Local Wausau News

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- The father of a 20-year-old man accused of planning a suicide attack at Fort Riley says he's glad authorities arrested his son and no one was hurt.

BOSTON (AP) -- The highest court in Massachusetts says shop owners can keep tips left for workers if their businesses have policies against tipping.

 A Merrill man who works for the city of Wausau was sentenced to a year in jail and 10 years probation Friday following his arrest in an internet police sting that targeted adults who prey on children, according to online Marathon County Court records.

Police say three women attacked another woman who had asked them to be quiet inside a northeastern Pennsylvania movie theater, breaking her eye socket and leaving her with cuts and bruises.

When Mary Kay Letourneau Fualaau was forced to go public in 1997 with an affair she was having with her former sixth grade student, Vili Fualaau, after she became pregnant with his child, it was the teacher-student sex scandal heard around the world.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The University of Wisconsin System regents have approved raising tuition for out-of-state undergraduate and graduate students at most of the system's four-year schools starting next year. 

Her coach says college basketball player Lauren Hill made more of an impact on the world than he'll ever be able to make.

Badger junior Sam Dekker announced on Twitter that he is leaving UW-Madison and is entering the NBA draft.

The 17-year-old girl accused of killing her mother and stepfather will be brought back to Wisconsin, after waiving extradition in Indiana.

 The American Legion of Wisconsin is announcing a drive to expand a veterans rehabilitation camp in northern Wisconsin.

Lauren Hill, the young woman who wouldn't let a rare, terminal form of brain cancer stop her dream of playing college basketball, has died.

Hillary Clinton will launch her presidential campaign Sunday with a video on social media announcing her candidacy, followed immediately by travel to build on the announcement, according to a source close to Clinton's campaign in waiting.

Customers in a few Northwoods communities are without power Friday morning, after an early spring snow storm moved through Central Wisconsin.

Southern Wisconsin is dealing with record rainfall and flooding while residents to the north are getting another round of snow.

Some school closings and delays are coming into our newsroom.

STEVENS POINT - (WAOW) Members of law enforcement reached out to the public about heroin usage on Thursday evening.

RIB MOUNTAIN (WAOW) - Police are asking people to be careful on the roads as a slushy mix is headed to central Wisconsin.

After almost a year, the human remains found in Shawano County have been identified. 

A woman crossing a street was hit by a car in front of the Marathon County Public Library in Wausau on Thursday, police said.

The countdown is on to file taxes before Wednesday's deadline.