Local Wausau News

STEVENS POINT (WAOW) - While the Wisconsin Badgers are chasing a title, another Wisconsin basketball team is already celebrating a national championship.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - Supplies of Wisconsin Badgers Final Four gear are going quickly at one central Wisconsin store.

Softball season is right around the corner, and this year the SPASH girls are looking to make their 7th state appearance in the last 8 years.Hannah Oliveto takes a closer look at one player the Panthers will rely on to take that step this season.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Being Kentucky's smallest player on the floor hasn't prevented 5-foot-9 point guard Tyler Ulis from repeatedly coming up big for the Wildcats.He'll likely need to do it again this weekend. 

MESA, Ariz. (AP) -- Anthony Rizzo hit a three-run homer off Kyle Lohse, and Jason Hammel allowed one run in five innings as the Chicago Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 11-7 Wednesday. 

WESCOTT (WAOW)-- A man was rescued Wednesday afternoon after he fell through the ice on a lake in Shawano County.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Thousands of Wisconsin fans have given the Badgers a rousing send-off for their Final Four rematch with Kentucky. 

 Hundreds of people packed the Kohl Center in Madison to send the Badgers off in style.

The Portage County sheriffs department is investigating a suspicious death in the Town of Almond.

Spring may be here but Anna and Elsa from the movie 'Frozen' are still on children's minds.

Judge James Daley is running for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court - in part - on his reputation for developing an OWI court in Rock County. But 27 News has learned Daley's own daughter is wanted on an open arrest warrant for OWI charges that date back to 2008.

Women in agriculture got the spotlight at Wednesday's Heart of the Farm Conference.

Golf season is officially in full swing at SentryWorld.

WAUSAU (WAOW) – A credit union headquartered in Antigo announced Wednesday it has purchased the three-story former Associated Bank building near downtown Wausau.

Shoppers in Brown County will soon have a little extra cash in their wallets.

An analysis of TV ad spending in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race finds incumbent Justice Ann Walsh Bradley has spent more than $510,000.

RHINELANDER (WAOW) - The provost of an upstate New York private college is Nicolet College's new president.

A Wausau father tells Newsline 9 a man grabbed his daughter while she was playing in the backyard on the city's east side Wednesday afternoon.

NEILLSVILE (WAOW) – A drinking game involving shots of liquor and punches to the face caused an argument that left a 27-year-old man stabbed in the neck three times, the Clark County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.

Actor Mark Wahlberg is signed on to produce a new movie about the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.