Category Archives: WXKE Local News

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – A new coffee shop is now open in downtown Fort Wayne. The Tall Rabbit Cafe + Community is Blue Jacket, Inc.’s fourth social enterprise designed to transitionally...

UPDATE (January 5, 2023): The Allen County Coroner says an 18-year-old was the victim in a deadly South Anthony Boulevard shooting. She and another person were shot on Tuesday. Police say three people...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – A new vending machine is available for free Narcan outside the emergency room entrance for Parkview Randallia Hospital in Fort Wayne. Narcan, also known as naloxone, i...

Probationary Trooper Tyler Pinnington ELKHART CO., Ind. (ADAMS) – On December 15, 2022, Eleven Probationary Troopers graduated from the 83rd Indiana State Police Academy. Of those eleven graduat...

July 14, 2022, Reservoir Park, Steve McDaniel FWPRD Director (at mic), right to left: Mayor Tom Henry, Steve Collins Fort Financial president and CEO, Allie Lane Mad Ants' Director of Business Operati...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (ADAMS) – The Ohio State Highway Patrol is reporting eleven traffic-related deaths over the four-day New Year’s holiday weekend period. OSHP says impaired driving was a fact...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – The Fort Wayne Fire Department says two adults and one child were not hurt when a fire broke out in their Wabash Avenue home. Crews were called around 2:21 a.m. on Wed...

UPDATE (January 4, 2022): A man who died in a car that caught fire after hitting a parked car on New Year's Day has been identified. It happened around 3 a.m. Sunday on the 2500 block of Westbrook Dri...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – A suspect in the double murder of Noele Trice and Bryan Lash in their Weisser Park home in 2017 has been arrested. 35-year-old Dustin Neal is charged with two counts o...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (ADAMS) – Sports betting is now legal in Ohio and players have wasted no time getting in on the action. A law went into effect at 12:01 a.m. on New Year’s Day allowing sport...