STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -- A Marshfield man accused of sexually assaulting an underage employee at the Plover Pizza Hut will go to trial next spring. WAOW TV reports that Kyle Elkins will face a jury from May 12th to the 15th for multiple counts of sexual assault, along with child enticement and strangulation. Ac...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- Reports indicate Milwaukee Bucks F Giannis Antetokounmpo will be out for two to four weeks after suffering a calf strain in the team's 113-109 win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday. The non-contact injury occurred in the first quarter of Wednesday's game and came hours after it was reported ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- If you have a special connection to a barstool or booth from the Great Dane Brewpub in Wausau, now's your chance to bring that fixture home. The closed establishment is auctioning off items, including light fixtures, tables, booths, coat hooks, and high chairs. Commercial kitchen items like mixing ...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- Quarterback Jordan Love has been named the Green Bay Packers' nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award. "We are pleased to name Jordan Love as our club winner for the prestigious Walter Payton Man of the Year Award," said Packers President and CEO Ed Policy. "It's b...

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits dropped to the lowest level in more than three years last week, still showing no signs of a deterioration in labor market conditions. Initial claims...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -- A Marshfield man accused of sexually assaulting an underage employee at the Plover Pizza Hut will go to trial next spring. WAOW TV reports that Kyle Elkins will face a jury from May 12th to the 15th for multiple counts of sexual assault, along with child enticement and strangulation. Ac...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- If you have a special connection to a barstool or booth from the Great Dane Brewpub in Wausau, now's your chance to bring that fixture home. The closed establishment is auctioning off items, including light fixtures, tables, booths, coat hooks, and high chairs. Commercial kitchen items like mixing ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison on drug trafficking charges, according to a press release from the US District Court in Madison. Christopher Harter pleaded guilty to the charges on Tuesday and was sentenced by Judge William Conley on Wednesday. The 49-year-old was ...

NEKOOSA, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Residents continue to voice their opposition to a proposed solar farm in the town of Rome, located in rural Adams County. The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin held a public hearing session on Wednesday, at the Nekoosa Community Center, despite the town of Rome's request to host the meeti...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Marathon County Historical Society has announced a new scholarship fund to honor a former Wausau Alder, Librarian, and Historian. The Gary Gisselman Scholarship Fund will honor the late public servant, who died in August at the age of 82. Leaders with the Historical Society note that he left &q...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- Reports indicate Milwaukee Bucks F Giannis Antetokounmpo will be out for two to four weeks after suffering a calf strain in the team's 113-109 win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday. The non-contact injury occurred in the first quarter of Wednesday's game and came hours after it was reported ...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- Quarterback Jordan Love has been named the Green Bay Packers' nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award. "We are pleased to name Jordan Love as our club winner for the prestigious Walter Payton Man of the Year Award," said Packers President and CEO Ed Policy. "It's b...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- The Wisconsin mens basketball team won their Big Ten opener with an 85-73 win over Northwestern on Wednesday night at the Kohl Center. The Badgers built a 23-point halftime lead, scoring 55 points before the break. John Blackwell led the Badgers with 26 points and 11 rebounds. Nick Boyd had 20, Au...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- On a night when Giannis Antetokounmpo went out early with an injury, the Milwaukee Bucks battled back from a big deficit and knocked off the first-place Detroit Pistons 113-109 on Wednesday night at Fiserv Forum. The Bucks trailed by 18 in the first quarter and Giannis went down with a calf inju...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Tuesday's high school scoreboard: Boys Basketball DC Everest 76 Ashwaubenon 57 Bay Port 62 Stevens Point 59 Wausau West 56 Prentice 47 Antigo 76 Clintonville 61 Chippewa Falls 65 Medford 58 Appleton Xavier 59 Mosinee 56 Marshfield 81 Appleton East 59 Onalaska 83 Wisco...

WAUKESHA, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The Slenderman stabber, Morgan Geyser, is back in Wisconsin. Last weekend she cut off her monitoring device and fled from a group home in Madison. She and a 42-year-old took a bus to Illinois, and were caught at a truck stop near Chicago. Geyser, now 23, is being held in the Waukesha County ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Supreme Court will appoint two three-judge panels to determine if the state's congressional districts must be redrawn. The pending lawsuits claim the current maps are unconstitutional, and unfairly favor Republicans. 6 of Wisconsin's 8 seats in the House of Representatives are held by...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ) -- One of the women convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing in Waukesha, Morgan Geyser, has been found in Illinois after absconding from a Madison area group home. Madison police say Geyser cut off her GPS monitoring bracelet on Saturday night. Posen, Illinois Police confirmed to Madison's 12 News...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- As cold and flu season approaches, Gov. Tony Evers has signed an executive order aiming to ensure access to vaccines in Wisconsin. The order directs the state Department of Health Services to monitor medical evidence and guidance on the COVID-19 vaccines. If needed, the order instructs DHS to issue stand...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- Another prominent Wisconsin Democrat joins the race for governor. Madison State Senator Kelda Roys announced her candidacy via a video on social media on Monday morning. Roys was first elected to the state assembly in 2009 and has served in the state senate since 2021. She was among a crowded ...

By Heather Schlitz and Andrew Hay MINNEAPOLIS, Dec 4 (REUTERS) - - People of Somali origin are among those arrested in an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, federal officials said on Thursday, two days after President Donald Trump hurled insults at...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - Florida's entire U.S. congressional delegation on Thursday urged President Donald Trump to leave their state out of a plan by his administration to expand oil and gas drilling to new coastal areas, saying it would threaten the state's...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. plans to expand the number of countries covered by its travel ban to more than 30, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Thursday. Noem, in an interview on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle," was asked to confirm w...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday ordered federal law enforcement to step up investigations into the anti-fascist antifa movement and similar "extremist groups," and asked the FBI to compile a l...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it has picked Peraton, a national security company owned by Veritas Capital, as the project manager of a $12.5-billion effort to overhaul the aging ...

MOSCOW, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Azov Sea's port infrastructure in Russia's Temryuk was damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack, the local emergencies center said on Friday. "There was a fire... Special and emergency services are working on site," the center said...

TOKYO, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The Japanese embassy in China issued a safety advisory on Friday ahead of next week's anniversary of "the Nanjing Incident", or the Nanjing Massacre, which it said is considered particularly sensitive. Tensions have intensified...

BEIJING, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping accompanied his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to Chengdu on Friday, a rare gesture seemingly reserved for the head of Europe's second-largest economy that highlights Beijing's focus on Paris ...

By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Taiwan has been "very moved" by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's comments last month on peace and stability even in the face of strong pressure, Premier Cho Jung-tai said on Friday. China and Japan are...

By Tamiyuki Kihara, Leika Kihara and Tom Westbrook TOKYO, Dec 5 (Reuters) - As Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was finalising her $137 billion spending plan last month, which in recent weeks has put Japan into a standoff with investors over the outlook ...

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland Bets for a U.S. Federal Reserve rate cut next week sit unequivocally at the centre of the market's focus right now, as does the murkiness of the economic data Fed officials depe...

MUMBAI, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key repo rate by 25 basis points on Friday, in line with a consensus view, as record low retail inflation and a benign outlook for prices provided ample room to further support economic ...

Dec 5 (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key repo rate by 25 basis points on Friday and took steps to boost banking-sector liquidity by up to $16 billion to support a "goldilocks economy". The six-member monetary policy committee voted...

Dec 5 (Reuters) - Kunlunxin, the AI chip unit of Chinese internet search giant Baidu, is planning an initial public offering in Hong Kong, having recently completed a fundraising that valued it at 21 billion yuan ($2.97 billion), three people familiar ...

BEIJING, Dec 5 (Reuters) - China's exports likely returned to growth in November after an unexpected dip in October, as manufacturers rushed to move inventory to take advantage of a fresh tariff truce with the U.S. In a deal in late October that follow...

SHANGHAI, Dec 5 (Reuters) - China's Sichuan Kelun-Biotech Biopharmaceutical (6990.HK) said Thursday night it would license an experimental cancer treatment out to U.S. drugmaker Crescent Biopharma, receiving $80 million upfront, up to another $1.25 bil...

By Roshan Thomas and Nikita Maria Jino Dec 5 (Reuters) - Australian-listed shares of Saluda Medical dropped nearly 45% on Friday in the company's debut on the Australian Securities Exchange after raising A$231 million ($152.67 million) in its initial p...

By Sriparna Roy Dec 4 (Reuters) - The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans have been pushed to early 2026, delaying the release of the government's official recommendations for a healthy diet. "The Dietary Guidelines will be released soon after the fi...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - Cooper Companies said it is initiating a formal strategic review aimed at identifying opportunities to enhance long-term shareholder value, sending shares up 10% in extended trading. The medical device maker said it is actively focuse...

By Nancy Lapid Dec 4 (Reuters) - Vaccine advisers to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were expected to vote on Thursday on whether to scrap a broad recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine for children, a move that would leave the choice t...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Paleontologists for decades debated whether meat-eating dinosaur Nanotyrannus was actually just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus. But within a span of five weeks, the matter seems to have been definitively resolved ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications including broadband access in rural and remote areas worldwide. It also has caused a s...

By Joey Roulette and David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead NASA and an ally of Elon Musk, will face his second confirmation hearing on Wednesday before a Se...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Dec 3 (Reuters) - LandSpace has become China's most advanced private rocket company and the country's closest equivalent to Elon Musk's SpaceX, following U.S. rivals in betting its future on rockets that can fly more than o...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Dec 3 (Reuters) - China's Zhuque-3 reusable rocket, developed by private firm LandSpace, failed to make a successful landing on Wednesday, but its debut launch has thrust the global race for reusable rockets into the spotli...

Dec 5 (Reuters) - Kunlunxin, the AI chip unit of Chinese internet search giant Baidu, is planning an initial public offering in Hong Kong, having recently completed a fundraising that valued it at 21 billion yuan ($2.97 billion), three people familiar ...

(Corrects spelling of acquire in paragraph 1) Dec 4 (Reuters) - Netflix has entered exclusive talks with Warner Bros Discovery to acquire its studio and streaming service, a Bloomberg News reporter said in a post on X. Netflix has emerged as the top bi...

SEOUL, Dec 5 (Reuters) - South Korea's LG Electronics Inc said on Friday that Microsoft and LG affiliates are pursuing overall business cooperation regarding data centres, but no specific deal has been signed at this time. The regulatory filing was in ...

SHANGHAI/BEIJING, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Shares of Moore Threads Technology Co, dubbed by analysts as "China's Nvidia", soared on debut in Shanghai on Friday, on bets the U.S.-blacklisted startup will benefit from Beijing's drive to boost domestic chip manu...

By Deborah Mary Sophia, Juby Babu and Krystal Hu Dec 4 (Reuters) - Canadian tech startup Cohere's CEO Aidan Gomez said on Thursday the U.S. and Canada hold an "incredible position" to partner with economies adopting AI around the world, putting the cou...

(Corrects spelling of acquire in paragraph 1) Dec 4 (Reuters) - Netflix has entered exclusive talks with Warner Bros Discovery to acquire its studio and streaming service, a Bloomberg News reporter said in a post on X. Netflix has emerged as the top bi...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - A consortium of leading film industry figures has urged the U.S. Congress to intervene, warning of a looming economic and institutional crisis in Hollywood if Netflix succeeds in acquiring Warner Bros Discovery, Variety reported on Th...

By Kantaro Komiya and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, Dec 5 (Reuters) - American actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris, known for the Tony-nominated "Slave Play", was arrested last month at an airport in Japan on suspicion of attempting to smuggle illegal dru...

GENEVA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Israel will be able to enter the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after European Broadcasting Union members on Thursday decided not to call a vote on its participation, despite boycott threats from some countries, sources at two E...

PRAGUE, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Painter and costume designer Theodor Pistek, who won an Oscar in 1985 for his work on fellow Czech Milos Forman's film "Amadeus", has died at the age of 93, CTK news agency reported on Thursday, citing his family. Pistek was b...