Local Wausau News

 Two senior U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that the U.S. government is not responsible for the sustained electronic attacks that crippled North Korea's Internet infrastructure last month.

The Green Bay Packers are looking for some help clearing snow from the seats at Lambeau Field.

A police official says the man who has taken at least five people hostage in a kosher market in Paris appears linked to the newsroom massacre earlier this week that left 12 people dead.

What would you do for free food? Some diners sat out in the cold at a Massachusetts restaurant.

A Tulsa family learned Wednesday that their dog has expensive taste in treats. The lab pup ate her owner's engagement ring and wedding band -- worth $23,000.

An official in the French town where two terror suspects are holed up with a hostage near a school tells The Associated Press that phone contact has been established with the men.

PARIS (AP) -- Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport has closed two runways to arrivals amid a massive operation to seize two suspects in the storming of a satirical newspaper.

BOSTON (AP) -- The Athens of America will get a chance to bid for the Olympics. The USOC picked Boston on Thursday as its bid city for the 2024 Summer Games.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A 17-year-old Connecticut girl being forced by state officials to undergo chemotherapy says she understands she'll die if she stops treatment but it should be her decision.

The Vilas County Sheriff's Department held a town forum Thursday night to answer questions about the death of a 61-year-old woman.

A woman who says she was sexually assaulted by three University of Oregon basketball players has sued the school and head basketball coach Dana Altman.

 Oklahoma City's police chief has fired an officer accused of sexually assaulting 13 women while on duty.

Florida's Department of Children and Families is changing its abuse hotline criteria after a man threw his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge.

WAUSAU (WAOW) -- Workers at 525 Race Track in Wausau have been utilizing this week's cold temperatures to make ice.

WAUSAU (WAOW) -- More than a dozen weather-related crashes were reported in central Wisconsin Thursday afternoon, according to Wisconsin State Patrol.

WAUTOMA (WAOW) - A 44-year-old rural Wautoma man was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole Thursday in the beating death of a man found dead at a motel nearly two years ago, according to online Waushara County court records.

Three central Wisconsin paper mills are under new ownership Thursday, as Newpage was sold to Tennessee-based Verso Papers.  

WAUSAU (WAOW) – The Wisconsin State Patrol says slippery roads from Thursday's snow and cold created numerous late afternoon slide-ins and crashes in central Wisconsin.

A Wisconsin Rapids man has an extensive Packers memorabilia collection that he keeps in a room in his basement.

As the Packers get set to take on the Cowboys this weekend, many fans will be watching. We head back to 1997 to check out one green and gold fanatic's Packers room.