Category Archives: Local News
Optional masking coming to Appleton Schools
Mandatory masking will continue in the Appleton Area School District until mid-January. The district's board of education approved a recommendation that requires masking for staff, students and visito...
Nov 23, 2021 Appleton Schools will go to optional masking in January 2022
Appleton Christmas parade to proceed; Silent procession planned for Waukesha community
APPLETON, Wis. -- The Downtown Appleton Christmas parade will go on, with a special recognition to the victims and families of the Waukesha community. Parade officials shared the decision Monday after...
Nov 22, 2021
Children's Hospital provides update on parade victims
Eighteen victims of the Waukesha Christmas Parade incident were brought to Children's Hospital Wisconsin for treatment Sunday night. Six kids underwent emergency surgeries last night. Two are being op...
Nov 22, 2021
How to Help: Funds created for those impacted by Waukesha Christmas parade tragedy
Waukesha, Wis. -- Some funds have been created to support families impacted by the tragic incident at the Waukesha Christmas parade. United for Waukesha Community Fund A joint effort by the Wau...
Nov 22, 2021
Local TV weatherman hospitalized with COVID-19
A local T-V news anchor is hospitalized with COVID-19. Fox 11 says meteorologist Pete Petoniak was admitted last Monday night with complications from the virus. Petoniak was fully-vaccinated. His cond...
Nov 22, 2021
Law enforcement official: Investigators examining if person held in deadly parade crash was fleeing crime
Waukesha, Wis. (AP) -- A person taken into custody after an SUV plowed into a crowd of holiday parade marchers in Wisconsin, killing at least five people, has been identified as 39-year-old Darrell Br...
Nov 22, 2021
Nine year old shot in Door County
An accidental shooting sends a Door County boy to a Green Bay hospital with a leg wound. The Door County Sheriff's Office says multiple law enforcement agencies responded to a reported shooting around...
Nov 22, 2021 Door County Sheriff's Office emblem (Image courtesy Door Co. Sheriff's Office)
Four rescued after SUV drives into Lake Winnebago
Four people are saved after driving into Lake Winnebago. The Fond du Lac Police Department says the two adults and two children were in an S-U-V that went into the water at Frazier Point in Lakeside P...
Nov 22, 2021
Bystanders help catch armed robbery suspect in Fond du Lac
Fond du Lac Police have one man in custody--and are looking for a second--following a reported armed robbery. The men are accused of walking into the Kohl's store on West Johnson Street around 5:30 Su...
Nov 22, 2021 (Image courtesy Fond du Lac Police Departmente)
Death toll is now five in Waukesha parade crash
Five people are now dead--more than forty are hurt--after a vehicle plows through the Waukesha Christmas Parade. Police say around 4:39 PM an SUV ran through a barricade at the intersection of Gasper ...
Nov 22, 2021
