Marathon County Crime Gallery: Week ending Oct. 17, 2019
Felony charges filed in Marathon County Circuit Court for the week ending Oct. 17, 2019: Editor’s note: This weekly feature of the Wausau Pilot & Review is being published in…
New search performed in Kayla Berg missing person investigation
By Shereen Siewert Seven groups of K9 teams and members of area police agencies spent two days searching the Nicolet National Forest in a renewed attempt to solve the disappearance…
Wausau Police logs: Oct. 18-20, 2019
Theft, fraud, sexual assault and 4th offense OWI reported in the Wausau Police Department log from Oct. 18 to Oct. 20, 2019.
Minor injuries reported in 2-vehicle crash near Mosinee
By Shereen Siewert Emergency crews responded Monday afternoon to a crash near Mosinee involving two vehicles. The crash was reported at 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of County Hwy. O…
Court docs: Man who fled Weston crash faces 6th OWI
By Shereen Siewert A 44-year-old Rothschild man who allegedly fled the scene of a single-vehicle crash earlier this month is facing his sixth drunken driving charge, police say. Aaron W.…
Police: 1 dead in Portage County ATV crash
By Shereen Siewert A 50-year-old town of Stockton man is dead following an ATV crash Sunday in Portage County, according to a news release The Portage County Communications Center received…
In Wausau appearance, Gov. Evers calls for special session on gun violence
By Shereen Siewert Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Monday called the Legislature into a special session next month to take up a pair of gun control measures that its…
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department logs: Week ending Oct. 20, 2019
The following significant incidents were reported to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department for the week ending Oct. 20, 2019: A 40-year-old Michigan man was arrested for a drug offense following…
1 dead in Eau Claire house fire
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — One person is dead after a house fire in Eau Claire. Police say the fire broke out just after 4 a.m. Saturday. Officers arrived and…
Police: 2 escape submerged vehicle, 1 arrested
By Shereen Siewert Two people escaped injury Saturday morning after their vehicle veered off the roadway and was submerged in water, according to the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department. The single-vehicle…
Wausau sex offender caught viewing child porn on restaurant tablet heads back to prison
By Shereen Siewert A two-time sex offender who spent nine years behind bars on child sex charges is heading back to prison after he was discovered accessing child pornography on…
Weston woman gets 6 years in fatal heroin overdose case
By Shereen Siewert WAUSAU — A Weston woman will spend six years in prison for supplying heroin to a man who overdosed and died two years ago. Tonya Lyn Muzynoski,…
Court docs: Wausau cemetery shooting suspect rigged apartment to kill hundreds
By Shereen Siewert The 64-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a Wausau woman and injuring two other victims meticulously prepared for the attack and could have killed hundreds of people…
Wausau Police logs: Oct. 16-17, 2019
A possible sexual assault of a child, a break-in and an intoxicated man destroying property reported in the Wausau Police Department log from Oct. 16 to Oct. 17, 2019.
Police: Stevens Point threat “not credible”
By Shereen Siewert Schools in Stevens Point were on lockout Friday after an alleged threat surfaced concerning a school within the district. The lockout order was issued at 8:42 a.m.…
Cemetery shooting suspect due in court Friday
By Shereen Siewert The suspect accused of shooting three people, one fatally, in a Wausau cemetery is due in court Friday afternoon for an initial appearance. Henry “Hank” West, 64,…
Appeals Court upholds conviction in 1999 Wausau murder
By Shereen Siewert A Wisconsin appeals court on Wednesday denied the latest appeal of a 55-year-old Wausau man convicted of savagely beating a woman to death more than two decades…
BREAKING: Medical helicopter called for man run over by tractor in Marathon Co.
By Shereen Siewert Rescue crews have summoned a helicopter to a property in the Marathon County town of Halsey for a report of a 54-year-old man who was run over…
