January 30, 2013, 6:12 am
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis.(WHBL) - A house fire in the city of Sheboygan yesterday afternoon extensively damaged a two-story home and claimed the lives of two dogs. The Fire Department reports the fire in the home of Cory Letson at 1131 Oakland Avenue was discovered about 4:30. Shift Commander Keith Risse said firefighters responded and found the first floor fully involved in flame. Risse said they quickly knocked down the flames and went in after the dogs and got them out. Efforts to resuscitate them failed. The home sustained extensive smoke and fire damage estimated at $75,000. Risse said the occupants are being assisted by the Red Cross. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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January 30, 2013, 6:12 am
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis.(WHBL) - State Representative Mike Endsley of Sheboygan has changed his email address following a phishing attack on his account yesterday. Endsley issued a statement apologizing and calling on people who may have received an email sent from his account to disregard the message and not respond to it. The email indicated that Endsley had been mugged and robbed while in London and was left without credit cards and phone contact and unable to get home. It appealed to email recipients to send financial assistance.
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January 30, 2013, 6:12 am
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis.(WHBL) - The American Orthodontics plant on North 18th Street was evacuated yesterday afternoon due to an ammonia leak. Spokesman Matt Klitzke said the happened shortly after one o’clock when a regulator valve on an ammonia tank failed, probably due to weather-related rapid temperature changes. Klitzke said the levels of ammonia were non-threatening, but neighbors were told to stay inside as a precaution. He said the leak was repaired by three o’clock and work inside the plant resumed.
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January 30, 2013, 6:12 am
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GREEN BAY, Wis.(WHBL) - Wisconsin’s biggest snowstorm of the New Year arrived in the middle of the night. And it was still raining in parts of southern Wisconsin, where torrential rainstorms hit last evening. Madison got two-and-a-quarter inches, and West Allis had about an inch-of-a-half of rain. There was flooding at a Kenosha park, and on streets in Kenosha and Racine counties. A flood warning remains in effect on the Sheboygan River, which is a foot-and-a-half below its flood stage. Most of the state is now under snow warnings and advisories – and it could drift in a number of places. Six-to-eight inches are expected by tonight in the Madison area and southwest Wisconsin. Five-to-nine inches are forecast for central areas, the Fox Valley, and the northeast. The Black River Falls region expects 4-to-7 inches. Three-to-six inches of snow are predicted from Wausau northward. The Eau Claire area could escape with 1-to-3 inches. Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha counties may get 2-to-3 inches of snow, after it rains a little more this morning. Milwaukee had a record high of 60 yesterday, but it only lasted for a short time in the afternoon. At two this morning, Milwaukee’s wind chill was back down to 27. Madison also set a new record high for yesterday with 54. It was down to 35 overnight. And get ready for much colder temps. Arctic air will move in after the snow moves out. Tonight’s lows are expected to be around zero statewide.
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January 30, 2013, 6:12 am
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis.(WHBL) - Sheboygan Police are keeping watch for possible flooding at South Taylor Drive and Indiana Avenue this morning. Sgt. Bill Adams said the water on the Sheboygan River is rising, possibly due to ice dams, and beginning to approach the roadway. He said police are monitoring the situation and motorists are urged to stay alert when driving through that area. The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for the Sheboygan River.
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January 31, 2013, 2:49 pm
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis.(WHBL) - An Oshkosh man who allegedly stabbed a Sheboygan man to death earlier this month during a fight in the 1400 block of South 12th Street has been ordered to stand trial. Judge James Bolgert listened to testimony in the case of 22 year old Michael Lemerande and then ruled there is enough evidence for a trial. Lemerande is facing a charge of 2nd degree reckless homicide in the death of 41 year old Nicholas Lehrke who was stabbed in the back during the fight. He died later at the hospital and Lemerande was taken into custody at the scene. He has entered a plea of not guilty and is back in the county jail on $250,000 cash bail.
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January 31, 2013, 2:49 pm
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis.(WHBL) - Cleanup continues in the wake of yesterday’s storm which dumped 3 to 5 inches of snow in the Sheboygan area. Streets and roadways remain snow-covered and slippery. Sgt. Jim Gottsacker of the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department said area drivers did well. He said they only had 6 reports of vehicles in the ditch and 4 accidents as drivers either slowed down or stayed at home. One of those accidents occurred about 11 o’clock yesterday morning on County LS north of Sheboygan. A pickup driven by 61 year old Gary Miller of Sheboygan slid head-on into a car driven by 51 year old Julie Tyson of Sheboygan. She suffered apparent minor injury while Miller wasn’t injured.
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February 2, 2013, 3:24 am
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (WHBL) - Governor Scott Walker will be in the city of Sheboygan this morning to introduce his new Chief Executive Officer of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. According to the governor’s office, he will be at the Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce office on 8th Street at 11:15 with Reed Hall. Hall was appointed this week to head the agency which was created by the Walker administration in 2011 to replace the old Department of Commerce as a new public-private partnership to focus on developing the state’s economy and job market. When he appointed Hall, Walker said “Reed brings a fresh perspective and strong leadership to the WEDC.”
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February 2, 2013, 3:24 am
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WHBL) - It took about a half-hour for the Green Bay Packers to give away a-thousand tickets for Donald Driver’s retirement ceremony on Wednesday at Lambeau Field. Fans showed up at the stadium in the middle of the night in sub-zero cold, waiting for the ticket windows to open at nine a-m. Some reports said people drove up as early as 10 last evening. About two dozen people were in line by 5:30 this morning, and a lot more came after that, despite wind chills in the minus-20’s. That did not go unnoticed by the Packers’ all-time leading receiver. Driver tweeted quote, “To all the great fans out there standing in the cold to celebrate this moment with me and my family, love you all. This is for you!” Wednesday’s ceremony begins at 11 in the Lambeau atrium. Driver, who turns 38 tomorrow, announced his retirement yesterday after 14 years with the only N-F-L team he has ever played for.
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February 3, 2013, 7:42 pm
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis.(WHBL) - Fire of undetermined origin last night extensively damaged a southside Sheboygan home. The Fire Department said the fire was discovered shortly after 7 o'clock in the home at 3802 South 17th Street. Shift Commander Pat Nicolaus said when firefighters arrived on the scene they found flames coming out of the front windows and black smoke coming from the entire home. Nicolaus said no one was home at the time and there were no injuries. The occupants were located and contacted by the Fire Department. Nicolaus said the home sustained fire,heat and smoke damage throughout. The cause remains under investigation and, so far, there is no estimate of damage
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February 5, 2013, 9:06 am
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CHILTON, Wis.(WHBL) - An autopsy is scheduled today on a woman found dead in an ice shanty on Lake Winnebago in Calumet County. She was identified yesterday as 30-year-old Sara Meyer of Chilton. Thirty-seven year old Travis Duchow of Chilton who was also found unconscious in the ice shanty was flown to a medical center in Neenah, and was then transferred to a hospital in Appleton. His condition was not disclosed. Calumet County sheriff’s deputies were called late Saturday afternoon to the ice fishing shelter located on Lake Winnebago near Brothertown. Deputies and the county medical examiner continue to investigate.
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February 5, 2013, 9:06 am
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (WHBL) - A Sheboygan woman has been sentenced to a year in the state prison for trying to protect a suspect in a fatal shooting which occurred in the city of Sheboygan last summer. 18 year old Lydia Smith was sentenced recently by Judge L. Edward Stengel on a charge of aiding a felon and was given credit for the nearly three months that she spent in the county jail. Smith was in the apartment where Ronnie Polk shot and killed his half-brother, Brandon Davis, last June. She attempted to clean up blood from the shooting and hid the gun that was used. Polk was arrested in Milwaukee a couple of days after the shooting and was sentenced in November to two years in prison.
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February 5, 2013, 9:06 am
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (WHBL) - A Sheboygan man and woman are facing felony theft and drug charges after allegedly stealing two flat screen Tv's from the southside Wal-Mart over the weekend. 42 year old Joel Warner and 37 year old Edie Sanford were formally charged on Monday. Authorities said they were arrested on Saturday afternoon after allegedly stealing the 42-inch TV's valued at more than $700 and taking off in a pickup truck. As officers were investigating the two unsucessfully attempted to do the same thing at the northside Wal-Mart, but were arrested a short distance away. Sanford told officers that Warner has a drug problem and intended to trade the TV's for crack cocaine. Both are in the county jail facing more than three years in prison.
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February 5, 2013, 9:06 am
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis.(WHBL) - The city of Sheboygan is having trouble recruiting candidates for the position of Assistant Deputy Finance Director, but the City Council last night refused to waive its residency requirement. Human Resources Manager Sandy Rohrick said the position pays between $65,000 and $77,000, however they have had trouble recruiting qualified candidates. Rohrick. She said a number of candidates have said they would not submit applications because of the residency requirement. Alermen last fall refused to throw out the residency requirement, but Finance Chair Don Hammond called on them to do it for this position in an effort to increase the pool of qualified candidates. But Alderman Scott Lewandoske said I don't know how we can tell the mayor to promote Sheboygan as a good place to live, and then we as a group are saying "well this job is open, but you don't need to live here". Aldermen then defeated a motion to waive residency by a vote of 8 to 7.
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February 5, 2013, 9:06 am
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (WHBL) - A Sheboygan boy who is accused in the brutal bludgeoning of an elderly Sheboygan Falls woman will be arraigned in Sheboygan County Court this afternoon on a charge of first degree murder. 14 year old Nathan Paape is expected to enter a plea to the charge. Last week, Paape failed in his efforts to have is case transferred to juvenile court where he would get a lighter sentence. He is facing life in prison in adult court. His companion, 14 year old Antonio Barbeau, is also charged in the murder in adult court. He has entered a plea of insanity. The two boys allegedly bludgeoned 78 year old Barbara Olsen to death with an ax and a hammer in her home last September. Olsen was Barbeau’s great grandmother.
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February 6, 2013, 6:52 pm
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MADISON, Wis. (WHBL) - State Senator Glenn Grothman of West Bend says he’ll vote in favor of mining legislation in committee today, but there’s still work to be done. Grothman is a member of the Forestry Development and Mining Committee which was scheduled to convene at 10 a.m. Grothman says he’ll vote to send the legislation to the Senate floor but he says he still needs more assurances from the DNR that there won’t be any problems in northern Wisconsin. The legislation could bring an iron ore mine and hundreds of jobs to the area. Grothman, speaking from Madison on Sheboygan's Morning News, said, "We've got to make sure that there are no negative environmental impacts or undue impacts on the people of that area."
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February 6, 2013, 6:52 pm
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WAUKESHA, Wis. (WHBL) - A Sheboygan man has lost the appeal of his drunk driving conviction and will have to serve his two years in prison. 33 year old Jonathan Herr was charged after a police chase out of Elkhart Lake in August of 2011. Herr was hemmed in by squad cars and wouldn’t come out of his pickup truck, so, officers tased him and dragged him out. He was later convicted of 5th offense drunk driving and sentenced last April to prison and ordered to pay over $4,000 in fines and fees. He appealed on the grounds that officers used unreasonable force when he was arrested. Thus, any evidence in the case should be thrown out. The appeals court disagreed and upheld the sentence handed down by Judge Timothy Van Akkeren.
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February 6, 2013, 6:52 pm
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GREEN LAKE, Wis. (WHBL) - Green Lake County Sheriff’s officials say the body of a woman found during a house fire in Green Lake Tuesday morning is likely that of the homeowner. Sixty-six-year-old Maureen Martin lived at that address at W3643 Judy Lane. She couldn’t be located. An autopsy conducted at the Fond du Lac County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the death of the woman who perished in the blaze was fire and heat related. The Green Lake County Sheriff’s Department, State Fire Marshal’s Office, Green Lake County Coroner’s Office, and Princeton Fire Department are continuing their investigation of the fire.
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February 6, 2013, 6:52 pm
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis.(WHBL) - WHBL's radio signal has been picked up as far away as Finland. We recently received a letter from folks in that county informing us that they picked up the signal last November and asking for confirmation. Below is a copy of the letter and the attached audio.
Dear Sir,
Greetings from Finland! We are Jarmo and Vesa, two AM radio hobbyists from Southern Finland. We are writing to inform that we have succeeded to receive your AM station in Finland!
Every year in winter season we travel up to Lapland, the northernmost province of Finland. The area is ideal for catching fascinating long distance AM radio signals as yours.
Our reception of WHBL took place on 1330 kHz AM on November 14, 2011 at 3.00 AM Central Standard Time.
All thought the reception was a little challenging we heard at the top of the hour:
Jingle by female voices: "Newsradio 13-30, WHBL" and ABC news
To prove the reception we attach a short mp3 clip of your programme 3.00 AM CST. We would be happy if you could spare a minute to listen to the clip for verification.
This long distance reception was possible with Microtelecom SDR communications receiver connected to a half mile long wire antenna directed to your area.
Thank you very much for your transmission! We hope you can check the attached wav recording and if you find that it was your program, please drop us a line as verification. Wishing you and your staff all the best. We would be also interested to learn more about your station and programs. Waiting to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Mr. Jarmo Patala / Mr. Vesa Rinkinen
AM DX CLUB "TEAM KIKDX" FINLAND
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February 8, 2013, 2:19 pm
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (WHBL) - Final details are being worked out for the trial later this month of an elderly Sheboygan woman charged in the death of her infant daughter 54 years ago. Judge Angela Sutkiewicz held the final pre-trial hearing in Sheboygan County Court Thursday morning. Efforts to reach a plea agreement in the case had been unsuccessful and 76 year old Ruby Klokow, charged with 2nd degree murder, is scheduled to go on trial beginning February 25th. The trial is expected to last a week. Klokow was charged after her adult son came forward and provided Sheboygan police with information about the death of the infant. Following a two year investigation, Klokow was arrested and charged just over two years ago. She’s been free on bail, awaiting the trial.
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