Local Wausau News

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- A report of a possible plane crash brought ambulances, law enforcement officers and several emergency responders rushing to property in southwest Missouri. Instead of a downed plane, the responders found a man washing his jet-powered semi-trailer, which owner Neal Darnell calls Shockwave.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says removing tenure from state law "is not the disaster that some people want to portray." 

Firefighters from nine departments have put out an industrial fire on French Island.

The Wisconsin state Assembly plans to vote on passing a bill that will eliminate the state's decades-old 48-hour waiting period for handgun purchases.

The Wisconsin Legislature is set to pass a bill that would allow businesses to keep a supply of epinephrine injectors to combat life-threatening allergic reactions.

The Wisconsin state Senate is set to pass a bill that would ban non-emergency abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

The Wisconsin Legislature is scheduled to pass a proposal that would allow off-duty and retired officers to carry guns in schools.

SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) -- Police say a man who set up a drunken-driving checkpoint complete with road flares while pretending to be a Pennsylvania state trooper was drunk. 

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) -- Gay couples began applying for marriage licenses first thing Tuesday morning in Guam after it became the first U.S. territory to recognize same-sex marriage. 

MUSKEGO, Wis. (AP) -- The two bicyclists killed in a crash in Muskego Saturday were longtime employees at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee police say a woman has died after she was shot while sitting in a parked car over the weekend.

A Marshfield man walking down the street felt something on his sleeve that wasn't from the rain.  

A central Wisconsin jail is looking to expand a program that allows inmates to work out in the community.

A Central Wisconsin congregation will soon be getting a new church thanks to many helping hands.

 Two Merrill police officers are missing time from work after a weekend attack sent them to the hospital.

Police say a man riding a Marshfield Public Transit bus early Sunday morning was severely burned.

SCHOFIELD (WAOW) - Dozens of golfers took part in "Tees for Tots" - a fundraiser for Children's  Miracle Network at Wausau Country Club on Monday.

COLBY (WAOW) – A two-car crash occurred on state Highway 13 early Monday afternoon, blocking the two-lane road, authorities said.  

A study appearing in the June issue of the journal Health Affairs has found that 20 of the 50 U.S. hospitals that charge the most for their services are located in Florida.

NASA is using the skies around the Hawaiian island of Kauai to test new technology that it wants to use for landing larger spacecraft -- and eventually astronauts --on Mars.