Local Wausau News

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WAUSAU (WAOW) - A report of a person with a gun inside North Central Health Care Center Thursday prompted officers to rush to the scene, according to the Wausau Police Department. 

STEVENS POINT (WAOW) - A  10-year-old company that makes lightweight, custom-designed wheelchairs and sells them worldwide recently moved into a new manufacturing plant as it anticipates more growth.

(CNN) -- Alphabet, the parent company of Google, just passed Apple to become the world's most valuable company -- again.  

 CANNES, France (AP) -- Jodie Foster, one of only two female directors helming a major studio wide-release this summer, says Hollywood's risk aversion is contributing to its overwhelming male directors. 

 LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization is warning pregnant women not to travel to areas with Zika, and advising other travelers to take precautions against the mosquitoes that spread the virus ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics 

(CNN) -- It looks like George Zimmerman tried to auction off the gun he claimed to have used to kill Trayvon Martin.   

  NEW YORK (AP) -- The fashion photographer behind Calvin Klein's racy new ad campaign isn't bothered by the social media firestorm it has sparked.  

Madison Police said they believe the three recent homicides are connected.

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan described their meetings in Washington, D.C., today as a "positive step" toward unifying the Republican Party, even as Ryan again declined to endorse the New York billionaire.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - An old building in downtown Wausau that will be converted into apartments has qualified for $2.7 million in tax credits from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, Mayor Robert Mielke said Thursday. 

  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police in Los Angeles say a pistol that was registered to Sammy Davis Jr. was among 791 guns that were turned in during a gun buyback program. 

 NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) -- Robert Redford has sent a thank-you note to the Rhode Island city of Newport, where he recently filmed a movie.   .

(CNN)-  Preparing vegetables -- rather than eating them raw -- can maximize their health benefits!   

(CNN)- ISIS  appears to be losing its appeal in the U. S. FBI Director James Comey says fewer Americans are leaving the country to fight with ISIS.  

A North Carolina mayor says her city will not compromise on its equality law allowing transgender people to use the restroom of the gender with which they identify.

A former Madison police officer has pleaded guilty to public corruption charges.

(ABC) -- Birmingham police are investigating a shooting in which four children younger than 13 were shot and a woman was killed. 

(ABC) --  Oracle founder Larry Ellison has donated $200 million to the University of Southern California to fund a cancer research center, matching the largest single donation ever received by the school. 

(ABC) -- Payless ShoeSource Inc. has pulled a type of lighted sneakers from its store shelves after a Texas family claimed over the weekend that a toddler's shoes caught on fire.