Woman in jail 15 months for major theft charge was victim of romance scam

“I didn’t want to die alone.”
That was 70-year-old South Carolina woman Shirley A. Mahaffey’s explanation to a Sheboygan County court about what motivated her to begin a years-long, long-distance relationship that resulted in $167,500 stolen from a Plymouth company, her boyfriend revealed to be a cruel fiction, herself in jail for over a year, and the primary suspect still at large.

Spelling bee with twist to help fund programs

The Family Resources Center of Sheboygan County’s newest fundraising event, their 1st Annual Corporate Spelling Bee starting at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 18 at Blue Harbor Resort in Sheboygan, promises drinks, dinner, prizes, a silent auction, a wine pull and the titillation of watching teams of grown-ups re-live childhood dreams – or nightmares – of spelling their way to glory.