Category Archives: Local

Manitowoc County court denies pre-trial appeal in Timothy Hauschultz case
MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Timothy Hauschultz will not be able to appeal three issues before his case goes to trial for allegedly ordering the punishment which lead to the death of Ethan Hauschultz i...
Rachel Charniak Mar 17, 2025 Timothy Hauschultz in Manitowoc County court, February 24, 2025.
PC: Fox 11 Online

Case of man accused of driving teen away from fatal crash headed for trial
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- An April 2 trial remains scheduled for the man who allegedly drove Sienna Pecore away from the fatal traffic crash she caused. Pecore was 15 at the time of the Oct. 30, 20...
Rachel Charniak Mar 17, 2025 Rezhun Scott (Brown Co. Jail)

16-year-old girl arrested in Oshkosh shooting faces attempted homicide charge
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A 16-year-old Menasha girl is facing charges in an Oshkosh shooting. The incident happened around 9:30 p.m. Friday when police received a report of shots fired in the 1000 b...
Rachel Charniak Mar 17, 2025

State Highway 42 in Door County set for closure due to weeklong state work project
(WTAQ-WLUK) -- A portion of State Highway 42 in Door County will be closed to traffic for a week. State Highway 42 will be closed from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Monday through Friday for state work that w...
Rachel Charniak Mar 17, 2025 Road work.
PC: Fox 11 Online

Psychiatric evaluation ordered for man charged with torching congressman's office
FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Caiden Stachowicz pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect Monday to charges he set U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman's office on fire. Stachowicz, ...
Rachel Charniak Mar 17, 2025 Caiden Stachowicz (Photo courtesy Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office)

Fond du Lac man found guilty of attempted homicide in box cutter attack on woman
FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A Fond du Lac man was convicted for attacking a woman with a box cutter knife, causing significant injuries to her wrist and neck. In less than an hour, a jury convicted...
Rachel Charniak Mar 17, 2025 Lataye D. Smith (Fond du Lac Co. Jail)

Car goes up in flames on roadway in Buchanan
BUCHANAN, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Firefighters responded to a car that caught fire on a roadway in the town of Buchanan Sunday. At 1:38 am Sunday morning, Buchanan Fire was dispatched to the intersection at...
Rachel Charniak Mar 16, 2025 Buchanan Town Hall
PC: Fox 11 Online

Tribal concern grows as DOGE orders Bureau of Indian Affairs offices in Wisconsin to close
ONEIDA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Department of Government Efficiency is continuing their efforts to find waste and fraud within the federal government. Now, DOGE is directing the General Services Adminis...
Rachel Charniak Mar 16, 2025 PC: Fox 11 Online

St. Brendan's Inn making a difference for cancer research with annual head-shave event
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- St. Brendan's Inn has been fighting childhood cancer one strand of hair at a time. About 75 people lined up to get the hair on their heads and faces shaved for the hotel a...
Rachel Charniak Mar 16, 2025 PC: Fox 11 Online

Cell phone companies upgrading infrastructure to help Green Bay handle NFL Draft crowds
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Construction of the NFL Draft stage and other structures in and around Lambeau Field and Titletown are still two weeks away, but plenty of infrastructural work behind the ...
Rachel Charniak Mar 16, 2025 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK

