THURSDAY October 31, 2013
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Seven from EN make first team
Lack of transportation can deny healthcare
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Red Sox Rule Boston closes out Cards with romp
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GOOD MORNING Rome City moves trick-or-treat to Friday due to rain ROME CITY — Trick-ortreat in Rome City has been changed from tonight to Friday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Clerk-Treasurer Brenda Conley announced the change Wednesday afternoon, saying the change is due to the weather forecast for rain and windy conditions tonight.
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Stutzman pushes food stamp change WASHINGTON — The Farm Bill Conference Committee met for the first time Wednesday, and U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-3rd, led a group of 27 House members urging the committee to keep farm policy and food stamp policy separate. Stutzman, of Howe, and his colleagues asked the committee to maintain separate reauthorization dates for food stamp and farm policy programs to ensure that each program receives separate consideration on its own merits in
the future. “Washington is $17 trillion in debt, and taxpayers deserve an honest conversation about how Congress spends their money,” Stutzman Stutzman said in a news release. “Instead of passing trillion-dollar spending packages that are Farm Bills in name only, we should consider food stamps and farm policy
separately. That’s exactly what the House did earlier this year, and the Conference Committee shouldn’t reverse this historic victory for transparency.” In the letter, Stutzman and other members wrote in part, “Our constituents deserve a Congress that thoughtfully and separately considers the legislation that it passes. It’s just common sense. And in a historic move this summer, the House of Representatives did just that. For the first time in nearly 40 years,
KENDALLVILLE — The fourth annual Cole Center Family YMCA Halloween party will be Friday from 6-8 p.m. at the Y, 700 Garden St., Kendallville. The event will feature games, prizes, the Spooky Pool and more. Suggested donations are $2 per person and $5 for a family. Halloween costumes are welcomed.
Top health official says ‘I’m responsible’
Angola woman faces forgery, theft charges
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the House voted on and passed separate and substantive reform bills governing farm and food stamp policy. “Now that substantial reforms have been made, we request the Conference Committee adopt the separate reauthorization timelines, three years for food stamps and five years for farm policy, in order to ensure that these policies are debated and voted on apart from each other in the future. It’s time to do this right.”
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ANGOLA — A bookkeeper for a local attorney is accused of taking around $10,000 from her employer over the course of a year. Katherine C. Fulton, 32, of Angola, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant charging her with Class C felony forgery and five counts of Class D felony theft. She posted a $500 bond for her release from Steuben County Jail and will be arraigned at a later date. Fulton allegedly took funds from the business between May 4, 2012, and June 3, 2013. The investigation was prompted when another employee found $2,300 in a bank bag in a box under Fulton’s desk and reported it to their employer, police said. Indiana State Police Detective Kevin Smith uncovered a series of fraudulent transactions, starting with a credit card Fulton allegedly obtained using her employer’s information. She allegedly racked up more than $1,000 in 23 transactions.
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Right on target Jeffrey Griggs, 3, throws a bean bag through a ghost frame Tuesday during the Healthy Halloween Fair at the DeKalb County 4-H Fairgrounds. His mother, Jessica Griggs of Avilla, is behind him at center. Hundreds of parents and children turned out Tuesday to enjoy games, a bounce house,
cider and popcorn. Local organizations such as the Waterloo Public Library and the Judy A. Morrill Recreation Center hosted booths with games. The event has been hosted by DeKalb Health hospital since the mid-1980s.
Love Acres damaged by fire BY PATRICK REDMOND predmond@kpcmedia.com
LAGRANGE — An investigator with the Indiana State Fire Marshal’s office spent part of Wednesday afternoon poking around the second floor of a LaGrange County group home that caught fire Tuesday evening. The fire damaged a bathroom, the attic and part of the second floor of Love Acres, a group home on C.R. 300N just west of S.R. 9. The home is owned by ARC Opportunities, based just across the street. Five women and a caretaker lived at the house. Firefighters arrived shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday and found flames already leaping through a secondstory vent on the front of the building, said LaGrange Fire Chief Mark McClish. He said it took a group of 35 firefighters approximately 20 minutes to bring the fire under control. LaGrange was assisted by members of the Howe Fire Department. The home was equipped with both fire and smoke alarms. Deb Seman, CEO of ARC, said
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Deb Seman, CEO of ARC Opportunities, makes a phone call Wednesday while surveying damage to an ARC group home from a fire Tuesday night.
a fire alarm alerted the home’s residents to the fire, and everyone safely exited the home without incident. “We have six fire drills a month,” Seaman said. “They were used to it when the alarm when
off, and everyone was out of the homes within two minutes. Staff did a excellent job in following all the procedures and training.” The home’s residents were moved into another nearby ARC facility.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s embattled top health official declared herself accountable Wednesday for failures of the much-maligned health insurance website as a newly surfaced government memo pointed to security concerns that were laid out just days before its launch. Despite the problems, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius defended the health care overhaul, the signature legislative accomplishment of Obama’s first term. She said the website problems will be fixed by Nov. 30 and gaining health insurance will make a positive difference in the lives of millions of Americans. The website HealthCare.gov was still experiencing outages, even as Sebelius was testifying to the House Energy and Commerce Committee that “I’m responsible.” And she faced a new range of questions about an internal memo from her department that revealed the troubled website was granted a temporary security certificate on Sept. 27, just four days before it went live on Oct. 1. The memo, obtained by The Associated Press, said incomplete testing created uncertainties that posed a potentially high security risk for the website. It called for a six-month “mitigation” program, including ongoing monitoring and testing. Republicans opposed to Obama’s health care law are calling for Sebelius to resign. She apologized to people having trouble signing up but told the committee that the technical issues that led to frozen screens and error messages are being cleared up on a daily basis. Security issues raise major new concerns on top of the long list of technical problems the administration is grappling with. “You accepted a risk on behalf of every user … that put their personal financial information at risk,” Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., told Sebelius, citing the SEE HEALTHCARE, PAGE A8
Both sides rest cases in child molesting trial BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com
ALBION — Both sides rested their cases Wednesday in the Noble Superior Court I trial of a Fort Wayne man accused of two counts of child molesting. John Aaron Barnhart, 34, is accused of committing the Class A felony offenses while he lived in
Kendallville in 2011. His alleged victim took the witness stand Wednesday, as did investigators in the case. After the prosecution’s case was rested Wednesday afternoon, Noble County chief public defender James Abbs immediately rested the defense’s case as well. The alleged victim spoke
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quietly as she testified Wednesday. During several lulls in the questioning for sidebar conferences between the attorneys and Judge Robert Kirsch, she looked down with a sad expression. When asked to identify the man who molested her, the alleged victim pointed at Barnhart, her hand shaking as she did so.
The alleged victim also said she could remember the date and time of only one instance of alleged molestation. Court recessed for the day after the defense rested. Closing arguments are expected to begin this morning, after which the case would go to the jury.
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