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North Manchester’s Town Council accepted a formal resignation from the town’s police chief last night. David Young had been on sick leave for the past couple of weeks. Town Manager Dan Hannaford says he learned about a week ago that state police are looking into allegations of misconduct by Young. A state police spokesman has declined to confirm or deny the existence of such an investigation.

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A remonstrance has stopped the Whitley County Community Schools board from building a new Columbia City High School. Whitley County’s Clerk says opponents of the 59-point-six-million-dollar project have collected more certified signatures on remonstrance petitions than have supporters.

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Barack Obama campaigned with Indiana Senator Evan Bayh in Elkhart yesterday, but Obama did not announce a running mate. "Evan Bayh is the senator of Indiana who is my great friend and is supporting me in the campaign," Obama said during a stop in Portage after yesterday’s town hall meeting in Elkhart. "I haven't made a decision about a V-P yet."

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A building at the Veterans Administration medical center in Marion has reopened after its water system was treated for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease. The V-A says no one who was in the building has reported any illness.

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An award-winning documentary film that features five Warsaw High School students had its local debut last night. "American Teen" was filmed during the 2005-2006 school year. It follows five seniors during their last year of high school. Four of the five attended as their friends, families and other local residents packed the Warsaw Community High School Auditorium for their first look. Proceeds

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Senator Evan Bayh will appear with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in Elkhart today. Bayh has been mentioned as a possible running mate. The Illinois senator plans to talk about his economic and energy plans during a town hall meeting at Concord High School.

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Hundreds of people in northern Indiana have reported receiving bogus phone calls claiming that their bank cards have been suspended. The automated calls give people a phone number to call to reinstate their cards. If they call, an automated system will ask them for information that can be used to steal money from their accounts. If you receive such a call, don’t call the number provided. Instead,

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Marion County’s prosecutor says he now has blood test results from the drunken driving arrest of a Fort Wayne judge. The prosecutor says the tests show that Allen Circuit Judge Thomas Felts’ blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit when police arrested him in Indianapolis last month.

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A prison guard has been arrested for allegedly helping an inmate escape from the Rockville Correctional Facility. Officials say the man hid a female inmate in a prison vehicle and drove her outside the medium-security prison. The woman was serving time for murder and at last report was still at large. The guard faces charges of assisting a criminal, official misconduct, sexual misconduct and

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Three Indiana National Guard soldiers have died in Iraq in the past week and a fourth lies wounded in one of the deadliest weeks in years for the state's Guard units. The soldiers who died are from Pendleton, Indianapolis and Madison. A soldier from the north-central Indiana town of 12 Mile was listed in "very serious" condition at last report.

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The National Weather Service has confirmed that Monday night’s storms dropped a tornado in the Lake County town of Griffith. Officials say the storm damaged more than 100 homes and 20 businesses, but no one was hurt.

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Severe storms overnight have killed at least one Indiana man and caused fires, power outages and fallen trees throughout the Q101 area. A 23-year-old LaPorte man died after heavy winds caused a tree to fall on his car. Officials believe the storm started barn fires near Burkett in Kosciusko County and near Larwill in Whitley County. Kosciusko REMC reported that more than 16-hundred households

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All the tickets are gone for tomorrow’s appearance by Barack Obama in Elkhart. Campaign officials say they plan to set up a sound system outside Concord High School so people who didn’t get a ticket and still hear Obama’s speech.

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Indianapolis police have arrested a woman who allegedly abandoned her 3-year-old son in a Wal-Mart store with a note saying she could no longer care for him. Police say a tip led them to the 42-year-old woman.

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Officials in Indianapolis have decided to delay the opening of the new billion-dollar airport terminal there. The idea is for the first flights will arrive on Veteran's Day, November 11th. The airport plans public tours of the new terminal October 11th and 12th.

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Elkhart County police say a single-vehicle crash has killed a 49-year-old Kosciusko County man. Police say the pickup truck that Joseph Gerencser Jr. was driving crashed into a tree on U-S Six near Syracuse at about eight o’clock last night.

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Sen. Barack Obama plans to conduct a town hall meeting Wednesday at Concord High School in Elkhart. He plans to address the economy and the energy crisis.

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Columbia City police are looking for a bank robber this morning. Police say a white man in his late 40's or early 50's held up the Lake City Bank branch along U-S 30 at about 11:30 yesterday morning. Police say the man gave the teller a note demanding cash and fled on a scooter. Police aren’t saying how much money he got. They say the man had gray hair and a mustache and was wearing a blue work

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Syracuse Police say they’ve arrested two people, including a former employee of C-V-S pharmacy, on drug dealing charges. Police say a 24-year-old Albion resident stole about nine thousand dollars worth of prescription drugs from C-V-S while an employee of the pharmacy and then sold the drugs. The say a 44-year-old Syracuse resident bought some of the drugs from the Albion resident and then resold

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The Warsaw Community Schools Board plans to announce the name of an interim superintendent during a special meeting at noon today. Robert Hayworth resigned as the system’s superintendent to take a job with National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in Kansas City.

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The Associated Press has corrected a story Q101 reported yesterday regarding new automated Welfare eligibility systems. The A-P had reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had ordered the state to halt further roll-outs of the system until it addresses delays in processing food stamp applications. The A-P now says that the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service did not make such an order and

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A jury has convicted two Fort Wayne parents in the death of their two-month-old daughter. It found 21-year-old Misty Lee Jones guilty of neglect causing death and 22-year-old Marshawn Wilson of both neglect causing death and battery causing death.

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A Churubusco man has admitted hitting another man with his S-U-V while driving drunk in downtown Fort Wayne last April. Through a plea agreement, 35-year-old Brock Geiger pleaded guilty to felony criminal recklessness, operating a vehicle while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury and other charges.

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The Associated Press reports that it has conducted a review that has found that Indiana's 20 busiest structurally deficient bridges are still in need of repairs. The review comes a year after a deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis.

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The Associated Press is reporting that a federal official has told the state to halt any further rollout of its automation of welfare eligibility because it is taking too long to process and approve food stamp applications. The federal Food and Nutrition Service has ordered the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration to delay any further rollout of the welfare changes until it improves

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