Local Wausau News

MERRILL (WAOW) -- Our Lincoln County Petsaver is named Dean.  

TOWN OF DEWEY (WAOW) - A Portage County homeowner has posted a sign along County Highway "Y" in hopes of getting his missing trailer back.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Three Democrats want the chance to challenge three-term GOP incumbent Congressman Sean Duffy in northern Wisconsin this fall. 

DENVER (AP) -- Federal prosecutors in Colorado say a hospital surgery technician accused of stealing painkiller syringes is a carrier of HIV. 

Backers of Bernie Sanders say the super delegate system allowing party insiders to support whoever they want for president is corrupt and subverting the will of the people.

UCLA police chief says it's possible one of two killed in campus shooting was the gunman.

Manitowoc officials say city employees will be trained how to properly handle the American flag after a U.S. Army veteran complained about seeing flags piled up like "dirty laundry" after Memorial Day.

Homicide charges against a Kenosha man accused of mutilating his wife with a knife and shooting her have been dismissed because the defendant has died in a mental health treatment facility.

A Sussex firefighter is accused of driving a fire truck while intoxicated.

A man imprisoned for embezzling more than $400,000 from Ripon College is sentencing to additional time behind bars for new criminal charges in Ozaukee County.

 CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt says a French ship has picked up signals from deep under the Mediterranean Sea, presumed to be from black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board.

It's been nearly one year since New Horizons sped past Pluto, but the space probe is still sending back incredible images from its flyby of the dwarf planet. 

Seven years ago, newly elected President Barack Obama came to a blighted stretch of northern Indiana and predicted a tough but certain recovery -- if the country embraced his approach to re-juicing the economy.

The Dane County Sheriff's Office wants your help in finding an 85-year-old woman who was last seen in Winnebago County.

RICHMOND, Texas (AP) -- Residents of some rural southeastern Texas counties were bracing for more flooding along a river that has reached a record-high. 

A man who spent 25 hours high atop a sequoia tree in downtown Seattle in March has been found incompetent to stand trial on a malicious mischief charge.

A Stevens Point family tragically impacted by the Tomah VA less than 2 years ago is speaking out after a new report shows multiple failures at the facility.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 35-year-old man has been charged with torturing, mutilating and killing a girlfriend whose bloodless body was found in their Southern California apartment.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department is warning Americans visiting Europe this summer about the potential for terrorist attacks. 

Hundreds gathered in Wausau to show support for Dylan Yang Tuesday.