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MARSHFIELD (WAOW) - Children on a school bus traveling to their first day of classes escaped injury Thursday when a teen driver did not see the stopped bus and hit a pickup truck behind it before slamming into the bus, the Wood County Sheriff's Department said. 

Badgers star talks football, central Wisconsin and Lambeau Field in an exclusive one-on-one with Newsline 9.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - Six juveniles arrested in a string of vehicle break-ins admitted entering at least 100 vehicles and among the recent thefts were two handguns, Wausau Police Capt. Greg Hagenbucher said Thursday. 

Don't expect to see any players do the Lambeau Leap during Saturday's historic college football game between UW and LSU.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says he supports the principles behind Donald Trump's immigration policy but he doesn't believe the country needs a wall along the entire southern border.

Reports released Friday show Madison Police Department officials and the Dane County District Attorney determined two police officers involved in the controversial arrest of 18-year old Genele Laird at East Towne Mall violated no employment rules, and committed no crimes.

Community activists loudly interrupted a meeting of the Milwaukee Common Council over a plan that, in part, adds more law enforcement officers to city streets.

A Republican state senator says a new diversity outreach program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is "sinister."

   LOS ANGELES (AP) -- AMC Theaters nationwide are bringing a few of Gene Wilder's most beloved films back to theaters this weekend.  

   CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago recorded its deadliest month in two decades in August, part of a sharp rise in gun violence in the nation's third-largest city this year.   

  NEW YORK (AP) -- Wal-Mart is cutting 7,000 back-office store jobs over the next few months as it centralizes its invoice and accounting departments, expanding a test it announced in June.    

WAUSAU (WAOW) - The Jefferson Award winner for September is a leader who helps raise money for youth programs in Wausau and helped build water wells in Kenya so families no longer have to walk 15 miles to get it.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities in Florida have found the Zika virus in trapped mosquitoes, the first time this has happened in the continental US.  

   NEW YORK (AP) -- Adult readers in the U.S. still strongly favor paper over e-books, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.    

   NEW YORK (AP) -- Chris Brown has a released a new song a day after he was arrested and released on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. 

   LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actor Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentarian Frederick Wiseman are getting Oscars.   

Classes resumed at Stevens Point schools Thursday and its 78 buses were busy, hauling more than 5,000 students.

Bimbo Bakeries is recalling some snacks sold in Wisconsin.

The 2016 Green Bay Packers third-round pick will be the first Pack Attack guest of the season.

A semi-truck that rolled into a ditch forced state Highway 97 near Marshfield to be closed in both directions Thursday morning, the state Department of Transportation said.