Local Wausau News

Three finalists from a list of 23 applicants have been selected to be interviewed to become the first leader of Wisconsin's new Ethics Commission.

In a glass box in a private school in Maine sits a 40-year-old chemistry experiment still going strong: A decades-old Twinkie. 

Authorities have identified a man with a history of burglary convictions as the person whose decaying body was found stuck in the burglar bars of an Alabama warehouse. 

 A Florida newspaper reports a homeless man has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for punching a swan near an Orlando lake. 

Former NFL head coach and influential defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan has died, agent James Solano confirmed Tuesday.

Authorities say that more than 50 cremated remains have been found in a storage unit in the greater Atlanta area. 

Witnesses say a man accused of fatally shooting his wife with a crossbow in Philadelphia stood naked at his own doorway as she stumbled to a neighbor's home and collapsed in a pool of her own blood. 

Milwaukee police say a customer upset with his order at a Taco Bell shot into the restaurant's drive-thru window. 

Pat Summitt, the legendary University of Tennessee women's basketball coach, died today in Tennessee, the Pat Summitt Foundation announced this morning.

A head-on crash in Waupaca County sent several people to the hospital late Monday night, according to the Waupaca County Sheriff's Department.

At least six children have been crushed to death by toppling Ikea chests, prompting the voluntary recall of about 29 million chests and dressers sold by the popular retailer, the Consumer Product Safety Commission says. 

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) -- Jury deliberations have begun in the trial of a man accused of killing an 18-year-old Wisconsin woman in 1990.

STEVENS POINT (WAOW)-- The Boys and Girls Club of Portage County gets a new set of wheels. 

Donald Trump has hired a top communications consultant who worked on Sen. Ted Cruz' unsuccessful presidential campaign. 

Police in Portland, Oregon, say a 33-year-old woman returning home with her two young children shot and killed an intruder in one of her children's bedrooms. 

The American Red Cross issued an apology Monday for a water safety poster that some suggested had a racist message.

Wausau police officers are now wearing body cameras. It took $300,000 and nearly two years of planning to get underway.

MISHICOT, Wis. (AP) -- Manitowoc County sheriff's officials say a large snake that attacked a poodle is on the loose in Mishicot.    

As the weather continues to heat up, many working parents worry about the safety of their children during summer vacation. 

Police and fireworks experts share safety tips for the Fourth of July.