Local Wausau News

A man said he helped the victims of a serious car crash in the Town of McMillan on Thursday.

A local Mohican Indian tribe has taken its first step in building a strip mall in Shawano.

Badgers are sporting their red and white with a little extra pride in anticipation of Saturday's game, but some purple and gold also popped up around Wausau.

After six teens were arrested in a string of car break-ins, officials from the Wausau Police Department are offering advice to prevent yourself from becoming a victim.  

Kronenwetter police say there have been two unconfirmed sightings of a cougar over the last month.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A rash of unsolved killings in outdoor public places in Alaska's largest city is putting residents on edge. 

Kronenwetter Police Chief Dan Joling said he will retire this year, and the department is now accepting applications to fill his role. 

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- A Connecticut man is accused of phoning in a threat to the new Sandy Hook Elementary School, which replaced the building that was demolished after 20 children and six educators were shot to death there in 2012.

You don’t have to be a technology genius to live in a smart home.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Milwaukee Veterans Affairs Medical Center says an email breach exposed information about 21 veterans in the center's care.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine will visit a Labor Day festival in Cleveland, while former president Bill Clinton will headline the annual AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic near Cincinnati.

 Donald Trump is meeting with a woman whose daughter was killed at the age of 20 by a group that included people who entered the country illegally.

A South Carolina sheriff says a father told deputies he was trying to make sure a gun was safe when accidentally fired the weapon, killing his 2-year-old daughter and wounding her 4-year-old sister.

Police say a Massachusetts man backed over his wife with a car in their driveway, killing her.

The on-going extermination of a wolf pack in Washington is the latest development in a controversy that pits conservationists against cattle ranchers in a part of the state far from the populous Seattle metro area.

Authorities say they've arrested a fifth suspect in the slaying of an aide to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH'-moh) during a pre-dawn Caribbean festival last year.

Authorities have removed 20 children and 18 dogs from a Southern California home that they say was uninhabitable.

A conservative Nebraska state senator is holding firm in his refusal to resign from office after admitting that he had cybersex on a state laptop with a woman he met online.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – A 36-year-old man is facing numerous felony charges after he fired a gun and holed up in his home for several hours, according to Green Bay Police.

BARDSTOWN, Ky. (AP) -- Two nuns who devoted their lives to helping the needy are being remembered in funerals, a week after they were stabbed to death in their home in a poverty-stricken Mississippi county.