Category Archives: Local News
Bullet fired into Appleton residence during firearm handling demonstration
APPLETON, Wis. -- No one is hurt in an Appleton shooting incident. Police were called to a residence Sunday morning on the report of a bullet that was fired into it. Officers learned that a person in ...
Nov 18, 2025 (Image provided by the Appleton Police Department)
Motorcyclist killed in Outagamie County crash
FREEDOM, Wis. -- One person is dead following a motorcycle crash in Outagamie County. The biker collided with an SUV along County Highway E in Freedom around 1:45 p.m. Saturday. The motorcyclist was t...
Nov 17, 2025 (Image: Outagamie County Sheriff's Office)
Man sentenced in Green Bay shooting
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- A Green Bay man will spend 13 years in prison for shooting a woman. William Munson is also sentenced in Brown County Court to 10 years on extended supervision for first-degree reckl...
Nov 17, 2025 (Photo provided by Green Bay Police Department)
Teen seriously burned in Dodge County apartment fire
LOMIRA, Wis. -- A teenager is seriously injured in a Lomira apartment fire. The 16-year-old boy was reportedly using a lighter to melt plastic keys to a keyboard to repair it when a nearby bottle of i...
Nov 17, 2025 (Image: Dodge County Sheriff's Department)
Appleton police officer run over by alleged drunk driver
APPLETON, Wis. -- An Appleton police officer is run over by an alleged drunk driver. Katrina Kitzman was reportedly involved in a disturbance in a parking lot near S. Walnut Street and W. Lawrence Str...
Nov 17, 2025 (Image provided by the Appleton Police Department)
2 hurt in Appleton house fire
APPLETON, Wis. -- Two people are hurt in an Appleton house fire. Crews were called to the home in the 800 block of W. Grant Street around noon Friday to find smoke coming from the first and second sto...
Nov 17, 2025 (Image provided by the Appleton Fire Department)
Fight forces evacuation of school bus in Grand Chute
GRAND CHUTE, Wis. -- A disturbance involving two students leads to an evacuation of an Appleton Area School District bus. The incident took place in the 4000 block of W. Spencer Street around 3:30 p.m...
Nov 14, 2025 (Image provided by the Grand Chute Police Department)
Manitowoc man gets 25 years in prison in Outagamie County child sex assault
APPLETON, Wis. -- A Manitowoc man is convicted in a child sexual assault case in Outagamie County. Fifty-eight-year-old Rodney Hanes pled guilty to charges of child enticement and producing child porn...
Nov 14, 2025 Rodney Hanes pleads guilty to child enticement/producing child pornography
Clintonville man suspected of fatally shooting Greenleaf man
UPDATE: The sheriff's office identifies the suspect as Brent Hofman. Criminal charges are pending. ----- TOWN OF GERMANIA, Wis. -- The Shawano County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting dea...
Nov 14, 2025 Brent Hofman (Photo courtesy Shawano Co. Sheriff's Office)
Police pursuit results in arrest, seizure of meth in Fond du Lac County
FOND DU LAC, Wis. -- A police pursuit in Fond du Lac County results in the arrest of one man and the seizure of 2 1/2 ounces of methamphetamine Thursday morning. The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Offic...
Nov 13, 2025 (Image from the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office)
