Author Archives: Rob Sussman
Wednesday Update: COVID-19 Numbers Continue to Drop
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) -- COVID-19 numbers in Wisconsin continued to fall on Wednesday. The state Department of Health Services reported 2,402 confirmed cases on Wednesday, or 26% of the 9,251 total tests...
Dec 16, 2020 MWC
Wisconsin Set to Receive 100,000 Doses of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, Pending FDA Approval
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) -- The state of Wisconsin will receive a greater initial allocation of the yet-to-be-approved Moderna COVID-19 vaccine than it did of the Pfizer vaccine. State officials on Wednesda...
Dec 16, 2020 Covid-19 vaccine. Image courtesy: ThedaCare.
COVID-19 Vaccination Begins in Brown County as 20 Healthcare Workers Receive Shots
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) -- COVID-19 vaccination has officially begun in Brown County. Twenty healthcare workers between Prevea and HSHS St. Vincent received doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday...
Dec 16, 2020 A Prevea front line healthcare worker receives a COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo: Prevea Health)
"No Longer a Debate": State Assemblyman Calls For Closure of Green Bay Correctional Institution
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) -- A state assemblyman is calling for the closure of the Green Bay Correctional Institution. Republican Assemblyman David Steffen is doubling down on calls he's made previously af...
Dec 15, 2020 Green Bay Correctional Institution (Fox 11 Online)
Tuesday Update: COVID-19 Cases Stay Steady
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Wisconsin Department of Health is reporting 35-hundred new COVID-19 cases over the last day. The Department of Health Services reported 3,501 new cases, or 48% of the 7,...
Dec 15, 2020 MWC
Missing Walworth County Girl Found Safe, Alive
WALWORTH COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) -- The AMBER Alert that you heard last night has been canceled. State officials say 10-year-old Jocelyn Van Duyn has been located safe and alive. No word on exactly what hap...
Dec 15, 2020 PHOTO: Wisconsin DOJ
Wisconsin Electors Cast Their Ballots for Biden
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) -- The ten members of the electoral college have officially cast their votes for former Vice President Joe Biden. The ten electors, including Governor Tony Evers and Lt. Governor Ma...
Dec 14, 2020 The state's electoral college electors meet. (Photo: Wisconsin Eye)
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects President Trump's Election Lawsuit in Split Ruling
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) -- Conservative justice Brian Hagedorn joined the Wisconsin Supreme Court's three liberal justices in a 4-3 ruling to reject a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's election cam...
Dec 14, 2020
UW Health Receives Wisconsin's First COVID-19 Vaccines, Will Begin Vaccinating Today
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) -- The first COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in Wisconsin. UW Health in Madison has announced in a press release that a shipment of the vaccines, produced by Pfizer, has been deliver...
Dec 14, 2020 A healthcare worker handles a tray of COVID-19 vaccines. (PHOTO: UW Health)
Former State Rep Nygren to Join Health Insurance Group
MARINETTE, WI (WTAQ) -- We now know what former State Rep. John Nygren is going to be doing in the private sector. After stepping down from the Assembly earlier this month, Nygren will join the Wiscon...
Dec 14, 2020 Wisconsin State Representative John Nygren (R-Marinette). (IMAGE: Courtesy of Wisconsin Assembly)
