Local Wausau News

Police say a man wanted for holding a woman against her will has fatally shot himself at a hotel in Grafton.

Ben Pasternak, a high school dropout from Sydney, Australia, could be the next great titan of technology. Pasternak, 16, is the creator and CEO of Flogg, an app that allows users to buy and sell within their social network with just a swipe. 

After Prince Harry presented Team USA swimmer Elizabeth Marks with her fourth gold medal at the Invictus Games in Orlando today, she asked him to take it back and to deliver it to the hospital in Cambridge, U.K., that saved her life. 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign is announcing new endorsements from several House committee chairs ahead of his trip Thursday to Washington.

It's been nearly six months since a Central Wisconsin village passed a bullying ordinance.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The German operator of a cargo ship detained at a Lake Superior port in Minnesota last year is charged with covering up illegal dumping of oily wastewater.

Michael Bloomberg says he will "think about" whether to endorse either of the two presidential candidates likely to face off in the November election, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. 

Utah police are searching for two suspects after a woman and her four teenage daughters were lured to a house and tied up in a basement before they managed to escape, authorities said Wednesday.

The Marshfield Common Council approved an agreement to buy a new building for City Hall on Tuesday.

The Gus Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament will be held in Stevens Point on Crosby Avenue, according to Mayor Mike Wiza. Wiza said City Council still needs to approve the plan, but he is confident it will pass.

A central Wisconsin company is showing support for law enforcement.

U.S. Post Offices around the country are taking part in the annual “Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive."

PITTSVILLE (WAOW) - A woman rescued a 37-year-old man from a burning home as the man was trying to find his dog to get her out, Pittsville Fire Chief Gerald Minor said Wednesday. 

PORTAGE (WKOW) -- It's been nearly five months since we first introduced you to Misty. 

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A friend of the former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association who is implicated in a jackpot-fixing scandal says she was given a winning Kansas Lottery ticket worth $15,000 in 2011 as an engagement gift. 

WESTBORO (WAOW) - The missing Price County woman who prompted a search that led to a burned out mobile home in Taylor County was identified Wednesday as 53-year-old Judy Davis. 

Federal investigators say they believe a fire that caused the fatal explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant was intentionally set, but that no arrests have been made.

RIB MOUNTAIN (WAOW) - Someone fired a BB gun at homes in Rib Mountain, causing thousands of dollars in damage last week.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Four journalists arrested during protests that followed the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson have settled their lawsuit against St. Louis County police.

HINCKLEY, Minn. (AP) -- Authorities say three Good Samaritans helped save a woman's life when they pulled her from a car just before it burst into flames on the side of a Minnesota highway.