Dirk Rowley

5 days ago | wane.com | Dirk Rowley

The above video is from WANE 15’s initial report on August 15, 2024. FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Allen County prosecutors filed a level-five count of Reckless Homicide against a Fort Wayne man Monday, months after a teen died from a gunshot wound in the 2900 block of Winter Street. Fort Wayne Police said Davion M. Vaughn-Foster, 26, mishandled a handgun, which resulted in the death of his niece, Myuanna Foster-Juarez on August 15, 2024.

1 week ago | wane.com | Dirk Rowley

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — A two-vehicle crash just northwest of Defiance, OH, left one person dead Monday morning. The vehicles collided near State Road 15 and Deerfoot Drive around 11:25 a.m., the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. According to a release, a 2005 GMC Sierra pickup truck driven by Mark Riebsehl, 58, was traveling east, crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a 2020 GMC Terrain SUV driven by Dewey Nagel, 67. Nagel, who was wearing a seatbelt, was pronounced dead at the scene.

3 weeks ago | wane.com | Dirk Rowley

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Human Agricultural Cooperative announced it had received its third tranche of federal money through the Local Food Purchasing Assistance Program, administered by the state of Indiana. This year’s $400,000 will bring the three-year total to nearly $1.5 million. The group works with small farmers in 17 northeast Indiana counties to grow and distribute food.

3 weeks ago | wane.com | Dirk Rowley |Marin Murphy

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — As storms moved through northeast Indiana Friday night, the preceding winds seem to be responsible for hundreds of power outages. Around 8 a.m. Saturday, the outage map for Indiana Michigan Power showed over 2,500 customers left in the dark in northeast Indiana. Heartland REMC’s outage map showed around 500 customers without power between Markle, Ossian and Roanoke, but has since been restored.

3 weeks ago | wane.com | Dirk Rowley

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In January, when State Rep. Martin Carbaugh (R) of Fort Wayne talked about his bill to lower prices at Indiana’s not-for-profit hospitals, he warned, “You’re either for-profit or not-for-profit. If you’re not-for-profit, let’s act like it.”After numerous revisions, HB 1004 was signed into law by Governor Mike Braun last Tuesday. The new law tells Indiana’s Office of Management and Budget to determine the average price of all Indiana hospital facility fees by June 2026.