Local Wausau News

RIB MOUNTAIN (WAOW) - Some Rib Mountain residents took a stand against a proposed gas station in their neighborhood.

According to AAA, about 780,000 people in Wisconsin are expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend."

The Wisconsin mother who survived a shooting at a Menasha park is out of the hospital.

The Memorial Day weekend has officially begun. One Marathon County elementary school kicked off the weekend by recognizing those in the military.

Lawmakers on the Legislature's budget-writing committee have killed Gov. Scott Walker's plan to eliminate a small state agency that approves and regulates for-profit colleges.

California regulators have accepted a historic offer by farmers to make a 25 percent voluntary water cut to avoid deeper mandatory losses during the drought.

Authorities believe more than one person is responsible for slayings of four people inside the mansion of a wealthy Washington family.

CRANDON (WAOW) - A jury began deliberations Friday to decide whether a Wabeno man attempted to murder a 40-year-old man who was attacked, tortured and left in some woods for wolves to devour. Raymond Jones, 46, is on trial for attempted first-degree intentional homicide, kidnapping and aggravated battery.

A Wisconsin soldier reported missing during the Korean War has been buried at Arlington National Cemetery after his remains went unidentified for years.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - A judge Friday ordered a trial for a 22-year-old Weston man accusing of severely burning a young child by intentionally immersing him into extremely hot water, according to online Marathon County court records.

Milwaukee police say a motorcyclist killed in an overnight crash is a city alderman.

The mother of a suburban Chicago teenager killed in a drunken-driving crash less than a week before his graduation took his place at the ceremony, wearing his cap and gown.Aaron Dunigan died early Sunday in a Calumet City crash just hours after attending prom.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton received information on her private email server about the deadly attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi that was classified Friday at the FBI's request.

Real men could wear pink in the woods under a bill legislators are preparing to unveil next week that would legalize blaze pink for hunters.

A Milwaukee County medical examiner's report says a 46-year-old man was pronounced dead after collapsing at his Milwaukee apartment, but then started moving his limbs just as he was about to be taken to the morgue.

LONDON (AP) -- British police have closed roads and evacuated hundreds of homes near London's Wembley Stadium as the army works to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb. 

BOULDER JUNCTION (WAOW)-- You might have noticed this time of year signs for rummage sales start popping up around neighborhoods.

On Thursday, an 11-year-old student walked across the stage to claim his three associates degrees at American River College in California. 

A gas station clerk was robbed at gunpoint, according to a lieutenant with the Wausau Police Department.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Authorities have arrested a suspect in the slayings of a corporate executive, his wife, their 10-year-old son and a housekeeper at a northwest Washington mansion.