Local Wausau News

Police in Daytona Beach, Florida, say an 85-year-old man reported missing has been found, after getting into a car crash that killed a 21-month-old girl.

The nation seems to be kicking its smoking habit faster than ever before.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Menominee Indian Tribe which sought protection for industrial hemp.

A Louisiana chapter of the NAACP wants a school superintendent and three school board members to resign after a high school valedictorian was blocked from participating in graduation for refusing to shave his beard. 

Brown County sheriff's deputies have arrested the live-in boyfriend of a woman whose body was found in a field near Green Bay.

 GLADSTONE, Va. (AP) -- A North Carolina man has died after an incident at an industrial packaging company in Virginia.

A Nashville photographer who stumbled upon an engagement happening right before her eyes and took a few photos was desperate to find the couple she shot. 

A man's body was found in a boat on the Big Eau Pleine Reservoir Monday night, according to Marathon County authorities.

Crews responded to a fire at an Amish sawmill in Wood County Monday night, according to the Wood County Sheriff's Department.

CHESTER, Ill. (AP) -- A prison inmate whom Drew Peterson allegedly enlisted to kill a state's attorney says the former suburban Chicago police officer also admitted killing his missing fourth wife. 

A heated debate continues in the Wausau School District as board members struggle with fixing class sizes, something that will affect hundreds of students.

Justice Stephen Breyer says the Supreme Court has not been diminished by having only eight members since the death of Antonin Scalia. 

The Wisconsin DNR, along with the National Weather Service, issued a red flag fire warning for 12 counties in Wisconsin on Monday due to high winds, high temperatures, and low humidity. 

Surgeons at Marshfield Clinic in Wausau will have new tool to help them out in the operating room.

Wisconsin law enforcement agencies are cracking down on buckling up.

Doctors and developers broke ground on a new cancer treatment facility at the Marshfield Clinic in Stevens Point on Monday.

WESTLAND, Mich. (AP) -- A man has died after being hit by an Amtrak train in suburban Detroit.

LANCASTER, Wis. (AP) -- Authorities in Grant County of southwestern Wisconsin are on the lookout for a fugitive -- a huge snake.

BARABOO, Wis. (AP) -- Tigers are back in the entertainment lineup at Circus World in Baraboo for the first time in more than a decade.

DENVER (AP) -- Media outlets across the United States, from New England to Wisconsin and California, as well as in the United Kingdom are reporting school evacuations because of threats.