Local Wausau News

Central Wisconsin students got a taste of fresh, local food on Friday.

MOSINEE (WAOW) - The top high school football teams in the state laid it all out on the line as the first week of playoffs on Friday night.

 Showers likely Thursday.  Pleasant with quite a bit of sun from Friday into the weekend.  A new storm hits late Sunday night and Monday.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- A potentially short-handed Green Bay Packers secondary faces a big challenge Sunday night.At 35 years old, New Orleans' Drew Brees still is regarded as one of the elite quarterbacks in the NFL. 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Maryland's reward for rallying from 14 points down to beat Iowa is a date with the nation's top rusher on his home turf. 

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Safety Morgan Burnett has missed a second day of practice with a calf injury that has Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy growing more concerned. 

METAIRIE, La. (AP) -- Saints safety Kenny Vaccaro says he "can't wait" to play against Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers. For Vaccaro, the matchup represents a chance to validate the belief he's maintained in himself and fellow Saints defenders, even as they've struggled to live up to the standard they set only one season ago.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly says he's not angry that he was wrongly ejected in the second half of Sunday's 38-17 loss to Green Bay.

A government official has identified the shooter at a Washington state high school as student Jaylen Fryberg.

More than 2 dozen people rode their bikes along Wausau's Grand Avenue Friday morning to celebrate the new sharrows.

AUBURNDALE (WAOW)-- A wide receiver on Auburndale's football team is battling a horrible disease.

WOOD COUNTY (WAOW)-- Auburundale middle and high school celebrated National Apple Crunch day by biting into some juicy locally grown apples.

MOSINEE (WAOW) -- Big changes are coming for a Mosinee-based company that was sold Wednesday.

PLOVER (WAOW) – About 650 Wisconsin Public Service customers in Plover were without power late Friday afternoon, the utility said.

 Authorities say remains found Oct. 18 in a rural area are that of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham.

New York City police Commissioner William Bratton says the hatchet attack on four rookie officers was a terrorist act by a homegrown radical.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Rock County Circuit Judge Jim Daley plans to announce his candidacy for the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday.

The latest estimates of television advertising spending in Wisconsin's hotly contested governor's race shows Democrat Mary Burke and her backers continue to outpace Gov. Scott Walker and his supporters.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II dipped a toe into 21st-century communications Friday when she posted her first tweet.

The first nurse diagnosed with Ebola after treating an infected man at a Dallas hospital is free of the virus.