Local Wausau News

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A teacher from rural Maine has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize in Dubai.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli election candidates are making their final appeal to voters on the eve of the polls. Monday is the last day of campaigning in an election that will determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can secure another term in office.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for a federal ban on the sale of high-powered green laser pointers that have been used to injure and disorient airplane pilots around the country.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Louisiana National Guard is expected to release the names of four members killed last week when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed off Florida's Panhandle during nighttime training. The head of the Louisiana National Guard, Maj. Gen. Glenn H. Curtis, has scheduled a news conference late Monday morning at the Jackson Barracks Museum in New Orleans.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A former lab worker at the Veterans Hospital in Madison is accused of using information stolen from VA records to obtain credit cards.

 A vehicle was pulled from the water near Oak Island Park, according to the Wausau Police Department.

WAUSAU (WAOW)-- Police are looking for two suspects after a car crashed into a Wausau business early Sunday morning, that's according to Lt. Bill Taylor with the Wausau Police Department.

SCHOFIELD (WAOW) -- Briq's Soft Serve has a new frozen treat, thanks to a 9-year-old Wausau Girl Scout.Briq's Soft Serve has been selling Girl Scouts Thin Mint flurries for five years.According to Kevin Briquelet Miller, the shop's owner, the Thin Mint flurries are very popular.Earlier this year Rachel Del Conte, a 9-year-old Wausau Girl Scout, reached out Briquelet Miller and proposed a new flurry made from Peanut Butter Patties."I found Rachel's hand-written letter in the mailbox and I was ...

CUSTER (WAOW) -- Clancy's Stone Lion Pub in Custer hosted it's second annual Shamrock-Shuffle 5K Sunday.Organizers say about 150 people out to race, jog and walk to raise money for Alzheimer's Disease."I lost both my parents. They died and had Alzheimer's," said Brian Clancey, the owner of Clancey Stone Lion. "It just affects everybody."Clancey estimated they raised more than $3,000 at Sunday's run.

Boston's miserable winter is now also its snowiest season going back to 1872.

In an effort to eradicate illegal fishing and seafood fraud, the Obama Administration is launching a fish tracking system that would eventually tell consumers where their fish was caught, processed and stored.

Vilas County snowmobile trails closed Wednesday and snowmobile club leaders say this winter may have been one of the busiest ever.

After a thrilling overtime win over Michigan State in the Big Ten Championship game, the Wisconsin Badgers have been awarded a number one seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.

Nigel Hayes scored 25 points, Frank Kaminsky added 19 and No. 6 Wisconsin outscored Michigan State 11-0 in overtime Sunday for an 80-69 victory in the Big Ten Tournament championship game.

TOWN OF WAUSAU (WAOW)-- A fire broke out in the Town of Wausau Sunday afternoon.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Madison's police chief says the death of an unarmed 19-year-old man who was shot by an officer has strained relations between his department and the community.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A Milwaukee man is charged with killing another man during a barbecue last week.Thirty-four-year-old Robbie Fields was charged Friday with first-degree reckless homicide.The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports Fields is accused of killing Rumea Meatheney. Meatheney had gone to a friend's duplex for a barbecue Monday when he was killed.Fields lived in the same duplex as Meatheney's friend. The complaint says witnesses told police the two men were arguing when gunfire erupted.T...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A former lab worker at the Veterans Hospital in Madison is accused of using information stolen from VA records to obtain credit cards.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) -- Authorities say a 20-year-old man who had been out at Thursday's protest is charged in the shootings of two St. Louis area officers.St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch said 20-year-old Jeffrey Williams is charged with two counts of first-degree assault, one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle and three counts of armed criminal action.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A defense lawyer says Robert Durst, a wealthy heir to a New York real estate fortune, has been arrested in New Orleans on a murder warrant from Los Angeles.