CINCINNATI, OH (WSAU) The Reds took two-out-of-three from the Brewers with a 12-8 win on Sunday. It was the first time the Brewers lost a series at Great American Ballpark since 2022. Elly De La Cruz had a 4-rrbi game with a bases-loaded double and a 2-run home run. The Brewers got back into the game on a Jake Bauers ...

NEILLSVILLE, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - An Abbotsford man accused of killing his two children and nearly killing his wife pleaded no contest to homicide charges in Clark County court. Victor Manuel Gomez Acosta entered the plea to two counts of first-degree homicide and one count of attempted first-degree homicide. The charges s...

UNDATED (WSAU) - The bear hunting season in Wisconsin opens on September 9th. Bear hunting licenses are some of the most difficult to get in the state. 34,000 hunters applied for about 15,000 available licenses. 106,000 applicants paid extra for preference in future hunting lotteries. Hunters are required to know the s...

By Nicole Jao, Liz Hampton and Georgina McCartney NEW YORK, Sept 5 (Reuters) - With the war in the Middle East still raising energy costs, Americans face record-high gasoline prices for Labor Day weekend, just as political campaigns kick off for midter...

By Dmitry Antonov and Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin held more than three hours of "highly useful" talks on Saturday with two U.S. envoys seeking a deal to end the Ukraine war, a Kremlin aide said, but he gave...

NEILLSVILLE, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - An Abbotsford man accused of killing his two children and nearly killing his wife pleaded no contest to homicide charges in Clark County court. Victor Manuel Gomez Acosta entered the plea to two counts of first-degree homicide and one count of attempted first-degree homicide. The charges s...

UNDATED (WSAU) - The bear hunting season in Wisconsin opens on September 9th. Bear hunting licenses are some of the most difficult to get in the state. 34,000 hunters applied for about 15,000 available licenses. 106,000 applicants paid extra for preference in future hunting lotteries. Hunters are required to know the s...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Stevens Point will suspend use of all Flock cameras in the city effective Tuesday, September 8. Mayor Mike Wiza said recent events and allegations have brought doubt to the trust regarding the usage of Flock camera data by the company and the potential misuse of the system by people outs...

SHAWANO, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A gas station clerk was shot during an attempted armed robbery at a Shawano gas station on Wednesday, September. 2. The Shawano Police Department was dispatched to People's Express gas station at 716 South Main Street around 9:30pm for a report of shots fired. Shawano Police and Shawano County...

WESTON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) The D.C. Everest School District is considering closing its junior high school due to aging infrastructure and declining enrollment. The junior high school has served students since 1951, but school leaders say the building's infrastructure is failing. Plumbing issues discovered a couple of year...

CINCINNATI, OH (WSAU) The Reds took two-out-of-three from the Brewers with a 12-8 win on Sunday. It was the first time the Brewers lost a series at Great American Ballpark since 2022. Elly De La Cruz had a 4-rrbi game with a bases-loaded double and a 2-run home run. The Brewers got back into the game on a Jake Bauers ...

CINCINNATI, OH (WSAU) The Brewers fell to the Reds, 5-3, after sitting out a long rain delay in Cincinnati. With the game tied 3-3, Matt McClain led off the 7th inning with a home run to put the Reds in front for good. The Brewers loaded the bases in the 9th before Emilio Pegan got the final out. It was his 21st save o...

CINCINNATI, OH (WSAU) After splitting a series with the Cubs, the Brewers opened a weekend series with a 10-7 win over the Reds. The Brewers maintained their 8-game lead in the NL Central. Their magic number to clinch the division title is 13. Cooper Pratt hit a bases-loaded triple and had a career-high 4 RBI. Chad Pa...

UNDATED (WSAU) - Wausau West rallied in the 4th quarter to beat D.C. Everest, 24-13. Marshfield romped over Eau Claire Memorial, 56-0. Both teams are off to 3-0 starts. In other area high school football games: Medford 62 - Rhinelander 20 Edgar 48 - Pittsville 0 Amherst 35 - Colby 0 Loyal 28 - Auburndale 6 SPASH 28 - W...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs will appear in Brown County court earlier than originally scheduled. Jacobs' hearing has been rescheduled from November 17 to September 10, according to court documents; however, it is unlikely that he will show up in person. Jacobs and his girlfriend we...

LAKE, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A man was arrested after making terroristic threats and reporting suicidal and homicidal thoughts at a business in the Township of Lake on Sept. 4. The Price County Dispatch Center received the call from the man, prompting a response from the Price County Sheriff's Office, Park Falls Police Depar...

WAUKESHA, WI (WSAU) - On Thursday morning, a woman convicted in the "Slender Man" stabbing case appeared virtually in court to hear her request for conditional release. Last year, Morgan Geyser's initial conditional parole was canceled following her escape from a Madison group home, and she now seeks to conti...

WHITEWATER, WI (WSAU) - On Wednesday morning, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater issued an 'Active Threat to Life' Safety Alert, alerting students and staff that "This is not a drill," before rescinding the alert shortly after. According to WISN's Gerron Jordan, police confirmed there was no danger to lif...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - The governor's race between Republican Tom Tiffany and Democrat David Crowley remains close with 70 days remaining until Election Day. According to the latest Marquette Law poll, Tiffany and Crowley are tied at 44%, while 12% of respondents said they're still undecided about whom they will support o...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The federal government has opened an investigation into Wisconsin's largest public school system after reports surfaced that the district considers race when disciplining students. According to WISN, Milwaukee Public Schools was notified of the investigation earlier this week by the Department of...

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Visitors to the sell-out Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition should be ready for the "brutal reality" of battle scenes and expect to be astonished by the scale of the 1,000-year-old embroidery, ​as excitement...

By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The new administrator of the Panama Canal said that once the Rio Indio infrastructure project is complete, the critical shipping waterway will not need to impose restrictions on ​transit even during droug...

ROME, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Italy has recorded this year its hottest summer since 1950, with an average temperature of 24.3 degrees Celsius (75.7 ​degrees Fahrenheit), the National Research Council's Institute ‌for BioEconomy (CNR-IBE) said on Monday. Aug...

By Crispian Balmer VENICE, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, U.S. actor Ellen Burstyn hailed the transformation of opportunities for women in filmmaking since she began her career more than...

PARIS, Sept 7 (Reuters) - France dropped plans to make deposits on plastic bottles ​mandatory, instead proposing towns ‌and cities set up voluntary schemes. • No mandatory deposit system will be put in place, ‌the ​French environment ministry ⁠said in ...

By Crispian Balmer VENICE, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras said on Monday she hopes a new documentary about U.S. immigration raids will help "denormalise" violence under President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. Premi...

Sept 7 (Reuters) - North Korea's newly appointed defence minister, Kim Song-gi, has called ​the upcoming joint military ‌drills to be held by South Korea, Japan and the United States a provocation, state ‌media ​KCNA reported on ⁠Monday. Kim also vowed...

By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The nuclear reactor Syria had nearly completed in 2007 when Israeli jets destroyed it was of a type that could quickly ​produce fissile material usable in nuclear weapons, U.N. ‌nuclear watchdog chief Rafae...

MOSCOW, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it was closing down the German ​Consulate-General in St. Petersburg ‌in retaliation for Berlin's decision to close the Russian consulate in Bonn and a Russian cultural centre ‌in ​Berlin. Germany took it...

BELGRADE, Sept ​7 (Reuters) - ‌Serbia's government ‌on ​Monday ⁠asked ⁠President Aleksandar Vucic ​to ⁠dissolve ⁠the ​parliament ​and call ‌a ⁠snap election, Prime ⁠Minister ‌Djuro Macut ⁠said ​in ‌a ​televised statement. (Reporting ⁠by Ivana ​Sekular...

By Gilles Guillaume PARIS, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Premium German car brand Audi on Monday introduced a new compact electric vehicle to boost its presence at the smaller end of ​the European market, where Chinese automakers are launching more ‌affordable mo...

Sept 7 (Reuters) - U.S. artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has sent the ​European Commission a ‌report regarding a hijack of a German website by rogue agents, a Commission spokesperson ‌said ​on Monday. Reuters ⁠reported that a ⁠swarm of rogue OpenAI ...

COPENHAGEN, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk said on Monday that in a late-stage trial, 40.4% of children aged 6 ​to under 12 treated with semaglutide, ‌the active ingredient in its blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, were no longer classified as havin...

By Sam Tabahriti LONDON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Britain's Jaguar Land Rover said on Monday it would cut nearly 10% of its workforce through voluntary redundancies over the next two years, as the car industry faces ​heightened pressures including from Chine...

By Christina Amann and Christoph Steitz OSNABRUECK, Germany, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Volkswagen on Monday struck a preliminary deal that will see one of its German sites switch to defence production, a first in the automaker's efforts to restructure plants ...

By Patrick Wingrove Sept 7 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk said on Monday it had halted two additional trials of its ​experimental cardiovascular drug ziltivekimab, further ‌denting the Danish drugmaker's efforts to diversify beyond its blockbuster obesity an...

COPENHAGEN, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk said on Monday that in a late-stage trial, 40.4% of children aged 6 ​to under 12 treated with semaglutide, ‌the active ingredient in its blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, were no longer classified as havin...

LONDON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Shares of Novartis fell 3.3% on Monday morning after its cholesterol drug failed in a closely watched study, casting doubt on the therapeutic ​approach and raising the stakes for the Swiss ‌drugmaker's upcoming data for a gen...

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Indian activists spearheading calls for food labelling said a government proposal to have red warnings only when two concerning nutrients are high created an "industry-friendly loophole" disregarding public...

Sept 7 (Reuters) - Bubs Australia said on Monday it secured permanent authorisation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell ​three infant formula products in the country, ‌sending its shares up 30% to their highest close since mid-February. ...

PARIS, Sept 7 (Reuters) - European rocket maker ArianeGroup is studying a potential increase in deployments of its Ariane 6 heavy launcher, CEO Christophe ​Bruneau told reporters on Monday. The European Space ‌Agency said on Friday it was considering a...

BENGALURU, Sept 7 (Reuters) - India's space agency ISRO said it would remain the country's leading space institution after its staff association raised concerns about plans to transfer certain activities to ​private and state-run companies. India is on...

(Corrects title of minister in paragraph 4) By Terje Solsvik OSLO, Sept 5 (Reuters) - German startup Isar Aerospace on Saturday launched its first rocket into space from a site in Arctic Norway, bringing Europe closer to offering satellite flights from...

By Joey Roulette and Tim Hepher WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The Trump administration pressured U.S. space companies not to attend a high-profile global space summit in Paris organized by President Emmanuel Macron, triggering a last-minute reshuffle ...

By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse LES DIABLERETS, Switzerland, Sept 3 (Reuters) - As Switzerland struggles to contain the shrinking of its glaciers, researchers are conducting an unusual experiment in the Alps to see whether one ​of its less valu...

Sept 7 (Reuters) - U.S. artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has sent the ​European Commission a ‌report regarding a hijack of a German website by rogue agents, a Commission spokesperson ‌said ​on Monday. Reuters ⁠reported that a ⁠swarm of rogue OpenAI ...

By Anna Uras Sept 7 (Reuters) - Italian technology collective Autistici/Inventati (A/I) said on Sunday it would shut down its services after a U.S. terrorism designation led to the suspension of its .org ​domain and the closure of its bank account. The...

GENEVA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - U.N. rights chief Volker Turk warned on ​Monday that ‌artificial intelligence could become powerful enough to threaten humanity, and said he would ‌urge ​companies in ⁠the coming ⁠days to reduce the risks. "I share the concer...

HONG KONG, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Cathay Pacific and Google said on Monday they were expanding trials of an AI-powered technology designed ​to help cut climate-warming aircraft contrails. Here are ‌more details from a joint statement from the companies: • ...

By David Kirton, Eduardo Baptista and Ju-min Park GUANGZHOU/BEIJING, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Huawei and Xiaomi launched new flagship foldable smartphones on Monday, stepping up competition in China's premium handset market ahead of Apple's product launch la...

By Crispian Balmer VENICE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The scarcity of women competing for the Venice Film Festival's top prize reflects a structural problem in the film industry, Danish director May el-Toukhy said on Sunday as she unveiled her gritty drama "Wo...

By Crispian Balmer VENICE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon said on Sunday she was still losing work because of her outspoken support for Palestinians, despite what she described as a broader shift in public opinion against U.S. su...

By Hanna Rantala VENICE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - South Korean director Lee Chang-dong returned to the big screen on Sunday after an eight-year hiatus with Venice Film Festival contender "Possible Love", revisiting a divisive labour conflict that shook his h...

By Crispian Balmer VENICE, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Liam Gallagher pumped his fist in the air and his brother Noel flashed a victory sign as the Oasis rock stars arrived by water taxi at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday ahead of a ​documentary chroniclin...

By Crispian Balmer VENICE, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. director Paul Schrader said on Friday he has spent a lifetime writing about guilt, sin and redemption, and believes the roots of that obsession can be found in his strict Christian childhood. S...