Category Archives: Local
Drug ring suspect pleads not guilty as court backlog delays preliminary hearing
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - A judge entered a not guilty plea Monday for James Grandberry, a suspect in a Chicago-to-Green Bay drug ring whose preliminary hearing was delayed for more than a year beca...
Nov 10, 2025 Brown County drug trafficking suspect James Grandberry. (Photo source: Brown County Jail)
Judge rejects 2 attempts at plea deal for relative charged in boy's death
MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A judge rejected two attempts at a plea deal Monday for Timothy Hauschultz on charges he ordered the punishment which led to the 2018 death of Ethan Hauschultz, 7, setting...
Nov 10, 2025 Timothy Hauschultz in Manitowoc County court, February 24, 2025.
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Support grows for Jack Vainisi's 2027 Hall of Fame bid after falling short this year
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Efforts are being increased to get the architect of the Packers' glory years into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. While everyone knows the names Lombardi, Starr, and Nistch...
Nov 10, 2025 Jack Vainisi (Courtesy Green Bay Packers)
50 years later, the Edmund Fitzgerald and its 29 crew members are remembered
STURGEON BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald will be marked Nov. 10, 2025, with the ringing of the ship's bell, retrieved from the bottom of Lake Superi...
Nov 10, 2025 Door County Maritime Museum SS Edmund Fitzgerald exhibit.
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Classroom cell phone crackdown seeing early signs of success, schools say
(WLUK) -- The state of Wisconsin is cracking down on cell phones in schools after a new law signed by Governor Tony Evers last week that requires school districts to ban phone use during class. Many s...
Nov 09, 2025 Appleton Area School District
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First snow of the season falls in Northeast Wisconsin
(WTAQ-WLUK) -- There's no denying it now, the cold season has arrived. Parts of northeast Wisconsin saw the first flakes of snow fall overnight on Saturday, and snow even continued into Sunday in Door...
Nov 09, 2025 Snow seen in Sister Bay. (Mike K/Fox 11 Online)
Body recovered from car fire on Green Bay's east side
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - The Green Bay Metro Fire Department and Green Bay Police Department are looking for help from the public, after a body was recovered from a burning vehicle. GBMFD and GBPD ...
Nov 07, 2025 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
Man sentenced to 13 years in prison for Green Bay shooting
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - William Munson was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for a shooting which injured one woman. Munson, 49, previously pleaded no contest to first-degree reckless injury ...
Nov 07, 2025 William Munson was charged in connection with a Green Bay shooting that left one woman injured.
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Former Neenah police officer convicted of child porn possession
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Former Neenah police officer Owen Halls was convicted Friday of possession of child pornography. Sentencing is Dec. 19, court records show. Halls, 23, pleaded no contest to o...
Nov 07, 2025 Owen Halls (Neenah Police Department)
Two victims and several pets found dead after devastating Howard house fire
HOWARD, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Howard fire officials confirm two victims and multiple deceased pets were recovered after a house fire. Firefighters responded to 1300 block of Rockwell Road after receiving ...
Nov 07, 2025 The scene of a house fire on Rockwell Road in Howard, November 6, 2025.
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