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In the next day two, the Pentagon is expected to launch new rules allowing transgender service members to serve openly in the U.S. military.

Authorities have found most of the nearly 80,000 bottles of beer that were stolen from an Atlanta brewery last week, but the company says every last drop will have to be thrown away. 

New York City police are looking for a man who stuffed a bag of feces down a woman's pants as she walked in Manhattan. 

Police says a gathering of dozens of young people in a Milwaukee park became violent overnight.

This Navajo artist from Albuquerque, New Mexico, says she has a message for the Donald. 

Alexandra Poulos of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, always knew there was something special about her house. 

WAUSAU (WAOW)-- A new recovery residence opens its doors Wednesday in Wausau. Hope House provides housing to Community Corner Clubhouse members. The organization helps those with mental illness and substance use disorders.  There are five bedrooms, aimed to focus on the specific needs of each resident. Leaders say the new program fills a need in the community. "Our membership brought this forward and said, 'Wausau needs recovery residence so that we can get the...

Parents may want to take extra precautions after an outbreak of a contagious infection in a Wisconsin city.

TOWN OF BARNES, Wis. (AP) -- Authorities in northern Wisconsin say a teenage girl has died in an all-terrain vehicle rollover. 

ELLSWORTH, Wis. (AP) -- Jurors have acquitted a woman accused of texting before a 2013 crash that killed her daughter and two nieces in western Wisconsin. 

A new construction project on Stewart Avenue in Wausau got underway Wednesday. The plan includes stand-alone bike lanes. 

A Wausau Red Cross volunteer is heading to West Virginia to help victims who lost everything to the state's devastating flood. 

Plans to sell the Marshfield City Hall are moving forward, according to city administrator Steve Barg.

Advocates in Wisconsin are pushing for dyslexia awareness in schools.

A community organization is helping the Portage County Sheriff's Department get a new K-9 officer.

The Stevens Point Fire Department burned down a house Wednesday - so they could better learn how to put it out and save the building.

Wausau police have arrested two teenagers in the bizarre theft of a porch light from a home - a crime captured on video.

STEVENS POINT (WAOW) -- Police say people who witnessed two fights that broke out in the downtown Stevens Point three weeks ago have important information - and likely some video evidence.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The second trial for a former lottery official accused of fixing jackpots in five states will be postponed until next year. 

Authorities have seized a dozen mixed-breed puppies from a home in southern Wisconsin.