Local Wausau News

PRINCETON, Ind. (AP) -- Officials still haven't determined the source of methane gas that forced about 30 people to evacuate a southwestern Indiana apartment complex more than two weeks ago.

(ABC) -- The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to announce tomorrow what led to Amtrak 188's fatal derailment on May 12, 2015. 

(ABC) -- Thunderstorms in South Texas that dumped up to a foot of rain have led to flood-related rescues in Corpus Christi and sewage spilled into a creek. 

Meet the members of our WAOW & WYOW broadcast division team.

WAUSAU, Wis. (WAOW) -- A big change for the Wisconsin Valley Fair's concert line up. 

WAUSAU (WAOW) - The state Department of Workforce Development said Monday that 36 workers will lose their jobs with the closure of the Sears store in downtown Wausau. 

RHINELANDER (WAOW) - A rural Oneida County man who got into an hours-long standoff with police after a domestic dispute pleaded not guilty Monday to two felonies and two misdemeanors, according to online Oneida County court records. 

SUGAR CAMP (WAOW) - The explosion that blew apart a northwoods seasonal cabin and damaged some neighboring homes was caused by a propane gas leak, the Oneida County Sheriff's Department said Monday. 

An environmental group is accusing the federal government of misjudging an emergency response plan for a major oil pipeline that runs through Michigan.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - Mayor Robert Mielke and other bicyclists pedaled to work Monday to kick off  bike-to-work week in Wausau.

Chicago-area police issued a well-being check Monday for Irish singer and musician Sinead O'Connor, who reportedly went for a bicycle ride Sunday morning in a northern suburb but never returned.

Wausau Police respond to 50,000 calls each year, and about 20,000 of those involve crisis or mental illness.

MERRILL (WAOW) - A judge ruled Monday that a Merrill woman accused of putting a plastic bag over a 78-year-old man's head, trying to kill him, is competent to stand trial, according to online Lincoln County court records. 

(CNN)-- The Supreme Court is sending the Obamacare-contraception case back to lower courts.   

(ABC) --- The first New Hampshire woman to file papers to run for governor, only to be rebuffed because women in 1910 had yet to secure the right to vote, is finally making her way to the Statehouse. 

Nearly 100 veterans from North Central Wisconsin spent the day in the nation's capital Monday.  

WAUTOMA (WAOW) - A woman who was rescued from a heroin overdose more than a month ago now faces felony drug charges, Waushara County Sheriff Jeffrey Nett said Monday. 

The City of Stevens Point went mobile, Monday, with the announcement of its new app.

An attorney challenging more than a dozen changes to Wisconsin election laws enacted since Gov. Scott Walker took office is telling a federal  judge they are discriminatory, embarrassing "and a stain on the history of the state."

Authorities say a 36-year-old Florida horse trainer is accused of stealing three prized horses and then trying to sell one online.