Category Archives: Local News
Kids learn about being a caring neighbor in Appleton
Kids can learn about how to be a caring neighbor this week at the Building for Kids Children's Museum in downtown Appleton. Spokeswoman Katy Compton says Daniel Tiger and Katerina Kittykat from the PB...
Jun 25, 2019
Appleton may create licenses for massage businesses
Massage businesses in Appleton might have to get a license from the city. Alderwoman Patti Coenen wants to create the requirement so police and city staff can inspect them at any time. She's asking th...
Jun 25, 2019 (Image from the City of Appleton)
Appleton leaders split on parking permit rates
There's some pushback on a proposal to raise permit rates by $10 a month at the parking ramps in downtown Appleton. Right now the permits cost $30 a month. The municipal services committee deadlocked ...
Jun 25, 2019 (Image provided by Appleton Downtown Incorporated)
Three children hurt in suspected drunk driving crash
Three children riding with a suspected drunk driver were hurt in a crash in the Town of Oneida last night. A four-year-old girl and a six-year-old girl were flown to a hospital with serious injuries. ...
Jun 25, 2019 (Image: Outagamie County Sheriff's Office)
Shirt raising money for Lundgaard family
A group is giving people a chance to buy a shirt to remember a fallen Appleton firefighter. The proceeds will go to the family of Driver-Engineer Mitch Lundgaard. He was killed, while on an overdose c...
Jun 24, 2019
Neenah drug dealer sentenced to 15 years in prison
A drug dealer from Neenah is going to federal prison for 15 years. Federal prosecutors say when Appleton police pulled him over last December 38-year-old Tou Vang tried to hide a gun in a snow pile. T...
Jun 24, 2019
Police ask Appleton hospital staff to use crosswalk
Appleton police are asking workers at Ascension's St. Elizabeth Hospital to use crosswalks when they walk to the building. People have to cross Oneida St. to get from the staff parking lot to the emer...
Jun 24, 2019
Nygren: Linking projects helped get I-41 in state budget
A top lawmaker believes having state and local leaders work together helped get the I-41 expansion and the southern Fox River bridge project in the state budget. Republican Representative John Nygren ...
Jun 24, 2019
Speeding motorcyclists cause problems in Brown Co.
Brown County Sheriff's deputies say they're getting a lot of calls about speeding motorcyclists. Captain Dan Sandberg says some people are driving over 100 miles per hour. He says it's especially bad ...
Jun 24, 2019
Man gets 7 yrs in prison for sex trafficking
A 40-year-old man is going to prison for seven years in a prostitution case in the Fox Cities. Prosecutors say Glenwood Brown Jr. of Chicago was trafficking two women out of at least one hotel in Gran...
Jun 24, 2019
