WHBY Morning News 10-24-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
A century of quality reporting continues on why with the
latest from the Omniglass and Pay News Center. Good morning,
it's thirty two degrees at five oh four, I'm landed more.
Appleton officials say they are doing all they can to
reduce downtown noise. Mayor Jake Whitford says police have been
handing out tickets and warnings all the time.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Twenty seven hundred and forty three citations issued city wide
and twenty five that's up seven point eight percent from
the same period last year. Fourteen hundred and twenty two
of these citations were issued in the downtown area alone.
That's a thirty two percent increase over last year, and
it represents fifty two percent of all citations issued in

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the city of Appleton.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
A group of downtown residents are calling for even more enforcements,
citing loud vehicles cruising along College Avenue at night. The
city of Kakana is doing away with dumpsters at its
Third Street drop off site. The move comes after non
residents and others were repeatedly dumping unapproved items in and
around the Benz. City officials say the improper disposal was
costing money and creating safety hazards. The dumpsters will only

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be put out for the annual post holiday's collection in
January and the spring clean of collection in March. Arrests
are made in connection with last week's armed robbery of
Premier Community Bank in Bear Creek. Forty three year old
Martin Munize Laura was arrested Thursday by Autigamy County Sheriff's
deputies with help from Oshkosh Police officers who were called
in because Buniz Laura had been living in Oshkosh and Greenville.

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Multiple search warrants were executed at locations in Oshkosh and Greenville.
Those warrants resulted in the arrest of a thirty eight
year old Oshkosh man for possession with attempt to deliver cocaine,
possession of cocaine, and drug paraphernalia. A twenty four year
old Oshkosh woman was also arrested for possession of cocaine.
The armed robbery investigation continues. No one is heard in

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a chemical league at a green Bay meatpacking plant. Crews
were called to the JBS plant on Limekiln Road around
one forty five Thursday morning on the report that a
total cleaning acid had tipped over while being moved by
a four and was giving off fumes. Workers were evacuated
as a precaution. Production resumed at the plant around five
thirty Thursday morning. One person is that another is injured

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following a crash in what Packa County. The Sheriff's office
reports a semi collided with a car at the intersection
of US Highway ten and Old Highway forty nine in
Fremont around ten thirty Wednesday morning. The driver of the
car was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of
the semi suffered non life threatening injuries. The cause of
the crash is under investigation. A new bill could bring
online sports betting to Wisconsinits statewide reporter Shaw Maloney has

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the details.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Wisconsin is one of thirty nine states that allows some
sort of sports betting, but under the state constitution, it
can only happen on tribal lands. The bipartisan bill would
use what legislators call a hub and spoke model, where
the gambling servers are located on tribal lands, but users
with online devices could be located anywhere else in the state.
Under the legislation, tribal casinos would have to launch their

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own gambling apps or website for people to use the
United Nation, and was the first to offer sports betting
in Wisconsin at its main casino near Green Bay in
twenty twenty two, and Potawatamy Casino in Milwaukee opened its
on site sportsbook back in May twenty twenty four. Shaw
Maloney Wisconsin Radio Network.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
I Watoma man is accused of driving drunk a sixth time.
David Martinez is charged in Washera County court with o
WY six defense. Martinez was stopped by Watoma police for
erratic driving last Saturday. He allegedly failed fields sobriety tests.
He faces up to ten years in prison if convicted.
A Marion base manufacturer takes home the honor of making

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the coolest thing Made in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce,
along with Johnson Financial Group, announces that Search and Rescue
Thousand Island Airboats is the twenty twenty five winner of
Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin. That follows multiple rounds of
online voting at wmc's website. The Thousand Island air Boats
allowed law enforcement and search and rescue teams to respond
to calls in areas that other vehicles cannot access.