DE PERE, WI (WTAQ) - A school of business and economics, along with the start of a master of business administration program, is coming to St. Norbert College.

It's being helped by the $7 million donation from Pat Schneider. Schneider's husband, Don, ran the trucking company Schneider National for many years.

Don Schneider graduated in 1957 from St. Norbert College. He was a member of St. Norbert’s board of trustees from 1978 until his death in 2012.

“The Donald J. Schneider School of Business and Economics will provide the highest-quality education for business and not-for-profit leaders,” St. Norbert President Thomas Kunkel said in a news release. “Building on St. Norbert’s firm grounding in the liberal arts and its commitment to ethics instruction, the new MBA program will position the college as the intellectual center of values-based business education in northeastern Wisconsin.”

The college’s existing business administration and economics departments will become part of the new school, and more faculty and staff members will be hired. It will also have an advisory board made up of area business leaders.

The MBA program is expected to begin in 2015.

(Additional reporting by FOX 11)

MENASHA, WI (WTAQ) - We're learning more details surrounding a sexting investigation in the Fox Valley.

Menasha police are investigating the incident involving area students, mostly from Menasha High School.

Investigators say at least a dozen students, between the ages of 14 and 16, are involved in the sending or receiving of nude photos which were posted online to an unnamed social media website.

"We have an officer who's a forensic examiner who'll be looking through the electronic side of things...cell phones, computers, trying to determine what information is evidentiary on there," says Menasha Police Officer Aaron Zemlock. "There's certainly some very serious consequences that can be born out of this, regardless of its initial intent, the laws are fairly strict when it comes to child pornography or posting nude photos of somebody without their consent."

Zemlock says he can't recall the department investigating this kind of sexting issue involving so many students. It apparently was male students who sought the photos from female students and then some of those photos ended up on the Internet.

"I don't think it comes as a great surprise to a lot of people," says Zemlock. "A quick Google search will show you that these types of things have been occurring on a more regular basis."

Zemlock says the investigation is ongoing and says this is a lesson to all students about what they share on social media.

“We try to teach our kids, you know, respect your body, respect, you know, those types of images and I think with the era that these kids live in, the information sharing is so quick and so instantaneous that I think it doesn’t stick with them that, ‘Anything I put up there is there forever,’” Zemlock adds.

The website has since been completely locked as police continue their investigation.

SHEBOYGAN, WI (WTAQ) - One person died and three were injured in a mobile home fire in the city of Sheboygan early this morning (WED).  The Sheboygan Fire Department was dispatched to the Indian Trails Mobile Home Park on Cheyenne Trail about midnight.  Shift Commander says the three injured people were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.  He said the mobile home was destroyed.  The State Fire Marshall is on scene and is assisting in the investigation.

MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - State consumer protection officials say American TV and Appliance has been charging more than what their price tags show during their going out of business sale.

The Madison-based company announced last week it was closing its 11 locations in three states after 60 years in business.

Wednesday, state consumer officials said its inspectors did price checks Monday on 325 items throughout American's seven Wisconsin stores -- and it found overcharges by an average of 5.5 percent.

A Madison store had seven overcharges -- and when an inspector paid a second visit Tuesday, all the cash register mistakes were corrected.

One store in Appleton was reported to overcharge a major item by up to $314 above the sticker price. Waukesha was the only Wisconsin store where overcharges were not discovered.

State officials advised shoppers to take the price tags from the items they want to buy, and make sure the cash register rings up the same prices.

State law requires stores to charge the lowest advertised prices -- and when customers are overcharged, they're entitled to refunds.

(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Members of Wisconsin's two largest teachers' unions will have to wait longer to decide whether the groups should merge.

The Wisconsin Education Association Council and the state chapter of the American Federation of Teachers say their members want more information. And that's why they're delaying a vote on the merger that was scheduled for April 26th in Green Bay.

Wednesday, both unions said they would form a committee to provide information on how a merged group would operate.

The unions say they've lost about 30 percent of their members since the state virtually eliminated their collective bargaining privileges in 2011 by passing the Act 10 law.

(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - A Green Bay teenager charged for his role in a number of fights at Preble High School will stand trial.

In Brown County court Wednesday, 17-year-old Davion Austin waived his right to a preliminary hearing.

He's facing charges of battery, disorderly conduct and bail jumping.

The fights took place outside of Preble High School earlier this month. Two students suffered injuries in the fights.

Austin is due back in court March 28th.

KEWAUNEE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - Authorities in Kewaunee County are investigating a pair of break-ins at two different churches.

Sheriff's investigators were called on Tuesday afternoon to St. Therese Parish's Stangelville church. Someone there broke in and tried, but failed, to take a secured donation container.

Then on Wednesday morning, investigators were called to St. Therese Parish's Pilsen location. This time someone broke in and stole a secured donation container and a brass table.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Kewaunee County Sheriff’s Department at (920) 388-3100 or Kewaunee County Crime Stoppers at (920) 388-0440.

(Additional reporting from FOX 11).

OCONTO, WI (WTAQ) - One of the men charged with the murder of a Green Bay man in 1998 has learned his fate.

In Oconto County Court Thursday, a judge sentenced Peter Hanson to life in prison without parole for the murder of 19-year-old Chad McLean. 

McLean disappeared from Abrams and his body was found in the Pensaukee River a month later.

New information last year in the cold case investigation led to the charges being filed against Hanson and Charles Mlados.

Mlados will stand trial in August.

(Additional reporting from FOX 11).

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - A Green Bay woman who was previously convicted of embezzlement is now accused of writing worthless checks to a half-dozen Catholic churches.

39-year-old Vicki Patterson is charged with four counts of writing bad checks. Two felony counts were filed earlier this month, and she's scheduled to have a preliminary hearing on those Friday in Brown County Circuit Court.

Online court records also list two misdemeanor bad check charges -- and the status of that case will be reviewed Friday.

Patterson is accused of writing almost $5,700 in bad checks to Catholic parishes to buy scrip cards, used by churches to raise funds. Scrip cards allow buyers to make purchases at local businesses, with the parishes to get part of the proceeds.

One church reportedly tried canceling a scrip card once it learned about the bad check -- but Patterson had already reportedly used it.

She was freed from prison last fall, after a three-year term for embezzling $44,000 as an officer at the Green Bay Swim Club. She was also convicted in 2001 for stealing $3,000 while she was a part-time dance instructor for De Pere's recreation department.

(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Would you like to see Pope Francis visit Northeast Wisconsin?

Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt would, and he's formally invited the pontiff to make a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion.

The Catholic Church validated an appearance by the Virgin Mary in the mid-1800s at the rural Brown County shrine in 2010.

In the letter, Schmitt wrote that the community is filled with a generous heart for its connection to the Virgin Mary. The Mayor also said that a papal visit to the Green Bay area would be a blessing that would lift the lives of the people who live here.

This invitation is to extend Pope Francis' possible visit to the United States in 2015. The Pope has shown an interest in attending the 8th World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.

(Additional reporting from FOX 11).

MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - Under a new Wisconsin bill, suspects could no longer escape murder convictions by claiming they were too drunk to know what they were doing.

Assembly Republican Steve Nass of Whitewater wants to remove "voluntary intoxication" as an allowable defense in homicide cases.

The bill got a public hearing Thursday before the Assembly's judiciary committee.

It's in response to the case of Brian Cooper of Illinois, who allegedly raped and strangled a pregnant Alisha Bromfield at a Door County resort after she rejected his request for a deeper love relationship.

At his trial in 2012, jurors from Wood County could not agree to convict Cooper for murder, after he claimed he was too drunk to have intended to murder Bromfield and her unborn child.

At the hearing on the new bill, Cooper's own sister Kellie Stryker called the hung jury, "the ultimate injustice." She urged lawmakers to stop letting people use alcohol as an excuse. Bromfield's mother said the defense kept Cooper from being found guilty.

The 37-year-old Cooper was convicted of sexual assault, but there was a hung jury on two first-degree intentional homicide counts.

A retrial on those is scheduled to start May 2nd. Nass' bill would affect future cases, but not Cooper's. 

(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)

MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ) - Starving ducks are once again jumping into Lake Michigan at Manitowoc to look for food.

That's after a trawler was used to break up ice on the harbors at Manitowoc and nearby Two Rivers.

The cold winter has caused larger than normal ice buildups. It's preventing ducks that don't migrate south from reaching the food they normally rely upon.

Animal rehab clinics are treating a larger than normal number of malnourished ducks this winter.

Conservationist Tom Kocourek said enough was enough. He called a marine contractor which broke up the ice in the harbors.

Mike LeClair, who runs a fish company in Two Rivers, said they had to do something.

Jim Knickelbine of the Woodland Dunes Nature Center in Two Rivers tells the Manitowoc Herald-Times Reporter he was, "blown away" by the effort. He said it reflects "good things about the community."

(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)

OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) - Arnold Schwarzenegger quietly slipped in and out of Oshkosh Thursday, where he test drove military vehicles made at the Oshkosh Corporation.

Company spokesman John Daggett tells the Oshkosh Northwestern that the "Terminator" toured the main plant, and took a 13-ton mine-resistant ATV for a ride on a test course.

Daggett said Schwarzenegger became acquainted with Oshkosh military vehicles when the firm entered a concept unit in a race across the Mexican desert a few years ago.

Schwarzenegger, a former California governor, could not have bought one of the vehicles he saw Thursday. Daggett said the design is the property of the Defense Department -- and the company cannot sell the military products to private persons or businesses.

(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - A lot more than tundra is frozen in Green Bay.

The National Weather Service said Friday was the 49th day this winter that temperatures fell below zero at the home of Lambeau Field's "Frozen Tundra." The previous record for Green Bay was 48 sub-zero days, set in the winter of 1976-77.

Meanwhile, an Alberta Clipper is about to bring some snow into most of Wisconsin. Northern and central Wisconsin can expect 1 to 4 inches Friday afternoon into Friday night, and perhaps another inch Saturday.

Three to five inches are forecast in Door County. The southern half of Wisconsin could get the most snow -- 2 to 6 inches in the southwest, and 2 to 5 inches through Saturday in the rest of the south.

Highs are expected to be in the teens for the most part, with colder temperatures due in Sunday after the snow leaves.

(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)

MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ) - Manitowoc police say two men claiming to be city workers stole money from a victim on the city's south side Thursday afternoon.

Police say the two men went to a house, claiming to be working for Manitowoc's city inspections department and checking for burst pipes. An older resident let the men inside. One of the suspects distracted the victim by asking for money to fix damage to the house, while the other suspect searched the home and stole cash.

One man was described as white, in his 50s, about 5'9" with a husky build, wearing a brown jacket and blue jeans. The other man was white with a darker complexion, in his 30s, about 5'6" with a medium build.

Anyone with information is asked to call Manitowoc police at (920) 686-6551. Manitowoc authorities say anyone who truly works for the city will carry and display an ID.

(Additional reporting from FOX 11).

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Charges have been filed against two more men in connection with a birthday party brawl earlier this month in Howard.

22-year-old Justin Guarnera and 19-year-old Arthur Broadnax Jr. are each facing felony charges for their roles in the February 7 incident.

According to the criminal complaints, Broadnax kicked Guarnera in the head and both men fought with others at the party. Witnesses also say they saw Guarnera pull a knife and heard him say he slashed someone's cheek and stabbed someone in the stomach.

In Brown County Circuit Court Friday, Broadnax made his first appearance. He had his bond set at $25,000 cash and ordered back in court March 10.

Earlier in the day, three of the four 17-year-olds initially charged with stabbing one teen and beating another appeared in court. Sergio Rivera, Tyler Brickham-VanVorce and Royce Bressette all waived their preliminary hearings, meaning they are headed to trial.

Another 17-year-old, Cory Mayer, briefly appeared in court Friday and had his preliminary hearing rescheduled for next week.

30-year-old Nicholas Tank, who's also charged in this case, is due back in court next week.

(Additional reporting from FOX 11)

KEWAUNEE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - Kewaunee County authorities say a 27-year-old man is dead following a crash in which he failed to stop at a stop sign.

It happened Friday at County Highways K and D.

The Hayward man struck a vehicle driven by a 55-year-old Algoma man. That driver was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The Kewaunee County Sheriff’s Department continues to investigate the crash. It has not released names at this time.

MENASHA, WI (WTAQ) - A vacant energy plant in Menasha may be getting another lease on life as a food processing facility.

On Thursday, the Menasha City Council approved opening talks of selling the plant on River Street  to Aeries Energy and Simply Incredible Foods.

The two companies have said they plan to work together to convert the plant to produce Simply Incredible Foods’ Cransations product line. 

The Fox Cities Regional Partnership believes it could bring about 80 new jobs to Menasha.

“You’re talking about a $51 million annual impact on the local economy,” Partnership Executive Vice President Larry Burkhardt told FOX 11.

Simply Incredible Foods makes a patented, sweet frozen cranberry and cranberry juice.

If the deal is reached, Simply Incredible Foods believes it cold have the plant operating within six months.

(Additional reporting from FOX 11).

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Green Bay's homeless population may soon have a daytime destination.

Green Bay's Homeless Task Force is considering opening a resource center in an empty space at 600 S. Adams Street.

It would have information about health care and jobs.

“Absolutely excited about it,” Jane Jordan of Lutheran Social Services told FOX 11.

By June 1, Jordan hopes a building will become a resource for struggling adults looking to change their lives. Lutheran Social Services would rent the building and run the center.

“It has been perseverance and determination, but we understand how very important this is to fulfill a gap within the community,” said Jordan.

Plans would be to open every day except Saturday and its only two blocks from St. John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter.

City officials would still need to approve a conditional use permit. Jordan expects to file paperwork with the city in the next few weeks.

(Additional reporting from FOX 11).

APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) - Two wanted felons were arrested overnight in Appleton after one tried to escape and the other caused a standoff.

Appleton police say they were alerted about the two men at a home in the 1700 block of N. Linwood Avenue.

When officers arrived at the house on Friday around 7:30 p.m., one of the men jumped from the second floor into the backyard. Because he jumped, the man broke his leg. His was taken into custody and transported to a local hospital. 

Investigators say the second person hid inside the home, allegedly armed with a handgun. The Appleton PD's SWAT Team was called in as several nearby streets had to be blocked off. 

After a nearly 10 hour standoff, SWAT members located the man hiding in the attic. He was arrested without incident.

31-year-old Koy A. Kennedy and 29-year-old Christopher L. Fields were identified as the men arrested. Both are being held in the Outagamie County Jail on outstanding warrants. The investigation is ongoing.