Local Wausau News

A spokesman for Florida's attorney general, Pam Bondi, confirms that she personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump around the time her office deliberated joining an investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University. 

  A jury has returned a death sentence for a serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper," who murdered nine women and a teenage girl over several decades in South Los Angeles.   

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- A woman is charged in a house fire last year that killed an 89-year-old man in the Green Bay suburb of Hobart.

The last known living 9/11 search dog has died in a Houston suburb at age 16.

WAUSAU (WAOW)-- The Wausau Parks and Recreation committee is addressing a nationwide infestation that's inching towards Marathon County. 

Madison police arrested a man after finding him in illegal possession of a Ruger .357 Magnum. 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton has commitments from the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for president, and will be first woman to top the ticket of a major U.S. political party. 

Crews spent Monday tackling damages at John Muir Middle School.

Marathon County's landscaping crews were busy Monday morning cutting down branches and trees in Marathon Park after the storm that blew through the county on Sunday night.  

Strong winds left damage throughout Central Wisconsin Sunday afternoon.

ATLANTA (AP) -- A former Associated Press photographer who captured iconic images of the Civil Rights movement as well as of sports and political legends has died. Charles Kelly was 84.

STRATFORD (WAOW) - State Highway 97 was closed at County Highway C just south of Stratford Monday afternoon for a crash investigation, the state Department of Transportation said. 

University of Wisconsin System leaders are looking to give students an additional $12.7 million in financial aid over the next biennium.

The Marathon County Dispatch Center received around 440 calls during Sunday's afternoon storms.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - Trees, limbs and debris wrecked by the storm packing 65 mph winds that blew through Wausau Sunday will be collected by city crews through Thursday, the city said Monday. 

The Republican challenger to House Speaker Paul Ryan is launching the first television ad of his longshot campaign.

A strong spring storm didn't stick around long, but its damaging winds toppled trees and left about 30,000 electric customers without power in southeastern Wisconsin.

Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Brewers players will be picking up the paddles for unique matchup.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Minnesota's turkey and chicken farms are mostly back to full production after last year's bird flu outbreak devastated more than 100 poultry operations in the state.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- State officials have confirmed the first human case of West Nile virus in Illinois this year.