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De Pere police identified a suspect in the armed robbery at Advance America cash advance store.

The number of homeless students in the Green Bay School District is up 20 percent from this time last year, a trend officials expect will persist as the sagging economy continues to take its toll.

A woman was injured in a crash involving a semitrailer and a car on the northeast side of Green Bay this morning.

ONEIDA - Four people were injured, at least one seriously, in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Outagamie County EE at County U in the Town of Oneida just after 5 p.m. Sunday.

A hunter all his life, Brian Cupp of Neenah could have been out in the woods on Saturday for the second-to-last day of deer hunting season.

De Pere police are looking for a man they suspect was involved in an armed robbery at Advance American Cash Advance on Saturday.

EDITOR'S NOTE: In their new book "The Lombardi Legacy," author Royce Boyles and former Packers linebacker Dave Robinson attempted to provide rare behind-the-scenes glimpses of Vince Lombardi.

LAWRENCE - ComedyCity is moving in January from downtown De Pere to The SC Grand Banquet and Convention Center.

Green Bay residents are expected to light up the sky again this holiday season for the citywide It's A Wonderful Lights contest and tour.

The unemployment rate was slightly lower in the Green Bay metro area in October, as it was in most of the state.

A Green Bay lawyer's law license has been suspended because he failed to cooperate with investigators from the state Office of Lawyer Regulation.

A big-game biologist says snowier weather heading for Wisconsin over Thanksgiving likely won't affect the outcome of the deer gun season.

It's an annual holiday season tradition for the Green Bay Fire Department -- spreading a message of safety with lighted Christmas wreaths outside their fire stations.

U.S. Judge William Griesbach doesn't think Green Bay should have to wait 12 more years for a federal courthouse.

Authorities found a store receipt near the body of a woman that included duct tape, a utility knife and weed killer, according to search warrants filed this week and obtained by the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Hunters found the body of Miki Greaves, 50, of Ashwaubenon, lying beside a remote road in the town of Cooperstown, north of Menchalville, early ...

Police are investigating the armed robbery of an east-side convenience store Monday night.

A Green Bay man has been charged in Michigan with illegally killing a wolf in Iron County earlier this month, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

A Wisconsin utility says layoffs and furloughs are in the future as it deals with a decline in power usage -- primarily in the commercial sector.

Motorists traveling to and from central Wisconsin for the Thanksgiving holiday can expect rain -- and maybe even a little bit of snow -- as they hit the roads Wednesday and Thursday.

A person of interest in Thursday's shooting on Crooks Street is in custody at the Brown County Jail, Green Bay police said this morning.

A 30-year-old Green Bay man was charged with four felonies after allegedly shooting into a west-side tavern and leading police on a high-speed chase last week.

A nearly full house of 1,000 turned out Sunday to watch Door County landmarks play starring roles in the film "Feed the Fish." Additional information ♦ Family connection feeds 'Fish' ♦ Photo gallery from Sunday night's screening.

A 36-year-old Green Bay man arrested during a June drug raid was sentenced Friday to 38 days in jail and issued a $784 fine.

One of the six people charged in a May 11 beating pleaded no contest earlier this week to felony charges.

A motorcyclist was injured Friday after colliding with a vehicle, police said. The motorcyclist was identified as Allen Rossal, 58, of Green Bay, who was taken to Aurora BayCare Medical Center.

Police are cautioning residents on Green Bay's west side and the adjacent area in Ashwaubenon to protect themselves after a rash of burglaries in which perpetrators broke into locked garages.

Police investigating a Thursday afternoon shooting on Green Bay's east side said today that a neighborhood canvass has turned up no new witnesses or information.

MADISON - The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says most road construction projects in the state are done for the year, which should ease travel over the Thanksgiving holiday.

The city of Green Bay paid more than $300,000 to a Wausau-based law firm to handle legal issues related to 13 of the city's labor unions in 2007 and 2008.

Green Bay police say a person shot in an east-side neighborhood will recover, and is talking with investigators.

Christmas Tree Farms in the Green Bay, Wisconsin and surrounding area. Provided in each Christmas Tree Farm listing is the farm location, contact info, and whether the farm offers choose and cut your own Christmas Trees and/or fresh pre-cut Christmas Trees.

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections and the apartment manager told police Wednesday Geitano Schmidt will not move into the Broadway apartment.

GREEN BAY Getting up-to-date information about crimes in Green Bay is now just a click away.

A fund has been established at North Shore Bank for Elizabeth Moore, 18, who was seriously injured Nov.

The struggling economy has made it more difficult for some local schools to raise money.

The building at 126 S. Adams St. in Green Bay has seen an odd evolution the last two years with the on-again-off-again operation of The Stein, and now a new owner who is bringing a Mexican restaurant and bar to the site.

Green Bay's school superintendent says the same-old, same-old is not going to work anymore.

The Brown County Sheriff's Department has released the names of the three people injured in an early morning crash on Highway 41.

The National Weather Service office in Green Bay reports the following weather conditions for the Marshfield area today: Veterans Day: Partly sunny, with a high near 56.

A 20-year-old Green Bay man was arrested Thursday night in North Dakota when police found about 110 pounds of marijuana in a vehicle in which he was a passenger, the Bismarck Tribune reported.

TOWN OF SCOTT - The New Franken Fire Department and Brown County Sheriff's Department are waiting to confirm that a man has been rescued after his boat capsized in the waters of Green Bay.

One teenager was zapped with a Taser stun gun and four teens were arrested after an after school fight on Green Bay's west side.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation Northeast Region in Green Bay is reminding motorists to avoid backups on areas near popular shopping destinations.

A 30-year-old man is in custody today after a high-speed chase that began with gunshots fired into a tavern on South Broadway early this morning.

News of death and severe illness because of the swine flu makes Alfredo Atkinson of Green Bay anxious.

A news conference this morning at the Meyer Theatre may focus on the movie, "Feed the Fish," featuring Green Bay native Tony Shalhoub.

Green Bay police are searching for a man they say robbed a gas station at gunpoint.

A 46-year-old Green Bay woman pleaded no contest to a reckless homicide charge Tuesday for supplying the drugs that killed her 28-year-old niece.

Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce has scheduled a meeting to discuss the new health-care proposals at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Tundra Lodge Resort Waterpark and Conference Center, 865 Lombardi Ave.

The workers cleaning up the Fox River contamination are donating $4,500 to the Green Bay Fire Department for smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

Business has been slow, so dairy farmer Bernie Kozlovsky could use a little extra cash as much as the next guy.

A Green Bay priest has auctioned off his late mother's silver collection and donated the $20,000 in proceeds to a homeless shelter.

A 27-year-old prison inmate was hospitalized Monday morning after an apparent suicide attempt at the Green Bay Correctional Institution.

Jessica Bartels thought the problem was fixed. On Nov. 3, the 31-year-old from Green Bay woman saw traffic-light poles up as she drove to the intersection of East Mason Street and Ontario Road.

ASHWAUBENON - The steel and blue San-i-Pak autoclave in the benign-looking metal building at Austin Straubel International Airport could be a key component in the future of the facility.

FDL Man Sentenced for 33-year-old Murder A Fond du Lac County judge sentences a man sentenced to life in prison for killing a go-go dancer more than three decades ago.

Getting information about crimes in Green Bay is as easy as clicking a mouse because of a new crime-mapping Web site provided by the Green Bay Police Department.

Well-known classical works fill the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra's program Saturday at the Weidner Center.

John Soyring spends every Nov. 10 at the same place, doing the same thing. The Green Bay man goes to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point on the Lake Superior shore to ring the bell in honor of his uncle and the other 28 men who perished when the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a brutal storm 34 years ago.

The Wisconsin Innocence Project is seeking a new trial for a man convicted of killing a man in a Green Bay paper mill 17 years ago.

GREEN BAY - Police arrested a 32-year-old Sobieski man wanted for questioning in three armed robberies after his vehicle was spotted at a Shawano Avenue motel Saturday morning.

GREEN BAY - A 17-year-old girl was charged Thursday with first-degree reckless endangerment for allegedly stabbing a 19-year-old woman in the neck during a fight Wednesday on the city's west side.

A 50-year-old Green Bay man was hospitalized but survived after crashing his SUV in an apparent suicide attempt near Greenbush on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department.

The Republican field of candidates running to challenge U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen, D-Appleton, gets bigger today as Howard physician Marc Trager announces his run for Congress.

One of the men convicted of murdering Tom Monfils in a Green Bay paper mill 12 years ago has enlisted the aid of the Wisconsin Innocence Project in seeking a new trial.

Someone fired a single gunshot, most likely from a handgun, through a front window of a home in the 1200 block of Day Street on Thursday on the city's east side.

The state Medical Examining Board says it will discipline a Green Bay physician for failing to adequately assess a patient.

A battle between the city of Green Bay and the Green Bay Press-Gazette over the release of two years of legal fee bills ended up costing the the city $27,000 in legal fees.

A 29-year-old Green Bay man was charged Thursday with two counts of sexual assault for allegedly drugging and raping a woman he met on an Internet social networking site.

Green Bay residents could see a tax rate increase of 1.9 percent under a $101.5 million spending package that Mayor Jim Schmitt has proposed for 2010.

Circumstances surrounding this incident are still under investigation, Green Bay police said today.

Aside from the first two months of the shipping season, when nothing was moving because of the economic downturn, the port of Green Bay's manager says it has held its own this season.

Maxwell Majeski shot Jeremy Moorehead twice in the chest as both of Moorehead's hands were in the air, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.

President Barack Obama will be making his second appearance in Wisconsin since winning election when he appears at a Madison middle school on Wednesday.

Madison a ' State justice officials want to hear from the public on a new rule that calls for police to collect racial data during traffic stops.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen is trying to ensure that Green Bay retains its postmark.

ASHWAUBENON - One man was killed in a three-vehicle crash involving a semitrailer truck Monday night on U.S. 41, Ashwaubenon Public Safety Lt.

The driver killed in a three-vehicle crash Monday night on U.S. 41 has been identified as Robert Roloff, 78, of Allouez, the Brown County Sheriff's Office said today.

Richie Plass had a chili dog in his hand and an ear-to-ear smile on his face. Sonic Drive-In was open.

The Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce has scheduled a business trip to China for April 7 to 16.

The man accused of stealing the Aaron Rodgers Drive street sign early Saturday is a 16-year employee of the Green Bay Water Utility.

An 18-year-old man, Maxwell Majeski, is in custody after a Sunday night incident in which a 29-year-old man was shot to death at a home in the town of Scott, Brown County Sheriff Dennis Kocken said this morning.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation Northeast Regional Office at Green Bay is announcing WIS 310 is reopening Friday, Oct.

Fire caused $30,000 to $35,000 damage to the detached garage at a home on Green Bay's southeast side early Sunday afternoon.

Stimulus dollars could help local companies expand the reach of broadband high-speed Internet service in Northeastern Wisconsin, a service that rural residents say still is out of reach.

ASHWAUBENON - St. Vincent de Paul Society of Green Bay will open a retail store Monday at 1171 Lombardi Access Road.