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City Council Approves Parking Lot Fencing for Wausau PD
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Police Department's parking lot will get ornamental fencing later this year to protect officers. Chief Matthew Barnes says it's unfortunate that the department needs to take these measures, but it puts them in line with others across the state and region. "Any modern, new police dep...
7h ago
Wausau Finance Committee Approves Room Tax Funding for Fireworks Show
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Finance Committee has approved an $8,500 contribution to a proposed multi-jurisdictional Independence Day Fireworks Show planned by Wausau Events for 2024. Board President Pete Valiska says they plan to launch the show from the Wausau Airport, which will also be used for the Wings over W...
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Trial Scheduled for Wausau Man Accused of Armed Burglary
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Marathon County judge has scheduled a three-day jury trial for a Wausau man accused of breaking into an east-side home in June of 2023 and beating the occupants. T'Eliq Whitelow is accused of breaking into the home through a basement window and then threatening a man with a gun. Officers say he a...
10h ago
Milwaukee Brewers Set Date To Induct Former MVP Ryan Braun Into Walk Of Fame
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers have announced that one of their all-time great players will be inducted into the franchise Walk of Fame. According to a post on X, on Sunday, July 28th, when the Brewers host the Miami Marlins, former MVP and Rookie of the Year Ryan Braun will receive the honor, making him ...
13h ago
Former President Trump Criticizes President Biden Over Pro-Hamas Protests At College Campuses
WASHINGTON D.C. (WSAU) - Former President Trump has taken aim at President Biden over protests occurring at college campuses across the Northeast. According to the Post Millennial, Trump told the media outlets covering his trial in New York City that the president's tone on the Isreal-Hamas conflict has caused protests...
13h ago
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Local News
City Council Approves Parking Lot Fencing for Wausau PD
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Police Department's parking lot will get ornamental fencing later this year to protect officers. Chief Matthew Barnes says it's unfortunate that the department needs to take these measures, but it puts them in line with others across the state and region. "Any modern, new police dep...
7h ago
Wausau Finance Committee Approves Room Tax Funding for Fireworks Show
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Finance Committee has approved an $8,500 contribution to a proposed multi-jurisdictional Independence Day Fireworks Show planned by Wausau Events for 2024. Board President Pete Valiska says they plan to launch the show from the Wausau Airport, which will also be used for the Wings over W...
7h ago
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Trial Scheduled for Wausau Man Accused of Armed Burglary
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Marathon County judge has scheduled a three-day jury trial for a Wausau man accused of breaking into an east-side home in June of 2023 and beating the occupants. T'Eliq Whitelow is accused of breaking into the home through a basement window and then threatening a man with a gun. Officers say he a...
10h ago
High-Speed Chase in Nekoosa Injures Six Teens
NEKOOSA, WI (WSAU) -- A high-speed chase in Nekoosa ended with a crash that injured six occupants in the vehicle. The incident began Sunday at 1:45 AM when officers attempted a traffic stop on a vehicle that ran a stop sign at a high rate of speed. The driver ignored the officers and continued from Nekoosa into the Tow...
14h ago
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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...
17h ago
Sports
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 ...
23h ago
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...
23h ago
Milwaukee Brewers Set Date To Induct Former MVP Ryan Braun Into Walk Of Fame
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers have announced that one of their all-time great players will be inducted into the franchise Walk of Fame. According to a post on X, on Sunday, July 28th, when the Brewers host the Miami Marlins, former MVP and Rookie of the Year Ryan Braun will receive the honor, making him ...
13h ago
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...
18h ago
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 ...
23h ago
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...
Apr 23, 2024
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...
Apr 23, 2024
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...
Apr 23, 2024
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 ...
Apr 22, 2024
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
After battle with Republicans, Biden to sign Ukraine aid package
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will sign a bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia, a bipartisan victory for the president as he seeks re-election and a bo...
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Trump 2.0: how U.S. allies are working to iron out the bugs
By Alexander Ratz, Diego Oré and Gram Slattery BERLIN/MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Germany is waging a charm offensive inside the Republican Party. Japan is lining up its own Trump whisperer. Mexican government officials are talking to Camp T...
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Victims' families to urge US prosecute Boeing over fatal crashes
By Mike Spector and David Shepardson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Families of the victims of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 will press U.S. Justice Department officials Wednesday to criminally prosecute the planemaker after a ...
2h ago
US seeks 36 months' jail for Binance founder Zhao
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, should serve 36 months in prison after pleading guilty to violating laws against money laundering, U.S. prosecutors said in a court filing on ...
2h ago
NASA chief asks nations to work together on climate change
By Stefanie Eschenbacher MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - NASA is hoping that nations will work together more closely in the future on topics such as climate change, including greenhouse gas emissions, the space agency's head, Bill Nelson, said on Tuesday. ...
7h ago
World News
Portugal must 'pay costs' of slavery and colonial crimes, president says
By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) - President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said late on Tuesday that Portugal was responsible for crimes committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, and suggested there was a need for reparations. For o...
16m ago
Ukrainian drones struck two Rosneft oil depots in attack, Kyiv source says
KYIV (Reuters) - Drones sent by Ukraine's SBU security service struck two Rosneft-owned oil depots in Russia's Smolensk region in an overnight attack on Wednesday, a Ukrainian intelligence source said. The source said the depots contained 26,000 cu...
16m ago
Iran, Pakistan call on U.N security council to take action against Israel
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Iran and Pakistan called on the United Nations Security Council to take action against Israel, saying it had "illegally" targeted neighbouring countries and foreign diplomatic facilities. The comments, which accused Israel of ...
17m ago
German far-right politician vows not to quit after aide accused of spying for China
By Matthias Williams and Alexander Ratz BERLIN (Reuters) - A member of the European Parliament for Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party said on Wednesday he would not resign after one of his aides was arrested on suspicion of spy...
18m ago
Portugal celebrates democracy anniversary amid far-right surge
By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira SANTAREM, Portugal (Reuters) - Veteran military officer Captain Joaquim Correia Bernardo, 84, remembers the revolution that toppled Portugal's fascist dictatorship five decades ago as if it were yesterday. He w...
18m ago
Business News
UBS flags serious concern about new Swiss capital requirements
BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) -UBS executives on Wednesday told shareholders that the bank has major concerns about the Swiss government's recently announced plan to hit the country's largest lender with tougher capital requirements. "We are seriousl...
22m ago
Russian court orders seizure of JPMorgan Chase funds in VTB lawsuit
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court has ordered the seizure of funds in JPMorgan Chase bank accounts in Russia, court filings showed on Wednesday, in a lawsuit filed by state-owned bank VTB as it seeks to regain funds blocked abroad. JP Morgan Chase...
24m ago
Factbox-EU probes on Chinese subsidies and imports
(Reuters) - The European Union launched an investigation into China's procurement of medical devices on Wednesday in a latest effort to protect home-grown manufacturers. It has also launched several probes into whether Chinese clean tech producers ...
28m ago
Tesla jumps as Musk's promise of 'more affordable' cars eases growth fears
(Reuters) - Tesla shares surged 10% on Wednesday after the electric-car maker eased some worries about growth with a prediction that sales would rise this year and said it would roll out more affordable models in early 2025. The news cheered up inv...
28m ago
Indonesia's central bank delivers surprise rate rise to support rupiah
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's central bank delivered a surprise rate hike on Wednesday, stepping up efforts to support the rupiah currency against selling linked to global risk aversion and a delay in the expected timing of any U.S. policy easing...
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Health News
Congo Republic declares mpox epidemic
BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Republic of the Congo has declared an epidemic of mpox after 19 cases were confirmed across five departments, including the capital Brazzaville. No deaths have yet been recorded, Health Minister Gilbert Mokoki said in a stat...
18m ago
About 3.6 million Medicare beneficiaries could be eligible for Wegovy coverage, study shows
(Reuters) - About 3.6 million overweight or obese patients with heart conditions insured under the U.S. Medicare program could be eligible for coverage of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy, a study published by Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) s...
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EU opens investigation into Chinese medical device market
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union launched an investigation on Wednesday into Chinese public procurement of medical devices to determine if European suppliers have been granted fair access, the EU's official journal said on Wednesday. The inv...
3h ago
Roche Q1 sales down 6% on forex effect, loss of COVID revenue
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Roche said on Wednesday its first-quarter sales slipped 6% as the loss on COVID-19 related revenue was partly offset by further gains in eye drug Vabysmo. First-quarter sales slipped to 14.4 billion Swiss francs ($15.80 billi...
3h ago
US FDA says commercial milk safe despite bird flu virus presence
By Manas Mishra and Jasper Ward (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday that it had found bird flu virus particles in some samples of pasteurized milk, but said commercial milk supply remains safe. The FDA said that because the...
10h ago
Science News
Factbox-Shenzhou-18 caps over two decades of Chinese human spaceflight
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will send three astronauts into low-Earth orbit on Thursday in the country's 13th crewed mission to space, marking more than two decades of Chinese human spaceflight. Of the 13 crewed missions, half were visits to China's ...
7h ago
US, Russia set for a showdown at UN over nuclear weapons in space
By Michelle Nichols and Joey Roulette UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Russia are set to face off over nuclear weapons in space on Wednesday at the United Nations Security Council, which is due to vote on a U.S.-drafted r...
10h ago
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
Technology News
Factbox-EU probes on Chinese subsidies and imports
(Reuters) - The European Union launched an investigation into China's procurement of medical devices on Wednesday in a latest effort to protect home-grown manufacturers. It has also launched several probes into whether Chinese clean tech producers ...
28m ago
Tesla jumps as Musk's promise of 'more affordable' cars eases growth fears
(Reuters) - Tesla shares surged 10% on Wednesday after the electric-car maker eased some worries about growth with a prediction that sales would rise this year and said it would roll out more affordable models in early 2025. The news cheered up inv...
28m ago
Taiwan chipmaker UMC warns of muted auto, industrial demand
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwanese chipmaker UMC said on Wednesday it expected a rise in wafer shipments in the second quarter as inventory levels for computing, consumer and communications segments improved, but warned of muted auto and industrial deman...
29m ago
SK Hynix to invest $3.86 billion in DRAM chip production base in South Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix said on Wednesday it plans to invest 5.3 trillion won ($3.86 billion) in a new dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip production base in South Korea. ($1 = 1,371.8400 won) (Reporting by Jo...
1h ago
Italy fines Amazon 10 million euros for alleged unfair commercial practices
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's antitrust authority has fined two subsidiaries of Amazon 10 million euros ($10.70 million) for alleged unfair commercial practices, the regulator said on Wednesday. According to the watchdog, Amazon has "significantly rest...
1h ago
Entertainment News
John Lennon's lost 1960s acoustic guitar to go up for auction
By Lisa Keddie and Will Russell LONDON (Reuters) - A previously lost 12-string acoustic guitar that belonged to the late John Lennon will go up for sale at an auction in May after it was recently found in the attic of a home in Britain. The auction...
13h ago
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 ...
18h ago
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...
21h ago
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...
21h 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...
Apr 22, 2024