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Merrill Home Considered Total Loss Following Thursday Morning Fire
MERRILL, WI (WSAU) - The Merrill Fire Department has released details surrounding a home fire that occurred on Thursday morning and left the structure as well as the garage at a total loss. According to a press release from the Merrill Fire Department, when firefighters arrived at the scene, the fire had already spread...
16h ago
New school superintedent named for Wisconsin Rapids schools
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - New leadership is coming to Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools. Current superintendent Craig Broeren is stepping down at the end of June and current Lincoln High School principal Ronald Rasmussen will be taking over as superintendent. Broeren announced earlier this year that he would be...
16h ago
Olerich Warrant Quashed, June Trial Remains on the Schedule
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man who missed a court appearance earlier this week, leading a judge to issue a bench warrant, appeared in court earlier today. Jason Olerich was in court Thursday afternoon where a judge increased his bond after hearing a statement from his attorney. Olerich missed a scheduled hearing on ...
16h ago
Hit-and-Run Reported in Town of Reid
TOWN OF REID, WI (WSAU) -- Marathon County Crimestoppers are asking for help to identify a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run incident involving two bicyclists and a car. According to Crimestoppers a man and a woman were out for a bike ride along Plover Road near Miller Road in the Town of Reid Wednesday evening. The vi...
18h ago
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Signals Support For White House's Proposed Palestinian Refugee Plan
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin has weighed in on the Biden Administration's proposed plan to bring refugees from Gaza to states like Wisconsin as voters continue to express concerns over immigration. According to Politico, Baldwin and several other top Democrats, including Montana Sen. Jon Te...
19h ago
Local News
Merrill Home Considered Total Loss Following Thursday Morning Fire
MERRILL, WI (WSAU) - The Merrill Fire Department has released details surrounding a home fire that occurred on Thursday morning and left the structure as well as the garage at a total loss. According to a press release from the Merrill Fire Department, when firefighters arrived at the scene, the fire had already spread...
16h ago
New school superintedent named for Wisconsin Rapids schools
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - New leadership is coming to Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools. Current superintendent Craig Broeren is stepping down at the end of June and current Lincoln High School principal Ronald Rasmussen will be taking over as superintendent. Broeren announced earlier this year that he would be...
16h ago
Olerich Warrant Quashed, June Trial Remains on the Schedule
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man who missed a court appearance earlier this week, leading a judge to issue a bench warrant, appeared in court earlier today. Jason Olerich was in court Thursday afternoon where a judge increased his bond after hearing a statement from his attorney. Olerich missed a scheduled hearing on ...
16h ago
Hit-and-Run Reported in Town of Reid
TOWN OF REID, WI (WSAU) -- Marathon County Crimestoppers are asking for help to identify a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run incident involving two bicyclists and a car. According to Crimestoppers a man and a woman were out for a bike ride along Plover Road near Miller Road in the Town of Reid Wednesday evening. The vi...
18h ago
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Signals Support For White House's Proposed Palestinian Refugee Plan
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin has weighed in on the Biden Administration's proposed plan to bring refugees from Gaza to states like Wisconsin as voters continue to express concerns over immigration. According to Politico, Baldwin and several other top Democrats, including Montana Sen. Jon Te...
19h ago
Sports
Thursday High School Scoreboard
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Thursday's scoreboard: Baseball Wausau East 9 Rhinelander 1 Stevens Point 4 Marshfield 3 Wausau West 3 Merrill 2 DC Everest 5 Wisconsin Rapids 1 Medford 9 Lakeland 5 Witt/Birn 8 Manawa 5 Stratford 16 Rapids Assumption 0 Auburndale 6 Edgar 1 Auburndale 14 Edgar 10 ...
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Brewers Roll Over Cardinals
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers hit three home runs in a 7-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night at American Family Field. Rhys Hoskins, Jake Bauers and Joey Ortiz all went deep for the Brewers. William Contreras was 3-4 with two runs scored and an RBI. Tobias Meyers started and gave up one...
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Packers Decline Eric Stokes' Fifth Year Option Following Injury Filled 2023 Season
GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers are allowing a former first-round pick to earn a new deal following the upcoming 2024 NFL season. According to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network, the Green Bay Packers will not pick up cornerback Eric Stokes' fifth-year option. If Stokes' fifth-year option had been exercised by t...
May 03, 2024
Brewers Set To Call Up Top Five Prospect LHP Robert Gasser To Start Friday vs Cardinals
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers are preparing to call up one of their top five prospects as they look to fill spots in their starting rotation due to ace Freddy Peralta serving a suspension and Wade Miley on the IL due to a UCL injury. According to Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Brewers w...
18h ago
Police Open Investigation Into Bucks Guard Patrick Beverley After Exchange With Pacers Fans
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - A Milwaukee Bucks star has come under investigation after an altercation between him and some fans during Milwaukee's Game 6 loss to the Indiana Pacers. According to Shams Charania and Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic, Patrick Beverley twice tossed a basketball at the Pacers fans who were seated beh...
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State News
Chrystul Kizer Pleads Guilty to Reduced Charge in 2018 Murder
KENOSHA, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- A woman reaches a plea deal in the death of a man she claims sex trafficked her. Chrystul Kizer avoids a life sentence after pleading guilty to a charge of second degree reckless homicide in Kenosha County Court Thursday. Four other charges are dismissed. The 23-year-old Milwaukee woman was ch...
14h ago
UW Leaders Meet with Madison Anti-War Protestors
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and anti-war protestors met once again on Thursday. Administrators say UW has limited ability to divest from certain investments as protestors are requesting but did agree to set up meetings between the protestors and directors of university endowment fun...
14h ago
Names of Fallen Wisconsin Law Enforcement Officers to be Added to National Memorial
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Five fallen Wisconsin law enforcement officers will be remembered next week. Those officers will be among the 282 names placed on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. They include Chetek Police officer Emily Breidenbach, Milwaukee police officer Peter Jervin...
16h ago
Study Ranks Wisconsin Worst in Nation for Black Residents
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- A new study again ranks Wisconsin worst in the nation for its Black residents. The study from 24/7 Wall St. analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other sources. According to the study, the median household income for Black individuals in Wisconsin of just over $38,000 is only 51% of th...
May 08, 2024
Biden Rips Trump, Touts Microsoft Project in Racine Visit
RACINE, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- President Joe Biden touts Microsoft's $3.3 billion investment to build an AI data center on the Pleasant Prairie campus of the failed Foxconn project. And as expected, Biden's remarks over the noon hour in Racine on Wednesday included digs at his predecessor. "He and his administration pro...
May 08, 2024
National News
Explainer-US agency to unveil plan to ease power transmission crunch
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is expected on Monday to issue a final rule to address the crunch in U.S. electricity transmission as the grid struggles to connect enormous amounts of clea...
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Trump prosecutors prepare to call final witnesses in hush money trial
By Luc Cohen and Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump is set to return to court Friday after porn star Stormy Daniels' lurid testimony about her alleged sexual encounter with him, as prosecutors prepare to call their final witnesses in the ...
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Education board in Virginia votes to restore schools' Confederate names
By Evelyn Hockstein and Julia Harte WOODSTOCK, Virginia (Reuters) - The education board for Shenandoah County, Virginia, voted early on Friday to restore Confederate generals' names to two public schools in the predominantly white, rural and solidl...
2h ago
A whale makes a comeback off Argentina's coast 100 years after vanishing
By Anna Portella BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Giant blue-grey sei whales that vanished from Argentina's Patagonian coast a century ago due to hunting are starting to flourish once again, demonstrating how species can recover when measures to protect th...
4h ago
Japan weather bureau says 90% chance of El Nino ending by May
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Friday there was a 90% chance that the El Nino phenomenon will dissipate by the end of May, while there was a 60% chance of the La Nina phenomenon occurring in the months up until November. El Nino i...
8h ago
World News
Three killed as bus falls into river in Russia's St Petersburg, TASS says
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Three people died after passenger bus fell off a bridge and into the Moika river in the Russian city of St Petersburg on Friday, the TASS news agency cited local authorities as saying. Six more people have been hospital...
30m ago
Trump prosecutors prepare to call final witnesses in hush money trial
By Luc Cohen and Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump is set to return to court Friday after porn star Stormy Daniels' lurid testimony about her alleged sexual encounter with him, as prosecutors prepare to call their final witnesses in the ...
30m ago
Pandemic treaty talks to the wire, likely to miss first deadline, sources say
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - Talks to draw up a global pact to help fight future pandemics are likely to miss an initial deadline on Friday, three sources close to the process said. Negotiators from the World Health Organization's 194 membe...
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Elderly climate activists damage Magna Carta case at British Library
LONDON (Reuters) - Two climate protesters aged 82 and 85 smashed parts of the reinforced case holding an original text of the Magna Carta in the British Library in London on Friday before the pair - one an Anglican priest - were stopped by security...
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Suspects in alleged Russia-linked UK arson attack to face trial next year
LONDON (Reuters) - Four men will go on trial next year accused of setting fire to a London commercial property linked to Ukraine, an arson attack allegedly paid for by Russian intelligence, a British court heard on Friday. They were charged last mo...
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Business News
Global equity funds attract big inflows as rate cut bets rise
(Reuters) - Demand for global equity funds rose sharply in the seven days to May 8, driven by renewed bets on Federal Reserve interest rate cuts after a softer than anticipated U.S. employment report. Investors bought a net $12.72 billion worth of...
1h ago
Ford CFO to become vice chair, Lucid Motors exec House to succeed
(Reuters) - Ford Motor said on Friday CFO John Lawler would take on the additional role of being the company's vice chair and that former Lucid Motors finance chief Sherry House will join the company and succeed Lawler as CFO in early 2025. (Repor...
1h ago
Canada gains a net 90,400 jobs in April, jobless rate holds at 6.1%
OTTAWA, May 10 (Reuters) - Canada's economy gained a net 90,400 jobs in April, both in full-time and part-time work, and the jobless rate held at 6.1%, Statistics Canada data showed on Friday. Employment in the goods producing sector fell by a net 10,4...
1h ago
ECB preparing for June rate cut, accounts show
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation is on track to ease back to 2% next year so European Central Bank policymakers concluded last month they will likely be in a position to cut interest rates in June, the account of their April meeting showed...
2h ago
Ford to assemble 300,000 cars a year at spanish plant in Valencia region from 2027
MADRID (Reuters) - U.S. car maker Ford plans to assemble 300,000 units of a new model per year at its Spanish plant in the Valencia region starting 2027, the Spanish Industry Ministry said on Friday. The company had said in March it was considering...
3h ago
Health News
Pandemic treaty talks to the wire, likely to miss first deadline, sources say
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - Talks to draw up a global pact to help fight future pandemics are likely to miss an initial deadline on Friday, three sources close to the process said. Negotiators from the World Health Organization's 194 membe...
31m ago
UK's CMA kicks off probe into Thermo Fisher-Olink deal
(Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator said on Friday it has initiated a probe into U.S. medical equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific's $3.1 billion deal to buy Swedish biotech firm Olink Holding AB. The Competition and Markets Authority (...
2h ago
US FDA pushes decision on Moderna's RSV vaccine to end of this month
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has pushed back its decision on Moderna's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine by more than two weeks to the end of this month due to some "administrative constraints", the company said on Frid...
2h ago
Scotland reports case of mad cow disease
LONDON (Reuters) - The Scottish government on Friday confirmed a case of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, on a farm in the southwest of the country. The government has imposed precautionary moveme...
3h ago
Indian drugmaker Cipla beats Q4 profit estimates on strong US demand
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Cipla, India's third-largest generic drugmaker by sales, reported fourth-quarter profit above expectations on Friday, driven by strong demand for its products in its key U.S. markets The company reported a 78.5% increase in ne...
4h ago
Science News
Astronomers finally detect a rocky planet with an atmosphere
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere - a trait considered essential for any possibility of harboring life. Well, they finally seem to have located one...
May 08, 2024
SpaceX's unit Starlink secures Indonesia operating permit
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The satellite unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, has secured a permit to operate in Indonesia, its communications minister told Reuters on Wednesday. Starlink had obtained a permit to operate as an internet service provider f...
May 08, 2024
Russia starts developing nuclear power unit for joint lunar station with China, RIA says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has started developing a nuclear power plant for its planned joint lunar station with China, the RIA news agency cited Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, as saying on Wednesday. In March, Borisov sa...
May 08, 2024
First crewed test flight of Boeing Starliner capsule targeted for May 17
(Reuters) - The target launch date for the long-awaited first crewed test flight of Boeing Co's new Starliner Space capsule has been pushed back another week to no earlier than Friday, May 17, in order to replace a faulty pressure valve on its boos...
May 08, 2024
Timeline: Boeing's new Starliner set for first crewed flight to space station
(Reuters) - Two years after its initial unmanned journey to the International Space Station (ISS), Boeing's new Starliner astronaut capsule is set for its first crewed test flight on Monday night, following numerous delays. Boeing's Crew Space Tran...
May 07, 2024
Technology News
FBI working towards nabbing Scattered Spider hackers, official says
By Zeba Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. FBI is working towards charging hackers from the aggressive Scattered Spider criminal gang who are largely based in the U.S. and western countries and have breached dozens of American organisation...
2h ago
China's Zeekr set to debut on NYSE after upsized IPO
(Reuters) - Shares of China's Zeekr Intelligent Technology were scheduled to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday after the electric-vehicle maker priced its initial public offering at the top end of its marketed range. The debut ...
3h ago
Crypto group with 440,000 members launches PAC to target House, Senate elections
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - A cryptocurrency nonprofit has launched a new political action committee (PAC) to raise money from its 440,000 members for crypto-friendly politicians, and is endorsing a bipartisan slate of candidates runnin...
3h ago
Foxconn's Q1 profit to jump from low base, AI to power growth
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, is expected to report on Tuesday that first-quarter profit more than doubled on robust demand for artificial intelligence servers and after coming off a low base a...
7h ago
Australian regulator says Musk's X should not set limits of internet law
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Elon Musk's X has policies to take down harmful content when it chooses but should not be allowed to overrule Australian law in deciding what can be viewed there, a lawyer for the cyber regulator told a hearing into...
9h ago
Entertainment News
US Supreme Court rules against Warner Music in copyright damages case
By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a Miami music producer in a legal fight with Warner Music over a song by rapper Flo Rida, resolving a dispute over the time limit for claiming monetary da...
22h ago
Warner Bros Discovery misses estimates for quarterly revenue
(Reuters) -Warner Bros Discovery missed Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Thursday, weighed down by a weak advertising market and strike-related delays at its studio segment. Shares of the company were down 1.9% in premarket trading. S...
May 09, 2024
Spanish court dismisses second tax case against singer Shakira
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish court on Thursday dismissed a tax investigation against Colombian pop star Shakira, after the offices of the prosecutor and state attorney opted not to bring charges against the singer. Shakira, who last year reached a ...
May 09, 2024
Israel in spotlight at Eurovision semi-final as pro-Palestinian protests loom
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - The second semi-final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Sweden on Thursday, with Israel's performance expected to draw attention due to large pro-Palestinian protests plan...
May 09, 2024
'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' cast harnessed their inner apes
By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When Freya Allan arrived on set for the first day of filming "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes," she was in for a surprise. "I walked into this basement and Owen just came towards me as an ape, and ther...
May 09, 2024