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2 weeks ago | 
whby.com | Terry Kovarik
BEAVER DAM, WI - The man arrested in the case of a missing, pregnant teenage girl from Beaver Dam is now in the custody of Wisconsin law enforcement. WISN TV says 40-year-old Gary Day of Arkansas was extradited from Nebraska to Wisconsin Wednesday. He was arrested earlier this month at an Omaha-area truck stop following a 9-1-1 call from a citizen. Police arrived and also found Sophia Franklin, who's pregnant with Day's child. Both disappeared in February from Franklin's home in Beaver Dam.
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2 weeks ago | 
whby.com | Terry Kovarik
KAUKAUNA, WI- Someone in the Kaukauna area is $9.5 millions richer today. A Megabucks lottery ticket worth that amount was sold at the Kwik Trip on Gertrude Street for last Saturday night's drawing. That is the largest lottery jackpot won in Wisconsin this year. The winner has six months to claim that prize.
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3 weeks ago | 
whby.com | Terry Kovarik
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3 weeks ago | 
whby.com | Terry Kovarik
OSHKOSH, WI - The suspect in a decades-old unsolved murder case in the Fox Cities dies. According to an obituary notice, 84-year-old Gary Banes died March 25 from Alzheimer's disease. Banes became the prime suspect in the disappearance of his estranged wife, Jeanne Banes, in December 1993. Gary Banes told investigators at the time Jeanne pulled her car to a Neenah hotel where he used a restroom. When he went back outside, Jeanne Banes and her car were gone.
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1 month ago | 
whby.com | Terry Kovarik
(Contains new information from Kaukuana Police Dept news release)NEENAH, WI - A Neenah Police officer is fired for possession of child pornography. In in a pair of news releases issued this (Wednesday) afternoon, Police Chief Aaron Olson identified the officer as probationary Officer Owen Halls, who joined the department in March of 2024. Chief Olson says his office was alerted after an Internet Crimes Against Children tip to the Kaukauna Police Department.
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1 month ago | 
whby.com | Terry Kovarik
TOWN OF CHARLESTOWN, WI - Calumet County authorities say a child died from injuries related to an early morning fire at a home near New Holstein. Fire crew were called to a report of a fire in the Town of Charlestown around 2:08 AM Wednesday. An unresponsive child was recovered from the scene. First responders began life saving-measures and took the child a local hospital where the child was pronounced dead. The extent of the damage and the cause of the fire are also unknown.
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1 month ago | 
whby.com | Terry Kovarik
FOND DU LAC, WI - A man convicted in the shooting death of a Fond du Lac man is sentenced in that case. Eric Perry will spend 50-years of initial confinement and 20-years of extended supervision for 2nd Degree Intentional Homicide with a Dangerous Weapon, with a repeater enhancer and Armed Robber as a repeater and Felon in Possession of a Firearm with a repeat enhancer. Those charges are in in the October 2021 death of Benzel Rose whom Perry shot in the head during a drug deal.
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1 month ago | 
whby.com | Terry Kovarik
APPLETON, WI - Sentence is handed down for a Little Chute woman in connection with the drug overdose death of her young daughter. Brooke Seal will spend nine-years in prison initial confinement for child neglect resulting death and eight-years extended supervision. Seal also receives 18-months initial confinement running concurrently with 18-months of extended supervision for possession of an illegal article. She was also given 418 days credit for time served.
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1 month ago | 
whby.com | Terry Kovarik
APPLETON, WI - The name of an employee killed in a workplace accident March 12 at Progressive Converting is released. The Outagamie County Coroner says 44-year-old Jean Ndakebuka of Appleton died at the scene in an accident involving forklift operations. Results of an autopsy are pending. The incident is under investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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1 month ago | 
whby.com | Terry Kovarik
SUAMICO, WI - Be on the lookout for a pair of otters that escaped from the NEW Zoo in Suamico. Zoo officials say during the winter storm Thursday morning Louie and Ophelia, a pair of North American river otters broke through a small breach in buried fencing. A professional tracker is now working to locate the on-the-lam otters. Zoo officials say the otters are not a danger to the public and are unlikely to approach people.
