TOWN OF HARTLAND, WI (WTAQ) — No one was hurt in an overnight barn fire in Shawano County.
The fire broke out in the Town of Hartland late Wednesday night.
That's just east of Bonduel on County Highway BE.
Officials say crops and equipment were stored in the building.
There was no livestock in the building.
MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ) - Manitowoc police say three people were arrested after an overnight assault.
Police say it happened on 37th Street around 11 p.m. Wednesday. A 20-year-old man suffered minor injuries after telling authorities he was attacked over money owed to one of the suspects.
Officers say one of the suspects showed a handgun after the fight, then took off.
Police were able to locate the vehicle and arrested the three Manitowoc men, all 22-years-old.
They are facing several charges including battery and disorderly conduct.
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) - Oshkosh Corporation CEO Charles Szews will retire on December 31st.
That's according to the company, who also said that Wilson Jones will take over as the chief executive officer on January 1st.
According to Oshkosh Corp., Szews will also retire from the company's Board of Directors on which he has served since 2007. He joined Oshkosh in 1996 as chief financial officer, served as president and COO from 2007 to 2011 before taking the reigns as CEO.
Jones will also replace Szews on the company's board.
"The Board of Directors is very grateful for the strong leadership demonstrated by Charlie Szews through the last five years as he led the Company to successfully overcome significant U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) spending reductions and the lingering effects of the Great Recession," said Richard M. Donnelly, chairman of the Oshkosh Corporation Board of Directors in a statement. "During his career, Charlie led our Company through numerous historical milestones and contributed to the Company's growth from $400 million in sales in 1996 to more than $6 billion expected in 2015. Most recently, he and the entire Oshkosh team worked fervently to win the revolutionary DoD Joint Light Tactical Vehicle contract.
"We expect the transition of Wilson Jones to CEO to be seamless as Charlie and the Board have been preparing for this for several years. Wilson has been with the Company for a decade, gaining greater leadership and business responsibilities, as well as successfully serving as president for two of Oshkosh's business segments prior to his August 2012 appointment to president and COO."
Jones is the president and chief operating officer of Oshkosh, a position he was appointed to in August 2012.
ASHWAUBENON, WI (WTAQ) - Company officials have announced that Mark Rourke has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer at Schneider National.
Rourke will be in charge of day-to-day operations and all North American service offerings will report to him.
"While Mark will now oversee our day-to-day operations, I will focus more time on the strategic growth of our business and long-term positioning," Chris Lofgren, Schneider president and CEO, said in a statement. "Additionally, as the regulatory and compliance environment continually evolves, it requires more external engagement. I will work closely with our Government Affairs team at both the federal and state levels to ensure that the interests of our company and industry are promoted and protected."
Rourke has been with Schneider since 1987 in a variety of positions.
MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ) - A bomb squad has destroyed old explosives that a Manitowoc man found in a load of items he bought at an auction.
The man called police Thursday, after finding old and worn-down explosives among several truckloads of items he bought at an auction in Mount Calvary.
Officers brought in the Brown and Outagamie County Bomb Squad, which destroyed the explosives in a remote area.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
STURGEON BAY, WI (WTAQ) - A lawsuit has been filed by opponents of a proposed hotel in downtown Sturgeon Bay in the hopes of stopping the project.
City officials have agreed to transfer property to the Sawyer Hotel Development LLC.
According to the 10-page complaint, the property "consists largely or wholly of filled lakebed beneficially owned by the public under the public trust doctrine."
The suit, which was filed Thursday, is from a group called "Friends of the Sturgeon Bay Public Waterfront," consisting of Shawn Fairchild, Carri Anderson, Linda Cockburn, Russell Cokburn, Kathleen Finnerty and Christie Weber.
The listed defendants are the city of Sturgeon Bay and the Waterfront Redevelopment Authority of the city.
City officials have not commented on the lawsuit. No court dates have been set.
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - Fall colors are just starting to emerge in Wisconsin.
Some places in the south don't have any leaves changing color yet -- while the Hayward area is at 35 percent of its peak, and other places in the north are up to 25 percent of their peaks.
The state DNR says birch, basswood, and red maples are starting to change color in the north.
Officials say it's been a good growing season for trees and plants -- and it should result in "spectacular" yellows, reds, and oranges once the season gets going.
Fall colors are big business in Wisconsin, as many folks plan their weekends around the nature show. Normally, colors reach their peaks in late September in northern Wisconsin, early to mid-October in central areas, and late October in the south.
The state Tourism Department provides fall color updates at Travel Wisconsin.Com.
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Green Bay Packers right tackle Bryan Bulaga will miss Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks after suffering a knee injury during practice on Thursday.
Bulaga managed to dodge a major injury, suffering a sprained MCL and not a full tear of his ACL.
Head coach Mike McCarthy said Bulaga was still going through the evaluation process, but will not play in Sunday night's game.
It's the same injury Bulaga suffered last year in the season opener, and he returned after missing one game. Bulaga blew out the same knee in August of 2013 and missed the entire season after undergoing reconstructive surgery.
He's worn a knee brace ever since the ACL injury and credited that brace for saving him from a serious injury last year. Bulaga had that brace on again this week when he suffered the knee sprain.
The Packers right tackle signed a five-year, $33.75 million contract during the offseason.
Mike McCarthy wouldn't name a starter at right tackle Friday morning, but veteran Don Barclay took over with the number one offense after Bulaga went down on Thursday.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
Green Bay, WI (WTAQ) - The landscape around the Fox River in southern Brown County could get an extreme makeover....if the County Executive has his way.
County executive Troy Streckenbach talks up the need to put up a new span over the Fox River, south of the Claude Allouez Bridge, A-S-A-P.
Areas like De Pere and Ledgeview are getting more congested on the roads and missing out on economic development.
So, he's adding $60 thousand to the 2016 county budget to study where the best location would be and have the paperwork ready for the state and feds to look over before approving the cash for what could be a $30 million project.
Jayme Selleen, with Greater Green Bay Chamber of Commerce, says the business community is on board.
The C of C plans to lobby state and federal officials on the need to a new bridge and the funding to hellp pay for it.
In a best case scenario, supporters hope to have a new bridge, or at least construction underway, by 2020.
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The Green Bay man who was arrested after setting fire to his apartment where eight dogs were found dead has been charged.
53-year-old Paul Phillips is charged with a felony count of arson of a building without owner's consent, and 8 felony counts of mistreatment of animals causing death.
Phillips made his initial court appearance Friday where his bond was set at $10,000 cash. He was also ordered to take all medications as prescribed.
Last Sunday morning, police were called to the upper unit of a duplex in the 1000 block of Klaus Street. Officers were told a man said he had just killed all of his dogs and set fire to his apartment.
Phillips was taken into custody without incident at the scene. After the flames were put out, the bodies of 8 Rottweilers were found inside.
Phillips was taken into custody at the scene. The bodies of the eight Rottweilers were found inside.
Green Bay animal control officer Sharon Hensen had been working to get Phillips to comply with the city ordinance limiting the number of dogs in one home.
Phillips rented the apartment from Green Bay Alderman Guy Zima.
(Additional reporting from FOX 11).
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Legendary quarterback Bart Starr's son says he almost died of an infection a few weeks ago.
Bart Starr Jr. says his father is recovering and hopes to make it back to Lambeau Field for the Thanksgiving Day game.
He says his father is sorry to miss Sunday's game where his Super Bowl I teammates will be honored.
Starr suffered a series of health complications in the last year, including several strokes. That prevented him from attending Brett Favre's Packers Hall of Fame induction in July, but he did appear in a video tribute to Favre.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The Green Bay Packers started fast, fell behind but came back in the final quarter to exact some revenge on the Seattle Seahawks in a 27-17 win at Lambeau Field Sunday.
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers completed 25-of-33 passes for 249 yards and 2 touchdown passes in the win for Green Bay (2-0). Wide receiver James Jones and tight end Richard Rodgers each caught a TD pass.
Starting running back Eddie Lacy left the game in the first half with an ankle injury and did not return. In his place, James Starks ran for 95 yards on 20 carries.
Linebacker Jayrone Elliott forced two turnovers, a fumble and an interception of Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson.
Wilson finished the night 19-of-30 for 206 yards with 2 TD's and that one interception.
The Packers defense held Seahawks (0-2) running back Marshawn Lynch to just 41 yards on 15 carries.
Get a full recap of the Packers win with Mark Daniels and Matt Z on the 5th Quarter, Monday at 5 p.m. exclusively on 1360/97.5 WTAQ News Talk Sports.
MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ) - Manitowoc police say a man has been arrested after allegedly stabbing a 21-year-old man overnight.
Officers were called around 1 a.m. Sunday to the city's north side. They learned the stabbing happened during an altercation between the suspect and the victim.
Authorities tracked down the 35-year-old suspect on the city's south side.
No names have been released.
SHIOCTON, WI (WTAQ) - A plane crashed in Outagamie County overnght.
Authorities say no one was hurt in the crash just after midnight near the Shiocton Airport.
Officials say the plane was found upside down in a cornfield.
No word yet on what may have caused the crash.
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) - A suspect tied to the death of a 42-year-old woman in Oshkosh has been arrested.
Police say 30-year-old Samson Gomoll was taken into custody Sunday in the 1500 block of Bowen Street.
Authorities say the woman was found dead inside a 10th Avenue duplex. That's when the search for Gomoll began.
It's still not clear what the connection between the suspect and victim is.
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) - An autopsy on an Oshkosh woman killed early Sunday reveals that she died "as a result of multiple gunshots".
Police released that info Monday, after 30-year-old Samson Gomoll was arrested in connection with the death of Stacey Strange.
The 42-year-old Strange was found dead after police were called around 1 a.m. for reports of gunshots around at 16 W. 10th Ave.
Gomoll, who is Strange's live-in boyfriend, has not been formally charged. He was arrested a couple miles north of the scene nearly 11 hours later.
Gomoll is not expected to appear in court on Monday.
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Two more students were diagnosed with viral meningitis at the same school building where a Green Bay kindergartener died last week.
Trinity Lutheran Elementary School student Jack Natzke died last Tuesday from the disease.
The building and floor are shared with Our Savior Lutheran preschool, where officials confirm that 2 other students were diagnosed last week.
After the 5-year-old Natzke died, classes were canceled for the rest of the week and the building was professionally cleaned.
"The child at Trinity school, as soon as that came up, of course the preschool was notified right away," Mike Charles, a church board of education member for the preschool, told FOX 11.
Parents of both the elementary and preschool were asked to be on the lookout for any signs of the illness.
"Last week there were parents that notified the preschool staff that their children seemed to have symptoms, and therefore, they were brought in and diagnosed with mild cases," said Charles.
The two children affected by viral meningitis returned to the preschool on Monday as classes resumed.
Viral meningitis is generally less severe than bacterial meningitis. People usually recover from the viral form of the disease on their own.
Immunization for bacterial meningitis usually start at around age 11. Viral meningitis cases do not have to be reported to the state, unlike mandatory reporting for bacterial meningitis.
According to the state Department of Health Services, 36 cases were reported in 2014 and 23 since the start of 2015.
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has announced he is dropping out of the race for the White House in 2016.
During an abruptly called news conference in Madison, the Republican Walker says he's dropping out to allow for a "positive, conservative message" to rise to the top of the GOP field.
Walker said he's not seeing much optimism in the current race and has moved into constant personal attacks.
He also appeared to take a shot at billionaire Donald Trump, by urging other candidates to drop out so that voters can focus on what he called an, "alternative to the current frontrunner."
The two-term Wisconsin governor started out as a top-tier candidate when he declared on July 13, but in the weeks since has seen his poll numbers tumble and his campaign cash dry up.
Walker most recently polled barely above zero in the latest CNN/ORC poll, after performing in the 2nd GOP primary debate slightly better than the first one. It apparently wasn't enough for campaign donors, after holding a conference call last Thursday.
“The short answer is money,” a supporter of Mr. Walker’s told the New York Times. “He’s made a decision not to limp into Iowa.”
Walker's current term as governor runs through 2018.
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - Green Bay native and Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice N. Patrick Crooks has died.
In a news release from Chief Justice Patience Roggensack, Crooks died Monday inside his chambers at the state Capitol.
"Justice Crooks was an outstanding jurist, a thoughtful decision-maker and a colleague with a wonderful Irish sense of humor," Roggensack said. "In addition to having served as a circuit court judge and on the Supreme Court, Justice Crooks made significant contributions to the legal profession as a lawyer and a teacher. He was a good friend and colleague, and he will be greatly missed by all."
Crooks is a former Brown County judge who won his first 10-year term on the Supreme Court in 1996, then won re-election in 2006.
The 77-year-old Crooks was typically viewed as a swing vote between the four-justice conservative majority and the two-justice liberal-leaning minority.
Justice Crooks and his wife have 4 daughters and 2 sons. Five of their children are lawyers, and one is a social worker.
Gov. Scott Walker extended his condolences to Crooks' family Monday. Walker made the announcement while saying he was dropping out of the 2016 presidential race.
COLEMAN, WI (WTAQ) - Officials in the Coleman School District canceled classes Tuesday, a day after learning from the Marinette County Health Department that an elementary school student is suspected of having viral meningitis.
"We felt there was a lot of an uncertainty with where we are at with the situation," said school superintendent Doug Polomis. "So, as a result, we felt it was in our student's best interest."
Polomis says when word got out in the community and on social media especially following the recent death of Jack Natzke, a kindergartner at a private Green Bay elementary school, parents got concerned.
"You hear the words viral meningitis and the first thing you think is the unfortunate thing that happened to that young boy down in the Green Bay area," said Polomis.
Two preschoolers who go to school in the same church, Our Savior Lutheran, were also diagnosed with the virus. They have since returned to classes.
Marinette County public health officials say they aren't recommending any additional cleaning steps to be taken, other than normal cleaning of schools. But what officials are recommending is parents to ensure that their children are up to date on all of their vaccines.
Polomis says classes will resume as normal on Wednesday.
Health officials are planning immunization clinics for Marinette and Oconto schools. Parents are urged to check with the schools for a schedule.
Viral meningitis at Howard private school
St. John the Baptist School in Howard has notified parents of students there that one student was recently diagnosed with viral meningitis.
In an e-mail the school said a middle school student was admitted to a hospital Friday. Officials say that student was released Sunday and is recovering.
(Additional reporting from FOX 11).
