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RHINELANDER - A Northwoods radio station did something special to celebrate World Record Store Day. WXPR Public Radio created a pop-up record store in Rhinelander. The temporary store was created inside Art Start and ran from 12 p.m. to four p.m. on Saturday. Organizers say listeners donated about 4,000 vinyl records and 2,000 CD's for the pop-up shop.
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WAUSAU - The Wausau Police Department is looking for two people. It's looking for 22- year- old Tyason J. Asmundsen and his 5 - year- old son son Brayden Asmundsen.
They may be in a white 2004 Cadillac Seville with Wisconsin registration 646-ZFV.
If you see them or the car call 911.
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ONEIDA COUNTY - A wild deer in Oneida County tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease.
The DNR says a deer found in Crescent Township had CWD.
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MADISON - Researchers examining forests in northern Wisconsin say Native American reservations have older trees and better plant diversity and tree regeneration than surrounding state or national forests.
Wisconsin Public Radio reports that Dartmouth College and University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers recently published their findings in an issue of the Ecology and Society journal. Researchers studied forests on four Native American reservations.
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MERRILL - A Northwoods group that supports victims of domestic abuse or sexual assault took the time to thank those whose support makes the program possible. HAVEN (Household Abuse Victims Emergency Network) hosted an open house on Friday in Merrill. The open house was held in part to celebrate the program's 35th anniversary. It also allowed people who have supported HAVEN over the years to get a tour of the facility and get to know the employees there.
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CANTON, MI - Student across the country walked out of theirs schools today, in part for the Columbine anniversary, but to also protest gun violence.
In Michigan, hundreds of student from three different high schools gathered on a campus football field.
In New York, Students staged a mass "die-in" on the steps of the State Capitol to call for stricter gun control laws.
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RHINELANDER - Sixty-two-year-old Kenneth Welsh lasted just eight days as a free man before being arrested in Oneida County again.
Welsh is now in Oneida County Jail, accused of making terrorist threats.
Those threats put hospitals in Rhinelander and Tomahawk on lockdown on Thursday.
Oneida County Sheriff Grady Hartman said Welsh made the threats to a hospice company after they withdrew service from his terminally-ill wife.
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