http://www.news-sentinel.com News headlines from the News-Sentinel. en-us Copyright, The News-Sentinel Newspapers http://www.news-sentinel.com/grafix/ns_rss.gif http://www.news-sentinel.com http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100906/NEWS/9060309 With as long as Allen County has waited for the new all-access online court system Odyssey, the name it shares with Homer #8217;s epic poem seems appropriate. Alas, come Tuesday, the journey will have been realized, as the system that will make the court thoroughly transparent will go live. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:40:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100906/NEWS/9060321 Signs of a smooth transition marked the first Auburn classic car auction since Auctions America by RM purchased the former Kruse International Auction Park earlier this summer. The annual Labor Day weekend event attracted more than 20,000 people. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:50:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100906/NEWS/9060310 Students in all four area public school districts are enjoying a day off school today after one, two or even nearly three weeks of classes this school year. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:50:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100906/NEWS/9060323 WASHINGTON #8212; Vowing to find new ways to stimulate the sputtering economy, President Obama will call for long-term investments in the nation #8217;s roads, railways and airports that would cost at least $50 billion, administration officials said. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:20:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100906/NEWS/9060322 HONG KONG #8212; The vaccine used to contain the recent swine flu pandemic was effective, but health authorities will need to ramp up the speed and volume of production during the next outbreak, a World Health Organization official said today. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:20:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100905/NEWS/100909986 LOS ANGELES #8212; For more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad poked fun at politicians, taking on presidents from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:41:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100905/NEWS/100909987 WASHINGTON #8212; Seeking ways to spur economic growth ahead of the November elections, President Barack Obama will ask Congress to increase and permanently extend research and development tax credits for businesses, a White House official said Sunday. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:41:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100905/NEWS/100909989 ON THE GULF OF MEXICO #8212; Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:41:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100905/NEWS/100909990 Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored." Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:40:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100904/NEWS/9040307 In less than a week, it should be illegal to sell synthetic marijuana #8211; often sold as #8220;K2 #8221; #8211; anywhere in Allen County. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:38:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100904/NEWS/9040326 Fort Wayne Police have arrested a city teenager in connection with the death of a woman found in a downtown park early Friday. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:36:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100904/NEWS/9040337 The Indiana State Police Criminal Investigation Division from the Fort Wayne Post arrested a 53-year-old Avilla man Friday on a preliminary charge of child molesting. Frederick W. Weese, 53, is accused of inappropriate sexual conduct with a then-8-year-old girl he is related to at a residence in Ligonier in 2002. On Aug. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:46:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100904/NEWS/9040327 Ex-convict Charles Lawrence was apparently retaliating against Quinton Lewis for battering his sister when the parolee allegedly opened fire on the 29-year-old man, killing him in April outside the woman's apartment, according to court documents. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:22:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100904/NEWS/9040308 It was supposed to be routine. But there turned out to be very little routine Friday about the Allen County Highway Department's request for more than $155,000 it said is needed to complete a $2 million bridge project that was supposedly ready last December. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:29:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100904/NEWS/9040309 Allen County officials have not always been supporters of annexation, saying it reduces the county's share of taxes based on population. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:25:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100904/NEWS/9040334 Auctions America of RM President Donnie Gould said he is confident that attendance at the Auburn Fall Collector Car Auction this Labor Day weekend will meet if not exceed last year's figures. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:25:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100904/NEWS/9040328 Indiana's 140 license branches administered 383,030 written tests last year #8211; 9,256 of them in Spanish. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:28:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100904/NEWS/9040325 The lights switched off and a photo was projected on the wall of a group of men, Vietnam veterans, most with thick hair and mustaches. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:33:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100904/NEWS/9040324 Tom Hayhurst, the Democrat running to represent the 3rd District in the U.S. House, said Friday that if his opponent is so opposed to farm subsidies, he ought to return the nearly $1 million in subsidies he's received in the last 15 years. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:28:00 EDT http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20100904/NEWS/9040335 Roger Clemens could get 30 years for lying to Congress. Congress lies to its constituents all the time. Give them 30 years. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:26:00 EDT