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BENSON -- Andrew Gordon Lemcke, 35, will serve the maximum sentence for second degree manslaughter in the shooting death of his wife. District Judge Jon Stafsholt sentenced Lemcke to 52 months in prison during a court appearance Monday morning in Benson. It's the maximum possible...

GLENWOOD -- Two different accounts have been told in secret to as many grand juries as to how Nichole Riley-Lemcke, 26, was fatally shot in the living room of her Appleton home on the morning of Sept. 12, 2004. Now, both versions are being told publicly to the Pope County jury which...

BENSON -- A hearing at which the prosecution is expected to outline its case for first- and second-degree murder charges in a September 2004 shooting in Appleton is being delayed for a second time. The omnibus hearing for Andrew Gordon Lemcke, 34, of Appleton was to have been held...

BENSON -- A hearing at which the prosecution is expected to outline its case for first and second degree murder charges in a Sept. 2004 shooting in Appleton is being delayed for a second time. The omnibus hearing for Andrew Gordon Lemcke, 34, of Appleton, was to have been held Thursday...

BENSON -- Andrew Gordon Lemcke, 34, of Appleton, will return to district court Friday in Benson on first- and second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of his wife Nichole Riley-Lemcke, 26, on Sept. 12, 2004, in their Appleton home. Although the court appearance is scheduled...

BENSON -- A hearing at which prosecutors are expected to outline their case against Andrew Gordon Lemcke, 34, of Appleton, has been rescheduled to May 15. Lemcke faces first-degree, premeditated murder and second-degree, intentional murder charges in the Sept. 12, 2004, shooting...

BENSON -- A hearing at which prosecutors are expected to outline their case against Andrew Gordon Lemcke, 34, of Appleton, has been re-scheduled to May 15. Lemcke faces first degree, premeditated murder and second degree, intentional murder charges in the Sept. 12, 2004 shooting...

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