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STEVENS POINT (WAOW) – An administrator who has worked in schools in Wisconsin, Florida and Oregon has been hired as interim superintendent for the Stevens Point Area School District.

RIB MOUNTAIN (WAUSAU) – Kwik Trip, which operates eight convenience stores in the Wausau area, has proposed building another one in Rib Mountain, a town official said Tuesday.

A new study shows poverty rose slightly in Wisconsin from 2012 to 2013, despite some job gains.

People have donated about $300,000 so far for a Wisconsin family of eight children who lost their father when a deer struck his van.

The NFL will not release the 2015 regular season schedule until Tuesday evening, but some details are coming out early.

MARSHFIELD (WAOW) – A third grade student at Grant Elementary School in Marshfield made special pins and prompted an autism awareness week “just because of her love for her best friend,” a teacher said Tuesday.

Spot a dead deer on the side of the road? Gov. Scott Walker doesn't want the state Department of Natural Resources paying to clean it up.

After weeks of gradual recalls, Blue Bell Creameries is now pulling all of its products off the shelves.

New research suggests that working while walking on a treadmill desk doesn't impact job performance in a bad way.

 A federal judge plans to hold the first hearing in a lawsuit filed by Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson challenging the timing of a constitutional amendment approved by voters two weeks ago.

The state Senate is set to take up a Republican bill that would eliminate Wisconsin's decades-old 48-hour waiting period for handgun purchases.

We are working to resolve the issue with DirecTV and hope to have WAOW back up soon.

BALI, Indonesia (AP) -- An Indonesian court has found an American couple guilty of premeditated murder in the death of the woman's mother on the resort island of Bali and sentenced them to prison. 

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The woman who designed the iconic neon sign that has welcomed countless visitors to Las Vegas since 1959 has died. Betty Willis died Sunday in her Overton, Nevada, home, according to an obituary on the Virgin Valley Moapa Valley Mortuaries web site. 

The lawyer for the family of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of injuries sustained during an arrest in Baltimore, says he believes the police had no reason to stop the man in the first place. Authorities say Gray was arrested April 12 after police "made eye contact" with him and another man and the two started running.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the bird flu virus has been found at a farm holding nearly 10 percent of Iowa's egg-laying chickens. 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A same-sex couple who sued for the right to marry in Wisconsin wants a federal judge to mandate that both gay parents' names appear on their children's birth certificates. 

A spokesman for Sen. Tammy Baldwin says a former staffer who has filed an ethics complaint against the senator is letting herself be used as a pawn by Baldwin's Republican opponents. 

KENOSHA (WAOW)-- A national television show wants more of Wisconsin's "junk."

More than 100 people attended a public hearing Monday voicing concern about the future of their neighborhood.