Local Wausau News

An Illinois woman who lost nearly $12,000 at a La Crosse mall has her money back.

STEVENS POINT (WAOW) - A 15-year-old Wausau boy is jailed in $100,000 cash bond and will face charges as an adult in stabbing his grandmother five times and stealing her car, Portage County District Attorney Louis J. Molepske Jr. said Tuesday. 

Winnebago County sheriff's officials have released a few more details about a double shooting in the Town of Utica.

A new reports show home sales in Wisconsin for the first half of the year are the best they've been since 2005. 

A campaign ad by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson that he pulled last week because it was too soon after an attack in Nice, France, has been revamped to now mention that attack.

The Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Office has identified two St. Norbert College students who died after they were swept from a pier into Lake Michigan Sunday.

The state Department of Natural Resources plans to give one of Gov. Scott Walker's key donors a lakefront parcel in a land swap.

A Green Bay firefighter who died in the line of duty nearly 125 years ago has finally received a graveside tribute.

A special prom will take place on Friday in honor of an Appleton girl who has made an emotional decision to die.

A spokesperson for 21st Century Fox has responded to a report that Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes will soon leave his position. 

Melania Trump's speech to the Republican National Convention contained two passages that match nearly word-for-word the speech that first lady Michelle Obama delivered at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

As the political world focuses on the Republican National Convention, Democrat Hillary Clinton is criticizing Donald Trump for what she says is his "dangerous, reckless approach" to the presidency.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) -- A correctional officer and an inmate are dead following a brief altercation at a Pennsylvania prison. 

Hundreds have gathered on the sprawling campus of a Baton Rouge church for a candlelight vigil honoring a police officer shot to death Sunday.

Chief Jeff Hardel of the Wausau Police Department held a press conference on Monday afternoon about the deadly officer-involved shooting of Oswald Mattner, and the single witness to the shooting spoke about Mattner threatening his life. 

GRAND VIEW, Wis. (AP) -- Authorities say a woman has died after driving her car around barricades on a washed-out highway in flooded northwestern Wisconsin. A Wisconsin Department of Transportation official called 911 around 9:30 a.m. Monday to report the crash on U.S. Highway 63 just north of Grand View. The official said the car drove around two sets of "road closed" signs and into the washed-out part of the highway, which goes down about 50 feet. The car came to rest at...

LEBANON, Maine (AP) -- Rescuers have used GPS coordinates linked to a cellphone to help a skydiver who went off course during a parachute drop and landed in a swamp in Maine. 

The Salvation Army Hope Center in Stevens Point received four mattresses as a donation from the Stevens Point Elks Lodge.

WOODBURY, Minn. (AP) -- The attorney for a Minnesota woman accused of beating and starving a woman she brought from China to work as a nanny says his client denies the charges. 

Central Wisconsin Airport is now offering pet relief pads to comply with a new federal law.