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NBC News' final map gives Barack Obama the win : With two days before Election Day, the final NBC News map shows Obama remaining above the 270 electoral-vote mark, with a 286-157 lead over McCain.

Tom Brokaw's battle cry came quietly, in the same serious tones he's used in newscasts for decades.

Yesterday's show featured its send-up of the second presidential debate - and, with no Palin to pick on, the focus of the satire fell on Tom Brokaw.

It occurs to me that neither McCain nor Obama particularly "glittered" last night, largely because of the debate format, and I blame Brokaw for it.

As Melissa Bolanda led her third-grade class in a song about having good posture and manners in front of the entire student body at Franklin Elementary School in Wausau, she had no clue everyone really was ...

Christopher D. Pingley, 32, 402 W. Sixth St., Marshfield, made an initial appearance Sept.

Leroy Norton, 71, of Wausau, died Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008, at Aspirus Wausau Hospital.

Editor's note: Wausau's Christine Bremer Muggli will be writing all week from the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Rather than seek a 285 percent increase in water rates, the village of Brokaw will ask its customers to authorize a special assessment to pay for a $1 million pipeline to bring water from Wausau.

GELHAR, Wallace, and ROSE, Trinity, both of Brokaw, July 19, 2008. KOHN, Dustin, and ANKER, Karla, both town of Rib Mountain, July 16, 2008.

GELHAR, Wallace, and ROSE, Trinity, both of Brokaw, July 19, 2008. KOHN, Dustin, and ANKER, Karla, both town of Rib Mountain, July 16, 2008.

IOLA -- The 36th annual Iola Old Car Show and Swap Meet opened at a leisurely pace Thursday morning as visitors quietly weaved their way through the rows of glinting cars and swap meet tents.

Microsoft's Bill Gates, in an NBC interview with Tom Brokaw, said a deal with Yahoo is unlikely, according to a CNBC report Friday.

NEWS ALERT -- Names released in Weston homicide case Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin says a man and a woman found dead in a Weston mobile home park had lived together for years and were victims of a ...

Geez, you take off one lousy week, and it takes forever to catch up. Piles of mail, hundreds of e-mails but very few phone calls.

All went well as emergency workers responded to the chemical gas exposure at the Brokaw Paper Mill Friday.

Last Friday, much of the Village of Brokaw was evacuated after two chemicals were mistakenly mixed at Wausau Paper- creating chlorine gas.

Wausau Paper announced plans to invest $15 million to optimize fiber handling and stock blending at its Brokaw mill in central Wisconsin.

It was a scary day for 23 workers, who were taken to the hospital after they were exposed to a potentially dangerous gas.

If you or a family member or friend were exposed to the gas leak in Brokaw, the Wausau Daily Herald would like to include you in our story.