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GOOD MORNING Man hospitalized after car collides with school bus KENDALLVILLE — A Noble County man was listed in serious condition at Parkview Regional Medical Center Friday after the car he was driving struck an East Noble school bus head-on Thursday afternoon on Angling Road. Blaike Michael Zimmerman, 19, of the 8000 block of Angling Road, Kendallville, suffered hip and internal injuries and was airlifted to the Fort Wayne hospital. The Noble County Sheriff’s Department released his name Friday morning. Police and emergency responders were called to the crash scene at 3:39 p.m. Thursday. Zimmerman was driving a 1997 Ford southbound on Angling Road, just south of C.R. 1200N, when it went left of center while coming around a curve, according to the Noble County Sheriff’s Department. The Ford struck the 2002 International East Noble school bus head-on. The impact sent the car off the south side of the road, and the bus left the north side of the road and struck a traffic sign and utility pole. The bus was on its normal route at the time, according to East Noble officials. The bus driver, Michael V. Kaiser, 49, of Wolcottville, was not injured. Three juveniles on the bus suffered minor injuries, but no immediate medical attention was needed, police said. The Ford was a total loss, police said, and the bus sustained front-end damage.
Dog that ran in half marathon dies EVANSVILLE (AP) — The 100-pound chocolate Labrador retriever named Boogie, who became an Internet sensation when he ran most of the 13.1 miles in an Evansville half marathon, has died. Owner Jerry Butts made an appointment for the dog to be neutered after the race to curb his wandering ways. Boogie died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 10.
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Family marks anniversary of murder BY PATRICK REDMOND predmond@kpcmedia.com
MONGO — It’s been nearly eight years since her father and stepmother were murdered, but when October arrives, Sherry Musilek says she becomes a very different person. “Yeah, every year when October comes around, I go into a different mood,” she said. “I can’t help but think, ‘Here comes another memorial.’”
Musilek’s father, Mongo resident Terry Anderson, and his wife, Darlene, were murdered eight years ago. Their case remains unsolved, so Musilek once again will mark the anniversary of their deaths by holding a somber memorial service in the Mongo cemetery where the Andersons are buried. This year’s ceremony takes place Sunday at 1 p.m. “It’s been another year without any leads,” said Eric Musilek,
Sherry’s husband. Early on the morning of Oct. 21, 2005, the bodies of Anderson and his wife were found brutally murdered at their rural Mongo home. Darlene Anderson’s body was discovered inside the house, Terry Anderson’s body was found near the house in his shop. Several unique and antique weapons Terry Anderson owned turned up missing, along with several collectible coins he and his
wife had. None of those items ever have been ever been found. The crime attracted national attention and was featured on an episode of the television show “America’s Most Wanted.” Musilek and her family set up a reward, offering $20,000 to the person who helps identify and convict her father’s killer. But so far, no one has come forward to collect that reward. SEE MURDER, PAGE A5
GOP divide shows Angry tea party not satisfied to ‘fight another day’
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Fun at Owl-Oween With a little help from their grandparents Pat, left, and Cindy Brown, Cayden Hunsberger, 7, and Hailey Kirkpatrick, 6, build a Halloween mask during the annual Owl-Oween Friday at Gene Stratton-
Porter Historic Site in Rome City. The event continues tonight from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Admission is $3 per person. Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation will release an owl during the event tonight.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republicans’ clear defeat in the budget-debt brawl has widened the rift between the Grand Old Party and the blossoming tea party movement that helped revive it. Implored by House Speaker John Boehner to unite and “fight another day” against President Barack Obama and Democrats, Republicans instead intensified attacks on one another, an ominous sign in advance of more difficult policy fights and the 2014 midterm elections. SEE GOP, PAGE A5
French visitor thanks local D-Day veterans BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
AVILLA — “When I walk on Omaha Beach, I feel them, you know. I see them. I can’t explain fully this feeling I have.” Carol Duvall, a resident of the small French village of ViervilleSur-Mer overlooking Omaha Beach, will never forget the thousands of American soldiers who stormed the Normandy beach on June 6, 1944, and the sacrifices they made to liberate her country from Nazi tyranny. She’s embarked on a crusade to meet and personally thank as many surviving D-Day veterans as she can, to remember the fallen and to memorialize them in stone through her French association known as Deep Respect. Volunteers have built a 300-foot-long stone wall outside the French town of St. Lo dedicated to the U.S. Army 29th Infantry division that came ashore on Omaha Beach and liberated the strategically located town about a 30-minute drive from the beach. Duvall’s home lies only about four blocks from the beach. “I have 14 godsons in the American Cemetery. On Christmas and June 6 each year, I place flowers on those graves, and I place one flower on the marker for the unknowns,” she said.
Last August, D-Day veteran Gene Cogan, 90, of Avilla, a member of that same 29th Infantry division, traveled to ViervilleSur-Mer with a 13-pound, 12-inch by 12-inch plaque for placement in the wall. On the plaque were the names of Cogan and three of his buddies who served in the 3rd platoon, Company D, 115th regiment of the 29th Infantry division. Deep Respect volunteers placed the plaque in the wall last month. The wall is about two miles from where Cogan was wounded after surviving the Omaha Beach landing in the second wave of troops to come ashore. More than 3,000 American soldiers were killed or wounded on Omaha Beach. “We will never forget what they did for us,” said Duvall, who was in Avilla last week visiting Cogan. They met in 2004 when he visited Vier-Sur-Mer during the 60th anniversary of D-Day celebrations. In February 2012, he returned to the village for a ceremony commemorating the restoration of a monument overlooking Omaha Beach, first erected shortly after the end of the war. Deep Respect’s goal is to restore as many of the old monuments dedicated to U.S. troops as it can before they
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D-Day veteran Gene Cogan, 90, of Avilla, welcomed Carol Duvall of Vierville-Sur-Mer, France, to his home his week. She was instrumental in seeing that Cogan received the French Legion of Honor last year for his services to liberate France in World War II.
crumble and disappear. Duvall was instrumental in Cogan receiving the French Legion of Honor in September 2012, the highest honor the French government can bestow on those who have achieved remarkable deeds for France. Duvall said her respect for
D-Day veterans such as Cogan started with her grandfather, who fought for France on the western front in World War I. “His life was saved by the American Red Cross, and he was forever grateful,” she said in her broken English. SEE FRENCH, PAGE A5
Donations return water for Vietnam veteran
BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
ROME CITY — Veterans groups recently helped return water service to a Rome City-area Vietnam War veteran who had been without running water for nearly a year. A neighbor of the veteran told
Rome City American Legion Post 381 past commander Randy Page about the veteran’s lack of water service, according to post commander Richard Guilfoyle. It became a priority for several organizations to help the veteran. The sleeve was cracked on his
well, causing the loss of service. Members of Post 381, its Ladies Auxiliary and Sons of the Legion organizations collected $1,500. Donations came from Francis Vinyard VFW Post 2749 in Kendallville, the Lions Club of Brimfield and Rome City, 40
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& 8 Voitures from Post 364 in Lafayette and Rome City and individuals. The $3,600 total donated paid for a new well drilled by Eric Bonar Well Drilling Corp. drilled the well. The veteran did not wish to be indentified, Guilfoyle said.
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