Local Wausau News

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her job is both a blessing and a curse. 

Sentencing was postponed for a Wausau teen accused of taking a gun to school. 

With school buses back on the road, multiple accidents have already occurred across the Midwest.

Governor Walker made a stop in Weston on Thursday to announce 17 new grants that aim to help residents in rural areas get better access to the internet.

Experts from the UW-Extension held a webinar focusing on farmer safety while working on manure pits and tanks on Thursday.

A fund in memory of Amherst farmer Mike Biadasz has received $16,000 in donations.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A NASA spacecraft is on its way to the space rock Bennu. 

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say "items of interest" have been found by authorities digging for the remains of a California college student who vanished in 1996. 

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A judge has dismissed federal claims Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie violated the constitutional rights of a nurse quarantined because she had contact with Ebola patients in Africa. 

ROTHSCHILD (WAOW) - Pamela Gresser, a fifth-grade teacher at Rothschild Elementary School, was named Wisconsin's elementary "teacher of the year" during a surprise ceremony Thursday. 

SPENCER (WAOW) - Spencer police said Thursday that an unknown man or woman wearing a black ski mask and black gloves tried to abduct a 9-year-old girl five days ago near her home. 

A former Merrill choir teacher accused of sexual assault of a student pleaded no contest Thursday to one felony and two others were dismissed in a plea deal with prosecutors.

Authorities are actively searching for a suspect who ran from a traffic stop in Kronenwetter Thursday afternoon.

What's Wisconsin's coolest thing? A contest sponsored by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce is attempting to get to the bottom of the burning question.

A group of farmers has formed to buy and deliver clean, bottled water to families with contaminated drinking wells.

Assembly Democrats say Republicans haven't done enough to address funding cuts and teacher shortages in Wisconsin's rural schools.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS (WAOW) - A 30-year-old Nekoosa woman sentenced to four years in prison for killing her boyfriend on his motorcycle because she was texting as she drove a vehicle behind him was ordered Thursday to pay his family $10,500 in restitution, according to online Wood County court records. 

  ALPINE, Texas (AP) -- Police in the West Texas town of Alpine say there's an "active shooter" situation at a high school and schools have been locked down amid the search for a suspect.    Elizabeth Carter, a lieutenant at the Texas Department of Public Safety, said someone brought a gun onto the Alpine High School campus Thursday morning.    Police dispatcher Scarlet Eldred had no immediate information on whether anyone was hurt in an unspecifie...

(CNN)--NASA  launches a space probe Thursday to chase down a dark and potentially dangerous asteroid that scientists say could one day collide with earth. Osiris-Rex is scheduled to blast off this evening from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. The unmanned probe will arrive at the asteroid, named "Bennu,' sometime in August 2018 and will hang out there for months. It will create a map of the asteroid, take pictures and samples and bring them back to earth.

(CNN)-- Tim Tebow is pursuing his major-league dream. The New York Mets tweeted out that they have signed Tebow to a minor league contract. The former NFL  quarterback held an open tryout last week in front of scouts from 28 of the 30 MLB teams. Tebow will participate in the Mets instructional league. The 29-year-old hasn't played competitive baseball since high school. His plan to shift from football to baseball was announced in August. Tebow wasn't able to stick...