Category Archives: Local News
Brown County Board considering another extension of the .5% sales tax
GREEN BAY, Wis--Brown County is looking to continue funding Capital Improvement Plan projects with sales tax dollars. Richard Schadewald, chair of the county's Administration Committee, tells Jonathan...
Aug 08, 2022 (Image: Brown County)
Gas prices continue to fall in the Fox Valley
CHICAGO, Wis--Gas prices continue to trend downward in Northeast Wisconsin. GasBuddy.com's latest survey finds the average in Appleton at $3.60 per gallon. That's down 14-cents from last week. In Gree...
Aug 08, 2022
Bus driver sentenced to three months in jail for drinking on school field trip
GREEN BAY, Wis--A former Green Bay school bus driver will spend three months in jail for drinking while traveling with kids on a field trip. James Nelson was convicted in Brown County Court on one cou...
Aug 08, 2022 (Brown County Jail)
Life sentence handed down in Green Bay murder case
GREEN BAY, Wis--A Green Bay man found guilty in a brutal stabbing death will have a chance for parole someday. A Brown County judge allows Andres Garcia-Saenz to apply for supervised release in April ...
Aug 08, 2022
Winnebago County reports first confirmed case of monkeypox
OSHKOSH, Wis--Winnebago County reports its first case of monkey pox. The city where the subject tested positive has not been released. The county health department will only say that the person is in ...
Aug 08, 2022 (Image from Winnebago County Health Department)
Waupaca County officials trade accusations of wrongdoing
WAUPACA, Wis--A special prosecutor is appointed to review an investigation into the Waupaca County Sheriff's Office. District Attorney Veronica Isherwood says the prosecutor will review the state's in...
Aug 08, 2022
Man arrested in Lake Butte des Morts boat crash
WINNEBAGO COUNTY, Wis. -- The Winnebago County Sheriff's Office arrests a man in connection with a boat crash on Lake Butte des Morts. The 38-year-old was reportedly at the controls of a craft that st...
Aug 08, 2022 (Image from the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office)
Worker killed in accident at De Pere business
DE PERE, Wis. -- A worker is killed in an industrial accident at a De Pere business. The incident was reported at the C.A. Lawton Co. Foundry Friday afternoon. No other details have been released. De ...
Aug 08, 2022
One killed, three seriously injured in crash near New London
NEW LONDON, WI -- One person is killed and four others are seriously injured in a three vehicle crash on Highway 45 near New London. the New London Police Department says a southbound pickup truck app...
Aug 06, 2022
Life in prison for 86-year-old man for wife's 1975 murder
STURGEON BAY, WI -- It's life in prison for a former Door County man convicted of killing his wife in 1975. 86-year-old Richard Pierce received that sentence after being found guilty in the death of C...
Aug 05, 2022 Richard Pierce participates in his trial at the Door County Courthouse in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. (WBAY)
