Local Wausau News

ONEIDA COUNTY (WAOW)-- Officials at the Oneida County Sheriff's Department are searching for a 17-year-old female who they say is a suspect in a homicide and could be armed and dangerous.

Wausau East High School received a special musical visit Sunday afternoon.

Businesses that have sat dormant most of the winter started coming back to life this weekend.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Peaceful protesters in Madison took to the college town's streets with chants of "Black Lives Matter" following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 19-year-old by a white police officer, who authorities say fired after he was assaulted.

NEW YORK (AP) -- This Chihuahua could be headed to the dog house.Transportation Security Administration officers say a woman's 7-year-old Chihuahua sneaked into her suitcase and triggered a luggage screening alert at New York's LaGuardia Airport last week.TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says the black, hard-sided suitcase was in a checked-baggage area Tuesday when an unknown-contents alarm indicated an officer should inspect the case.Those unknown contents proved to be her beige and tan Chihua...

MAUMEE, Ohio (AP) -- The former home of first lady Betty Ford has been destroyed in an early morning fire in Ohio.Fire officials in Maumee say the home once occupied by Ford and her first husband, William Warren, was destroyed in a fire that began early Saturday.The Blade in Toledo reports Ford and Warren lived in the house in 1942 and 1943 while she modeled and sold merchandise at a department store.The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but the fire chief says investigators bel...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's minister of tourism and antiquities says the government is investigating reports that the ancient archaeological site of Khorsabad in northern Iraq is being the latest to be attacked by the Islamic State militant group.Adel Shirshab told The Associated Press there are concerns the militants will remove artifacts and heavily damage the site, located 15 kilometers (9 miles) northeast of Mosul.Saeed Mamuzini, a Kurdish official from Mosul, told the AP that the militants be...

HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) -- Police say a homeless man set himself on fire on a city street near where hundreds of revelers were hopping bar to bar for an annual St. Patrick's pub crawl.Hoboken police Chief Kenneth Ferrante tells NJ.com that police received a call about 11 p.m. Saturday that a man was trying to set himself on fire. Responding officers found the man with his jacket on fire and shouted for him to get to the ground so they could extinguish it, but he refused.They say once the fire spre...

Scores, results, and highlights from Saturday's local sports action. 

Multiple reports indicate the Packers have re-signed receiver Randall Cobb to a four-year contract. This comes just days before Cobb was set to hit the open market on Tuesday. 

WAUSAU (WAOW) -- Wausau Fire Departments uses daylight saving time to promote fire safety.Firefighters encourage people to change the batteries in their smoke detectors every six months. They use the slogan "change your clocks, change your batteries" to remind people to take a couple extra minutes to keep their home safe."It's important to change your batteries so that your smoke detector works. Some smoke detectors are hardwired but if your power goes out in your home, you want to make sure ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) -- President Barack Obama says America's racial history "still casts its long shadow" despite a half-century of progress toward a more perfect union.In Selma, Alabama, Obama stood in solidarity and remembrance Saturday with survivors of a civil rights era that he was too young to know.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Madison's police chief says the 19-year-old man who was shot and killed by an officer was unarmed.

WAUPACA CO. (WAOW)-- A 43-year-old man has been found dead, that's according to officials at the Fremont Police Department.

LINCOLN COUNTY (WAOW) -- Five horses were walking along U.S. Highway 51 in Lincoln County around 1 a.m. Saturday, according to a press release from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department.The sheriff's department says they located four full-size horses and one miniature horse on southbound traffic lanes near County Road A.According to the press release, the horses crossed over the median into the northbound lanes and one horse was struck by a vehicle.Officials say the driver was not injured i...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A sure sign that spring's on the horizon: One hour less shut-eye Saturday night no matter when you turn out the lights.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A new concept in renewable energy is catching fire across the country, allowing customers who might find solar panels too expensive or impractical to buy green energy anyway.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Opponents of Common Core are using a recent Missouri court ruling as fodder to ax tests based on the national education standards.

Madison Police Chief Mike Koval says an officer shot and killed a 19-year old black man after a struggle in a home on Williamson Street.

Wausau West boy's hockey team advances to the state championship.