Your News Now on WHBY 10-20-2025

Local, regional and state news roundup with WHBY News Anchor Terry Kovarik.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
With your News Now on whby I'm Terry Kovarik and
Appleton woman will spend fifteen years in prison for causing
a fatal crash. Amanda wolf Graham is also sentenced in
Winnebago County to fifteen years on extended supervision for homicide
by intoxicated use of a vehicle and owy causing injury.
Wolf Graham was impaired which she caused a head on
crash along to Peer Street in Manashup back in July

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of twenty twenty four, a man was killed while a
woman and a ten year old child were injured. The
City of Oshkosh is looking to limit where electric bicycles
can be operated. Transportation Director Jim Collins says a proposed
ordinance would push e bikes off the sidewalk in areas
like Main Street and other business districts.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Continue to allow bikes on sidewalks, but restricting them on
sidewalks or business's ingress and egress abutst the sidewalk. That
approach would allow for the use of e bikes and
power mode in areas with challenging grads areas in near
Your Highway forty one, for example. However, it would restrict
the use of bikes and e bikes on sidewalks and

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the areas that have the most potential for bike and
professor and conflicts.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Former common council member Chris Larsen pushed for a sidewalk
band for e bikes after posting video of a biker
moving faster than street traffic down Main Street. He posted
that to his social media accounts. The Dodge County Sheriff's
Office releases the names of those involved in a fatal
crash last week. An suv driven by Cynthia McIntosh and
a dump truck operated by Timothy Wade collided at the

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intersection of Highways E and I in the town of
Burnett late Friday morning. McIntosh was pronounced dead at the scene.
Wade was hospital bised with non life threatening injuries. The
crash remains under investigation. Affordable Care Act subsidies remain at
the center of the federal government shutdown. Democrat fourth Congressional
District Representative Gwen Moore on wisn's.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Upfront, Republicans have deliberately placed the things that we care
most about healthcare, food share at the center of this debate.
When are Republicans it's going to give up transferring hues
amounts of wealth to multi billionaires in lou of feeding
people through snap.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
First District Republican Representative Brian Steele.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
The Democrat past language that we're currently living under is
rite with waste, fraud, and abuse. There's a number of
studies showing how this program is being abused to the
detriment of those that truly need the assistance, and so
I think we have an opportunity, at a minimum to
make significant reforms in the program.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
The shutdown has now entered its third week. The State
Department of Transportation hosts a public involvement meeting today on
proposed improvements to State Highway thirty two into Peer. The
department is looking to repair pavement and make other upgrades
along thirty two between third and eighth streets. Work is
scheduled to begin in twenty twenty eight, with road closures
and detours planned. Today's meeting begins at five o'clock at

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West to Peer Middle School. A Hartford man is accused
of bank fraud. Jesse Klingon is facing one count of
identity theft in Dodge County Court. According to the criminal complaint,
Klingen used stolen financial information to draw more than one
hundred and sixty thousand dollars from the victim's home equity
line of credit Adelomira Bank. He faces up to six

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years in prison if convicted. The Wisconsin Department of Health
Services wants you to get a number of vaccinations this season,
but should you be getting them all at the same time.
Doctor Stephanie Shauer with DHS says, for most people that
won't be a problem. You may not feel great the
next day, and I think it's up to people's personal
preference whether they want to go ahead and separate them

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out or get them at the same time. DHS is
recommending people get boosters for the flu, COVID and RSV
early so that they can be ready and protected ahead
of the peak of infections. Festival Foods and Hometown Grocers
are now officially under new ownership. Saint Louis based nineteen
thirty nine group closes on its purchase of the long
time Wisconsin based grocery Stores nineteen thirty nine. Group operates

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one hundred forty six stores in Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
Festival Foods and Hometown Grocers joined Schnuck Markets under the
leadership of Schnuck chairman and CEO Todd Snook, who says
the Wisconsin stores will continue to operate as festival foods
and hometown grocers, and gas prices continue to trend downward
at northeast Wisconsin, gasbuddy dot COM's late the survey finds

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the average in Appleton at two fifty eight per gallon.
That's down eleven cents from last week. At Green Bay,
the average fell six cents to two sixty five a gallon.
The national average is down four cents and sits at
two ninety eight