MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ) - The Brewers suffered their first loss following the all-star break Sunday afternoon, falling to the Phillies 5-2.

Brett Phillips provided the only offense for Milwaukee, smashing a pinch-hit two-run homer in the fifth inning.

Matt Garza pitched five innings for the Crew. He struck out three and only allowed one of the Philadelphia runs.

Reliever Rob Scahill had a rough outing, as he allowed three earned runs without recording an out.

Brewers now pack their bags and head out east for ten straight games, beginning with a four-game series with the Pirates in Pittsburgh tonight.

Brent Suter will get the ball in game one with pregame coverage on WTAQ at 5:30. The 1st pitch is set for 6:05.

DE PERE, WI (WTAQ) - We're one step closer to the start of a new football season.

Preparations began Monday to outfit St. Norbert College's Victor McCormick Hall to house the Green Bay Packers during training camp.

St. Norbert's Director of Packers Camp Kelly Nass notes "movers move out approximately 200 dorm beds and frames and they bring in about 100 custom-sized mattresses for the players."

Nass says the process of preparing the rooms typically takes two days.

She explains what players will see when they arrive early next week.

"It's two players per room.  They're fitted with two beds, sheets and pillows, a bathroom, and a little computer desk area for them to work in."

Nass notes the Packers organization is providing its players with some new items this summer.

"The beds are designed to enhance recovery.  The team also purchased new sheets, pillows, and comforters.  They're performance bedding, so they help keep the players' temperature regulated during the night."

While early arrivals will show up this Monday, Nass says the majority of players will move in on July 25, two days ahead of the team's first practice.

According to Nass, the players will stay through August 12.  

During that time, they will have access to a dining area, that also offers activities like a ping pong table and video games.

There is also a shuttle service that will take players to and from camp.

Nass notes the partnership spans six decades. 

"It all started 60 years ago when the legendary coach Vince Lombardi decided that St. Norbert would be the home of the Green Bay Packers' training camp.  It is the longest such relationship between a pro football team and a college, in the NFL."   

Once the players move out August 12, Nass says the bed-moving process will start over again, with the college's fall athletes slated to move in on August 17.   

APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) - A man has been arrested after he was found naked in a stranger's house.

Appleton Police received a report Saturday night of a burglary-in-progress in the 200 block of South Memorial Drive.  

The homeowner returned to the house around 10:20 pm to find the door was damaged.

While checking the residence with another adult, the homeowner reported finding a naked man sleeping in an upstairs bedroom.

The owner and owner's friend went outside and waited for police to arrive.

Officers entered the house and say they found 40-year-old Bradley Braxton of Oshkosh hiding in a shower enclosure.

Investigators believe Braxton had consumed whiskey and blueberry muffins before disrobing and climbing into bed.

A bag of marijuana was reportedly also found near Braxton's clothes.

Braxton reportedly admitted to breaking into the house and recently using meth but denied possessing the marijuana.

He was taken to the Outagamie County Jail and could face a variety of criminal charges including: Burglary, Damage to Property, Disorderly Conduct, Possession of Marijuana, and Bail Jumping. 

MENASHA, WI (WTAQ) - A Menasha officer is doing fine after becoming ill while investigating a weekend drug overdose death.

Police responded to a report of a person not breathing in the 900 block of Third Street around 12:30 am Sunday.

A 36-year-old Appleton man was found dead.

While the officer was driving to Oshkosh, where the victim was earlier that night, he began experiencing symptoms consistent with exposure to the drug fentanyl.

The officer went to the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office and received two doses of Narcan, the substance that is known to counteract the effects of an opiate overdose.

He was taken to the hospital and released a few hours later.

The death investigation is ongoing.

KAUKAUNA, WI (WTAQ) - A new Walmart will not be coming to the former dog track property in Kaukauna.

Mayor Gene Rosin says the retailer cited the economy when pulling out of the deal last week.

However, Walmart must still pay the city $100,000 plus additional fees.

Also, Rosin notes a large, unnamed medical company has already signed a letter of intent to build on another parcel of that property, which has been vacant since 1993. 

DE PERE, WI (WTAQ) - The fight against opiate abuse in Wisconsin continues as Governor Scott Walker signs 4 new HOPE Agenda bills Monday in De Pere.

The signing took place at the Medical College of Wisconsin located on the St. Norbert College Campus.

Walker says opiate addiction crosses all borders.

"The small towns, suburbs, big cities, everywhere in between. It crosses economic status, political status, demographics of every kind," said Walker.

The bills make sure 'schedule 5 medications' have to be prescribed, provide more addiction education for medical professionals, and allow for an expansion of HOPE centers that focus on addiction treatment.

Representative John Nygren attended the event and says he believes Wisconsin's success in combating opioid addiction is because of its multi-pronged approach.

"It's the governor's office, the attorney general, it's the lieutenant governor, it's the medical profession, law enforcement as a whole, education," Nygren explained.

The HOPE Agenda was introduced by Representative John Nygren back in 2013.

HOPE stands for heroin, opiate, prevention, and education.

The governor signs a total of 11 HOPE Agenda bills Monday as he travels around the state.

DE PERE, WI (WTAQ) - During a bill signing in De Pere, Governor Walker gave a prediction on when he thinks a budget agreement might happen.

"I'm convinced it will get done this summer. What date it is, I don't know but at a former local official, I know that crunch time is the fall," Walker said.

Walker says the education part of the budget is mostly ironed out...as for transportation, there's still some work to do.

"To get something done, you got to give. The beautiful part about this is, you've heard me say this over and over again, it’s not huge differences. The gaps are a degree. We're going to put more money in the roads. The question is how much."

He says he meets with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos every week and recently spoke with State Senator Scott Fitzgerald last week.

Walker was in De Pere signing 4 new HOPE Agenda bills into law Monday morning at the Medical College of Wisconsin on the St. Norbert College Campus.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - City of Green Bay officials are looking into the extent of the damage caused Sunday when a Great Lakes cargo ship crashed into multiple downtown locations. 

Public Works Director Steve Grenier says the full extent of damage is not yet known.

When it comes to the City Deck docks, Grenier says "from the river side, there appears to be damage to the floats underneath.  I want to get those things out and we'll get them up on land where we can turn them around and take a look at them."

Grenier notes the Nitschke Bridge may have been spared from any direct damage.

"Outboard of the bridge itself, there is some large circular structures out there that are called dolphins. There is a catwalk and a handrail that connect those dolphins to each other.  It appears that one of those catwalks, with the associated handrail, is what was struck, not the bridge itself." 

Grenier hopes to complete the damage assessments this week, noting the city wants to take care of repairs and any possible legal matters as soon as possible.

He says Interstate Steamship Company could end up hearing from the city's attorney.

"If we've got damage to our facilities, we're going to be in contact with the parent company that owns the ship that made impact, and we're going to be seeking restitution."

Greiner notes the crash has caused multiple inconveniences for those who frequent the waters.

"There is a section of the floating docks that nobody can use.  For some of the smaller crafts, the kayak launch is also out of service at this point in time." 

Greiner says this is the first time he can recall an incident like this in Green Bay during his 26 years in the city.  

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Green Bay Police is investigating a recent series of theft and vandalism reports.

Officers say the complaints have come from the business district of West Mason and Military Avenue as well as the Western Avenue area.

Multiple business and vehicle windows were broken with rocks between July 13-14, with vehicle thefts continuing in the two days that followed.

Anyone with surveillance materials of the incidents should call the Green Bay Police Department at 920-448-3333.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The U-S Coast Guard says the investigation into why a commercial vessel hit Green Bay's dock and part of the Ray Nitschke Bridge Sunday afternoon could take 1-2 weeks.

James Condra is a Marine Inspector with the U-S Coast Guard out of Sturgeon Bay.

"They went to Green Bay. They off-loaded their cargo, whatever product that was, and then in the process of departing Green Bay, the incident occurred," Condra said.

The bulk carrier, named the Kaye E. Barker, typically carries iron ore, coal, or salt and operates in the Great Lakes.

Investigators are looking at several variables including the speed of the water current on the Fox River at the time of the accident. 

"The details behind the vessel, what the current condition was, the wind condition, the operator, machinery," said Condra.

The marine inspector estimates between $10-15 thousand dollars’ worth of damage was done during the incident between the capsized boat and damage to the city dock.

No one was injured during the incident.

MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - A naked man was tased three times and caught on fire during his arrest in Manitowoc Sunday.

Police say they were called to the 1100 block of South 25th Street and Hamilton Street when they encountered a 33-year-old man standing naked in the intersection, making violent comments.

The man appeared to be under the influence of drugs and or alcohol, police say.

According to police, the man was eventually handcuffed after police found out he had warrants out for his arrest out of Two Rivers.

As the officer attempted to place him in the patrol car, the man began to fight with officers and somehow during the struggle, the man was able to pick up a lighter.

Police tased the man and somehow the taser probe punctured the lighter, creating a spark and caught the man's beard and chest hair on fire.

As officers attempted to put the fire out, the man punched one of the officers in the face, police say.

The man continued to fight with officers and was tased a second and third time.

The police report goes on to say the man was still combative even as emergency medical crews tried to tend to the man's burns.

The man was eventually transported to the hospital.

Manitowoc police say the man was arrested on an outstanding warrant, battery to a peace officer, disorderly conduct and lewd and lascivious behavior.

GREEN BAY (WTAQ-WLUK) - A parent of a Green Bay Area Public School student has started a petition to have Michelle Langenfeld removed as the district's superintendent.

Elliot Christenson, who started the change.org petition, was among a standing room only crowd at Monday night’s school board meeting where district officials provided an update on Washington Middle School safety plans.

“This is an opportunity for us to reset,” said Langenfeld.

Former Washington teacher Kirsten Westscott first publicly spoke about safety concerns at the school during her resignation to the school board last month.

Since then, Westcott and others have expressed frustration with the district's response to her remarks.

“I saw no action happening,” said Christenson, who has a child who attends Lombardi Middle School.

Christenson started the petition this past weekend. As of Monday evening, it had 47 signatures.

“It's not really about the signatures,” said Christenson. “It's about saying, yes, there is more than one person saying that this is a problem and we'd like there to be some significant change.”

FOX 11 wanted to ask Langenfeld how she feels about the petition. However, Lori Blakeslee, the district's communications director told FOX 11 she and Langenfeld decided she would not answer any questions about the petition.

School Board President Brenda Warren agreed to speak with FOX 11 briefly off camera about the petition to fire Langenfeld.

Warren says the district has been working with Langenfeld for a year on Washington Middle School issues, and will continue to do so.

She would not say whether the board has discussed her removal.

Langenfeld did have her contract renewed for two more years back in February.

During the school board meeting, district officials identified areas of focus that they believe will lead to significant change at Washington.

Among those areas are formulating a model for consistent student behavior expectations, increasing staff training for dealing with student behavior, and exploring more than 50 community partnership opportunities.

“We realize this won't be an immediate change or a flip of a switch,” said John Magas, Associate Superintendent of Continuous Improvement for the district. “It's going to require a lot of hard work.”

The district also listed a number of staff, community, and parent meetings they have setup for the next few weeks to discuss their plans before students return to school on September 5th.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - City of Green Bay officials are excited about the prospect of increasing room tax collections.

The city has reached a tax agreement with Airbnb that allows the home and apartment sharing company to collect and remit Green Bay’s 10% room tax on bookings in the city.

As a result, Airbnb expects to collect and remit $55,000 annually in Titletown.

Airbnb officials say there are roughly 130 active hosts in Green Bay.

The $603,000 those residents earned through renting out their properties in 2016 was a 155% increase from the year prior.

Hosts reportedly won’t see a difference in the way they do business, as the city’s room tax and state sales tax will automatically be added to guests’ bills.

In addition to the newly-struck agreement with the City of Green Bay, Airbnb also has deals with the City of Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.

Nationally, the home sharing company says it currently has agreements with more than 275 municipalities. 

The Green Bay tax collections are scheduled to go into effect August 1.

APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) - Charges have been recommended against the 34-year-old man accused of attacking two Appleton Police officers as he attempted to flee the police station.  

Investigators interviewing Kevin VerHoeven late Tuesday morning believed they had sufficient evidence to arrest him for the May sexual assault of a mentally-ill adult female.

VerHoeven reportedly fought and injured two officers as he attempted to get out of the interview room. 

Other officers responded and took him into custody.

Charges of Second Degree Sexual Assault of a Person with a Mental Illness, Resisting Arrest, and Battery to Officers are being requested.       

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The Green Bay Area Public School District parent who started the petition to remove Superintendent Michelle Langenfeld feels district officials are ignoring taxpayer concerns.

Elliot Christenson started circulating the petition over the weekend and notes he was nearing 100 signatures by Tuesday afternoon.

"It's probably a somewhat controversial issue, and a lot of people don't like attaching their name to that. I felt pretty comfortable with 100 being deliverable, to bring to (the school board) next month at their meeting."

The petition follows allegations made at June's school board meeting by former Washington Middle School teacher Kirsten Westcott, who said, as she announced her resignation, that conditions at the school have become unsafe for both students and faculty. 

Once the matter gained public attention on WTAQ"s Jerry Bader Show, district officials held a press conference to address Westcott's allegations.

At this month's school board meeting, Westcott stated the district had done enough to alleviate the concerns. 

Christenson agrees with Westcott, explaining how he would have handled things.

"The superintendent should have said 'I didn't realize the problems were as severe as they are but to address it, I'm going to move my office to Washington Middle School for the rest of the year.'"

Christenson claims the school board has been 'brushing off' residents who have brought forth concerns.

"The president of the school board called my petition a distraction.  Maybe it is, but you know what: do something.  They're just not." 

Christenson says he does not blame the teachers or faculty at Washington or any other school for these problems as they have to deal with 'quite a bit of red tape.'

He has no desire to pull his son, who attends Lombardi Middle School, from the district.

ASHWAUBENON, WI (WTAQ) - A second Titletown business has opened its doors.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony for Lodge Kohler was held Tuesday afternoon, with the servicing of guests beginning Wednesday.

Packers' President Mark Murphy explains why the organization chose Lodge Kohler to be one of its three anchor businesses for the Titletown District.

"It's a Wisconsin company.  More than that was there reputation for excellence, particularly as it relates to hospitality.  To be able to partner with a company like that was something we really viewed as a high priority."

Kohler Executive Chairman Herb Kohler notes hotels typically make their largest profits off hosting large events.  

Kohler says the most difficult part of negotiating whether to join the district was knowing that would not be the case in this agreement with the Packers.

"What's out of the norm is the partnership: where the Packers provide the banquet space and meeting space, and we provide everything else." 

We asked Kohler what is the four-star facility's best attraction.

"The spa is one of them.  It has a hydromassage pool that there's none like it in this country.  It was invented from scratch."

Lodge Kohler has 144 rooms, ten suites, two restaurants, and the spa area.  

In addition to being a top option for those visiting the area on business, Murphy thinks Cheeseheads will take kindly to the resort.

"For people who live not too far away but come in here, to be able to stay in a hotel of this quality, I think will really make the whole experience around a Packers game pretty special."

Lodge Kohler joins Hinterland Brewery, which opened its Titletown location in April.

Bellin Health plans to start operations at its new sports medicine facility next week.

Click here to learn more about the Titletown District's history, businesses, additional elements, and future expansion. 

MENOMINEE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - A 35-year-old Shawano man has been sentenced to two 10-year prison terms for sexually assaulting a pair of teenage girls in Menominee County.  

William Wilber IV assaulted the girls near a family property on Legend Lake on the Menominee Indian Reservation.  

The incidents happened between spring 2015 and summer 2016.

Wilber has also been ordered to spend ten years under supervised release, once he gets out of prison.  

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Green Bay's Public Works Department says the City Deck dock could be removed and inspected on Wednesday.

A Great Lakes cargo ship hit the dock and a fishing boat Sunday afternoon.

The massive freighter also appears to have damaged a maintenance walkway on the Ray Nitschke Bridge.

The shipping company that owns the ship says currents in the river may have played a role in the crash.

The U.S. Coast Guard is looking into the matter.

It is part of a season of changing conditions on the water, and the dangers that go with it.

When the 737-foot-long Kaye E. Barker damaged a boat, and part of the dock near Green Bay's City Deck Sunday, Andrew Holzem says he had to see it himself.

"Ah, it was interesting. I really didn't know how it happened," said Andrew Holzem, South Bay Marina Harbor Master, CMO.

Holzem is an avid boater and the harbor master at the South Bay Marina.

"I don't know if it was mechanical. I don't know if it was current. I don't know if it's wind. I know he had heavy north wind that day, heavy current from the south, so it could have been a million things," he said.

Port of Green Bay officials say navigating the Fox River downtown can be a challenge.

"The Main Street Bridge is oriented a little bit northeast, southwest. It's not completely perpendicular to the river Then you add in high water. We're four feet higher than we were just a couple years ago. So our water flows are are different, from a half-mile per hour, to one-and-a-half, to two-miles an hour, going north," said Dean Haen, Port of Green Bay Director.

Haen says gusty winds didn't help.

"You got wind-driven water, and you got flow, you know, river current. And I would speculate they encountered some unique currents there," he said.

A wet spring, and now summer caused dangerous conditions for boats of all sizes around Northeast Wisconsin.

In June, two kayakers were rescued after their craft was caught in a cable stretched across the Fox River in Menasha.

And on the Fourth of July, three people were shaken up after this pontoon boat got stuck in the Neenah Dam, also on the Fox River.

"They get close and they get sucked into that current, and the boat can't really in reverse, pull themselves out, or they can't turn around, and so they're stuck. Those are issues people really have to realize, how their boat is going to react," said Christopher Groth, DNR Warden Supervisor.

Groth says the wet conditions have kept water temperatures down as well.

Boaters need to wear life jackets, so if they do go in the water, they have a better chance of being rescued.

PITTSBURGH, PA (WTAQ) - The Milwaukee Brewers are not off to a good start on their road trip, losing a second straight game to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday, 4-3.

The only scoring from the Brewers came from the bat of Travis Shaw, who crushed a three-run home run in the third inning.

Starting pitcher Junior Guerra controlled the Pirates for five innings before tossing two home run balls for three runs in the sixth.

Reliever Oliver Drake was responsible for the go-ahead run and takes the loss to move to 3-3.

The Brew Crew have now lost three straight, while the Pirates have won nine-of-eleven and have fought back into the NL Central division race.

Game 3 of the 4 game series coverage on WTAQ begins at 5:30 this afternoon. First pitch at 6:05.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Green Bay's city council wants a city committee to take another look at the county's plan to build a new expo hall.

WLUK reports that decision was made at Tuesday night's council meeting.

On an 11-1 vote, the council agreed the city's redevelopment authority needs to take another vote on the county's $93 million expo hall plan.

The county needs all seven municipalities that collect room tax to agree to use the tax's revenue to pay for a new expo hall to replace the aging Brown County Arena.

But the county also needs the city's RDA to agree on the plan.

Last Friday, on a 2 to 4 vote, the RDA turned down the county's plan.

County leaders and some council members, like alderman Joe Moore, believe RDA members were mislead on construction costs compared to other recently built convention centers and expo halls.

"The RDA voted on something that they were not informed correctly on. I think this needs to be referred back to the RDA so that the RDA can take another look at it."

Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt has been among a handful of city officials opposed to the county's plan.

Schmitt believes a better deal could be reached for the city, including possibly setting aside some room tax revenue to pay for a KI Convention Center escalator and a new parking ramp.

"We have some needs that were presented tonight," said Schmitt. "Is there something we could work together on protecting KI-1 and KI-2 in the downtown, as well as building the expo hall, which we strongly support."

The room tax plan is tied to the county's half percent sales tax proposal.

The sales tax would last six years and pay for things like road repairs, library branch upgrades, and a jail expansion.

The county has set an August 15th deadline to receive the necessary approvals for both plans to move forward.