Lead Stories
Educators from across the state spoke out against a new literacy endorsement and revised graduation requirements at the State Board of Education meeting on Wednesday. They said training for the endorsement is confusing and burdensome and they expressed concern that the new graduation requirements won’t help students become well-rounded.
Arts & Culture
Local music legend shares iconic photo collection through the Allen County Public Library. It includes images of Jim Morrison and other rock icons.
State & Local News
With Allen County Commissioner Nelson Peters retiring at the end of the year, his seat had an open Republican primary for the first time in 20 years. EACS board member Ron Turpin won the GOP nomination for that seat. And At-Large Councilman Kyle Kerley is out.
WBOI Presents
Fort Wayne officially has a new mayor, Google invests billions on the city's southeast side and Doc West's iconic rock photos on display via the ACPL.
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A month after fast food workers in California started earning at least $20 an hour, how is the financial picture for them and franchise owners shaping up?
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A drug company will voluntarily stop selling a medicine that was bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars, keeping a promise the business made years earlier to people with the fatal condition ALS.
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Republicans tried for the kind of headline moments they've scored in similar hearings with elite college presidents. But the testimony from K-12 public school leaders offered few surprises.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with author Juli Min about her new book Shanghailanders, which unspools the story of a family in reverse.
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The judge presiding over Trump's case in Florida issued a ruling to indefinitely delay the trial, which centers on allegedly mishandling classified documents and resisting attempts to reclaim them.
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It's Been a Minute's Brittany Luse talks with Jane Schoenbrun, the writer and director of I Saw the TV Glow, about two suburban teens in the 1990s who bond over a show.
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Aid groups in the southern Gaza city of Rafah are trying to maintain services for people unable to leave amid an Israeli assault there. People who can leave Rafah are unsure where to go.
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Kenya has endured months of record rainfall with no sign the deluge will stop any time soon. With over 200 killed in flash floods, many Kenyans think the government has been slow to react.
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A new young adult novel called Blood at the Root follows a Black teen learning to harness his ancestral magic. Before it was a novel, it was a failed TV pilot. Before that, it was a tweet.
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With the federal ban on noncompetes set to take effect in 120 days, workers bound by such agreements are starting to wonder whether they are free to pursue work that they otherwise couldn't do.
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