MILLADORE, Wis. (WSAU) – Someone robbed a gas station in Milladore last night.
The Wood County sheriff’s department says the robber walked into Swetz Country Corner Mart just before 9 p.m., pointed a hunting rifle at the clerk and demanded money.
The suspect drove away from the store in ...More
MADISON (WSAU) A former head of the cancer pharmacy at U-W Hospital in Madison is accused of falsifying prescriptions so he could get over 12-thousand methadone pills.
58-year-old Joseph Thiesen was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on 25 counts of prescription drug fraud. State licensing records from last ...More
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) - A federal grand jury has indicted two illegal immigrants from central Wisconsin on charges of illegally re-entering the United States after they were previously deported.
The indictment alleges federal immigration agents found 27-year-old Amulfo Romero-Gonzales in Marathon City and 26-year-old Luis Fernando Marcellano-Reyes in Dorchester on February ...More
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Madison, Wi (WSAU) The Wisconsin men's basketball team will start playing this afternoon for it's 3rd Big Ten Tournament title. The Badgers have won four in a row and will face Illinois for the 2nd straight game. You can hear the game on WSAU with pre game programming ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) Wisconsin's unemployment rate was up slightly in January. Experts were hoping the numbers would keep coming down as a modest economic recovery takes hold. Instead, joblessness was up from 8-point-5 to 8-point-7 percent.
Wisconsin is below the national unemployment rate at 9-point-7 percent.
There were employment gains ...More
STEVENS POINT, Wis (WSAU) The Central Wisconsin Children's Museum in Stevens Point is moving.
They had been in a long-vacant series of storefronts at the CenterPoint Marketplace Mall. But the mall is scheduled for a foreclosure auction in May, and its long term future is in doubt. The museum ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) A D.C. Everest High School senior was sentenced to 65-days in jail, followed by two years of probation, for a sexual assault that took place at a Halloween Party attended by more than a dozen students last year. The incident took place at a cabin in Oneida ...More
STEVENS POINT, Wis (WSAU) The 17-year-old who emailed threats to school officials at Amherst High School will be charged as an adult. His name was made public during an initial court appearance yesterday. He's Jonathan Cronce.
Police Wednesday traced back a threatening email to his personal computer. He admitted ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) The Wisconsin Supreme Court sided with a local truck center in a dispute over its franchise agreement.
The case dates back to 2004 when Volvo Trucks tried to cancel its franchise agreement with Wausau Truck Center. They'd been a Volvo dealer since 1988. They considered selling their ...More
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAU) – Stevens Point residents can avoid becoming victims of arson by following some common sense fire safety tips, authorities said Thursday.
Residents should lock all garage and house doors, install outside lighting and remove any combustible material from their property, said fire Chief John Zinda.
Zinda also ...More
