A LaOtto man, wanted on drug charges in Noble County, led police on a 45-minute chase through several counties until he exchanged gunfire with officer .
The Drug Enforcement Administration is sponsoring the 20th nationwide Prescription Drug Take Back initiative Saturday. The initiative seeks to prevent .
City activists wait to see how things go from here
LISA GREEN | The Journal Gazette
A local civil rights activist had a tempered response Tuesday to the triple guilty verdicts in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd s death.
The Rev. Bill McGill, pastor of Imani Baptist Temple, said the Floyd family still lost a relative who was dear to them and he is interested in police accountability going forward.
“I waited like everyone else with bated breath,” McGill said in a telephone interview Tuesday night about the trial of Derek Chauvin.
But McGill noted what some proclaimed as a historic victory came at great expense and he wants to “see how they handle the next offense.” He was referencing the criminal proceeding expected after 20-year-old Daunte Wright was killed this month after a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb. Former police Officer Kim Potter has been charged in his death after saying she mistook her gun for a Taser when she
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Fort Wayne-area jobless rate 4.5% in March
Lisa Green | The Journal Gazette
The Fort Wayne-area jobless rate was 4.5% in March just slightly higher than the 4.4% in February, figures released today show.
The labor force for the Allen, Wells and Whitley counties metropolitan statistical area was 216,129 last month, with 206,434 of those individuals employed, Indiana Department of Workforce Development data shows.
In March last year the jobless rate was 3.5%. The labor force then included 214,207 people, with 206,607 employed, just as the coronavirus pandemic was starting but before many businesses shut down at least temporarily.
Those who most closely watch and evaluate economic indicators say comparing the same month year-to-year typically provides better insight, because of seasonal changes such as hiring and even weather.