Category Archives: Local News
Friends remember crash victim
Dozens gathered yesterday at the site of that fatal crash to pay respects to the three victims. Officials haven't released their identities but many mourners are remembering one of the victims as a fi...
Jun 30, 2020
Appeals court upholds voting restrictions
A federal appeals court panel has upheld most of Wisconsin Republicans' voting restrictions in a long-awaited decision. In 2016 a federal judge in Madison said the restrictions were unconstitutional a...
Jun 30, 2020
22-yr-old charged with homicide for G.B. crash deaths
The man accused of killing three people in a crash in Green Bay is now facing homicide charges. Brown County prosecutors are filing three counts of second-degree reckless homicide against 22-year-old ...
Jun 29, 2020
Young people playing role in new Brown Co. cases
Brown County is seeing a spike in cases, and like in other parts of the country, younger people are a big factor. Twenty-seven percent of new cases this month are between 21 and 30 years old. Public H...
Jun 29, 2020
Streckenbach urges people to wear masks
Brown County's leader wants people to use masks. County Executive Troy Streckenbach says that's a way to help stop the rise in COVID-19 cases they're seeing. He thinks it's something that should be ta...
Jun 29, 2020
Houdini sculpture on display again in Appleton
A sculpture honoring Harry Houdini is back on display in Appleton. Workers installed "Metamorphosis" along Lawe Street, in the flats, by a future trestle bridge. It was removed from Houdini Plaza abou...
Jun 29, 2020
Appleton adds four coronavirus cases
Appleton has four more confirmed COVID-19 cases. Two got it through community spread, one had contact with a known case, and the other is under investigation. There have been 216 cases in the city. Ei...
Jun 29, 2020 (Image from the City of Appleton)
Kraus pleads guilty to murders, argues he was mentally ill
A Neenah teen is pleading guilty to killing his grandparents. Eighteen-year-old Alexander Kraus argues he was mentally ill at the time, and a trial is scheduled for November to determine that. He was ...
Jun 29, 2020
Brown Co. sees recycling changes
The types of items being recycled, and where they come from, has changed in Brown County, during the pandemic. Brown County Port and Resource Recovery Business Manager Mark Walter says the amount of i...
Jun 29, 2020
State gets plenty of complaints on COVID-19 scams
A state agency is hearing complaints about scams that are connected to the pandemic. Consumer Protection Administrator Lara Sutherlin says people have filed more than 100,000 of them so far. She says ...
Jun 29, 2020
