TUESDAY September 17, 2013
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GOOD MORNING EN Show Choirs dessert concert set BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — East Noble Show Choirs is hosting its annual dessert concert Wednesday at Cole Auditorium. Doors open at 6:30 p.,m. with the show at 7 p.m. Cupcakes and lemonade will be served in the lobby. Tickets are $5 at the door or contact East Noble director of show choirs Chris Mettert at cmettert@ eastnoble.net for reservations. The show is a preview for the show choirs’ first competition Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at the Bluffton Street Fair in Bluffton. This year’s show for the A New Vision choir is music from the Broadway musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” “We have a 92-member show choir this year, the largest we’ve ever had, and we are greatly looking forward to another year of great music for the show choirs,” said Mettert. Wednesday’s hour-long show will feature several solo acts followed by the performance planned for Bluffton. Mettert requests guests sit in the middle of the auditorium to centralize the experience for the performers.
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13 dead in navy yard shooting WASHINGTON (AP) — A defense contractor went on a shooting rampage Monday inside a building at the heavily secured Washington Navy Yard, spraying bullets in the hallways and firing Alexis from a balcony onto workers in an atrium below. Thirteen people were killed, including the gunman. Police said the gunman, 34-year-old Aaron Alexis of Texas, used a valid pass to get onto the base before launching the attack, which unfolded about 8:20 a.m. in the heart of the nation’s capital, less than four miles from the White House and two miles from the Capitol. Alexis died after a running gunbattle inside the building with police, investigators said. “This is a horrific tragedy,” Mayor Vincent Gray said.
Investigators said the motive was a mystery. The mayor said there was no indication it was a terrorist attack, but he added that the possibility had not been ruled out. For much of the day, authorities said they were looking for a possible second attacker who may have been disguised in an olive-drab military-style uniform. But by late Monday night, they said they were convinced the attack was the work of a lone gunman, and the security lockdown around the area was eased. “We do now feel comfortable that we have the single and sole person responsible for the loss of life inside the base today,” Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said. It was the deadliest shooting at a military installation in the U.S. since Maj. Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 in 2009 at Fort Hood in Texas.
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Police who responded to the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard Monday leave the facility. A gunman acting alone launched an attack that killed 12 people and later was killed himself.
He was convicted last month and sentenced to death. President Barack Obama lamented yet another mass shooting in the U.S. that he said took the lives of American “patriots.” He promised to make sure “whoever carried out this cowardly act is held responsible.”
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The FBI took charge of the investigation. At the time of the rampage, Alexis was an information technology employee with a company that was a Defense Department subcontractor, authorities said. Valerie Parlave, head SEE STORY, PAGE A6
Report confirms nerve gas
Whitley company plans new facility COLUMBIA CITY — Sound Ideas, which provides marketing and digital-media services for medical-device manufacturers, will spend $500,000 to build and equip a new 4,000-square-foot facility in Whitley County. The Whitley County Economic Development Corp. announced the firm, which was founded in 1996 and presently has 12 employees, is expected to add three workers by 2016. The new facility is expected to enhance Sound Ideas’ services, which include: strategy; branding; three-dimensional illustration and animation; video and sound production; mobile applications; and large-scale meeting planning.
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Emergency responders work at the scene of a head-on crash Monday afternoon on U.S. 6. The driver of this vehicle, Dean A. Spangler, 70, of
Wolcottville, was airlifted to Parkview Regional Medical Center at Fort Wayne for treatment of his injuries.
Three hurt in crash on U.S. 6 KENDALLVILLE — Three people sustained injuries in a head-on crash Monday at 2:31 p.m. on U.S. 6 west of Kendallville, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said. A helicopter flew the most seriously injured victim, Dean A. Spangler, 70, of Wolcottville, to Parkview Regional Medical Center of Fort Wayne for treatment of
arterial bleeding and possible fractures. Spangler’s passenger, Georgianne Spangler, 61, complained of pain and was transported by ambulance to Parkview Regional. The driver of the other vehicle involved, Stanley Orzel, 65, of Fenton, Mich., had glass in his eye and cuts to his face, but declined medical treatment.
Police said Dean Spangler was driving a 1997 Chrysler CXI that went left of center on U.S. 6 near the intersection of C.R. 400E. It struck Orzel’s 2013 MercedesBenz sport-utility vehicle head-on, entrapping Dean Spangler in the wreckage. Emergency responders extricated him from the car. A passenger in Orzel’s vehicle escaped injury, police said.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Careful not to blame either side for a deadly chemical weapon attack, U.N. inspectors reported Monday that rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin had been fired from an area where Syria’s military has bases, but said the evidence could have been manipulated in the rebel-controlled stricken neighborhoods. The U.S., Britain and France jumped on evidence in the report — especially the type of rockets, the composition of the sarin agent, and trajectory of the missiles — to declare that President Bashar Assad’s government was responsible. Russia, Syria’s closest ally, called the investigators’ findings “deeply disturbing,” but said it was too early to draw conclusions. The Syrian government’s claims that opposition forces were responsible for the attack “cannot be simply shrugged off,” Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin insisted. The conclusions represented the first official confirmation by impartial scientific experts that chemical weapons were used in Syria’s civil war, but the inspectors’ limited mandate barred them from identifying who was responsible for the Aug. 21 attack. “This is a war crime,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council when he presented the report. “The results are overwhelming and indisputSEE REPORT, PAGE A6
Commissioners discuss not listing names BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com
ALBION — The Noble County Commissioners Monday discussed a proposal to withhold some names from being listed in the county’s online property records. The effort would involve a lot of work for the county’s Geographic Information System department and ultimately wouldn’t withhold the information from someone who really wanted to get it, said Noble County information technology director Dave Baum. “I sympathize with the idea, but, look, the cow is out of the barn. It’s already down the road,”
Baum said. The discussion stemmed from a new law that allows a county to remove and withhold names from online county property tax addresses for judges, law enforcement officers and victims of crimes who are under protective orders. After it was approved by the Indiana General Assembly, Gov. Mike Pence signed House Enrolled Act 1219 into law April 29. To be able to withhold the information, the county commissioners must pass an ordinance. It would affect only the county’s online address information. The county could assess a fee to those
requesting that their names be withheld under the law. County GIS coordinator Steve Hook said he is aware of some law enforcement officers who would like to have their addresses withheld. The problem is that the ordinance covers only one of many sources for the information, Hook and Baum said. Someone determined to get the information still will be able to do so, just not from the county’s site. “This is just one site out of many, many sites on the Internet that has this information,” Hook said. People could get the addresses
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for officers, judges or victims from any public site not under county control having the information, Baum said. And they could simply come to the courthouse. “Anybody who walks into an office up here can get this information any time they want,” he said. The logistics also are daunting, Baum said. What happens when someone ceases to be a law-enforcement officer, he asked. What happens when a victim moves, or is no longer on the victim’s list? “It becomes a nightmare for us,” he said. The goal of the law is laudable,
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