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Alorica to close call center in G.B.
A call center in downtown Green Bay is closing. Alorica is in the Baylake City Center building. Nearly 145 people work there. Alorica is based in California, and the company has call centers around th...
Dec 10, 2019
Substitute teacher charged with touching girls
A substitute teacher is facing formal charges on accusations that he inappropriately touched two five-year-old girls at a Menasha elementary school. Winnebago County prosecutors are filing two counts ...
Dec 10, 2019
Abuse victims don’t have to pay for restraining orders
Prosecutors say a Green Bay woman kidnapped and held at knife-point by her ex-boyfriend didn’t think she could afford a restraining order. Donna Meiselwitz of Harbor House in Appleton says there...
Dec 10, 2019
Trestle project bids lower than expected
The cost to turn a railroad trestle in the Appleton flats into a trail will be cheaper than expected. The low bid for the Lawe Street trestle project, from Janke General Contractors, came in at just o...
Dec 10, 2019
Oshkosh adds new police dog
The Oshkosh police department has a new K-9. Officer Kate Mann says Legend is a two-year-old Labrador retriever, and he’s training to search for drugs and track people. She says Legend is differ...
Dec 10, 2019
Advocate wants more transparency from Evers
Advocates for open government are putting pressure on Governor Evers to increase transparency in his administration. Bill Lueders of the Freedom of Information Council says the governor’s recent...
Dec 10, 2019
Bond set for kidnapping suspect
Bail is set at $75,000 cash for a Green Bay man accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend at knifepoint over the weekend. Green Bay Police Commander Paul Ebel says Celio Jaimes-Gomez tried to stab his e...
Dec 10, 2019
Appleton could ban conversion therapy
Conversion therapy could be banned in Appleton. The board of health will consider a bill that bans the practice that is described as trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender iden...
Dec 10, 2019
Students show support for school officer
Oshkosh West High School students lined a street yesterday to honor a school police officer wounded on the job. Officer Michael Wissink was released from ThedaCare’s Neenah hospital, less than a...
Dec 10, 2019
Council taking up Lakeshore Park plan
The Oshkosh Common Council is expected to vote tonight on the plan for the new Lakeshore Park. City Manager Mark Rohloff says the goal is to convert the former golf course into a site that everyone ca...
Dec 10, 2019
