Category Archives: WJFX Local News (imported)

The Rescue Mission to host annual Point in Time Count
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – Every January the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development identifies one day as the Point in Time Count of sheltered and unsheltered people experiencing homel...
Joey Martin Jan 23, 2023

Fort Wayne police arrest barricaded man
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – A man has been arrested after barricading himself in a home in Fort Wayne Sunday morning. Police were called to the home in the 2400 block of Cambridge Boulevard aroun...
Joey Martin Jan 23, 2023

ACPL's Lincoln Collection gets $50,000 boost
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – On Friday, January 20, the Friends of the Lincoln Collection received a check in the amount of $50,000 from the Mary Penrose Wayne Chapter, National Society of the Dau...
Joey Martin Jan 23, 2023

Fort Wayne UNITED Late Night Basketball returns
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – The Fort Wayne UNITED Late Night Basketball Initiative is back for its winter session. The program runs from 8-11 p.m. each Saturday evening from January 28 through Fe...
Joey Martin Jan 23, 2023

Suspect in downtown bank robbery arrested
UPDATE (January 23, 2023): Fort Wayne Police Department officials say that a man suspected of robbing a downtown bank has been arrested. After police circulated pictures of the man, employees at a loc...
Joey Martin Jan 23, 2023

Three pets rescued in north Fort Wayne house fire
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – Officials with the Fort Wayne Fire Department say crews responded to a house fire on the city’s north side Thursday afternoon on Stonecreek Trail. Just after 4 p...
Joey Martin Jan 20, 2023

Arts United appoints new president
Dan Ross FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – Arts United announced this week that Dan Ross has been appointed as the new President and CEO of the organization. An experienced arts business leader, Ross w...
Joey Martin Jan 20, 2023

Allen County Coroner: Mother and son died by murder-suicide
UPDATE (January 20, 2023): FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – The shooting deaths Wednesday of 43-year-old Kari Lynn Beck and seven-year-old Oscar Beck in Fort Wayne have been ruled a murder-suicide. Th...
Joey Martin Jan 20, 2023

Electrical fire damages southeast side home
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – Officials with the Fort Wayne Fire Department say crews responded to a house fire on Fort Wayne's southeast side Thursday afternoon. The fire was reported around 4:45 ...
Joey Martin Jan 20, 2023

FWPD: Man arrested had guns, drugs in reach of children
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – Fort Wayne Police Department officials say that a man is facing charges after a drug investigation. 26-year-old Kevin Jerelle Jones, Jr. was arrested for drug dealing ...
Joey Martin Jan 19, 2023