Local Wausau News

WAUSAU (WAOW) - A 30-year-old man changed his plea to insanity Wednesday to five felonies in the stabbing attack on three co-workers at a nail salon in Rib Mountain, according to online Marathon County court records.

The Pentagon says it inadvertently shipped live anthrax spores to as many as nine laboratories and is investigating how that happened.

The co-chair of the Legislature's budget-writing committee has postponed a fundraiser after criticism over its timing.

The international soccer federation FIFA is suspending 11 people -- including two of its vice presidents -- from all soccer-related activities.

A public hearing has been set on a fast-tracked Republican proposal in the Wisconsin Legislature that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

For as long as there have been highways, one question has ruled the roads: Who belongs in the left lane? Drivers out at the Indiana Toll Road Plaza in Elkhart had mixed opinions.

A western Illinois couple recently celebrated the birth of their 100th grandchild.

The state Department of Natural Resources' board has prohibited hunters from killing antlerless deer in 13 counties this fall in an effort to regrow the herd in those areas.

MARSHFIELD (WAOW) - Two bear cubs rescued from Kodiak Island, Alaska, after their mother was illegally shot will be the first bears in the new Adler Family Kodiak Bear Exhibit at Wildwood Park and Zoo, officials announced Wednesday. 

WISCONSIN RAPIDS (WAOW) - A Marshfield man accused of bilking people out of thousands of dollars by offering Green Bay Packers tickets that didn't exist pleaded no contest Wednesday to nine theft by fraud charges.

Police say the threat of a dam southwest of Dallas breaking has passed.

MARSHFIELD (WAOW) - The city of Marshfield has reinstated its cell phone ban while driving after temporarily suspending it because of some questions about whether it could be enforced.

A fundraiser for a Republican co-chair of the Legislature's budget-writing committee is being called into question since it falls the night before key votes are scheduled.

A system that clears up surface-level algae by slurping it away and depositing it into a dumpster will make its debut this summer in Madison lakes.

Defense attorneys for one of two Wisconsin girls charged with trying to kill a friend to please a mythical horror character are continuing their push to have the 13-year-old's case transferred to juvenile court.

If he becomes a presidential candidate, Scott Walker said he'll compete in every state except for maybe one: Florida.

New developments in the case of a Maryland couple dubbed the "free range parents."

The Legislature's finance committee is expected consider plans to impose stiffer criminal and civil penalties for unemployment benefit fraud.

The Legislature's finance committee is set to consider Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to create a new office to ensure the government continues in the wake of a disaster.

Heavy rainfall has caused a change for a construction project in Marathon County, according to a notice from the highway department.