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WAUSAU (WAOW) – A man police described as dangerous was wanted after he punched, strangled and threatened to kill his former live-in girlfriend who was the mother of his child, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.

BOSTON (AP) -- A DNA expert has testified that the blood of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was on white gloves found in Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's car.

CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama says if he could start his presidency over, he would have closed the Guantanamo Bay prison his first day.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The governor of Virginia is calling for an investigation into the arrest of a college student who was shown in a photo with his face bloody as he was held down by an officer.

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- New surveillance video is deepening the mystery around the kidnapping and killing of a 3-week-old baby girl earlier this year in California.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Navy official says a SEAL was killed in a parachute jump accident in southern California.

The co-chair of the Legislature's budget committee and another Republican member of the panel say they want to lower a proposed cut to the University of Wisconsin System while doing away with Gov. Scott Walker's plans to grant it more independence.

In what could be the safest political move of his career, Gov. Scott Walker is picking the Wisconsin Badgers to win it all in the NCAA basketball tournament.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - Marathon County Crime Stoppers is searching for an arsonist who destroyed a camper and a pickup truck.

WAUSAU (WAOW) – A veteran Wausau firefighter has been appointed Marathon County's emergency management director, Administrator Brad Karger announced Wednesday.

The Chi Phi fraternity chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been terminated as a student organization after a university investigation found the organization hazed members.

Police are searching for a suspected gunman who is accused of wounding four people in a shooting spree across a Phoenix suburb.

Idaho wildlife officials have retrieved 2,000 dead snow geese that fell from the sky this week.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - A state appeals court has ruled that a former Athens girls basketball coach sentenced to 10 years in prison was wrongly convicted of using a computer to facilitate a sex crime with one of the girls on his team.

Biggby Coffee celebrated its 20th anniversary on Wednesday.

Authorities say the elderly woman struck and killed in the parking lot of a suburban Milwaukee grocery store was hit by her own husband.

Eight people have been killed in a shooting attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunisia, including seven foreign nationals, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said today.

After multiple slip-ups that critics say could've put President Barack Obama and his family at risk, the Secret Service wants to try something new: Training on a replica White House.

A massive anti-austerity rally in Germany turned violent Wednesday when protesters clashed with police at the opening of the new European Central Bank headquarters.

Leah Still, the 4-year-old daughter of Cincinnati Bengals player Devon Still got some great news today from the doctors, he said.