WEAU News Headlines

A federal appeals court has ruled against more than 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters who say police misled them into a mass arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge.

The Eau Claire Area Economic Development Corporation is happy to welcome Patrick Gaetjens as the new Project Manager.

Lawyers for the Washington Redskins are telling a judge that upholding a federal panel's decision to cancel the team's trademarks would infringe upon the team's free-speech rights.

The Supreme Court seems skeptical that the government can prevent a convicted felon who is barred from possessing firearms from trying to sell his gun collection after it was confiscated by authorities.

A former Green Bay elementary school teacher is sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting two students.

A review of public documents shows millions of 911 calls from cellphones in Wisconsin and the rest of the U.S. don't quickly give a location to authorities

The sponsor of Wisconsin's right-to-work bill says it is about worker freedom.

Lovers of emoji, the cute graphics that punctuate online writing and texts, will soon be able to pick from different skin tones.

A consumer safety group is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to pull certain antifungal tablets off the market, because of risks of liver damage.

The Mall of America has provided a rare glimpse at some security measures in an effort to calm fears over an online video purportedly made by a terrorist group urging extremists to attack shopping malls in Western countries.

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore officials say the popular ice caves could be open to the public this weekend.

The Milwaukee County executive says a loaded handgun that was smuggled into the county jail was found in a load of dirty laundry.

Police officers plan to close the Wisconsin state Capitol as usual after a hearing on a right-to-work bill that's scheduled to go into the early evening.

Opponents of a Republican push to turn Wisconsin into a right-to-work state plan to converge on the Capitol to hold a rally and testify in opposition of the measure on a fast track in the Legislature.

The state’s law requiring a 48-hour waiting period before buying a handgun is up for repeal under a new bill.

Monday morning WEAU and our friends at Gordy's Market were thrilled to present a group of Eau Claire North High School students with $3,000 in Box Tops for Education, courtesy of General Mills.

Union leaders are speaking out against a fast-tracked right-to-work bill in the Wisconsin legislature.

Doctors say an experimental drug shows some early, encouraging signs of effectiveness in its first human test against Ebola in West Africa. But the drug helps only if patients get it soon after their symptoms first appear.

Andrew Hungerholt, 31, pleaded guilty in Chippewa County Court Monday to one count of sex assault of a student by school staff.

43 year-old Kevin Elberg is charged with battery after deputies say he beat Sao Lue Vang severely.