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Greenheck Expands To Knoxville, TN
SCHOFIELD, WI (WSAU) -- A Central Wisconsin HVAC company is adding a manufacturing and distribution campus in Knoxville, Tennessee. Greenheck Group announced the plans in a press release on Tuesday. Construction on the new campus is expected to be completed in stages, with the $300 million facility coming online during...
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Tesla to lay off nearly 2,700 employees in Texas factory, notice shows
(Reuters) -Tesla will lay off 2,688 employees at its Texas factory, the electric vehicle maker said in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice. The notice on Monday was issued under the WARN Act, a U.S. labor law that requires com...
1h ago
Sanchez Pleads Not Guilty for Schulz-Juedes Homicide
FOND Du LAC, WI (WSAU) -- The woman accused of killing Cindy Schulz-Juedes in the cell they shared at the Taycheedah Correctional Facility has pled not guilty to one count of intentional homicide. Taylor Sanchez entered the plea on Tuesday in a Fond Du Lac courtroom. She's accused of beating Schulz-Juedes, causing nume...
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Elijah Vue's Mother Files Motion For New Bond
MANITOWOC, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The mother of missing boy Elijah Vue is seeking to get out of Manitowoc County Jail. Katrina Baur faces felony charges of persistent child neglect. She was arrested in February and is being held on a $15,000 cash bond. According to records obtained by our Green Bay affiliate, Baur's attorney...
2h ago
Trump poised to clinch $1.3 billion social media company stock award
By Echo Wang (Reuters) - Donald Trump is set to secure on Tuesday a stock bonus worth $1.3 billion from the company that operates his social media app Truth Social, equivalent to about half the majority stake he already owns in it, thanks to the wi...
4h ago
Local News
Greenheck Expands To Knoxville, TN
SCHOFIELD, WI (WSAU) -- A Central Wisconsin HVAC company is adding a manufacturing and distribution campus in Knoxville, Tennessee. Greenheck Group announced the plans in a press release on Tuesday. Construction on the new campus is expected to be completed in stages, with the $300 million facility coming online during...
54m ago
Sanchez Pleads Not Guilty for Schulz-Juedes Homicide
FOND Du LAC, WI (WSAU) -- The woman accused of killing Cindy Schulz-Juedes in the cell they shared at the Taycheedah Correctional Facility has pled not guilty to one count of intentional homicide. Taylor Sanchez entered the plea on Tuesday in a Fond Du Lac courtroom. She's accused of beating Schulz-Juedes, causing nume...
1h ago
Elijah Vue's Mother Files Motion For New Bond
MANITOWOC, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The mother of missing boy Elijah Vue is seeking to get out of Manitowoc County Jail. Katrina Baur faces felony charges of persistent child neglect. She was arrested in February and is being held on a $15,000 cash bond. According to records obtained by our Green Bay affiliate, Baur's attorney...
2h ago
Veterans Welcomed Home From Never Forgotten Honor Flight Trip By Large Crowd
MOSINEE, WI (WSAU) - The 47th Never Forgotten Honor Flight returned home late Monday night to a large crowd of supporters eager to cheer for each of the 105 veterans. Most of the veterans served in U.S. conflicts such as the Korean War and Vietnam, and each of the veterans received loud applause and cheers from their f...
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Initial Appearance Held for Stevens Point Arson Suspect
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- The man suspected of setting fire to a home occupied by members of a UWSP fraternity was in court on Monday. Eric Blum is now facing felony counts of arson and recklessly endangering safety. Officers say that he started numerous fires in the home on Main Street, where he had been staying. Co...
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Sports
Packers Host South Carolina Receiver Xavier Legette For Official Visit
GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers have hosted their second top wide receiver for this draft cycle. According to Justin Melo of The Draft Network, the Green Bay Packers hosted South Carolina wide receiver Xavier Legette for a top 30 visit ahead of this week's 2024 NFL draft. Legette who played in 53 games and...
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Monday High School Scoreboard
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Monday's scoreboard: Baseball Wausau East 12 Adams-Friendship 0 Rosholt 15 Tri-Cpunty 0 Pacelli 25 Wild Rose 1 Edgar 4 Prentice 2 Medford 14 Chequamegon 0 Antigo 7 Rhinelander 5 Merrill 8 Mosinee 6 Rib Lake 6 Marshfield Columbus 1 Stratford 19 Loyal 3 Pittsville ...
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Bucks-Pacers Game 2 Tonight
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Bucks will try and make it two in a row in their playoff series with the Indiana Pacers tonight at Fiserv Forum. The Bucks took game one on Sunday 109-94 with a stellar defensive effort and a monster game from Damian Lillard. The Bucks forced 13 turnovers and held the Pacers to jus...
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Pirates Beat Brewers
PITTSBURGH, PA (WSAU) -- A three run sixth inning led to a 4-2 win for the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday night. Jared Jones got 25 swinging strikes and seven K's for the Pirates. ONeill Cruz had 2 RBIs and Andrew McCutcheon had a home run. Rhys Hoskins had both Brewer RBIs including his fifth ...
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Badgers Land Former Three-Star Offensive Tackle Leyton Nelson Through Transfer Portal
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Badgers added some veteran depth to their offensive line on Monday morning with a commitment from a three-star recruit. Leyton Nelson, a sophomore transfer from Vanderbilt, committed to play for the Badgers in 2024 under head coach Luke Fickell, according to Badgers 247. While with th...
Apr 22, 2024
State News
Maxwell Anderson Pleads Not Guilty in Sade Robinson Case
MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- In Milwaukee County Court on Monday, 33-year-old Maxwell Anderson pleads not guilty for the murder of Sade Robinson. Court Commissioner Barry Phillips granted Anderson's request to waive his preliminary hearing and proceed to trial. Monday's court appearance was Anderson's first since body p...
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Evers on State's Trillion Trees Pledge
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- 100 million trees planted by 2030. That's the ambitious goal announced on Earth Day by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Governor Tony Evers. "The stuff that the trees do is right on right on target, they take heart carbon dioxide in and release oxygen to the air and seque...
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Evers Discusses Security for WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- Governor Tony Evers isn't ruling out stepped up security for Wisconsin's Elections Administrator. At an Earth Day event near Madison, Evers was asked about that, as Donald Trump has spread falsehoods about Meagan Wolfe "f it gets bad enough, certainly we must," said Evers. "I me...
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VP Harris Announces new Federal Rules for Nursing Homes During Stop in La Crosse
LA CROSSE, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- The Biden administration announces new minimum staffing levels for federally funded nursing homes. Vice President Kamala Harris in La Crosse on Monday said: "75% of those nursing homes are understaffed," said Vice President Kamala Harris. "That means that there may be no one ...
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House Advances Aid Bills for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WTAQ-WRN) -- On Capitol Hill, foreign aid bills for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan advance to likely House votes on Saturday. "Ukrainians are fighting for democracy, theirs and ours," said Massachusetts Democrat Jim McGovern. "And they have been set back as a result of Republican extremis...
Apr 19, 2024
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National News
Exclusive-US preparing $1 billion weapons package for Ukraine, officials say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is preparing a $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine, the first to be sourced from the yet to be signed Ukraine-Israel bill, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday. (Reporting by Mike Stone and St...
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US new home sales rebound in March
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of new U.S. single-family homes rebounded in March from February's downwardly revised level, drawing support from a persistent shortage of previously owned houses on the market, but momentum could be curbed by a resurge...
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Prince William and wife Kate thank public for birthday messages for son Louis
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate thanked the public for their messages which had been sent to mark the sixth birthday of their youngest son Louis on Tuesday. The couple, the Prince and Princess of Wales, also issued a p...
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Exclusive-Ecuador examining new Amazon and Ocean linked debt-for-nature swaps, sources say
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Ecuador is scoping out new debt-for-nature swaps, one to funnel funds into the Amazon rainforest and another for a giant ocean protection zone backed by Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, people familiar with the mat...
2h ago
US Supreme Court examines firings of pro-union Starbucks workers
By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday steps into the contentious unionization drive at Starbucks as the coffee chain challenges a judicial order requiring it to rehire seven employees at a Tennesse...
4h ago
World News
Russian court rejects new appeal by US reporter Evan Gershkovich
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday rejected the latest in a series of appeals by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich against his pre-trial detention on charges of espionage. Gershkovich, 32, became the first U.S. journalist arr...
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Spain sets up fund for victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy
MADRID (Reuters) -Spain is to set up a fund, to be financed largely by the Catholic Church, to compensate an estimated 440,000 victims of decades of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, staff or teachers, the justice minister announced on Tuesday. A report...
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Unstable nuclear-waste dams threaten fertile Central Asia heartland
MAILUU-SUU, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster if they collapse that would make the region...
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Sudan military downs drones targeting its HQ in Shendi, say army sources
(Reuters) - Sudan's army used anti-aircraft missiles on Tuesday to shoot down drones targeting its headquarters in the city of Shendi, witnesses and army sources said, the latest in a series of such drone attacks. None of the drones hit their targe...
2h ago
Palestinian NGO's legal case over UK arms to Israel to be heard in October
By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) - A Palestinian rights group's legal challenge to try to stop British arms exports to Israel over allegations of breaches of international law in the war in Gaza will be heard in October at London's High Court, a judge...
2h ago
Business News
Chile telecoms firm Entel lifts 2024 investments to $618 million
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean telecommunications firm Entel plans to invest $618 million this year, the company said on Tuesday, slightly above its 2023 spending. The funds will go primarily toward Entel's mobile and home divisions, the firm in a st...
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UPS sees profit in U.S. Postal Service work that dragged down FedEx earnings
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - United Parcel Service expects its newly won U.S. Postal Service (USPS) air cargo contract to be profitable in its first year and throughout the more than five-year deal, after rival FedEx struggled with the...
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Tesla to lay off nearly 2,700 employees in Texas factory, notice shows
(Reuters) -Tesla will lay off 2,688 employees at its Texas factory, the electric vehicle maker said in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice. The notice on Monday was issued under the WARN Act, a U.S. labor law that requires com...
1h ago
Gucci-owner Kering posts 10% drop in Q1 sales on sluggish Chinese demand
PARIS (Reuters) -French luxury group Kering reported a 10% drop in first-quarter sales on Tuesday, dragged down by a slowdown at its star label Gucci, which suffered from weakness in Asia while undergoing a design overhaul. The group said its first hal...
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China's central bank hints it may add treasury bond trades to policy toolkit
BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior Chinese central bank official suggested on Tuesday that the bank's buying and selling of treasury bonds in the secondary market could be used for liquidity management and as a monetary policy tool. Investors expect more...
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Health News
Quest Diagnostics raises 2024 profit and revenue forecast on strong demand
(Reuters) - Laboratory operator Quest Diagnostics raised its 2024 profit and revenue forecast on Tuesday after beating first-quarter estimates on robust demand for its diagnostic tests. Demand for routine diagnostic health checkups has grown over t...
2h ago
Pfizer vs Moderna battle over COVID vaccine patents begins in UK
By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) - Pfizer and BioNTech asked a London court to revoke rival Moderna's patents over technology key to the development of vaccines for COVID-19, as the latest leg of a global legal battle began on Tuesday. Pfizer and its ...
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US Supreme Court faces fight over emergency abortions after toppling Roe
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The idea of a doctor in the United States having to consider the risk of imprisonment before performing an emergency abortion might have been difficult to imagine just two years ago. But after the U.S. Supreme ...
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Buy now, pay later lender Affirm pushes into elective medical procedures
By Hannah Lang (Reuters) - Fintech lender Affirm has started quietly offering "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) loans for elective medical procedures, in a major push beyond its core e-commerce market, the company told Reuters. Over the past year, Affirm...
4h ago
Alzheimer's drug adoption in US slowed by doctors' skepticism
(Repeats to additional subscribers with no changes to text ) By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) -Nine months into the U.S. launch of the first drug proven to slow the advance of Alzheimer's, Eisai and Biogen's Leqembi is facing an unexpected hurdle...
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Science News
Three Russians parachute from stratosphere to North Pole
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russians set a world record for parachuting from the Earth's stratosphere to the North Pole last week in a mission that also served as a test of a new prototype communications system for use in the Arctic, an organiser of t...
Apr 19, 2024
Fossils of colossal snake Vasuki unearthed in India mine
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a lignite mine are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 49 feet (15 meters) in length - longer than a T. rex - that prowled the sw...
Apr 18, 2024
Gigantic marine reptile's fossils found by British girl and father
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Eart...
Apr 17, 2024
Head of Russian space agency says work under way on modernised Angara rocket
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is working on a modernised Angara-A5M rocket capable of launching manned spacecraft, and plans to launch it in 2027, the head of its Roscosmos state space agency said on Wednesday. "Already now, by order of Roscosmos, a mo...
Apr 17, 2024
Astronomers detect Milky Way's second-largest known black hole
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galax...
Apr 16, 2024
Technology News
Apple says it will hold event on May 7
(Reuters) - Apple will hold an event on May 7, the company said on Tuesday, amid reports that it would roll out the long-anticipated revamped versions of the iPad Pro and iPad Air next month. The Cupertino, California-based company did not disclose...
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Google invests $640 million in new data centre in Netherlands
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Alphabet-owned Google is investing 600 million euros ($640.62 million) in a new data centre in the Dutch city of Groningen, it said on Tuesday, adding the investment will create 125 new jobs. Since 2014, Google has invested mo...
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NatWest CEO sees 'material opportunities' in AI
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's NatWest has identified more than 100 priority areas where Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to simplify the bank and boost efficiency following a bank-wide review, Chief Executive Paul Thwaite said on Tuesday. ...
4h ago
Trump poised to clinch $1.3 billion social media company stock award
By Echo Wang (Reuters) - Donald Trump is set to secure on Tuesday a stock bonus worth $1.3 billion from the company that operates his social media app Truth Social, equivalent to about half the majority stake he already owns in it, thanks to the wi...
4h ago
Telegram founder says China downloads have not fallen since Apple move
By Josh Ye HONG KONG (Reuters) - Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of Telegram, said Apple's move last week to remove the chat app from its China app store had not caused any decrease in downloads from China and criticised Apple instead for ...
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Entertainment News
Germany's RTL acquires Nickelodeon rights for children's TV network
BERLIN (Reuters) - Super RTL, a children's television network belonging to Bertelsmann's RTL Group, has struck a deal to acquire Nickelodeon series in Germany, the group said in a statement on Tuesday. Under the agreement, Super RTL will acquire a ...
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Brazilian DJ Alok infuses his dance music with indigenous songs
By Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Brazilian DJ and producer Alok is setting aside his traditional modern electronic dance music to focus on something even more traditional - indigenous songs from his country. His new album "The Future is Ancest...
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Silicon Valley and Hollywood worlds collide as David Ellison bids for Paramount
By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) - David Ellison, 41, would not be the first rich guy to arrive in Hollywood with a fat bank account and dreams of making movies, though the son of billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison boasts the rarest of attribute...
5h ago
Ryan Gosling's 'The Fall Guy' is a love letter to stunt performers
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - After serving "Kenergy" with "Barbie", actor Ryan Gosling turns the spotlight on the movie-makers whose job is to shine on screen while remaining invisible in "The Fall Guy". The film is inspired by the popular 1...
18h ago
Taylor Swift fans descend on London pub name-checked on album
By Natasha Montague LONDON (Reuters) - Taylor Swift fans are flocking to The Black Dog, a pub in southwest London, after it was name-checked on the U.S singer's new album "The Tortured Poet's Department". Lily Bottomley, the pub's events and social...
Apr 22, 2024