WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Former Mosinee Mayor Brent Jacobson says he's leaving the city in a better place than he found it. Jacobson, who resigned earlier this month following his election victory for the 87th Assembly District seat, says those victories include downtown revitalization and a new brewery. He also points to ...

ATLANTA (AP) - Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was 100 years old. The Carter Center said the 39th president died Sund...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (WSAU) -- The Green Bay Packers scored 15 points in the 4th quarter but their rally fell short in a 27-25 loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday at US Bank Stadium. The Vikings got a big day from Sam Darnold and a big third down catch from Cam Akers that enabled them to run out the clock. Darnold was 3...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Azerbaijan's president for a "tragic incident" which happened in Russian airspace involving an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed after air defences were used against Ukr...

WASHINGTON, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Donald Trump has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to pause a federal TikTok law that would ban the popular social media app or force its sale, with the Republican U.S. President-elect arguing that he should have time after taking office to pursue a "political resolution" to the issu...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Former Mosinee Mayor Brent Jacobson says he's leaving the city in a better place than he found it. Jacobson, who resigned earlier this month following his election victory for the 87th Assembly District seat, says those victories include downtown revitalization and a new brewery. He also points to ...

SCHOFIELD, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Mountain Bay Metro Police responded to a three-vehicle crash just before 8:30 a.m. Friday. The incident occurred near the intersection of Grand Avenue and Jacoby Street. Police said a 34-year-old driver rear-ended a vehicle driven by a 71-year-old female driver and a 46-year-old passenger. T...

PHILLIPS, WI (WSAU) -- A Price County man has admitted to killing a 57-year-old woman back in April. Christopher Dyer entered a guilty plea for one count of intentional homicide on Thursday for the death of Denise Schwarz on April 13th when she was found shot to death outside a home in Park Falls. A firearm was also re...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- A Wisconsin Rapids man was given a withheld sentence for one count of aggravated battery for an incident in Plover in 2023. Luis Rodriguez-Moreno will spend three years on probation. Terms include a full no-contact order with the victim and court costs. Charges stem from an incident outside ...

ANTIGO, WI (WSAU) - The former treasurer from the Town of Ackley has been sentenced to jail time and probation for stealing cash. Gary Keiper, 70 was sentenced December 20 in Langland County court. He'll spend 9 months in jail, and will be on probation for 7 years. A town board member reported that funds were missing i...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Saturday's scoreboard & today's schedule: Boys Hockey Madison West 4 Northland Pines 0 Homestead 9 Rhinelander 0 Cedarburg-Marshfield no score reported Black River Falls 11 Wausau East/Merrill 7 Fond du Lac 7 Wisconsin Rapids 1 WSFLG-Antigo no score reported DC Everest 4 ...

CHICAGO, ILL (WSAU) -- The Chicago Bulls beat the Milwaukee Bucks 116-111 on Saturday night in Illinois. Although Damian Lillard was back in the lineup the Bucks were once again without Giannis Antetokounmpo who was out with an illness. Lillard led the Bucks with 29 points, 11 assists and six rebounds. Brook Lopez had ...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (WSAU) -- The Green Bay Packers scored 15 points in the 4th quarter but their rally fell short in a 27-25 loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday at US Bank Stadium. The Vikings got a big day from Sam Darnold and a big third down catch from Cam Akers that enabled them to run out the clock. Darnold was 3...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers may be without two key players on Sunday as cornerback Jaire Alexander and wide receiver Christian Watson continue to rehab injuries. According to ESPN's Rob Demovsky, Watson (knee) has been listed as questionable against the Vikings after missing the stretch portion of Frid...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Braedyn Locke, the former starting quarterback for the Wisconsin Badgers, entered the transfer portal earlier this month and has now found a new team. After spending the previous two seasons in Madison, where he went 3-6 as the starting quarterback in former offensive coordinator Phil Longo's "...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- The City of Madison Clerk's Office says almost 200 ballots from the November 5 general election were not properly processed. In a statement on Thursday, the Madison clerk's office said 193 mainly absentee ballots from three wards were discovered during post-election reconciliation and clean-up...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) - According to Triple-A, nearly 2.4 million Wisconsinites will travel 50 miles or more from home between December 21st and New Year's Day, breaking the previous all-time high set last year by over 76-thousand. Nearly 90% of those travelers will drive to their destinations. Nationally, Triple-A fo...

GREEN LAKE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A Wisconsin man who allegedly faked his death on Green Lake and traveled to Europe is in custody, according to online records. VINELink says Ryan Borgwardt is being held at the Green Lake County Jail. VINELink is a service that victims of crime can use to search for information regarding t...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- There are new state charges against three men connected to a slate of false electors in the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced charges on Tuesday against Attorney Jim Troupis, and Trump administration advisors Ken Chesebro and Michael Roman....

CHIPPEWA COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- The teen who allegedly assaulted and killed Lily Peters was in court Tuesday. The 16-year-old, identified as C P-B in court documents, stood mute at his arraignment in Chippewa County Court. Not guilty pleas to intentional homicide, sexual assault and child sexual assault were entered ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - No rain fell last week in most of Ivory Coast's main cocoa regions and farmers said on Monday that the dry weather could damage bean quality and tighten supply from February. The world's top cocoa producer is in the dry season t...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump when a jury found the U.S. president-elect liable for sexually abusing and later defaming the forme...

OSLO (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter should be praised for his "decades of untiring effort" to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts and to advance democracy and human rights, the body awarding the Nobel Peace Prize said on M...

By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani student Laiba Rashid, 22, hopes her life will change once she learns how to drive a motorcycle after undergoing a training programme that teaches women how to operate two-wheelers in the bu...

(Reuters) -A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Luzon in the Philippines on Monday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles), GFZ said. Philippine seismology agency Phivolcs said the trem...

(Reuters) -An Argentine judge argued that the manager of former One Direction singer Liam Payne and employees of the hotel where he was staying did not act as they should have before the singer's death and allowed charges against them to proceed, accor...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala for "violating the laws of the Islamic Republic", Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Monday. Sala, 29, who works for the newspaper Il Foglio and the podcast co...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany said on Monday it would back 60 million euros ($62.70 million) worth of projects in Syria to boost education, women's rights and other areas in the aftermath of the overthrow of president Bashar al-Assad. Development Mini...

By Ramadan Abed and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Yahya Al-Batran woke up in the early hours of Sunday morning to find his wife, Noura trying to wake their newborn twin sons Jumaa and Ali as they lay together in the makeshift tent the family o...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sent $3.4 billion in additional budget aid to Ukraine, giving the war-torn country critical resources amid intensifying Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure, Treasur...

(Reuters) - Chipmaker Nvidia has completed its acquisition of Israeli AI firm Run:ai, the startup said on Monday, following antitrust scrutiny over the buyout. The European Commission granted unconditional approval to Nvidia's $700 million bid for ...

(Reuters) - Cheniere Energy on Monday said that liquefied natural gas (LNG) was produced for the first time from the first train (Train 1) of its Corpus Christi Stage 3 Liquefaction Project. As the commissioning process continues, the company says ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland should not set rules for its banking sector that put it at a disadvantage, UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti was quoted as saying on Monday, as the country prepares to overhaul regulation following his bank's takeover of Credit ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's economy grew by 0.92% in the first quarter of the fiscal year 2024-25, despite a contraction in the industrial sector, according to data approved by the National Accounts Committee, and released by its Statistics Bure...

(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures slipped in light trading volumes on Monday as elevated Treasury yields threatened to pressure a historically strong year-end period for equities. At 05:36 a.m. ET, Dow E-minis were down 78 points, or 0.18%, S&P ...

(Reuters) -Axsome Therapeutics said on Monday its experimental drug to treat agitation related to Alzheimer's disease succeeded in one of the two late-stage studies and failed to meet the main goal of the second trial. Shares of the drug developer, whi...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche is not planning job cuts and its business is healthy, CEO Thomas Schinecker was quoted as saying by a Swiss newspaper on Sunday. Roche's share price has fallen far below peaks it scaled in April...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a whistleblower lawsuit accusing the Swiss drugmaker Novartis of paying illegal kickbacks to doctors to induce them to promote its blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug G...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it has approved an injectable version of Bristol Myers Squibb's blockbuster cancer drug, Opdivo. Opdivo is part of a class of drugs called PD-1 inhibitors, which enhance the immune sy...

(Reuters) - BioNTech has entered into two separate settlement agreements with the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the University of Pennyslvania over the payment of royalties related to its COVID-19 vaccine, the company said in filings on Fr...

(Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that it has issued a commercial space launch license for Blue Origin's - Jeff Bezos' rocket company - New Glenn launch. Blue Origin entered into a highly competitive area it has long so...

(Reuters) - NASA said on Friday that its Parker Solar Probe was "safe" and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the Sun by any human-made object. The spacecraft passed just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km)...

(Reuters) - NASA's Parker Solar Probe was expected to make history on Tuesday by flying into the sun's outer atmosphere called the corona on a mission to help scientists learn more about Earth's closest star. "No human-made object has ever passed t...

By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) - Thirty Indian companies have answered the space regulator's call to build and operate constellations of Earth observation (EO) satellites in a groundbreaking private-public partnership to reduce the c...

YAKUTSK, Russia (Reuters) - Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years. The creature, resembling a small elephant with...

(Reuters) - Chipmaker Nvidia has completed its acquisition of Israeli AI firm Run:ai, the startup said on Monday, following antitrust scrutiny over the buyout. The European Commission granted unconditional approval to Nvidia's $700 million bid for ...

(Reuters) - Ukraine's leading mobile operator Kyivstar has signed an agreement with Starlink to introduce direct-to-cell satellite connectivity in the country, Kyivstar's parent company VEON said on Monday. Direct-to-cell services are connected to ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Huawei cut the prices of a variety of high-end devices, including mobile phones, by up to 3,000 yuan ($411) over the weekend on one of China's leading e-commerce platforms, it said in a post on its official Weibo social media ac...

By Aaditya GovindRao and Roushni Nair (Reuters) - Goodman Group's stock has been on a hot streak this year, shining bright among its Australian real-estate peers as the artificial intelligence boom has driven a frenzied demand for data centres. Glo...

By Surbhi Misra (Reuters) - The Chinese-linked Salt Typhoon cyberespionage operation targeted AT&T's systems, but the wireless carrier's U.S. networks are now secure as it works with law enforcement and government officials, the company said on Sat...

(Reuters) -An Argentine judge argued that the manager of former One Direction singer Liam Payne and employees of the hotel where he was staying did not act as they should have before the singer's death and allowed charges against them to proceed, accor...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jon M. Chu, the director behind the musical film "Wicked", felt pressure from both himself and the rest of the team at Universal Pictures to make a masterpiece. "For ourselves to fulfill the promise that...

By Shanima A and Rupali Shukla MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian cinema is best known for Bollywood extravaganzas, but an art-house film about three women navigating loneliness and love in a metropolis is gaining viewers and earning international recogniti...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The NBA saw its most-watched Christmas Day lineup in five years, the league said on Thursday, as it went head-to-head with the NFL's splashy debut on streaming giant Netflix. An average of 5.25 million viewers tuned in per game...

By Sophie Yu and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - China's box office revenues for Christmas Eve plummeted to the lowest in at least 13 years, data from ticket booking platform Maoyan showed on Wednesday. Zhang Yiwu, a literature professor at Peking U...