Local Wausau News

 Bird flu has taken hold in the Midwest and shoppers are starting to see the effects on supermarket shelves.

WACO, Texas (AP) -- Multiple people have died in a shooting involving rival biker gangs at a Central Texas restaurant that sent patrons and employees running for cover.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Madison Police Officer Matt Kenny wants to return to his job, but the police chief fears for Kenny's safety.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Five people were shot while gathering to remember a victim of gun violence.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A newspaper investigation has found Gov. Scott Walker's top aides pressed for a taxpayer-funded $500,000 loan to a struggling construction company.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the first time, Amtrak could face a $200 million payout to crash victims. That's the limit set by Congress. But that may be too low to cover the costs of the eight lives lost and more than 200 people injured in last week's derailment in Philadelphia. That cap for a single passenger rail incident was part of a late effort in 1997 to pass a law that would rescue Amtrak from financial ruin and help it one day become independent. If the limit were adjusted for inflatio...

 The Legislature's finance committee is set to grapple this week with how to house the state's growing population of women prison inmates.

A 50-year-old Merrill man died in a crash Saturday night in the town of Greenwood in Taylor County.

Plants sold fast Saturday at the North Central Master Gardener plant sale. Organizers say about 250 people came out to the 15th annual event.

About 1,400 students got their diplomas Saturday from UW-Stevens Point.

RACINE, Wis. (AP) -- Racine County authorities say three missing children have been returned to Wisconsin from Mexico.

JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Authorities say the violent death of a woman whose body was found in the garage of a Town of Beloit man appears to be linked to online sexual advertising.

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) -- Scott Walker says in four-plus years as governor he has transformed Wisconsin through the passage of numerous conservative priorities, including defunding Planned Parenthood, legalizing the carrying of concealed weapons and weakening public union power.

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker is defending the quasi-private economic development agency he created four years ago, despite his call this week to reform it in the wake of a critical audit.

BEIRUT (AP) -- U.S. officials say a senior Islamic State commander has been killed in the first known U.S. ground operation targeting IS militants in Syria.

SPARTA, Wis. (AP) -- The Monroe County Sheriff's Department is investigating a fatal logging accident in western Wisconsin.

CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Authorities have released the names of a couple who died in a crash near Clintonville in northeastern Wisconsin.

An Egyptian court has banned the country's hard-core soccer fan associations, known locally as "ultras," over accusations that the groups are involved in terrorism.

The FBI is looking into whether a flying object struck the windshield of an Amtrak train just before it derailed this week, killing eight people and injuring about 200.

Likely presidential candidate Scott Walker is scheduled to deliver a speech before Wisconsin Republicans at their annual state convention in La Crosse.