WEAU News Headlines

Officers need your help in finding a missing man who is considered a special needs adult.

Richard Matt and David Sweat have confounded authorities since June 6, when they were reported missing after sawing through the walls of their cells, shimmying through the works of the building and popping out of a nearby manhole to freedom.

The Dunn County District Attorney says Joshua Schuster was ordered to serve one year in jail and four years of probation.

The state Department of Natural Resources says hunters killed fewer Wisconsin turkeys this spring than last year.

Marshfield Clinic presented a special award on Friday morning to the winner of the Wisconsin Tar Wars Poster Contest.

A doe died of chronic wasting disease at a Fairchild-area deer farm, prompting the move.

A 25-year-old is in the hospital following a one-car crash caused by speed and alcohol.

Good news for those living in downtown Eau Claire. Lake Street is scheduled to open back up.

Several parents are suing a private, military-style voucher school in Milwaukee, alleging their children were subjected to abuse and humiliating treatment when they attended a boot camp last fall.

A 20-year-old Racine man is dead after the motorcycle he was driving collided with a semitrailer near an entrance ramp to Interstate 94.

Eau Claire County's public beaches are all open in time for the weekend.

An Ashland teenager is sentenced to life in prison in connection with the death of his great-uncle in 2013.

Seven baby ducks have been rescued by workers at a finance company in Marshfield after discovering the animals had fallen into a drain pipe.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide is a "grave mistake."

The Chippewa Falls School District confirmed Jim Dimock passed away Thursday. No other information was released.

France's top security official says the suspect himself was detained earlier Friday after he rammed a car into gas canisters at an American gas factory in southeastern France, touching off an explosion that injured two people.

The Supreme Court has declared that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States.

Also attending the conference are Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

A local broker, who had been planning for years to run her own realty company, has finally reached her goal.

The Milwaukee Bucks have selected UNLV shooting guard Rashad Vaughn with the No. 17 overall pick in Thursday's NBA draft.