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Standing 400 feet tall, the new Acuity Insurance Flagpole is the tallest flagpole in North America (#tallestUSflag). Located on the Acuity Insurance headquarters campus in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, along Interstate 43 between Milwaukee and Green Bay, the pole supports a 60-foot-wide by 120-foot-long American flag. Located at the base of the flagpole is a brick paver patio featuring the names of Sheboygan County residents killed in active duty.

CAMPBELLSPORT – On Friday, 6th District Congressional candidate Glenn Grothman (R-Campbellsport) slammed Joe Leibham (R-Sheboygan) for accepting a maximum limit contribution from a progressive trade union. More: Stroebel, Leibham Trade Barbs Over Voter ID According to records from the Federal Elections Commission, Leibham accepted $5,000 from the Laborers Union International North America (LIUNA) PAC on July 15, 2014. The LIUNA was very evident during the 2011 protests against Governor Scott Walker over Act 10 which was upheld by the Wisconsin State Supreme Court and the federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The LIUNA has 500,000 members that are represented in...

Two 13-year-old Wisconsin boys have been charged with first degree murder for the brutal slaying of one boy's great-grandmother, whom they allegedly bludgeoned with a hammer and hatchet before robbing her spare change and going out for pizza. Both boys, Antonio D. Barbeau and Nathan J. Paape, were charged Friday as adults in the death of Barbeau’s great-grandmother, 78-year-old Barbara J. Olson, prosecutors said. In a crime that was both gruesome and callous, the boys are accused of going to Olson’s Sheboygan, Wis., home on Sept. 17 “to get some money,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported

SHEBOYGAN, WI (WTAQ) - Bonds of $1 million each were set today for a pair of 13-year-old boys charged as adults with a prosecutor called the “callous” murder of a 78-year-old Sheboygan Falls woman. Antonio Barbeau and Nathan Paape are charged with party to first-degree intentional homicide. Police said Barbeau’s great-grandmother, Barbara Olson, was killed with a hatchet and a hammer on Monday. District Attorney Joe DeCecco said Paape’s mother dropped off the boys at Olson’s house – and they were ransacking it when Olson came home and caught them. The DA said the two boys then attacked her, and...

Usually when the media talks about high school kids at the Wisconsin Capitol it’s been about teachers bringing students to protest Wis. Gov. Scott Walker and his budget cuts. But we have some different news to bring you today: during a visit to the Capitol last Thursday, some Wisconsin high school students decided to fight back against the anti-Walker sentiment they were witnessing during an impromptu visit. In short, students from Sheboygan Lutheran High School decided to stop by the rotunda in Madison while in town for the state high school basketball playoffs. While there, they witnessed protesters signing about...

It's a wine lover's nightmare - thousands of bottles of the world's finest grape juice crash on the floor, leading to a tsunami of undrinkable vino. At Superior Discount Liquors in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, that disastrous scenario really did happen. A 78ft long shelving unit suddenly becoming detached from its anchoring wall. Standing four shelves high, a total of 6,810 bottles of wine and champagne smashed on the floor. The liquor turned into a sea of red and broken glass. Managers at the store are stumped as to why or how it happened, but did admit the shelves are 31 years...

Dwight Darrow tells me he's not related to Clarence Darrow. Still, I think the attorney for Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan has a legal argument lots of folks in this state are, unfortunately, going to love. He argues Ryan — who has a habit of getting pie-eyed in public and acting loutish and completely embarrassing the city he represents — is disabled. In fact, the mayor is so disabled by his alcoholism, says Mr. Darrow, that he is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act. As a result, the Sheboygan City Council cannot legally remove the disabled mayor from office, argues...

A Sheboygan gas station owner is baffled after a mystery caller tells a clerk it's a bad idea to do business with a Sheboygan-area state senator. It started Tuesday when a woman called Dick Hiers's Northeast Standard gas station after she thought she saw Senator Joe Leibham there. Her call was caught on the answering machine. "I think that this whole thing has to end. It has to stop," said Hiers. Hiers never thought his little gas station in the heart of Sheboygan would be the stage of political controversy. Then again, his week has been full of surprises. "I...

ALTERNATE SITE IS LUIGI'S ITALIAN RESTAURANT AT 2129 KOHLER MEMORIAL DRIVE SHEBOYGAN, WI TODAY AT 4:30

From Mathew: "On may 9th I had received a Armi-Jager AP-74( I have a pic of it with some of my other firearms on my facebook page) .22LR from a friend of mine that I worked for. It looks similar to the original Vietnam era M-16. On Monday I was walking to my friends house who lives in town to show him. I got stopped and questioned then told I was in a school zone. I said that I thought open carry was fine for transportation since I cant drive and I don't really have a case big enough to...

No, people who wanted a gun in their possession had one. The right to carry one openly will not encourage a normally anti-gun person to go out and buy one. If and when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Give us the right to still bear arms if we feel the need. Jack Wirtz, Sheboygan There is absolutely no need for the average citizen to strap on a gun and parade around in public. Our police officers face enough danger every day. They certainly don't need to deal with this. Enough already. Grant Mattes, Town of Sheboygan I...

A teen accused of posting pictures of his potted marijuana plants and drug paraphernalia on MySpace.com faces charges after police monitoring for gang activity traced the information to him. Authorities said a label on the picture of potted pot plants read: "My Mary Jane thats growin in my closet right now.'' "People think that Web sites are more private than they are,'' Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCecco said. "This is just another tool for us to use.'' The criminal complaint filed in Circuit Court Wednesday against Moua Yang, 18, of Sheboygan said police were monitoring another Web site when...

L.A. Times Gives $21,200 to Bustamante Tuesday, August 26, 2003 By Don Hicks copyright 2003 Surprise, Surprise, The notorious extreme left wing newspaper, the “Los Angeles Times,” finds in their new Poll, that Bustamante now has big a lead in the Governors race. Their long claims of objectivism and fairness make it a laughing stock and only adds another chapter and example of it’s hatred of all thing decent and fair. The only thing missing from this soul mate of “Pravda” is “Baghdad Bob” column in their daily. These low life groups of propagandists and scriptwriters who have for years...