Category Archives: WXKE Featured News
Judge: Medical debt to stay on credit reports
(ADAMS) - Medical debt will remain on credit reports after a federal judge vacated a Biden-era rule. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule would have removed the debt; however, the judge found...
Jul 16, 2025 sbartsmedia / Depositphotos.com
Delayed pattern, reconstruction on Bluffton Road gets underway
UPDATE (July 16, 2025): FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) - The City of Fort Wayne says a change in the traffic pattern on Bluffton Road is underway. Bridge work has been going on for months, but this second p...
Jul 16, 2025
Several INDOT projects to begin this week in Allen County
ALLEN CO., Ind. (ADAMS) - The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has announced several projects that could impact your commute. There will be new bridge work on U.S. 27 and S.R. 930. Additio...
Jul 13, 2025 Zac Gudakov / Unsplash
Police search for suspect in deadly crash that followed police chase
UPDATE (July 11, 2025): FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) - The FWPD is looking for a man who they believe is connected to a fatal crash that followed a police chase in April. They say Brandon Pearson w...
Jul 11, 2025
Police look for driver in southwest hit-and-run
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) - The Fort Wayne Police Department (FWPD) is asking for help in finding a vehicle and whoever was driving it on Sunday when it struck a pedestrian on the city's southwest side...
Jul 10, 2025
Indiana National Guard recruitment up 14%
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) - Recruitment by the Indiana National Guard is up 14 percent from last year. Officials say they have over 12,000 members as of now, and they hope recent benefit changes will...
Jul 10, 2025 rachwal / Depositphotos.com
Indiana property tax changes take effect
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) - The state's property tax changes have taken effect, and gross assessed property values are up 12 percent compared to 2024. Farmland is being assessed at a lower base rate ...
Jul 09, 2025 AndreyPopov / Depositphotos.com
FWPD Chief Caudill: Violence will not be tolerated
UPDATE (July 8, 2025): The Chief of the Fort Wayne Police Department (FWPD) is calling on the community, specifically parents and caregivers, to be more involved in guiding our young people away from ...
Jul 08, 2025
Traffic alert! New work heads to Coldwater close to Dupont
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) - Beginning July 9, southbound Coldwater Road between Dupont Road and Northwest Passage will be restricted to one lane for the Woodland Lakes Concrete Street Repairs Project. ...
Jul 07, 2025
FWCS: Frozen school funds could have devastating result
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) - Fort Wayne Community Schools superintendent Mark Daniel says the move by President Trump to freeze over $6 billion in federal funds for schools is "devastating to our commun...
Jul 03, 2025 Brett Levin / CC
