Local Wausau News

Returning to the race that caused her to become an amputee, Boston Marathon bombing victim Rebekah Gregory has crossed the finish line.

A former state director for U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin has filed an ethics complaint against the Wisconsin Democrat saying Baldwin placed blame about problems at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center on her.

Federal authorities announced charges today against six Minnesota men who – along with a broader group of friends – allegedly conspired together to join ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia has won the 119th Boston Marathon in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 17 seconds.

A mother and daughter from eastern Long Island vanished after going on a trip to Manhattan last month, and police in New York and the small town of Southold are investigating.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Wisconsin officials who want to keep in place a decades-old ruling that bars Chippewa tribes from hunting deer at night.

Shoppers and employees at a Kohl's store, a Walmart and other businesses in Neenah were evacuated because of two suspicious suitcases.

Rockford police are investigating after a person is found dead inside a submerged car.

ROME (AP) -- Italy says 18 ships, including cargo vessels, are taking part in the search for hundreds of migrants believed to have been on a boat that capsized off the Libyan coast.Italian prosecutors say a survivor of the migrant boat capsizing in the Mediterranean has told them 950 people were aboard, including hundreds who were locked in the hold by smugglers.

90 F.M.'s 46th annual trivia contest wraps up at midnight.

WAUPACA CO. (WAOW)-- According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation all lanes are blocked on a Waupaca County highway.

A Central Wisconsin man will soon be biking from Anacortes, WA, to Oshkosh, WI.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee police are searching for the driver in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Police say the death of a 29-year-old Milwaukee man is being investigated as a homicide after he crashed his car and was found with a gunshot wound.

MERRILL (WAOW)-- A large grass fire was extinguished early Sunday morning in Merrill, officials with the Merrill Fire Department say.

A march and rally will be held to mark the one-year anniversary of the killing of a man by a police officer in a downtown Milwaukee park.

Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to be on the good side of liberals in her 2016 Democratic presidential campaign.

Delaware State University officials say three people have been shot at a student event.

MILWAUKEE (WAOW)-- A message of peace and healing is being spread in the wake of Milwaukee's recent rash of deadly shootings.

A grass fire broke out on Barker Stewart Island in Wausau.