Local Wausau News

The Sheboygan County District Attorney says the man Sheboygan officers shot and killed on July 17 was heavily armed, and he believes Kevin Higgins planned to ambush police officers responding to a robbery.

A federal judge has refused to stay his order allowing Wisconsin residents to vote without photo identification while state attorneys appeal the decision.

Pokémon Go is still creating quite a buzz.

While the other northwoods courses on our Golf Card Tour took pride in their history, St. Germain hangs its hat on its youth.

UPDATE: Officials have identified the body of a Minnesota pilot after a crash near La Crosse. 

It's a toothy giant that can grow longer than a horse and heavier than a refrigerator, a fearsome-looking prehistoric fish that plied U.S. waters from the Gulf of Mexico to Illinois until it disappeared from many...

A Minnesota prosecutor says he won't step aside for a special prosecutor while considering charges against police in the slaying of a black motorist, but he's adding one to his team. 

A silver alert has been issued for a missing Milwaukee man. 

Oshkosh Police are looking to make contact with the parents of a girl who was at Pollock Pool on the day of an assault.

Black Lives Matter activists in New York are protesting the arrest of an anti-violence advocate who was taken into custody while making a video of two officers frisking a handcuffed motorist.

A foul smelling plant known as the "corpse flower" is finally blooming at the New York Botanical Garden in New York City. 

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says its computers have been hacked. 

A top Chicago police official says the department has "quite a few questions" after officers shot and killed a suspect in a stolen vehicle investigation.

Florida's governor says the state has concluded that four mysterious Zika infections likely came from mosquitoes in the Miami area. 

DETROIT (AP) -- Combi USA is recalling more than 39,000 car seats because they can transmit too much force to a child's chest in a crash.

Turnout for Wisconsin's Aug. 9 primary is predicted to be just 16 percent.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation wants anyone who plans on going to Green Bay Packer Family Night on Sunday to know there will be some delays on the way.

A 14-year-old New Richmond girl is charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide after authorities say she biked to the house of her brother's girlfriend in the middle of the night, went inside, then beat the girl and slit her throat. 

Two people died in rural Hayward this week after an apparent murder-suicide. 

A police officer in the small Texas town where Sandra Bland was pulled over and jailed says the county's top prosecutors threatened to end his career if he came forward with what he says is evidence of wrongdoing, an accusation the prosecutors deny.