Category Archives: Local
Packers Fans 'All In' For Whiteout Game
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - The Green Bay Packers debuted their latest look at Lambeau Field Sunday. Plenty of fans got into the spirit as well, as the team had its 'Winter Warning' game. The cheesehe...
Oct 21, 2024 PHORO: Courtesy of WLUK
Police Investigate Sunday Morning Shooting
FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) UPDATE: After hours of investigating, Fond du Lac police say they were able to identify a 52-year-old man as a person of interest in Sunday's early morning shooting. The ma...
Oct 20, 2024 Alex_Schmidt / Depositphotos.com
Packers Survive A Nail-Biter
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Jordan Love tosses 3 touchdown passes, but it's newly acquired kicker Brandon McManus with the last second heroics, booting a 45 yard field goal and providing the winning margin...
Oct 20, 2024 Green Bay Packers
Tips To Helps Residents Weatherize Homes, Lower Energy Costs
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Federal investments are helping power weatherization and energy efficiency initiatives within the Green Bay community. On Friday, Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich and District...
Oct 18, 2024 (L-R): Alexander Lange, a Wisconsin-based energy sustainability specialist; Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich and District 6 Alderperson Joey Prestley hold a news conference to highlight the city's efforts to weatherize homes, reduce energy costs and improve home efficiency, Oct. 18, 2024.
PC: Fox 11 Online
Mayor Responds to Packers' Blame in Stalled Lambeau Field Lease Talks
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich is responding to the blame the Packers placed on him earlier this week in the stalled Lambeau Field lease negotiations. City council members h...
Oct 18, 2024 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
Judge Denies New Trial in 1988 Grand Chute Murder Despite Supreme Court Ruling
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Gene Meyer will not get a new trial for the 1988 sexual assault and murder of Betty Rolf, a judge ruled Friday. Meyer, 68, was sentenced in July to life plus 20 years for th...
Oct 18, 2024
Sentencing Set for Fond du Lac Man who Pled Guilty to Role in Fatal Fentanyl Overdose
FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A Fond du Lac man pled guilty to his role in a fentanyl overdose death. Joshua P. Weber, 47, is charged with first-degree reckless homicide, party to a crime. The charge...
Oct 18, 2024 Josh Weber (Fond du Lac County Jail)
Vance to Campaign in Wisconsin this Weekend
ASHWAUBENON (WTAQ-WLUK) - If you were at the Packers game, you might have seen a large police-led motorcade traveling the streets around Lambeau Field. Senator JD Vance was campaigning around the stad...
Oct 18, 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, speaks at AmeriLux in De Pere, Aug. 28, 2024.
PC: Fox 11 Online
Fourth Suspect Charged in Green Bay Homicide Linked to Drug Deal
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Charges were filed against the fourth, and final, suspect in a homicide on Berner Street in August. Darian Pinchart, 18, is charged with being party to first-degree intenti...
Oct 18, 2024 Darian Pinchart appears in Brown County court via Zoom, Sept. 26, 2024. (Photo courtesy: Brown County court/Zoom)
Trial Set for Man Charged in Green Bay Homicide
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - A March 10 trial date was set Friday in connection with a homicide at a west-side home. Owen Backus, 45, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide for the Dec. 9 mu...
Oct 18, 2024 Owen Backus appears in Brown County court, October 18, 2024.
PC: Fox 11 Online
