Local Wausau News

WAUSAU (WAOW) - A longtime leader of Newman Catholic Schools is retiring. Janet Klosinski, who started her career with the private school system as a fourth grade teacher in 1983, is retiring as its president in June, the school said in an email to supporters Monday. 

WESTBORO (WAOW) - What happened to a person found burned up in a mobile home in northern Taylor County remained a mystery Monday - five days after the remains were discovered. 

House Speaker Paul Ryan's longshot Republican primary challenger hopes to capitalize on a boost of publicity thanks to the surprise weekend endorsement of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Karlen returns from Seahawks Rookie Camp.

A conservative group has revised a television ad attacking Democrat Russ Feingold after three Wisconsin television stations pulled the original from the air.

One of three brothers taken into custody after a deadly shooting on I-90-94 was released from the Dane County jail without bail.

The end of this year's Republican presidential primary race is creating uncertainty in some down-ticket Nebraska races.

CUSTER, S.D. (AP) -- A 2-year-old girl died after falling into an underground septic tank near Custer. 

OCHOPEE, Fla. (AP) -- Officials say a photo shoot sparked a fire that destroyed a historical landmark along the Tamiami Trail through Florida's Everglades. 

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The contractor who took the blame for accidentally starting a 2011 Christmas Day house fire in Connecticut that killed his girlfriend's three children and her parents now says it was the children's mother who left a bag of fireplace ashes in a mudroom.

A judge in Winnebago County has rejected a request for a new attorney from a man accused of taking hostages at a Neenah motorcycle shop.

Jordan on the job is back again! But this time... dirty jobs.

PHILLIPS (WAOW) - A person was accidentally shot and the shooter dropped off the wounded person outside a nursing home before fleeing, Price County Sheriff Brian Schmidt said Monday. 

Administrators of Wisconsin's only high school focused on helping students recover from drug and alcohol addiction say financial difficulties may force them to close it.

Police in Ohio's capital are searching for a man who's been pilfering plumbing from stores, hospitals and restaurants. 

Authorities say a Florida man was bitten by an alligator after he mistook it for dead.

(ABC) --  A Delta flight from Atlanta to Chicago had to make an emergency landing in Nashville after hitting turbulence that caused an engine covering to come off. 

A small plane has crashed onto the roof of a building in Southern California, sending one person to the hospital.

The sole winner of the $429.6 million Powerball jackpot has yet to come forward to claim the prize.

The mother of an 11-year-old girl whose hair got caught in a spinning carnival ride says her daughter underwent surgery to repair her scalp and remains in a Nebraska hospital.