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New sign along I-39 near Mosinee shows the number of traffic deaths in Wisconsin so far this year. More>>
For the past decade, the "American Idol" season finale has been one of television's biggest events of the year. Now it's not even TV's biggest event of the week. More>>
A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations has sold for 150,000 pounds ($228,000) at a London auction. More>>
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. More>>
A corporate lawyer for AEG Live LLC says the concert giant did not perform any background check on Michael Jackson's personal physician. More>>
Police in suburban Atlanta say rapper Chief Keef, whose name is Keith Cozart, has been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. More>>
Carole King isn't done with music -- not yet anyway. More>>
Eminem's song publisher is suing Facebook and an ad agency, saying they copied music from one of the rapper's songs. More>>
The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they're getting a spiffy new home in Queens. More>>
Britain's Prince William has joined his father Prince Charles in urging global action to tackle the illegal poaching of wild animals. More>>
French actor Gerard Depardieu will star in a drama about a Chechen man who seeks revenge for the killing of his son. More>>
Carol Burnett, who became famous for playing a variety of characters in sketch comedy routines on her namesake television show, has been named the winner of the nation's top humor prize. More>>
"The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" host Chris Harrison will again emcee the Miss America Pageant this September in Atlantic City, N.J. More>>
New consumer credit data show that Americans were more diligent about making their card payments on time in the first three months of the year. More>>
Simon Cowell has added former Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland and Latin artist Paulina Rubio to the cast of his competition show "The X Factor." More>>
Campgrounds gear up for the visitor that will arrive this weekend for the start of the summer tourism season. More>>
Britain's biggest theater group has reached across the Atlantic Ocean and bought Broadway's biggest theater from Live Nation Entertainment for about $60 million. More>>
Antonio Banderas will play the charismatic miner known as "Super Mario," who in 2010 became the public face of 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for 69 days. More>>
Seth MacFarlane is too busy to host the Oscars in 2014. More>>
Bernard Waber, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," has died at his home in New York. More>>
An accounting executive for AEG Live LLC says the company spent $24 million producing Michael Jackson's ill-fated "This Is It" concerts. More>>
It's a quick kiss, but it's a long step forward for openly gay character Kevin Keller in Archie Comics. More>>
An 87-year-old woman who alleges Donald Trump cheated her in a bait-and-switch scheme has told jurors she had qualms about suing the developer-turned-TV star given his power and influence. More>>
A leading Israeli university says it will present singer Barbra Streisand with an honorary Ph.D. when she visits Israel next month. More>>
The author of best-sellers about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida is working on a book about terrorists in the U.S. More>>
Indian cinema is being feted in Cannes on its 100th birthday. But amid the celebrations, the B-word -- "Bollywood" -- remains controversial. More>>
A couple of stars from TV's "Chuck" and "Smash" will soon be dating on Broadway. More>>
There's no debating that obesity is a serious problem in this country. What may be open for debate is what the government can do to address it. More>>
An Adams County woman is fighting for her life after authorities say she was attacked in a bar. More>>
"The Voice" is leaving the judging drama to its rivals. More>>
Students took part in a living history lesson at Wausau West High School. More>>
Ratings for the "American Idol" finale plunged to a record low for the 12-year-old show. More>>
David Beckham's pecs are at least as much a part of his brand as his kick; his brand of shoes ultimately more lucrative than the game he's giving up. Listed as the world's highest-earning athlete for 2013, Beckham's retirement from play still leaves him with valuable endorsements and unparalleled celebrity. The question is whether he can maintain it. More>>
Flashy skirts, fake tans, fur and feathers: Welcome to the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. More>>
Colleagues and friends paying tribute to USA Today founder Al Neuharth are remembering him not as a driven media giant but as a loyal South Dakotan who never forgot his roots. More>>
To find their Mr. Darcy, the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota has turned to a Mad Man. More>>
The lawyer who unsuccessfully defended O.J. Simpson against armed robbery charges in Las Vegas says his client knew two companions had guns in a 2007 confrontation with memorabilia dealers. More>>
Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles is releasing a solo album. More>>
Country music star Randy Travis has filed a lawsuit to prevent the release of patrol car video of his 2012 drunken-driving arrest in North Texas. More>>
A Marine has been reunited with the dog he served with in Afghanistan during a surprise ceremony at the Iowa Capitol. More>>
Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize. More>>
Danish museum officials say that an archaeological dig last year has revealed 365 items from the Viking era, including 60 rare coins.
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A remote Alaska volcano continues to erupt, spewing lava and ash clouds.
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Students take part in hands-on safety lesson. More>>
Albuquerque police say a mother who saw her 5-year-old being abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, triggering a manhunt. More>>
Cuenca, Ecuador, has become a city teaming with retirees from all over the United States, drawn there by quality health care, a booming social scene and a low cost of living that makes their nest eggs suddenly seem golden. More>>
The Powerball jackpot has soared to $475 million after none of the ticket sold matched all the winning numbers in Wednesday night's drawing. More>>
Local reaction is mixed to the National Transportation Safety Board's call to lower the legal limit for alcohol when driving. More>>
The U.S. Postal Service says Los Angeles was the worst city in America for dog attacks on letter carriers last year, and it urged pet owners to help reduce the attacks. More>>
The Powerball jackpot has ballooned to $360 million in a matter of weeks, a jump that's propelled it to be the third largest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest jackpot in history. More>>
Tempe police say the 19-year-old student was found early Saturday morning in the emergency room lobby of St. Luke's Hospital.
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He started from the bottom, but now he's on top at the BET Awards: Drake has 12 nominations. More>>
The Nielsen Co. says ratings were largely status quo last week, with CBS maintaining a decisive lead. More>>
Bill Hader is leaving "Saturday Night Live" after an eight-year run. More>>
The Vatican is getting back into its centuries-old tradition of arts patronage with its first-ever exhibit at the Venice Biennale, commissioning a biblically inspired show about creation, destruction and renewal for one of the world's most prestigious contemporary arts festivals. More>>
ABC says it is adding 14 new shows to its lineup next season, including a spinoff of its fairytale drama, "Once Upon a Time," and an action-adventure series drawn from the Marvel Comics world. More>>
Jolie authored an op-ed for Tuesday's New York Times where she writes that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts. More>>
A Tennessee man who stole a big-rig truck in California, caused several accidents and told investigators he was fleeing zombies when he did it has pleaded guilty to several felonies.
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A weary-looking O.J. Simpson, weighed down by shackles and more than four years in prison, shuffled into a Las Vegas courtroom Monday hoping to eventually walk out a free man. More>>
Fox, facing the ebbing ratings power of "American Idol," is betting big on its first miniseries showcase starting with a limited-edition "24," and shows from heavyweight producers Seth MacFarlane and J.J. Abrams to invigorate its schedule. More>>
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. More>>
Wisconsin officials say more than 100 million pounds of electronic waste has been collected since the state began an e-waste recycling program three years ago. More>>
O. J. Simpson returns to court today in the hopes of shortening his prison sentence related to a 2008 hotel room robbery.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) -- A report of gunshots on the campus of a La Crosse technical college drew an immediate response from heavily-armed police officers who found the sound was nothing more than balloons popping during a class project. More>>
PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis. (AP) -- Officials in Pleasant Prairie say tests have found the drinking water is safe on a farm where buried horses were found.
Alice the owl isn't the only bird turning heads in Houston County anymore. Between March 15th and March 21st three owls hatched in Houston, MN. More>>
Usher will be the spark for Macy's 4th of July fireworks show.
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Sonny Santiago was a rapper who died in a car crash in February. Commissioners at Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn this week unanimously rejected his family's request to inscribe his gravestone with a song verse that included profanity. More>>
A judge ruled Wednesday that cheerleaders at a Southeast Texas high school can display banners emblazoned with Bible verses at football games. More>>
Rihanna was booed for turning up late at a concert in Boston, but the audience in New York cheered her on even though she didn't start on time the following night. More>>
The wife of the lead singer of the Grammy-nominated band As I Lay Dying says in divorce papers that she was concerned about changes in his behavior. More>>
A TV choreographer who testified that Michael Jackson never abused him as a child has now filed a claim against the singer's estate claiming years of abuse by the pop superstar. More>>
NTC students get ready for job interviews. More>>
The traveling festival celebrates the 1998 cult movie "The Big Lebowski," by Joel and Ethan Coen. Fans dress up as their favorite character, such as L.A. slacker Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, sip his favorite drink white Russians and go bowling, The Dude's favorite pastime.
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Carrie Underwood will take over the theme song for "Sunday Night Football," with NBC sticking to the formula of a female country music star for its intro. More>>
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is retiring at the end of the season, bringing an end to more than 26 trophy-filled years at the club. More>>
A modern production of Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhauser" has caused a stir in Germany because of Nazi-themed scenes showing people dying in gas chambers and a family having their heads shaved and executed. More>>
The 20-year-old Wausau man accused of attacking two jailers, one critically, entered insanity pleas to three felonies during a brief court appearance Monday. More>>
Schoolchildren in Minnesota and Wisconsin are getting a rare May snow day after a storm dropped up to 16 inches of sticky snow on the Upper Midwest. More>>
Lindsay Lohan's attorney said Thursday the actress checked into a Southern California rehab facility that a state official said is unlicensed to perform the type of treatment a judge required her to receive. More>>
One Wisconsin teen will have a dream date for his junior prom.
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J.C. Penney is sorry and it wants your business back. That's the gist of its latest ad, a public "mea culpa" which the mid-priced department-store put on its YouTube and Facebook pages. More>>
California Pastor Greg Laurie is opening Thursday's National Day of Prayer with a morning observance at the Pentagon, despite opposition from gay rights groups. More>>
Authorities in Georgia say Chris Kelly, a member of the 90s rap duo Kriss Cross, has died in Atlanta. More>>
William "Billy" Bretherton's attorney says the star of the A&E reality TV show "Billy the Exterminator" has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of possessing synthetic marijuana. More>>
A Mormon church-owned NBC affiliate in Utah has pulled the "Hannibal" TV show because of its graphic violence. More>>
Geese halt refill of McDill pond in the Village of Whiting. More>>
WISCONSIN RAPIDS (WAOW) - Wisconsin Rapids police say a cloudy plastic bag that contained a "large firecracker" and some matches prompted investigators to order all schools locked down for nearly an hour Wednesday as a precaution. More>>
A new animated comedy by Disney will get a special screening at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture before it opens nationwide this summer.
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Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for April 22-28. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership. More>>
"American Idol" has been television's most popular show for nearly a decade. Now it isn't even the most popular competition show. More>>
AOL is making its most substantial dip into original video programming with new series from Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria and Nicole Richie. More>>
Woody Allen is returning to France for his next film and bringing Colin Firth and Emma Stone along as its stars. More>>
Amanda Knox says in an interview that what happened to her was "surreal but it could have happened to anyone." More>>
A spokeswoman for Candice Bergen says the actress is producing a film about her late father, famed ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. More>>
Actor and wrestling advocate Billy Baldwin is hoping his notoriety and Hollywood connections can help keep the sport on the Olympic program. More>>
Princess Tarinan von Anhalt's creative process may be a bit more powerful than the average artist these days. More>>
The Dallas Opera says the French-born conductor Emmanuel Villaume (vee-YOHM') has been appointed its new music director. More>>
ESPN says it regrets that one of its reporters described Jason Collins as a sinner after the NBA center publicly revealed he is gay. More>>
A paramedic is the first witness to testify in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael Jackson's mother against concert giant AEG Live. More>>
Hundreds of young women from around the world are kicking their dance routines into high gear in New York this week. More>>
Country star Kenny Chesney is starting a fund to help those who lost limbs in the Boston Marathon bombing. More>>
The Racine Zoo is expecting the arrival of three miniature pigs next month, and zoo officials need your help to name the little porkers. More>>
Galesville Ettrick Trempealeau High School students are designing four pairs of shoes, and vying for a $50,000 prize in a national contest. More>>
A Web series about a 4-inch-tall crime fighter created by "The Office" star Ed Helms is coming to Yahoo. More>>
An attorney for concert giant AEG Live says the company could not have known while promoting comeback concerts that Michael Jackson was using an anesthetic that killed him. More>>
Mark Wahlberg's true-crime romp "Pain & Gain" led the domestic box office with $20.2 million over a quiet weekend that preceded the start of Hollywood's summer blockbuster season. More>>
With the simplest of sentences, NBA veteran Jason Collins set aside years of worry and silence to become the first active player in one of four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay. More>>
Musicians are working to help a Texas town decimated in a deadly fertilizer plant explosion. More>>
NBC says it's lining up musical artists including Rod Stewart to perform on "The Voice" in May. More>>
Grammy Award-winning cellist Janos Starker has died after months of declining health. He was 88. More>>
Hundreds of personal items, including antiques, artwork and furniture once owned by Bob Hope and his wife, Dolores, will be auctioned to benefit a Southern California charity. More>>
The arrival of warmer weather has many landscape companies working double time to get their customers lawns in shape for summer. More>>
An attorney for Michael Jackson's mother says AEG Live owed it to the pop superstar to properly investigate the doctor held criminally responsible for his death. More>>
Actress Amanda Peet has managed to lure Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker to share a stage again with her first play. More>>
A music promoter who brought some of the biggest names in the business to Colorado, including as the Doors, the Rolling Stones and U2, has died. Barry Fey was 73. More>>
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and The Israel Museum have jointly purchased a 15th century illuminated Hebrew manuscript. More>>
KRONENWETTER (WAOW) - Trees are a common theme among the five names being recommended for renaming a Village of Kronenwetter park. Community Development Director Randy Fifrick says about 75 entries were submitted to name the 10-acre park along Tower Road. The finalists are: Evergreen Park, submitted by Joseph Herman; Harmony Park, submitted by Matt Baker; Sebastian Park, submitted by Crista Bobinski; Tall Pines Park, submitted by Sara Duellman; and Towering Pines Park, submitted by Mary Kitt... More>>
It's been a knockout in Germany. Now Sylvester Stallone hopes a musical based on his beloved boxing film "Rocky" will also be a hit on Broadway. More>>
The British film studio home to the James Bond franchise and other major movie productions is announcing plans for its first U.S. movie production facility. More>>
Supporters of folk singer Woody Guthrie say the opening of a center chronicling his storied life and career is long overdue in his native state of Oklahoma. More>>
Television producer Dick Wolf will be busy next season. More>>
Truman Capote's 1958 typed manuscript of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with the author's handwritten edits has sold for about $306,000 at auction to a Russian billionaire. More>>
The members of the Tony Award nominations committee better look out: They've snubbed four girls who play a tough telekinetic heroine on Broadway. More>>
British prosecutors say they are charging prominent celebrity publicist Max Clifford with 11 counts of indecent assault. More>>
Will.i.am says he's been unfairly accused of stealing a song from a Russian dance producer. More>>
The youngest sister of actress Glenn Close is working on a memoir about her struggles with mental illness. More>>
Lauryn Hill says she has signed with Sony to pay her overdue taxes. More>>
Members of the Cajun band T'Monde are young, but they like their music old. More>>
Britain's young royals had a magical day out Friday with a visit to the studio where the "Harry Potter" movies were filmed. More>>
Thousands raised to help the family of a Stratford boy battling cancer. More>>
MADISON (WAOW) - A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a central Wisconsin woman with threatening to kill a U.S. administrative law judge. Norma Prince, 51, of Wisconsin Rapids, made the threat Jan. 31, according to U.S. Attorney John Vaudreuil. The charge resulted from an investigation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the prosecutor said in a statement. No other details were released. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Reinhard, who was assigned to prosecute the case, did no... More>>
WAUSAU (WAOW) _ Wausau police say a teenager was arrested for drunken driving after he tried to flee the scene of a two-car crash. More>>
NTC Merrill campus for safety training opens with ribbon cutting. More>>
Some parents are upset that a principal has banned girls from wearing strapless dresses to an eighth grade dance. More>>
People magazine has named Gwyneth Paltrow as the World's Most Beautiful Woman for 2013. More>>
A Samurai sword-wielding Mormon bishop helped a neighbor woman escape a Tuesday morning attack by a man who had been stalking her. More>>
A Samurai sword-wielding Mormon bishop helped a neighbor woman escape a Tuesday morning attack by a man who had been stalking her. More>>
The latest food fad known as the cinnamon challenge involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. The `prize' could end up being a hospital stay. More>>
New disturbing details are emerging in a Marathon County murder investigation. A man has now been charged with intentional homicide and trying to hide a body.
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Work is now underway on a new fire station in Merrill. Firefighters, business leaders and community members gathered to watch the official groundbreaking for the project this morning. More>>
With the Golden Globes ceremony scheduled for next January, Hollywood's 2014 awards season is set. More>>
Some of the country's top research institutions have combined to launch a massive online archive. More>>
Flavor Flav has a new court date in Las Vegas that doesn't interfere with his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. More>>
Historian and author Robert Caro has won yet another award. More>>
The public is invited to share their own inspirational quotes at a Times Square event tied to a video installation of Nelson Mandela's speeches. More>>
SHAWANO (WAOW) - The Shawano County Sheriff's Department says two people are suspects in the January robbery of a rural Marion home about a day after the elderly couple who lived there had died. More>>
Authorities urged Dr. W. Scott Harrington's roughly 7,000 patients to get tested after finding unsanitary conditions at his two Tulsa-area clinics.
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With the Golden Globes ceremony scheduled for next January, Hollywood's 2014 awards season is set.
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Rummage sale for boy battling cancer off to an amazing start. More>>
Nature is throwing all it has at Middle America, from snow in the north to tornadoes in the Plains, and enough rain in Chicago to cause a sinkhole that swallowed cars. More>>
Rummage sale starts Thursday at 4303 Augustine Avenue in Weston to help baby battling cancer. More>>
The Green Bay Packers have signed star linebacker Clay Matthews to a contract extension. More>>
HURLEY (WAOW) - Hurley police say a suspicious backpack that prompted a bomb scare near a mining company's office got dropped there by a "very intoxicated" man. More>>
Google's mail and application services are unavailable to some users. The company says it's investigating the problems, but doesn't know their cause. More>>
The public will get a chance to sound off on a bill that would establish a woodchuck hunting season in Wisconsin.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin man whose mother faces sentencing for the 1957 death of his baby sister says his mother is an "evil monster" who deserves to die in prison. More>>
Athletic Park renovationsAthletic Park in Wausau is set to undergo a major renovation. During a news conference at the Wausau Area Chamber of Commerce, the owner of the Wisconsin Woodchucks unveiled the revamping plan. Mark Macdonald More>>
WAUSAU (WAOW) - Police say a Wausau man had a blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit to drive when he rammed his pickup truck into three parked cars near downtown Wausau and ended up stuck atop one of them. His truck was so severely damaged it had to be towed away. More>>
Scores of Charlie Chaplin impersonators in bowler hats tramped through the streets of a small port town in western India at an annual parade to mark the birthday of the legendary comic actor. Adipur's only claim to fame is its 40-year-old celebration of the silent era actor.
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The second annual Wisconsin Grilled Cheese Championship will be held April 27 in Mineral Point, in southwestern Wisconsin. All entries have to use Wisconsin cheese as the primary ingredient, but there's also room for creativity.
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The Navy has sent one of its bomb-disposal units to Boston to assist local authorities as needed in the aftermath of the two explosions near the Boston Marathon's finish line.
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Utilities can resume shutting off power to non-paying customers. More>>
Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia has won the 117th edition of the Boston Marathon. More>>
Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and wrote in the guestbook that he hoped Frank "would have been a Belieber" if she had lived. More>>
Power restored in rural Plover area after storm. More>>
A day after Reebok ended its relationship with Rick Ross, the rapper acknowledged that his lyrics on Rocko's song "U.O.E.N.O." were "offensive."
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Jay-Z is applying to become a baseball agent.
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Opponents of the late Margaret Thatcher are taking a kind of musical revenge on the former prime minister, pushing the song "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead" up the British charts in a posthumous protest over her polarizing policies. More>>
Watch out, Joe Biden. The other vice president is in the house. More>>
A 79-year-old Michigan woman whose first words after emerging from a semi-coma that lasted five years were, "I want to go to a Bob Seger concert," is getting her wish. More>>
Attorneys and a Los Angeles judge have selected 81 people to remain in the jury pool for a case between Michael Jackson's mother and concert giant AEG Live.
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