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Big Drug Find
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Teen Found
Two arrested in meth operation bust in Topeka
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Missing teen found alive, captor killed
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Weather Mostly sunny with a high near 78. Page B8 kpcnews.com
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GOOD MORNING Black bear breaks into Idaho kitchen KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — A black bear in search of a late-night snack broke into an Idaho house and licked leftover Chinese food from a cast iron pan on the stove. David Edwards of Ketchum told the Idaho Mountain Express that his dog’s barking awakened him around 3 a.m. Monday. When he went to investigate what had his Irish setter-Lab mix so upset, he saw the bear on its hind legs, paws on the stove, licking a pan. Edwards’ wife, Sara, had fallen asleep on the couch and his first instinct was to get his wife away from the kitchen area. However, he said, “I couldn’t tell her there was a bear in the house because she would have just lost her mind. She gets very upset over spiders.” So he woke her up and led her into the bedroom without telling her about the furry dish washer. Edwards went back into the kitchen to find the bear was gone and the pan was clean. Edwards credits his dog, Stanley, for waking him up before the bear got farther into the house.
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Changes will greet students East Noble has new entrance, new dual college credit program FROM STAFF REPORTS
Summer vacations are ending in most local school districts in the next few days. Students returning to classrooms will find a variety of changes, from
remodeling to new technology and new faces in their principal’s offices.
East Noble Classes begin Wednesday at East Noble schools with administrative changes, a new, secure entrance for East Noble Middle School and a new dual-credit program for high school students to earn college credits. Administrative changes find Bryan Leitch as the new school corporation business manager; Heather Green, new Rome City
Elementary School principal; Alisha Smith, new South Side Elementary School principal; Andy Deming, from East Noble Middle School assistant principal and athletic director to principal; Bill Cain, from East Noble High School social studies teacher to new East Noble Middle School assistant principal and athletic director; David Stinson, from East Noble Middle School principal to East Noble High School assistant principal; and Matt Stinson, from East Noble High School associate principal to assistant principal.
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Courthouse Encampment
HISTORY COMES ALIVE Indiana Civil War Historical Association holds it’s first LaGrange event BY PATRICK REDMOND
Obama begins Vineyard vacation EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama opened the first summer vacation of his second term Saturday on Martha’s Vineyard, trading Washington debates over the budget, government surveillance and his health care overhaul for a hoped-for carefree week filled with golf, beach outings and hanging-out time with family and friends.
East Noble Middle School’s main entrance is now on Riley Street ,with administrative offices moved to inside the main entrance way. Beginning with the class of 2016, East Noble High School is doing away with weighted grades for advanced placement courses. The school corporation is partnering with Ivy Tech and Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne to offer up to 45 college credits through 15 AP courses with the start of this school year on a trimester
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Jerry Culbertson, a Civil War reenactor with the 44th Indiana Civil War Historical Association, talks with a few visitors to his camp near the LaGrange County Courthouse Saturday afternoon. Culbertson and the men of the 44th were in town to be part of the first ever Civil War History Day on the lawn of the Courthouse. The daylong living history event filled the Courthouse lawn and drew more than 500 people to downtown LaGrange.
LAGRANGE — The sounds of Civil War vintage muskets being fired echoed off the LaGrange County Courthouse late Saturday afternoon as a small group of men loaded up their caplock rifles with powder only and pulled the triggers. A few minutes later, the roar of a Civil War vintage cannon also could be heard booming throughout downtown LaGrange. Both sounds were part of a living history celebration on the courthouse lawn Saturday that included a group of men re-enacting the lives of the men who made up Indiana’s 44th Infantry, a group of soldiers from northeast Indiana that fought in many of the Civil War’s biggest battles. “This has been an amazing day,” said Dalonda Young, one of the event’s organizers. Young estimated more than 500 people stopped by the courthouse just to stroll among the historical displays and vendor booths set up around the building. A Civil War encampment, set up by members of the the 44th Indiana Civil War Historical Association, a nonprofit organization out of Fort Wayne, SEE REENACTMENT, PAGE A6
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Post-Benghazi, Obama plays it safe with embassies WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama seems determined to make sure he doesn’t have another Benghazi. Pilloried by Republicans in Congress for its handling of last year’s attack, his administration is responding with extra caution now that intelligence suggests a possible al-Qaida strike is in the works. Even as the threat may be subsiding, U.S. officials say they are taking no risks less than a year after militants killed four Americans in the eastern Libyan city and with Republicans poised to pounce on any misstep. After closing 19 diplomatic posts across the Muslim world for almost a week, the United States added to the global uneasiness Friday. It ordered nonessential staff out of Lahore, Pakistan, and warned Americans to avoid traveling to the country. The action appeared
unrelated to the al-Qaida threat stemming from Yemen, but mirrored a missive earlier in the week to U.S. embassy staffers in that country. The stated reason for all the recent security measures: “An overabundance of caution.” Come Sunday, all but one of the 19 embassies and consulates will reopen, the State Department announced late Friday. The exception: the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen. In addition, the consulate in Lahore was to remain closed. A department spokeswoman did not cite a reason for the decision to reopen the 18 missions. Obama said at a White House news conference Friday afternoon that al-Qaida’s core has been decimated by U.S. counterterrorism efforts such as the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden in his SEE BENGHAZI, PAGE A6
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Onion Days Parade Dalton Brenneke drove his racing go-kart in the 2013 Wolf Lake Onion Days Parade Saturday in Wolf Lake. Weather was sunny and warm with intermittent clouds during the parade. See more from the parade on A6.