Local Wausau News

The New York Public Library is launching the nation's largest Internet lending program, which provides 10,000 free hot spots to some of the city's poorest residents.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- No Ice Bowl this time.In fact, as kickoff approached for the Cowboys-Packers playoff game Sunday, it was a "balmy" 21 degrees at Lambeau Field, with no wind. That was only 13 degrees colder than temperatures in Arlington, Texas, home of the Cowboys, at the same time.Dallas is making its first postseason appearance in Green Bay since Dec. 31, 1967, when the Packers edged the Cowboys 21-17 for the NFL championship and a trip to the second Super Bowl against AFL champion ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder says investigators at this point don't have "any credible information" to determine which terrorist group was responsible for the attacks in Paris.Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen has said it directed the attack by two brothers against a newspaper that lampooned Islam and other religions.And the gunman in the hostage-taking at a kosher market is seen in a new video pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group.Holder says both terrorist groups pose a...

MIAMI (AP) -- A former South Florida man has been arrested in Mexico 37 years after failing to surrender for a 10-month prison sentence.Miami U.S. Attorney's officials say Robert Anton Woodring was indicted in 1984 for failing to surrender in 1977 to start his sentence for removing a yacht so that authorities couldn't seize it. Woodring had also been sentenced in a related case to seven years in prison after a jury found him guilty of mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud.U.S. Marsha...

ATLANTA (AP) -- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s traveling Bible hasn't gone on regular display since President Barack Obama used it while taking his second oath of office two years ago. 

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

The Green Bay Packers hosted a pep rally Saturday night to get fans excited for Sunday's divisional playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys.People from all over the country traveled to Green Bay for the pep rally and Sunday's game.

WAUSAU (WAOW)--The Packer spirit is in full force at Days Bowl-A-Dome in Wausau.

PARIS (AP) -- French police are searching for a 26-year-old Frenchwoman of North African origin in connection with this week's terror attacks in France.

WAUSAU (WAOW) -- A Wausau Packers fan's dreams are coming true. 

MARATHON COUNTY (WAOW) -- A car that crashed into Big Rib River Friday was removed Saturday morning.

SAYNER (WAOW)-- The Vilas County Sheriff's Office says a Pewaukee man is dead after a snowmobile incident.

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) -- A 26-year-old health care worker who had a flu shot has died after complications of the flu.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- A Green Bay hospital had to transfer some patients after a water main break.Press-Gazette Media reports the break caused flooding in the basement boiler room of St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay on Saturday morning, forcing 50 patients to be transferred to St. Vincent Hospital.

MIAMI (AP) -- George Zimmerman has been released on a $5,000 bond after being arrested in Florida for allegedly throwing a wine bottle at his girlfriend.

An impressive streak will come to an end on Sunday at Lambeau Field.The winner of the marquee playoff matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers advances to the NFC championship game. 

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- Kentucky's elk herd began with seven elk from Kansas in 1997. Now the population has boomed to 10,000, and the commonwealth is helping to build a new herd in Wisconsin.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A 21-year-old man has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old child.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Authorities say four men have been shot to death in San Francisco.Police spokesman officer Albie Esparza says the victims were shot around 10 p.m. Friday in the Hayes Valley area of the city.He says in a statement that all four victims died at the scene.No arrests have been made and no other information was immediately available from police, including any word of a possible motive.The San Francisco Chronicle reported that city police alerted the California Highway Patrol...

INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. (AP) -- It's January, and what better time to celebrate the frosty reputation of the self-proclaimed Nation's Icebox?International Falls on the U.S-Canada border will hold its annual Icebox Days Jan. 15-18.Smokey Bear Park will be decorated with snow sculptures. Among the events are redneck trivia, a can-crushing contest, a boot hockey tournament, a toilet seat toss and frozen turkey bowling.The highlight is the 35th running of the Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run on...