Category Archives: Local News
Transit Equity Day honors Rosa Parks promotes Valley Transit
APPLETON, WI -- Residents are being asked to take the bus and honor a civil rights icon. This is Transit Equity Day, which promotes safe, reliable and equal access to public transportation. February 3...
Feb 3, 2023 Appleton Mayor Jake Woodford rides bus to work for Transit Equity Day (Red Shoes Ink Photo)
Legislators and Allouez officials call for GBCI closure
ALLOUEZ, WI -- A bipartisan group of area lawmakers are renewing their call to close the Green Bay Correctional Institution. A letter to Secretary of Corrections points to the age of the facility, the...
Feb 3, 2023
Bellevue man killed in vehicle crash
WRIGHTSTOWN, WI -- The Brown County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal, single-vehicle crash in the Village of Ledgeview. Around 12:35 P.M. Friday, the Ledgeview Fire Department and County Resc...
Feb 3, 2023 (Image from the Brown County Sheriff's Office)
Green Bay woman accused of setting fire to her own house while her ex-husband was inside
GREEN BAY, Wis--A Green Bay woman is accused of setting fire to her own house. Tracey Lynch is charged in Brown County Court with Arson and Reckless Endangerment. According to the criminal complaint, ...
Feb 3, 2023 (Photo provided by the Brown County Jail)
Area nursing home owner charged with Medicaid, Medicare fraud
MADISON, Wis--A man that had operated dozens of nursing homes across Wisconsin is charged with fraud. An federal indictment filed in Western Wisconsin District Court charges Kevin Breslin and Atrium P...
Feb 3, 2023
Lomria company blames New York laws for hiring violent sex offender
LOMIRA, Wis--The Dodge County Sheriff blames New York state law for a violent sex offender landing a job in Lomira. Earlier this week, the department issued an advisory that Derrick Brooks would be mo...
Feb 3, 2023 (Photo provided by Dodge County Sheriff's Office)
Fuhrman jury allowed to consider lesser charge
OSHKOSH, Wis--A Winnebago County jury will be allowed to consider lesser charges as it deliberates the fate of a former Oshkosh West High School student accused of stabbing a police resource officer. ...
Feb 3, 2023 (Photo: Winnebago County Jail)
Fuhrman decides not to testify in school resource officer stabbing trial
OSHKOSH, Wis. -- Closing arguments are expected Friday in the trial of a former Oshkosh West High School student accused of stabbing a police resource officer. That comes after Grant Fuhrman, who is c...
Feb 3, 2023 Grant Fuhrman, center, participates in his trial at the Winnebago County Courthouse in Oshkosh, Wis., Jan. 31, 2023. (Image courtesy WBAY-TV)
Little Chute says no backyard chickens
The Village of Little Chute will not consider allowing residents to keep backyard chickens. The Village Board votes against drafting a proposed ordinance allowing for the keeping of fowl. Trustee John...
Feb 2, 2023
Green Bay homicide victims identifed
GREEN BAY, WI -- Green Bay Police release the name of two women involved in an alleged double murder. Rhonda Cegelski of Green Bay and Paula O'Connor of Bellevue were found dead in an Elkay Lane home ...
Feb 2, 2023 Green Bay Police identify Elkay Lane homicide victims as Rhonda O'Connor, 53, and Paula Cegelski, 58.
