Jim Chapman
Metro Editor Jim Chapman has nearly 40 years of experience at area newspapers. A Fort Wayne native, he has covered Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana for The Journal Gazette since 1990.
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Stories by Jim Chapman
Jury recommends life without parole for Hancz-Barron
An Allen Superior Court jury today recommended that Cohen Hancz-Barron be sentenced to life without parole on four murder counts.
May 19, 2022 10:14 am
Victim in house fire 6-year-old
A Monroeville family is trying to cope with the loss of a 6-year-old boy who died in a house fire.
May 18, 2022 1:00 am
6-year-old identified as Monroeville fire victim
A Monroeville family is trying to cope with the loss of a 6-year-old boy who died in a house fire.
May 17, 2022 11:12 am
Arrest made in slaying
A 21-year-old was arrested Monday on a murder charge in the August death of a man found last year in a car on Fort Wayne's south...
May 17, 2022 1:00 am
City settles with 12 protesters
The city of Fort Wayne has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit with a dozen protesters.
May 17, 2022 1:00 am
- Suspect arrested in August shooting death
- Fort Wayne pays $100,000 to settle protesters' lawsuit
- 18 local farms to test for avian flu
- Avian influenza found in Allen County hobby flock
- City, protester agree to settlement
- 50 years given for fatal stabbing
- 50 years given for fatal stabbing
- City details settlement with protester
- Suspect in custody on 4 counts of arson
- Police car rammed; man arrested
- Suspect charged in 4 arson fires
- Driver accused of colliding with county police car in OWI crash
- Frontier cutback to cost 50 jobs
- Frontier to close parts of Fort Wayne facility; 50 jobs lost
- Higher turnout expected
- Voter turnout projected to exceed last primary
- Man takes plea deal in reckless homicide
- Ex-principal pleads guilty to having sex with student
- Ex-principal pleads guilty to child seduction
- Fight at bar co-owned by cop probed
- Siblings killed in blaze ID'd
- Victims of fatal mobile-home fire identified
- Charter school plans withdrawn
- Man acquitted in shooting of fiancée
- Fort Wayne charter school application withdrawn
- Defendant acquitted of charges he tried to kill fiancée
- Man faces federal drug, gun charges after yearlong probe
- 12-month investigation leads to federal drug, gun charges
- Suspect charged in deadly attack
- Man gets 49 years for molesting boy
- Victim ID'd in shooting Friday night
- Fort Wayne man charged with murder after shooting
- Man sentenced to 49 years on child molest charges
- Victim of Friday night shooting identified
- Police seek 2 men in Thursday homicide
- 2 suspects sought in death of South Whitley man
- Guilty plea entered for fatal attack in trailer
- Defendant admits to Wells Street stabbing
- Judge: Jail violates inmates' rights
- County ordered to improve jail conditions
- Tornado confirmed in Van Wert County
- Tornado hits Van Wert County; no damage, injuries
- Prosecutor: Garrett police 'compromised' homicide probe
- Garrett police compromised death investigation, DeKalb prosecutor says
- Protester who lost eye to settle suit against city
- Protest lawsuit settled, lawyers say
- City officer in squad car charged with OWI in Wells County
- Fort Wayne officer faces drunken driving charge
- Salaries: PFW's leader at No. 1
- Jury chairs return, after 50 years
- Jury chairs returned to original courthouse home
- 2 men plead guilty in federal court in pair of '13 slayings
- 2 plead guilty in 2013 Fort Wayne homicides
- Lassus exec dies while scuba diving off Keys
- Jon R. Lassus Jr. dies at 61
- I-69/Coldwater due for modification
- Worker badly burned at old St. Joseph Hospital
- Burn victim found at old hospital site