Local Wausau News

Authorities say an inmate was found dead at Rock County Jail in southern Wisconsin.

The Show Dome at the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory in Milwaukee has reopened after undergoing repairs.

Milwaukee police say a 39-year-old man was fatally stabbed during a street fight. 

Nearly 4 million Nissan cars are being recalled due to major safety problems where passenger air bags or seat belts could fail in a crash. 

Two months, 31 arguments and 18 decisions since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, is the Supreme Court hopelessly deadlocked or coping as a party of eight? 

Dogs and other animals now have a bathroom of their own at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The annual "Bowl for Kids Sake" kicked off Friday night at Dales Weston Lanes. 

Spring is here and that means storm season is too. 

James Michniak is a junior at Rhinelander High School, and he has a reputation of brightening everyone's day. 

The man responsible for a standoff with police in Oneida County is headed to trial. 

BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of rowdy protesters broke through barricades and threw eggs at police Friday outside a hotel where Donald Trump addressed the state's Republican convention. 

A sea of blue flooded Antigo High School Friday, as staff and students shared their support for local law enforcement.

Ben Franklin Junior High students are raising money for the Portage County Sheriff's Department.

A new state law cracks down on repeat drunken drivers and now local law enforcement and crash survivor are talking about what impact the law could have in Central Wisconsin.

Three people were sent to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a five car crash in Wausau Friday night.

Local law enforcement agencies are collecting prescription medication as part of a statewide drug take back program.

HONOLULU (AP) -- Hawaii has awarded eight licenses for medical marijuana dispensaries -- but not to Woody Harrelson. 

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A judge has sentenced a Colorado woman to 100 years in prison for cutting a nearly 8-month-old fetus from a stranger's womb.

The Packers made a splash in the second round of the NFL Draft, trading up to the No. 48 overall pick to select offensive tackle Jason Spriggs of Indiana.

ANTIGO (WAOW) - The teenager seriously wounded in the Antigo High School prom shooting was released from a Wausau hospital Friday, Antigo Police Chief Eric Roller said.