Category Archives: Local News
Authorities look for 2 vehicles in search for missing girl
Investigators searching for a girl in western Wisconsin are asking for help tracking down two vehicles. Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs of the Barron area went missing one week ago. Her parents were fou...
Oct 22, 2018
Home sales fall 12% in September
It was a rough September for the housing market. Sales dropped 12 percent compared to the same month last year. Economist David Clark of the Wisconsin Realtors Association says it comes after a 3.3 pe...
Oct 22, 2018
K-C will have new CEO next year
There will be a change at the top of Kimberly-Clark in the new year. The company's next CEO will be Michael Hsu. Current CEO Thomas Falk will be retiring. He's been the company's leader since 2002. Ri...
Oct 22, 2018
27-yr-old survivor of cardiac arrest speaks out
A Menasha woman diagnosed with a rare heart condition is speaking out, after she went into cardiac arrest in July. Chelsea McElligott was 26 at the time, and 38 weeks pregnant, when she started not fe...
Oct 22, 2018
Early in-person voting underway in Appleton
People can start voting early, in person, in Appleton today. City Clerk Kami Lynch says about 8,000 people took advantage of in-person early voting in the 2016 presidential election. She expects to ha...
Oct 22, 2018
Name released from motorcycle crash
Officials are releasing the name of the motorcyclist killed in a crash on Appleton's north side last week. The Outagamie County Coroner's office says 35-year-old Anthony Kriescher of Appleton lost con...
Oct 22, 2018
Head-on crash kills 1 man, injures another
A man driving the wrong way on Highway 57 is dead, after a crash Saturday night in the northeast part of Brown County. Sheriff's officials say the 61-year-old man is from Two Rivers. He crashed into a...
Oct 22, 2018
Stylists get together to trim hunger
People in the Fox Cities turned out to trim hunger one haircut at a time yesterday. The fifth annual Trim Hunger Cut-A-Thon went on at the Salon Professional Academy in Appleton. Owner Josif Wittnik s...
Oct 22, 2018
Event teaches about local climate change impact
Community members gathered at the Appleton Public Library yesterday to learn about the local impact of climate change. Jill Mitchler is a group co-leader for the Appleton-Fox Cities chapter of the Cit...
Oct 22, 2018
Political ad anger could motivate people to vote
A local expert says political ads that make voters angry could motivate them to vote. A 2012 study in the Journal of Politics found that online people are more likely to click on ads that make them ma...
Oct 21, 2018
