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Thousands of right-to-work protesters gathered on the steps of the capitol building in Madison Saturday to fight for what they believe in. 

A Beaver Dam woman is in the hospital after a snowmobile crash in St. Germain, according to the Vilas County Sheriff's Department.

Thousands of Wisconsin union workers have rallied at the Capitol to protest a right-to-work bill set to be taken up again this week.

CONKLIN, N.Y. (AP) -- Some towns in New York's Southern Tier are raising the idea of seceding to Pennsylvania.Conklin Supervisor Jim Finch and other local officials talking about redrawing the Keystone State's border don't really expect it to happen. But members of the Upstate New York Towns Association hope the idea will result in something good for a struggling part of the state.New York's Southern Tier sits atop the same gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation that has allowed Pennsylvania and ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Hyundai is recalling about 263,000 cars in the U.S. and Canada because a sensor problem could cause drivers to lose power-assisted steering.The company has not reported any injuries or accidents. A representative for Hyundai Motor America wasn't immediately available for comment.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says a sensor in the affected cars could detect a discrepancy in the steering input and signals and disable power-assisted steering as a result. Cars...

LONDON (AP) -- The German-based anti-Islam group PEGIDA has held its first rally in Britain, sparking scuffles as police tried to keep the group away from counterdemonstrators. Five people have been arrested.Police said Saturday that about 375 people joined the PEGIDA rally in Newcastle, 290 miles north of London. About 2,000 people joined the counterdemonstration.Police say the arrests were isolated and the event was largely peaceful.The leader of the Liberty GB political party Paul Weston t...

Scores, results and highlights from Friday's local sports action, including individual state wrestling and girls basketball regional semifinals.

WAUSAU (WAOW)-- One juvenile was hurt in a stabbing Friday evening near downtown Wausau, said Wausau Police.

STRATFORD (WAOW) -- A Stratford country singer's dreams are becoming a reality.Jerry Schmitt recently signed onto a record label in Nashville and now one of his songs is number one on a country music chart."I've always loved music," explained Schmitt. "Ever since I was a little kid there has always been the dream of being on the Grand Ole Opry."Schmitt says he started writing and performing music when he was 14-years-old.More than 20 later, Schmitt works as a compliance analyst in Wausau but ...

WAUSAU (WAOW) -- Twenty Wausau East High School students took the Polar Plunge Friday and jumped into icy cold water at Sunnyvale Park in Wausau.The students were all part of a business and marketing team called Deca. The team raised more than $3,000 for the Wisconsin Special Olympics."It's exciting, we're proud of what we've done," explained Tanner Frahm, the communications and public relations vice president for Wausau East Deca.The students even made a deal with their teacher: if they rais...

A new study pegs the economic impact of proposed Kohler Co. golf course along Lake Michigan at more than $20 million annually.

The University of Wisconsin is requesting that Gov. Scott Walker remove a requirement that all 26 campuses report allegations of sexual assaults to the state every year.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - The second man convicted in the baseball bat beating death of a Wausau man more than two years ago during a burglary to steal liquor and cigarettes was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday.

The company looking to open an iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin says it is closing its office in Hurley effective on Sunday, casting doubt on the future of the project that sparked fierce debate and opposition from environmentalists and tribal members near the site.

Some comments made by Governor Scott Walker are sparking controversy across the state. 

MEDFORD (WAOW) - A jury deliberated about an hour before finding a Sheldon man guilty of drunken driving and plowing into a group of deer hunters, killing one, according to Taylor County online court records.

A phone company official testifying in Aaron Hernandez's murder trial says several text messages the former NFL player exchanged with a co-defendant before the killing are missing from his phone.

An attorney for one of the two girls accused of repeatedly stabbing a classmate and leaving her for dead in a wooded park in southeastern Wisconsin argues the charges against her should be dismissed because the girls were coerced by a fictional Slender Man character that they perceived was real.

The Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame will open up the Lambeau Field Seating Bowl for fans who want to watch the ceremony honoring former quarterback Brett Favre.

Leonard Nimoy, world famous to "Star Trek" fans through a beloved cult TV series and a half-dozen films as the pointy-eared, purely logical science officer Mr. Spock, has died.