory and cardiac arrest April 9 after elective back surgery at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal (http://bit.ly/2bG1Wth ) reports the retired Trenton, New Jersey, policeman, was unresponsive and placed in a unit that provides specialized medical care for people with serious illness.
Investigators noted in an arrest report that Jan Sochalski was so upset about her husband's treatment that on April 28, she threatened to go home and get his firearm and "shoot the people on the seventh floor" of the hospital. Police were called to the hospital that day, but a nurse calmed the woman down and she wasn't arrested.
A nurse told investigators that on one occasion, she had asked for medication to "decrease his respiratory status."
On May 19, a nurse told investigators she walked into the man's room and found his wife lying across his chest. According to the police report, the nurse said the woman had one hand around her husband's chest and the other across his mouth and nose. A second nurse in the room said it appeared she was "pinching the victim's nose."
He died about 30 minutes later.
Nurses called police, and an investigation began.
An initial autopsy was done May 20, but results weren't returned until Aug. 17.
Detective Dave Dinardi said Sochalski died of asphyxia of the mouth, nose and trachea.
On Monday, Jan Sochalski denied killing her husband, Dinardi said. She was arrested and is being held without bail at the Volusia County Jail. Jail records don't list an attorney for her.
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Information from: Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal, http://www.news-journalonline.com | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/Florida-woman-accused-of-killing-husband-in-hospital-bed-14987879 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/010f4b25a045b48d87af38bcb2d017df6f0393bcfc6759e8affd932d5108a524.json |
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"Ariana Eunjung Cha",
"Washington Post"
] | 2016-08-29T06:49:49 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fbusiness%2FHappiness-with-job-may-affect-your-health-14879796.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13248782/14897911.jpg | en | null | Happiness with job may affect your health | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Your first job can be a grind.
Many of us start out in gigs that we never thought we’d have to take, maybe because the job market is just too tough, and we need to make ends meet so we don’t need to live in our parents’ basements anymore.
For those of us who are lucky, the situation is temporary and a steppingstone to something we love, but for others it can be the start of many years of a career that we hate.
At least you have your health, right? Actually, it looks like the consequences of your unhappiness with your work may affect your physical and mental well-being – and perhaps sooner than you might think.
An analysis by Ohio State University’s Jonathan Dirlam and Hui Zheng, presented last week at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting, shows that job satisfaction in your late 20s and 30s appears to be linked to your health in your 40s.
The researchers’ data comes from 6,432 Americans who participated in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in 1979. Through the years the volunteers ranked how much they enjoyed their jobs on a spectrum of 1-4. They also reported back various health indicators.
Dirlam and Zheng found a striking link between people who were less satisfied with their jobs in their 20s and 30s and those who had health issues in their 40s. That may seem intuitive given that people tend to spend eight or more hours a day at work, and dissatisfaction at work can create a lot of stress. As has been well documented, stress can have physical manifestations.
Among the specific health effects that the researchers noted among the less-than-happy group is that they were more depressed, worried and had trouble sleeping.
One interesting aspect of the analysis is that the health effect was not related to your happiness with your very first job or jobs but with how your happiness with your job changed over time. Those with increasing satisfaction fared better than those with declining satisfaction in terms of their health.
Dirlam, a doctoral student in sociology, explained that there appears to be a “cumulative effect of job satisfaction on health that appears as early as your 40s.” | http://www.journalgazette.net/business/Happiness-with-job-may-affect-your-health-14879796 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/b3eebec68e408d4a22e7f3305b84d82971037ba1f3792a165fe10155a808453c.json |
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"Sherry Slater",
"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-28T06:50:09 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2FLabor-leaders-unite-for-picnic-14869994.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13247357/14883705.jpg | en | null | Labor leaders unite for picnic | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | If you go What: Labor Day picnic featuring free food, drinks, music, bingo, face painting and kid-friendly activities Who: Organized labor and the Workers’ Project Inc. When: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 5 Where: Headwaters Park East Admission: Free and open to the public, no union affiliation required For more information: Call the Workers’ Project at 483-3355
Local labor is trying to find solid footing after a significant split earlier this year. But the Labor Day picnic is still very much on.
The 35th annual event attracts an estimated 6,000 people each year and has been a rallying point for local union members, who contribute to its $14,000 annual budget and volunteer to serve gallons of chili, cook thousands of hot dogs and hand out hundreds of cold drinks.
They see the picnic as the highlight of their year, an opportunity to celebrate workers.
Although the Labor Day picnic is a well-coordinated effort, the same can’t be said of the groups that bring together labor leaders from throughout the region. At least, not yet.
They are experiencing the pains of birthing new organizations based on newly adopted bylaws.
The Northeast Indiana Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, imploded in April after national labor leaders imposed a redistricting plan that would have vastly expanded its territory. Delegates worried that increasing membership from nine to 26 Indiana counties would diminish their ability to address local needs without having to persuade labor leaders from as far away as Indianapolis to support their efforts.
Following conversations over several months, delegates failed to reach a compromise with AFL-CIO officials, who invoked an emergency action to shut down the local Central Labor Council ahead of a vote that was expected to reject redistricting.
Those locals loyal to the AFL-CIO have met and are electing interim officers, said Herb Anderson, benefits representative for United Steelworkers Local 715, which represents hourly BF Goodrich workers.
The Northeast Indiana AFL-CIO Chapter will cover roughly the same area as the former Central Labor Council, Anderson said. It is one of several chapters that will be part of the area labor federation, which covers the larger district.
The parallel organization is a nonprofit formed about 20 years ago without a formal structure.
The Workers’ Project Inc. has attracted the time and energy of numerous union members who were previously active in the local Central Labor Council, including Tom Lewandowski, who was the Central Labor Council’s president for about 25 years.
The organization is meeting monthly at the same time and place as the former Northeast Indiana Central Labor Council. But the group is also working through start-up details, including choosing interim board members and deciding how someone becomes an official member.
Lewandowski stressed that attending one group’s meetings doesn’t mean you’re barred by the other. Similarly, attending the Labor Day picnic doesn’t mean you’re taking sides, choosing the Workers’ Project, which is organizing this year’s event.
“We just want to make sure that no matter all the twists and turns that there is still a solid local foundation of solidarity,” he said.
Anderson agreed and plans to attend the picnic if he’s in town. Local 715 contributed to the event.
The local AFL-CIO chapter wasn’t formed in time to do the monthslong planning required, Anderson said.
“We’ll see what happens with it next year,” he said. “It could be a collaboration between us and the Workers’ Project.”
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"Rebecca S. Green",
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] | 2016-08-30T18:50:22 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fcourts%2FAttempted-murder-charge-for-Fort-Wayne-man-14990002.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13252707/14990003.jpg | en | null | Attempted murder charge for Fort Wayne man | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Prosecutors have formally charged a 39-year-old man with attempted murder nearly a week after he shot his ex-girlfriend after causing her to crash her vehicle on Fairfield Avenue.
Willie Amos, of the 3100 block of McDonald Street, was arrested on preliminary charges of aggravated battery, possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, battery and criminal recklessness.
On Tuesday, Allen County prosecutors charged him with attempted murder and asked for an elevated bond in the case.
According to court documents, the woman remains in the hospital.
For more on this story, see Wednesday's editions of the Journal Gazette or visit www.journalgazette.net after 1 a.m.
rgreen@jg.net | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/courts/Attempted-murder-charge-for-Fort-Wayne-man-14990002 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/9a4f4cdfe9901d550db17c25a8f0192c7ad189ded985827fd3f329c6e106110a.json |
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Their top video picks of events happening in and around Fort Wayne for the week of August 21, 2016:
Lloy Ball
https://vimeo.com/180219986
Former Olympian Lloy Ball spoke at Woodlan Elementary School about his
Olympic experience. Ball was a part of the 2008 United States gold medal
winning volleyball team.
Journal Gazette video by Cathie Rowand
Wednesday's tornado strikes farms
https://vimeo.com/180216521
Wednesday's tornado strikes farms on Brush College Road.
Journal Gazette video by Samuel Hoffman
Tornado damage to Paul and Nettie Rekeweg farm
https://vimeo.com/180216222
Damage to the farm of Paul and Nettie Rekeweg on Doehrman Road, Thursday
Journal Gazette video by Sam Hoffman
Tornado damage on Bull Rapids Road
https://vimeo.com/180118439
Tornado touched down north of Woodburn Wednesday. Video is of damaged homes on Bull Rapids Rd.
Journal Gazette video by Cathie Rowand
Fort Wayne Historical Society's Annual Open House
https://vimeo.com/179597063
The Annual Open House of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society was held in New Haven, IN on Saturday. Guests were able to experience a 400-ton steam locomotive up close and personal, take a short caboose ride, tour the newly upgraded shop of the historical society, visit World War II re-enactors and much more during the event.
Journal Gazette video by Rachel Von
Cheryl Wills visits Levan Scott Academy
https://vimeo.com/180208222
Journalist and author Cheryl Wills visits Levon Scott Academy on Thursday, August 25, 2016.
Journal Gazette video by Michelle Davies | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/Journal-Gazette-top-videos-for-week-of-August-21--2016 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/99aa9f8794ae93759c4f7bce26158e5190180313dfbe78efa2d2350a95214e01.json |
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"Associated Press"
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The people of Kokomo, where a tornado toppled a Starbucks coffee shop and tore apart homes, were grateful for the attention.
“It means a lot that they are taking time out of their schedules,” said Heidi Otiker, who was clearing debris from her yard when Pence stopped by with TV crews and reporters. If he stayed away, she said, it would have cost him votes: “If you can’t come out and support us in our time of need, why should we support you in your time of need?”
The Republican vice presidential candidate’s decision to quickly leave the campaign trail came just days after he and running mate Donald Trump harshly criticized Obama for delaying a tour of devastating Louisiana flooding until after his vacation, and it underscores the political perils of not showing up for disasters.
Politicians who don’t make an appearance risk angering voters or giving opponents a line of attack. President George W. Bush was harshly panned for his handling of Hurricane Katrina, which was exacerbated by his decision to fly over the Louisiana disaster instead of visiting.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie drew the ire of critics in 2010, when he decided to go to Disney World after his state was hit by a blizzard. Two years later, he was widely praised for his handling of Hurricane Sandy, which included touring the damage with Obama.
Trump and Pence toured the flooding in Baton Rouge several days before Obama and blasted the president for golfing instead of cutting short his vacation.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said Obama was better off waiting until after the cleanup was underway, so as not to pull resources away from the effort – though his decision might have been different if he were running for office.
As a candidate in 2008, Obama attacked Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina. And in 2012, the year of his re-election, he rushed to Louisiana to show solidarity with victims of Hurricane Isaac.
Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, said she has not visited Louisiana yet because “the relief effort can’t afford any distractions.”
That’s a real concern with high-profile visits, even though they may draw attention to the disaster, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
“It’s a logistical nightmare on top of the disaster itself,” Sabato said.
Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar said he hesitated early on to visit disaster areas because he feared interrupting recovery efforts. But he later came to believe such visits were an important psychological boost to residents.
“It’s a tough call … but when people are hurting, they do feel a little better if they see the head person show up,” said Edgar, recalling the weeks he spent visiting waterlogged residents and filling sandbags during the 1993 Mississippi River flood. “But I wouldn’t try to second-guess” other politicians.
Sabato said Pence had no choice but to go back to Indiana after his criticism of Obama, though Pence denied any political calculation.
“I really don’t think in those terms,” he told reporters Thursday. “I’m an eyes-on leader. I like to lead from the front.” | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/politics/A-leader-s-place-in-a-disaster-14918437 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/d692026902e3428127c66e1e130ed8d098753b7be4b454c4ca3bb042a5ca82ab.json |
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The USF Cougar Express will begin service Monday, the first day of classes. The bus will connect the main campus to downtown classrooms, shopping and dining. The service is free and available to the public.
The bus route runs every 30 minutes between campus locations with seven express stops and at any safe intersection along the route. The service operates from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday when school is in session.
Saint Francis students, faculty and staff can buy a Citilink 31-day bus pass from the school’s business office at a discounted rate and use all Citilink routes in the city.
More information is at sf.edu/about-usf/directions, fwcitilink.com/cougarexpress, or 260-432-4546. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/USF--Citilink-offer-express-route-14928497 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/0520db6239084f5a87f3f2121ae90e13c44c2a3f17e61054b59bdbe814748518.json |
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The 7 p.m. game is the second of a three-game series between the Hoosiers and the Mastodons, the statement said, and the fourth time since Fort Wayne has become a member of Division I that a member of the "Power Five" conferences has come to Fort Wayne for a game.
Last year, IU won 90-65 in Bloomington. The Mastodons will return to Bloomington in 2018-19.
"Hosting Indiana is an incredible opportunity for Fort Wayne basketball fans," Fort Wayne Athletics Director Kelley Hartley Hutton said in the statement. "Indiana men's basketball has a rich basketball tradition, and we are excited to bring a program of that caliber to Fort Wayne." | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/colleges/local-colleges/Tickets-going-on-sale-for-IPFW-IU-men-s-basketball-game-14971723 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/1a99954f3ed57879d8e756e712d3f303a4f4874af81bed3ababae7d2119eb704.json |
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Police today confirmed the arrests of Darrion Bright, Javaris Travier and Joshua Smiley. All are charged with felony criminal recklessness.
Allison was fatally shot when she went to a bonfire on Schaper Drive on Aug. 30, 2015. Just before midnight that night, police got a call that gunfire between two rival groups had erupted and Allison was hit. She was one of many attending the bonfire.
Bright, Travier and Smiley are expected in court for initial hearings on Tuesday.
For more on this story, see Tuesday's print edition of The Journal Gazette or visit www.journalgazette.net after 1 a.m. Tuesday. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/police-fire/3-charged-in-teen-s-shooting-death-14972634 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/695cd759121634df1c11a379e9e5316c0362999e89f72570bee14853a4eb8932.json |
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A window washer swings alongside the building and cleans off the windows on the Berry Street side of 1st Source Bank, 200 E. Main St. on a sunny Friday. The high Friday was in the 80s. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/Reflecting-on-job-well-done-14935312 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/9ca93ea3c26c157ec0b2cfd9edd1e140c7275b663812c0da7ac6a135cf4929e6.json |
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The ruling is the latest — and biggest — salvo in the EU executive Commission's battle to have multinationals pay their fair share in the region.
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said that a three-year investigation found Ireland granted such lavish tax breaks to Apple that the multinational's effective corporate tax rate on its European profits dropped from 1 percent in 2003 to a mere 0.0005 percent in 2014.
That last tax rate meant that for each million euros in profits, Apple paid just 50 euros in taxes, Vestager told a news conference.
"Member states cannot give tax benefits to selected companies--this is illegal under EU state aid rules," Vestager said.
"Ireland must now recover the unpaid taxes in Ireland from Apple for the years 2003 to 2014 of up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion), plus interest," the Commission said in a statement.
The Irish government denied granting favorable fiscal treatment to the maker of the iPhone and other consumer electronics products, computer software and online services. "Ireland's position remains that the full amount of tax was paid in this case and no state aid was provided," the Irish statement said. "Ireland does not do deals with taxpayers."
The Irish finance minister, Michael Noonan, said he would seek approval from the Irish Cabinet to appeal the EU Commission's ruling to European courts.
"It is important that we send a strong message that Ireland remains an attractive and stable location of choice for long-term substantive investment," Noonan said. "Apple has been in Ireland since the 1980s and employs thousands of people in Cork."
There was no immediate reaction from Apple, headquartered in Cupertino, California. A statement from the U.S. government was expected later Tuesday.
In a white paper made public last week, the U.S. Treasury Department accused the European Union of using a different set of criteria to judge cases involving American companies, calling the potential penalties "deeply troubling." | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/world/EU-says-Apple-must-pay-up-to-13B-euros-in-back-taxes-14984877 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/0e1eb7f40f687843b81c306c1eb6e76156b5510a270be3bef995fd366f7fcf56.json |
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The analysis by the Indianapolis Star comes as the Republican vice presidential nominee's running mate Donald Trump has promised to penalize companies for shipping jobs overseas. Of the incentives about $8.7 million has been paid out so far.
Since Pence became governor in 2013 the Indiana Economic Development Corporation has awarded incentives to companies that have moved production to countries including Mexico and China. The changes have cost thousands of Indiana residents their jobs.
Pence didn't respond to requests for interviews. His commerce secretary, Victor Smith, defends Indiana's economic development record and notes 150,000 jobs have been added since Pence became governor.
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"The armed conflict with the FARC is ending," President Juan Manuel Santos said on the steps of the congress building while declaring a definitive end to military action against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Members of his family and Cabinet walked with him the short distance from his official residence to hand-deliver the 297-page accord to lawmakers, a move required for Colombia to hold a national referendum on the peace deal that Santos announced for Oct. 2.
The FARC declared a unilateral cease-fire over a year ago, but Santos refused to grant a formal truce until talks wrapped up, though he ended aerial bombardments of guerrilla camps,
The peace agreement was announced Wednesday after more than four years of grueling negotiations in Cuba. The cease-fire will take effect a midnight Monday, Santos said.
Colombians celebrated the historic agreement even while expressing doubts about whether the guerrillas they've grown to loathe will honor their commitments to lay down their weapons, confess human rights abuses and help eradicate illegal coca crops that helped fuel Colombia's conflict after insurgencies elsewhere in Latin America were defeated. The five-decade conflict has killed more than 220,000 people and driven more than 5 million from their homes.
Last-minute government concessions included guarantees that the FARC's still-unnamed political movement will have a minimum of 10 seats in congress for two legislative periods. After 2026, the former rebel must prove their political strength at the ballot box.
"We've won the most beautiful of all battles: the peace of Colombia," chief FARC negotiator, known by the nom de guerre of Ivan Marquez, said at the announcement in Havana.
Congratulations poured in from regional governments and the United Nations, which will play a key role keeping the peace. U.S. President Barack Obama also welcomed the deal.
The U.N. Security Council scheduled a meeting Friday morning to discuss the body's role in helping Colombian implement the deal.
"There is an important task ahead for the U.N. to assist the government of Colombia in implementing the peace agreement, which is a historic occasion," Britain's deputy U.N. ambassador Peter Wilson told reporters Thursday.
The accord commits Colombia's government to carrying out aggressive land reform, overhauling its anti-narcotics strategy and greatly expanding the state's presence in long-neglected areas.
The FARC was forced to the negotiating table in 2012 after a decade of heavy battlefield losses inflicted by the U.S.-backed military. Several top rebel commanders were killed and its ranks thinned by half to the current 7,000 guerrillas.
Polls say most Colombians loathe the rebel group, but surveys also indicate Colombians will likely endorse a deal.
The most contentious agreement would let rebels who confess their crimes avoid jail and instead serve reduced sentences of no more than eight years by helping rebuild communities hit by the conflict.
"There are no other words to describe that than as a pinata of impunity," said Jose Miguel Vivanco, the Americas director for Human Rights Watch.
Santos' plebiscite is not without risks.
Colombia's opposition is likely to try to convert the vote into a referendum on Santos, whose approval rating plummeted to 21 percent in May, according to a Gallup poll. That is the lowest since he took office in 2010.
Possible low voter turnout is also a concern because a minimum of 13 percent of the registered voters, or about 4.4 million voters, must vote in favor for the accord to be ratified.
"We think we've done the best possible job, but it's the Colombians who will judge us," said chief government negotiator Humberto de la Calle. "We have to wait for the citizens' verdict."
After the agreement is signed — the date is still unknown — the FARC will begin mobilizing its troops to 31 zones scattered across Colombia. Ninety days later they are supposed to begin handing their weapons over to U.N.-sponsored monitors.
Over the 13 months since the FARC declared a unilateral cease-fire and the government reciprocated with an unofficial truce, violence has fallen to the lowest level since the movement was created 52 years ago by outlaw peasant groups joined by communist activists.
But analysts worry that as the rebels integrate into Colombian society, well-organized criminal gangs will fill the void and fight among themselves for control of the country's lucrative cocaine trade, which kept the FARC well-armed much longer than other Latin American insurgencies.
The much-smaller National Liberation Army also remains active, although it's pursuing its own peace deal.
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Associated Press writers Andrea Rodriguez in Havana and Cesar Garcia and Libardo Cardona in Bogota contributed to this report. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/world/Colombia-s-president-rushing-vote-on-deal-with-rebels2016-08-26T06-16-38 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/7f404cfc6b4a90d910617193ab93e1a8995f3ab1e4ba8745b55cfedc67b23fe7.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T06:48:58 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fus%2FMan-faces-2-capital-murder-charges-in-Mississippi-nun-deaths-5503c73e.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13246496/587a1f981475496988a5611af18d457b.jpg | en | null | Man faces 2 capital murder charges in Mississippi nun deaths | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | LEXINGTON, Miss. – A man has been arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of two nuns who were slain in Mississippi, police said.
Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, was charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, both 68, Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said in a statement released late Friday night.
Their bodies were discovered Thursday after they failed to show up for work at a clinic in Lexington, Mississippi, about 10 miles from where they lived.
"Sanders was developed as a person of interest early on in the investigation," Lt. Colonel Jimmy Jordan said in the statement.
Sanders was being held in an undisclosed detention center awaiting his initial court appearance.
Meanwhile, in the poverty-stricken Mississippi county where the two nuns were slain, forgiveness for their killer is hard to find, even if forgiveness is what the victims would have wanted.
Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill were nurse practitioners who dedicated their lives to providing health care to people in the poorest county in the state. And as authorities sought the killer, many residents wondered how they will fill the hole the women's deaths have left.
"Right now, I don't see no forgiveness on my heart," said Joe Morgan Jr., a 58-year-old former factory worker who has diabetes and was a patient of Merrill's at the clinic where the two nuns worked.
He said Merrill would want him to forgive whoever killed the women, but he hopes the perpetrator is arrested, convicted and executed.
"She doesn't deserve to die like this, doing God's work," Morgan said, shaking his head. "There's something wrong with the world."
Both women worked Man, 46, faces 2 at the clinic, where they gave flu shots, dispensed insulin and provided other medical care for children and adults who couldn't afford it.
Their stolen car was found abandoned a mile from their home, and there were signs of a break-in, but police haven't disclosed a motive.
Authorities have not said how the women were killed, but the Rev. Greg Plata of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington, where the nuns had led Bible study for years, said police told him they were stabbed.
The state posted a reward of $20,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
Plata said both nuns' religious communities have asked that people pray for the killer or killers. Asked about people's struggles to forgive, the priest said: "Forgiveness is at the heart of being a Christian. Look at Jesus on the cross: 'Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.'"
On Friday, a handwritten sign on the front door of Lexington Medical Clinic said it was closed until Monday.
The clinic and the nuns' home in Durant are in Holmes County, population 18,000. With 44 percent of its residents living in poverty, Holmes is the seventh-poorest county in America, according to the Census Bureau.
The slayings did more than shock people and plunge the county into mourning. They leave a gaping hole in what was already a strapped health care system.
Dr. Elias Abboud, who worked with the sisters for years and helped build the clinic, said it provided about 25 percent of all medical care in the county.
The two nuns cultivated relationships with drug company representatives, who often left extra free samples, according to clinic manager Lisa Dew.
"This is a poor area, and they dignified those who are poor with outreach and respect for them," Plata said. "They treated each person as a child of God."
Merrill's sister Rosemarie, speaking by telephone from her Stoneham, Massachusetts, home, said her sister had been in Mississippi helping the poor since 1981 and had previously worked in Holly Springs, where she used to ride around on a moped and was instrumental in locating the source of a tuberculosis outbreak.
Merrill was raised in the suburbs of Boston and came from a working-class family, her father a laborer and her mother a bookkeeper, her nephew David said. He said his aunt had worked with Held for many years.
"We always considered Margaret just part of the family," he said. "The word 'sister' has many meanings, and they fulfilled all of them."
Rosemarie Merrill said she doesn't know what will happen to the clinic now and worries about the effect on health care in Holmes County. She said her sister and Held would often go into the clinic on Sundays after Mass or on their days off.
"It's just going to be a disaster," she said.
Genette Pierce, who works at a home health and hospice business a few doors down from the clinic, said: "Their patients – all of them – they're going to be lost without them right now."
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Associated Press writer Rebecca Santana in New Orleans contributed to this report. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/Man-faces-2-capital-murder-charges-in-Mississippi-nun-deaths-5503c73e | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/29b2082c1a95dcbc6a4ca6e9f81eba91e1348efe29701801a3927b2f9d8cd609.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T02:49:26 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fprofessional%2Fnfl%2FRavens-get-back-Flacco--lose-Watson-in-30-9-rout-of-Lions-39711e58.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13247307/04842b9ab8ab4bd6849d25486215473f.jpg | en | null | Ravens get back Flacco, lose Watson in 30-9 rout of Lions | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | BALTIMORE – Joe Flacco went 11 for 16 for 94 yards in his first action since November, but the Baltimore Ravens lost tight end Benjamin Watson to a season-ending injury during a 30-9 preseason victory over the Detroit Lions on Saturday night.
Coming off surgery to repair ligaments in his left knee, Flacco played in two series spanning the first quarter. He took the Ravens (3-0) to a field goal in their opening possession and ended his performance by misfiring on a fourth-down pass from the Detroit 43.
Linebacker Terrell Suggs also returned for the Ravens, participating in his first game since tearing his Achilles tendon in the season opener last year. He made two tackles.
Matthew Stafford played the first half for Detroit (1-2), completing 14 of 23 passes for 95 yards. He threw an interception and did not produce a touchdown.
The Ravens signed Watson as a free agent in March, hoping he would become one of Flacco's prime option this season. That plan ended when the 35-year-old tore his right Achilles tendon on the game's first play.
Watson appeared to trip while running a pattern and slumped to the turf. He was helped off the field.
In the second quarter, promising rookie running back Kenneth Dixon was stacked up on the goal line and left with a sprained knee. He came in with a team-high 66 yards rushing and added 41 more on six carries.
Beset by injuries while going 5-11 last season, the Ravens hoped this season would be different. But their lengthy injury list includes three tight ends: Watson, Dennis Pitta and Maxx Williams. In addition, Nick Boyle will miss the first 10 weeks for violating the league's drug policy.
With Watson out, Flacco turned his attention toward wide receiver Mike Wallace, signed as a free agent during the offseason. Wallace was targeted six times, catching three for 37 yards.
The Ravens pulled away in this one with a 17-point second quarter, fueled by the efficient play of backup quarterback Ryan Mallett and aided by an interception by Anthony Levine late in the half.
After Jeremy Butler made an outstanding catch of a 25-yard touchdown pass from Mallett, Stafford threw his first interception of the preseason. After Dixon hurt his knee, Mallett scored on a 1-yard run for a 20-3 lead.
Detroit's Matt Prater kicked a 60-yard field goal to end the first half.
ROOKIE WATCH
Lions: Devon Bell misfired badly on a 42-yard field-goal try, but rebounded to hit one from 33 yards. Veteran Matt Prater, on the other hand, kicked a 60-yarder to end the first half.
Ravens: Top draft pick Ronnie Stanley remains a fixture at left tackle. He started next to fellow rookie Alex Lewis, who played left guard for the injured John Urschel (contusion).
POSITION BATTLE
Lions: Undrafted rookie TE Cole Wick had mixed results in his effort to impress at a position beset by injuries. He had two catches for 20 yards, but was called for holding on a touchdown run.
Ravens: With Dixon out, Terrance West appears poised to be the backup behind Justin Forsett. He gained 43 yards rushing compared to 15 for Javorius Allen.
GUEST SPEAKER
Olympic gold medalist Helen Maroulis attended the game and ended up being more than just a spectator. Ravens coach John Harbaugh spoke to her beforehand and liked what he heard about what she went through to be a freestyle wrestler. So he asked her to address the team in the locker room before the players took the field.
WELCOME BACK
Standout defensive end Haloti Ngata faced the Ravens for the first time since being traded from Baltimore to Detroit last season. He had three tackles and a sack.
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[] | 2016-08-31T04:50:14 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fprofessional%2Fmlb%2FHendricks-lowers-ERA-to-2-09-as-Cubs-top-Pirates-3-0-4e692778.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13253552/4dd6e7a1981d449481210ebadf08f2b6.jpg | en | null | Hendricks lowers ERA to 2.09 as Cubs top Pirates 3-0 | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | CHICAGO – Kyle Hendricks threw seven dominant innings to lower the majors' best ERA to 2.09 and Anthony Rizzo homered to lead the Cubs past the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 on Tuesday night for Chicago's 21st victory in August.
Hendricks (13-7) allowed three hits and has given up three or fewer runs in 18 straight starts. He didn't allow a hit until Gregory Polanco's bloop to left-center in the fifth and faced the minimum 17 batters until John Jaso's two-out double in the sixth.
Rizzo belted a two-run homer off Chad Kuhl (3-2) in the first and Miguel Montero added an RBI single an inning later as the Cubs improved to 84-47.
Carl Edwards Jr. worked the eighth and Aroldis Chapman finished the four-hitter for his 31st save as the Cubs improved to 21-6 this month, one win shy of the best August in franchise history set in 1932. | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/professional/mlb/Hendricks-lowers-ERA-to-2-09-as-Cubs-top-Pirates-3-0-4e692778 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/62b14d922bf1e2bd3f0b4baa3f97916bc28e16ec2bec6f3fa9ef9adef04f597b.json |
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The nursing department is partnering with Parkview Health to administer the vaccinations at eight different schools in September, the statement said.
Three senior nursing students will be assigned to each location along with a Huntington University faculty member and a Parkview Health employee, it said. The vaccinations were scheduled by Parkview Health as part of its Workplace Wellness program.
“We are very excited our senior students will be able to participate in a real-world, practical experience working with patients and the staff from the region’s premier healthcare provider,” said Nancy Richison, Huntington University instructor of nursing. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/schools/Nursing-students-to-assist-with-flu-vaccinations-14989788 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/f141a009271a7d7ecd6445bb25db0df39c614ea0d35f330cb818a1a2369a558e.json |
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"Rosa Salter Rodriguez",
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] | 2016-08-30T06:50:29 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2FFuneral-today-for-Charles-Borromeo-s-Monsignor-Suelzer-14973343.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13251311/14972896.jpg | en | null | Funeral today for Charles Borromeo's Monsignor Suelzer | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | The longtime leader of Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Fort Wayne will be laid to rest today.
Monsignor John N. Suelzer, who became pastor of the church in 1986, died Wednesday at his home. Suelzer, 77, celebrated 50 years of priesthood last year, while presiding over a parish with a bustling school and a major building project.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. today at the church at 4916 Trier Road. The Rev. Kevin C. Rhoades, bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, will preside. Visitation begins at 9 a.m.
A native of Pittsburgh, Suelzer was the son of the late John A. and Hildegard K. Suelzer. He grew up in Fort Wayne and graduated from Our Lady of the Lake Preparatory Seminary, Lake Wawasee, and Mount St. Mary of the West Seminary, Cincinnati.
Suelzer served many parishes in the diocese: St. Henry, Fort Wayne; St. Aloysius, Yoder; St. John the Baptist, New Haven; St. Bernard, Wabash; St. Vincent de Paul, Elkhart; Queen of Peace, Mishawaka; and St. Matthew Cathedral, South Bend.
At St, Charles, where he succeeded the Rev. Ed. Hession, Suelzer helped direct the first expansion of the church since it was built in 1975.
The nearly $2.4 million project, was finished last year.
It was the third-largest in the Fort Wayne area of the diocese since 2000, and it included a larger vestibule gathering area, offices, meeting room, choir practice area, baptismal font, renovated sacristy and an exterior canopy over a drop-off area.
Dedicated late last year, the new gathering area had been a dream of Suelzer for a long time, beginning with its placement in the parish’s long-range plan in 1990.
He wanted a place to encourage people to meet and greet each other to build community within the parish, said Judy Coleman of Fort Wayne, the monsignor’s longtime secretary.
“It’s wonderful. It’s a definite plus for the congregation,” she said Monday. “He was very spiritual, very open-minded, generous and a very humble man. Whenever anything (difficult) would come up, his favorite saying was always, ‘The Lord will provide.’ ”
Suelzer also was instrumental in expanding the parish school in 2008-09 to include kindergarten. The school last year was the largest Catholic grade school in Indiana, with 785 students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
St. Charles has an estimated 6,200 parishioners from about 2,100 households.
In recent years, Suelzer dedicated time to the board of St. Anne Home and Retirement Community, Fort Wayne. He also served on the diocese’s clergy retirement board and the presbyterial council.
Interment will be in Catholic Cemetery, Fort Wayne. Memorials may be made to St. Charles Borromeo’s church entrance fund.
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"Chevel Johnson",
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] | 2016-08-27T18:49:07 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fentertainment%2Fcelebrities%2FDukes-of-Hazard-actor-s-Louisiana-home--studio-swamped.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Dukes of Hazard actor's Louisiana home, studio swamped | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | NEW ORLEANS — Actor, writer and director John Schneider, known for his past role on the "Dukes of Hazzard" and current role on "The Haves and the Have Nots," thought the first flood he experienced at his Louisiana production studio was bad but says he now knows there are different levels of what's considered "bad."
Schneider's Livingston Parish-based studio — which includes his home, offices, cars, wardrobe, sound stages, and more — flooded in mid-March but the water didn't get into his 116-year-old home.
This time around, he wasn't as lucky.
Schneider was one of tens of thousands of people affected by flooding across southern Louisiana where a deluge of rain as much as two feet in some areas sparked widespread, catastrophic flooding. Thirteen people died and at least 30,000 people had to be rescued from their homes. People across the state have been cleaning out their homes and trying to figure out where they will get the money to rebuild.
Schneider said this time, overflow from the Tickfaw River this month inundated all of his property in Holden, flooding his home — which includes his editing and screening rooms — and another house in which his mother lives.
"I've never experienced anything like this before," he said. "There's mud. There's silt. There's sand. It's everywhere. We used to have a baseball field on the property. Now it's covered with sand. I guess we can use it as beach set now."
Schneider said his dogs, who freely roam the property, survived the deluge by jumping onto a picnic table in the barn. "A friend came in and got them," he said.
Most amazing though, he says, has been the response by people in the area.
"A friend, I'll always be grateful to, came and put my guitars on top of tables and stools to save them," Schneider said. Another friend waded into the house and saved two films on his computer.
Schneider's reflections came as several friends helped clean out one of the sound stages where river debris was left behind once the water returned to within its banks. Actor Dylan Walsh, best known for his role as Dr. Sean McNamara in the FX television series "Nip/Tuck," in which Schneider also appeared, was among those lending a hand.
Schneider acknowledges the difficulties ahead as he focuses on recovery, but said he won't let the flooding stop his work at the studio.
"It might slow it down but won't stop it. You can't let something like this beat you," he said.
Schneider said he could resume filming at the studio as early as next week if need be. "One of the sound stages has been emptied, cleaned out and restocked with whatever was salvageable. We've got furniture, fixtures, pool tables and other props. The main house, however, will be a while. The floors buckled and came up due to the water so it's not safe in there. That's going to have to be repaired before anyone can use that."
On Sunday, Schneider and some of his friends will be in Branson, Missouri, hosting a flood relief benefit concert at the Starlight Theater. | http://www.journalgazette.net/entertainment/celebrities/Dukes-of-Hazard-actor-s-Louisiana-home--studio-swamped | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/2b3c28bccea12d74b159e670601050210a5623d58bc527ad6904e5ca420b95c8.json |
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The South Bend Tribune reports running back Dexter Williams, linebacker Te'von Coney, wide receiver Kevin Stepherson, and cornerback Ashton White were charged Monday with misdemeanor counts of possession of marijuana. Safety Max Redfield, who has since been dismissed from the team, was charged with misdemeanor counts of possession of marijuana and carrying a handgun without a license.
An initial hearing is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Stepherson and Williams were initially also accused of possession of a handgun without a license when arrested Aug. 19. State police said the car was stopped because it was traveling 73 mph in a 60 mph zone and had an improper taillight. | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/colleges/notre-dame/Charges-filed-for-Notre-Dame-players-14980723 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/44576711e73a0e56441d72ad873e1afde8e53238049f0bc2f88ff4046b7eb246.json |
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"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-27T06:49:03 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fhigh-schools%2FKnights-air-it-out--then-hold-off-Tigers-14938813.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13245804/14937524.jpg | en | null | Knights air it out, then hold off Tigers | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | WARSAW – The duo of Andrew McCormick and Dylan Hunley was unstoppable in East Noble’s 47-42 win over Warsaw on Friday night.
McCormick threw for 452 yards and six touchdowns and ran for another, while Hunley caught 16 passes for 326 yards and four touchdowns.
“Andrew played like one of the best players around, like what he is,” East Noble coach Luke Amstutz said, “and Dylan’s certainly one of the best receivers around. They played tremendous tonight.
“Our other receivers stepped up tonight and made plays, and that took some pressure off Dylan.”
Justin Galavis caught 11 passes for 61 yards and a touchdown, and McCormick threw to three other receivers: Chevy Wright, Cade Erin and Kaiden Harshberger. Each caught two passes.
The Knights (1-1) scored on all but one possession in the first half, including a three-play scoring drive where Hunley caught a 37-yard pass, and McCormick followed it up with a 30-yard scoring run.
The Knights led 27-14 at the half. But the Tigers (1-1) roared back in the second half and didn’t let up, which mattered more to coach Phil Jensen than any number on the scoreboard.
“If we wouldn’t have righted the ship and they blew us out, that’s a tough loss,” Jensen said. “I like to win more than anybody, but what I like to see is young men showing how much it means and how grateful they are for all the things we are blessed with and play a great football team as hard as they can down to the wire. We kept giving them our best shot. That far outweighs losing.”
Warsaw recovered a fumble in the second half at the East Noble 24 that it converted into a four-play scoring drive capped by a 1-yard run from Mason Faas.
“I learned our kids won’t quit, I learned they got a lot of heart, and I learned that they’ll play hard,” Jensen said of the lessons he learned in the loss. “If we do that and we bring that every day at practice, I couldn’t ask for any more.”
Michael Jensen completed 20 of 35 passes for 229 yards and two touchdowns for Warsaw. D’Andre Street caught 10 passes for 147 yards and a score.
There were several factors in Friday’s matchup for the Knights that were absent from Week 1’s contest against Cathedral, and it gives the team confidence heading into conference play.
“This week, even though we were in control, when they came back it kind of put us into the fact that we had to get first downs here, punt there,” Amstutz said. “And when we look back on the season, these two nonconference games really did a lot for us to prepare us, and I think that will pay dividends in the conference season.”
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] | 2016-08-27T04:48:44 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fblog%2Ffull-count%2FNotebook--Greene-getting-back-on-feet-after-concussion-14938816.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Notebook: Greene getting back on feet after concussion | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | When Marcus Greene Jr. was struck in the mask by a foul ball, and later diagnosed with a concussion, the TinCaps were extra concerned.
A concussion at any time is bad enough and brings an unpredictable timetable for recovery. But for a player with multiple concussions, there is a fear about the cumulative effect. Fortunately for Greene, who hit the disabled list Aug. 12 and was just activated Wednesday, everything seems to be pretty much back to normal.
"I mean, when it happened, for the next couple days I kind of didn't feel like myself," said Greene, who serves as Fort Wayne's backup catcher. "But since I've been back now, three games, I'm back in the zone. You have to go compete. That's what it comes down to."
Greene did more than compete Friday night against West Michigan, finishing 2 for 3 with a walk-off solo home run and a walk. There is considerable power in his swing, as evidenced on a July road trip to Wisconsin and Beloit where he hit three homers and drove in nine.
"Just not chasing bad pitches (is the key)," Greene said. "Just see pitches up in the zone that I can handle, not go out of my zone just to make the pitchers throw better. As soon as I get my pitch, I try to get my timing down early and from there just stay on it, not try to do too much."
TGIF: Throw this in the category of useless, but still interesting, information. The TinCaps now have an 11-10 record in games played on a Friday. It is the only day of the week in which they are above .500.
Up next: All-Star Jake Nix takes on West Michigan's Spenser Watkins on Saturday night in the second game of the four-game series. The postgame entertainment will be QuickChange, the popular traveling act in which a man and woman somehow change their clothes in the blink of an eye. | http://www.journalgazette.net/blog/full-count/Notebook--Greene-getting-back-on-feet-after-concussion-14938816 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/0438b1aef8ab984932effb3f468403ca39bca33d8f0aaf44e8ba5b66731581ee.json |
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He'll head to Wilmington in southwest Ohio on Thursday for a noon campaign rally. His campaign says the event will be at the Roberts Centre.
Trump also plans to speak at The American Legion convention in Cincinnati on Thursday.
Democrat Hillary Clinton will address the meeting on Wednesday.
Trump has made four trips to the state since he accepted the party's nomination at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. He was in Akron last week. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/ohio/Trump-heading-back-to-Ohio--will-campaign-near-Wilmington-14985462 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/2685b6a55fe839288f1e1ee2c2630f079c905f9fe378dc572e35cda10ee0afdd.json |
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The Allegheny County district attorneys' office filed notice Friday that it would seek capital punishment if Cheron Shelton, 29, and Robert Thomas, 27, are convicted of first-degree murder.
Prosecutors said the death penalty would be warranted because of the defendants' previous convictions, the multiple felonies alleged and the grave risk posed to others.
Defense attorneys say the men are innocent. Shelton's lawyer, Randall McKinney, called the decision to seek capital punishment "disheartening," but said it didn't shake his belief that his client's name will be cleared at trial.
The men are each charged with six counts of criminal homicide in the March 9 cookout in Wilkinsburg, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Prosecutors suspect a man wounded at the cookout had killed Shelton's best friend in 2013, and they are looking for that man.
Prosecutors allege Thomas fired 18 shots from a .40-caliber pistol into a group of about 15 partygoers, prompting them to run toward a rear porch where authorities say Shelton was hiding behind a fence. Prosecutors allege Shelton peppered the fleeing crowd from 5-feet away with 30 shots from a rifle similar to an AK-47.
Brittany Powell, 27, who was renting the home, was killed as were her siblings Chanetta Powell, 25, and Jerry Shelton, 35. The county medical examiner ruled Chanetta Powell's unborn son died because of her death. The siblings' cousin, Tina Shelton, 37, and their friend, Shada Mahone, 26, also died in the attack.
The two men also face charges of criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. Authorities say bullets pierced the walls of the residence, wounding three other people. Three children were in the house at the time but unharmed. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/Death-penalty-sought-in-ambush-that-killed-5--unborn-child | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/1e0d949664c0f8e9f3f22a9c392db88df0450271546ab7c5e8b5fec7f38f372c.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T02:49:55 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2FNew-York-delivers-LLWS-crown-to-US-14965265.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13248890/14965266.jpg | en | null | New York delivers LLWS crown to US | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – As Ryan Harlost stepped to the mound on Sunday, he took it all in.
Chants of “U-S-A, U-S-A!” droned over his left shoulder as he dipped it to deliver a warm-up pitch. South Korean arms and flags waved furiously to his right. Little kids used makeshift sleds to slide down the hill toward most of the 22,000-plus fans who packed Lamade Stadium.
The Endwell, New York, pitcher admitted it made him uneasy. He sure didn’t show it.
Harlost led New York to the Little League World Series title, striking out eight and limiting South Korea to five hits in six innings in a 2-1 victory. He scored the deciding run on a passed ball in the fourth inning.
“I was a little nervous at first in front of a lot of people but it’s just another game and I felt confident going in,” Harlost said.
But it was more than just another game.
Endwell snapped a five-year championship drought for U.S. teams on Little League’s biggest stage and gave New York its first title since 1964. Huntington Beach, California, won in 2011 and Mid Island from Staten Island won New York’s last World Series championship.
Conner Rush had the New York team’s only RBI to give Endwell a lead it wouldn’t relinquish in the bottom of the fourth. Harlost (2-0) scored the deciding run on a passed ball a batter later.
“I was just thinking get it in play any way you can,” Rush said. “Once that happens, you never know what can happen.”
For a while, it didn’t look like New York hitters would be able to hit anything.
Junho Jeong (1-2) gave up two runs on four hits and struck out nine for South Korea (4-2). He was unflappable for most of the afternoon, working the outside of the plate masterfully for 31/3 innings of no-hit ball before Jude Abbadessa broke through in the fourth.
Waking to the plate as Endwell fans along the first base side bellowed “Juuude!” Abbadessa broke up the righty’s no-hit bid with a single to center. Harlost followed with a liner to the same spot and Rush plated the go-ahead run with a hit that fell in behind the shortstop. Harlost raced home to give New York a 2-0 lead one batter later.
“It’s just been amazing,” Abbadessa said. “Just coming here would be amazing and then our team doing well is even more amazing. It’s been fun the whole week and we’re glad that it turned out this way.”
Yoomin Lee homered for the Asia-Pacific champs from Seoul to halve New York’s lead in the fifth. Harlost’s precision and a stingy New York defense prevented further damage.
In the second, right fielder James Fellows made a running grab at the warning track to rob Sangheon Park of an extra base hit.
With a runner on first an inning later, Harlost snagged a hard-hit liner at the mound, tossed to first to get the putout and escape the third unscathed.
Later in the fifth after Yoomin’s blast halved the score, Abbadessa scooped up a grounder that took an awkward bounce and threw to first for final out of the inning.
“The Mid-Atlantic team is a really good defensive team,” South Korean manager Heesu Ji said. “I’m really proud of my team.”
Minho Choi struck out with runners on first and second to end the game.
Harlost turned toward his dugout on the first-base side but didn’t make it there as his teammates rushed out to dogpile on him near the base line. | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/New-York-delivers-LLWS-crown-to-US-14965265 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/93fb2438e39fc2bc36b8c2ab640609f9cb0462699f9b00037795077fc628e65d.json |
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Myanmar's government announced last week that Annan will lead an advisory panel aimed at finding "lasting solutions" to the conflict in Rakhine state, where human rights groups have documented widespread abuses against minority Rohingya Muslims. The group Ma Ba Tha, led by Buddhist monks, has been accused of helping to incite violence in the region that left hundreds of Muslims dead in 2012.
Ma Ba Tha condemned Annan's involvement in a Facebook post Monday that called him "a funny-looking and disrespectful person cannot talk about our own issues in the country." It also called Annan, who is from Ghana, a "kalar," a slur used in Myanmar against Muslims and Indians.
The post, however, included a photo not of Annan but of Morgan Freeman, the Oscar-winning actor. Freeman was marked with a red "X'' next to the words "We no need Coffee Annan he go away."
Freeman has been confused previously not only with Annan but also with late South African President Nelson Mandela.
The post has been widely circulated, and mocked, among Myanmar social media users.
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[] | 2016-08-31T02:50:19 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fprofessional%2Fmlb%2FKinsler--Jones-lead-Tigers-to-8-4-comeback-victory-cde94bf1.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13253532/26ad429485cc4f60bf79cec792abcb7f.jpg | en | null | Kinsler, Jones lead Tigers to 8-4 comeback victory | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | DETROIT – Ian Kinsler homered and drove in four runs as the Detroit Tigers rallied to beat the Chicago White Sox 8-4 on Tuesday night.
Kinsler came into the game hitting .085 (4 for 47) in his last 13 games, but he hit a two-run homer in the fifth and added a two-run single in Detroit's four-run sixth inning.
JaCoby Jones had two hits and two RBIs for the Tigers in his major league debut, while Todd Frazier homered for Chicago.
Bruce Rondon (5-2) picked up the win in relief of Daniel Norris, who allowed three runs in five innings.
Matt Albers (2-6) took the loss, allowing three runs in the sixth after relieving Anthony Ranaudo. | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/professional/mlb/Kinsler--Jones-lead-Tigers-to-8-4-comeback-victory-cde94bf1 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/6081f253c628b9798f4c676771870ce127aa0e5bb1954af84bd7bed70abf9395.json |
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"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-29T16:50:12 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fpolice-fire%2FLatest-recruits-revolutionizing-fire-department-14971536.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13250334/FWFD-recruits.jpg | en | null | Latest recruits revolutionizing fire department | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | The Fort Wayne Fire Department welcomed its newest class of recruits today, a group of 10 men and one woman who are intended to revolutionize the department.
Unlike other academy classes, every member of the latest class is already a paramedic.
Mayor Tom Henry, in welcoming the recruits, told them to know what they were getting into, but also advised them they were already something special.
"You're already one up on everyone else. You are already paramedics," Henry told the candidates. "Not everyone made the cut" to be in the class. "You're in a leadership position already."
The class is the first step in a move to have every firefighter on the department be a certified paramedic.
Currently, fire crews respond to every emergency call, and they usually get to the scene first. However they are limited in what aid they can provide. They have to wait until an ambulance crew arrives.
The department's goal is to transform the fire department from being able to provide basic life support to advanced life support, meaning its personnel will have unlimited options when providing aid at the scene of an emergency and not have to wait extra minutes for an amublance to arrive.
The goal is to have some crews operating as advanced life support teams by the beginning of the year.
Fire Chief Eric Lahey said the recruits all look serious because "They found out this morning that we are serious people doing serious work. You are the future of our fire department. There are people who say we're not smart enough."
The 11 recruits, if they all pass the 13-week academy, will leave the fire department with 363 firefighters.
fgray@jg.net | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/police-fire/Latest-recruits-revolutionizing-fire-department-14971536 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/0c798440dc0327816dc7b6826a475b06c5ac72baa921039c42d1a6fde4e34730.json |
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Crews will be doing bridge deck maintenance, the highway department said in a statement.
The restrictions will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and will reopen daily at 5 p.m., the statement said. Traffic will be maintained by a flagger.
The work is scheduled to be completed by 5 p.m. Friday. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/Stellhorn-Road-section-to-be-restricted-14974357 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/7569d47e534a2443874a547875e0c9dbee6c325a3e80957b621c21067dabcbc0.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T12:49:56 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fus%2FOfficer-pulls-man-from-tracks-just-before-train-arrives-14969778.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Officer pulls man from tracks just before train arrives | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | SECAUCUS, N.J. – A New Jersey Transit police officer is being hailed as a hero for pulling a man from train tracks in northern New Jersey last week.
Authorities say Officer Victor Ortiz says he followed the man he saw exiting a train at Secaucus Junction as the man jumped onto the tracks. Ortiz says the man kneeled down onto the tracks as a train was about a half-mile away.
He grabbed the man who kept saying "I just want to die," and Ortiz eventually was able to pull him off the tracks just as the train was coming into the station.
NJ Transit officials say they couldn't be more proud of Ortiz and hope it reminds people what police officers do every day. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/Officer-pulls-man-from-tracks-just-before-train-arrives-14969778 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/1f8d9aa591a9c556c9357c136a2854852b81ef8d84f092ca9e4324daa0ba96c0.json |
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"Marina Villeneuve",
"Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-26T18:49:33 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fus%2FMaine-governor-leaves-obscene-voicemail-on-lawmaker-s-phone-14930980.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13244590/14930990.jpg | en | null | Maine governor leaves obscene voicemail on lawmaker's phone | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | PORTLAND, Maine -- Republican Gov. Paul LePage unleashed an obscene tirade on a Democratic legislator, leaving him a voicemail message that said "I am after you" and telling reporters he wished it were 1825 so he could challenge the lawmaker to a duel and point a gun between his eyes.
The governor later apologized to "the people of Maine" but not to the legislator.
LePage said in the Thursday voicemail that he wanted to talk with Rep. Drew Gattine of Westbrook about the legislator calling him a racist. Gattine has denied calling LePage a racist.
"I want you to prove that I'm a racist," LePage said, adding that he had spent his life helping black people and calling Gattine a vulgar name related to oral sex. "I want you to record this and make it public because I am after you."
LePage, who's white, was accused of making racially insensitive comments Wednesday at a town hall in North Berwick, where he said photos he's collected in a binder of drug dealers arrested in the state showed that 90 percent of them "are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut; the Bronx; and Brooklyn." He displayed the binder at a Friday news conference.
The governor issued a public apology to "the people of Maine" on Friday for the vulgarity but said he was right to defend himself against Gattine because he considers being called a racist worse than any insult.
House and Senate Democrats and the Maine Democratic Party on Friday questioned LePage's capacity to lead. LePage said he would not resign unless several of his political opponents, including Gattine, did as well.
Assistant House Democratic Leader Sara Gideon called for a "political intervention" from members of both parties to either ensure that the governor "gets the help that he needs" or that he's removed from office.
Gattine said Friday that the governor left him another voicemail Friday morning, asking him to debate him at a town hall meeting next week. Gattine said the governor didn't apologize.
After leaving the voicemail on Thursday, LePage invited reporters to the governor's mansion, where he said he wished he and Gattine could face off in a duel.
"When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I'd like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825," LePage said, according to the Portland Press Herald. "And we would have a duel, that's how angry I am, and I would not put my gun in the air, I guarantee you, I would not be (Alexander) Hamilton. I would point it right between his eyes because he is a snot-nosed little runt and he has not done a damn thing since he's been in this Legislature to help move the state forward."
Police in Westbrook said Friday that they had received a citizen complaint about the voicemail. A police official said the complaint came from someone who didn't live in the city. It's unclear whether there will be an investigation. Gattine said he didn't plan to file a police report.
Gattine has clashed with the governor on how to address welfare reform, drug addiction and eligibility for developmental disabilities programs.
Gattine said he wasn't concerned about his safety, but he called the voicemail a distraction and the latest of LePage's personal vendettas against lawmakers. Gattine shared the voicemail's audio with the Press Herald.
"The fact is he sits around fantasizing about having duels with legislators or obsessing over the race of people who are arrested for crimes," Gattine said.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said in a statement that it's "embarrassing" that LePage is contributing to the "steady loss of civility in politics." Michael Thibodeau, the Republican president of the Maine Senate, also rebuked LePage, saying it "damages our public institutions when inappropriate comments come from either party."
LePage, in his second and final term as governor, has a history of drawing attention for his blunt remarks. In January, Paul LePage said drug dealers with names like "D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" are getting Maine's white girls pregnant. He later apologized, saying he meant to say "Maine women" and not "white women."
LePage has compared his style to that of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, whom he supports, though he recently said Trump was his third choice for president after Chris Christie and Jeb Bush.
"I was Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular, so I think I should support him since we're one of the same cloth," he told a radio show host in February.
LePage this week called the father of a dead Muslim U.S. Army captain a "con artist" for criticizing Trump. LePage's daughter Lauren has been hired by Trump and vice presidential candidate Mike Pence to work as the state's coalitions director.
Patrick Whittle and David Sharp of the Associated Press in Portland, Maine, contributed to this report. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/Maine-governor-leaves-obscene-voicemail-on-lawmaker-s-phone-14930980 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/8308bfac9e2fb70337204a3769b59383e3643e1a123db64c3509ac27e3fb2426.json |
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"Ben Smith",
"For The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-27T04:48:54 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fblog%2Fpreps-plus%2FSnider-rolls-over-Carroll-14938758.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Snider rolls over Carroll | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Seven days before, Carroll had taken down one of the SAC’s most decorated citizens, a program as familiar with the top step of the podium as any.
Knocking out a current occupant of that top step proved somewhat more problematical for the Chargers.
In front of a full-to-bursting house at Carroll, reigning 5A state champion Snider (2-0) stole the air from the place early Friday night, riding a dominant first half to a 41-7 victory over a young Chargers squad that opened the 2016 season with a win at Bishop Luers last week.
Quarterback Michael Haupert (72 yards) and running backs Money Woods (113) and Christian Covington (97) combined for 282 rushing yards and four touchdowns, Damarious Ridley took a punt back 62 yards for another score, and Snider’s defense shut down the Chargers (1-1), holding Carroll to just 10 yards on the ground a week after Nic Novotny ran for more than 200.
“The defense played very well,” Snider coach Kurt Tippmann said. “As well as Carroll ran the ball last week, it was a nice challenge to say, ‘Hey, this team ran the ball very well against a very good program like Bishop Luers. What better challenge can we have this week than to see how good we are against the run?’”
Pretty good, as it turned out. And right from the start.
The Panthers rolled to a 34-0 lead at the break, piling up 301 yards to Carroll’s 70. Snider scored on five of their six possessions and clambered out of two mammoth holes on two of them, both times courtesy of Haupert. The junior quarterback, who also threw for 74 yards, erased a third-and-22 with a 26-yard scramble for six on the first drive, and his 37-yard keeper on a second-and-37 kept the second drive going.
That one ended with Woods slicing in from the 3-yard line, one of his two scores.
“All I want to do is come out here and run our hardest,” Woods said. “And when there’s an open hole you want to hit them and make plays.”
On this night, they made plenty. | http://www.journalgazette.net/blog/preps-plus/Snider-rolls-over-Carroll-14938758 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/60dc1b2e1f3eeb5d1345c6df2480fa099fa10c46aab068eb1d103147b5cc67ba.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T06:49:42 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Ffeatures%2FGrieving-and-administering-14894561.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13248838/14894569.jpg | en | null | Grieving and administering | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | When a parent passes away, it’s usually left to their offspring to manage and disperse the remaining estate. In the wake of such a loss, emotions can run high, and the sheer amount of paperwork can quickly become overwhelming.
If you’re in the throes of settling an estate, whether by yourself or with the assistance of your siblings, consider these tips to help chart a smoother course.
Get organized. Keep a seemingly endless to-do list manageable by writing everything down. Create a system for prioritizing each task, and if there are others who are willing to help, delegate what you can. Establish categories such as bills to pay and other outstanding debts, accounts to close, agencies and organizations that need to be notified of the death, and so on.
Know your limits. Some estates are simple and straightforward: There’s a basic will, few assets, known heirs, and it’s easy to grasp what happens next. Others are far more complicated. If you find yourself in over your head, seek help from an expert such as an estate attorney, who can guide you through the legalities and paperwork.
Focus on solutions. Remember that even the most seemingly hopeless situations can turn out well if you remain open to exploring solutions. When Karen Jones’ mother passed away, she and her four siblings were left with a house that needed a lot of repairs before it could be sold that none of them could afford. Jones learned about HomeVestors from a sister, and the two scheduled a free consultation with a local independently owned and operated franchise.
Within 24 hours, Aaron Katz with WinWin Properties presented an offer not only to Jones but individually to all her siblings who were not able to meet at the same time. Jones credits Katz’s professionalism, kindness and sensitivity during a difficult time for her family.
An option such as HomeVestors, the largest professional house-buying franchise in the nation, offers cash payments and quick closing, which can be helpful in settling an estate. In many cases, homes can also be sold as-is with no repairs and with unwanted contents still inside. For more information, go to www.homevestors.com.
Expect the unexpected. It may come in the form of a change in the will or old letters stashed in a closet, but it’s a safe bet that in settling the estate, you’ll come across something you weren’t expecting. Add this to the emotional simmer you’ve been holding steady, and this may be the tipping point to boil you over. Simply put the new information on the back burner for now and return to it later, when you can deal with it more rationally and avoid letting a surprise stain your memories.
Take a break. In the aftermath of a loss, many survivors switch to autopilot, not only to distract their minds from the loss but to regain some sense of control in a situation that can feel helpless. While this coping mechanism may answer a short-term need, be sure to allow yourself time to properly grieve and avoid taking on so much that you neglect your own physical needs, such as food and sleep. | http://www.journalgazette.net/features/Grieving-and-administering-14894561 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/3bf4844a9fc8acfc8db82ed6eb7508f5d2d8d1a06e3e996ffe7972ca1a3bc7af.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T06:50:16 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2FTrump-to-discuss-immigration-stance-14965017.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13249286/14965019.jpg | en | null | Trump to discuss immigration stance | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced Sunday he’ll be making a speech on illegal immigration on Wednesday in Arizona, after a week of speculation that he might be softening his hard-line promise to deport 11 million people living in the United States illegally.
The speech was initially set for last Thursday in Phoenix but was pushed back as Trump and his team wrestled over the details of what he would propose. There has been debate within his campaign about immigrants who haven’t committed crimes beyond their immigration offenses.
The candidate’s shifting stance hasn’t made it easy for supporters and advisers, from his running mate on down, to defend him or explain some campaign positions.
Across the Sunday news shows, a parade of Trump stand-ins, led by vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, couldn’t say whether Trump was sticking with or changing a central promise to use a “deportation force” to expel immigrants here illegally.
Questioned on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether leaving key details on immigration policy unclear so late in the election is a problem, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus demurred: “I just don’t speak for Donald Trump.”
It was a striking look at Trump’s leadership of a team he had said would help drive him to victory in the Nov. 8 election.
Surrogates speak for and back up their presidential nominee.
But Trump’s struggled to do so even as they stayed tightly together on the details they know: Trump will issue more details on the immigration plan soon, the policy will be humane, and despite his clear wavering, he’s been “consistent” on the issue.
Any discussion of inconsistencies or potentially unpresidential tweeting, Pence and others suggested, reflected media focus on the wrong issue.
Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether the “deportation force” proposal Trump laid out in November is still in place, Pence replied: “Well, what you heard him describe there, in his usual plainspoken, American way, was a mechanism, not a policy.”
Added Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway: “The softening is more approach than policy,” adding that on immigration, Trump “wants to find a fair and humane way.”
His surrogates on Sunday refused to comment on Trump’s reaction to the fatal shooting of NBA star Dwyane Wade’s cousin Friday, as she pushed her baby in a stroller in Chicago.
Trump’s first tweet about the shooting ended this way: “Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!”
A few hours later, he followed up with a tweet offering condolences to Wade and his family.
Asked whether the initial tweet was presidential or appropriate, GOP officials and campaign advisers instead talked about reducing crime or said they were pleased Trump followed up with a tweet of condolence and empathy.
Two brothers who were on parole for previous criminal activity have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death Wade’s cousin, Chicago police announced Sunday.
Darwin Sorrells Jr., 26, and Derren Sorrells, 22, also were charged with attempted murder in Friday’s shooting. They appeared in court Sunday and were ordered held without bail.
Nykea Aldridge, a 32-year-old mother of four, was pushing her baby in a stroller near a school where she’d planned to register her children when she was shot in the head and arm.
She wasn’t the intended target, Cmdr. Brendan Deenihan said at a news conference Sunday, but rather a driver who had just dropped off passengers in the neighborhood.
There is video of the incident, Deenihan said, but no weapon was recovered and police don’t know where the weapon is. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/politics/Trump-to-discuss-immigration-stance-14965017 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/061bcc617066981f8b0602ec425d02fa6b0711aa748f087a5a61fc99cae7505d.json |
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] | 2016-08-28T14:49:34 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fus%2FIn-flooded-Louisiana-city--even-modest-recovery-raises-hope-14956435.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | In flooded Louisiana city, even modest recovery raises hope | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | DENHAM SPRINGS, La. – Even the most modest signs of recovery are lifting weary spirits in Denham Springs, a Baton Rouge suburb at the epicenter of the catastrophic flooding in south Louisiana.
Floodwaters damaged an estimated 90 percent of homes and businesses in the city, but Mayor Gerard Landry and many residents already see some progress.
Denham Springs High School remains closed, but its football team and band are practicing for the season-opening home game. Crews are removing mounds of rancid debris from curbs and yards. Postal workers are delivering mail again. Insurance adjusters are inspecting gutted houses. A fast-food restaurant reopened near the interstate.
The mayor says residents are yearning for "normalcy," but they face a daunting path to recovery. Many property owners in Denham Springs didn't have flood insurance. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/In-flooded-Louisiana-city--even-modest-recovery-raises-hope-14956435 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/f347031fda9e06a038142e0959d7eca868f92d149fd912f70cff85341ff5fb05.json |
[
"Jeff Washburn",
"For The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-30T06:50:24 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fcolleges%2Fpurdue%2FPurdue-AD-intrigued-by-school-s-culture-14953514.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13251386/14977023.jpg | en | null | Purdue AD intrigued by school's culture | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue fans rarely have good things to say about anyone associated with rival Notre Dame, but beginning Thursday, Mike Bobinski, Notre Dame graduate and native of Long Island, New York, is officially the Boilermakers’ athletic director.
Bobinski, 59, comes to Purdue after three years as Georgia Tech’s AD, where reviews were mixed from the Yellow Jackets’ fan base and the Atlanta media. Bobinski also was the athletic director at Xavier and Akron before heading to Georgia Tech.
Last Friday, the Purdue Board of Trustees approved a five-year contract for Bobinski that will run through July 2021. He will be paid a base salary of $600,000 for the first year, $625,000 for the second year and $650,000 for the third year.
After that, an annual salary will be negotiated by Bobinski and the university president, based on student/athlete academic and athletic success. Each year, Bobinski, who was hired Aug. 9, will have an opportunity to earn an additional $200,000 in performance-based incentives.
Well respected as a basketball administrator and fundraiser, Bobinski’s initial challenge will be to evaluate a struggling football program – 6-30 in the past three seasons – while learning the Purdue culture from retiring AD Morgan Burke, who will leave his post next summer after more than 23 years on the job.
A certified public accountant, Bobinski worked for the Walt Disney Co. and several accounting firms from 1979 to 1984 before beginning his association with college athletics in 1984 at Notre Dame.
“I am grateful, humbled and excited,” Bobinski said, “My goal is to help our student-athletes grow and be successful, along with helping our coaches do the same thing. I want our athletic program to be an asset to our community and continue to make this a great place.”
Bobinski is intrigued by Purdue’s commitment to academic and fiscal success, as well as winning on the field and in the arena.
“Throughout my career, I have encountered countless Purdue people, and I always was impressed by their pride and belief in this university,” Bobinski said. “I also spent more than 20 years going to school and working in Indiana and Ohio, so I have an affinity for this part of the country.”
He said Purdue and Georgia Tech, which are each known for engineering excellence, have a lot in common, a fact he hopes will aid him in his transition from the ACC to the Big Ten.
“Never mind the engineering stuff, both schools have a tremendous focus on academics,” Bobinski said, “Each campus values education and is vested in education. The values and the priorities are aligned. At each school, there are hard challenges, but I have seen that and done that.”
Bobinski has made only one football hire – he replaced Gerry Faust while AD at Akron – and will try to evaluate Purdue coach Darrell Hazell’s team beginning Saturday when the Boilermakers open the season against Eastern Kentucky.
“At this time of the year, all we can do is support the heck out of them,” Bobinski said. “They are our team. That is all we can do, but along the way, my job is to evaluate.”
And like at Georgia Tech, Bobinski will again work for a university that never has featured deep pocketbooks.
“In the Atlantic Coast Conference, we were never going to be the biggest, flashiest, spend-the-most program,” Bobinski said. “Here, we are never going to match the largeness of Ohio State. But we need to be sure that we are invested to the extent that it allows our teams to be successful.”
Bobinski is excited to return to a college town after holding two jobs in what are considered professional towns, Cincinnati’s Xavier and Atlanta’s Georgia Tech.
“I remember my days in South Bend when we were the only show in town,” Bobinski said. “I am excited to experience that once again.”
Purdue President Mitch Daniels said the university’s search committee selected Bobinski from more than 50 candidates, which were paired to 12 finalists.
“Purdue was incredibly attractive to a lot of athletic directors,” Daniels said. “We had our pick. We went searching for the most competitive, proven leader we could find. We found that person in Mike Bobinski.”
Mike Berghoff, chairman of the search committee and Purdue graduate, said Bobinski clearly is the right choice to replace Burke.
“There’s lots to like about his background, which is varied,” Berghoff said.
Burke said he looks forward to working with Bobinski.
“Mike truly understands the lasting value of college athletics in preparing young people to experience success in competition, in the classroom and most importantly in life,” Burke said.
“His values match Purdue’s.” | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/colleges/purdue/Purdue-AD-intrigued-by-school-s-culture-14953514 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/44d845752170795efe2d5136efe748299eada975316acdde162b58abfc2ea5e1.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T06:50:42 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fopinion%2Feditorials%2FIn-development-14866600.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | www.journalgazette.net | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | At its latest meeting, the Southwest Allen County Task Force set back its schedule for reviewing and updating the area’s development policies. Instead of voting on the group’s recommendations in December, the County Commissioners may not act until January, according to County Commissioner Nelson Peters.
But what’s a month-or-so delay when the business at hand is revising land-use plans that date to the Reagan years? It’s worth the extra time and care to transform those vague and obsolescent plans into a cutting-edge, 21st-century road map for development.
As The Journal Gazette’s Rosa Salter Rodriguez reported last week, the task force has a proposal that could put an end to the anxiety of Lafayette Township residents who faced down an effort to construct a huge truck-and-rail transfer facility on the edge of their neighborhoods.
The commissioners voted to turn down the proposal by Crown Enterprises of Warren, Michigan. But language in a 1985 planning document could have been read as either allowing or forbidding the potentially disruptive operation.
The task force, which is also looking at the rest of southwest Allen County, including airport development, wants to put an end to controversy about development in the General Motors plant area by dividing that part of Lafayette Township into two districts. Southwest 6, the area north of Winters Road, would continue to be considered residential and agricultural land, except for an area along Interstate 69 where shopping center development could be allowed. Southwest 7, the GM plant and areas to the south and west of it, would be for industrial development.
“I think they’ve done the right thing by differentiating the areas,” said Stephanie Schultz, a resident who, with her husband, Grant, helped lead opposition to the proposed Crown plant. The task force “is on the right track in distinguishing between north of Winters and south of Winters. That’s the way the growth pattern has developed.”
The Schultzes would prefer that the development document be slightly reworded. The current draft says Southwest 7 “should be limited to industrial uses,” but that the policy for Southwest 6 would only “encourage” agricultural and residential use.
“We want to ensure that the phrasing is consistent,” Schultz said.
Peters is cautious about tweaking the document.
“A plan is meant to be a guide, not an absolute,” he said in an interview Friday. “So you’ve got to be a little careful about how you phrase it.”
Perhaps. But Mark Twain might remind the task force of the vast difference between lightning and the lightning bug. If the battle for Lafayette Township’s future taught us anything, it is that policymakers should strive to be as precise as possible. A loose clause in the wrong place can be enough for someone to try to drive a truck hub through.
There will be ample opportunities for the group to get its document exactly right before the end of the year. | http://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/editorials/In-development-14866600 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/b0969fc1c3b86981c7ee1ecd939861bee7f8821576f897c66d4f22b1d7abfc8e.json |
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Greene's ninth-inning solo home run gave the TinCaps a 2-1 win over West Michigan on Friday night in the opener of a four-game series at Parkview Field.
Prior to Greene's fifth long ball, Fort Wayne (59-72, 23-38 second half) had not scored since Carlos Belen's RBI fielder's choice in the third.
The Whitecaps (66-60, 27-31) had something to celebrate, as first baseman Will Maddox went 3 for 4 to raise his season hit total to 164. That ties West Michigan's franchise record set by ex-TinCap Wynton Bernard.
Anderson Espinoza went five innings and gave up one run on four hits. Blake Rogers followed with three shutout innings, and David Bednar (3-3) worked a 1-2-3 top of the ninth to keep the game tied.
In the fifth, West Michigan's Cam Gibson had come home on a caught stealing at second.
Beau Burrows started for the visitors and went five innings. He gave up one run on four hits with five strikeouts. Trent Szkutnik (3-3) took over from there and shut the TinCaps down until Greene's one-out drive on an 0-2 pitch. | http://www.journalgazette.net/blog/full-count/Greene-s-homer-gives-TinCaps-win-over-Whitecaps-14937615 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/a46d1575f8a617dc2a369d9a1a1d573e4103d3784c9280a01cf7a49ed4a95919.json |
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Cole Luke, the Irish’s new top cornerback, might wonder, “Who is going to help me?”
KeiVarae Russell, the yin to Luke’s yang, had been the longtime security blanket in that secondary. He appeared in 37 games (all starts), recording five interceptions, two forced fumbles and 14 pass breakups.
But Russell’s in the NFL, Redfield was kicked off the team Sunday, Elijah Shumate graduated, and Devin Butler is suspended indefinitely. That’s both starting safeties and two of the top three corners from 2015, for those keeping track.
“If I’m not going to lead the group then who is?” said Luke, the No. 2 cornerback in 2015.
If the Irish have problems in the secondary, that could be what derails their hope to be in the College Football Playoff.
Brian Kelly did expect to start a freshman or sophomore at corner this year, but the Irish coach didn’t think he’d field two freshmen in the secondary.
Thanks to Redfield facing drug and gun charges, that will be the case as Devin Studstill takes over at free safety ahead of the Sept. 4 opener at Texas.
“We’ll be playing a true freshman on the road against a talented team,” Kelly said. “Devin is a kid that has a lot of talent, but we’ll all be kind of looking at it like you will be.”
With some trepidation, yes, but also curiosity for the talent.
Some freshmen need a lot of repetitions; Studstill is more the plug-and-play freshman.
The Irish like Studstill’s short-area quickness and man-to-man coverage skills, which are an important trait to play in a Brian VanGorder defense.
Which brings us to corner Shaun Crawford. VanGorder, who is in his third season as defensive coordinator, loves everything about Crawford – his football IQ, his technique, his work ethic, you name it.
“He’s an obsessed player,” VanGorder said. “He’s always studying the game. He’s all in.
“He’s a real football player. He’s got it all. Intelligent. I’m glad he’s at Notre Dame.”
Crawford, having emerged as the No. 2 cornerback behind Luke, will play outside, but he is ideal in the slot, and the Irish will move him inside at times to cover slot receivers or blitz.
Crawford got to college last year but had to redshirt after a knee injury in training camp.
As for the rest of the Irish corners, Nick Coleman is moving toward earning the trust of the coaching staff.
In 2015, as a freshman, Coleman broke up two passes despite playing only about 40 defensive snaps.
Projected over a full season, he would have 35 pass breakups – not a realistic figure – but the Irish do like his potential.
The main worry is that, if Butler were to be dismissed from the team, any injury to Luke, Crawford or Coleman would press a guy into service who may not be ready to play.
Depth is also the concern at safety, where Drue Tranquill, a first-time starter, takes over for Shumate at strong safety, but where freshman Jalen Elliott is the best backup at both spots.
The bottom line is that, for VanGorder’s defense to work, the secondary has to be able to hold up regularly in coverage.
And Luke can’t do it alone.
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[] | 2016-08-27T04:48:49 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fprofessional%2Fnfl%2FBrady-sharp-in-preseason-debut--Patriots-top-Panthers-19-17-6b7bf301.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13245424/2e41748fb9be491194c9ce65cf0c88d9.jpg | en | null | Brady sharp in preseason debut; Patriots top Panthers 19-17 | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Tom Brady looked sharp in his preseason debut, throwing a 33-yard touchdown pass to Chris Hogan in helping the New England Patriots to a 19-17 preseason win over the Carolina Panthers on Friday night.
Brady relieved Jimmy Garoppolo late in the first quarter and completed a 37-yard pass to Aaron Dobson on his first play from scrimmage, leading to a field goal. On his second drive Brady heaved a perfectly placed over-the-shoulder pass to Hogan down the right sideline for a 9-0 lead. Brady's other two drives failed to produce points.
While Brady was on the mark, league MVP Cam Newton struggled mightily in his most extensive playing time of the preseason. Newton was intercepted twice and the Panthers failed to get any points on his eight first-half possessions. Overall, the Panthers scored just three points in 10 Newton-led drives.
The sixth-year quarterback was high on some passes and didn't get much help from his receivers, who had problems getting separation and dropped four passes, including one by Brenton Bersin on a fourth-and-2 at midfield.
New England's defense shut down the league's highest-scoring offense from a year ago. They also intercepted Derek Anderson and allowed only one passing play of more than 15 yards in the first half.
Garoppolo, expected to start the first four games for the Patriots while Brady serves a suspension for his role in "Deflategate," returned in the second quarter but couldn't get anything going.
In the third quarter he rolled out of the pocket while under pressure and missed an open receiver who'd gotten behind the defense. His six drives resulted in no points, although Stephen Gostkowski missed a 30-yard field goal on the New England's opening possession.
QB COMPARISON
Patriots: Brady finished 3 of 9 for 76 yards with one touchdown, while Garoppolo was 9 of 15 for 57 yards.
Panthers: Newton was 13 of 29 for 100 yards with two interceptions and ran once for 9 yards.
ROOKIE WATCH
Patriots: QB Jacoby Brissett connected on a 12-yard TD pass to DeAndre Carter to give New England a 16-3 lead late in the third quarter. That was set up by a 60-yard punt return by rookie Cyrus Jones.
Panthers: CBs James Bradberry and Daryl Worley fared well. Veteran Bene Benwikere, who is competing for one of those two starting spots, gave up a touchdown pass.
POSITION BATTLES
Patriots: Call it even at running back, Tyler Gaffney had 32 yards on six carries and LaGarrette Blount had 26 yards on five carries, including a 17-yard run in which he hurdled Panthers safety Tre Boston as he broke into the secondary.
Panthers: Rookie punter Kasey Redfern had a pair of 60-plus yard punts, while veteran Mike Scifres shanked a 21-yard punt and left with an injured knee.
INJURY UPDATE
Patriots: The Patriots reported no injuries.
Panthers: Pro Bowl tight end Greg Olsen sat out his second straight game while recovering from back spasms. Guards Trai Turner (shoulder), Andrew Norwell (ankle) and linebacker Jeremy Cash (possible concussion) left with injuries.
MISSED CHANCES
Gostkowski missed field goals of 52 and 30 yards.
IN YOUR WEBB
Joe Webb threw two late fourth quarter TD passes to sixth-string tight end Marcus Lucas to make the score close.
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AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/professional/nfl/Brady-sharp-in-preseason-debut--Patriots-top-Panthers-19-17-6b7bf301 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/31851abbf500d4af1366b450034b53c4595e95d184d49021cd54226e3c86facc.json |
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The road will be closed for about 150 feet, and no business entrances will be interrupted, the highway department said in its statement. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/Old-Leo-Road-section-closed-for-utilities-work-14934165 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/c9ff5fbfb1b284f8277d2e59861e92e263179650ef30e7499281699da99ef465.json |
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About 30 people have been arrested in recent weeks and the company has temporarily stopped construction. A federal judge will rule before Sept. 9 on whether construction can be halted on the Dakota Access pipeline, which will pass through Iowa, Illinois, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Meet a few of the people camping out near the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers in southern North Dakota:
• Wambli Johnson was supposed to begin third grade in northern Arizona’s Black Mesa, on the Navajo Nation. Instead, she’s ridden horses, seen buffalo up close for the first time and made friends from other tribes.
“This is school,” the 11-year-old said of her experience outside the 2.3 million-acre reservation. It was Wambli who persuaded her mother, Osh, to make the daylong drive and join members of nearly 100 tribes and other protesters from around the country after hearing about the protest through relatives and social media.
Last week, Wambli presented protest organizers with $150 she earned selling her homemade laundry detergent door-to-door in one of the poorest and most remote communities on the Navajo Nation, which spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. It took her nearly a month to raise the money, one $2 to $4 soap at a time. Her pitch: “I don’t want water to be poisoned,” she said.
It wasn’t a tough sell, said Wambli, whose own home has no running water. It instead has to be hauled in, a chore in which she helps.
“We know water is life,” Osh Johnson said.
• Vivian Johnson’s first few years were spent living in traditional Sioux teepee on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in north-central South Dakota.
For the past several weeks, the 65-year-old, her four children and seven grandchildren have been making teepees and tents their home at the protest site.
“I’m here to save our water and to save our children,” she said.
Johnson, visibly exhausted, said she intended to stay “as long as it takes” until the pipeline plan is killed.
“It’s a shame it has to be this way.” she said. “I’m tired. And I’m tired of the people fighting over this. I just want peace and this pipeline to go away.”
• Jon Don Ilone Reed is no stranger to conflict. The 30-year-old member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe said he answered the call of his country, joining the Army and taking part in a military offensive to drive the insurgents from Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit, Iraq.
“Now, I hear the call of my people,” Reed said.
Imposing but polite, Reed wore a mixture of Army camouflage and traditional tribal dress and his chest bears the scars of a Sun Dance, a sacred – and once illegal – Lakota ceremony. Dancers pierce their bodies with sticks tethered to a tree by ropes. After days of dancing under the sun, the sticks are ripped from their flesh by pulling away from the tree. The dance is a symbol of sacrifice in hopes their creator will hear their prayers.
Reed wants the government and the Texas pipeline company to hear the pleas of protesters, and prays the protest will remain peaceful.
“I fought in Iraq,” he said. “Now I’m fighting for our children and our water.”
• Joye Braun, an organizer of the “spirit camp,” has been on site since April 1 – “when there was still snow on the ground.”
“Now we’re getting ready for winter again,” said Braun, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network.
She also hopes the protests stay peaceful.
“We’re not against the police at all,” she said. “We’re not against the construction crews – we know they are just trying to make a living. But they are working for the wrong company.”
Braun said the issue is just as much about tribal rights as it is protecting the water and sacred sites. “It will not come through. Period.” | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/Pipeline-stirs-tribes-to-unite-14949724 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/99dc6aee3b85bda2f4558d19be8287b3375e22d06dc383a9ad253382c2924c86.json |
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According to the school’s Facebook page, the campus was given the all-clear by the Defiance Police Department just after noon.
The police department sent out a release about the incident late Monday afternoon.
According to the news release, the report of two shots fired in the 800 block of North Clinton Street came in just after 10 a.m. Two 9 mm shell casings were found at the scene and witnesses reported a man in a white jersey fleeing the area.
No injuries were reported.
Anyone with any information is asked to call the Defiance Police Department at 419-784-5050.
rgreen@jg.net | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/police-fire/Report-of-shots-shuts-down-Defiance-campus | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/0806f50b9a7fef0bcb23957225e0df26f3b15b9ceaff779f6efb63c0453fc8d5.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T06:50:24 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fworld%2FBritain-blacks-out-TV-to-spur-exercise-14956899.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Britain blacks out TV to spur exercise | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | LONDON – One of Britain’s leading broadcasters blacked out its programs for an hour in hopes of spurring viewers to get some exercise. ITV shut down broadcasts on several of its channels Saturday morning as part of its effort to entice UK citizens to sports clubs, which were opened for free this weekend.
Many viewers lauded ITV’s challenge to couch potatoes. Others, predictably, stuck to their sofas and poked fun at the gesture.
– Associated Press | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/world/Britain-blacks-out-TV-to-spur-exercise-14956899 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/dec36c4e742789f126a793b28429edd1c1fa17330f879c71256c078ca20312c5.json |
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The heartbreaking story of Giulia Rinaldo, 9, and her 4-year-old sister Giorgia was recounted Saturday by the bishop who celebrated a funeral Mass for 35 of the 290 people killed by the quake that ravaged central Italy before dawn Wednesday.
Bishop Giovanni D'Ercole recalled that around 6 or 6:30 p.m. Wednesday — 15 hours after the quake — he returned to a church in his diocese in the town of Pescara Del Tronto to recover its crucifix.
He said at the time, only meters (yards) from the church, firefighters were using their hands to dig out the two sisters.
"The older one, Giulia, was sprawled over the smaller one, Giorgia. Giulia, dead, Giorgia, alive. They were in an embrace," D'Ercole said.
He spoke beneath the crucifix that he recovered that evening, hung in a community gym transformed into a makeshift chapel, as Italy held a national day of mourning.
Massimo Caico, the firefighter who pulled the girls out, told Italy's La Repubblica newspaper that the position of the older girl's body apparently created a pocket of air that allowed Giorgia to survive.
He recounted how a black Labrador, Leo, first gave a sign that he smelled something. Rescuers began digging, finding at first a doll and then a cold human leg, that of Giulia.
Then he saw the ground nearby moving "in the rhythm of what could be breathing."
"Maybe they hugged each other in their sleep or in fear, and the body of Giulia saved Giorgia," Caico told the newspaper.
On Saturday, as weeping Italians bid Giulia and 34 other quake victims farewell with a state funeral, Giorgia spent her fourth birthday in a nearby hospital, recovering from her ordeal.
According to Italian news reports, Giorgia is in a state of shock and has stopped speaking. She is only sleeping, crying and asking for her doll and her mother, who is also recovering from earthquake injuries.
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Gera reported from Rome. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/world/The-embrace-of-life--A-story-of-2-sisters-in-Italy-s-quake2016-08-27T07-50-45 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/fa7cd5aa3ce16a8d54c5a96ba6bccf5c85d8d8eb3c7df59f6ea48cb2958313ba.json |
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More active homebuyers have begun cutting into the inventories for existing homes, pushing prices higher across the board and incentivizing construction crews to hammer out more new homes to meet demand.
This wave of construction has helped to boost lumber prices, which are up by more than a third during the last year, trading Friday at $319 per thousand board feet.
Timber could see a further boost if a trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada isn’t resolved soon. Canada is the world’s largest exporter, and U.S. homebuilders have been increasingly sourcing Canadian lumber, but trade could be restricted by import quotas or tariffs, which would hoist prices higher.
Wheat slices lower
Chicago wheat prices collapsed below $3.85 per bushel this week, the lowest level in almost a decade. Prices are falling after a bountiful U.S. wheat harvest adds to a record-high global grain stockpile.
For many farmers, the value of their wheat is far lower than the price traded in the Chicago futures markets. Because of oversupply in local markets, some farmers are being paid less than $3 per bushel for wheat, a ruinous price for those farmers who didn’t lock in higher prices earlier this year.
Natural gas rises
Prices for natural gas have risen for five consecutive trading days, gaining more than 10 percent in just a week. Gas is gaining as weather-watchers expect more demand and see supply threats looming.
Unusually hot temperatures are increasing demand for electricity to run air conditioning, and, in turn, natural gas-fueled power plants.
Meanwhile, a storm is brewing in the Caribbean that could knock out energy production in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm’s track is uncertain, but some meteorologists are warning the storm has potential to develop into a hurricane that would make landfall on U.S. shores.
As of midday Friday, September natural gas was trading at $2.88 per million British thermal units.
Walt and Alex Breitinger are commodity futures brokers in Valparaiso. They can be reached at (800) 411-3888 or www.indianafutures.com. This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell any market. | http://www.journalgazette.net/business/Column--Housing-hoists-lumber-higher-14930460 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/9ec3f6e6c0a6565375da078a16b03d58da5ab5f869df2d63ffeefd85579efa66.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T14:50:32 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fblog%2Fpolitical-notebook%2FHolcomb-running-political-ads.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13170801/14326061.jpg | en | null | Holcomb running political ads | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb is now up on the air with television ads supporting his run for governor.
The move came just a month after he was chosen as the GOP nominee in a special caucus following Gov. Mike Pence's departure from the race.
In the ad - "Called to Serve" - Holcomb talks directly to camera about his joining the U.S. Navy after college. It is interspersed with Desert Storm footage and other patriotic images.
"Serving in the Navy certainly changed my life," he says in the ad. "It not only made me a much more disciplined individual but it also, it really taught me that everyone is as important as the other person.
"Boot Camp is the great equalizer. It really teaches you that you count on everyone to your left and to your right. And I see Indiana that way. And I can see how much we can accomplish together."
The biographical piece is meant to introduce Holcomb to Hoosiers in this shortened race and doesn't talk about any issues or policy positions.
If you want a different look at Holcomb go to his YouTube page and look for his "On the Road with Eric" snippets. There are lots of hello's, and interviews and speeches and bro-hugs.
He makes stops at an Indianapolis barber shop and sandwich shop, where he greets friends.
But it lacks the unscripted moments ala Mitch Daniels in 2004 when he ran RV-1 - long-form ads of a sort following his travels.
On that Daniels could be seen swatting flies in the RV; telling kids to squeeze harder when they shake hands and meeting voters who had no idea who he was.
One infamous moment was watching Daniels react to a delicate situation. When telling one man on a porch in rural Indiana that he used to work for President Bush, the man replies that "Bush lied, troops died and the rich got richer."
He turned out to be a local Democratic precinct committeeman. | http://www.journalgazette.net/blog/political-notebook/Holcomb-running-political-ads | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/6765ac14e39704556f96b4bff1336f2c7e25fdaab644d74f808fe0527f5efbec.json |
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"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-26T20:48:33 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2FHarrison-Street-closing-at-Embassy-14931684.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Harrison Street closing at Embassy | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Harrison Street is to close to through traffic Monday and Tuesday just south of Jefferson Boulevard at the Embassy Theatre, the city of Fort Wayne said today.
The closure during daytime hours will allow a crane to be placed in the street to put equipment on the theater's roof, the city's traffic engineering department said in a statement.
For more information or to report problems, call 427-1172. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/Harrison-Street-closing-at-Embassy-14931684 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/690d9e7bfd7aa921000e130abbe0462eb7cfeda2ff785bc4e51dcf818e548cf5.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T20:50:00 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fohio%2F1-dead-after-boat-hits-dock-near-Ohio-Michigan-line-14975206.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | 1 dead after boat hits dock near Ohio-Michigan line | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Associated Press
TOLEDO, Ohio -- Authorities said the driver of a boat has died after hitting a dock early Monday on a river along the Ohio-Michigan state line.
Three people were hurt and two men were in critical condition following the crash on the Ottawa River near Toledo.
Police in Erie Township, Mich., identified the victim as 45-year-old Thomas Duquette II of Holland, Ohio. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/ohio/1-dead-after-boat-hits-dock-near-Ohio-Michigan-line-14975206 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/d4a46964aaeffe92ba094573e411c42b49ecc51bf30266f556eea298684cc40d.json |
[
"Spencer S. Hsu",
"Washington Post"
] | 2016-08-31T06:50:51 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fus%2FFBI-recovers-30-more-deleted-Clinton-emails-14990180.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | FBI recovers 30 more deleted Clinton emails | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may have sent or received as many as 30 previously undisclosed emails while secretary of state about the 2012 Benghazi attack, government lawyers said Tuesday in asking a federal judge for a month to turn over potentially public records to a conservative legal group.
It is not yet known how many of those documents may be duplicates of 343 emails already made public by the State Department or contain stray references to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya that killed ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others, government attorneys said. The emails were recovered by the FBI in its yearlong investigation of Clinton’s private email set-up as secretary from 2009 to 2013.
The bureau has turned over 14,900 recovered documents to the State Department for review and potential release.
The Justice Department closed the email investigation without criminal charges, and FBI Director James B. Comey has said investigators did not believe emails on the private server were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them, but purged through normal processes.
“At this point there are 30 potentially responsive documents” to the Benghazi matter, Justice Department attorney Robert J. Prince told U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta of Washington. Prince asked to have until Sept. 30 to review the emails for possible classified information which also may require reviews by agencies outside the State Department.
Mehta asked Justice and State department attorneys to speed their review and come back by Tuesday with an answer on how many duplicates are in the batch and how many records may need added review.
“I’m confident it can be done by (Sept.) 6th. Remember Monday is a holiday,” Mehta said.
If it turns out only a small number of the emails are new, the judge urged the government to commit to a quicker release than the end of September citing the “national interest” in the case.
Mehta spoke after Ramona Cotca, an attorney for the conservative group Judicial Watch, asked to negotiate the timing of potential releases, saying she hoped it would not take long for a review. “If it’s going to be five emails, I’d like to know before we agree to 30 days.”
Judicial Watch filed a civil public records lawsuit over records that follows up on a March 2015 Freedom of Information Act request the group had made for Clinton correspondence. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/FBI-recovers-30-more-deleted-Clinton-emails-14990180 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/88820021bb6f6665aa96f1dd74551033026d247eff76dbdaefd659f3fec1d872.json |
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"Chris Goff",
"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-28T02:49:15 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fblog%2Ffull-count%2FTinCaps-set-season-highs-for-runs--hits--blast-Whitecaps-14951983.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | TinCaps set season highs for runs, hits, blast Whitecaps | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | A slumbering TinCaps offense suddenly woke up Saturday night and looked every bit the part of a sleeping giant.
With a season-high 20 hits, a six-run fourth inning and a five-run fifth, Fort Wayne set a season high for runs in a 15-4 laugher over West Michigan before an announced crowd of 7,781 at Parkview Field.
The TinCaps (60-72, 24-38 second-half) retain faint hope of reaching the Midwest League playoffs with eight games left. They trail Great Lakes, which also won Saturday, by seven and a half games in the Eastern Division wild-card race.
The Whitecaps (66-61, 27-33) lost the series opener Friday night on Marcus Greene Jr.'s walk-off homer in the ninth, then got buried Saturday under an avalanche of offense from a team that hadn't been producing much.
The TinCaps broke out of a 4-11 slump in which they had scored only 19 runs, an average of 1.3 per game in that stretch.
Shortstop Chris Baker led the way by finishing 3 for 5 with a solo homer, an RBI triple, an RBI single and a walk. Austin Allen went 3 for 5 with a two-run single and an RBI double. Carlos Belen went 2 for 5 with an RBI single and a two-run double. And Jose Carlos Urena finished 2 for 5 with a two-run homer and an RBI single.
All that offense was more than All-Star Jake Nix (3-7) needed. In six innings, he gave up just one run on three hits.
Evan Miller, who pitched for the Mastodons this spring as they reached the Summit League Championship Series, made his debut for the TinCaps with two shutout innings in relief of Nix. He got applause from a few IPFW folks in the stands, walked one and struck out two.
The TinCaps got a pair of gift runs, one on a wild pitch and one on a passed ball, but earned their staggering run total by going 10 for 15 with runners in scoring position. | http://www.journalgazette.net/blog/full-count/TinCaps-set-season-highs-for-runs--hits--blast-Whitecaps-14951983 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/4113c8c11caf2e4697f9b835bc7c4f22a6378a701819d60e197f5bb453975068.json |
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"Rebecca S. Greenthe Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-30T18:50:09 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fcourts%2FGuilty-plea-in-child-molesting-case-14989892.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Guilty plea in child molesting case | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | A 28-year-old man caught molesting his two daughters on a social media app pleaded guilty Tuesday in Allen Superior Court.
The Journal Gazette is not naming the man accused in the case because doing so would identify his victims.
Originally charged with a dozen sex crimes, ranging from the highest-level child molesting to low-level possession of child pornography, the man pleaded guilty to four of the original charges, plus one additional added Tuesday morning.
In exchange for his guilty plea, his prison sentence will be 40 years, much less than he would have faced if convicted of all the charges.
According to court documents, a detective with the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department was working undercover as part of the an FBI Child Exploitation Task Force. The man responded to an "advertisement" on the social media app, saying he was into "taboo" and "perv."
Within minutes, the man, self-identified as a divorced father of two, explained in great detail what he did to his girls as they slept, according to court documents.
He also asked to trade photographs, sending images of his own children in sexually explicit positions while sleeping, as well as his own genitalia in the photographs of the girls, according to court documents.
For more on this story, see Wednesday's editions of the Journal Gazette or visit www.journalgazette.net after 4 a.m.
rgreen@jg.net | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/courts/Guilty-plea-in-child-molesting-case-14989892 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/392671d32da4e69c9eb407b891d170cd54a2843e1ef96239cd86345d48b41b1a.json |
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"Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T18:49:04 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fus%2F48-year-fugitive-fighting-move-from-Connecticut-to-Georgia.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | 48-year fugitive fighting move from Connecticut to Georgia | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | DANBURY, Conn.— A Connecticut man who spent 48 years on the lam after escaping from prison is expected to fight an attempt to return him to Georgia.
Seventy-one-year-old Robert Stackowitz is set to appear in state court in Danbury for an extradition hearing Tuesday.
His lawyer, Norman Pattis, has said they will try to fight his return to Georgia, where he fled a prison work camp in Carrolton in 1968 while serving a 17-year sentence for robbery. Pattis says Stackowitz has major health problems including heart failure and bladder cancer, and any prison time would amount to a death sentence.
Connecticut officials have denied Stackowitz's requests to refuse to return him to Georgia.
Stackowitz was arrested May 9 at his Sherman home after his Social Security application turned up a fugitive warrant. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/48-year-fugitive-fighting-move-from-Connecticut-to-Georgia | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/7272fffa60a2a9c58862e253e0c2a6b2edcebe51ff4a4274f0812bb7956e2cd7.json |
[
"Aubree Reichel",
"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-26T13:05:02 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fhigh-schools%2FFinding-refuge-in-game-14880979.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13243001/14871543.jpg | en | null | Finding refuge in game | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | From different countries and in different languages, they share similar stories: Their parents left their home country for a better life in the United States.
Why Fort Wayne? They can’t exactly say. They were young when they arrived here.
But they are here and they are working together.
“There are a few of them that really have that language barrier that they’re trying to work through,” North Side girls soccer coach Adam Craig said. “Some of the girls that have been with the program for four years have gone from speaking little English to speaking it very well, and they help translate during practices and matches for the ref and for the team.
“They come from all different kinds of religious backgrounds and they all bring their culture to the team.”
North Side has players on its roster from Thailand, Myanmar, Mexico, Bosnia, Kenya, Ecuador, Guatemala, Korea and the U.S. with seven different languages that are spoken fluently.
Between 2000 and 2010, the Asian population in Fort Wayne nearly doubled from 4,652 to 9,721, according to census data.
Many families were resettled into refugee camps in Thailand prior to coming to Fort Wayne.
“My parents, they were from Burma,” Sayler Hla said. “And in Burma, we ran away from the war, so we lived in a refugee camp in Thailand, which is where I was born. We came here because my parents wanted us to have a better education and life for us than what they were used to.
“It’s very cool to me (to be on the team) because I know some people on the team that have been through what I’ve been through, and every day we learn new things about each other.”
Conflicts brought other families to the area, and ultimately North Side, from all over the world.
“I came to the U.S. in 2004 when I was about 5 or 6,” Sitey Hassan said. “We came here because in Kenya, there were a lot of conflicts.
“So we just came here to get away from that and better our lives.”
Many players’ roads faced more obstacles than others, but it ultimately led them to the U.S.
“We had a girl last year that was from Congo (and) fled from the (National Resistance Army) in Congo,” Craig said. “Her mom carried her and her siblings across like three different countries to get to an American embassy to seek political asylum all while wounded by gunfire.
“She graduated last year, but there are a few girls here, especially the Burmese girls, they fled the country. Some of them had to live in the jungle for a while to avoid being massacred. They’ve had a long road.”
There is a language barrier between some of the girls, but on the soccer field, it doesn’t always matter because of the universality of soccer.
“It’s easy (to coach them) because they just love to play,” Craig said. “It is challenging sometimes when you’re trying to coach something that’s a little more difficult of a concept and you want everyone to clearly understand what it is.
“It takes a little more time for that to sink it. It takes help from other players to translate that message, but we get there. We do get to that point and it’s really neat when you see that.”
In the past four years, the program has improved, going from winless (and goalless) in 2012 to a 7-9 record last year.
“I would love for them to break the .500 margin,” Craig said. “That would be huge to switch it around 9-7 or even 8-8. They take a lot of pride in that. They’re very competitive. Even if they’re going against a program that is a perennial powerhouse. They want to compete and win.
“They might not have all the tools the other team has, but they give 100 percent all the time. They’re very dedicated to each other.”
areichel@jg.net | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/high-schools/Finding-refuge-in-game-14880979 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/e17c1d384caf7dbfacde84fa54c4071f23158eca6d722c2ac267f87e255a9e9f.json |
[
"Christopher S. Rugaber",
"Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-26T14:48:38 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fus%2FUS-economy-grew-at-tepid-1-1-percent-pace-in-spring.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | US economy grew at tepid 1.1 percent pace in spring | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy expanded at a sluggish pace this spring as businesses sharply reduced their stockpiles of goods and spent less on new buildings and equipment.
The Commerce Department said today that gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the economy, increased at an annual rate of 1.1 percent in the April-June quarter. That is slightly below its previous estimate last month of 1.2 percent growth.
Consumers offset the corporate cutbacks by spending at the fastest pace in six quarters. That suggests steady job growth and modest pay gains are fueling healthy demand that could spur faster growth in the second half of this year.
The economy has expanded at a lackluster 1 percent annual pace in the first half of this year, following growth of 2.6 percent last year. This year's sluggish first half is a stark reminder of the economy's inability to achieve strong, sustainable growth since the recession ended seven years ago. It has been the slowest recovery since World War II, and followed the worst downturn since the 1930s. Growth hasn't topped 3 percent for a full year since 2005.
The economy stumbled early this year as consumers spent cautiously in the first three months of the year. Slow overseas growth and a stronger dollar held back exports. Stock markets gyrated amid signs that China's economy, the second-largest in the world, was slowing.
In the second quarter, U.S. businesses cut their stockpiles at the fastest pace since the fall of 2011.
Yet with consumers spending at a robust pace, businesses will likely have to restock their warehouses and store shelves with more goods. That should help accelerate growth to a 2.5 percent annual pace in the third and fourth quarters.
Despite weak growth, businesses hired at a strong pace in June and July. There are also signs incomes are rising, particularly for lower-paid workers. Those trends should help growth accelerate in the coming months.
Yet the strong hiring amid weak growth highlights a broader shortcoming of the economy: It has become less efficient and productive since the recession. American businesses may be hiring in part because it takes more workers to raise output even a modest amount. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/US-economy-grew-at-tepid-1-1-percent-pace-in-spring | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/1a0a89eb7d2da97ea35de21d3362620c8069fa9ba87c66715cf98206b53eb7ca.json |
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"Rosa Salter Rodriguez",
"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-27T06:49:12 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2FGM-access-road-gets-county-OK-14931710.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | GM access road gets county OK | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | The Allen County Commissioners on Friday approved an agreement governing a project to extend Winters Road as an access road to the General Motors plant in Lafayette Township.
The project was one of three road and bridge projects that the commissioners approved.
Bill Hartman, Allen County Highway Department director, said Winters Road will be extended into plant property to serve an upcoming north-side parking lot. The newly approved project coordination contract calls for the project to be paid for through a state grant and GM to pick up any cost overruns, he said.
GM officials have said the lot will be used by employees who will work at a paint facility and associated buildings that are part of a $1.2 billion expansion announced in May 2015.
Neighbors have objected because the road extension and new entrance will send as many as 1,500 cars a day down what has been a quiet residential road and the plans had scant public notice or input.
Winters Road, which has around a dozen homes, has ended at an unused gate to plant property. Neighbors say opening the entrance would cause heavy traffic and traffic jams on the road during shift changes three times a day.
Neighbor and project opponent Lynn Doak said by telephone Friday afternoon that a group of residents met with GM officials Aug. 16. Officials explained their rationale and history of the project, she said, but did not make commitments for changes.
Hartman said highway department officials expected a meeting with the company in the next couple of weeks to discuss specific concerns raised by neighbors, including the road’s speed limit, lighting and lack of lane striping.
Hartman said the project should be bid by December and go into construction next year.
Other projects approved by the commissioners Friday were:
• A bid of $472,291.88 from R.L. McCoy for a repairs to the Grove Street Bridge over Spy Run Creek. The bridge is in Fort Wayne and repairs will be paid for by the city’s wheel tax, but the county oversees bridge repairs in the city, Hallman said. The bridge goes into the former Centlivre Village apartments, which have been slated for renovation. The bid came in at about $100,000 under estimates, Hallman said.
• The acquisition of two more parcels for a roundabout at Tillman and Minnich roads. The project needs four more parcels, Hartman said. The intersection southeast of Interstate 469 is now marked by a flashing stop sign, but cars pull out too far because of sight-line problems, he said.
• A $6,500 design study for storage improvements at the county vehicle service center. The plan is to create a steel mezzanine structure inside the building that will allow vertical space at the landlocked center to be used for storage and free floor space for fixing and outfitting vehicles, said Dan Freck, county building department head.
rsalter@jg.net | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/GM-access-road-gets-county-OK-14931710 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/c5ca29cc28248b9381c7a8ddd79ce3bb691081f827a553dd34df64eed81552ee.json |
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"Chris Goff",
"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-30T06:50:32 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fblog%2Ffull-count%2FPadres-pleased-with-Josh-VanMeter-s-progress-14978216.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Padres pleased with Josh VanMeter's progress | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Not many fans, if any, recognized Mark Conner watching Monday night's game between the TinCaps and West Michigan at Parkview Field from the section directly behind the plate.
But Conner, the San Diego Padres' scouting director, is a noteworthy figure because he played a pivotal role in Norwell graduate Josh VanMeter getting a chance to play for the TinCaps. Conner was San Diego's area scout for nothern Indiana leading into the Padres' decision to select the infielder in the fifth round of the 2013 amateur draft.
VanMeter entered Monday with just 17 hits in 89 at-bats since being promoted to Double-A San Antonio on July 29. But at high-A Lake Elsinore, the 21-year-old was a California League All-Star and drove in 51 runs in 95 games. He hit .267 with 12 home runs at Lake Elsinore, which prompted Conner to reflect on how much "fun" he's had watching VanMeter's development.
"It's been really fun to watch Josh's development, honestly," Conner said. "In high school, he was a very advanced hitter, very advanced approach to the plate. He had good pitch recognition, good control of the zone and bat-to-ball skills."
VanMeter drove in 39 runs and hit .254 with three homers in 116 games at low-A Fort Wayne in 2014. Then, back with the TinCaps in 2015, he only played in 25 games because of a leg injury. But Conner thinks that was a blessing in disguise.
"He ends up getting hurt," Conner said. "Probably one of the best things for his development because he was able to get a lot stronger. Being a multisport athlete in high school, he never lifted. It wasn't like he had time to work on the strength portion of his game. So when he got hurt, it actually allowed him to really develop his body a little bit quicker.
"Because he couldn't do anything with the lower half, a lot of the core (was improved), so the power that he showed in Lake Elsinore was really good to see. He's got it in there. He's never going to be a big pure power hitter but has enough in there that you're going to have to respect him, and he can leave the yard if you do make mistakes to him."
Conner pointed out how attached he's become to following VanMeter's journey.
"He's such a great young man," Conner said. "You root for him all the time." | http://www.journalgazette.net/blog/full-count/Padres-pleased-with-Josh-VanMeter-s-progress-14978216 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/fcde1addde608de14e876eb4bbf57dc71545c777d1ecb9235a5a2588b619c22f.json |
[
"Katie Zezima",
"Washington Post"
] | 2016-08-29T06:50:29 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Findiana%2FRefugees-arrive-despite-Pence-effort-14964278.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13249118/14914624.jpg | en | null | Refugees arrive despite Pence effort | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | INDIANAPOLIS – After a terrorist attack in Paris last year carried out in part by Islamist terrorists who masqueraded as migrants, Gov. Mike Pence directed all state agencies to halt the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Indiana.
Pence is now running on the Republican presidential ticket with Donald Trump, who has called for a temporary ban on Muslims coming into the United States, halting immigration from unspecified countries and sending Syrian refugees back to their war-torn homeland. During the campaign, Pence has also boasted about his move to block refugees in his state.
“In Indiana, we suspended the Syrian refugee program … in the wake of the terrorist attack,” Pence said on CBS’s “60 Minutes” last month.
But things did not quite work out the way Pence says they did.
A single family scheduled to come to Indiana was diverted to Connecticut shortly after Pence’s announcement in November. But thanks to a lawsuit and subsequent court ruling overturning Pence’s directive, 140 Syrian refugees have since resettled in Indiana, with more expected in coming weeks.
The state’s attorney general also argued in court that the directive “does not purport to preclude any refugees from settling in Indiana.”
“You can’t pick and choose who comes to your state,” said Cole Varga, executive director of Exodus Refugee Immigration, which resettles refugees here.
Exodus and the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sued Pence days after his directive, claiming that the governor did not have constitutional authority to bar people from Indiana. While more than 30 governors have opposed housing Syrian refugees, Pence was the only one to be sued over his edict.
Malak Assaf, 25, a Syrian refugee who arrived in Indiana in May 2015, said she cried on the day Pence announced his move to block refugees from coming, fearing her brothers would be trapped overseas and unable to join her.
She had been in Indiana for six months and finally felt settled after her husband found a job and her children enrolled in school.
“It’s unfair, and it’s not the right thing to do,” she said through an interpreter, referring to both Pence’s edict and Trump’s proposal to send back Syrian refugees. She said those fleeing the vicious civil war in Syria just want a better life and future for their children.
Assaf said she would now miss Indianapolis if she goes out of town, and her brothers have made it to America.
“This is home, and I feel happy here,” she said.
Protecting safety
After the lawsuit was filed, refugee resettlement groups in Indianapolis ignored Pence’s order.
In a December meeting, Pence told Archbishop Joseph Tobin he was concerned that Syrian refugees could pose a security risk and that the United States has not put proper screening procedures in place. But Tobin had already decided that the church would continue resettling Syrian families in Indianapolis, even if it had to do so out of pocket.
“This is an essential part of who we are as Catholics, and we’re not going to back away from this,” said Greg Otolski, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
Richard Primus, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, said immigration decisions can be made only by the federal government. “Governors don’t have the power to stop anyone from coming into their state,” he said.
However, Primus said, states could turn down federal money and not participate in specific social-service programs – which is what Pence tried to do.
Indiana wanted to suspend the allocation of specific grants to refugee resettlement agencies, which use the money to fund services such as job counseling. According to court filings, Indiana would not deny Syrians benefits such as Medicaid based on their country of origin and the state would still use federal refugee resettlement grants to pay for services such as English-language instruction for refugee children in schools.
“Governor Pence has merely suspended, in part, a discretionary federal grant program,” Indiana Attorney General Gregory Zoeller wrote. “This is meant as a deterrent, but if those agencies wish to resettle those refugees regardless, the Governor will not take further actions (besides denying their claims) to stop them.”
Zoeller wrote that Pence’s action was “far more measured” than the “hyperbolic assertions that the Governor is attempting to ‘close (Indiana’s) borders’ to Syrians.”
In February, U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt struck down Pence’s directive.
“The State’s conduct clearly constitutes national origin discrimination,” Walton Pratt wrote, and “in no way furthers the State’s asserted interest in the safety of Indiana residents.”
Pence’s administration appealed. A hearing is set for Sept. 14 at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago.
Trump’s presidential campaign did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesman for Pence in Indiana pointed to the governor’s past statements on the issue.
After Pratt’s ruling, Pence said the safety of Indiana residents is his first priority and he prefers to err on the side of caution.
“For that reason, following the terrorist attack in Paris and the acknowledgment by the Director of the FBI that there are gaps in the screening for Syrian refugees, I suspended participation by the State of Indiana in the Syrian refugee resettlement program and I stand by that decision,” he said in a statement.
Seeking better life
Meanwhile, Syrians keep coming to Indiana. They include members of the Kylani family, who had never heard of Indianapolis until they landed here in May. After school one day recently in the household, children showed off pictures and books while NBC’s “The Voice” ran on television. The Arabic version of the show lends a small touch of the familiar in a place where there are few.
Ahmad Kylani, 37, is an engineer who now spends 12-hour shifts unloading clothing in a warehouse. His wife, 27-year-old Nour Alhassan, one day wants to put her accounting studies to work in the United States. Marya, 6, wore a shirt reading, “happier than a unicorn eating cupcakes on a rainbow.” Safwan, 5, excitedly showed his mother a picture of a hamburger. Faisal, 2, pretended to talk on the phone with an empty Tic Tac box.
“I’m real grateful and happy to be here,” Ahmad Kylani said through an interpreter.
Kylani said he was “kind of offended” by Trump and Pence’s proposals because they are targeting one specific community.
“But he has freedom of speech,” Kylani said of Trump.
Kylani said he has always abided by the law and that if he and his family did not have a clear record they would not be in the United States. He talked about the suffering and war in Syria and said President Obama allows refugees to come to America. “So if Obama said that, what’s Mike Pence going to do about it?” Kylani said through the interpreter. “Leave us alone, so my family and children can live a good life.”
The process for vetting refugees starts overseas, where people register with or are identified by organizations including the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. The agency screens and interviews refugees, fact-checks their stories and collects biometric information.
Refugees referred to the United States are interviewed at a resettlement center, where information and documents are collected to launch a security check by multiple federal agencies, including the FBI. Syrians are subject to an enhanced security review. A detailed interview with a U.S. immigration officer is then conducted. Biometric information is collected and checked against numerous databases. If a person clears the security checks, he or she goes through a medical screening and, ultimately, cultural orientation. The process can take more than two years, the security check active the entire time.
Razan, 31, who did not want to give her last name out of fear of reprisal against relatives still in Syria, said it took more than a year of vetting before her family could move to Indiana.
Razan said she does not think Trump and Pence should be scared of Muslims but understands why they are concerned about the Islamic State terrorist group.
“The same way he’s scared of them,” she said an interpreter, “the people in Syria are scared of them, too.” | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/indiana/Refugees-arrive-despite-Pence-effort-14964278 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/47ce435f2a70637451381624b8b689878ef0986ef3f02e3877ee0d6ecd04651e.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:56:19 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fpolice-fire%2F1-dead--1-badly-hurt-in-Kosciusko-home-blast-14920471.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | 1 dead, 1 badly hurt in Kosciusko home blast | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | One person was killed and another was critically injured Thursday afternoon after an explosion at a home in southwestern Kosciusko County.
Kay A. Justis, 68, was found dead under the rubble. Her husband, 67-year-old Larry Justis, is listed in critical condition at Parkview hospital, police at the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department said this morning.
The explosion happened about 3:45 p.m. at the couple's Claypool home, 4678 South County Road 450 West.
Larry Justis was removed from underneath about two feet of debris, police said. He was flown by helicopter to Parkview. Emergency workers found Kay Justis dead under the rubble.
When the first officer arrived at the scene, he found massive destruction, a news release said, but could hear a person trapped under the debris.
Investigators with the Indiana State Fire Marshal’s Office were summoned to help investigate the cause and nature of the explosion, the news release said. The explosion remains under investigation.
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] | 2016-08-28T06:49:50 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fpolice-fire%2FWarrant-out-for-alleged-attacker-14949859.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Warrant out for alleged attacker | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | A warrant is out for the arrest of a Fort Wayne man charged Aug. 11 with breaking into a residence, battery and other charges that resulted in a large hospital bill.
Greail S. Blanton, 40, of the 1000 block of Gold Meadow Drive was accused of punching a man on April 30 about 11:30 p.m. to the point where the man became unconscious, according to court documents.
According to a witness, the victim asked that someone call 911 before slipping into unconsciousness with body shakes. The witness, identified later as his son, then ran outside and asked a neighbor to call 911.
The altercation started when Blanton came to the victim’s home. He rammed the bedroom door open and found his wife in bed with the victim. Blanton first took the victim’s cellphone which was later found broken outside at another location, according to court documents.
Blanton is also accused of vandalizing the victim’s Ford Mustang and causing more than $4,000 in damage.
The victim’s hospital bill was slightly more than $8,100.
When contacted, Blanton and his wife did not want to be interviewed, but Blanton told police that when he saw the two together he reacted the same way any other husband would.
Bond on the two felony counts is set at $5,000.
Blanton was not reported in jail.
Larwill woman killed in crash
A 22-year-old Larwill woman is dead from injuries she suffered in a crash with a semi Friday morning, according to a report from the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department.
Kaila C. Cearbaugh was driving east on U.S. 30 near County Road 650 West sometime before 9:44 a.m. She ran off the side of the roadway, overcorrected then crossed into the westbound lane where she was struck by a semi driven by a 50-year-old Paulding, Ohio, man.
Cearbaugh was thrown from her vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.
The semi driver was not hurt.
The incident is under investigation.
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Adams Central 28, Eastside 14
Anderson Prep Academy 20, Tindley 14
Andrean 56, Hammond Noll 12
Attica 50, Turkey Run 3
Bedford N. Lawrence 50, Indpls Marshall 0
Beech Grove 47, Indpls Park Tudor 14
Benton Central 40, Seeger 15
Bloomington South 52, Martinsville 19
Bluffton 12, Manchester 7
Boone Grove 21, River Forest 14
Bremen 21, S. Bend Riley 19
Brownsburg 13, Lawrence North 8
Brownstown 52, Charlestown 48
Carroll (Flora) 33, Delphi 7
Castle 35, New Albany 32
Center Grove 43, Whiteland 0
Chesterton 25, Munster 22
Chicago Vocational, Ill. 58, Gary Roosevelt 0
Churubusco 18, Cass 12, OT
Columbus North 30, Columbus East 13
Concord 55, Elkhart Memorial 7
Covenant Christian 32, Oldenburg 6
Covington 20, Rockville 7
Danville 21, Mooresville 14
Decatur Central 27, Indpls Perry Meridian 3
Delta 30, Shenandoah 20
E. Noble 47, Warsaw 42
Eastbrook 47, Huntington North 7
Eastern (Greene) 30, N. Knox 22
Eastern (Pekin) 59, Clarksville 7
Ev. Central 54, Paoli 18
Ev. Harrison 49, Indpls Howe 12
Ev. Memorial 54, Henderson Co., Ky. 7
Ev. North 57, Indpls Broad Ripple 6
Ev. Reitz 34, Terre Haute South 13
Floyd Central 42, Providence 6
Forest Park 20, Perry Central 2
Fountain Central 70, Riverton Parke 0
Franklin Co. 36, Connersville 0
Ft. Wayne Dwenger 30, Ft. Wayne North 6
Ft. Wayne Luers 21, Ft. Wayne Wayne 13
Ft. Wayne Northrop 35, Ft. Wayne South 20
Ft. Wayne Snider 41, Carroll (Ft. Wayne) 7
Garrett 28, DeKalb 14
Gibson Southern 48, S. Spencer 14
Goshen 35, Elkhart Central 28
Grand Rapids Christian, Mich. 33, Culver Academy 0
Greencastle 46, Cloverdale 0
Greensburg 41, Jennings Co. 7
Greenwood 44, Indian Creek 7
Griffith 48, Wheeler 14
Hagerstown 48, Knightstown 27
Hammond Morton 26, Kankakee Valley 24
Hanover Central 55, Calumet 2
Heritage 27, Norwell 13
Heritage Hills 20, Tell City 3
Highland 23, Hammond 6
Homestead 27, Ft. Wayne Concordia 26
Indiana Deaf 20, Indpls Manual 0
Indpls Arlington 42, Clinton Prairie 20
Indpls Ben Davis 38, Avon 7
Indpls Brebeuf 31, S. Bend St. Joseph's 0
Indpls Lutheran 22, Indpls Ritter 14
Indpls Northwest 32, Bowman Academy 0
Indpls Roncalli 22, Franklin Central 14
Indpls Washington 60, Indpls Shortridge 18
Jeffersonville 29, Seymour 15
Jimtown 30, S. Bend Washington 13
Knox 47, W. Central 0
Lafayette Catholic 34, Guerin Catholic 13
Lafayette Jeff 20, E. Chicago Central 18
Lake Station 35, Hammond Clark 14
LaPorte 27, Hobart 10
LaVille 55, Triton 18
Lawrence Central 35, Indpls Chatard 0
Lawrenceburg 37, N. Bend (Cleves) Taylor, Ohio 3
Leo 34, Angola 17
Lincoln Way Central, Ill. 24, Lake Central 21
Lincoln Way West, Ill. 49, S. Bend Adams 12
Linton 48, Sullivan 7
Logansport 29, Frankfort 14
Madison 33, S. Dearborn 14
Madison-Grant 23, Eastern (Greentown) 12
Marion 31, Mt. Vernon (Fortville) 0
McCutcheon 35, W. Lafayette 28, 2OT
Michigan City 37, Northridge 0
Mishawaka 10, Crown Point 6
Mishawaka Marian 41, Glenn 7
Mississinewa 63, Maconaquah 6
Mitchell 30, Springs Valley 20
Monrovia 51, Cascade 0
N. Central (Farmersburg) 38, N. Daviess 14
N. Decatur 32, Edinburgh 3
N. Harrison 49, Corydon 0
N. Judson 17, Caston 6
N. Miami 37, Central Noble 13
N. Montgomery 27, Owen Valley 7
N. Posey 36, Mt. Vernon (Posey) 19
N. Putnam 12, Southmont 6
N. Vermillion 44, S. Vermillion 6
N. White 73, Frontier 0
New Haven 62, Lakeland 26
New Palestine 49, Richmond 32
New Prairie 49, S. Bend Clay 0
Northeastern 14, Winchester 7
Northview 56, Edgewood 0
Northwestern 34, Twin Lakes 7
NorthWood 54, Fairfield 6
Pendleton Hts. 28, Anderson 13
Penn 27, Merrillville 7
Peru 18, Northfield 12
Pioneer 41, Winamac 12
Plainfield 45, Terre Haute North 20
Plymouth 59, Rochester 6
Portage 28, Lowell 27
Princeton 47, Pike Central 20
Rensselaer 21, N. Newton 7
S. Adams 10, Bellmont 7
S. Central (Union Mills) 26, Culver 12
S. Decatur 30, Eastern Hancock 26
S. Putnam 34, Brown Co. 6
Salem 24, Silver Creek 21
Scottsburg 48, Rock Creek Academy 0
Shelbyville 38, Franklin 26
Southern Wells 18, Fremont 7
Southridge 28, Jasper 21
Southwood 44, Oak Hill 13
Switzerland Co. 32, Gallatin Co., Ky. 0
Tipton 42, Elwood 0
Tri 28, Centerville 19
Tri-Central 20, Taylor 14
Tri-County 42, S. Newton 0
Valparaiso 49, Gary West 0
Vincennes 20, Boonville 8
W. Vigo 27, Crawfordsville 14
W. Washington 50, Crawford Co. 6
Wabash 44, Alexandria 7
Washington 24, Ev. Bosse 6
Wawasee 48, W. Noble 7
Wes-Del 36, Cambridge City 6
Western 65, Tippecanoe Valley 14
Western Boone 26, Lafayette Harrison 25
Westfield 27, Southport 0
Whiting 36, Hammond Gavit 26
Whitko 20, Columbia City 14
Woodlan 53, Prairie Hts. 0
Zionsville 55, Lebanon 54
Postponements and cancellations
Batesville vs. Milan, ppd.
Bloomington North vs. Greenfield, ppd. to Aug 27.
Carmel vs. Noblesville, ppd. to Aug 27.
Clinton Central vs. Sheridan, ppd. to Aug 27.
E. Central vs. Harrison, Ohio, ppd. to Aug 27.
Hamilton Hts. vs. Kokomo, ccd.
Indpls Cathedral vs. Indpls Tech, ppd. to Aug 27.
Indpls N. Central vs. Hamilton Southeastern, ppd. to Aug 27.
Indpls Pike vs. Fishers, ppd. to Aug 27.
Jay Co. vs. Blackford, ppd. to Aug 27.
Lapel vs. Frankton, ppd. to Aug 27.
Muncie Central vs. Yorktown, ppd. to Aug 27.
Rushville vs. New Castle, ppd. to Aug 27.
Tecumseh vs. Wood Memorial, ccd.
Triton Central vs. Heritage Christian, ppd. to Aug 27.
Union (Dugger) vs. Traders Point Christian, ppd.
Union City vs. Union City Mississinawa Valley, Ohio, ppd. to Aug 27.
Union Co. vs. Monroe Central, ccd. | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/high-schools/Indiana-HS-football-scores2016-08-27T05-44-05 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/5231c9d31fa89b1f9609fedab2e30183044a6c4a3479706f1ae432696df2ede5.json |
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As Italians observed a day of national mourning, President Sergio Mattarella and Premier Matteo Renzi joined grieving family members for a state funeral for 35 of the 290 people killed in Wednesday's quake.
Mourners, among them many injured, wept and held each other in a sweltering community gym in the town of Ascoli Piceno as the local bishop, Giovanni D'Ercole, urged them to rebuild their communities.
"Don't be afraid to cry out your suffering — I have seen a lot of this — but please do not lose courage," D'Ercole told them. "Only together can we rebuild our houses and our churches. Together, above all, we will be able to restore life to our communities."
Before the mass funeral, people hugged and cried as they bid their final farewells to loved ones in the gym, which was transformed into a makeshift chapel for the ceremony. Among the victims were two girls, 18-month-old Marisol Piermarini and 9-year-old Giulia Rinaldo, whose younger sister survived against the odds beneath the rubble, still holding her dead sibling.
Hundreds of locals gathered outside to mourn and show support.
"It is a great tragedy. There are no words to describe it," said town resident Gina Razzetti. "Each one of us has our pain inside. We are thinking about the families who lost relatives, who lost their homes, who lost everything."
The magnitude 6.2 quake struck at 3:36 a.m. Wednesday and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy, killing at least 290 people and injuring nearly 400. The death toll has steadily risen as rescue workers continue to find bodies buried in rubble. Nobody has been found alive in the ruins since Wednesday, and hopes have faded of finding any more survivors.
Before Saturday's mass funeral, the president visited Amatrice, the town that bore the brunt of destruction with 230 fatalities. Eleven others died in nearby Accumoli and 49 more in Arquata del Tronto, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Amatrice.
Mattarella arrived by helicopter at the edge of Amatrice, a once-picturesque stone town. He was shown the extent of the damage by the mayor, Sergio Pirozzi. The president met and thanked rescue workers who have been working since early Wednesday.
Saturday's mass funeral involved most of the dead from Arquata del Tronto, 25 kilometers (16 miles) to the southwest of Ascoli Piceno. Other funerals took place Friday, with the majority still to come.
Giulia's sister, Giorgia, was pulled alive from the rubble Wednesday after being buried for many hours. She turned 4 on Saturday and was recovering in a hospital next door to the site of the funeral.
The bishop told mourners that, when the firefighters recovered the two sisters, they were holding each other.
"The older one, Giulia, was spread out on the smaller one, Giorgia. Giulia, dead, Giorgia, alive. They were in an embrace," D'Ercole said.
Many children and elderly people were killed. Some of the older residents had grandchildren visiting in the last days of summer.
"The melancholy grabs on to your heart. You feel a sense of weakness, of depression," said Fiore Ciotto, a resident of Ascoli Piceno who attended the funeral. "An event like this weakens you physically and mentally."
Overnight, residents of the area were rattled yet again by a series of aftershocks. The strongest, at 4:50 a.m., had a magnitude of 4.2, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, while the Italian geophysics institute measured it at 4.
The Italian institute and other authorities say the earthquake caused the ground below Accumoli to sink 20 centimeters (8 inches), according to satellite images.
Many people left homeless have been spending their nights in tent cities where volunteers have been working to provide basic amenities. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/world/Italy-buries-quake-dead--recalls-sisters-embracing-in-rubble2016-08-27T06-13-15 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/5c3f970a5410f81b0020174c926d22d8c2de8ea08155afc76e6198954609acb4.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T04:49:28 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fprofessional%2Fmlb%2FDeSclafani-throws-4-hitter--Schebler--Reds-beat-D-backs-13-0-75c13c9b.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13247333/050f046acbd74fcdbaef2c8f71a4afe7.jpg | en | null | DeSclafani throws 4-hitter; Schebler, Reds beat D'backs 13-0 | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | PHOENIX – Anthony DeSclafani threw a four-hitter and Scott Schebler homered twice to lift the Cincinnati Reds over the Arizona Diamondbacks 13-0 on Saturday night.
DeSclafani (8-2) had nine strikeouts and a walk, needing 108 pitches to throw the first complete game of his career.
Joey Votto and Schebler homered during a four-run first inning and Schebler homered again during a five-run second, all against Zack Godley (4-3). Schebler had a career-high five RBIs and three hits in the first multihomer game of his career.
Zack Cozart hit his 16th homer in the fourth inning and Adam Duvall got his 29th homer in the eighth, both solo shots.
Brandon Phillips went 3 for 4 with two RBIs. | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/professional/mlb/DeSclafani-throws-4-hitter--Schebler--Reds-beat-D-backs-13-0-75c13c9b | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/322dee853f412a69836b517d1e75a697cdc2c65b653b66568ab32ada0d3e191e.json |
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He’s about to get his chance.
Indiana coach Kevin Wilson announced Friday that the 6-foot-6, 240-pound Texan beat out Zander Diamont and will line up behind center in Thursday night’s season opener at Florida International.
“He’s really playing the best,” Wilson said. “The other guys are playing better, and Zander gives you kind of a change-up out there. But the guy we’re going with is playing really, really good.”
For Lagow, the decision cemented the notion that he could excel at a power-five school – even if it the journey there took longer than expected.
The big quarterback with the big arm left his home state of Texas in 2013 to play for Connecticut. Before the season opener, Lagow transferred to Oklahoma State where he walked on and redshirted. The next season, Lagow landed at Cisco (Texas) Community College.
There, he started for two years, throwing for 4,506 yards and 38 touchdowns, emerging as one of the nation’s top junior college players.
Wilson convinced Lagow to give Indiana a shot, and now after attending four schools in four conferences, Lagow finally has his dream job.
“He has the arm strength, and he really has taken that leadership role on the field,” offensive coordinator Kevin Johns said. “He’s really done a lot of things well.”
Indiana didn’t make any quarterbacks available for comment Friday.
Wilson’s decision was hardly a surprise. After Lagow moved to Bloomington for the second semester, he participated in spring practice and appeared to take the early lead.
When practice resumed Aug. 3, Wilson said the quarterback derby would be an open competition, not a coronation.
After seven practices, Wilson already had made up his mind and divvied up the snaps accordingly.
Diamont, who was a better runner than passer in his first two seasons with the Hoosiers, played well enough to keep the No. 2 job. Danny Cameron, the son of former Indiana coach Cam Cameron, will open the season No. 3 on the depth chart.
Teammates were impressed with what they saw from all three quarterbacks, but understood why Wilson went with Lagow.
“Rich has grown in every aspect,” receiver Ricky Jones said. “I believe he’s gotten on the same page as the receivers in a short period of time and that’s pretty impressive.”
Diamont’s advantage was his experience in the offense.
As a true freshman, he started the final six games after Indiana’s top two quarterbacks went down with season-ending injuries. The former Los Angeles city player of the year was 64 of 132 with 515 yards one TD and four interceptions in 2014.
Last year, Diamont filled in again last year when Nate Sudfeld, the starter, went down with another injury. After replacing Sudfeld against Ohio State, Diamont ran for a 79-yard TD — the longest run by a quarterback in school history. He finished the game with seven carries for 98 yards, caught one pass for 16 yards and was 6 of 14 for 76 yards through the air.
He struggled the next week against Penn State in his only start. The 6-1, 174-pound junior hasn’t played in a game since Oct. 10.
Wilson has used quarterback rotations in previous seasons and will look for ways to get Diamont on the field.
“We can put two quarterbacks on the field at the same time,” Wilson said. “He’s not a receiver, but he can play on the perimeter. Zander gives you some running skills the other guys don’t have, so you may see them both lined up in the backfield at times.”
But, for now, Lagow is the starter.
“I’m curious to see how he reacts in a game, because he’s been great in practice,” Wilson said. | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/colleges/iu/Wilson-goes-with-Lagow-as-Indiana-s-QB-14930971 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/ae73d55404799a425e112f439ed0893e3a55bf6595e0bf7777e2bbdf6efbd4fa.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T02:50:24 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic%2FSinger--arrested-on-suspicion-of-assault-with-deadly-weapon-eac92c28.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13253439/a9f97d66f4464feea47f340c16c9f6aa.jpg | en | null | Singer arrested on suspicion of assault with deadly weapon | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | LOS ANGELES – Police arrested singer Chris Brown on Tuesday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a woman called hours earlier from outside his Los Angeles home and said she needed help.
The arrest followed an hours-long standoff and lengthy search of Brown's home after police produced a search warrant.
Baylee Curran told the Los Angeles Times that Brown had pointed a gun at her face in his home early Tuesday. She said Brown and another man at his home became angry with her when she admired the man's diamond necklace.
Curran said she and her friend ran outside as one of Brown's associates gave chase and hid under a neighbor's SUV.
She hasn't responded to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
Earlier, Brown sent messages via social media proclaiming his innocence and rebuffing reports that he had barricaded himself in his home.
"I don't care. Y'all gonna stop playing with me like I'm the villain out here, like I'm going crazy," he said in one Instagram video Tuesday, waving a cigarette and looking at the camera. "When you get the warrant or whatever you need to do, you're going to walk right up in here and you're going to see nothing. You idiots."
Officers first responded to his hilltop estate around 3 a.m. Tuesday after a woman called for help from outside the residence. Police Lt. Chris Ramirez did not identify the woman or elaborate on the assistance she needed. He did not know if she was injured.
Brown's attorney, Mark Geragos, arrived at the house shortly before police served the search warrant. Geragos has not responded to AP's request for comment.
Brown has been in repeated legal trouble since his felony conviction in the 2009 assault of his then-girlfriend, Rihanna.
After several missteps, Brown completed his probation in that case last year.
In 2013, Brown struck a man outside a Washington, D.C., hotel and was charged with misdemeanor assault. The singer was ordered into rehab but was dismissed from the facility for violating its rules.
He spent 21/2 months in custody, with U.S. marshals shuttling him between Los Angeles and the nation's capital for court hearings.
In another incident while in treatment, Brown was accused of throwing a brick at his mother's car following a counseling session. It came after Brown had completed court-ordered anger management classes.
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Associated Press writers Christopher Weber and Sandy Cohen contributed to this story. | http://www.journalgazette.net/entertainment/music/Singer--arrested-on-suspicion-of-assault-with-deadly-weapon-eac92c28 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/81c79a47a48e65d370983b85159ec4a127b5e84eee77b76b4346b937e3bfd0a3.json |
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Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, was arrested and charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said late Friday. Both women were 68.
Sanders confessed in the interrogation to the killings and gave no reason for the crimes, said Willie March, the sheriff of Holmes County where the killings occurred.
The sheriff said police work and tips from the community led police to Sanders.
Sanders was convicted last year of a felony DUI, said Grace Simmons Fisher, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections. He was later released from prison and is currently on probation. Sanders was also convicted of armed robbery in Holmes County, sentenced in 1986 and served six years, Fisher said.
People who knew the nuns, known for their generosity and commitment to improving health care for the poor, have been grappling with why anyone would want to kill them.
Dr. Elias Abboud, the physician who oversees the clinic in Lexington where the nuns worked, said Saturday that Sanders was not a patient there. The Rev. Greg Plata, sacramental minister at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington where the women led Bible study for years, said Saturday he does not think people at the church knew Sanders. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/Police-get-confession-in-killing-of-2-nuns-14950270 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/1de2bb4f3a7aae7bebba26494f91d31f6c367089f71bcd3e36600cf4d234e241.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T06:49:30 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fpolice-fire%2FCity-man--53--faces-2-rape-counts-after-meeting-at-tavern-14934136.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | City man, 53, faces 2 rape counts after meeting at tavern | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | A Fort Wayne man was charged Thursday with two counts of rape and one count of sexual battery after he allegedly pulled a knife on a female acquaintance and forced her to have sex with him.
Guy P. Bishop, 53, of the 2500 block of Sheridan Road has been accused of violently attacking the woman before raping her on his couch on Nov. 29.
The two met at Spudz Bar & Grill in Fort Wayne where the woman was with friends playing pool and drinking beer. She said she was acquainted with Bishop whom she knew as “Spider” and his fiancée. He returned to the bar around 9 p.m. and asked her if she would accompany him to visit his fiancée who he said was in the hospital.
He then drove to his home saying he needed to pick something up. She she went inside to use the bathroom. As she was walking to the front door, Bishop allegedly hit her on the head and knocked her to the floor, according to court documents.
Bishop then placed her on the couch and held a knife to her throat, stating “You know what’s going to happen next.”
Bishop then allegedly ripped off her clothes and made her take a couple of pills which she slipped out of her mouth when he was distracted, and placed them between the couch and wall. The pills were later retrieved by police from that spot, according to court documents.
Bishop then allegedly raped her, choked her until she couldn’t breathe and then dragged her into the back room to assault her again. He told her he “would just cut her up with a knife and throw her in the trunk of his car,” according to court documents.
She was not allowed to leave and eventually fell asleep. The next morning, she told Bishop she had to go because she had a job interview. He then drove her a male friend’s house who took her to the sexual assault treatment center.
Bishop was in custody Friday night. Bond is $52,500.
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[] | 2016-08-30T14:50:11 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Folympics%2FLochte-mum-on-Rio-return--plugs--Dancing-with-the-Stars--gig-14986481.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13252380/14986484.jpg | en | null | Lochte mum on Rio return, plugs 'Dancing with the Stars' gig | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | NEW YORK – Ryan Lochte isn't saying whether he'll return to Brazil to face a charge of filing a false police report over a gas station encounter during the Olympics.
Lochte tells ABC's "Good Morning America" his legal team is dealing with the situation, adding "we're just trying to get this over with."
Despite his current woes, Lochte was named Tuesday as one of the contestants on the upcoming edition of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars."
Lochte admits he lied about having a gun held to his head at a Rio de Janeiro gas station, where he and three other American swimmers had stopped to use a restroom. Lochte says he has offered to reimburse fellow swimmer James Feigen for a nearly $11,000 fine Feigen paid to resolve legal issues and leave the country. | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/olympics/Lochte-mum-on-Rio-return--plugs--Dancing-with-the-Stars--gig-14986481 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/c697b2b3c528539e26b5fc9c6ae506d8c1c7e93ebd26e57c9314caebd87972f1.json |
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"Andrea Rodriguez",
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] | 2016-08-29T06:50:14 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fus%2FRebels-ready-to-end-all-hostility-14964067.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13249084/14964073.jpg | en | null | Rebels ready to end all hostility | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | HAVANA – The commander of Colombia’s biggest rebel movement said Sunday that its fighters will permanently cease hostilities with the government beginning with the first minute of today as a result of their peace accord ending one of the world’s longest-running conflicts.
Rodrigo Londono, leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, made the announcement in Havana, where the two sides negotiated for four years before announcing the peace deal Wednesday.
“Never again will parents be burying their sons and daughters killed in the war,” said Londono, who also known as Timoshenko. “All rivalries and grudges will remain in the past.”
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Friday that his military would cease attacks on the FARC beginning today.
Colombia is expected to hold a national referendum Oct. 2 to give voters the chance to approve the deal for ending a half-century of political violence that has claimed more than 220,000 lives and driven more than 5 million people from their homes
Top FARC commanders are planning to gather a final time in mid-September to ratify the accord.
FARC guerrillas are supposed to turn over their weapons within six months after the deal is formally signed. In return, the FARC’s still unnamed future political movement will be given a minimum 10 congressional seats – five in the lower house, five in the Senate – for two legislative periods.
In addition, 16 lower house seats will be created for activists in rural areas traditionally neglected by the state and in which existing political parties will be banned from running candidates. Critics of the peace process contend that will further boost the rebels’ post-conflict political power.
After 2026, both arrangements would end and the former rebels would have to demonstrate their political strength at the ballot box.
Not all hostilities are ending under the deal with the FARC. The much-smaller National Liberation Army remains active in Colombia, although it is currently pursuing its own peace deal with the government. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/Rebels-ready-to-end-all-hostility-14964067 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/a37794a25246fe9e638147f5c53d69a49839cad8231148a70f5f2f111ffbf47b.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T02:50:25 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2FTaurasi-scores-13-of-19-points-in-4th--Phoenix-beats-Indiana-cb4c2033.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Taurasi scores 13 of 19 points in 4th, Phoenix beats Indiana | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | INDIANAPOLIS – Brittney Griner had 20 points and four blocks, Diana Taurasi scored 13 of her 19 points in the fourth quarter and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Indiana Fever 79-65 on Tuesday night.
Taurasi scored 10 of Phoenix's 12 points to start the fourth quarter, including an open 3-pointer from the wing that made it 64-50.
DeWanna Bonner added 14 points and Penny Taylor scored 10 points for Phoenix (13-14), which is ranked sixth in the AP power poll. The Mercury moved into sixth place in the WNBA standings.
Erlana Larkins had 12 points and eight rebounds, and Lynetta Kizer added 10 points for seventh-ranked Indiana (12-14). The Fever were held to 20-of-60 shooting (33.3 percent), including 3 of 17 from distance. Indiana didn't make its first field goal until Jeanette Pohlen's 3-pointer with 2:10 left in the first quarter.
Indiana Pacers' forward Myles Turner sat courtside. | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/Taurasi-scores-13-of-19-points-in-4th--Phoenix-beats-Indiana-cb4c2033 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/74b04260cd936678c5dd371be579017f81a43b5b8bc7a6d504bcdaf6336631af.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T06:49:47 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fus%2FTourists-play-by-own-rules-14960006.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13249175/14960022.jpg | en | null | Tourists play by own rules | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. – Tourist John Gleason crept through the grass, four small children close behind, inching toward a bull elk with antlers like small trees at the edge of a meadow in Yellowstone National Park.
“They’re going to give me a heart attack,” Gleason’s mother-in-law, Barbara Henry, said as the group came within about a dozen yards of the massive animal.
The elk’s ears then pricked up, and it eyed the children and Washington state man before leaping up a hillside. Other tourists – likewise ignoring rules to keep 25 yards from wildlife – picked up the pursuit, snapping pictures as they pressed forward and forced the animal into headlong retreat.
Record visitor numbers at the nation’s first national park have transformed its annual summer rush into a sometimes dangerous frenzy, with selfie-taking tourists routinely breaking park rules and getting too close to Yellowstone’s storied elk herds, grizzly bears, wolves and bison.
Law enforcement records obtained by The Associated Press suggest such problems are on the rise at the park, offering a stark illustration of the pressures facing some of America’s most treasured lands as the National Park Service marks its 100th anniversary.
From Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains to the Grand Canyon of Arizona, major parks are grappling with illegal camping, vandalism, theft of resources, wildlife harassment and other visitor misbehavior, according to the records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
In July alone, law enforcement rangers handled more than 11,000 incidents at the 10 most visited national parks.
In Yellowstone, rangers are recording more wildlife violations, more people treading on sensitive thermal areas and more camping in off-limit areas. The rule-breaking puts visitors in harm’s way and can damage resources and displace wildlife, officials said.
Often the incidents go unaddressed, such as when Gleason and the children approached the bull elk with no park personnel around.
These transgressions add to rangers’ growing workload that includes traffic violations, searches for missing hikers and pets running off-leash in parks.
“It’s more like going to a carnival. If you look at the cumulative impacts, the trends are not good,” said Susan Clark, a Yale University professor of wildlife ecology who has been conducting research in the Yellowstone area for 48 years.
A few recent events at Yellowstone grabbed national headlines include:
• A Canadian tourist who put a bison calf in his SUV hoping to save it, ending with wildlife workers euthanizing the animal when they could not reunite it with its herd.
• Three visitors from Asia cited on separate occasions for illegally collecting water from the park’s thermal features.
• A Washington state man killed after leaving a designated boardwalk and falling into a near-boiling hot spring.
The flouting of park rules stems from disbelief among visitors that they will get hurt, said Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk.
“I can’t tell you how many times I have to talk to people and say, ‘Step back. There’s a dangerous animal,’ and they look at me like I have three heads,” he said. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/Tourists-play-by-own-rules-14960006 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/3db071930881a622d43f1c1ab432e91565fbe71405f6062fdca3761b36acf13b.json |
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"Jose M. Romero",
"Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T02:49:45 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fprofessional%2Fmlb%2FBailey-struggles-again-as-Reds-fall-to-Diamondbacks-14965272.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Bailey struggles again as Reds fall to Diamondbacks | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Eds: Diamondbacks 11, Reds 2. With AP Photos.
PHOENIX (AP) — The first four starts for Homer Bailey since he returned from major elbow surgery after more than a year out of action went fine. The last two have seen the Cincinnati right-hander get hit hard early.
Bailey (2-3) gave up four runs — three earned — and five hits in his one inning, and the Reds went on to an 11-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.
After the game, he and manager Bryan Price revealed that Bailey is dealing with right biceps soreness.
"There are going to be peaks and valleys of this type of recovery from this elbow injury," Price said. "You can tell when he has thrown the last couple of times out it's just not the same. He is pitching 88 to 91 (mph) mostly, trying to create movement, throwing more two-seam fastballs, doesn't really have the teeth on the slider.
"It is just not as competitive as it needs to be in order to go out there and expect to get big league hitters out with some regularity."
Bailey's start came on the heels of a 2 1/3-inning outing on Aug. 22 in which he allowed six runs and nine hits in a loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
"It has been like that for two starts now and you can see the results are absolutely horrendous," Bailey said. "It's not like you are going through a bunch of pain, it's just frustrating you can't get the extension and finish the pitches that you want to."
On Sunday, Yasmany Tomas homered, Welington Castillo drove in four runs and Archie Bradley earned his first win in more than a month for Arizona, which totaled 18 hits.
"We all know that this team can hit like that, so it's just about time," Castillo said. "We had plan to go out there and we executed."
Bradley (5-8) allowed two runs and five hits with three strikeouts over six innings in his first win since July 27.
Tomas delivered a pinch-hit three-run shot in the sixth inning off Reds reliever Ross Ohlendorf, his team-leading 27th of the season. It was the first pinch-hit home run of Tomas's career, and 10 of his last 19 hits have been home runs.
The Diamondbacks scored the four runs in the first off Baileyl on singles, force outs and an error.
Jake Lamb was originally called out at home plate when he attempted to score on Brandon Drury's base hit to center field, on a throw from center fielder Billy Hamilton to catcher Ramon Cabrera. But the Diamondbacks challenged the tag play and umpires overturned the call on video review, ruling Cabrera dropped the ball for an error.
A.J. Pollock had one of the five singles in the first for Arizona. Pollock, Michael Bourn and Chris Owings had three hits each for Arizona.
The Reds pulled to 4-2 in the second on back-to-back solo home runs from Brandon Phillips and Scott Schebler. For Schebler, it was his third homer in two games.
"We realized early that Homer didn't have it," Price said. "They got four in the first and you try to dig yourself out of the hole and we hit a couple of homers, then we weren't able to find the right recipe and gave up seven."
Pollock's two steals and Castillo's sacrifice fly gave the Diamondbacks a 5-2 lead in the third.
LEADOFF MAN
Phil Gosselin hit leadoff for Arizona on Sunday, giving star first baseman Paul Goldschmidt a day off. Gosselin had two hits and became the first Diamondbacks first baseman to start a game hitting leadoff since Conor Jackson on April 17, 2010.
BIRTHDAY BALLGAME
U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) celebrated his 80th birthday at the game. He was shown on the Chase Field video board, which drew applause.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Reds: C Tucker Barnhart remained out of the lineup with right hand soreness, missing his third straight game.
Diamondbacks: INF Jean Segura was held out of the lineup with an upset stomach. ... Pollock played in his third straight game since his return from a fractured elbow, and Hale indicated he'll keep Pollock in the lineup as long as he feels good. Arizona has two days off this coming week.
UP NEXT
Reds: RHP Dan Straily (10-6) opens up a three-game series with the Los Angeles Angels Monday night. Opponents are hitting .214 against him this season, and he's 6-0 in eight starts since the All-Star break.
Diamondbacks: After a day off Monday, the Diamondbacks have ace Zack Greinke (11-4) set to pitch the opener of a two-game series against the Giants. Greinke is 8-1 in 12 career starts against San Francisco. | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/professional/mlb/Bailey-struggles-again-as-Reds-fall-to-Diamondbacks-14965272 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/1b658e895da77cfc52f3fc6ca4629c71946ea7b9dceca2ebb1dc6b743c52aa24.json |
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"Jamie Duffy",
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] | 2016-08-27T06:49:27 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2FIvy-Tech-welcomes-families-at-farm-event-14936496.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13245450/14935377.jpg | en | null | Ivy Tech welcomes families at farm event | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | Trisha Rupert was putting feathers and stickers on a soft, brown cowboy hat Friday as her 9-year-old son, Zayne, looked on.
The cowboy hat was one of several fun giveaways at the Down on the Farm family event at Ivy Tech Community College Northeast’s Welcome Week for students and staff. The community was also welcome, said Christina O’Brien, student life director.
Held at the Ivy Tower Plaza on North Campus, the event offered pulled pork sandwiches, grilled chicken patties, potato salad, veggies and fruit, something to appeal to the whole Rupert family, especially 16-year-old Hunter, Trisha Rupert joked.
For Jayce, 13, it was the music, provided by singer Todd Berry of Muncie, who played a wide range of country and western tunes, accompanied by recorded music. Trisha Rupert said that kind of music was her favorite. Dad Jessee came along to make the family outing complete.
The family night event is offered at the start of fall and spring semester and has offered various themes, O’Brien said. Previous family nights have included an exotic petting zoo, a carnival and an outdoor movie, among other themes. The first week of school began Monday.
Isaac LaRue, 8, came with his mother, Emily, who works as a secretary at Ivy Tech. He rode the mechanical bull, a ride he called “very rocky,” and fed the goats at the petting zoo. The goat licked the pellets right up, he said.
He got to take home a wristband he made himself out of beads and plastic Western-themed charms like sheriff’s stars, horseshoes and tiny horses. “He was a worker,” said his mother when he first arrived and enjoyed pizza and a cookie.
O’Brien said about 150 attend the event each year.
This was the first time Trisha Rupert brought her family to the event, even though she’s in her third year at the college. She started as an accounting major and then switched to social work. She hopes to work with children who have disorders, she said.
“I like that it’s a community,” Trisha Rupert said of Ivy Tech. “They care about their students here. The professors help us set a path for success and not failure.”
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"Noah Trister",
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] | 2016-08-30T04:50:02 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fsports%2Fprofessional%2Fmlb%2FSaltalamacchia-s-HR-lifts-Tigers-over-White-Sox-4-3-14981090.json | http://journalgazette.net/assets/13251246/14981091.jpg | en | null | Saltalamacchia's HR lifts Tigers over White Sox 4-3 | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | DETROIT – Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 4-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Monday night.
Justin Upton also went deep for the Tigers, who pulled within a game of Baltimore for the American League's second wild card.
Detroit trailed 3-2 after a solo homer in the seventh by Chicago's Tyler Saladino, but Saltalamacchia's towering drive to right-center off Nate Jones (5-3) put the Tigers ahead.
Justin Wilson (4-4) got the win in relief, and Francisco Rodriguez pitched a perfect ninth for his 37th save in 40 chances.
Saladino drove in all three Chicago runs. James Shields allowed two runs and six hits in six innings, ending an awful August on a decent note, but the White Sox couldn't hold a one-run lead for him.
Shields was 0-4 with a 13.95 ERA in five August starts coming into Monday's game, but the Tigers didn't do much against him. Miguel Cabrera hit a sacrifice fly in the third, but Saladino's two-run single put the White Sox ahead the following inning.
Upton tied it in the sixth with a solo home run. Saladino led off the seventh with his eighth homer of the season.
Chicago used three relievers to get through the seventh, and Jones came on in the eighth. He walked Martinez, and Saltalamacchia went deep one out later.
Detroit starter Matt Boyd allowed two runs and seven hits in four-plus innings.
TRAINER'S ROOM
White Sox: CF Adam Eaton was in the lineup after leaving Sunday's game because of a bruised forearm. He went 0 for 4 with a walk.
Tigers: RHP Mike Pelfrey (lower back strain) allowed a run and three hits in three innings in a rehab start for Triple-A Toledo at Indianapolis. He struck out two. ... CF Cameron Maybin left in the fifth with a bruised left thumb.
UP NEXT
White Sox: RHP Anthony Ranaudo (1-1) starts Tuesday night against the Tigers. He allowed six runs in 5 1/3 innings in his most recent start, Thursday against Seattle.
Tigers: LHP Daniel Norris (2-2) takes the mound. He allowed two runs in 6 1/3 innings Thursday at Minnesota. | http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/professional/mlb/Saltalamacchia-s-HR-lifts-Tigers-over-White-Sox-4-3-14981090 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/c880021aa3dfe46e5af5e657fa68443d712f2b4e49e0db9dd8e98c59b55c95c0.json |
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"The Journal Gazette"
] | 2016-08-31T00:50:12 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2FFlood-advisory--Adams--Huntington--Wells-14993970.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Flood advisory: Adams, Huntington, Wells | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for parts of Adams, Huntington and Wells counties until 10:15 p.m.
At 7:09 p.m., radar indicatd heavy rain because of thunderstorms that will cause minor flooding in the advisory area, the weather service said in a statement. One observer reported 3.2 inches of rain over southern Wells County. Some roads will have local flooding.
Locations that will experience flooding include Bluffton, Berne, Geneva, Monroe, Warren, Poneto, Vera Cruz, Linn Grove, Domestic, Wellsburg, Liberty Center, Plum Tree, Dillman, Keystone and Reiffsburg. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/Flood-advisory--Adams--Huntington--Wells-14993970 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/336180f65681699e3f0128f57e58b7f00a450f27aa4db33320611c976cc09bf0.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T12:50:08 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fohio%2FEx-professor-pleads-guilty-in-child-pornography-case-14985458.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Ex-professor pleads guilty in child pornography case | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | CINCINNATI – A former University of Cincinnati professor has admitted to trading child pornography over the internet.
Fifty-nine-year-old Holt Parker pleaded guilty Monday to possession of child pornography and says he's ready to take responsibility for the crime. He also admitted to intentionally damaging a thumb drive that contained child pornography when he realized agents were entering his home during a raid in March.
Court documents indicate that Parker told investigators he traded child pornography nearly every day over the last several years.
Parker was suspended from his position as a Classics professor and barred from university property after he was charged. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports he later resigned.
Parker could face three to eight years behind bars and would be required to register as a sex offender under a plea agreement. | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/ohio/Ex-professor-pleads-guilty-in-child-pornography-case-14985458 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/e4e7c8964740b4a076d6770d8b1af1d1406b45ae96242e59dc8ef66cf69b25dd.json |
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"Susan Decker",
"Anna Edney"
] | 2016-08-30T06:50:39 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fbusiness%2FMylan-changes-stance-on-generics-14974264.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Mylan changes stance on generics | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | What a difference a decade makes at Mylan.
In 2006, the drugmaker’s chief executive officer Heather Bresch said that “authorized generics” – like the one her company is now introducing for EpiPen after an outcry over the drug’s price – were a grave threat to the generic drug industry and hurt consumers.
Bresch, who was Mylan’s vice president of corporate development at the time, asked Congress in July 2006 to curb brand-name drugmakers’ practice of selling unbranded versions of their own medicines to thwart generic competition. She called the strategy “the single greatest threat to the generic industry going forward.”
Mylan on Monday said it was introducing an authorized generic version of EpiPen, its allergy shot, after being criticized for raising the price of the product since acquiring it. The authorized generic will cost $300, compared with the about $600 price of the brand version.
“The generic pharmaceutical industry has changed dramatically in the last decade,” said Nina Devlin, a Mylan spokeswoman. After losing a fight against the practice, “authorized generics are now an established part of this highly competitive industry and we are participating in the industry as it exists today.”
Mylan’s business model has changed since then, too. It acquired the rights to EpiPen in 2007, shifting the company from one almost entirely focused on generic drugs to the manager of the biggest brand-name product in the epinephrine auto-injector segment.
There are some slight differences between what Mylan is doing now and the practice Bresch decried a decade ago. To push generic drugmakers to get their versions of pricier brand-name products approved, the Food and Drug Administration gives the first generic maker a special 180-day period of exclusivity. During that time, the new generic often sells for a relatively high price, until other generic makers come in and the price drops to a fraction.
Bresch said in 2006 that an authorized generic reduced the incentives for generic drug makers to get their products approved, by making that 180-day period less profitable. Brand companies typically only sell the authorized generics when a true generic enters the market.
While there is currently no generic EpiPen on the market from another drugmaker, having a Mylan version available could undercut the profits of one when or if it does become available. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has filed with the FDA to bring such a product to market, though Teva said in February that it had been rejected. | http://www.journalgazette.net/business/Mylan-changes-stance-on-generics-14974264 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/652535707561b9f911a97a9d4d5e65709f0fd33c0fd7734882fe27f16861a678.json |
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"Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-31T06:50:46 | null | null | The Journal Gazette, as Fort Wayne and northeast Indianas largest newsgathering operation, is your best source of local news, sports, business, dining and entertainment information as well as comprehensive auto, home, jobs and classified ads. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journalgazette.net%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2FPrimary-sets-up-Fla--showdown-14996856.json | http://www.journalgazette.net/images/favicon.ico | en | null | Primary sets up Fla. showdown | null | null | www.journalgazette.net | TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy each easily won their Senate primaries Tuesday, setting up a November showdown that’s guaranteed to be nasty as each party grapples for a majority in the chamber.
In Arizona, Sen. John McCain easily defeated his primary challengers.
Rubio, who decided at the last second to seek a second term, easily fended off millionaire homebuilder Carlos Beruff, and Murphy used the backing of President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders to defeat U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, who was counting on his party’s most faithful liberal voters to overcome Murphy’s money and establishment support.
“Marco Rubio is the worst of Washington because he puts himself first every time. He gave up on his job. He gave up on Florida. He earned the worst voting record for any Florida senator in 50 years,” Murphy said shortly after polls closed.
Rubio spoke about an hour later and said Murphy has lied about his education and his career and is only successful because of his wealthy father.
“How can someone with that kind of record think he can be elected to the U.S. Senate? The answer is he has a sense of entitlement, because when everything you’ve ever had in your life is given to you, you think you deserve it all,” Rubio said.
In other races, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown lost a primary as she faces felony fraud charges. She was one of the first blacks elected to Congress from Florida since Reconstruction. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who recently quit as Democratic National Committee chair, won her toughest race since she was elected in 2004.
Trump to meet Mexican president
Donald Trump will make a surprise trip to Mexico today to meet with the country’s president hours before delivering a highly anticipated speech on immigration.
Trump said on Twitter that he looks “very much forward” to meeting with President Enrique Pena Nieto. The Mexican leader had invited both Trump and Hillary Clinton to visit Mexico.
Pena Nieto’s office says in its own tweet that the two men will meet in private today.
Trump has made illegal immigration and his call for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border a centerpiece of his presidential campaign. Pena Nieto has been sharply critical of Trump’s insistence that Mexico would pay for a wall.
Ariz. sheriff wins
The sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix trounced three rivals Tuesday to win his Republican primary in what could be the toughest campaign in his 24 years in office as he faces a storm of legal troubles stemming from his immigration patrols.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio easily beat former Buckeye Police Chief Dan Saban and two lesser-known Republicans. Arpaio has raised a staggering amount of money for a local sheriff’s race – $11.3 million and counting, most from people living in other states.
The 84-year-old lawman will face the race’s sole Democrat, retired Phoenix police Officer Paul Penzone, in the Nov. 8 general election.
Stars join Clinton
Hillary Clinton is wrapping a fundraising blitz in the Hamptons, where she has racked up millions during a three-day swing.
The Democratic presidential nominee hopped from mansion to mansion in the tony New York oceanfront vacation destination, appearing at parties and dinners where the contributions ranged from $1,000 to $100,000 for guests and hosts.
The top-dollar tour concluded Tuesday night with an event in Sag Harbor complete with performances from Jimmy Buffett, Jon Bon Jovi and Paul McCartney. McCartney joked that the event was “the first time I’ve paid to hear myself sing.” | http://www.journalgazette.net/news/politics/Primary-sets-up-Fla--showdown-14996856 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.journalgazette.net/ab4c3989dbfada419642f920f6b2b49e400f5bb67edb5a5ace836074a7237081.json |
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