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Food left cooking unattended on a stove started a small fire Tuesday afternoon at a house on Fort Wayne's north side, the city fire department said.

At the start of the night there were four proposals on the table on how to address the cities budget problems, now there are two percent, but Councilman Russ Jehl, R-2nd and Mitch Harper, R-4 th , are opposed the idea of raising taxes and pitched their idea of coming up with the needed funds, while avoiding a tax hike.

I've always been a little skeptical about whether so-called cooling off periods are an effective way to prevent public officials from using their government positions to help companies they might later go to work for.

I think I might take some time this week and wander around town and bother to notice, if not admire, the various sculptures, monuments and markers that we have in the city.

SPENCERVILLE, Ind. A 140-year-old covered bridge in northeastern Indiana heavily damaged last fall when a too-tall semi drove through it should be reopening to traffic soon.

Yearly defense authorization bills in the House and Senate also would keep the Starbase education program under the Pentagon's jurisdiction.

Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport Authority officials cut the ribbon on a new terminal building at Smith Field airport Monday.

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A 5-year-old boy who nearly drowned at Bixler Lake in Noble County was clinging to life Sunday in a Fort Wayne hospital, according to Indiana conservation officers.

SYRACUSE, Ind. A northern Indiana lake resort that was once a religious retreat for a century has reopened to visitors after being shut down five years ago.

Brenda Richardson, left, picks up information and talks to Meyers at the United Way table.

Indiana's top Statehouse leaders all agree they'd like some answers from CTB/McGraw-Hill on the ISTEP+ failures, and they could get some as soon as the end of the week.

Lakeside Middle School teacher Julie Bird helps Joshay Williams, 12, with an assignment.

Eighty-nine runners head for the wooded trail Sunday at the start of the annual Father's Day 4K trail run at Metea County Park.

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Experts say the number of babies born dependent on prescription narcotics has exploded to epidemic levels: *Inflation-adjusted annual hospital charges for dependent babies increased from $3.8 million in 1997 to $90.5 million in 2009.

Catholic Charities of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese said the celebration will be 1 to 3 p.m. at Villa of the Woods, 5610 Noll Ave., and will feature guest speakers and the clothing, food and dances of refugees' native countries.

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Everybody's Paint, a Michigan company's line of recycled latex paint, is sold at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore on North Wells Street.