Local Wausau News

WAUSAU (WAOW) - Investigators say two minutes of video from a parking lot where a car was stolen in Wausau offers clues about the woman who took the car.

Governor Scott Walker is weighing in on the abortion debate. He says he would sign a ban on abortions after 20 weeks.

Some Central Wisconsin students are playing with some new technology in the classroom.

CRANDON (WAOW) - Another one of the four people accused of beating and torturing a man who was left in the woods as the attackers expected wolves to devour him reached a plea deal with prosecutors Wednesday.

Alabama judges have been caught today between conflicting state and federal rulings.

Wausau teacher Ellen Runnoe has run at least a mile every day for more than seven years.

WAUSAU (WAOW) – A boy involved in the confrontation of two groups of teenagers that led to the fatal stabbing of one told investigators the two groups threatened to kill each other, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.

A veteran Republican pollster and top adviser to Gov. Scott Walker says it is "very likely" Walker will get into the presidential race, but he has yet to make a decision.

Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst jokes that if he can get a college degree, it's not too much to ask of his players. Chryst made the quip Wednesday during a speech before hundreds of Wisconsin's business leaders at a meeting of the state chamber of commerce.

Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Letroy Guion has reached a deal that would defer his prosecution and would keep him out of jail, according to ESPN.

Gov. Scott Walker says he plans to sign a right-to-work bill into law on Monday, not by the end of this week as he had previously said.

The Justice Department says it won't prosecute former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old that led to weeks of protests.

A photograph of a weasel riding on the back of a woodpecker that seems almost too incredible to be true, is not photoshopped, according to the British man who snapped the now-viral photo.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new Justice Department report says blacks in Ferguson, Missouri, are disproportionately subject to excessive police force, baseless traffic stops and citations for infractions as petty as walking down the middle of street.

With this wonderful new snow we got on Tuesday a lot of people might be ready to get out on thier snowmobiles, but it won't be that easy next season.On this weeks Outdoors with Lauren, I bring a story on the new rule applied to the trails starting next year.

DENVER (AP) -- Danilo Gallinari scored a season-high 26 points, Kenneth Faried had 14 points and 14 rebounds and Denver beat the Milwaukee Bucks 106-95 on Tuesday night,

STEVENS POINT (WAOW) - Going bald is beautiful.

Israel's Prime Minister delivered a controversial speech to congress Tuesday morning. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke critically about the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran.

Nearly 50 people attended a career fair Tuesday at Rasmussen College in Wausau.

The Wisconsin state Assembly plans to start debate of the right-to-work bill at 9 a.m. Thursday and end no later than 9 a.m. Friday.