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The Orlando nightclub shooter's use of a legally purchased AR-15-type rifle, which President Barack Obama likened to "weapons of war," has rekindled the debate about the sale and use of a civilian gun model often associated with the military. 

This kitten is a trooper. The "tiger-striped" cat, nicknamed Tigger, recently survived a 300-mile journey hiding inside the bumper of a Royal Navy helicopter pilot's car, according to a UK Royal Navy news release.

A waterpark resort chain based in Wisconsin plans to build a $250 million resort in Texas.    \

WAUSAU (WAOW)-- There have been 7 heroin overdoses in Marathon County since last Tuesday, one of which was fatal.

Young women are one step closer to being required to register for the draft.

MERRILL (WAOW)-- A multi-million dollar project in Merrill makes it's debut: the new pool is already making quite a splash! 

Part of a tangled dispute between a former Wausau Alderman and the city could be coming to an end.

Delta Dental of Wisconsin gave 1,400 pounds of fresh fruit, vegetables, and dairy products, along with a $2,000 donation, to The Neighbor's Place in Wausau on Wednesday. 

A Portage County woman is charged with child neglect after her daughter said she sometimes didn't have food and there were drugs in her home.

Eric Writz escaped from the Marathon County Jail and ripped off his ankle bracelet after coming into the facility for a random drug test on Tuesday.  

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says Mexican officials he's talked with during a trade mission there are concerned not just with comments made by Republican Donald Trump, but positions taken by the Democratic presidential candidates as well. 

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- A grand jury has indicted a tractor-trailer driver and his employer accused of causing a fiery interstate crash that killed five Georgia Southern University nursing students. 

MCKENNA, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities say a former patient killed a doctor and then himself inside a chiropractic office in Washington state. 

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Planned Parenthood is suing Mississippi over a new state law that will ban Medicaid from spending money with any abortion provider. 

AMHERST (WAOW) - The owner of a storage unit at Amherst Storage reported a break-in June 1.

Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said today there's "no question" the missing 2-year-old Nebraska boy who was dragged by an alligator into a lake Tuesday evening at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Bay Lake, Florida, is dead.

MADISON (WAOW) - U.S. Attorney John Vaudreuil said Wednesday a Merrill man is the latest to be arrested in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in central Wisconsin.

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt says it has spotted the wreckage of the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on board. 

WAUSAU (WAOW) - The man who has worked in the city economic development office for several months will take over as interim director of the city's Community, Planning and Economic Development Department, Mayor Robert Mielke said Wednesday. 

Merrill 8th grade students on an end-of the year field trip to Washington D.C. were safe after the bus they were on caught fire Tuesday.