Category Archives: Local News
Expert agrees with JBS plan to temporarily close
A medical expert says he supports the move by JBS to temporarily close its meatpacking plant on Green Bay's east side. Dr. Ashok Rai of Prevea Health tells Action 2 News the company might have been ha...
Apr 27, 2020 (Image provided by Prevea Health)
Disabled face care challenges during pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic is making it difficult for disabled people to get their normal care. Lisa Pugh of the Survival Coalition of Wisconsin says they reached out to more than 500 people and they're...
Apr 27, 2020
Computer attack in Oshkosh costs $150K
A ransomware attack on the computers at Oshkosh City Hall cost $150,000. The city had to replace a number of computers, reinstall software and files on many others and put in new firewalls. City Manag...
Apr 27, 2020 (Image provided by the City of Oshkosh)
G.B. murder suspect caught in Rockford
A Green Bay murder suspect is now in custody. Rockford, Illinois police arrested Waylon Wayman yesterday. He's wanted in connection with the death of a man in the area of Clinton and 12th streets on A...
Apr 27, 2020
Gas prices rise
Gas prices may have bottomed out in the Fox Valley. Gasbuddy.com reports the average in the Appleton area went up by 5-1/2 cents last week, to $1.03 a gallon. Some stations are at $1.05 today. The ave...
Apr 27, 2020
Crivitz man killed in Marinette Co. crash
A rural Crivitz man was killed in a crash in Marinette County. Sheriff's deputies say 66-year-old Terry Engel drove off Highway W and hit some trees around noon yesterday. Engel was thrown from the ca...
Apr 27, 2020
4 hurt in crash on Hwy. 45
Four people were hurt in a high-speed crash along Highway 45 in Winnebago County. The Sheriff's Department says the car rolled in the southbound lanes in the Town of Black Wolf around 5:45 p.m. yester...
Apr 27, 2020
Longtime Oshkosh Auxiliary Police chief dies
A founder of the Oshkosh Auxiliary Police force has died. Donald Kujawa passed away Sunday at 87. Kujawa was one of the first members of the civilian police force. The group was founded in 1958. The p...
Apr 27, 2020
Pfaff to run for Senate
Several months after the state Senate essentially fired him, a member of the governor's cabinet is going to run for a Senate seat. Brad Pfaff was the secretary of agriculture, trade and consumer prote...
Apr 27, 2020
Hwy. 15 project near Hortonville delayed
The likelihood of rain this week is forcing a delay of a construction project on Highway 15. The Outagamie County Highway Department planned to start extending a lane at the intersection with Highway ...
Apr 27, 2020
