Rebecca Green
News DirectorRebecca manages the news at WBOI. She joined the staff in December 2017, and brought with her nearly two decades of experience in print journalism, including 15 years as an award-winning reporter for the Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne.
A South Bend native, she is a graduate of Taylor University and resident of northeast Indiana since the late 1990's. Rebecca has covered everything from homicides to hurricanes, and the small stories in between that make up the fabric of a community. She is passionate about the importance of local news in guarding a strong democracy, and tries to instill that belief in her students as an adjunct instructor of journalism at Huntington University.
In her spare time, Rebecca trains and handles a human remains detection dog, Helo, as a volunteer with Indiana Search and Response Team, a search and rescue organization.
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An Allen County Superior Court jury found 22-year-old Cohen Hancz-Barron of Fort Wayne guilty Thursday morning of four counts of murder following a seven-day trial in the June 2021 deaths of his girlfriend and her three children. -
The move will put West Virginia-based Ogden Newspapers in control of newspapers and other publications in six Northeast Indiana counties. It will not be connected to The Journal Gazette.
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The announcement comes at the deadline imposed by a federal court judge demanding something be done to ease jail population numbers.
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More than two years into COVID-19, Allen County’s numbers have fallen to some of the lowest points in the pandemic. However the past week has seen a slight uptick in cases, both in Allen County and elsewhere in northeast Indiana.
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The money donated will go towards helping Plock provide housing and meet essential needs.
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As of March 23, there were 23 patients diagnosed with COVID in northeast Indiana hospitals, according to the Indiana Department of Health COVID-19 dashboard.
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Balin Brake suffered serious facial injuries during the protests in the late spring of 2020 when he was struck in the eye with a tear gas cannister.
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The arrangement incorporates ABC21 Chief Meteorologist Matt Leach and the Storm Track Weather Team into the popular NPR program “Morning Edition” on WBOI.
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Capt. Matthew J. Tomkiewicz, 27, of Fort Wayne, was killed in a training exercise in Norway when his Osprey aircraft crashed Friday night.
