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OSHKOSH – Someone used a stolen credit card at an Oshkosh pharmacy, police say.

The stolen credit card was used at CVS, 1736 W. 9th Ave., on Jan. 27. Police released surveillance images of the male suspect in the case, which can be seen above.

Anyone with information is asked to call Oshkosh police at (920) 236-5700. Anonymous tips can also be left with Winnebago County Wide Crime Stoppers by phone at (920) 231-8477, by text message with the keyword IGOTYA to 274637 or online.

TOWN OF TURTLE (AP) – Two dogs that attacked and killed a miniature donkey near Beloit will be returned to their owner.

The pet donkey named Little E suffered more than 100 puncture wounds when it was attacked in the Town of Turtle. A veterinarian tried to save the donkey with stitches and pain medication, but it died last week.

The Beloit Daily News says neighbors called authorities after they saw the pit bulls attacking the donkey Jan. 31. Rock County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jay Wood says the pit bulls’ owner faces a misdemeanor charge of dogs causing damage. But, because it’s a first offense, the dogs will be returned to her. If there’s a second offense, a court could determine the dogs are a nuisance and they could be euthanized.

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is making it easier to plan for your online afterlife.

The world’s biggest online social network said Thursday that it will now let users pick someone who can manage their account after they die. Previously, the accounts were “memorialized” after death, or locked so that no one could log in.

But Facebook says its users wanted more choice. Beginning in the U.S., Facebook users can now pick a “legacy contact” to post on their page after they die, respond to new friend requests and update their profile picture and cover photo. Users can also have their accounts deleted after their death, which was not possible before.

If you want someone to manage your account after you die, click on the upside-down triangle on the top right corner of your page and find “security settings.” For U.S. users there will be an option to edit your legacy contact, who must be a Facebook user. But you don’t have to pick someone else to manage your account. You can also check a box to permanently delete your account when you die.

• Click here to edit your legacy contact

The person you choose to manage your account won’t be notified of your choice until your Facebook account is memorialized. But you can choose to send them a message right away.

Accounts are memorialized at the request of loved ones, who must provide proof of the person’s death, such as an obituary. Facebook tries to ensure that the account of the dead user doesn’t show up as a “suggested friend” or in other ways that could upset the person’s loved ones.

Facebook, which has nearly 1.4 billion users, won’t say how many accounts are memorialized, though Facebook product manager Vanessa Callison-Burch said there have been “hundreds of thousands” of requests from loved ones to do so.

MADISON (AP) – Nobody in Wisconsin matched all the winning numbers to win the big Powerball jackpot worth $564 million.

But $1 million isn’t a bad consolation prize.

The Wisconsin Lottery says someone who bought a ticket at Durand Avenue Mart in Racine matched five numbers, but not the Powerball to win $1 million in Wednesday night’s drawing.

The lottery also says a ticket worth $30,000 was sold at Bob’s Mini Mart, 506 Ohio St. in Oshkosh. That ticket matched four of five numbers plus the Powerball; the winner also bought the Power Play option to triple the winnings.

Another $10,000 ticket was sold at Jandu Petroleum, 1767 Egg Harbor Rd. in Sturgeon Bay.

Tickets in North Carolina, Puerto Rico and Texas matched all the winning numbers and will split the huge jackpot. Wednesday’s jackpot was the third-largest in Powerball history.

APPLETON (AP) – Neenah Paper is bucking the industry trend of recent years.

It plans to build a new manufacturing plant in Appleton to produce specialty filter paper, expanding the company’s Appleton Mill that encompasses about 10 acres. The 44,000-square-foot plant will include manufacturing space, offices and a tank farm for methanol and resin storage.

“For us to be vibrant and looking at major investment, not only in the Appleton Mill, but in the Valley, it’s just welcome,” he said. “This will support the Fox Valley, which is basically a paper industry institution,” said Howard Piotrowski, manager of the Neenah Paper’s Appleton and Neenah mills.

“We would actually make the base paper within the Appleton Mill and then that paper would be transferred to where this new building would be,” Piotrowski said. “We would put some chemical technology into it to create the end product.”

The Appleton Mill operates 24 hours a day, five to seven days a week and employs 100 people on three shifts. The new plant would also operate around the clock and could result in an additional 20 jobs.

The company’s plans follow years of closings and consolidations in the paper making industry. Post-Crescent Media says construction could begin in May or June and be completed within two years if the necessary permits are granted.

Piotrowski declined to disclose the estimated cost of the project.

MADISON (AP) – A former Wisconsin teacher of the year criticized likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker in an open letter this week, saying he’s misrepresenting the facts when telling an anecdote about a laid-off teacher.

The Republican Wisconsin governor on Thursday defended his telling of the story, which he’s repeated many times and wrote about in his 2013 book, saying he’s been “very clear” in how he’s described what happened to the teacher.

Claudia Klein Felske posted Monday on Marquette University’s College of Education blog that she was “surprised” and “bewildered” to hear Walker tell Iowa conservatives last month the story of how the 2010 teacher of the year had lost her job.

Felske was the 2010 high school teacher of the year, one of four teachers given the prestigious award by the state superintendent and recognized at a Capitol ceremony, and was not laid off.

Walker has frequently told the story of how “outstanding teacher of the year” Megan Sampson lost her job in 2011. The governor cites it as an example of what he called a broken system that he fixed by effectively ending collective bargaining for teachers and other public workers.

Sampson actually won the Nancy Hoefs Memorial Award, given by the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English for first-year language arts teachers. And while she was laid off in June 2010 from a job in Milwaukee, she was hired by another nearby district for a job that following fall.

Walker wrote about Sampson in his 2013 book “Unintimidated” and clearly identified her as “the outstanding first-year teacher by the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English.” But during a conservative summit last month in Iowa that attracted other potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates he described Sampson as “the outstanding teacher of the year in my state.”

That comment spurred Felske’s letter to Walker.

Walker, in a conference call with reporters Thursday in London where he is on a trade mission, called controversy over how he describes the award Sampson won a “petty distinction.”

“It’s very clear I’ve talked about this many times,” Walker said.

Felske wrote to Walker that “you should have done some serious soul searching” and looked at the impact funding cuts he supported for public K-12 schools, technical colleges and the University of Wisconsin System in 2011 had in leading to Samson’s layoff, not the seniority system that existed under union contracts.

“Your tenure as governor has demonstrated nothing less than a systematic attempt to dismantle public education, the cornerstone of democracy and the ladder of social mobility for any society,” Felske wrote.

Walker has repeatedly defended his moves, saying the $1.6 billion cut to K-12 schools was manageable because districts could find savings after being freed from onerous union contracts and by other portions of his law that forced teachers to pay more for pension and health care benefits.

Walker said those complaining over the teacher of the year distinction are “trying to redirect where the facts are.”

MINSK, Belarus (AP) – Guns will fall silent, heavy weapons will pull back from the front, and Ukraine will trade a broad autonomy for the east to get back control of its Russian border by the end of this year under a peace deal hammered out Thursday in all-night negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany.

The deal was full of potential pitfalls that could derail its implementation, however. In announcing the plan, Russia and Ukraine differed over what exactly they had agreed to in marathon 16-hour talks, including the status of a key town now under rebel siege.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters that the agreement envisages a cease-fire beginning Sunday (2200 GMT (5 p.m. EST) Saturday) as well as a special status for Ukraine’s separatist regions and provisions to address border concerns and humanitarian issues.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said there was no agreement on any autonomy or federalization for eastern Ukraine, a longtime demand of Russia, which wants that to maintain leverage over Ukraine and prevent it from ever joining NATO.

The deal, however, requires the Ukrainian parliament to give wide powers to the eastern regions as a condition for restoring Ukraine’s full control over its border with Russia – a provision certain to trigger heated political debate in Kiev.

Uncertainty remained even on the cease-fire, as Putin admitted that he and Poroshenko disagreed on the situation at a key eastern flashpoint, the government-held town of Debaltseve.

“We now have a glimmer of hope,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who brokered the talks in the Belarusian capital of Minsk together with French President Francois Hollande. “But the concrete steps of course have to be taken, and we will still face major obstacles. But, on balance, I can say what we have achieved gives significantly more hope than if we had achieved nothing.”

More than 5,300 people have died since April in the fighting in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and government troops. Battles continued to rage Thursday even as the four leaders were holding peace talks.

The new deal envisages a buffer zone created by pulling back heavy artillery and rocket systems 50 to 140 kilometers (31 to 87 miles) away from the front line, depending on their caliber. The withdrawal should begin no later than the second day after the cease-fire becomes effective and it should be completed within two weeks.

In a win for Ukraine, the rebel regions, which held their own elections last fall that Ukraine and the West declared a sham, are obliged to hold a new local vote under the Ukrainian law.

But in a key concession to Russia, the deal says the restoration of Ukrainian control over the border with Russia in rebel-controlled areas could be completed only by the end of 2015 on the condition that Ukraine conducts a constitutional reform granting wide powers to the eastern regions, including the right to form their own police force and trade freely with Russia.

“It was not the best night in my life, but the morning, I think, is good because we have managed to agree on the main things despite all the difficulties of the negotiations,” Putin told reporters.

Hollande said he and Merkel are committed to helping verify the cease-fire process in Ukraine, hailing the deal as a “relief to Europe.”

In Kiev, Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said despite the ongoing peace talks, Russia overnight sent 50 tanks and a dozen heavy weapons into Ukraine across the rebel-controlled border.

A previous cease-fire agreed in September fell apart as Ukrainian forces and the rebels both tried to gain more ground.

Poroshenko stressed that the agreement contains “a clear commitment to withdraw all foreign troops, all mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine,” a reference to the Russian soldiers and weapons that Ukraine and the West say Russia has sent into eastern Ukraine to back the rebels.

Moscow has denied the accusations, saying any Russia fighters were volunteers, but the sheer number of sophisticated heavy weapons in the rebels’ possession belies the denial.

Merkel said, in the end, Putin exerted pressure on the separatists to get them to agree to the cease-fire.

“I have no illusions, we have no illusions. A great, great deal of work is still necessary. But there is a real chance to make things better,” she said.

The French-German diplomatic dash came as President Barack Obama considered sending U.S. lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine, a move that European nations feared would only widen the hostilities.

The urgency felt by all sides appeared to be underlined by the extraordinary length and discomfort of the talks, which began Wednesday evening and continued uninterrupted through the night. Crowds of reporters waited anxiously in a marble-floored, chandeliered convention hall in Minsk, with one whisked away by doctors to be treated for exhaustion, according to the Interfax news agency.

While the four leaders hailed the agreement, it Russia and Ukraine still disagreed on how to end the fighting around Debaltseve, a key transport hub between the two main rebel-held eastern cities.

Putin said the rebels consider the Ukrainian forces surrounded and expect them to surrender, while Ukraine says its troops have not been blocked.

The Russian leader said the peace deal also determines a division line from which heavy weapons will be pulled back.

The line of division and other key provisions were in a document endorsed by rebel chiefs and the representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. That agreement was endorsed by the four European leaders, who issued a separate declaration.

“We were presented with various unacceptable conditions of withdrawal and surrender,” Poroshenko said. “We did not agree to any ultimatums and stated firmly that the cease-fire that is announced is unconditional.”

Rebel leaders lauded the agreement and said they’re willing to give Kiev another chance.

“(We) give this chance to Ukraine to change its constitution, to change its attitude,” Luhansk rebel leader Igor Plotnitsky said on Russian television.

Donetsk rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko said he will blame Kiev if the cease-fire collapses and then there “will be no meetings and no new agreements.”

ASHLAND, Wis. (AP) – The state is buying nearly 14,000 acres of forestland in Iron County for public use and timber production.

The Department of Natural Resources is using $4.5 million from the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund to purchase the land from the Conservation Fund, a non-profit group. The DNR says the Twin Lakes Legacy Forest has six small lakes and three miles of frontage on two trout streams.

The Journal Sentinel says the deal ranks among the top 10 in state land purchases.

Gov. Scott Walker, in his budget proposal, wants the DNR to freeze new land purchases. The forestland is just south of Gogebic Taconite’s proposed iron ore mine in the Penokee Hills.

GREEN BAY – Impress your sweetheart with these recipes from Indulge Catering.  Executive chef Daniel Fisher and Event Coordinator Jacqueline Fisher showed us how to put it all together for a delicious dinner you can make it home.

Vietnamese Shrimp Spring Rolls

Ingredients:
1 Poblano, thinly sliced
4 Green Onions, thinly sliced
1 Cup Shredded Carrots
1 Bunch Cilantro
12 Cooked Shrimp
Rice Paper
Sesame Seeds

Directions:
Wet Rice Paper, Place mixture of ingredients inside, roll tightly.

Dipping Sauce
1 Tbl Hoisen
2 Tbl Rice Wine Vinegar
1 tsp Soy Sauce
1 tsp Sesame Oil
1 tsp Fish Sauce

Directions:
Whisk in mixing bowl, until smooth.

Roasted Red Pepper and Lobster Chowder

Ingredients:
3 Carrots, Diced
1 Onion, Diced
2 Celery Stalks, Diced
4 Roasted Red Peppers, Peeled
4 Tbl Fresh Rosemary
Salt & Pepper To Taste
2 Cups Vegetable OR Shrimp Stock
2 Cups Heavy Cream
1 Parsnip, Diced
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1 Parsnip, Diced
1 Potato, Diced
1 Lobster Tail
½ Cup Butter

Directions:
Combine first set of ingredients,  Cook for 1 hour on medium low heat, blend until smooth.
Fry Parsnip, and potato until crispy.  Lightly poach lobster tail in butter, for 5 minutes.
Place fried potatoes and parsnips, along with Lobster tail into a soup bowl.
Pour Blended mixture of ingredients over the top.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says layoff notifications resulting from Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget could happen as soon as April, even though the biennial budget may not be passed until May or June.

Walker has proposed $300 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin System. A legislative analysis shows UW-Madison would lose nearly $58 million next year, about 12 percent of its annual budget.

The State Journal says Blank addressed several hundred third-shift employees at the Health Sciences Learning Center Wednesday night. Blank told the workers that the total number of layoffs would be relatively small. She says because of the state’s human resources rules, layoffs before July 1 would be based primarily on seniority.

The Legislature’s budget committee will spend months revising Walker’s proposal before it goes to the Assembly and Senate for a vote.

GREEN BAY- Some of the most popular Disney characters are coming to life on the ice.

Disney on Ice: Treasure Trove is at the Resch Center through Sunday.

For ticket information and times, click here.

Click on the video for a sneak peak.

GREEN BAY – A loophole in state law could be forcing county taxpayers to pay more to house state prisoners in county jails.

Documents obtained by FOX 11 Investigates show in Brown County alone taxpayers paid more than $1.2-million more than they should have over the last decade. That’s money a state statute indicates should have been reimbursed to the county by the Department of Corrections.

“It’s unacceptable to have a statute that says the state will reimburse ‘X’ number of dollars and we’re not paying that amount. That’s not an acceptable situation,” said David Steffen of Howard.

As a county supervisor Steffen is well aware local government is forced at times to cover state costs. Steffen was elected last fall to the state assembly and now plans to address the issue from the other side.

“I can tell you even as a county board member it was not something that was brought up as a county board-wide issue,” said Steffen.

At issue is who pays for state prisoners at county jails. State law calls for the Department of Corrections to reimburse counties $40 per person, per day.

Brown County charged the state last year for 12,714 inmate days in the county jail. At $40 a day, per inmate, the bill came to $508,560. But the reimbursement from the state fell short. It paid $417,527.78. The other $91,032.22 became the responsibility of Brown County taxpayers.

“There’s still that deficit that’s occurring,” said Brown County Sheriff John Gossage.

Gossage tells FOX11 Investigates he has spoken to the head of the Department of Corrections, Secretary Ed Wall, about getting full reimbursement, but the talks have gone nowhere.

“I talked to Ed Wall and he feels our pain. He understands what’s going on but it’s really outside his fiscal control,” Gossage explained.

FOX11 Investigates contacted Secretary Wall’s office for comment on why the reimbursements keep falling below the $40 a day rate. A DOC spokeswoman points out: “Payments are made based on available funding” according to state statute.

So even if the state has the money, by not budgeting the full reimbursements, the state’s payments to counties can come up short.

“The exact amount of reimbursement is specifically articulated in the statute. So this is unusual and it may even be illegal,” said Steffen.

In fact you have to go back to 2004 to find the last year the state paid the full $40 a day rate to the counties.  Since that time the annual rate has dipped as low as $28.08 a day per inmate. That was in 2009. And the unpaid portion according  to Brown County in the last decade has topped $1,230,000.

“Well, we believe the state should follow the state’s statutes and pay for, you know, reimburse the counties. So yeah, ultimately this is an inequity and it’s unfair,” said Brown County Executive Troy Streckenbach.

Streckenbach points out local taxpayers are actually paying much more than just the difference from the $40 rate.

“The reality is it costs us about $51, a little over $50 a day, to house an inmate,” said Streckenbach, indicating the added burden to local taxpayers.

“(State officials) collect the sales tax, they collect the income tax. They’re responsible for providing us the revenue to pay for this,” said Streckenbach. “Too often we see where the county is starting to pick up more and more of the state’s responsibilities.”

The Brown County Sheriff’s department confirms the actual cost to house a prisoner at the county jail is $52.44 a day. In Outagamie County the daily cost is even higher, taxpayers pay $62.52 for each inmate.

The Wisconsin Counties Association and the Wisconsin Badger State Sheriff’s Association have lobbied the state for the full $40 a day rate to be paid.

The state falls back on a clause in the state statute that allows the department of corrections to under budget for reimbursements and prorate its payments to the counties.

FOX11 Investigates contacted the governor’s office to ask why the reimbursements to counties are not budgeted in full, making them an unfunded mandate. A spokeswoman for Governor Walker replied: “The reimbursement process was in place prior to Governor Walker’s administration.”  The statement went on to say: “The budget process is currently ongoing.  All budget requests will be reviewed during the budget process.”

FOX11 Investigates asked Gossage if he is optimistic full funding will come his way.

“I am hopeful because it shouldn’t be on the county taxpayers back, this should really be covered by the state,” said Gossage.

Streckenbach indicates he plans to meet with local representatives in Madison this month to make them aware of the funding issues facing the counties. He says there are several areas the state comes up short on payments, but a push for full funding to house state prisoners at the county jail will be a top priority.

GREEN BAY- It will be extremely cold for the opening of sturgeon spearing season this weekend.

Bundle up on Saturday because highs will only reach 4 degrees under partly sunny skies with strong NNW winds gusting to 30 mph.

Wind chills will be about -20 in the morning hours and well below zero all day.

The cold continues on Sunday as we wake up to a temperature near -10 and a daytime high of 6 with wind chills anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees below zero.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – “Fifty Shades of Grey” hasn’t even opened in theaters yet but already it is getting a big thumbs-down from religious and other groups who say it is degrading to women and endorses sexual violence.

One social media campaign is encouraging would-be movie-goers to donate their ticket and popcorn money to women’s shelters, while Roman Catholic bishops are using it as what-not-to-do guide to marriage.

Even as screenings sell out in advance, critics, including the American Family Association and National Center on Sexual Exploitation, are pushing for boycotts, saying they were compelled to speak out because of the attention the movie, with its scenes of bondage and sadomasochism, has attracted.

A Madison, Wisconsin, group planned to picket outside a Thursday premier.

“This is not a healthy thing to mainstream,” American Family Association President Tim Wildmon told The Associated Press by phone. “We’d like to see theater chains refuse to take the movie.”

That is unlikely to happen. The ticket-buying site Fandango has said pre-sales have propelled the movie, which stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, into the company’s all-time Top 5 for R-rated selections, and fans of the book are giddily building the big-screen version into Valentine’s weekend plans.

The movie opens in theaters Friday. It’s based on a best-selling book by E L James about a college student and her torrid affair with a 27-year-old billionaire with a penchant for bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism.

“What’s unique about it is the overall message is that they’re trying to glamorize and romanticize violence against women,” said Amanda Smith, spokeswoman for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, which launched a website: http://www.fiftyshadesisabuse.com.

“It’s such a lie,” Smith said, “telling women that they should want to endure this kind of physical abuse and telling them that women want it, and also pushing the lie that if women are obedient and subservient enough, then they can fix a violent and controlling man.”

James, who wrote the erotic trilogy that launched the film, has heard the backlash and says the critics have it all wrong.

“Who is interested, as a woman, in reading about abuse? Why have these books taken off if they are about abuse?” said James, who discussed the film with the AP over the weekend. “Domestic violence, rape, are unacceptable. They are not entertaining in any way. Let me be absolutely clear. Everything that happens in this book is safe and consensual. …. What do I need to do to convince people?”

Thistle Pettersen planned to join picketers outside Marcus Point Cinema in Madison on Thursday during a protest organized by the feminist Radical Alliance of Women. She said the group would carry rainbow-hued signs in contrast to grey and distribute Valentine’s Day cards with information about domestic violence abuse intervention.

“I was really prompted by hearing stories of women who have survived that kind of abuse,” Pettersen, a musician and environmental activist, said.

In a letter to members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Buffalo Bishop Richard Malone said the film provided an opportunity to remind the faithful of the church’s idea of marriage and “the moral reprehensibility of all domestic violence and sexual exploitation.”

“The contrast between the message of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ and God’s design for self-giving and self-sacrificing love, marriage and sexual intimacy could not be greater,” Malone wrote in his role as the conference’s chairman of the committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth.

By Wednesday afternoon, a Facebook page promoting “fifty dollars not Fifty Shades,” asking that ticket money go instead to women’s shelters, had more than 9,500 “likes.”

The site was established by the NCSE, formerly Morality in Media, along with Stop Porn Culture and the London Abused Women’s Center of Ontario.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) – Fort Wayne police are investigating the discovery of a Wisconsin woman’s body inside a home last week.

The Allen County coroner’s office identified the body as that of 34-year-old Jessica Fecht, a native of Portage, Wisconsin.

The Journal Gazette reports Fecht’s body was found on Thursday. The coroner’s office says she died at the scene, but it could take weeks before the cause of death is known.

Fecht’s family last heard from her on Jan. 13. Fecht had come to Fort Wayne to meet a man she met online, according to social media postings asking for help locating her.

Mike Fecht describes his sister as a free spirit and loving person. He says she suffered a head injury in a car accident a few years ago that changed her.

OREGON, Wis. (AP) – A 17-year-old Fitchburg girl has been killed in a one-car crash in Dane County.

According to the sheriff’s office, the crash was reported late Wednesday afternoon in the Town of Oregon. Authorities say the teen was driving southbound on Storytown Road when her vehicle left the west side of the road, went airborne and hit a tree.

The sheriff’s office says the girl died at the scene. Her name hasn’t been released.

Authorities believe excessive speed was a contributing factor in the fatal crash.

OSHKOSH – The 2015 Sturgeon Spearing Season is almost here.

The Department of Natural Resources says a record number of licenses have been sold.

FOX 11’s Emily Deem spent Thursday morning with the DNR to talk about the upcoming season.

Emily also stopped at Reimer Jewelers in Oshkosh to see their sturgeon inspired items.

Click here for more information about Reimer Jewelers.

Kidde is recalling more than 4.6 million disposable fire extinguishers in the U.S. and Canada because the plastic valves may not fully discharge when the lever is pressed and released.

The company has received 11 reports of extinguishers failing to discharge, but no injuries have been reported.

The recall includes 31 models of the extinguishers with Zytel black plastic valves. They are red, white or silver, and either ABC or BC rated.

The extinguishers were sold at retail stores and online from August 2013 through November 2014 for $18 to $200. They were manufactured in Mexico from July 23, 2013, through October 15, 2014, and imported by Walter Kidde Portable Equipment Co. of Mebane, North Carolina.

Consumers can contact Kidde for a replacement at 855-283-7991, or online at http://www.kidde.com .

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A Utah woman accused of killing six of her newborn babies and storing their bodies in her garage appears set to take a plea deal.

Prosecutors and attorneys for Megan Huntsman have reached a resolution and requested a special setting for a hearing Thursday morning in Provo, Utah, online court records show. The attorneys said last month they were negotiating a plea deal.

Deputy Utah County Attorney’s Tim Taylor said Huntsman will probably take the plea deal unless there is a final-hour snag, but he declined to reveal details of the agreement. Huntsman’s attorney Andy Howell could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Huntsman, 39, has not entered a plea to the six counts of murder she is facing.

The tiny bodies of seven babies were found by her estranged husband in April 2014 while he cleaned out a garage in the home they had shared in Pleasant Grove, Utah, a city of about 35,000 south of Salt Lake City. Authorities say a seventh baby found in her garage was stillborn.

The grisly discovery sent shockwaves through the quiet, mostly Mormon community.

Huntsman told police she either strangled or suffocated the babies immediately after they were born. She wrapped their bodies in a towel or a shirt, put them in plastic bags and then packed them inside boxes in the garage.

Police say Huntsman killed the babies over a 10-year period from 1996 to 2006, during a period of her life when she told investigators she was addicted to methamphetamine and didn’t want to care for the babies.

DNA results have revealed that all seven newborns were full term and that her now-estranged husband, Darren West, was the biological father of the infants. West lived with her during the decade the babies were killed, but he is not considered a suspect in their deaths.

West discovered the bodies shortly after he was released from federal prison where he spent more than eight years after pleading guilty to meth charges.

In her few brief court appearances, Huntsman has said very little.

The day the babies were found, Huntsman told police that were eight or nine dead babies in her home, search warrant affidavit show. But police later concluded Huntsman was confused and was taking a ballpark guess.

GREEN BAY- Colder weather has moved in and will be with us through the weekend.

Wind chills will be between -10 and -20 Thursday morning as northwest winds blow at 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 30 mph.

There’s a Wind Chill Advisory for a couple northern counties.

The winds will lessen this afternoon and we’ll see mostly sunny skies but our high temperature will only top out at 8 degrees (Normal high is 27).

A fast-moving storm system pushes through Friday and brings clouds with some occasional light snow, perhaps a half inch of accumulation, and a high in the upper teens.