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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2013
Angola, Indiana
GOOD MORNING Trine-Parkview set partnership update ANGOLA — Leaders from Trine University and Parkview Health have scheduled a press conference for next week to announce an update on the partnership with Trine’s School of Health Sciences and the debut of its new Doctor of Physical Therapy program. The event is set for 9 a.m. Thursday at the Carew Medical Park Atrium, 1818 Carew St., Fort Wayne. Guest speakers include Trine president Earl D. Brooks II, Parkview Health president and CEO Mike Packnett and Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry.
Coleman resigns as auditor BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — Steuben County Auditor Pam Coleman has submitted her resignation, effective Jan. 1. Coleman, in her second term as auditor, sent letters of resignation to Gov. Mike Pence and Rick Michael, Steuben County Republican Central Committee chairman, on Tuesday. Her letter to Clerk Shelley Herbert was received Thursday morning, setting in motion the time line for the GOP to select a successor. The vacancy must be filled in 30 days. “It’s too bad. Pam was an outstanding auditor. She worked hard for the community. She will be missed,� Michael said.
A caucus of Republican precinct committee people will be held in early December, Michael said. He is looking at holding the caucus sometime between Dec. 3-5. He has yet to Coleman secure a facility to hold the caucus and therefore has not set a time. People wanting to run for the vacancy need to contact Michael at rickmgop@gmail.com or Herbert at 668-1000, ext. 2240. When asked where she was going, Coleman said, “A company I would really like to work for, they had a job come open and it
might not be here next year.� Coleman’s term would end Dec. 31, 2014, and by law she was term limited. She previously had served two terms as county recorder. She was first elected in 2006 as auditor. She was first elected as recorder in 1998. “It was time to step away from government,� Coleman said. Coleman will be working for a governmental consulting company. The company has been in discussion with her since April. “I will be working out of my home for the most part,� Coleman said. “I am really excited.� Michael said anyone coming into the auditor’s position will learn that it is a very difficult one that Coleman has put her heart and
ELKHART — Elkhart County prosecutors charged a man with murder Wednesday in the stabbing death of a 17-yearold girl, according to news reports. The South Bend Tribune reports Michael Shoun, 26, is facing one count of murder in the slaying of Tiana Alter. Alter was found dead Nov. 2 in a bedroom at a Granger home. Police arrested Shoun at the scene on an unrelated traffic charge, but later asked prosecutors to charge him with murder.
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ANGOLA — Installation of a traffic signal at the busy Lake James/Crooked Lake-area intersection of C.R. 200W at C.R. 200N is on track for next year, says a report by Jennifer Sharkey, Steuben County Highway Department engineer. In a report to the Steuben County Commissioners, Sharkey said the project is on track for bid letting in July with construction starting as early as fall of next year. “The intersection improvement project includes installing a traffic light and adding dedicated turn lanes along C.R. 200W and C.R. 200N,� Sharkey said in an email.
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soul into. Coleman told Pence and Michael she would work to make sure the transition to a new auditor was as seamless as possible. “I am hoping that the next person that comes in can make (the office) better. I was not the best auditor. I hope the next auditor that comes in can be the best auditor,� she said. Coleman requested Michael make the caucus as soon as possible so she would be able to work with her successor in the transition. Whoever is selected will have to stand for election next year.
Lake traffic light on schedule
Man charged in teen’s stabbing death
BLOOMINGTON (AP) — The criminal case has been delayed again against rock star John Mellencamp’s two sons on felony charges of punching and kicking a 19-year-old man in southern Indiana. A Monroe County judge granted a request from lawyers for 19-year-old Hud Mellencamp, 18-year-old Speck Mellencamp and another 19-year-old man that a hearing scheduled Thursday be postponed. All three face battery charges for the July 29 attack that authorities say happened outside a Bloomington home on a man who they believed had hit Speck Mellencamp earlier that night. The man suffered serious facial fractures. Court hearings for the three are now scheduled for Jan. 6.
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Hamilton wins sportsmanship award Members of the Hamilton Community Schools Spirit Club display the Indiana High School Athletic Association School Sportsmanship Award banner to the district’s school board Monday night. The
school is a first-time winner of the award, presented annually to a school that displays exemplary sportsmanship qualities.
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Health policy shift Obama will allow insurance that would have been canceled WASHINGTON (AP) — Bowing to pressure, President Barack Obama on Thursday announced changes under his health care law to give insurance companies the option to keep offering consumers plans that would otherwise be canceled. The administrative changes are good for just one year, though senior administration officials said they could be extended if problems with the law persist. Obama announced the changes at the White House. “This fix won’t solve every problem for every person, but it’s going to help a lot of people,� the
Obama plan may have little effect here BY DAVE KURTZ dkurtz@kpcnews.net
said Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon, speaking for the organization. At the White House, Obama acknowledged that “we fumbled the rollout of this health care law� and pledged to “just keep on chipping away at this until the job is done.� He also promised to work to regain the trust of the American people. “I think it’s legitimate for them
AUBURN — Thursday’s announcement by President Barack Obama may have little effect on private health insurance customers in northeast Indiana, a local agent said. The president said most people will be able to keep for another year any health policies that were being canceled because they did not meet new federal standards. The area’s leading insurers, PHP and Anthem Blue Cross, already have effectively extended their policies one year by moving up renewal dates to Dec. 1, said Rick Roark of Roark’s Insurance Service in Auburn. The renewal change makes those policies effective through Dec. 1, 2014, Roark said. However, Roark said, “I had
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President Barack Obama speaks about the Affordable Care Act at the White House in Washington Thursday. Bowing to pressure, Obama intends to permit continued sale of individual insurance plans that have been canceled because they failed to meet coverage standards under the health care law.
president said. But it was unclear if state officials, who would have to implement the changes, would go along. Insurers also had concerns. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners said the president’s proposal could undermine the new health insurance markets his law seeks to create. Obama’s proposal “may lead to higher premiums and market disruptions in 2014 and beyond,�
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