Local Wausau News

NEW YORK (AP) -- Joan Rivers left her daughter in charge of her fortune in a revocable trust.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A South African judge has ruled that prosecutors can appeal the acquittal on murder charges of Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted of culpable homicide in the death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

VILLACOUBLAY, France (AP) -- President Francois Hollande has urged French citizens not to travel to areas where they risk being kidnapped, as he greeted a Frenchman returning after being held hostage for three years by al-Qaida's North Africa branch.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A United Nations official says CIA officers and other U.S. government officials should be prosecuted for the brutal interrogations tactics employed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, wrapped up their three-day visit to New York with events that included a black-tie reception, a basketball game in Brooklyn, and a somber visit to the Sept. 11 museum.

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri inmate has been executed for beating a 63-year-old woman to death with a hammer in 1998.

D.C. Everest and Marathon girls basketball both earn conference wins on Tuesday night.

Apple has agreed to remove an app from its App Store after students at a Vermont high school complained about negative posts left on it.

A Kronenwetter man says he's doing the most fulfilling work of his life clearing the Laos countryside of explosives from the Vietnam War.

A woman who crashed a car carrying two children was taking a generic brand of sleeping pills, according to the Rothschild Police Department.

Several law enforcement agencies in Marathon County are teaming up to keep the roads safer.

 A Wausau girl scout troop is giving back to the community by helping the families of premature babies.

The owner's of the Wausau Center Mall are staying tight lipped about the future of the mall. 

The Fountain City Police Department said Tuesday that no crime was committed when a Winona State student was killed after the food elevator crushed her at the WingDam Saloon and Grill in Fountain City.

Some children in Wausau are seeing more clearly.

STEVENS POINT (WAOW) – A Stevens Point junior high student was arrested Tuesday after another bomb threat was discovered written on a stall in a bathroom, authorities said.

There was a touching tribute to a sick K-9 in Caribou, ME.

Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has been taken to a hospital after being involved in an auto accident in Charlotte.

NEILLSVILLE (WAOW) - A mother and daughter accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill the fathers of two of the daughter's children have been ordered to stand trial, according to online Clark County court records.

Authorities say three teenagers escaped from a car before it broke through the ice on the Rock River in the Town of Beloit and began to sink.