BROWN COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - A 21-year-old Milwaukee man has been convicted for fatally shooting a man in Brown County.

A jury has found Richard Arrington guilty on felony counts of First Degree Intentional Homicide and Possession of a Firearm by a Felon in connection with the April 2016 shooting death of Ricardo Gomez.

It happened inside the home at 1138 Day Street in Green Bay.

Arrington's sentencing hearing is set for January 19. 

While the homicide count carries a manditory sentence of life in prison, a judge will decide if and when Arrington will be eligible for parole.   

MANITOWOC (WTAQ)- A Manitowoc man accused of putting a gun to is ex-girlfriend's head will stand trial.

18-year-old Joshua Radder is facing seven charges, including attempted first-degree intentional homicide.

Police say the threats began in October, and got to the point where the girl started to run for her life. 

Police say Radder pulled the trigger, but the gun did not fire.

A trial date has not been officially set, but another court date is scheduled for January 12.

SHAWANO COUNTY (WTAQ)- A recent arrest in Shawano County, may be connected to reports of window peeping.

Shawano County Sheriff Adam Bieber said they have received three reports of window peeping all in the same area in the Town of Wescott, which was alarming.

"Obviously, it is not normal behavior to do that type of activity."

The suspect arrested Sunday in the act of burglary and trespassing in that same area, but, is also being questioned about the recent window peeping do to security footage.

Sheriff Adam Bieber said they had a visual from security cameras, and the suspects discription also matches some of the discriptions given by the victims.

The Sheriff said the arrest happened in the right place at the right time.

"We had the discription. Our detective stumbled upon him and the person just happened to be involved in a theft at the time."

Sheriff Bieber said multiple thefts have been reported in the last few months. While the suspect has not been charged with window peeping, that is a possibility.

"We think this is the person that has been looking into windows because of what he admitted to."

The suspect is expected to be charged with trespassing and for burglary, but the investigation is on going.

Sheriff Bieber reported an uneasy feeling going on the Town of Wescott area, but said residents can do things to protect themselves.

"When you are inside your home you should have your curtains drawn at night."

The Sheriff said having a security camera installed has also been known for preventing and solving many crimes in the County.

BROWN COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - A celebration to mark the completion of restoration work on the Brown County Courthouse's dome. 

A lighting ceremony was held Monday, with the $1.6-million dollar project wrapping up a couple weeks ago.  

"Taking off the original copper dome that dates back to 1911 (when the courthouse first opened), repairing and sealing the sub-dome that's under the copper." 

Facilities Engineer Doug Marsh says they also repaired clock faces and restored its limestone base. 

Marsh explains why the county decided to apply the new coat of copper.

"The clear coat seal on the dome was failing.  The last thing we wanted was to have the roof leak."

He expects the project will have a lasting effect.

"The copper itself should last another 100 years.  Our goal is to not have to reseal the dome for at least another five years."

County Executive Troy Streckenbach feels this was an investment that couldn't wait much longer.

"The copper dome was deteriorating.  It really was looking at eventually impacting the $10-million dollars that was spent back in the 1980's renovating the facility."

Monday's event also kicked off the county's 200th anniversary celebration.  See a photo of the official logo at the top of this story.  

OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) - An 18 year old Appleton man is dead, another man is wounded and a 3rd person is on the run.

This following a shooting last night in Oshkosh.

Police are investigating the shooting that took place around 9 p.m. on the 800 Block of Waugoo Ave.

Oshkosh Officer Kate Mann said "We determined that a disturbance occurred between three individuals that resulted in an exchange of gunfire. 

The Oshkosh Police department is continuing to search for an additional suspect involved in this incident.

The only information that the police have is that he is a Black male, late teens/ early 20’s, and maybe armed. 

"Because of the information that we do have at this point, we feel the public it is an isolated incident, and the public is not in danger, except for the fact that the subject may be armed."

The investigation is still on going.

"We would really like to locate this male since we can not speak to the other two involved at this time."

If anybody has any information regarding this incident, they are encouraged to contact the Oshkosh Police Department at 920-236-5700.

If you have information about this incident, but wish to remain anonymous, please contactthe Winnebago County Crime Stoppers at (920) 231-8477; or add the free P3 App to yourApple or Android phone and add a tip; or go to www.winnebagocrimestoppers.org to submita text tip.

If your tip leads to an arrest, you may be eligible for a cash reward.

MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ) - Investigators say the van stolen from a Bellevue car dealership last month has been recovered in Milwaukee.

Officers say the driver's side window of the van taken from Dorsch Ford was broken, noting the vehicle was empty.

In addition to the van, the tires and rims were lifted off ten vehicles.

Similar crimes have been reported elsewhere in Wisconsin and the nation.

OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - The plan by the city of Oshkosh to sell part of its city-owned golf course took a step forward Monday.

The city's plan commission and advisory parks board approved the possible sale of the land.

Oshkosh is considering selling 35 acres of Lakeshore Municipal Golf Course to Oshkosh Corporation for its new headquarters.

During Monday's meeting, ten people spoke to the boards about the golf course land sale. All ten said they support the sale.

Connie Drexler was one of them....

"We see this transaction as vital to the continued growth and prosperity of our community and feel the city must do everything in its power to retain Oshkosh Corporation's leadership here."

The sale cost would be $3.5 Million.

Three of the board members voted against the sale.

Some, like Tony Dirth, are concerned about the lack of a plan for the other 70 acres of the course.

"As part of the parks board our job is to make sure we're protecting the land and the open use and the recreation for our community and with a lot of the unknowns still with this program besides what Oshkosh Corp is getting and what they're saying, I don't feel comfortable at this time saying 'yea.'

The land sale is only part of the city's pitch to Oshkosh Corporation.

The city would also spend about $7 million on infrastructure around the new headquarters and provide the company $6 million in tax breaks.

Allen Davis, the city's community development director, spoke to FOX 11....

"We need to extend the utilities and the infrastructure to this site and the tax increment financing is based on the competitive nature that we're dealing with."

As part of the deal Davis says Oshkosh Corporation would need to ensure its new facility has $18.5 million in taxable value.

"Oshkosh Corp has to deliver the value for us to be able to give them any kind of incentive."

The city council needs to approve the pitch and then so does Oshkosh Corporation. The company is getting several pitches from other communities.

Wednesday the city council is scheduled to discuss and vote on the full pitch to Oshkosh Corporation.

The company has said it thanks the city for developing a competitive offer.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are coming to the Green Bay area next summer. Their 'Soul2Soul' World Tour will be at the Resch Center on July 6th.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, Nov 17 at 10 a.m.

That's the same day McGraw & Hill’s first-ever album together, The Rest of Our Life, is released on Sony Music Entertainmentunder the Arista Nashville/McGraw Music imprint.

Each ticket purchase will come with a copy of the new album.

Tickets will be available at resch center.com , by phone 800-895- 0071. or at the Ticket Star Box Office in the Resch Center.

WAUPACA COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - A 30-year-old Clintonville woman is accused of having sexual contact with two teens at the Waupaca County group home where she was recently hired.

Nicole Simon faces five felony counts of Sexual Assault of Child Placed in a Group Home by Facility Worker or Volunteer for a series of alleged October crimes.

She reportedly performed a sex act on a 16-year-old boy who she asked to come to her home to move a couch, also having sexual contact with him in a separate incident at the Town of Lebanon facility.

Simon also allegedly had three inappropriate encounters with a 17-year-old male.

Officers say Simon admitted to the crimes.

She is currently free on a $2,500 cash bond and is scheduled to return to court Tuesday afternoon.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ)- Early reports from the NFL indicate that Offensive Lineman Bryan Bulaga has torn his ACL in the Packers loss to Detroit Monday. 

Bulaga has already missed three games earlier this season.

Bulaga also missed significant time in 2012 and missed the entire 2013 season.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - A Tuesday ribbon cutting for the Green Bay Area Public School District's newest building. 

The Head Start Learning Center on Bellevue Street opened in September.

"It's a federally funded program that affords educational services to 3-5 year olds."

Principal Sally Jansen says Head Start, which began in 1965. offers more than just the classroom instruction that is found at a typical preschool.

"We believe the parents are their first teachers, so getting into the home, working with families, training families on how to educate their children at home."

Jansen says they also focus on students' well-being.

"We get all of our kids hearing, vision, dental screenings.  We ensure that they've all been to the doctor and have the proper immunizations."

Jansen notes the program already had roots in Green Bay.

"At this site, we serve 204, but we're funded for 336 with the Green Bay School District, because we have three other sites."

Jansen says Head Start is open to children whose families are at or below the poverty level.

The facility was built as a school in the 1960's but has served as county-owned office space for the past 26 years.

Jansen says work to gut the building began in May, with the cost of buying and renovating the facility coming in at $1.8-million dollars.

That was covered by a $2.5-million dollar federal grant, of which the other $700,000 has funded hiring additional staff members.  

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - While the Packers are looking to bounce back from a loss Monday, one player will remember the night as a dream come true. 

FREEDOM, WI (WTAQ) - Both of Freedom Referendums failed on Tuesday. 

Question one asked voters for $66.7 million to build a new high school, renovate the elementary and intermediate/middle schools and make other improvements. 

Voters voted No to Question One by a vote of 1811 to 1055

Question two asks for $740,000 per year over a five-year span for operating costs for the new high school. 

Again voters said No by a vote of 1870 to 988

APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - An area artist is working to snap 10,000 portraits of people in the Fox Cities and the aim is to turn those portraits into a work of art for the new exhibition center.

Qhat are 10,000 pictures worth? To Appleton artist and Lawrence University Professor Rob Neilson they're worth more than words can say.

"It's public art in the highest form, right? It's about the public, the images are the public."

Neilson tells FOX 11 he's using 10,000 portraits of local people to create an artwork that will eventually hang in the Fox Cities Exhibition Center.

He 's taken about 2,000 of the 10,000 needed so far.

"Then I put all those together and into ten larger portraits, each are made up of a thousand one inch by one inch portraits of members of the community." Of all the photos taken, Neilson says he will choose ten that focus on the diversity of the community.

"To try to represent the Fox Cities."

Neilson explained that he based 'We Are Here' off a sculpture he is also completing for the exhibition center called 'You Are Here.' The sculpture is an outline of Wisconsin with a push pin in the Fox Cities area.

"It's all about destination, the Fox Cities as a place of arrival, to visit." Neilson says 'We Are Here' is meant to give visitors an idea of what the Fox Cities is like as a community.

"What is the community? The community is the people, it's not the sidewalks and the buildings, it's the people."

Neilson has been setting up photography sessions and taking pictures at area events.

It takes less than a minute to sit for a portrait and he said he is enjoying every minute.

"It's been crazy and wonderful, a joy to talk to people about art."

The exhibition center is scheduled to open January 11-th.

You can find dates and times of the photo session on the 'We Are Here' website here.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - During Monday night's Packers game, 75 medical calls were made with six people taken to the hospital.

It's the first time Green Bay Metro Fire shared the number of medical calls it responded to at the stadium.

Green Bay assistant fire chief of operations, Robert Goplin, tells FOX 11 75 medical calls is common.

"You have to consider that Lambeau Field becomes a city inside a city."

Goplin says Monday night's calls were actually lower than previous home games this year.

During the Bears game, more than 150 medical calls were made and five people were transported to the hospital.

"We had weather movement that night and we had lightening coming to the stadium; whenever there's lightening coming towards the stadium, we evacuate the bowl."

He said evacuation can force people to squeeze into more confined places, causing heating problems.

"The game against the Bengals this year, extremely high temperatures, that one had us running like crazy in the stadium."

The Bengals game had the most number of calls with 250 and 50 emergency responses.

"We actually had to bring people from our normal daily staffing in the city." Goplin said.

Other numbers include the Seattle Seahawks game with more than 130 calls, the Los Angeles Rams game with more than 60, and the Philadelphia Eagles with more than 50.

Goplin said the weather and the time the game starts are the two biggest variables.

"The later the game starts, the longer people are out in those conditions which can make an impact."

Goplin urges all fans to dress appropriately and hydrate.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - After two years of discussion, Green Bay's Shipyard plan is in danger of falling apart.

Festival Foods President and CEO Mark Skogen says he is not happy with the lack of progress and is looking at other options to build his indoor concert facility.

Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt tells FOX 11....he's concerned.

“I'm very concerned about this project”.

The Shipyard plan includes an $11 million outdoor event center that would host Bullfrogs baseball games, development league soccer, and high school athletics.

The city would pay $9.5 million of that up front.

An Anduzzi’s restaurant and Skogen’s 2,000-person capacity indoor concert venue have been tied to the project and would be attached to the stadium.

The Shipyard site is on city-owned property on the edge of the Fox River, next to the Mason Street Bridge.

“I would have liked to have been breaking ground right now,” said Skogen. “The site in Green Bay is far from that right now. I’m going to see what can get done fastest.”

Schmitt says this is a game changer.

“We're very concerned we're not going to have the private sector investment in that project. If we don't we're not going to go ahead.”

The city council did pass a development agreement last month for the stadium part of the Shipyard proposal.

However, that agreement is meaningless if deals aren't also reached before the end of the year with Anduzzi’s and Skogen.

“Well I think he just really needs to tell us that it's this, this, and this by this date, so we don't kick things around and refer things back to committee and drag our feet and then we have other communities that get the opportunities that we missed here in Green Bay,” said Schmitt.

Skogen says the Green Bay plan isn't out of the running, but he is considering multiple sites in Ashwaubenon. His goal is to announce a firm plan next month.

“As much as we love the regional aspect of Greater Green Bay, our focus is a healthy downtown and I think a healthy downtown is the heart of the city and things pulse from the heart,” said Schmitt.

“I think his investment in the downtown would strengthen all communities, especially the downtown. It would hurt to lose that.”

Schmitt says he is hesitant to move forward with the Shipyard plan if Anduzzi’s is the only private project attached to the stadium. He says it is his goal to reach an agreement with Skogen by the end of the year.

The city's goal is for the stadium to be open for the Bullfrogs' 2019 season.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - What had been proposed as a $20 per vehicle, wheel tax as part of the 2018 budget for Green Bay, has been shot down by a city committee.

But one Alderman claims the entire premise of the tax was misleading to begin with.

Chris Wery says the tax was advertised as a way to raise money, an estimated $2 million, to fix roads.

But he also says there was no specific language that clarified where the money was actually going.

"That was the number one concern of people, that if we create this income source that it would be used for other, other items."

Mayor Jim Schmitt calls the committee decision short-sighted.

But Wery says using the tax as a way to plug a budget hole is simply dishonest.

"We're not killing the wheel tax, we're just killing this revenue source that's not going to what it was intended."

The full city council will vote on the final budget next week and could overturn the Finance & Personnel committee's decision.

A wheel tax proposal was also tried this summer. It was shot down on a 7-5 vote.

FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ)-  Two Fond du Lac teens were arrested last week after two pounds of marijuana was found in their vehicle during a traffic stop.

Sheriff’s Captain Ryan Waldschmidtsays 17-year- old Dakota Mueller, and 18-year- old Spencer Owens gave the deputy a shaky story.

"The two told the deputy that they were out star gazing, but I guess they did not realize that it was cloudy that night, so the deputy told them I guess you are not star gazing."

After finding out the deputy is a K9 handler, the teens knew they were in trouble.

A search of the vehicle found four one gallon Ziploc bags full of marijuanathat totaled just over two pounds in weight and was worth thousands ofdollars.

Owens is facing a felony possession charge and Mueller has been charged with misdemeanor possession.

FREEDOM,WI (WTAQ)- Freedom School District is picking up the pieces and asking questions after voters made a statement.

District voters made their opinions known by a vote with nearly a 2-1 margin, defeating both proposed referendums.

Question one asked voters for $66.7 million to build a new high school, renovate the elementary and intermediate/middle schools and make other improvements. 

Voters voted No to Question One by a vote of 1811 to 1055

Question two asks for $740,000 per year over a five-year span for operating costs for the new high school. 

Again voters said No by a vote of 1870 to 988

"If we would have lost by 100 votes, I think that would have been more understandable."

"We really did not talk about what after, if the referendum did not pass. This is something we will be doing in the next couple of weeks."

The District used multiple ways to reach voters.

Gagnon said they want to find out what circumstances led to the sound defeat at the polls.

"We are trying to first process the fact that it was unsuccesful by finding out what community members we did not reach, what we did not do to get the message across."

Gagnon says school security measures were included in the budget, but discussions of what to do if the referendum failed have not taken place yet.

Along with exploring why the referendum failed, the District will also be talking about how to move forward.