Local Wausau News

The Wausau Fire Department sent out a search and rescue team on Lake Wausau on Wednesday to continue to look for missing 29 year-old veteran Brian Rossell. 

DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) -- A woman and her daughter are facing incest charges after authorities learned they legally married in Oklahoma this year. 

BRADENTON, Florida (AP) --   Sheriff's detectives and child welfare authorities are investigating a Florida day care center after an 18-month-old boy was repeatedly bitten by another toddler. 

A long-awaited memorial dedicated to the Hmong-Lao veterans is set be revealed in Wausau on September 24.

The Hmong community in Central Wisconsin is responding to President Obama's pledge to help Laos.

RHINELANDER (WAOW) - The Oneida County Sheriff's Department is offering a $1,000 reward to find out who phoned in a hoax 911 call of a shooting in a Town of Nokomis home, the agency said Wednesday.

Apple executives announced the latest generations of the iPhone and Apple Watch today in San Francisco, and both devices now have a special focus on fitness-minded consumers.

RHINELANDER (WAOW) - Two people suffered gunshot wounds in an accidental shooting at a rural home and alcohol was involved, Capt. Terry Hook of the Oneida County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday. 

  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy grew at a moderate or modest pace this summer in eight of the Federal Reserve's 12 U.S. districts, a slowdown from previous reports that may make Fed policymakers more cautious about an interest rate hike.    

(CNN)-- Donald Trump is doing away with the so-called "blacklist" for journalists. 

  By The Associated Press-- Tiger Woods says he hopes to play next month in the PGA's Safeway Open in Napa, California, his first competitive golf since August 2015.   

At least one school was evacuated Wednesday morning and crews were placing sandbags around another in Dodge County because of high water levels.

(CNN)-- Delta's computer outage in August really hurt the airline financially. Delta says the five-hour outage at its Atlanta operations center cost them $150-million dollars. 

NEW YORK (AP) -- Celebrities from music, film, fashion, sport and academia--have signed up to co-chair a two-day convention to celebrate diversity and unity.

A crime duo has ripped off thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment from area Target stores in recent weeks.

MERRILL (WAOW)-- This week's Petsaver from Lincoln County is Rex. 

One central Wisconsin studio is providing participants with a way to work on fitness by just hanging around.

Disability rights organizations have asked child protection officials to intervene in an Appleton teenager's plan to go without her ventilator and end her life.

The “bad boys” of Green Bay will be featured on the Sept. 24 episode of COPS.

Green Bay's mayor is facing criminal charges of violating state election law.