Brown County News

On a day Northeast Wisconsin was expecting severe weather, a tornado siren found a new home at the Brown County fairgrounds.

State traffic fatalities continue to be below even last year's pace, a 64-year low, and safety officials are hoping that trend can continue through the summer, which traditionally includes the months with the most traffic deaths.

Same-sex partners in Wisconsin soon will have many of the rights of married couples.

A Wisconsin appeals court says the Legislature passed an unconstitutional law when trying to help a town bypass the normal process of becoming a village.

GREEN BAY - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for a Brown County location for the new Milo C. Huempfner Community Based Outpatient Clinic, indicating that it must be north of State 29 and within a few miles of U.S. 41.

The town of Lawrence was the fastest growing community in Brown County last year, according to new population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Racial minorities serve on Brown County juries to a lesser degree than they exist in the population.

Cheers: To Cousins Subs for sponsoring the 2009 Moo Tour, whose recent stop in Ashwaubenon helped support Brown County 4-H youth programs.

Blood tests confirmed today that a man was driving drunk June 26 when he crashed head-on into another car on U.S. 41, killing himself and three people in the other vehicle.

Charlene P. Stites, 43, of Manitowoc, was charged Tuesday with three counts of bail jumping after a Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department detective and lieutenant found letters written from her to her jailed husband, according to a criminal complaint.

State highway officials say Wisconsin 172 from Interstate 43 to U.S. 41 - including all lanes on the Allouez-Ashwaubenon bridge over the Fox River - will be open by July 31.

Trial is set for Oct. 7 for a Green Bay man accused of burning his ex-girlfriend's dog in her oven.

Three people in a judge's courtroom at the Brown County Courthouse were checked for possible contamination after a letter was found with a suspicious substance inside.

The Green Bay Fire Department says a letter sent to a Brown County judge contained a white powder that has been identified as calcium sulfate, more commonly known as drywall material.

The 2009 Festival Foods Fire Over The Fox celebration kickoff begins at 1 p.m. Saturday with the ringing of the replica Liberty Bell on the Brown County Courthouse grounds.

ONEIDA - Kelsey Verbeten shot 73 in the second round Sunday and finished with a 143 to win the championship flight title at the Brown County women's amateur golf tournament at Brown County Golf Course.

Brown County residents already are taking advantage of a new BadgerCare health insurance plan for low-income adults who don't have children.

The head-on crash that killed three Menasha friends on June 19 in Ashwaubenon is the latest rallying cry for legislators to adopt tougher drunken driving laws in Wisconsin.

A bronze marker that once rested at the site of the original Brown County Courthouse in De Pere was rededicated Friday and returned to the corner of Wisconsin Street and George Street.

Brown County's 911 Communications Center is in its new home at the county jail, setting the stage for the county's funding of a new radio system.