Local Wausau News

TOWNSHIP OF IRON RIVER, Wis. (AP) -- A Minnesota man has died after crashing an all-terrain vehicle into a tree in northwestern Wisconsin.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A judge has awarded nearly $45,000 in legal fees and damages to six protesters issued citations during demonstrations at the Wisconsin State Capitol four years ago.

Dallas' police chief says a sniper has shot the suspect in an overnight attack on police headquarters and that the department is checking to see if he's still alive.

A contingent of about 40 police officers entered a heavily wooded area and went door-to-door along a narrow road about 3 miles from the prison where two killers used power tools to cut their way out to freedom a week ago.

Police are investigating a shooting at a central Ohio home that left four people dead and one injured.

 University of Minnesota Medical Center has been named a regional treatment center for patients with Ebola and other highly infectious diseases.

WAUSAU (WAOW)-- Hundreds of participants came out Friday to fight back against cancer.

Workers at six Wausau businesses were caught trying to sell alcohol to a minor. Wausau police say these workers failed a department compliance check Thursday night.  

Schulenburg pool in Wausau opened today for summer.

With a swing of the club, the Badger State Summer Games are underway in North Central Wisconsin.

 

 A black bear tore down two bird feeders in a Marathon County backyard.

A worker at an upstate New York maximum-security prison has been arrested on charges she helped two convicted killers escape.

MARSHFIELD (WAOW) – The elaborate display of Christmas lights at the Rotary Winter Wonderland helped raise $40,000 to split with two local food pantries, organizers said Friday.

STEVENS POINT (WAOW) - A man who killed his grandfather with a scissors in 1989 is still mentally ill and must remain hospitalized.

An increase in crude oil traveling by rail through Wisconsin has prompted first responders to seek more firefighting foam so they're better prepared for the possibility of a major train derailment.

An online petition in the UK has over 38,000 signatures calling for a ban on baby ear piercing.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is moving to the left in her early campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Democrat Russ Feingold is proposing that Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson agree to a campaign pledge to keep third-party money out of their U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin.

Prosecutors say a suspect in a child sex assault case fatally stabbed a Pennsylvania woman and her 16-year-old daughter, who were witnesses against him.

A Republican political operative has been sentenced to two years in prison for illegally funneling campaign contributions from a super PAC he secretly ran to a congressional campaign he was managing.