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Welcome to Rates effective January 1, 2019 COVERAGE MAP The largest media coverage in northeast Indiana reaching over 250,000 readers every month. Total Market Coverage SmartShopper Noble & LaGrange ADVERTISER Counties Weekly - Tuesday Carrier delivered to non-subscribers Tuesday - Sunday Steuben .............................................11,132 Daily .................................................6,295 LaGrange ............................................6,140 Largest City ....................... Kendallville Noble ................................................ 11,782 Distance to Fort Wayne ......... 31 miles THE NEWSLaGrange SUN DeKalb ...............................................11,471 Median Household Income THE HERALD Noble .......................................... $52,393 REPUBLICAN LaGrange ................................... $58,336 2019 Media Information ADVANCE-LEADER DeKalb Steuben Ligonier THE BUTLER BULLETIN County Sports Wrap-up of area prep COMING SUNDAY Noble County Tuesday - Sunday How to protect babies WEDNESDAY basketball action, B1 January 9, 2019 during cold and flu season Weekly - Thursday Daily ................................................... 3,350 Vol. 142 No. 2 Largest City ...................................Angola County Seat of Noble County, Indiana thealbionnewera.com $1.00 Circulation ..........................................620 Police seek armed robbery suspects Median Household Income ..... $52,182 Distance to Fort Wayne ............39 miles BY MATT GETTS The larger of the suspects, [email protected] approximately 5-8 to 6-feet SERVING NOBLE AND LAGRANGE COUNTIES ALBION — The Albion tall and weighing 230-260 Police Department is investi- pounds, was wearing a THE GARRETT gating an armed robbery, gray, hooded sweatshirt. Median Household Income .......$52,749 which occurred early Sunday This suspect displayed the Snow likely at the Marathon gas station handgun. MORE WEATHER, PAGE A7. SATURDAY JANUARY 12, 2019 THE in the 200 block of South The second suspect was Orange Street. wearing a blue shirt and CLIPPER According to a news has an unknown tattoo on release from Albion Town the back of his neck. He is Marshal Scott Cole, two described as being 5-6 to Kendallville, Indiana NEWS-SUN.COM $1.25 white males with bandanas 5-10, weighing 210-230 covering their faces entered pounds. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED STAR the gas station at approxi- After taking the cash and This photo provided by the Albion Town Marshal’s mately 2:10 a.m. Sunday. cigarettes, the suspects fled Office shows a partial tattoo on the back of the neck TUESDAY One of the suspectsINSIDE TODAY:the store on Wrestling foot. teamof one wins of the suspectsfinal involvedhome inmatch, an armed MORE robbery ON PAGE 3 pointed what appeared to No one was injured in the early Sunday morning in Albion. JANUARYPHOTO 15 CONTRIBUTED, 2019 be a black semi-automatic incident. In this photo provided by the Albion Town Marshal’s handgun at the clerk and Anyone with information Department was assisted Ligonier Police Department, Office, a suspect armed with what153 rdappears YEAR — ISSUEto be #2 ordered him to get cash. The can contact the Albion Town at the scene by the Noble Indiana State Police and the a black, semi-automatic handgun isOn shown the web during at: secondTHE suspect filled a bag Marshal’s Office at 636-7157. County Sheriff’s Department, Noble County Prosecuting a robbery of the Marathon gas station on South Two killings earn term of 170 years thebutlerbulletin.com with cartons of cigarettes. The Albion Police Avilla Police Department, Attorney’s Office. Orange Street in Albion. felony murder, two counts from Ligonier also attended. $1.00 of murder and one count of Two of the 14 jurors who Butler Gunman in Ligonier double Butler, Indiana attempted murder. had decided the case also CountyAn edition of to ESTABLISHED IN 1866 homicide gets lifetime prison term On March 5, 2018, “ attended Friday to listen to Johnson went with two My God says I have to forgive you to the sentencing proceedings. increase Bulletin BY STEVE GARBACZ Kirsch said. women, Tiffani Cox and Prosecutors called [email protected] That sentence, a Kyra Frost, to retrieve a be forgiven. I have. I will pray for you.” Feldstein’s sister, Marissa stipend for compilation of sentences DeKalb County ALBION — “Thuggish.” black Prada purse he had — Michelle Limerick, mother of Ligonier shooting victim Justin Adams Gerard, and Adams’ mother, Albion “Barbaric.” “Unprovoked.” to be served consecutively, given to Frost, his girlfriend. Michelle Limerick, to give attorney “Senseless.” was short of the possible Area-State The purse was in Johnson’s Justin Adams, bolted for charge and is serving eight victim-impact statements. BY MATT GETTS Those were some of the maximum [email protected] back at 2018 events car earlier in the day when the back door. Johnson shot years in prison. Frost’s case Both previously testified ALBION — The Noble adjectives Noble Superior of 190 Science fair Tuesday - Sunday SATURDAY Cox was driving it during out the back door and hit is still pending, with the at Cox’s sentencing, and County Council Monday Court 1 Judge Robert Kirsch years, but COMING How to protect Noble County Sevenagreed to shift people $5,000 a drug deal in Ligonier, but Adams in the back, killing next hearing scheduled for both briefly testified during chose to describe a shooting double the results in, A2 in unused-but-budgeted The year 12, 2019 was discovered missing him. He then turned back February. Johnson’s trial. escapedstipend money toburning Noble Snowy, high 30 that left two people dead in possible when she returned to Fort Gerard recounted her babies during cold Daily ...................................................4,756 County’s new chief deputy JANUARY inside the apartment and At his sentencing Friday, prosecutor, Adam Mildred. in review Ligonier on March 5, 2018. maximum if Wayne. sister’s battle with mental SUNDAY MORE WEATHER, killed Amanda Feldstein by Johnson was facing 45-65 Weekly - Wednesday buildingWhile that move was a he Kirsch used those words the charges After arriving at the illness and how she recently financial non-factor since PAGE A7. T shooting her in the back of years for each of the murder and flu season BY JEFF JONES before handing down one were to run it was already budgeted, Riverside Villa Apartments the head. He then fired again counts, 20-40 years on the brought her condition under [email protected] council had to come up of Noble County’s longest concur- Snow likely With 2019 now in full swing, it’s 2018 and barging into an control. She was working, Largest City ..................................Auburn with an additional $5,000 to at Amberly Brown, who attempted murder charge LADY RAILROADERS ADVANCE to NECC quarterfinals, SEE PAGE 8 prison sentences — 170 rently. timebe toearmarked take a look for back the Noble at the stories TUESDAY SERVING DEKALB COUNTY SINCE 1871 Johnson apartment, Johnson pulled was standing in the kitchen, and 6-20 years for a habitual applying to get her driver’s MORE WEATHER, Circulation .........................................850 and people who made the news County Public Defender’s JANUARY 15, 2019 years — to the gunman in Johnson, out a gun and demanded the license reinstated and With help from several citizens, PHOTO CONTRIBUTED but missed her. The trio offender enhancement. PAGE A7 duringOffice the chieffirst deputysix months as of 2018. that incident, Michael J. Local 36, of Fort GREATER well.One Stateof the law biggest requires stories the of the ConcertPolice Chief Jimheld Nichols to andbenefit pantry VOL. 133 return of the purse. fled the apartment without Several family members had just recently rented Distance to Fort Wayne ........... 19 miles yearchief came deputy as January prosecutor was winding Patrolman Adam Watts pulled ISSUE #2 Johnson. Wayne, was found guilty According to testimony an apartment at the new downand withthe chief a fire deputy in downtown public Thean unconsciousCentral Noble woman Primary to andsafety Elementary schools performed at a talent show recently and the entry fee was a donation to the Central Noble recovering the purse. of the victims and Brown On the web at: “Mr. Johnson, you are Newof all Year’s charges on Dec. Eve party Median Household Income ....$44,602 Butler.defender to be paid equally. foodfrom pantry. a second-story window. The during his trial, one of the Cox pleaded guilty in were present in the Newly elected woman, Barbara Mynatt, suffered thegarrettclipper.com one of these people that we 13 following a four-day people in the apartment, fall 2018 to a Level 3 felony courtroom. Police officers SEE KILLINGS, PAGE A2 FORT WAYNE SeveralProsecutor people Jim Mowery smoke inhalation and was hospital- $1.00 must remove from society,”raises jury trial thousands on two counts of Median Household Income .......$51,374 SEE COUNTY, PAGE 14 ized for several days, but was Angola, Indiana SERVING THE STEUBEN COUNTY 101 LAKES AREA SINCE 1857 escape burning building able to attend an April ceremony Garrett, Indiana The GarrettAn edition of The Clipper Seven people escaped from a honoring the police officers and Established in 1885 S INFORMATION for police K-9s, A2 ATURDA smoke-filled apartment, with two citizens. Tipton to return to sidelines Y BUSINESS WEEKLY people jumping• from and another The fire brought the response BY MATT GETTS Tipton, whose first “I could be dad,” he COMING SUNDAY $1.25 THEHERALDREPUBLICAN.COM personA lbionrescued N fromew