MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- A 27-year-old man accused of killing his father has been scheduled for a nine-day trial next June. Austin Stevenson is accused of killing 48-year-old John Stevenson in the spring of 2025. Investigators were called to the home for a welfare check, where they found John with two gunshot wounds to th...

By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida, Oct 7 (Reuters) - A sea of red swept across global stocks on Wednesday as the bond market selloff picked up again and lifted long-dated US yields to 24-year highs, although a strong 10-year Treasury auction and minut...

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve policymakers were divided last month over the rationale for raising interest rates, with "some participants" seeing a hike as needed to keep the impact of energy and other price shocks a...

WAUTOMA, WI (WSAU) -- A man accused of killing his grandmother in Waushara County has been scheduled for trial in early 2027. Randy Jenks has been scheduled for a one-week jury trial from February 1st through the 5th as he faces one count of intentional homicide. Investigators say he killed Patricia Glenn at her home i...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- A Stevens Point man accused of killing Jeanette Pientka in July has entered a not guilty plea to one count of intentional homicide and will face a week-long jury trial before the end of the year. Lyndon Hood is accused of stabbing the 57-year-old during an argument at a home in the Town of C...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- A 27-year-old man accused of killing his father has been scheduled for a nine-day trial next June. Austin Stevenson is accused of killing 48-year-old John Stevenson in the spring of 2025. Investigators were called to the home for a welfare check, where they found John with two gunshot wounds to th...

WAUTOMA, WI (WSAU) -- A man accused of killing his grandmother in Waushara County has been scheduled for trial in early 2027. Randy Jenks has been scheduled for a one-week jury trial from February 1st through the 5th as he faces one count of intentional homicide. Investigators say he killed Patricia Glenn at her home i...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- A Stevens Point man accused of killing Jeanette Pientka in July has entered a not guilty plea to one count of intentional homicide and will face a week-long jury trial before the end of the year. Lyndon Hood is accused of stabbing the 57-year-old during an argument at a home in the Town of C...

RHINELANDER, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Oneida County is ending its partnership with Flock cameras after six years of use. Oneida county's Captain of Investigations, Tyler Young said the county started with four cameras before adding two more to continue its contract with the company. He said the cameras helped investigators sol...

SHAWANO, WI (WSAU) -- The man accused of killing Rick Roundy one year ago was denied a bond modification on Tuesday. Brent Hofman will remain in jail on a $1 million cash bond after his defense team couldn't convince a judge to lower it. The 75-year-old is accused of killing Roundy during an argument in November 2025, ...

SAN DIEGO, CA (WSAU) The Padres stayed alive in the Divisional Play-Off series with a 4-3 win over the Brewers. Jake Cronenworth hit a tiebreaking home run. Michael King, who gave up the game winning hit in gams 2, worked a scoreless 8th and 9th inning. The Brewers still lead the best-of-five series 2-1. Game Four is ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Jackson Churio delivered a walk-off 2 RBI hit to lift the Brewers to a 4-3 win over the Padres. The Brewers rallied off reliever Mason Miller, who walked two in the 9th before Churio's 2-strike hit. Churio hit a 101-mile-per-hour fastball up the middle past Jake Cronenworth. It was the second str...

TAMPA, FL (WSAU) - The Packers, clinging to a 3-point lead, turned the ball over twice in the 4th quarter but held on for a 17-14 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Kaleb Johnson fumbled at the 5-yard-line with 9-minutes left in the game. Tampa's ensuing drive stalled out. Jordan Love threw an interception at the 15, b...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Brewers got a lucky break in a 3-2 win over the Padres in Game 1 of the Divisional Play-offs. Ty France hit what was likely a go-ahead home run in the 9th inning. It hit a cable attached to the roof of American Family Field and was caught by Jackson Churio for an out. Ground rules say a ball ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Badgers scored a power-play goal to complete their sweep of Robert Morris to open their hockey season. Grady Deering scored the game's only goal in the second period. The Badgers failed to score on an earlier power play in the period. Wisconsin outshot Robert Moeeies 42-19. Goalie Daniel Haise...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- Another big-time concert is coming to the UW Madison campus as Metallica brings the M72 World Tour to Camp Randall on Saturday, June 12th. Tickets will go on sale next week, with presales beginning Monday, September 21st. General on sale is Friday, September 25th. The announcement was part of a No...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - Josh Jacobs, the star starting running back of the Green Bay Packers, appeared in Brown County court on Thursday morning to plead no contest to misdemeanor battery and property damage charges stemming from a May domestic altercation with his now-ex-girlfriend. According to ESPN's Rob Demovsky, th...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany is explaining why his campaign declined to participate in this cycle's Wisconsin Broadcasters Association debate. In an interview with "The Dan O'Donnell Show" on Tuesday, Tiffany said, "I think one debate will be sufficient to cover the ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association gubernatorial debate will no longer take place after one of the candidates failed to accept the invitation. According to a press release from the WBA, "Two invitations were sent, and both had to be accepted to have a debate. That did not happen." The...

FOND du LAC, WI (WSAU) Additional charges have been filed against Benjamin Larson after several human skulls and bones were found inside his home. He was initially charged last month with felony stalking. Investigators said he repeatedly changed his story about the human remains that were discovered. It's now believed...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - The US ​National ‌Hurricane Center said in its ‌latest ​advisory ⁠on Wednesday ⁠that Isaias has strengthened into ​a hurricane. Isaias ⁠was ⁠about 460 ​miles (745 Km) ​south-southwest of the ‌mouth of the ⁠Mississippi river, with maxi...

SINGAPORE, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Nearly 6,000 monitored vertebrate species across more than 35,000 populations declined by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, the World Wide Fund for Nature said ​in its latest Living Planet Report published on Thursday. •...

By Daniel Trotta Oct 7 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would award former baseball pitcher Roger Clemens the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor awarded by the president. Clemens, ​a friend of Trump who has...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - An award-winning filmmaker whose work has explored conflict in his native Kashmir has been detained by US immigration officials after legally coming to the United States to study and later claiming ​asylu...

By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The FBI has arrested an 18-year-old man who had been plotting to carry out a mass shooting at the Mall of America near Minneapolis ​in the name of ISIS, according to court filings. He ‌was arrested o...

Oct 8 (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi ​group said ‌on Thursday it had attacked King ‌Khalid ​International ⁠Airport in ⁠the Saudi capital Riyadh with a ​ballistic missile. The statement ⁠came ⁠hours after ​Saudi Arabia said ​a midweek attack ‌o...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - Former Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen told a US audience on Wednesday of China's "sustained" pressure in the form of activities like military patrols that stop short of open conflict but are ​aimed at altering the security environment....

SEOUL, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The suspect behind recent cyberattacks targeting South Korea's financial sector may be a 26-year-old based in China's Guangdong province, US cybersecurity ​firm CrowdStrike said. In a report published on its ‌website on Wednesd...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - An award-winning filmmaker whose work has explored conflict in his native Kashmir has been detained by US immigration officials after legally coming to the United States to study and later claiming ​asylu...

LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Britain and Germany will launch a joint partnership to counter ​sabotage and cyberattacks as Prime ‌Minister Andy Burnham and Chancellor Friedrich Merz meet in Berlin on Thursday, shortly after both leaders warned ‌of ​the hyb...

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The number of vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz fell to the lowest in more than two months after attacks on tankers in the key waterway reached their highest last week ​since the start of the US-Israel...

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department said late Wednesday ​it approved a ‌five-year exemption for Aurora and other self-driving trucking companies from rules that ‌require ​drivers to ⁠place warning devices ⁠around a stopped ...

By Nicole Jao Oct 8 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Thursday on persistent worries about supply from the key Middle East producing region amid an increase in attacks on shipping in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude futures rose $1.33, ​or 1...

By Greg Bensinger SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Amazon confirmed on Wednesday it had cut what it said were a small number of jobs, primarily in its ​Stores unit which oversees the main e-commerce website. The ‌layoffs to its retail unit coincide wit...

By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Orathai Sriring BANGKOK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Thai business owner Kavita Wongyakasem, 51, fears she may die before she has paid back all her debt. The single mother of two owes 10 million baht ($298,000) to seven financial inst...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - Medical device maker Centinel Spine disclosed a rise in revenue in its IPO filing on Wednesday. The filing comes ​against an uncertain backdrop for the ‌fall IPO market, as rising bond yields and persistently high interest rates have ...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - Glaukos said on Wednesday patients treated with its late-stage eye disease therapy maintained improvements in vision ​and corneal shape three years after ‌a single treatment for keratoconus, a disease that can progressively distort vi...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - New York Governor Kathy Hochul spoke with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday, and he offered federal ​support as the state responds to a measles ‌outbreak, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Wednes...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - Zealand Pharma said on Wednesday its experimental drug helped people who are overweight or obese ​and have type 2 diabetes lose ‌up to 9.2% of their body weight in a mid-stage trial. The Danish company is developing it with Roche. • T...

(Corrects paragraph 5 to 200 individuals per year, not 200 flights, changes attribution to HHS from Schwartz) Oct 7 (Reuters) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Erica Schwartz ​said on Wednesday the risk to the US from ‌an unconfirme...

By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump will speak at a White House event on scientific ​discovery on Thursday, according to a ‌social media post from his tech adviser Michael Kratsios. The event will highlight the Tru...

By Marta Serafinko Oct 7 (Reuters) - The world's oldest-known terrestrial animal, an Aldabra giant tortoise named Jonathan and estimated to be about 194 years old, may owe his extraordinary longevity to a combination of genetic traits and an ability to...

By Will Dunham Oct 7 (Reuters) - Scientific teams working separately in Vienna and Beijing have developed the world's first two operating nuclear clocks in what they are calling an important advance in timekeeping that promises wide-ranging practical a...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing jagged crags formed billions of years ago as the car-sized vehicle continues to explor...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now found a world that rightly can b...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - Blue Origin is likely to pursue an initial public offering in the coming years, billionaire founder Jeff Bezos said on ​Wednesday, after the space company raised $10 billion ‌from outside investors for the first time in a funding roun...

SEOUL, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The suspect behind recent cyberattacks targeting South Korea's financial sector may be a 26-year-old based in China's Guangdong province, US cybersecurity ​firm CrowdStrike said. In a report published on its ‌website on Wednesd...

By Diana Novak Jones Oct 7 (Reuters) - TikTok ran an experiment on thousands of users who tried to turn on a safety feature on the platform, giving them non-functional versions of the tool, according to allegations in New York's lawsuit against the com...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - Applied Digital's first-quarter revenue more than quadrupled, while its net loss widened from a year earlier as the ​company stepped up investments to meet ‌growing demand for data center services. Shares of the Dallas, Texas-based co...

By AJ Vicens Oct 7 (Reuters) - Leak data posted to the internet has exposed payments made to a hacking group known for extorting large sums ​of money from law firms, blockchain investigations firm Chainalysis ‌said on Wednesday. The findings come after...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Actor Andrew Scott says the biographical drama "Elsinore", which opened the 2026 London Film Festival on Wednesday, is an ode to living fully in the face of tragedy. Scott, a stage and ​screen actor of "Fleaba...

By Helen Reid PARIS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Longer, hotter summers are disrupting fashion's seasonal calendar, forcing luxury brands to adapt designs and threatening sales of higher-margin winter clothing. The industry's traditional cycle has long depended ...

By Meriam Telhig TORONTO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - "Carrie" returns this week in a new eight-part adaptation from horror filmmaker Mike Flanagan, reimagining author Stephen King's classic story for a modern audience through social media, cyberbullying and ​ac...

Oct 6 (Reuters) - The Television Academy and Amazon's Prime Video on Tuesday announced a six-year deal making the streaming service the ​exclusive global home of the Emmys, ending ‌the awards show's rotation among US broadcast networks. The deal will t...

By Anzar Mehraj and Harshita Mary Varghese Oct 6 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance on Tuesday completed its blockbuster $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, creating a Hollywood heavyweight that hands CEO David Ellison control of one of the wor...