Category Archives: Local
Gov. Walker's budget would cut 60 prison tower guard jobs
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The state’s largest employees’ union raises safety concerns about the governor’s budget proposal to eliminate tower guards overnight at Wisconsin prisons...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 04, 2015
Nearly 90 jobs will be eliminated at Georgia-Pacific
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – 89 positions will be eliminated by Georgia-Pacific in mid-April. According to Georgia-Pacific Public Affairs manager Mike Kawleski, the Green Bay company will transfer the...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 04, 2015
Appeals court: No requirement to confess out of state OWI conviction
WAUSAU, WI (WTAQ) – If you’re convicted of drunk driving in another state, and Wisconsin authorities don’t catch it, you do not have to confess to it. That’s what a state appea...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 04, 2015
Green Bay Packers DT Guion arrested for marijuana in Florida
STARKE, FL (WTAQ) – Green Bay Packers’ defensive lineman Letroy Guion was charged Wednesday with possession of marijuana and a firearm in his hometown of Starke Florida. Both counts are fe...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 04, 2015
Sturgeon Bay city leaders approve moving unpopular hotel plan forward
STURGEON BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Sturgeon Bay’s common council has approved rezoning waterfront property for a controversial hotel plan. The move Tuesday night came despite hundreds of people voi...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 04, 2015
Fremont man jailed on $50,000 bond for multiple armed robberies
WAUPACA, WI (WTAQ) – A Waupaca County man accused of robbing a tank truck driver and two businesses within 25 hours is now in jail under a $50,000 bond. 41-year-old Matthew Otto of Fremont appea...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 04, 2015
Security upgrades unveiled at Hortonville School District
HORTONVILLE, WI (WTAQ) – A small eastern Wisconsin school district is among those adopting tight security measures in the wake of recent school violence around the country. Hortonville schools n...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 03, 2015
Outagamie County crash injures three people
TOWN OF ONEIDA, WI (WTAQ) – A head-on crash in Outagamie County has left three people hurt. Sheriff’s officials say it happened on Highway 55 at Fish Creek Road in the Town of Oneida just ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 03, 2015
Fight leads to arrest of two men in Manitowoc County
TOWN OF MISHICOT, WI (WTAQ) – Two men have been arrested after a fight involving a beer bottle and a gun Saturday night in Manitowoc County. Sheriff’s deputies were called to a residence o...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 02, 2015
Charges dropped against Kandi Siveny in '07 murder of Lara Plamann
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) – A woman who was scheduled to go on trial in two weeks for allegedly helping to kill her mother’s domestic partner had her case dropped Monday. Outagamie County Distri...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 02, 2015

