Winnebago County News

The Wisconsin State Patrol is investigating two separate accidents in the northbound lanes of Highway 41 in Oshkosh, leaving one man dead.

Five men are now facing criminal charges in connection to a fight that broke out a downtown tavern Wednesday.

It must have looked, for the entire world, back in the 1930s that the people of Winnebago County were literally digging their way out of the Great Depression.

Area municipalities will bear the burden of a dramatic increase in the state garbage tax included as part of the fix for the state's $6.6 billion budget hole.

A plane had to make an emergency landing in a field in Winnebago County. No was injured.

Oshkosh police have a 24-year-old man in custody who they believe is responsible for three convenience store robberies in the city earlier this month.

An Oshkosh man accused of attacking his girlfriend and her teenage daughter with a box cutter in March pleaded guilty to amended charges.

With love can come criminal consequences. In Wisconsin, 17-year-olds are tried as adults in the court system.

APPLETON - The bugs are back, and if Willis Loeck's experience matches the rest of the Fox Cities, they're back in bigger numbers.

WINNECONNE - Police arrested a 19-year-old Winneconne woman who they saw punching a man in the parking lot of a village convenience store Sunday.

Five men will stand trial on charges stemming from two strong-armed robberies this month in Oshkosh.

A 24-year-old Oshkosh man accused robbing three convenience stores earlier this month is now facing more than 100 years in prison.

It took eight Oshkosh police officers - six patrolmen and two supervisors - to sort out the melee that broke out at Town Motel, 215 Division St.

A 25-year-old Appleton man accused of soliciting young girls for sex through a social networking Web site entered a not guilty plea during an arraignment Wednesday.

Sex offenders are not just the stereotype of men lurking in the bushes. An offender could be a co-worker, neighbor, female, clergy member, schoolmate or relative, said Nichole Hall, Wisconsin Department of Corrections sex offender registry specialist for Fond du Lac and Winnebago counties.

The process isn't as simple as opening a cell door. Seventeen-year-old Zach Reid, convicted earlier this month of killing his father, will be placed in the adult prison system despite his age, but officials say he will get some special consideration as he begins his life sentence.

Officials say scorching temperatures and high humidity caused several highways in Wisconsin, including the Fox Valley, to heave Tuesday.

It was mid-August on the farm and if we got the oats in the bins on time that meant there was an afternoon or two to travel to Oshkosh for the Winnebago County Fair.

Two brothers who purchased a deteriorating, foreclosed home in Oshkosh in 2007 with the hopes of remodeling it to sell for a profit claim city inspectors intimidated them during their efforts to secure a building permit for the Delaware Street residence.

The first orange construction barrels signaling the start of seven years of construction connected to the expansion of U.S. Highway 41 in Winnebago County will soon be appearing.