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WAUSAU (WAOW) - Eight weeks after attending a rally to support a Hmong teenager to be sentenced as an adult for fatally stabbing another teen, Marathon County Administrator Brad Karger has been suspended for 30 days without pay, the county corporation counsel said Wednesday. 

A Tremper High School transgender student has filed a federal lawsuit against the Kenosha Unified School District.

(ABC) -- At makeshift memorials, churches and rallies, Baton Rouge residents honored three slain officers while searching for ways to prevent more violence like the city has endured recently.

Wisconsin National Guard members have been activated to help assess flood damage in northern Wisconsin.  

The state may purchase nearly 1,000 acres of land along the Lower Chippewa River in northwestern Wisconsin from Xcel Energy which once had plans to build a nuclear plant on the site. 

Facebook announced recently that it is changing its news feed algorithm which means you'll be seeing more posts from your family and friends.

Reaction to the death Tuesday of TV and film writer and director Garry Marshall of "Happy Days" and "Pretty Woman" fame.

Sen. Ted Cruz's Texas-size political ambitions will be on full display Wednesday as the primary runner-up delivers a prime-time convention speech, but holds off on a full-throated endorsement of Republican nominee...

Writer-director Garry Marshall, whose TV hits included "Happy Days" "Laverne & Shirley" and box-office successes included "Pretty Woman" and "Runaway Bride," has died.

Lap dances at a West Virginia strip club will help pay for flood relief. 

University of New Hampshire dairy researchers are more relaxed these days about monitoring pregnant cows:  A sensor attached to their tails sends text alerts to help detect when they're in labor. 

Brandon Potter and his wife Debbie are endlessly thankful for Facebook, a metal detector and one stranger’s generosity.

An estimated quarter of a million children in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state are severely malnourished and many are facing death, the United Nations Children’s Fund warned. 

He was a writer-director whose TV hits included "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley." Garry Marshall has died at age 81.

The 2016 Republican National Convention is now officially Donald Trump's convention.

A professor at University of Wisconsin Marathon County is giving insight into plagiarism.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is targeting his Democratic opponent Russ Feingold from a national stage during his prime-time speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. 

Make it official: The Republican Party has nominated Donald Trump for president.

TOWN OF ALBAN (WAOW)-- A fire destroys a Portage County home.

BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) -- A Norwegian ship described as the largest Viking vessel in the world is headed for Chicago after raising enough money to leave Michigan and continue at least part of a Great Lakes tour.