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Shooting near Camp Allen Park leaves person seriously hurt

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A woman was taken to the hospital with non- life threatening injuries after being shot in the leg early Sunday morning . Officers were called to the 2400 block of Point West Drive , in West Wind Apartments , just before 5:00 a.m. Sunday after a woman ran out of an apartment yelling that she had been shot. Police at the scene told NewsChannel 15 the first responding officers found several people around the apartment building where the incident took place. Initial reports to officers suggested someone knocked on the door and began firing at people inside when it was opened. Officers were not immediately sure who pulled the trigger or if there may have been additional victims. The incident is under investigation. Share this: Related Posts Advertisement

Gargoyle Hunting in New York City

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Author John Freeman Gill takes Fodor’s on an urban safari. If you make the effort to gaze skyward in New York, you will discover (hiding in plain sight) a city teeming with remarkable architectural sculptures : gryphons and sea monsters, cherubs and pelicans, goddesses and kings. These exuberantly expressive artworks were the creation of gifted immigrant stone carvers who poured into New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , most of them from the British Isles, Germany, and Italy. The ornament on the grandest edifices was typically specified by architects, but on the vast majority of city buildings , the design of the carvings was left up to the individual stoneworker. The carvers took this freedom and ran with it, incising their imaginations into New York’s skyline and transforming its streetscape into a marvelously quirky public art gallery . 555 Washington Avenue John Freeman Gill Ever since my novel, The Gargoyle Hunters , was published, I’ve been besieged by readers a...

Hurricane Harvey set to move ashore late Friday

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Consumers found empty shelves Thursday in the bottled water section at the Kroger on Buffalo Speedway. The store is expecting truckloads of water today before Harvey reaches landfall . Photo: Godofredo A. Vasquez, TSHarveyPrep / Houston Chronicle" class="landscape" /> Consumers found empty shelves Thursday in the bottled water section at the Kroger on Buffalo Speedway. The store is expecting truckloads of water today before Harvey reaches landfall ." src="src" /> Photo: Godofredo A. Vasquez, TSHarveyPrep Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Consumers found empty shelves Thursday in the bottled water section at the Kroger on Buffalo Speedway. The store is expecting truckloads of water today before Harvey reaches landfall . Consumers found empty shelves Thursday in the bottled water section at the Kroger on Buffalo Speedway. The store is expecting truckloads of water today before Harvey reaches landfall . Photo: Godofredo A. Vasquez, ...