TOWN OF NEW DENMARK, WI (WTAQ) - Brown County sheriff's deputies say a 17-year-old has been arrested in connection with a crash which killed two people and injured three others.

Devon Robley is jailed on two counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle. It's unknown if he will make a court appearance Tuesday.

Officials say the crash happened at the intersection of Glenmore Road and Highway X in the Town of New Denmark just before 8:30 p.m. Monday.

The sheriff's office said Robley was driving south on Glenmore Road and failed to stop at a stop sign, crashing into an SUV that was driving west on Highway X.

The names of the victims are expected to be released Tuesday afternoon.

APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) - A proposal to allow dogs in Appleton's parks took a step back Monday night.

The city's park committee voted against the proposal and recommended the city council do the same.

There are nearly 700 signatures on the petition to allow dogs on leashes in Appleton City Parks.

Ali Koestner started the petition in February.

"As a pet owner myself I wanna be able to enjoy Appleton's parks with all the members of my family"

However, at Monday's parks committee meeting, the three committee members present voted to keep the city's ban on dogs in parks.

Committee members said they received numerous calls from constituents asking to keep the ban in place.

About a dozen people spoke on the issue at the meeting.

Jim Dean is one of them.

"Our police department has enough work to do. The simplest solution is to keep things as they are"

Dean also had concerns about people's safety.

"A child reaches out to pet the dog, maybe pulls its tail, ears, how will that dog react?"

But Koestner pointed out that irresponsible dog owners already break rules and bring their dogs to parks.

She said responsible dog owners will control their dogs and pick up after them.

The police department has come out against lifting the ban on dogs in parks.

The city council is expected to make its decision next week.

VILAS COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - The 2016 gun deer hunt is still four months away.

But before you head out to bag that trophy buck, there are some changes to the upcoming season.

John Huff, D.N.R. Area Wildlife Supervisor says the winter in the Northwoods was one of the mildest in decades.

"It actually followed after another fairly mild winter. So, we've had back-to-back mild winters. That's the recipe increasing your deer herd"

But Huff says recovery takes time.

In 2014, the D.N.R. implemented a bucks-only season for portions of the Northern Forest Zone.

That area has shrunk almost 50 percent.

"It's shrinking, and it's shrinking away from the fringes of the places where there is significant farmland"

It's a different story in other parts of the state. In the Central Famland Zone, biologists say there are plenty of deer.

Jeff Pritzl, D.N.R. District Wildlife Supervisor, says hunters will be asked to take more does this year.

"What we need to see in some of the farmland counties, is for every buck that's harvested, two antlerless deer need to be taken"

Meanwhile, biologists like Huff say hunting in the Northwoods will slowly improve.

"They should see a rebound, and we're pretty optimistic about the prospects for the northern forest"

The State's Natural Resources Board approved the changes.

County Deer Advisory Councils recommended how season structure works on a local level.

Councils will have the chance to update their three-year management plan at the end of the 2016 season.

ASHWAUBENON, WI ( WTAQ) - It's not just about skipping long lines at the airport.

The T-S-A pre-check allows passengers to fly through security.

Mark Lendvay the Federal Security Director of T-S-A Wisconsin says this week's temporary pre-check center will hopefully provide some relief to existing sites.

"our permanent stations, like the one on south Military Avenue, on average has been running 30 to 45 days backlog in terms of getting an appointment. by providing the mobile enrollment center on site we're able to expeditiously enroll those individuals"

TSA pre-check allows passengers to get through security lines faster and more comfortably, allowing flyers to keep on their belt, shoes, and a light jacket as they pass though.

The application process requires a background check, a verification of citizenship and fingerprinting.

Airport officials said that Austin Straubel Airport has had TSA pre check lanes for about a year.

The pre-check has an 85-dollar fee, which is good for five years.

The center, on the airport's second floor, will be open from 10am to 7pm today and tomorrow, and 7am to 3pm Thursday and Friday.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - A peaceful protest was held in Green Bay for the "Black Lives Matter" movement Monday night.

Dozens of people marched to the Green Bay Police Department, as a group of officers stood by their squad cars.

Protesters gathered in front of the department's building shouting "Black Lives Matter" and "No Justice, No Peace."

Robin Tinnon, a UWGB student, was one of those taking part.

"when we say Black Lives Matter that does not take away from the fact that all lives matter in our community"

Green Bay Police say there were no arrests made.

FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ) - A Kenosha man has been sentenced in a drug case while awaiting what will become of his 1990 murder case.

In Fond du Lac County court Tuesday, 62-year-old Dennis Brantner was sentenced to 6 years in prison, 11 years extended supervision and 7 years of probation. Police say they found prescription drugs in Brantner's boot when he was arrested last year in connection with the murder of Berit Beck.

A jury failed to agree on a verdict during last month's trial in the Beck murder case. Prosecutors have not decided yet whether to re-file charges.

Beck was driving from her home in Sturtevant to Appleton for a work seminar in 1990 when she disappeared. Her van was found a few days later in Fond du Lac, and her body was later found in a ditch near Waupun.

STURGEON BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Police say a 29-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly abusing his son in Sturgeon Bay.

According to police, the child's mom lives in Green Bay and reported the incident to them. The 11-year-old boy said his father got mad at him and broke his cell phone. The boy said his father then hit him on the arm with a belt, leaving visible welt marks, and grabbed his neck.

The father tells police that he only tapped his son's arm with the belt. He also said he grabbed the boy's shirt, not his neck. He did, however, admit breaking the boy's cell phone.

The man was jailed on potential charges of physical abuse of a child and criminal damage to property.

The boy is currently with his mother.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - A Manitowoc doctor accused of overprescribing pain killers still has not had a trial date set.

Dr. Charles Szyman faces 19 counts in federal court. Szyman appeared in federal court Tuesday and returns for a scheduling conference on September 12.

Szyman "knowingly and intentionally distributed and dispensed unlawfully, and attempted to distribute and dispense unlawfully, a controlled substance outside of his professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose," according to the indictment.

It lists 19 incidents between May 4, 2012 and Feb. 18, 2015 involving 12 different patients. The allegations include prescriptions for oxycodone, fentanyl, morphine, amphetamine, hydromorphone and hydrocodone. According to the indictment, a patient on June 23, 2014 received 3,800 tablets of morphine and oxycodone of varying strengths along with 30 fentanyl patches.

Szyman faces up to 20 years in prison on each count if convicted.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - A woman will spend nine years in federal prison for causing a drunk driving crash which killed her passenger.

28-year-old Ashley Kitchenakow of Green Bay pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter for the crash on the Menominee Indian Reservation last August 28. 

She was also placed on supervised release for 5 years after the prison term at Monday's hearing, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Kitchenakow has previous convictions for driving drunk, underage drinking and operating after suspension.

APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) - The search is on for a bank robbery suspect in Appleton.

Police say a man walked into the Horicon Bank on Midway Road around 5 p.m. Wednesday and demanded money from the teller. No one was hurt.

The man is described as white, in his late 20's to early 30's with blonde hair and some blonde facial hair. He's approximately 5'10"-5'11" tall, weighing approximately 210 pounds. The man was last seen wearing a dark-colored baseball-style hat, a dark long-sleeved fleece zip-up jacket and grey shorts.

The suspect was seen leaving the area of the bank on a bicycle, heading into the mobile home park on Primrose Lane.

Police say they are also searching for a silver-colored mid 2000 Chevy Impala related to the robbery. The vehicle was last seen on heading north on Highway 441 after the robbery.

If you have information regarding the robbery you are asked to call Sgt. Dustin Yule at (920) 832-5540. You can also remain anonymous by using Text-A-Tip. Text CRIMES (274-637) with the keyword APDTIPS at the start of the text.

UNDATED (WTAQ) - A business based in Appleton has been ordered to pay over $8.7 million in restitution following a judgement regarding a health insurance scheme.

Partners in Health Care and its principal, Gary L. Kieper, were sued in federal court by the Federal Trade Commission. The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau says it started investigating PIHC in 2011.

Overall, consumers in 32 states filed complaints with the BBB. The BBB then turned the case over to the FTC in 2013.

The company misled consumers into purchasing what they thought was health insurance, according to the complaint. The consumers actually received a "medical discount card" that was practically worthless. Those who bought the cards paid a $99 "enrollment fee" and then made monthly payments of as much as $514.

Many of the victims are Spanish speakers.

Kieper responded to the BBB complaints by saying the consumer did not buy the policy from PIHC, but enrolled through an out-of-state marketing company. He also maintained the customers did not request a refund by the deadline given.

The FTC shut down PIHC in 2014.

DE PERE, WI (WTAQ) - It's a partnership that was formed 59 years ago.

Thursday movers helped prepare the dorms of Victor McCormick Hall on the St. Norbert College campus get ready for Packers training camp.

They fitted the rooms with 100 custom made beds.

Kelly Nass, the Director of Packers Camp, says it's a group effort.

"We are transforming a 60 room dormitory that's used to house 225 students, taking out the dorm beds that are used by the students throughout the year and then custom fitting each room with a custom mattress that's longer than your average sized twin mattress."

A normal twin mattress used by students are 39 inches by 75 inches but the Packers players sleep on a larger twin mattress. The beds used for training camp are 48 inches by 84 inches.

Nass says they have been preparing for camp for months.

"We also transform a ballroom used for weddings and that's used for the late night snack that we prepare on campus. That's prepared by our very own chefs."

During training, players will also have a chance to unwind and play some games in their spare time.

"We have three video games, a ping-pong table and a foosball table, cards and dominos. So they just have fun and it's like a team building event," explains Nass.

Players move in Sunday, July 24th and move out in mid-August.

It's the longest relationship between a pro-football team and a college in the NFL.

OCONTO, WI (WTAQ) - The suspect involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash late last year has reached a plea deal just hours before he was to go on trial.

35-year-old Joseph Anderson pled no contest to a charge of homicide by negligent use of a motor vehicle, according to Oconto County Clerk of Courts Mike Hodkiewicz.

Anderson had been charged with a count of hit-and-run causing death. He'll now face a maximum possible sentence of 10 years in prison, rather than 25, when he's back in court September 16.

Anderson struck and killed 51-year-old George Birr on County Highway S on December 21. Anderson was arrested a few days later, after a tip from a friend.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - A popular ship due to be in Green Bay for next month's Tall Ship Festival has hit some rough waters.

The Draken Harald Hårfagre, which is the world's largest modern Viking ship, needs to raise $430,000 in pilotage fees to continue its voyage. 

"In essence that means when a foreign vessel comes to waters, whether American or Canadian, there are regulations that require it to have, in the case of the U.S., a U.S. pilot to help it navigate safely through the waterways," says Terry Charles with PMI Entertainment Group, which is the event's promoter and organizer. "And I believe the ship was of the understanding it may have needed to pay some fees, but perhaps not as much as they're being told."

Green Bay is one of nine ports participating in the Tall Ships Challenge.

Charles says while pilotage fees have been an issue in the past, this is a strange first.

"Never the issue, at least since we've been involved in these festivals, where a ship gets here and they found out there's been a misunderstanding of what the fees would be and they say there's just no way we can afford that," Charles says.

A Minneapolis-based financial services and cultural organization called "Sons of Norway Foundation" have established a page where people can donate to cover those outstanding fees. 

"Most of the ports, including PMI, we have offered also to add more money and donate to the ship over and above the fees we're paying the ship to come here in the first place," says Charles.

The Green Bay Tall Ship Festival presented by Nicolet National Bank takes place August 5-7.

OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) - UW-Oshkosh held a vigil Thursday to honor the five Dallas officers and two men recently killed by police.

The vigil was held before news broke of the attack in France.

Violent incidents across the country hit home on the campus for students like Chelsea Tatum.

"When everything happened during the week it was very overwhelming and it was kind of emotional for all of us"

To help heal, the college held a candlelight vigil Thursday.

It honored the five Dallas police officers shot and killed, as well as Philando Castile and Alton Sterling who were shot and killed by police.

Those in attendance said these acts highlight a larger problem in America, explained Chief Kurt Leibold of the UW-Oshkosh Police Department.

"Something needs to be done and it's all one big issue. So let's get together and talk about it"

Attendants told us there is racial discrimination in this country and mistrust between citizens and police, but Leibold says there is also hope that can be healed on all sides.

"Getting out of the squad cars, getting back into the neighborhoods and talking to citizens again, partnering with citizens and bringing the right tools to solve problems before they boil over"

After the vigil participants hugged one another, ending the event with a smile.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Looking for a great and inexpensive meal?

Green Bay's 4th annual Restaurant Week kicked off Thursday and runs through next Thursday.

68 restaurants are participating in this year's event, and each will create three course meal options only available this week.

Prices vary from $10 for lunch or $10, $20 or $30 for dinner.

Jessica Diederich with the Greater Green Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau says you might want to make reservations. 

Last year's event sold over 37,000 meals and brought in $1.549 million to Green Bay's economy.

Restaurant Week brings in diners from across the state of Wisconsin, and as far as Chicago and Minneapolis.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The "Green Bay Press Gazette" reports the number of speeding tickets written so far this year is triple the number written by mid-July in 2015.

The increase is a marked turnaround in speeding enforcement by the Green Bay Police Department.

Between 2008 and 2014, the number of tickets written by local police fell 83 percent.

Police had been writing fewer tickets for speeding over the past several years, with those falling by 83-percent from 2008 to 2014.

The article suggests the department had been under heavy pressure from city aldermen to reverse the trend.

Two dedicated traffic patrol positions were restored in February, and there's been cut back on summertime training so more officers could spend time on the streets.

There's also been grant money dedicated to operating a speed task force in partnership with surrounding communities.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - After two days of marches organized by the African-American community in Green Bay this week, we're hearing from a key member about the relationship between police and the public.

Randell Steele is V-P of the Northeast Wisconsin African-American Association...he says he's surprised an incident like the one in Dallas hasn't happened before...

"Because when people start to feel a sense of hopelessness they go on the defensive. If they feel like they can't trust anybody to protect them, then they feel they have to protect themselves"

Steele believes the environment in Green Bay is much better than larger cities.

He credits police chief Andrew Smith, and feels his background with the L-A-P-D helps...

"It most definitely does. You can tell that his experience in Los Angeles has prepared him to deal with an aggresive crowd or a very welcoming crowd because I've seen him in both situations"

But Steele believes the balance is fragile these days.

He says both sides have to continue the open dialogue to minimize the chance of what's happened in many ohter U-S cities from happening in Green Bay.

APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) - More than four-and-a-half years after she allegedly killed her husband, a woman is scheduled to stand trial on November 7.

Mastella Jackson is charged with first-degree intentional homicide for the February 21, 2012 murder of Derrick Whitlow at the Grand Chute motel where he was staying. 

This case has taken years to reach this point due to decisions and appeals regarding statements Jackson made and the evidence recovered as a result.

Outagamie County Judge Mark McGinnis suppressed physical evidence in the case because Grand Chute police found the knife and bloody clothing after interrogating Jackson for over 6 hours without informing Jackson of her Miranda rights. 

The circuit court also suppressed incriminating statements Jackson made during the interrogation.

An appeals court reversed as to the physical evidence, concluding officers searching the house would inevitably have discovered it during their search. The Supreme Court affirmed that decision earlier this month.

At a hearing Friday, another motions hearing was scheduled for September 22, with a final pre-trial conference October 24.

The November 7 trial is scheduled to last four days, according to online court records.

UNDATED, NORTHERN WISCONSIN (WTAQ) - Flooding still poses a major threat for several areas in northern Wisconsin.

Three people have now died because of flash flooding from the powerful storms earlier this week.

Most recently, an 82-year-old Elmer Lippo was found in a pick-up truck in floodwaters in Ashland County Thursday.

A former mayor of Montreal in Iron County and an 84-year-old Illinois man in Bayfield County also died in the floods.

Jim Clement with XL Energy explains the intensity of the storms.

"It fell in buckets...couldn't keep up with everything. This creeks rose rapidly, like when we talk flash-flood, it rose in flash-flood proportions. The water level here started hitting these roads and taking out the culverts and it was just a trickle down affect. The farther it got down, the more water it picked up in capacity."

The 8 counties affected include: Iron, Bayfield, Burnett, Ashland, Douglas, Price, Sawyer and Washburn.