Local Wausau News

WAUSAU (WAOW) - The Wausau police officer who fatally shot a knife-wielding suspect on a domestic disturbance call joined the department 17 months ago, the agency said Tuesday. 

(CNN)-- A teen who took "Molly" and lost consciousness at a Milwaukee club has died.  

Newsline 9 at five on Sunday has moved to a later time.

A family spokesperson of the woman shot in the interstate shooting reports that the woman has died.

One of the two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to kill a classmate to appease a fictional horror character called Slender Man is appealing a judge's decision that keeps her in a secure facility.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - A Wausau man sentenced to life in prison for murdering his estranged wife and her girlfriend in 1996 failed Tuesday to get a new trial in a case that raised issues of cultural clashes.

MESA, Ariz. (AP) -- An Arizona high school student is facing a felony charge after police say he exposed himself in a football team picture that ended up in the school yearbook. 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Former judges and top legal officials are calling on the Florida Supreme Court to impose life sentences on nearly 400 people now awaiting execution on death row. 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Authorities say a man attacked a bus driver, stole the bus, then struck and killed a man after the bus jumped a curb at a gas station. 

GAINES TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Authorities in western Michigan are trying to determine if a 10-year-girl was abducted by a stranger before escaping. 

MERRILL (WAOW) - A 22-year-old Merrill man is jailed on $100,000 bail after he was charged in an arson fire last fall that destroyed a family's home and threatened the lives of seven people, according to online Lincoln County court records. 

By The Associated Press    A new study has found that most competitors on NBC's "The Biggest Loser" leave the show with a slower metabolism, making it more difficult to keep off the pounds.     

 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana election officials say nearly 98 percent of voters who requested absentee ballot applications for the state's primary have completed and returned those ballots.   

 MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin says lab tests show that a child diagnosed with Elizabethkingia (ee-LIZ'-ah-beth-KING'-ee-ah) is not connected to the strain that has caused an outbreak of the bloodstream infection in Wisconsin.  

  NEW YORK (AP) -- When life handed Beyonce lemons, she made ... watermelon water?   

(CNN)-- Rapper Tupac Shakur's mother-- Afeni Shakur Davis-- died late Monday night in California.  

   NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. (AP) -- Two brothers are jailed on charges they sold $4,600 worth of heroin to an undercover officer in the children's play area of a Pennsylvania Burger King 

 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Boomer-chella is on.    Goldenvoice announced Tuesday that the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters and the Who will perform during a three-day concert in October.

Heavy voter turnout is reported in central Indiana's Johnson County, where many voters face waits in long lines to cast ballots in the state's primary election.

Shawano is the latest Wisconsin community to adopt a policy that fines parents whose children repeatedly bully classmates.