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Relatives say a father and son from the Austin area are among the victims of the deadly truck attack in Nice.

The White House Correspondents’ Association is raising the alarm about the treatment of the press by both the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns in a new op-ed published in USA Today. 

As the nation debates the state of race relations and police use of force in the wake of the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, prominent legislators are beginning to stand up and speak about their own experiences. 

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says in the aftermath of a deadly truck attack in France that if he's elected president he would ask Congress for a declaration of war on the Islamic State.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says in the aftermath of a deadly truck attack in France that if he's elected president he would ask Congress for a declaration of war on the Islamic State. 

Tim Tebow won't be at the Republican National Convention after all. 

The sheriff of a county about 70 miles north of Seattle says a restaurant owner has asked that law enforcement no longer dine there.

Wausau will host the first ever International Wisconsin Ginseng Festival, which is in the works for September 2017. 

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin is speaking out after a bill she helped a Stevens Point family work on, following the death of their son. 

A Red Cross volunteer from Wausau is back from his deployment to West Virginia, where many areas were devastated by floods.

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) -- A central Pennsylvania man is accused of spraying fluid used to embalm a human brain on marijuana that he then smoked. 

PRINCETON, Texas (AP) -- Officials say a Wal-Mart employee cut two people in a North Texas store after becoming agitated following a conversation with his employer.

Marathon County Administrator Brad Karger is under investigation, according to Board Chairman Kurt Gibbs. 

An eyewitness has told The Associated Press that he saw a truck driver slam a vehicle into a crowd of revelers in the French resort city of Nice and then emerge shooting, killing many.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - Hundreds of community, school and cultural programs and events are funded through grants from more than 50 public and private foundations in Marathon County. 

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee's police chief will take part in a prime-time discussion on race relations and policing led by President Barack Obama. 

MADISON (WAOW) - Federal prosecutors say two Merrill man are accused of conspiring to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine in a plot that includes 10 other suspects from central Wisconsin, southwest Wisconsin and Minnesota. 

A third person has died in the floodwaters in northern Wisconsin.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - Doubts surfaced Thursday whether a gunman fired one shot at a man who fled after a friend put his hands up when confronted last week in a southwest side neighborhood. 

We're getting our first look at what happened the night a teenager opened fire at the Antigo prom back in April, as the officer who killed the gunman is cleared in the shooting.