Local Wausau News

A teenage Wisconsin girl died after a Motocross motorcycle crash in Rockford over the weekend.

Prosecutors have downgraded the most serious charge against a Wisconsin man accused of killing an Illinois woman in an interstate drive-by shooting.

The Wausau Fire Department responded to a fire Monday around 10:30 a.m.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - A 56-year-old man who investigators say used a cell phone to secretly take pictures up a woman's skirt while she shopped at a Wal-Mart has been arrested, the Marathon County Sheriff's Department said Monday.

SCHOFIELD (WAOW) - Golfers teed off "Fore A Cure" at Wausau Country Club on Monday to raise money for mobile clinics that provide mammograms to women.

It appears Green Bay native Peter Mortell’s dream of playing with the Green and Gold is over for now, but the punter is giving thanks for his preseason opportunity with the Packers.

A young boy with a big heart is helping the Green Bay Police Department deal with the loss of one of its police dogs.

It's only August but leaves are already changing in some areas!

Hollywood movie star Robert Redford is asking for money to support Democratic Wisconsin Senate candidate Russ Feingold.

Two brothers who were on parole for prior criminal activity have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of the cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade, Chicago police announced Sunday.

With the school year right around  the corner many parents are getting ready to take their annual first day of school pictures.

Across the nation, the average teacher is spending hundreds out-of-pocket on supplies for their classrooms and their students.

Reports of gunfire turned out to be a false alarm, but still caused chaos at Los Angeles' LAX Airport.

A 19-year-old man is accused of smashing through the front window of a Florida home and attacking a woman and her son. 

More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lighting in central Norway. 

A New Jersey Transit police officer is being hailed as a hero for pulling a man from train tracks in northern New Jersey last week. 

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee police say an argument between two people who knew each other led to a fatal stabbing on the city's lower east side. A 32-year-old man died at the scene of the crime shortly before 1 a.m. Monday.

 A 35-year-old mother and attorney from Colorado died this week while rescuing her 2-year-old son, who fell overboard in a Utah lake, according to authorities.

More than 300 people came to a small church on Sunday to say farewell to two nuns killed in their Mississippi home.

After almost a year of construction, a new home was presented to Wausau family on Sunday whose daughter was diagnosed with Spina Bifida.