The Star - October 12, 2013

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AUBURN — An Auburn man was killed when the sport-utility vehicle he was driving struck a tree Friday at 2:57 p.m. on DeKalb C.R. 29, north of the DeKalb-Allen county line road. Joseph L. Raymond, 35, of the 300 block of Lincoln Street, died at the scene, the DeKalb County Police Department said. His passenger, David N. Morgan, 35, of Corbin, Ky., suffered injuries to his left arm and orbital socket and a nasal fracture. He was transported to Parkview Regional Medical Center at Fort Wayne to be treated for his injuries Police said Raymond was driving

southbound on C.R. 29, approximately 2,000 feet north of C.R. 72, which forms the county line. For no apparent reason, his 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee veered off the roadway, entered the west ditch and struck the tree head-on. The reason the vehicle went off the road is uncertain and is being investigated by accident reconstructing officers from the Indiana State Police and DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department, a news release said. Indiana State Police, the Jackson Township Fire Department, and DeKalb EMS assisted county police at the scene, said the news release from Sgt. Michael Keesler

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An Auburn man was killed when this sport-utility vehicle struck a tree Friday afternoon on C.R. 29, south of C.R. 68, DeKalb County Police said. The crash scene is approximately five miles south of Auburn and one-half mile north of the DeKalb-Allen county line.

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Leaf service begins AUBURN — The Auburn Street Department will begin leaf removal service Monday in areas west of Cedar Creek. Leaf collection crews will operate on the east and west sides of the creek in alternating weeks on this tentative schedule: • Oct. 14-18, west of Cedar Creek; • Oct. 21-25, east of Cedar Creek; • Oct. 28-Nov. 1, west; • Nov. 4-8, east; • Nov. 11-15, west; • Nov. 18-22, east. The department said areas may overlap to due heavy leaf fall or weather conditions. City officials asked residents to have leaves in place at the curb, but not in the street, on the first day of each area’s scheduled week.

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Autumn Straw, left, shudders as Jill Devine, right, applies zombie makeup to her face Friday night in downtown Auburn. Straw said

the makeup was “too cold.” Devine helped “zombify” faces during the second annual Zombie Invasion.

Zombie Invasion Downtown Auburn came alive with zombies and spooky creatures Friday night during the second annual Zombie Invasion 5K. Visitors had the opportunity to participate in a Zombie 5K, a Creepy Car Cruise-In and haunted wagon rides. Guests also had the chance to have their faces painted like zombies. DeKalb New Tech students, the DeKalb Chamber Partnership and the Downtown Business Association brought the events to downtown.

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Amanda Felger, center, applies zombie makeup to Jessica Gordon during Friday night’s Zombie Invasion in downtown Auburn. Jill Devine, far left, applies a touch-up to her look. Devine and Felger helped decorate zombie faces, with proceeds benefiting the Children’s Miracle Network.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — With time running short, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner accelerated efforts Friday to prevent the U.S. Treasury from default and end a partial government shutdown that stretched into an 11th day. The latest impacts: New aircraft grounded, military chaplains silenced and a crab harvest jeopardized in the Bering Sea. “Let’s put this hysterical talk of default behind us and instead start talking about finding solutions,” said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Republicans in the House and Senate separately made proposals to the White House for ending an impasse that polls say has inflicted damage on their party politically. Each offered to reopen the government and raise the $16.7 trillion debt limit — but only as part of broader approaches that envision deficit savings, changes to the health care law known as Obamacare and an easing of across-the-board spending cuts that the White House and Congress both dislike. The details and timing differed. “We’re waiting to hear” from administration officials, said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Hopes remained high on Wall Street, where investors sent the Dow Jones industrial average 111 points higher following Thursday’s 323-point surge. Obama met at the White House with small business SEE GOP, PAGE A8

Convicted murderer back in criminal court FROM STAFF REPORTS

AUBURN — A DeKalb County man who went to prison for the 1984 murder of an elderly Butler woman is facing legal troubles again. Robert W. Sleek Jr., 60, of the 3300 block of C.R. 427, Waterloo, was arrested Oct. 5 by the Waterloo Police Department on a warrant charging him with theft, a Class D felony. He is scheduled to appear Monday for an initial hearing in DeKalb Superior Court I. Sleek is accused of taking a generator, ladder and rare electrical components from a yard where he was mowing. Sleek

first denied the allegation, then admitted he had taken the items and said he was willing to pay restitution, according to a police affidavit of probable cause for Sleek’s arrest. Police interviewed Sleek about the alleged theft while he was in the DeKalb County Jail, serving a 60-day sentence for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He had pleaded guilty to that offense Aug. 28 in DeKalb Superior Court I. Sleek has served a 50-year prison sentence in the Indiana Department of Correction for his conviction on a charge of murder in the Oct. 5, 1984, stabbing death of 67-year-old Pearl Lemper, who

was his neighbor in a duplex. A hunter found her body nine days later in a field near Newville. A DeKalb County jury found Sleek guilty of murder, and then-Judge Charles Quinn sentenced Sleek to 60 years in prison. Sleek Sleek appealed, and the Indiana Supreme Court overturned his conviction, ordering a new trial. The Supreme Court ruled a taped confession that was played to the jury during the first trial was inadmissible, because

it was obtained illegally, and violated Sleek’s Miranda rights. The case was transferred to Delaware County, where Sleek pleaded guilty to murder. On April 16, 1987, Sleek was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Indiana Department of Correction records says Sleek’s earliest possible release date was Feb. 9, 2009, and appear to indicate he was released from prison on that date, after serving nearly 22 years. In the 1987 sentencing hearing, the judge noted Sleek’s criminal history included several drunken-driving charges, nine theft or forgery charges, several SEE CONVICTED, PAGE A8

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