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GOOD MORNING Garden Street closed KENDALLVILLE — Due to stump removal, Garden Street between Iddings Street and Prospect Avenue will be closed Sunday from 9:15 to 11 a.m., city officials said. Vehicles should avoid the area during this time, officials advised.
Psychiatrist eligible for death penalty in Fort Hood shootings
Hiking for Heroes fundraiser planned for October 27 KENDALLVILLE — Indiana Marines family and friends are sponsoring a Hiking For Heroes fundraiser supporting all branches of the military on Sunday, Oct. 27, at East Noble High School. Participants in the one-mile hike and 5K run can wear boots and backpacks filled with treats, supplies and pledges for postage to send care packages to troops serving overseas. Fitness competitions and a raffle are planned. Refreshments and souvenirs will be available. The event runs from noon to 4 p.m. and will be held rain or shine.
Coming Sunday Repurposing Fair
New fair in Auburn will bring vintage pieces back to life. Read about the event on Sunday’s C1 and C2.
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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military jury on Friday convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan in the deadly BOB BRALEY 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, making the Army psychiaSen. Sue Glick, R-LaGrange. Also on hand were, Gathered at Busche Plant 9 in Albion Friday to trist eligible for the death penalty celebrate the beginning of the second year of the back row, from left: Tom Keller of Busche, Gary in the shocking assault against Gartman of Work One, Lori Busche of Busche, Conexus Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics American troops by one of their Noble County Economic Development Corp. program at Central Noble High School are, front own on home soil. executive director Rick Sherck, State Rep. David row, from left: high school Principal Geoff Brose, There was never any doubt Ober, R-Albion, and Busche general manager Central Noble Superintendent Chris Daughtry, that Hasan was the gunman. He James Stewart. program teacher Brady Truex, student Kennedy acknowledged to the jury that Forker, Busche owner Nick Busche and state he was the one who pulled the trigger on fellow soldiers as they prepared to deploy overseas to Iraq and Afghanistan. And he barely defended himself during a three-week trial. The unanimous decision on all assembly-line workers and forklift 13 counts of premeditated murder operators, a news release said. made Hasan eligible for execution Instead, it is a high-tech in the sentencing phase that begins industry driven by process Monday. design, programming, robots and Hasan, who said he acted to BY BOB BRALEY Central Noble was unique last techology in coordination with the protect Muslim insurgents abroad bbraley@kpcmedia.com year among the eight pilot schools construction of the product. from American aggression, did ALBION — A program for for Conexus, because it is a small “Today’s curriculum for not react to the verdict, looking teaching students advanced school and not a vocational school. manufacturing isn’t just learning straight at jurors as they announced manufacturing skills was That’s not as true this year, to build metal sheet boxes, but their findings. After the hearing, celebrated Friday afternoon at said Brady Truex, the teacher for also using simulations to learn relatives of the dead and wounded Busche Plant 9 in Albion. the Conexus program. “They’ve abotu topics such as hazards on the fought back tears. Some smiled The Conexus Advanced grown to more than 30 pilot floor, hydraulics and Six Sigma, and warmly patted each other’s Manufacturing and Logistics schools in Indiana this year,” he which all can be connected to the shoulders as they left court. program offered at Central Noble said. manufacturing of boxes,” Truex Because Hasan never denied High School is in its second year. The program, taught through said. his actions, the court-martial was The program is helping students Ivy Tech, is a dual-credit course In addition to classroom work, always less about a conviction than become better prepared for what is that enables students to learn students are exposed to real-world it was about ensuring he received a needed in today’s manufacturing about 21st-century manufacturing industries through Central Noble’s death sentence. From the beginning, SEE CN, PAGE A7 the federal government has sought world. systems that are not dominated by to execute Hasan, believing that any sentence short of a lethal injection would deprive the military and the families of the dead of the justice they have sought for nearly four years. BY DENNIS NARTKER Autumn Manning, whose expansion to accommodate the new press and producdnartker@kpcmedia.com husband, retired Staff Sgt. Shawn tion, according to documents released Thursday. Manning, was shot six times during KENDALLVILLE — Courier Corp. is seeking The Economic Development Advisory Committee is the attack, wept when the verdict 10 years of tax abatement on $13 million in new scheduled to review the tax abatement application at was read. She said she had been equipment and $2.25 million in real property for its its meeting Monday at noon in the Kendallville Area concerned that some charges might Courier Digital Solutions operation at 3094 Lester Chamber of Commerce office, 122 S. Main St. The Drive, Kendallville. City Council has the final vote, and may consider the be reduced to manslaughter, which would have taken a death sentence Courier officials announced on July 31 plans to abatement at its Sept. 2 meeting. off the table. double their digital printing capacity through by Earlier this year Courier Corp., based in North “This is so emotional,” she adding a second T410 color inkjet web press. The Chelmsford, Mass., acquired its first T410 press as expansion may create 40 jobs, adding to Courier the heart of a new digital printing operation designed said in a telephone interview from Lacey, Wash., where she and her Kendallville’s total workforce of 633. The company to complement its Marion Drive offset plant as well also operates a printing facility at 2500 Marion Drive. as a pre-existing digital facility in North Chelmsford. husband live. “I’ve just been crying since we heard it because it was a Courier is seeking 10 years of phased-in abatement Last November, the City Council granted Courier relief. … we just wanted to hear the on the new web press and added equipment, plus 10 years of 100 percent tax abatement on that $13 SEE BASE, PAGE A7 SEE TAX, PAGE A7 10 years of phased-in abatement on the building’s
CN, Busche celebrate School, firm collaborate on program that teaches advanced manufacturing skills
Courier seeking tax abatement
Radioactive groundwater nears Pacific in Japan TOKYO (AP) — Deep beneath Fukushima’s crippled nuclear power station, a massive underground reservoir of contaminated water that began spilling from the plant’s reactors after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been creeping slowly toward the Pacific. Now, 2 1/2 years later, experts fear it is about to reach the ocean and greatly worsen what is fast becoming a new crisis at Fukushima: the inability to contain vast quantities of radioactive water. The looming crisis is potentially far greater than the discovery earlier this week of
a leak from a tank that stores contaminated water used to cool the reactor cores. That 300-ton (80,000-gallon) leak is the fifth and most serious from a tank since the March 2011 disaster, when three of the plant’s reactors melted down after a huge earthquake and tsunami knocked out the plant’s power and cooling functions. But experts believe the underground seepage from the reactor and turbine building area is much bigger and possibly more radioactive, confronting the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., with an invisible, SEE JAPAN, PAGE A7
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A ‘ribbiting’ time at the park This gray tree frog was spotted among some black-eyed Susans near the gate house of Pokagon State Park on the afternoon of Aug. 10.