Local Wausau News

LONDON (AP) -- British police say three male teenagers have been detained in Turkey because they were planning to travel to Syria.Police say two are 17 and the third is 19. Their names have not been released.Police said Sunday that counter-terrorism officers learned on Friday the teens had gone missing and were thought to be traveling to Syria.A number of Britons have traveled there to join Islamic State extremists, including three British schoolgirls who left their families in London last mo...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Summers will be a steamier in neighborhoods across the country as crews cut down millions of trees in an effort to stay ahead of a small, shiny bug.In cities like Waterloo, Iowa, workers are in the midst of taking out 4,000 ash trees that tower over homes and shade city streets. The same is happening in big cities and small towns from Pennsylvania to Colorado as officials respond to the emerald ash borer, an insect native to Asia that is killing ash trees in at least ...

WAUSAU (WAOW) -- Thousands of Wausau homes lost power early Sunday morning around 1, according to Wisconsin Public Service representatives.Representatives say the outage was due to equipment failure and about 4,700 people were affected.Power was restored about an hour later, according to Wisconsin Public Service workers.

Arike Ogunbowale scored 27 points as Divine Savior Holy Angels beat D.C. Everest 64-29 to win the WIAA Division 1 state girls basketball title on Saturday night at the Resch Center.

Courtney Lee scored 17 points, Jeff Green and Zach Randolph added 15 apiece, and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Milwaukee Bucks 96-83 on Saturday night. 

Hannah Whitish scored 23 points and Maggie Oimoen added 17 as Barneveld beat Assumption 59-43 to win its second straight WIAA Division 5 girls basketball state title on Saturday.

Scores, results and highlights from Saturday's boys basketball sectional final action.

The UW-Stevens Point men's basketball team advanced to the Final Four after beating East Texas Baptist 45-28 on Saturday night at Bennett Court at Quandt Fieldhouse.

Bronson Koenig scored a career-high 19 points and No. 6 Wisconsin beat Purdue 71-51 on Saturday to advance to the Big Ten Tournament championship.

Jonathan Lucroy made his spring debut Saturday and said he had no problems with a hamstring injury that had kept him out for four weeks and Adam Lind homered in just his second game, but the Milwaukee Brewers lost to a Chicago Cubs split squad 10-5. 

ATLANTA (AP) -- Public health officials say a number of Americans will return from West Africa to be monitored after possibly being exposed to Ebola.

RIB MOUNTAIN (WAOW) -- Rib Mountain Golf Course is opened for the season and dozens came out to play.The owner of the golf course said he was expecting around 40 or 50 people to come hit the links.He said last year they didn't open until April 10."You never know. Once the frost goes out and the water goes down and all of a sudden we can open," explained Mike Oliva, the co-owner of Rib Mountain Golf Course.Oliva says as long as the snow stays away they will be opened from now until the end of ...

ROTHSCHILD (WAOW) -- The Rothschild Pavilion was transformed into a blues cafe Saturday.Five blues groups from all over the country performed at Great Northern Blues Society's 16th annual blues cafe.Organizers say this is one their biggest events of the year. They expect to draw in more than 1,000 people by the time the event is over."It's just a fun event. Blues music is basically a misunderstood art form. A lot of people don't realize it's blues music that gave birth to rock-n-roll. It's fu...

WAUPACA CO. (WAOW)-- One person is dead after a crash in the Town of Royalton early Saturday morning.

WAUSAU (WAOW) -- It's only been a week since ice shanties had to be taken off lakes south of Highway 64 in Wisconsin. 

TOWN OF LITTLE WOLF (WAOW) -- The Waupaca County Sheriff's Office responded to a one vehicle roll-over on County Road BB in the Town of Little Wolf around 4:45 Saturday morning, according to a press release from the sheriff's office.

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) -- A person has died after being shot by a Kenosha police officer.

 Bronson Koenig scored a career-high 19 points and No. 6 Wisconsin beat Purdue 71-51 on Saturday to advance to the Big Ten Tournament championship.

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -- A 15-year-old charged as an adult in the stabbing death of a 13-year-old boy in central Wisconsin is being housed at an adult facility.

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) -- A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in the death of a 3-year-old girl in Winnebago County.Post-Crescent Media reports Ryan Jorgenson, formerly of the Town of Menasha, was convicted for the first-degree reckless homicide of Addison Rochon. She was the daughter of his former fiancee.Jorgenson initially told police the girl fell down the stairs. The child was rushed to a Neenah hospital on May 14 after Jorgenson said he found her collapsed and convuls...