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A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is under fire for encouraging prospective students to go elsewhere because she believes academic freedom is in jeopardy in Wisconsin.

As he carefully unscrewed thin-wood panels off a client's bathroom door, contractor Jelle Kapitein said he was astonished when it revealed a heartrending message possibly left behind by a Jewish couple hiding during the Holocaust.

A firefighter in Texas being credited for stopping a robbery at a gas station.

A special performance is coming to Wausau this weekend. 

Some new faces were at Channel 9 Thursday afternoon.Seventeen young adults from the Middle East and North Africa toured the station. It's part of a program called Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative. It's a 6-week program that focuses on developing leadership skills and learning about American society and culture. Georgetown University works with Northcentral Technical College in Wausau."The thing that I noticed, there's a huge number of lakes and rivers, it's a ...

More than nine businesses are looking for new workers along a small stretch of Grand and Schofield Avenues in the Wausau area.

What better way to spend a summer day than swimming on the lake?

Former Abbotsford High School teacher Andy Follen was sentenced Thursday morning in Clark County Circuit Court to seven months in jail for sexually assaulting two of his students.

RHINELANDER (WAOW) -- A central Wisconsin college held their annual competiton this week and it is bigger than ever this year.

Water skiing for a lot of people is just for fun, but for others it's a lifestyle.

An Amish family in Wood County has learned its water is safe to drink again.

A jury has found James Holmes guilty in the shooting deaths of 12 people in Colorado movie theater in 2012.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state left many parts of the world more "messed up" than they were before she became America's top diplomat.

It's time for another Throwback Thursday. During this week almost 20 years ago, female pilots landed in Merrill.

A former Abbotsford math teacher will spend seven months behind bars on charges accusing him of sexually assaulting two 17-year-old female students.

Authorities were investigating an "active shooter incident" Thursday at the Naval Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Fire Chief Randy Jackson said.

DETROIT (AP) -- A 110-year-old woman believed to be the nation's oldest veteran will soon be making a trip to Washington that includes a scheduled meeting with President Barack Obama.Longtime Detroit resident Emma Didlake, a veteran of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II, is scheduled to leave Friday.She's also planning to visit the memorial of her other favorite president, Franklin D. Roosevelt.Her trip was arranged by Talons Out Honor Flight, the southwes...

Did you know that some Wisconsin state employees make more money per year than the president of the United States? 

A Wisconsin bicyclist training for an annual long-distance Iowa bike ride has died after being struck by a car while training for the event. 

A crash has shut down Highway 33 east of Horicon in Dodge County.