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September 22, 2013
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Paternity pursuit GOOD MORNING
BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com
There’s a legal right in Indiana most people don’t think about, one that applies to even the youngest of Hoosiers: the right to know who your father is. It’s the job of county prosecutors’ offices in Indiana to work to determine paternity. That determination can have many repercussions. “The state has an interest in making sure children are cared for,” said Noble County Prosecutor Steven T. Clouse. The prosecutor represents the state’s interest, so it falls on that office to investigate such cases.
Indiana farm working to fix noisy turbine WINCHESTER, Ind. (AP) — The operators of a central Indiana wind farm are working to correct problems with a wind turbine that’s prompted nearby residents to complain about an irritating noise. E.ON Climate & Renewables project manager Andy Melka says one of Wildcat Wind Farm’s turbines is creating the noise because it’s unable to properly face into the direction of the wind. He tells the Kokomo Tribune the turbine’s noise level was 51.6 decibels, putting it above the 50-decibel noise limit. Melka says crews will make a permanent fix to the turbine in the near future and they may lower the speed of the rotor as the wind speed exceeds a certain level. He says the company is also fielding complaints about the loss of broadcast television reception around the wind farm.
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Prosecutors seek dads’ identities
“The prosecutors are the enforcement arm that requires, in most cases, fathers to pay for their children,” said LaGrange County Prosecutor Jeffrey Wible. Paternity testing is mandated by the federal government, said Steuben County deputy prosecutor Nicholas Wallace, who works with the county’s Title IV-D child support office. The Title IV-D section of the prosecutor’s office oversees paternity cases in each county. Societal changes are the chief reason the number of paternity cases is increasing, said DeKalb County deputy prosecutor Kelly Morris, who works with the
county’s Title IV-D child support office. “We have a lot of people who just don’t get married” when they have children, Morris said. A man is presumed to be a child’s legal father if he and his wife were married when the child was born or it was born no later than 300 days after the marriage ended, according to information from the Indiana Department of Child Services. If the child is born out of wedlock, then the matter becomes one of determining who the father is, Wible said. That determination is important, Clouse said. A legal
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Mall attack kills 39
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Slain officer’s heroism a balm to co-workers INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Officers mourning an Indianapolis police officer slain while coming to the aid of a screaming woman who’d been held at gunpoint for hours are taking comfort in knowing he died during a selfless and heroic act, a police spokesman said Saturday. Officer Rod Bradway, who died early Friday, kicked open the front door of an apartment in response to screams for help by a woman whose ex-boyfriend had held her inside at gunpoint for three hours. The woman and her young child were unharmed in the chaos that followed, but 24-year-old Steven Byrdo was hiding behind the apartment door and allegedly ambushed and fatally shot Bradway about 2 a.m. Friday, police said. Bradway, a 41-year-old father of two teenagers, died later at an Indianapolis hospital.
father has both rights and responsibilities for a child. Most commonly, the responsibilities translate as child support, Wible said. Indiana law provides two means to determine paternity, Morris said. One is a paternity affidavit. The other is a court order. A paternity affidavit is a legal document in which a man and woman jointly declare that he is the father of her child, Morris said. It can be completed at the hospital within 72 hours of the birth or at the local health department. The court-order option enters
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DeKalb, Garrett marching bands compete Above, the DeKalb High School Baron Brigade performs during the 36th annual East Noble Invitational Saturday in Kendallville. DeKalb took first place in Class B and also took home caption awards for best color guard, percussion, music, visual and general effect. At right, the Garrett High School Railroader Regiment competes in Class C competition Saturday night.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Terrified shoppers huddled in back hallways and prayed they would not be found by the Islamic extremist gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside Nairobi’s top mall Saturday. When the way appeared clear, crying mothers clutching small children and blood-splattered men sprinted out of the four-story mall. At least 39 people were killed and more than 150 wounded in the assault, Kenya’s president announced on national TV, while disclosing that his close family members were among the dead. Foreigners were among the casualties. France’s president said that two French women were killed. Two Canadians were killed, including a diplomat, said the Candadian prime minister. Four American citizens were reported injured but not killed in the attack, the State Department said Saturday. Early Sunday morning, 12 hours after the attack began, gunmen remained holed up inside the mall with an unknown number of hostages. President Uhuru Kenyatta called the security operation under way “delicate” and said a top priority was to safeguard hostages. As the attack began shortly after noon Saturday, the al-Qaida-linked gunmen asked the victims they had cornered if they were Muslim: Those who answered yes were free to go, several witnesses said. The non-Muslims were not. SEE ATTACK, PAGE A8
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LaOtto family slows development plans
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1800s-style craft village still in the works in rural LaOtto
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LAOTTO — A family seeking to develop an 1800s-era craft village on its property in LaOtto has decided to slow the pace of its plans. Doug and Kim Jennings announced plans earlier this summer to create the village, which as planned calls for 14 shops, each of 800 to 1,000 square feet, on their land at 11330 East C.R. 500S. The village would be constructed in conjunction with three bed-and-breakfast inns. A request to rezone the property from A1 Agricultural to
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VM Village Mix was withdrawn Aug. 26 before it could be considered by the Noble County commissioners. Had the county commissioners nixed the rezoning at their Aug. 26 meeting, the Jenningses would have had to wait a year before filing another request. Now, Doug Jennings said, the plan is to seek variances for a small number of shops in the spring of 2014, a gradual approach he said he hoped would show how unintrusive the operation will be to the surrounding area. The matter eventually will come before SEE DEVELOPMENT, PAGE A8
MATT GETTS
Doug and Kim Jennings stand on the front steps of one of the bed-and-breakfast inns on their rural LaOtto property.
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