Local Wausau News

Eight people were injured during a stabbing attack at a Minnesota shopping mall that ended with the suspected attacker -- who was dressed in a private security uniform and made references to Allah -- shot dead by an off-duty police officer, authorities said. St. Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson says eight people were taken to St. Cloud Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries following the attack first reported about 8:15 p.m. Saturday at the Crossroads Center. 

Police have removed a suspicious device from a Manhattan location four blocks from the site of an explosion that injured more than two dozen people. 

Officials at the Tomah VA Medical Center have briefed the staff of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson on the care of a Wisconsin veteran who later killed himself. 

Police and firefighters are at the scene of a possible explosion in New York City, and authorities say 25 people suffered minor injuries.

The U.S. Navy has launched a new littoral combat ship in Wisconsin.

The third annual Battle of the Badges softball tournament was held at Sunnyvale Park in Wausau on Saturday. 

Hundreds gathered at Riverside Park in Wausau on Saturday for the fifth annual Out of the Darkness community walk.  

The 60th Annual Bill Smiley Invitational Cross Country Meet was held Saturday morning at Tribute Golf Course in Wausau.

The Latest on the conflict in Syria, where a fragile cease-fire has entered its fifth day. (all times local): A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman says 62 Syrian soldiers have been reported killed in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike on a military base.

It's not every day you hear Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker talk like a Democrat.

A Green Bay man is charged in the killing of a woman whose body was found in a field in northeastern Wisconsin last spring.

A Pakistani official says the death toll from a suicide bombing at a mosque has risen to 36 after several of those wounded in the attack died in hospitals. 

A new report says moving the Department of Natural Resources' forestry headquarters to northern Wisconsin would likely cost millions of dollars. 

President Barack Obama will try to define how his leadership has made the planet safer and more prosperous when he gives his farewell speech this coming week to U.N. General Assembly.

Here are Friday's high school football scores as reported to the WAOW sports office.

Green Bay Packers wide receiver Trevor Davis will join us for week two of Pack Attack.

The first full day of Fall Ride kicked off Friday in Tomahawk. 

The Latest on a court hearing for a man charged with killing two nuns in Mississippi (all times local): An investigator has testified that a Mississippi man confessed to stabbing two nuns to death in their home.

DURANT, Miss. (AP) -- An investigator has testified that a Mississippi man confessed to stabbing two nuns to death in their home. 

The Tomah VA held two debriefings on Friday: one for the Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee, and the other for the senior staff of Wisconsin's congressmen and women.