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RHINELANDER (WAOW) - A one-year-old child found unresponsive at a day care center in Rhinelander in September died of acute viral pneumonia, an autopsy found.

Newsline 9 stopped by Mt. Sinai Congregation in Wausau to get some Hanukkah recipes.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - A Mosinee man was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday for his seventh offense of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, according to online Marathon County court records.

There's a new helper at one Wisconsin Rapids school. He's a therapy dog, and school leaders say he's already changing how the students act in the classroom. 

MADISON (WAOW) – Federal prosecutors say a Kronenwetter attorney and his wife underreported the money they earned by nearly $160,000 over three years.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker says he thinks normalization of relations with Cuba is a "bad idea."

The crucial role played by the Vatican in bringing Cuba and the United States together signals that history's first Latin American pope is willing to put the Holy See on the front lines of diplomacy.

The 81-year-old Wausau woman who went to her first Green Bay Packers game in October has passed away.

Alan Gross says he learned the lesson during five years in Cuban captivity that freedom is not free.

RHINELANDER (WAOW) - A former Oneida County medical examiner convicted of taking tissue from two dead people to train her cadaver dog has asked a judge to throw out her plea bargain and overturn a sentence that put her in jail for a year.

Badger football sent out a tweet around 10:15 a.m. Wednesday confirming reports that a news conference is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. Wednesday.

President Barack Obama says the U.S. will end its outdated approach to Cuba that has failed to advance U.S. interests.

Held for five years in Cuba, 65-year-old American contractor Alan Gross has been released from prison and is en route to U.S. soil, ABC News has learned exclusively.

American officials say the U.S. and Cuba will start talks to normalize full diplomatic relations as part of the most significant shift in U.S. policy toward the communist island in decades.

For more than 18 years, Nadia Campbell had no sense of taste or smell and lived with terrible sinus pain. Even after seeing five specialists and undergoing three surgeries, the 38-year-old said she was still left with a perpetually runny nose that kept her up all night.

 The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a four-year federal grant totaling $5.5 million to study concussions.

NEW YORK (AP) - Threats of violence against movie theaters. The New York premiere of "The Interview" canceled.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker says rabbis joked with him about a letter drafted in his name related to lighting a menorah for Hanukah that ends with him saying "molotov" instead of "mazel tov." Walker was joined by rabbis and others Tuesday at the governor's mansion for a menorah lighting ceremony.

BROOKVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana is suing a southeastern Indiana county over a nativity scene that's been erected for more than a half-century on its courthouse lawn.