Local Wausau News

The Green Bay Packers latest purchase of property around Lambeau Field is the Road Star Inn.

Super bowl controversy: with just more than a week to go before the biggest game of the year, the NFL is investigating whether the New England Patriots deflated footballs to give themselves an edge.

It was a heartfelt reunion 51 years in the making. A St. Louis police officer and the baby girl he had once found abandoned, sitting alone on a blanket in an overgrown lot surrounded by dilapidated, rundown mansions on May 26, 1963.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Republican lawmaker is promising to bring back a package of bills to stiffen Wisconsin's drunken driving laws.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin state Assembly has voted to make the act of secretly taking a photo of someone's genitals, buttocks or breasts a felony.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni officials say the president has resigned under pressure from Shiite rebels who seized the capital in September and have confined the embattled leader to his home for the past two days.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi state TV says King Abdullah, the powerful U.S. ally who joined Washington's fight against al-Qaida and sought to modernize the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom has died. He was 90.

BANGKOK (AP) -- The office of Thailand's attorney general has announced plans to indict ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra for her role in overseeing a rice subsidy program that lost billions of dollars.

WAUSAU (WAOW) -- Some Republican lawmakers want to increase speed limit on Wisconsin interstates from 65 mph to 70 mph.

STEVENS POINT (WAOW) - Two apartments were seriously damaged in a fire that forced the evacuation of an apartment building in Stevens Point Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

A Wausau police officer is being hailed a hero for helping a family during a tough loss.  

CrossFit began several years ago as a workout program.

The Juilliard School is getting a $5 million gift. It's not to teach the arts, but to coach students on promoting their careers in a super-competitive world.

The Marshfield girls basketball team is ranked second in the Wisconsin Valley Conference and Makayla Scheuer is a big part of the reason why.

The actor who played Screech in the 1990s TV show "Saved by the Bell" has pleaded not guilty to charges resulting from a bar fight in southeastern Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is headed to New Hampshire for the first time in March.

Carl's Jr. released its super-sexy Super Bowl commercial this week and the shock ad starring a scantily-clad model is already inciting a fiery reaction online.

Gov. Scott Walker is proposing a partial freeze on tuition at Wisconsin's technical college system as part of his plan to help put people to work.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker is proposing an alternative pathway for people to become licensed as teachers in Wisconsin.

The NFL has fined Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch $20,000 for making an obscene gesture during last Sunday's NFC championship game, a person with knowledge of the fine told The Associated Press on Thursday.