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GOOD MORNING Federal grand jury indicts Auburn man FORT WAYNE — The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday that a grand jury in returned an indictment of an Auburn man this week. Jacob Miller, 50, is charged in a five-count indictment with selling firearms to a known felon on or about March 28, April 15, June 14 and Nov. 15 and dealing in firearms as an unlicensed dealer between, on or about March 21 to Nov. 15. The indictment also seeks the forfeiture of firearms and ammunition. The charges were filed as a result of an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Huq admits manslaughter Pleads guilty in ’89 Hamilton case BY AMY OBERLIN aoberlin@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — Mahfuz Huq admitted Friday to voluntary manslaughter, ending a notorious homicide case that has been pending nearly 25 years. Huq, 47, had been scheduled for a change of venue hearing Friday morning in Steuben Superior Court. He appeared before Judge William Fee
in jailhouse orange with his Indianapolis attorney, James Voyles, and Angola counsel, Linda Wagoner. They presented a plea agreement that called 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. Huq pleaded guilty to Count III, voluntary manslaughter, an
additional count filed recently. He allegedly killed Todd Kelley, 19, of Hamilton, on Aug. 9, 1989, in a sudden heat fueled by jealousy because Kelley had been with a girl Huq also had been dating. Fee took the Huq plea under advisement and set a sentencing hearing for April 4 at 9 a.m. in Superior Court.
“There are a lot of witnesses that are not in this country,” said Voyles. Voyles questioned Huq about the circumstances relating to the crime to establish probable cause. Huq admitted stabbing Kelley to death in a fight at Kelley’s home. After the murder, Huq said, he went to the Reddington Heights home where he lived with his parents. “I got ready for work,” Huq said. He went to work, but SEE HUQ, PAGE A7
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two of which are equipped with lifts capable of holding 12,000 pounds. The new building also will serve as an education center for students and other groups visiting the museum. “It’ll be nice,” said Rosener, who at 93 still comes to join the crew every week. “I don’t do too much work anymore, but I stand around and look wise,” he said. “The museum was the fortunate beneficiary of the vast knowledge and mechanical prowess” of Rosener and Mr. Casebere, both retired automobile mechanics, Brinkman said. Mike Eikenberry, chairman of
DALLAS (AP) — From a street in downtown Dallas to the shores of Cape Cod, a somber nation paused Friday to remember John F. Kennedy 50 years after the young, handsome president was gunned down in an open-top limousine. A half-century later, the assassination still stirs quiet sadness in the baby boom generation that remembers it as the beginning of a darker, more cynical time. The anniversary ceremonies reflected that solemnity, with moments of silence, speeches by historians and, above all, simple reverence for a time and a leader long gone. “A new era dawned and another waned a half-century ago, when hope and hatred collided right here in Dallas,” Mayor Mike Rawlings said at the largest memorial service, in Dealey Plaza, the scene of the Nov. 22, 1963, shooting. “We watched the nightmarish reality in our front yard. Our president had been taken from us, taken from his family, taken from the world.” Rawlings told about 5,000 people gathered under gray skies in near-freezing temperatures that the slaying prompted Dallas to “turn civic heartbreak into hard work” and helped the city to mature. Kennedy “and our city will forever be linked in tragedy, yes,” he said. “But out of tragedy, an opportunity was
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Inside the new Collection Conservation Center of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, John Rosener of Auburn holds a plaque indicating that the center is dedicated to honor
him and the late Paul Casebere of Edgerton, Ohio. The two men started the volunteer Pit Crew that will work in the center.
Pit Crew gets new quarters Museum honors longtime volunteers BY DAVE KURTZ dkurtz@kpcnews.net
AUBURN — Twenty-one years ago, John Rosener of Auburn began volunteering his time to repair classic cars for the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Friday night, the museum dedicated its new car-care center in the names of Rosener and his former sidekick, the late Paul Casebere of Edgerton, Ohio. “This is such a fine tribute to these two gentlemen, who have given so much to the museum,” said Laura Brinkman, executive director of the museum.
A crowd of 80 people gathered for the official opening of the Collection Conservation Center, a tan-brick structure directly south of the museum building on Wayne Street in Auburn. Rosener and Mr. Casebere started the tradition of the volunteer Pit Crew that meets every Monday to take care of the museum’s valuable automobiles. The crew’s tasks inlude checking newly donated cars and maintaining existing vehicles. The new center gives the Pit Crew and gleaming, spacious and well equipped place to work on the cars, including three garage bays,
County’s unemployment rate falls below 7% INDIANAPOLIS — The jobless rate has fallen below 7 percent throughout the four counties of northeast Indiana, according to reports released Friday by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. Data covering two months was released Friday; the September unemployment reports had been delayed due to the government shutdown earlier this fall. According to the report, the unemployment rate fell in all four counties in September, with Noble and Steuben counties joining LaGrange County below 7 percent during that month. DeKalb County dipped below 7 percent in October and was the only area county to see its unemployment drop that month. “Today’s data release was again quite positive for northeast
Indiana,” said Ellen Cutter, Unemployment rates director of the Community In percentages
Research Institute at Indiana
COUNTY OCT. University, SEPT. OCT. University-Purdue Fort 2013 region’s 2012 Wayne. “The2013 (10-county) DeKalb 6.7 7.1 8.4 NSA (non-seasonally adjusted) LaGrange 5.7 7.3 unemployment5.9 rate continues to Noble 6.8to 6.826.7 8.8 trend downward (percent) Steuben 6.9 6.55 6.8 8.3 in September and (percent) Allen 6.7 lower 7.2 than7.7 in October, notably Elkhart 7.4nation7.3 8.9 the state and the (both 7.0 Indiana* 7.8 8.4 percent …).” 7.5 U.S.* 7.3 7.2 7.9 DeKalb County’s unemploy*seasonally ment rateadjusted dropped
0.3 of a SOURCE: INDIANA DEPARTMENT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT percentage point toOF7.1 percent in September, then fell again to 6.7 percent in October. LaGrange County’s unemployment rate fell 0.5 of a percentage point to 5.7 percent in September, before rising to 5.9 percent in October. Noble County’s unemploy-
Region’s personal income rises Northeast Indiana’s economy has $1.2 billion more in personal income circulating than at this time last year, a new report says. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released 2012 per capita personal income numbers this week. It said northeast Indiana is outpacing the nation by showing a 5 percent growth rate, compared to the national rate of 3.4 percent. The Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership is tracking per capita personal income. It said in 2009, per capita income in northeast Indiana was 79 percent of the national average.
Today, northeast Indiana has improved to 81.2 per of the U.S. average. Northeast Indiana’s figure is $35,509; the U.S. average is $43,735. For the past several decades, per capita personal income in Northeast Indiana has been declining relative to the nation, but that trend has been effectively reversed in the past three years, the partnership said. “Reversing this downward trend in per capita income is a great affirmation of our collaborative efforts here in the region,” said John Sampson, president and CEO of the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership.
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