Category Archives: Local

Appleton Parents: New 'Fully Virtual Plus' Model Not Enough
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) - As the Appleton Area School District begins to implement their Fully Virtual Plus learning model this week, parents are still pushing to get all students back in an actual classr...
Casey Nelson Oct 29, 2020

Green Bay Police Make Arrest in 1986 Homicide
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) -- The Green Bay Police Department has made an arrest in the 1986 Homicide of Lisa Holstead. Police arrested 57 year old, Lou Archie Griffin in the City of Racine on Wednesday aft...
Rob Sussman Oct 29, 2020 Lou Archie Griffin (GBPD)

State Identifies Men Involved in Killing, Officers Who Shot Suspect
GOODMAN, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Authorities have released the names of the man who allegedly shot another man, then was killed by officers. The Wisconsin Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Invest...
Casey Nelson Oct 29, 2020

Trump Green Bay Rally In The Middle Of Rising COVID Numbers
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - The Trump Campaign announced Wednesday the president will hold a rally at Austin Straubel International Airport on Friday. The visit would be the president's third visit to...
Robert Kennedy Oct 29, 2020 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK

COVID 19 And Flu Type, All In One Test
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Next month, you could start being tested for influenza and COVID-19 at the same time. So far, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services has seen almost no influenza cases...
Robert Kennedy Oct 29, 2020 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK

Concerns Rise as High Tides Pull Cemetery into the Fox River
DE PERE, WI (WTAQ) - It may be the midst of the season for ghosts and ghouls, but something much more ominous is haunting the Greenwood Cemetery in De Pere. The Fox River. The river has been eating aw...
Casey Nelson Oct 28, 2020

Appleton to Close Most Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes on Sunday
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Most absentee ballot drop boxes in Appleton will close for submissions starting Sunday, Nov. 1. The city says drop boxes will close Sunday at 4:30 p.m. The only exception is...
Casey Nelson Oct 28, 2020 File Photo

Brown County 2021 Budget Unanimously Approved
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Brown County's 2021 budget has been approved -- and it includes a tax decrease. County Executive Troy Streckenbach's office says the county board unanimously approved the ...
Casey Nelson Oct 28, 2020

Green Bay Moves Central Count to KI Convention Center Grand Ballroom
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The City of Green Bay is moving their Central Count to the KI Convention Center's Grand Ballroom for next week's election. The counting model tabulates absentee by-mail, absente...
Casey Nelson Oct 28, 2020 KI Convention Center in Downtown Green Bay. (PHOTO: WTAQ News)

Sister of Accused Killer: 'He Speaks to a God Who Tells Him to Kill People'
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - A month after two people were killed in Green Bay, Oscar Lemus-Franco was charged Wednesday with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide. Lemus-Franco, 28, made an ...
Casey Nelson Oct 28, 2020

