Brokaw News

Bridge inspections will be taking place next week in Marathon and Waupaca counties, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

After several serious weeks for the American public, President Barack Obama showed his lighter side this weekend at the annual White House Correspondent's Association dinner.

President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel, Saturday, April 27, 2013, in Washington.

If you actually tortured yourself and watched the White House Correspondents dinner on TV last Saturday nightmaybe, like me, you felt sorry for Conan O'Brien. He bombed so bad that I wanted to hand him a Cherry Slurpie, some Kleenex, and give him lifetime tickets to a Lakers game.

By Bill O'Reilly Shortly after the terror bombings in Boston last week, two different media people made statements that were alarming to say the least.

Ron Fournier at the National Journal blistered Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner, where celebrities and the permanent political class members -- and the reporters who are supposed to keep them accountable -- wine and dine the weekend away, oblivious to the stark realities outside the Washington "Boomtown" bubble.

Shortly after the bombings in Boston, two different media people made statements that were alarming to say the least.

Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning, veteran NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw cautioned the media against "going to the extreme" in its reaction to tragic events like last week's Boston Marathon bombings, before lamenting that part of the problem is a lack of understanding and the "enormous gap between the Western values and understanding the ... (more)

In his first day at the anchor desk, at Bismarck NBC affiliate KFYR, Clemente said two expletives as an announcer introduced the station's evening report.

A Wausau City Council member said Monday that he wants Wausau to take control of the village of Brokaw.

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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