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Angola, Indiana
GOOD MORNING Angola Kiwanis changes tree sale location this year ANGOLA — The Angola Kiwanis Club is once again hosting its annual Christmas tree fundraiser to benefit children’s initiatives in Steuben County. The sales will begin Friday and run until Dec. 13 or until all trees are sold. The trees range in price from $25 to $60 depending on size and type. Trees can be picked up and paid for at Croxton & Roe Insurance, 418 N. Wayne St., Angola. “We would like to thank Croxton & Roe Insurance Company for allowing us to host our sale in their parking lot in 2013,” said Krista Miller, Angola Kiwanis Club president. “This is a new location for us and we hope that the community comes out to get a great tree and support the Angola Kiwanis.” During hours when the tree stand is not staffed by Kiwanis members, trees can be paid for in the Croxton & Roe office.
Plea hearing upsets family Characterization of Todd Kelley elicits protest from victim’s family BY AMY OBERLIN aoberlin@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — The family of a man killed 24 years ago in Hamilton expressed distress with the way the incident was portrayed in the courtroom last week. On Friday, Mahfuz Huq, 47, admitted to voluntary manslaughter in the death of Todd Kelley on Aug. 9, 1989. He is being held in Steuben County Jail pending a sentencing April 4 in Steuben Superior Court. In a statement to The Herald Republican, the Kelley family said
it is “sickened and deeply saddened” by the way the change of plea was presented Friday. The manslaughter charge is a lesser felony introduced recently in Huq’s Kelley case, which was filed two weeks before Kelley’s death. The case originally reflected one count of felony intimidation, after Huq allegedly went to Kelley’s home on July 25, 1989, threatening to
kill him if he continued dating a girl that Huq had also dated. The murder charge, which carries up to a 65-year sentence, was added to the intimidation case Huq after Kelley’s death. “Todd was a 19-year-old boy, who was in his own home on Aug. 9, 1989 when his life was taken between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. by Huq,
Ex-Indianapolis cop gets 13 years in death FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A former Indianapolis police officer who killed a man and seriously injured two others when he was driving drunk and crashed his police cruiser into two motorcycles stopped at a traffic light was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison. David Bisard was convicted last month on nine counts, the most serious of which was driving with a blood-alcohol content above 0.15 percent while in a fatal accident.
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who had threatened to kill him before. You do the math,” said the statement. A plea agreement taken under advisement Friday by Judge William Fee calls for a maximum executed prison sentence of 40 years and dismissal of charges of murder and intimidation as well as a six-count burglary case pending against Huq, also filed in the late 1980s. Fee will determine whether to accept the terms of the plea agreement at sentencing in April. “The lesser charge of SEE HUQ, PAGE A3
Rieke adding 15 jobs FROM STAFF REPORTS
knew there was a chance that some prisoners might quickly spurn their deal and kill Americans. For the CIA, that was an acceptable risk in a dangerous business. For the American public, which was never told, it was one of the many secret trade-offs the government made on its behalf. At the same time the government used the threat of terrorism to justify impris-
HAMILTON — Rieke Corp. announced plans today to expand its operations in Hamilton, creating up to 15 new jobs by 2016. The Auburn-headquartered company, a subsidiary of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based TriMas Corp., will invest $7.5 million to equip its existing 73,360-square-foot facility located at 2855 E. Bellefontaine Road in Hamilton. The company said the expansion, which began in August, will allow it to expand its capacity and capabilities, better serving its customers. Rieke is a a global manufacturer and distributor of specialty, highly-engineered closure and dispensing systems. In October, Rieke received a property-tax reduction for equipment it will add at its Hamilton operations. The Hamilton Town Council agreed to a 10-year phase-in of taxes on $1.8 million in plastic injection molding equipment for Rieke’s plant at 2855 E. Bellefountaine Road, said Brent Shull, Hamilton town manager. The new equipment will allow Rieke to more efficiently supply its customers in the eastern United States, Shull said. Rieke maintains its headquarters and main manufacturing plant in Auburn, where it has operated since 1923. Its Hamilton operations began in 2002. Rieke makes drum closures and a wide variety of product dispensing systems. Rieke currently employs about 1,400 people internationally, including more than 210 in Hamilton
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Fremont waste collection delayed FREMONT — Allied Waste Services will provide trash pickup in Fremont on Friday due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. Because of Christmas, trash will also be picked up on Friday, Dec. 27 and recycling will be picked up on Saturday, Dec. 28.
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Giving thanks Kindergarten students in Angie Booth’s class at Hendry Park Elementary School made their own costumes and did “A Thanksgiving Celebration” for parents, grandparents and other friends and family members Tuesday afternoon in the school library. Three classes of kindergartners were performing Tuesday afternoon in three locations as part of a long-standing tradition at Hendry Park started by kindergarten teacher Marilyn Doerr. There are 75 kindergarten students at Hendry Park this year, said Booth, and all will be involved in a number of holiday activities, including making gingerbread houses in a couple of weeks. Video from the performance is posted online at kpcnews.com; scan the QR code to watch it on your tablet or smartphone.
Gitmo held 2nd secret facility WASHINGTON (AP) — A few hundred yards from the administrative offices of the Guantanamo Bay prison, hidden behind a ridge covered in thick scrub and cactus, sits a closely held secret. A dirt road winds its way to a clearing where eight small cottages sit in two rows of four. They have long been abandoned. The special detachment of Marines that once provided security is gone.
But in the early years after 9/11, these cottages were part of a covert CIA program. Its secrecy has outlasted black prisons, waterboarding and rendition. In these buildings, CIA officers turned terrorists into double agents and sent them home. It was a risky gamble. If it worked, their agents might help the CIA find terrorist leaders to kill with drones. But officials
Flotilla makes Guiness World Record mark BY AMY OBERLIN aoberlin@kpcmedia.com
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ANGOLA — It’s official. Angola’s Dina Ferree was part of a Guiness World Book Record event this summer in Michigan. With an official count of 2,099 canoes and kayaks, a flotilla on Saturday, Aug. 31 in Sutton’s Bay beat the former World Book Record. “It was worth it,” said Ferree, program coordinator at the Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County and an avid paddler. She got involved in a club based in Fort Wayne and found out about the annual Suttons Bay Flotilla, hosted by the West Michigan Kayaking Club of Kalamazoo, Mich., and decided to join in its mission to break the record. The flotilla unofficially made the mark after SEE RECORD, PAGE A3
Bethlehem the Day after
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This postcard commemorates this year’s flotilla on Sutton’s Bay, Lake Michigan.
DECEMBER 7 & 8, 2013 • 1:00 - 5:00 P.M. A Walk-Through Drama • Our 24th Year Cast of over 200 • All Indoors • Thousands have walked these streets. NO ADMISSION CHARGE What Others Have Said About Bethlehem Marketplace: ❖ I have been to Jerusalem and this is the closest experience to the old city of Jerusalem I have ever seen. ❖ 4 Stars and 2 thumbs up. ❖ A living history lesson. ❖ You enter into another time and world when you walk those streets.
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I have never experienced anything like this before. Rated PG; some of it is too realistic for kids. This must have been what it was like in Biblical times. One of the Tri-State area’s most dramatic presentations of the Christmas story. ❖ I am bringing my whole church next year. They have to experience this.
Fairview Missionary Church Phone: 260-665-8402 www.fairview-missionary.org
525 E 200 N, Angola, IN (1 mile east of Meijer and Menards)