Local Wausau News

The price tag for help hacking into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters was more than $1 million, according to an answer FBI Director James Comey gave today when discussing the high profile encryption case. 

A preliminary design concept for an upgraded White House fence was submitted publicly on Thursday to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. 

Music lovers are mourning the death of world renowned artist, Prince.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is citing favorable comments from Vice President Joe Biden that stopped short of an endorsement of his campaign. 

Oklahoma voters will decide whether to abolish an article of the state Constitution so that a Ten Commandments monument can be returned to the Capitol grounds.

Water is being released from two west Houston flood-control reservoirs that have seen record water levels after this week's heavy rains.

Family, friends and mentors are remembering 16-year-old Nice Nicewander after he was killed Saturday in a Kronenwetter car crash.

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- A judge has approved six more jurors for the jury pool for a trial to decide the fate of a Georgia man accused of intentionally leaving his toddler son to die in a hot SUV. 

Virginia (AP) -- The National Park Service says female remains were found in the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia during the search for a paramedic-firefighter who disappeared a week ago. 

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Omaha police have announced the death of a squirrel that hung out around police headquarters and had his own Twitter following. 

WAUSAU (WAOW)- Cavin the cat is available for adoption at the Humane Society of Marathon County. 

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) -- A man accused of killing a Kansas City survey worker in 2004 has been found not guilty. 

A Central Wisconsin cleaning company is doing its part to give back to the community.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois lawmakers are advancing proposals that would make feminine hygiene products and contraception more affordable for women.

RHINELANDER (WAOW) - A rural Oneida County man who got into an hours-long standoff with police after a domestic dispute was ordered jailed on $100,000 cash bond Thursday, according to online Oneida County court records. 

WAUSAU (WAOW) - Some Wausau students got a clearer picture of what military life is like on Thursday - thanks to an Army soldier whose been in hot spots all over the world.

Democrat Joel Lewis announced his run at Red Eye brewing company in Wausau Thursday. His main focus, Congressman Sean Duffy.

Nominees for the final four spots on new partisan commissions to oversee elections and ethics laws in Wisconsin have been delivered to Gov. Scott Walker.

A Massachusetts fifth grader who wrote to President Barack Obama suggesting that a woman be put on U.S. currency has seen her wish come true.

Hundreds of demonstrators were rallying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to protest the arrest of a black student accused of spraying provocative graffiti messages around campus.