Category Archives: Local News
Brown Co. DA adds more staff
The Brown County District Attorney's office is adding more support staff. Because the state approved funding for three additional prosecutors next year, D.A. David Lasee has money for two more clerks ...
Nov 07, 2019
GOP takes no action on gun bills
Majority Republicans in the Legislature quickly opened and closed a special session on gun laws this afternoon. Governor Evers was demanding a vote on bills to require universal background checks and ...
Nov 07, 2019
Missing Calumet Co. teen back with family
A girl from the New Holstein area was reunited with her family, after she disappeared over the summer. The Calumet County Sheriff's Department announced yesterday that Melissa Estrella Vasguez-Gonzale...
Nov 07, 2019
GOP attempts to override vetoes fail
For the first time in nine years, lawmakers tried to override a governor's veto in Wisconsin. Majority Republicans in the Assembly fell short of the necessary two-thirds majority on three separate vet...
Nov 07, 2019
UWO offering free rides in campus area
There's a new safe ride program at UW-Oshkosh, and it's starting at the same time city police are asking people not to walk alone at night. UWO Police launched "GO" last weekend, and it offers a free ...
Nov 07, 2019 (Image provided by UW-Oshkosh)
4 arrested for Oshkosh robberies, attacks
Oshkosh police say they arrested four teenage boys in connection with recent robberies in the UW-Oshkosh campus area. Two boys are 16, one is 15, and one is 14. Officer Kate Mann says two victims were...
Nov 07, 2019 (Image from the Oshkosh Police Department)
Cold temps expected to stick around
The early cold temperatures are expected to be around for several more days. Meteorologist Rich Manrosh of the National Weather Service office in Green Bay says they haven't broken any temperature rec...
Nov 07, 2019
Cowles: Ag secretary vote was a tough call
A Republican lawmaker says his decision to vote against the governor's pick for agriculture secretary would have been tougher, if a major group came out in support of nominee Brad Pfaff. Sen. Rob Cowl...
Nov 07, 2019 Sen Robert Cowles announces he won't seek re-election in the newly redrawn 2nd District
Man gets 5 yrs in prison in teen sex case
A Neenah man will spend five years in prison for trying to meet an underage girl for sex. Twenty-eight-year-old Michael Vaughn was convicted in Outagamie County of attempted second-degree sexual assau...
Nov 07, 2019
Mayfield named superintendent of year
The head of the Kimberly School District is getting a state honor. The Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators is picking Superintendent Bob Mayfield as the 2020 Superintendent of the ...
Nov 07, 2019 (Image courtesy Kimberly School District)
