Your News Now on WHBY 04-29-2025

Local, regional and state news roundup with WHBY News Anchors Jonathan Krause and Terry Kovarik.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Your news Now. I'm Whby, I'm Jonathan Krause.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
And I'm Terry Cavarrek. The National Weather Service now confirms
a second tornado touchdown in shawn O'county Monday night. The
Weather Service says that twister touchdown near Burnhamwood and occurred
before another tornado reported earlier in the town of Matomb.
Damage from the twisters included uprooted trees. The roof of
an outbuilding was pulled down in matun However, there were

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no injuries. The Weather Service rated both as EF zero
category tornadoes, with peak wins estimated at eighty miles an hour.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
A former teacher at Appleton West High School is accused
of having a sexual relationship with a student. Appleton police
took Rebecca Ryan into custody earlier today. According to a
police report, Ryan had a sexual relationship with a student
at West during the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen school year.
The allegations were made earlier this year. Investigators believe that

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no other students are involved. Police a Ryan was not
employed as a teacher at the time of her arrest.
Criminal charges are pending.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Well more than six hundred thousand people packed Green Bay
for the NFL Draft last week, overall crime actually went down.
Brown County Sheriff Todd Delane says it was an unusually
quiet weekend overall.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
The end result was that it was a less than
average week across the county as it relates to law
enforcement contact and those who ended up being at the
Brown County jail, so it was less than average.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Green Bay Police made just one arrest at the draft
campus last week.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Last week's draft contributed to an enormous amount of exposure
for green Bay. Discovered green Bay, The city's Tourism Information
Center was mentioned seven hundred and forty six times on
social media, leading to four point two five billion impressions.
President and CEO Brad Tol says the city got the
attention of others in the tourism industry.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
From colleagues tours and colleagues from around the world that
saw this on TV and we're marveling at how fantastic
looks an ever pretty darn jealous, which from a tourism
perspective alas makes it feel good when you go to
a big convention with Los Angeles and Las Vegas again.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
An estimated six hundred thousand people attended the draft over
its three days.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
No one is hurt. In a Fondeleete County garage, fire
cruise were called to the one hundred block of Sheridan
Street in the village of Eden around ten to fifteen
this morning to find smoke and flames coming from two
detached garages in the property. Both buildings, a shed, and
a vehicle were destroyed. The nearby house sustained some fire
damage as well. The cause of that fire is under investigation.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
No injuries are reported in an apartment fire into Peer
Crews were called to a complex and the nine hundred
block of North Broadway Street around ten o'clock Monday night
on the report of flames in an oven. The fire
was contained to the appliance. Officials say the activation of
the oven's cleaning mode caused that fire.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
The release of the slender Man stabber from Winnebago Mental
Health Institute is delayed. Reporter Ted Aalen has the latest.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
In Waukesha County Court Monday, prosecutors objected to the transfer
of Morgan Geyser to a group home located eight miles
from the victim of the stabbing, Peyton Leuitner. Geyser was
twelve years old when she stabbed Leuitner nineteen times to
please the fictional character slender Man. The now twenty two
year old Geyser was sentenced to a mental health facility,
but was granted her release last month. The judge in

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the case ordered officials to find a new group home
for Geyser. A hearing on the new release plan is
scheduled for June. Ted Allen Wisconsin Radio Network.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
A Shawno man will spend eleven years in prison for
stockpiling weapons as a convicted felon. Kyle Matchi is also
sentenced in Shauno County Court to seven years on extended
supervision for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Mashie had dozens of weapons and ammunition in his home
when police were called to his residence for a domestic
disturbance in December of twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
And green Bay's new consolidated Westside Elementary School will be
named in honor of green Bay Packers legend Bart Starr
and his wife Cherry. The school board votes to name
the school Star Elementary, with displays inside honoring the couple.
Board Vice president Lynn Gurlock hopes the name will inspire
kids of both genders.

Speaker 6 (04:10):
I would love to have an elementary school where the
little girls walk in and they see a woman there,
and most of those little girls are going to grow
up to be wives. And there's no better role model
for a wife than Cherry Starr was.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
The green Bay Packers Hall of Fame will donate bronze
busts of Bart and Cherry Star to the school in
two years.