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GOOD MORNING Registration for AHS students next week ANGOLA — Registration day for Angola High School students will be Thursday, Aug. 8 from 1-7 p.m. Students and parents will receive class schedules, have school pictures taken, pay book fees, order yearbooks and purchase athletic passes. For more information, call the AHS office at 665-2186.
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Huq returns to Steuben Initial hearing slated for Thursday BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — Mafuz Huq will be facing a judge Thursday in Steuben County for the first time since an arrest warrant alleging murder was issued for him nearly 24 years ago. Huq, 47, was returned to Steuben County on Tuesday afternoon after being processed upon his return to the United States in the Marion County Jail, Sheriff Tim Troyer said in a news release. Huq arrived in Indianapolis on Saturday and underwent
medical exams before being transported to Angola. Huq, a naturalized U.S. citizen, has been on the lam since August 1989 after authorities believed he allegedly stabbed to death Todd Kelley, 19, Hamilton, on Aug. 9, 1989. Authorities said Kelley’s girlfriend, who had previously dated Huq, found his body. Huq, who was 22 at the time, was charged with murder two weeks after Kelley’s death. At the time, Huq already was accused of threatening to kill anyone who
dated his former girlfriend. After the murder, Huq eventually fled the country. He had been living in Bangladesh, the home country of his Huq parents, under the assumed name of Asif ul Huq. Indiana State Police Detective Kevin Smith tracked down Huq about five years ago through a variety of sources. He was found in Bangladesh, but the United States doesn’t have an extradition treaty with that country, so efforts
KENDALLVILLE — Gov. Mike Pence will visit Campbell & Fetter Bank, 126 Orchard St., today at 3 p.m. for the bank’s 150th birthday celebration. Later, Pence will tour the new Courier Digital Operations Facility and attend an industrial leaders roundtable discussion hosted by Courier.
More cleanup underway from spill CHICAGO — Enbridge has begun a new round of dredging in Michigan’s Kalamazoo River to clean up oil from the company’s July 2010 pipeline spill, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday. Enbridge will dredge about 350,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment during this phase of the cleanup, the EPA said. During the past three years, nearly 190,000 cubic yards of oil-contaminated material and 1.15 million gallons of oil have been recovered from the river. On July 26, 2010, Enbridge reported that a 30-inch pipeline ruptured near Marshall, Mich., contaminating Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.
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The annual Clear Lake Ski Club Show went on even during Sunday’s fluctuating weather that included cool temperatures with intermittent rain and an accompanying rainbow. The Great Pyramid of Egypt was performed by Maddy Morris, Taryn Gay, Tommy McArdle,
Jonathon Moss, Alivia Behnfeldt, Grant Korte, Kate Morris, Erin Stephens, Max Ginn, John Morris, MaKenna Behnfeldt and Zach Short. The club has been putting on an annual show for decades.
Trine in orthotics project ANGOLA — Trine University’s Innovation One is working to develop a new orthotic device for infants and toddlers, the university said in a news release. The design will be based on a concept from SureStepSM, a South Bend company that is partnering with Innovation One. Bernie Veldman, a certified orthotist who developed the patented SureStepSM orthotic device for children, has an idea for a new orthotic device and he turned to Innovation One to bring his concept to fruition. “We are honored that Mr. Veldman — an entrepreneur and inventor — is partnering with Innovation One to develop and test an orthotic
“Our whole team is very excited to work with Innovation One and its staff.” Bernie Veldman CEO, SureStepSM
• device,” said Earl D. Brooks II, Trine president. “Mr. Veldman and SureStepSM join many other individuals and companies that have put faith and trust in Innovation One, which was started last year.” Innovation One, launched
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in August 2012 to help bring new ideas to market and spur economic development in the region, has collaborated on 30 projects by providing research, testing and analysis. Innovation One aids new and existing businesses by providing expertise in research and development, designing and prototyping, and engineering and marketing, among other areas. It involves Trine faculty and students in all fields of study. “Our whole team is very excited to work with Innovation One and its staff. Being able to combine our industry knowledge with their resources is incredibly valuable. As a result, I feel confident we will create a SEE PARTNERSHIP, PAGE A5
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at Christel House Academy. But emails obtained by The Associated Press show Bennett and his staff scrambled last fall to ensure influential donor Christel DeHaan’s school received an “A,” despite Bennett poor 10th grade algebra scores that initially earned it a “C.” Jim Stergios, executive director of the conservative-leaning Pioneer Institute in Boston, said Bennett needs to resign his Florida position for violating the trust of Indiana students and parents. “All you have as an official is your credibility. And that people trust you to do the
ANGOLA — A member of Angola’s legal team in its fight against Showgirl says a favorable ruling on its motions could result in the case being resolved quite fast. The case between Showgirl against the city is coming to a relatively quick conclusion. Attorney Robert Keen, part of the city’s legal team of four attorneys, said Tuesday if U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Miller rules favorably on the city’s motions, moving forward with the case would be moot. The city filed motions seeking dismissal of all but one claim against it on July 18, and a similar motion is expected for the remaining claim. “If (the judge) grants our motions, there won’t be a need for a preliminary injunction,” Keen said. The preliminary injunction would come from Showgirl and, if granted would pave the way for the strip club to open in the former Slider’s Grill and Bar building at 310 W. Wendell Jacob Ave. Showgirl owner Alva Butler, Fort Wayne, and the city have been fighting over whether Butler could open almost since he bought the building at an Aug. 9, SEE SHOWGIRL, PAGE A5
Angola preps for Summer Fest Event to be held downtown BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com
right thing,” Stergios told The Associated Press. “He has been entrusted with the hopes of parents and the aspirations of children. That’s a sacred trust.” But in Florida, at least one member of the State Board of Education, which hired Bennett, said she remains confident in the job he is doing. “If true, it is troubling,” said Sally Bradshaw, a board member and former chief of staff under Bush. “But Florida has had to adjust our own school grading system to ensure that the grading formula is applied uniformly, and my sense is that that may be what happened in Indiana in this case.” Indiana uses the A-F grades to determine which schools get taken over by the state and
ANGOLA — Salsa dancing, sidewalk sales, arts and crafts, antiques, entertainment and food will be featured at this weekend’s Summer Fest. Sponsored by Go Angola Downtown Alliance, the Friday and Saturday festival is separate and in addition to September’s Fall Fest. Both festivals are being held with an emphasis on fun and drawing attention to the downtown. “It’s small and we’re revamping sidewalk sales,” said LeeAnn Snyder, Summer Fest chair. “We’re hoping that we grow Summer Fest into being its own festival. We want to draw people downtown and draw attention. People don’t realize how many specialty shops and restaurants there are,” she said. Sidewalk sales will be held Friday and Saturday throughout Angola with some businesses staying open with extended hours. On Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday between 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. there will be an art, crafts and antique show in downtown Angola’s Public Square quadrants. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday a taste of downtown can be had in the food court in the Public Square’s southwest quadrant. Provided by downtown businesses, food and entertainment will be offered for taste and listening
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Probe pledged in school grade flap INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana education leaders on Tuesday pledged a thorough review of the state’s system for evaluating schools after The Associated Press reported a former official who now serves as Florida’s education commissioner worked to alter a grade for a school founded by a top Republican donor. Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz said the Department of Education is examining the current A-F grade calculations “to ensure that every school has the grade they earned in 2012; nothing more, nothing less.” Tony Bennett, who was appointed Florida’s top education official in December, denies any wrongdoing. He says the changes to Indiana’s grading formula weren’t solely directed
Member of Angola’s legal team feels law on its side in battle over Showgirl BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com
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to get Huq returned to the U.S. fell on deaf ears. In either late 2010 or early 2011 it was learned Huq would be traveling to India for a teaching engagement and he was arrested on a provisional arrest request from federal authorities as he deplaned in New Dehli. Since his February 2011 arrest, Huq was held in the Tihar Prison system pending extradition. Huq had fought extradition proceedings while in custody. That and other technicalities in dealing with a foreign government’s legal system, Troyer said, had delayed Huq’s extradition.
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State ends fight with Planned Parenthood INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana is apparently ending its two-year legal fight to deny Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood because it performs abortions. Lawyers for the state and Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky filed a proposed final judgment in the case Monday in federal court in Indianapolis. That judgment still needs a judge’s approval, but it would permanently enjoin Indiana from enforcing a 2011 state law that denied Medicaid funds to the women’s health provider.
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