MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) - About 100 people were arrested in Wisconsin during the weekend, as part of a national FBI crackdown on child sex trafficking.

Ten children were rescued, after they were said to be recruited for child prostitution.

According to the FBI, undercover officers went to areas known for prostitution activity, and they made contact with young victims. This was the 7th time that “Operation Cross Country” took place.

The latest effort centered on Milwaukee, Madison, Wisconsin Dells, and the Fox Valley.

The FBI worked with the state Justice Department and local law enforcement agencies on the crackdown.

Officials said the pimps took their victims throughout Wisconsin for prostitution – and they did not necessarily live in the places where authorities found them. A similar operation in Wisconsin netted 60 suspects and rescued six children a year ago.

State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says it’s well-known that child sex trafficking occurs in Wisconsin – and with newly-added resources, he says such crimes will not be tolerated in the Badger State. 

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Colburn Pool in Green Bay was on the budget chopping block last year because of serious maintenance issues and dwindling business, but a private group is trying to save the pool. 

The city council extended the life of the Olympic sized pool for this summer, and a committee recently recommended doing that again for next summer baring any costly issues. 

“As long as it’s operational, I see no reason the Mayor and the council couldn’t support keeping it open so that we can formulate a plan for its long term replacement,” said Alderman Jesse Burnette, who represents the district that Colburn Pool is in.

A private group is working on fundraising to cover the costs of designing a new pool, and also looking to raise some of the funds to pay help pay for construction. 

Burnette says they are looking for the city council to set a fundraising goal and timeline that Friends of Colburn Park Pool could meet and the city would bond for the rest. 

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The Salvation Army of Brown County exceeded its fundraising goal during last week's Christmas in July campaign. 

Salvation Army leaders say they raised $19,000 during the bell-ringing campaign. Their goal was to raise about $15,000.

The charity group held the fundraising effort to make up for a shortfall in its Red Kettle campaign last Christmas season. 

Salvation Army says money will go toward programs ranging from food, to rent, to energy assistance. 

DARBOY, WI (WTAQ) - An internal affairs investigation is underway concerning the conduct of Outagamie County Sheriff’s deputies during the arrest of a drunk driver who received serious injuries to his head.   

In an email, 32-year-old Jousha Peterson of De Pere admits to being intoxicated when he was approached by a deputy around 1:45 a.m. Saturday July 27^th just before stepping out of his vehicle in the parking lot of a Kwip Trip in Darboy.

“I was admittedly very drunk, obnoxious, and incredibly dumb,“ Peterson said. 

Peterson’s father Terry Peterson spoke with WTAQ on behalf of his son, who says he didn’t want to comment because he is seeking legal counsel for an anticipated lawsuit that will be filed against the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Department. 

Peterson was apparently asked to get out of his car for nearly 20 minutes, but instead disobeyed deputies commands and demanded to know what his rights were.

Peterson was finally grabbed by the deputy and forced out of his car, then had his head hit the pavement during the altercation.

Peterson suffered a large cut to his forehead that needed stitches, a concussion, bruising on his head, hands and shoulders.

“He took a pretty good beating… I’ve worked as a correctional officer for 27 years, and I’ve never seen anybody, officer or inmate beaten that bad,” Peterson said. 

Peterson says as a law enforcement officer or correctional officer, there is an inherit rule of thumb to protect the head of the person resisting.

Peterson says his son Joshua was arrested for OWI, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct. 

The Outagamie County District Attorney has filed charges of OWI First Offense and Operating a Vehicle after Suspension, Revocation or Cancellation of Registration.

Outagamie County Sheriff’s Captain Mike Jobe wouldn’t comment on any specifics of the incident.

“As in any case that we receive a complaint from a citizen about officer conduct , we make sure that a thorough, complete and partial investigation is done into the matter, and once the facts are determined, at that point we determine if any actions should be taken,” Jobe said. 

Jobe says the investigation into officer conduct is being done by the Appleton Police Department. 

There is dash cam video and video surveillance from the Kwik Trip, but those will not be released until the investigation is complete. 

HOBART, WI (WTAQ) - Brown County officials say annual maintenance is forcing Pamperin Park's playground to close for two days next month.

The playground will be closed August 12 and 13 for the work, according to Brown County Facility and Park Management. Only the playground will be affected; the rest of the park will stay open.

Pamperin Park's playground is expected to reopen on August 14.

NEEANH, WI (WTAQ) - Officials with the Neenah Water Department say it will be until least until Thursday that a boil water advisory will remain in effect.

The advisory was initially put out on Saturday after water tests near a construction site on S. Commercial Street came back positive for coliform bacteria.

On Tuesday, three of four water samples taken showed bacteria.

The city's water department doesn't know if the positive tests are connected to the construction.

Utility crews have been opening fire hydrants to try to flush the bacteria out of the water.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - More details are being released regarding an incident WTAQ first reported on Friday night concerning the conduct of two off-duty Minneapolis police officers. 

The two officers, both white and one a former Green Bay cop, allegedly threw the first punch during an altercation involving a group of black men. 

The two officers used racial slurs to describe what happened and expected preferential treatment from Green Bay police. 

The off-duty cops also called the Green Bay Police a, “clown show” and that Green Bay was, “too [racial slur] friendly.” 

Both Minnesota officers are on paid leave until an investigation by the Minneapolis Police Department is complete. 

Green Bay Police officials are not commenting on the situation that occurred June 29^th.

Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau is apologizing to the public and the Green Bay Police Department for what she has seen about the officers' behavior.

Chief Harteau posted a message on Facebook Tuesday.

“What I saw and heard on the video posted on several news websites involving these two officers is appalling and goes against everything we stand for. The type of behavior exhibited on the public video significantly damages public trust. Every member of this department and community deserves better. I would also like to extend my apologies to the community and the Green Bay Police Department. I am not able to comment further at this time because of data privacy laws.”

OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) - Final approval has been given to the sale of a corn-based ethanol plant near Oshkosh.

Stockholders of Ace Ethanol in Stanley have agreed to buy the shuttered Utica Energy plant, which closed last fall after being $30 million in debt.

The purchase price is $16.5 million for the 60 million gallon Utica facility. A Winnebago County judge approved Ace’s bid on July 11th. The sale was part of bankruptcy proceedings involving Renew Energy and Olsen’s Mill.

Ace Ethanol expects to re-open the Oshkosh plant this fall, and re-name it “Fox Valley Ethanol.”

Ace opened its Stanley plant in 2002, and company officials expect the Oshkosh plant to be profitable in a relatively short amount of time.

Wisconsin now has nine ethanol production facilities.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The Green Bay city council has approved an $8 million deal with a hotel management firm to sell and renovate the city owned Clarion Hotel. 

The vote was 8-4 for American Hospitality Management to take ownership of the riverfront hotel that they have been operating for the past year and half.

The city purchased the hotel to secure around $1.3 million in property and air rights for the connecting and expanding KI Convention Center.

The deal with AHM was put on hold in June after Edgewater Resources, a firm out of St. Joseph, Michigan, came in at the 11^th hour wanting to bid on the project that was never open to other developers. 

The city council delayed the AHM deal to hear them out. 

Edgewater proposed to demolish the Clarion and build a new $33.5 million new 16-story, 4-star hotel on the site.  The hotel would include top floor condominiums, a restaurant and bar, rooftop viewing deck, as well as an all day spa. 

However, the proposal clashed with the city’s long time plans to keep the Clarion as a mid-tier hotel and that Edgewater’s proposal would jeopardize a $35 million renovation of the historic Hotel Northland. 

The Northland would be a 5-star hotel. 

Frantz-Hobart CEO Mike Frantz, the developer of the Northland, testified Tuesday night saying that no matter what, they would move forward. 

But the city council also had other concerns with Edgewater’s timing, financing, and scope of the project, and decided that it wouldn’t be the right fit for the downtown. 

Edgewater says they would be interested in working on other projects in Green Bay down the road.

Sources say the Clarion would likely become a Hampton. 

HOWARD, WI (WTAQ) - Brown County authorities say a motorcyclist is seriously injured following a crash near Highway 29 and Packerland Drive.

Authorities say it happened Tuesday around 5:30 p.m.

A car apparently collided with the motorcycle. Officials don't believe the car's driver was hurt.

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Pants can keep on sagging in downtown Green Bay.

That's after the city council unanimously voted down a proposed ban on saggy pants Tuesday night.

The idea from Alderman David Boyce would urge business owners and others to encourage people to pull up their pants.

But city leaders argued that passing such a ban would reflect poorly on Green Bay.

Earlier this month, the city's protection and welfare committee unanimously rejected the proposal. That vote also included Boyce. He said at that time he really just wanted to have a discussion on the issue.

OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) - A Swiss pilot who flies with only a jet pack on his back is making his first public U.S. performances this week at the EAA AirVenture Show in Oshkosh.

Yves Rossy is nicknamed the “Jetman.” He jumped out of a helicopter Tuesday, and glided with a six-foot carbon fiber wing and four Jet Cat engines attached to his back.

The 53-year-old Rossy weighs 330 pounds when all his equipment is attached. Otherwise, he’s a tall and slim 150 pounds.

He only carries about 8 to 10 minutes worth of fuel, and no instruments except for an altimeter and a watch.

Rossy says many people have been inspired by birds as they try to fly – and he considers himself “a bird with a fixed wing.” He has flown across the English Channel and over the Grand Canyon, but he said it was thrill to fly in front of thousands of people at the EAA – which he calls the “Super Bowl of Aviation.”

In case you missed it, Rossy will perform again during the afternoon airshows Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. 

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Officials with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation announce a full overnight closure for a small section of Highway 41 at the Highway 29 interchange.

Northbound 41 will be closed from 8 p.m. Thursday, August 1 through 6 a.m. Friday, August 2, and southbound 41 will shut down starting at 7 p.m. Thursday through 6 a.m. Friday to set steel tub girders above U.S. 41.

The following detours will be in place:

• Northbound US 41 traffic will be detoured at the off-ramp to WIS 29, continue across WIS 29 and take on-ramp back to northbound US 41
• Southbound US 41 traffic will be detoured at the off-ramp to WIS 29, continue across WIS 29 and take on-ramp  back to southbound US 41 

Drivers can also expect full overnight closures of eastbound and westbound Highway 29 on Thursday, August 1 from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. for the setting of tub girders above U.S. 41.

Eastbound 29 will be closed between Packerland Drive and northbound U.S. 41 ramps. Westbound 29 will be closed between Taylor Street and southbound U.S. 41 ramps.

The following detours will be place:

• Eastbound WIS 29 traffic will be detoured at Packerland Drive, take Packerland Drive south to Mason Street, follow Mason Street east to Military Avenue and follow Military Avenue north to WIS 29
• Westbound WIS 29 traffic will be detoured at Military Avenue, take Military Ave. south to Mason Street and follow Mason Street west to Packerland Drive, follow Packerland Drive north to WIS 29

APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) - Appleton police say a 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a heroin overdose death.

According to investigators, a 23-year-old man was found dead last month in the 700 block of West Franklin Street.

On Friday, police interviewed a person of interest. That man, Robert Thompson, admitted to police he sold heroin to the victim.

Thompson is currently being held in the Outagamie County Jail.

Police are referring first-degree reckless homicide and drug charges to the Outagamie County District Attorney's Office.

MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - Forty-eight private and religious schools in Wisconsin have applied to accept students under the state’s newly-expanded private school choice program.

We won’t know how many of those schools will actually be chosen to participate until after August 9th, the deadline for parents to submit applications online.

If more than 500 youngsters apply statewide, only the 25 schools with the largest numbers of applications can accept tax-funded vouchers.

Green Bay has the most number of schools applying, with six. Sheboygan had the second-highest number with 4 schools interested.

The choice program has operated in Milwaukee for two decades, and in Racine for the last two years. It provides vouchers to low-income kids to attend private schools, in the hopes that they get a better education.

Governor Scott Walker originally wanted to expand the program to nine Wisconsin districts with the poorest grades in the state’s new public school report cards. That budget measure faced a host of criticism, even from some of Walker’s own Republicans.

The GOP ended up forging a compromise to expand the choice program statewide, but on a very limited basis. 

MENASHA, WI (WTAQ) - A man is arrested after arming himself with a blowtorch and starting to light fires inside his Menasha home.

Police were called to a home on Dakota Grove on the city's southeast side around 8:40 a.m. Wednesday.

Authorities say a woman had called them, saying her estranged husband sounded, "psychotic and he may hurt someone."

Officers arrived and they say the man appeared to calm down, but then went back into the house and locked the door behind him. The officers said he would then only growl and stare at them.

As more officers arrived, cops say the man grabbed a blowtorch and started lighting things on fire. As smoke filled the house, officers went in to try to arrest the man and give him aid. They fired a round of bean bags at him, but he went into a bathroom. He then came out of the bathroom armed with the blowtorch, police say. At that point, they fired a Taser stun gun at him and then arrested him.

An ambulance crew helped the man, who was not hurt; meanwhile, firefighters went in to put out fires and ventilate the house.

The man was taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation. His name was not released.

SHEBOYGAN, WI (WTAQ) - A 55-year-old bicyclist from Sheboygan is dead following a crash with a vehicle in Town of Sheboygan. 

The Sheriff’s Department is investigating the incident that happened just after 3 p.m. Wednesday along County Highway A at intersection with West Union Avenue. Sheriff's say the bicycle and a 2001 Ford Focus were southbound. 

Emergency responders say the bicyclist was pronounced dead at the scene. 

Circumstances surrounding the fatal accident were not released. 

The bicyclist's identity will be released Thursday morning. 

NEENAH, WI (WTAQ) - A boil water advisory for one section of the city of Neenah will continue at least until Friday.

The order is for residents living from Winneconne Avenue, south a half-mile to Meade, in an area between Henry Street on the west and Higgins Avenue on the east.

Residents say they've been dealing with illness for the past few days, and believe it's related to a construction site on South Commercial Street.

“Everybody in the house was sick,” Ofelia Carbajal told FOX 11. “They have diarrhea, fever, stomach pain really bad.”

The sickness was felt in the apartment above Carbajal as well.

“Real upset stomach and problems going to the bathroom for about three days,” Bryan Tilkens told FOX 11.

Both live right next to the site where levels of coliform bacteria were found in water samples. However, city officials say there is no evidence residents are getting sick from the water.

“There's no correlation at this point that it has come from the construction in the area down on Commercial Street,” said Kent Taylor, the director of Neenah Water Utility. “We don’t know at this point.”

Neenah Water Utility is sending four daily water samples to the DNR. The city needs 48 hours of clear samples before the water boil notice can end.

“We're sampling, we're flushing,” said Taylor.

Taylor is also taking phone calls, some critical of the way they found out about the water boil. Taylor says they followed protocol of alerting the media and posting a message on the water utility web site.

“Yesterday we went door to door in that area and we pounded on doors and we left door hangers on the doors,” said Taylor. “Was it late? Yes, but we did get the message and we viewed it as an update of the situation.”

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Wisconsin youngsters go back to school in just over a month – and some parents are surprised by the growing list of supplies they have to buy.

Brenda Salaj of Seymour said back to school items used to cost $100, including clothes. Now, she says it’s more like $500.

FOX 11 checked the shopping list that Salaj received from an intermediate school in Seymour – and everything on the list cost about $103. That includes 60 pencils, four packs of Expo dry-erase markers, a backpack, and gym shoes.

Seymour’s administrator says they’re trying to keep registration fees as low as possible.

FOX 11 also talked to two Wisconsin Rapids teachers who went to a Green Bay store to bulk up on supplies.

Melanie Pierzchalski said many school budgets don’t pay for classroom supplies anymore. That means parents now have to pay extra for what they used to get as part of their taxes and-or fees.

Salaj asked why teachers demand higher-priced brand names. Pierzchalski said brand-name items last longer, and can save parents money in the long run.

School officials say parent-teacher organizations can help provide supplies for parents who cannot afford the cost. A number of charities also have free give-aways. 

OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) - Oshkosh Corporation and a major workers union were unable to reach a desired end of July deadline to get a contract extension. 

The military vehicle maker is seeking a five-year contract extension with the United Auto Workers Local 578.  Oshkosh made the request in mid-June to “provide bid cost certainty” to gain a competitive edge in bidding on a $13 billion contract.

The current contract expires after September 2016. 

Oshkosh Corp. is looking for possible changes in healthcare, terms of layoffs and adding new entry level positions.

Oshkosh says it will still bid for the new military contract despite not reaching a contract extension with its union.