WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The man who put up a $5,000 reward for the death of Christian Schauer will serve prison time. Steven Crandall entered a no contest plea to one count of conspiracy to commit homicide on Tuesday and was found guilty by a judge. He was then sentenced to 22 years in the state prison system, including s...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Parks and Recreation Committee got its first look at a proposed recreation trail that would start in the former Northern Mobile Home Park in Schofield and end along Kent Street near the People's Sports Complex. Wausau and Marathon County Director of Parks, Recreation, and Forestry Jamie ...

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - Planned Israeli action against Iran that would have seen retaliation against ​American forces prompted the United ‌States to launch its weekend strikes against Tehran, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday. ...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- A former Marshfield School Board candidate accused of domestic abuse and child sexual assault stood silent during a court appearance this morning. Mathew Samson didn't speak as a judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf to multiple counts, including first-degree recklessly endangerin...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Marathon County Sheriff's Office will conduct a Tactical Communications Team training exercise at the Eau Claire Dells Campground, located off County Road Y, on Tuesday. Residents will notice an increased law enforcement presence between 1:00 and 4:00 PM, though officers emphasize that there wi...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The man who put up a $5,000 reward for the death of Christian Schauer will serve prison time. Steven Crandall entered a no contest plea to one count of conspiracy to commit homicide on Tuesday and was found guilty by a judge. He was then sentenced to 22 years in the state prison system, including s...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Parks and Recreation Committee got its first look at a proposed recreation trail that would start in the former Northern Mobile Home Park in Schofield and end along Kent Street near the People's Sports Complex. Wausau and Marathon County Director of Parks, Recreation, and Forestry Jamie ...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- A former Marshfield School Board candidate accused of domestic abuse and child sexual assault stood silent during a court appearance this morning. Mathew Samson didn't speak as a judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf to multiple counts, including first-degree recklessly endangerin...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Marathon County Sheriff's Office will conduct a Tactical Communications Team training exercise at the Eau Claire Dells Campground, located off County Road Y, on Tuesday. Residents will notice an increased law enforcement presence between 1:00 and 4:00 PM, though officers emphasize that there wi...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- The demolition of a building at 1039 Ellis Street in Stevens Point is nearly complete. Mayor Mike Wiza says the process provided a brief glimpse into the history of the structure, which once housed the Weber Tackle Company. "[The building] is nearly 100 years old. But it has been remode...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The WIAA Boys Basketball Tournament begins tonight with first round games. Here is the schedule: Antigo at Wausau East Gresham at Wausau Newman Chippewa Falls at Wisconsin Rapids Wrightstown at Northland Pines Almond-Bancroft at Pacelli Tomahawk at Peshtigo Chequamegon at Edgar Gilman at Flambeau R...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- Milwaukee fans welcomed the return of Giannis Antetokounmpo on Monday night but then watched as the Boston Celtics dominated the Bucks in a 108-81 win at Fiserv Forum. Giannis was playing for the first time since straining a calf muscle on January 23rd. He played just under 26 minutes and scored...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Bucks could get the centerpiece of their franchise back tonight. Sources tell ESPN's Shams Charania that Giannis Antetokounmpo will play against the Boston Celtics this evening, the first game he's played since mid-January when he went down with a calf injury. Antetokounmpo is aver...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau West girls curling team won the high school state title over the weekend at the Wausau Curling Club. They defeated Stevens Point 10-3 in the championship match scoring four in the 6th end to break open a close match. Poynette won the boys title beating Monona Grove 7-6 on the final shot ...

MARYVALE, AZ (WSAU) -- The Kansas City Royals topped the Milwaukee Brewers 3-1 on Sunday at spring training. Chad Patrick and Trevor Megill made their spring debuts. Patrick gave up a run on two hits and two walks over two innings. Megill threw 13 pitches in his one inning and ended it with a pickoff at first base. Aki...

WASHINGTON DC (WSAU-WAOW) - The Apostle Islands National Park and Preserve Act, introduced by Rep. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin, has advanced out of the House Committee on Natural Resources with a narrow 20-17 vote. This legislation aims to designate the Apostle Islands as Wisconsin's first National Park. "The Apostl...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee County judge convicted of obstructing ICE agents last month, has resigned. In a letter to Governor Tony Evers, she wrote: "As you know, I am the subject of unprecedented federal legal proceedings, which are far from concluded but which present immense and complex ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Hannah Dugan's felony conviction on Thursday disqualifies her from serving as a Milwaukee County judge, unless it is overturned on appeal. Dugan was convicted of obstructing ICE agents who arrived at the Milwaukee County courthouse to arrest an illegal immigrant who was appearing in her courtroom...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) A federal jury in Milwaukee deliberated for six hours before finding judge Hannah Dugan of obstructing ICE agents. Dugan helped an illegal immigrant leave her courtroom through a private hallway to avoid arrest. She was aquitted on a misdemeanor concealment charge. The conviction is a felony, puni...

MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) A $4.25 million multistate settlement has been reached with Menards, over allegations of deceptive marketing practices. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and Attorney General Josh Kaul announced the settlement, which resolves claims related to Menards' mercha...

By Helen Reid PARIS, March 3 (Reuters) - Dior creative director Jonathan Anderson showed floating flower-shaped dresses and heels decorated with water lilies for his ​first autumn/winter womenswear collection at the Parisian fashion ‌house on Tuesday, ...

NEW YORK, March 3 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on Tuesday to an ​agreement for Jeffrey Epstein's estate ‌to pay as much as $35 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused two of the disgraced financier's ‌advisers ​o...

By Robin Respaut March 3 (Reuters) - Autism researchers and advocacy leaders on Tuesday said they would form a new, independent committee to help guide autism research priorities, providing a science-based alternative to official U.S. information on ​t...

By Marco Aquino LIMA, March 3 (Reuters) - Peru's booming agricultural export sector could suffer this year from heavy rains and floods caused by the coastal El Nino weather phenomenon, business leaders and climate agencies warn, as effects ​begin to be...

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday said ​the U.S. Transportation ‌Department effort to force an end to Manhattan's congestion pricing program ‌was ​illegal. The first-of-its-kind ⁠program in the ⁠United States -- in place since Jan...

NEW YORK, March 3 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on Tuesday to an ​agreement for Jeffrey Epstein's estate ‌to pay as much as $35 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused two of the disgraced financier's ‌advisers ​o...

By Rich McKay ATLANTA, March 3 (Reuters) - Colin Gray, the father of a boy charged with killing four people at a high school in Georgia in 2024, was found guilty of second-degree ​murder and involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday in a rare U.S. ‌legal cas...

LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - ​British ‌Prime Minister Keir Starmer ‌said ​on ⁠Tuesday ⁠that Britain was sending helicopters ​with ⁠counter-drone ⁠capabilities ​to Cyprus, ​and was ‌deploying the air ⁠defence destroyer naval vessel ⁠HMS ‌Dragon ⁠to ​the ...

By Ben Makori and Sam Tabahriti LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - A British couple jailed in Iran have described explosions shaking Evin prison where they are being held and damage to their wing as the ​conflict intensifies around Tehran, their son told Reut...

BEIJING, March 3 (Reuters) - China opposes the military strikes launched by Israel and the U.S. against Iran and demands an immediate cessation ​of hostilities, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told ‌his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar on Tuesday, according to...

By Sheila Dang and Tanay Dhumal HOUSTON, March 3 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil aims to send a technical team to ​Venezuela in a few weeks after ‌working through logistical and security arrangements, an executive said on Tuesday. The U.S. oil major will work ...

By Elizabeth Howcroft PARIS, March 3 (Reuters) - Outflows from Iranian crypto exchanges spiked in the hours after the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday, two blockchain analytics companies said, although researchers added it was ​not possible...

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will review a set of policy options on Tuesday aimed at controlling energy prices amid the escalating Middle East conflict, including a proposal for the government to help ​oil tankers in the ...

NEW YORK, March 3 (Reuters) - A selloff in US stocks deepened on Tuesday, as widening conflict in the Middle East drove energy prices higher and raised investor concern about inflation. MARKET REACTION: The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500...

By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK, March 3 (Reuters) - Latin American and Caribbean countries should push for more fiscal prudence and regional integration to tackle slowing growth, the Inter-American Development Bank said on Tuesday, predicting economic expa...

By Robin Respaut March 3 (Reuters) - Autism researchers and advocacy leaders on Tuesday said they would form a new, independent committee to help guide autism research priorities, providing a science-based alternative to official U.S. information on ​t...

March 3 (Reuters) - Hims & Hers Health's pharmacy partner, Strive Pharmacy, plans to resume sales of its ​compounded weight‑loss pill through other ‌healthcare providers after halting distribution following U.S. regulatory pushback, Endpoints News repo...

March 3 (Reuters) - Diagnostics firm Droplet Biosciences said on Tuesday it is collaborating with Nvidia to use the chipmaker's AI infrastructure to ​speed up post-surgery cancer test results. The ‌company has been using Nvidia Parabricks, a GPU-accele...

By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG, March 3 (Reuters) - Aspen Pharmacare's unbranded version of Novo Nordisk's popular diabetes drug Ozempic could be registered in Canada in the second or third quarter of this year, the South ​African pharmaceuticals group...

March 3 (Reuters) - Kyowa Kirin on Tuesday said it is discontinuing all ongoing trials of its experimental drug to treat skin conditions after the ​company concluded that the potential risks may outweigh ‌the benefits for patients. The drug, called roc...

MOSCOW, March 3 (Reuters) - Russia's space agency said on Tuesday that repair work had ​been completed at a ‌damaged section of a launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that is critical to Moscow's ‌space ​programme, Russian ⁠state media r...

LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - An estimate of the mineral resources at a mine being developed by Rare Earths Norway, Europe's largest rare earth project, ​has soared by 81% since the last evaluation ‌two years ago, the privately held firm said on Tuesday....

(In a story first published on March 2, corrects paragraph 1 to say the number of satellite launches this year is three, not up to 13.) By ​Leo Marchandon March 2 (Reuters) - European satellite operator SES on Monday ‌reported full-year results in line...

LONDON, March 2 (Reuters) - Mobile company Vodafone said on Monday it had signed a deal ​with Amazon Leo, the ‌U.S. company's low Earth orbit satellite network, to connect 4G and 5G mobile masts in remote areas in ‌Europe ​and Africa. Amazon Leo ⁠will ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The largest stars in the universe live the life of a rock star - they are born brilliant, live fast and die young. If that is the case, the one named WOH G64 might be considered the stellar equivalent of Ji...

By Elizabeth Howcroft PARIS, March 3 (Reuters) - Outflows from Iranian crypto exchanges spiked in the hours after the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday, two blockchain analytics companies said, although researchers added it was ​not possible...

March 3 (Reuters) - MongoDB's shares plunged 27% to a six-month low on Tuesday after the software firm forecast first-quarter profit below estimates and ​disappointed investors with slower quarterly revenue growth ‌for its cloud database product Atlas....

By Joan Faus BARCELONA, March 3 (Reuters) - The number of people in Ukraine connecting to the internet using SpaceX's Starlink will probably reach around 12 million by the end of ​this year from the current 5 million users, the CEO ‌of telecoms group V...

March 3 (Reuters) - Apple on Tuesday unveiled updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, featuring its latest M5-series chips and bigger base storage, in a bid to lure ​buyers in a softening PC market squeezed by rising ‌memory costs. The update inclu...

SAO PAULO, March 3 (Reuters) - Amazon launched its Amazon Now service in Brazil on Tuesday, pledging to deliver essentials and groceries in 15 minutes, with its country head saying ​the Latin American country is the firm's top priority ‌for new investm...

By Sam Tobin LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - Three British men suing Oscar-winning U.S. actor Kevin Spacey over alleged sexual assaults asked London's High Court on Tuesday to allow them to rely on accusations by seven others, one ​dating back to the 1970s...

By Harshita Mary Varghese March 2 (Reuters) - The Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros Discovery merger will create a combined entity that would have a net debt of about $79 billion, Paramount said on Monday, ruling out any plan to divest or spinoff the cabl...

By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, March 2 (Reuters) - Amid a Gaza war marked by vast Palestinian losses, three Oscar‑nominated films spotlight human stories often eclipsed by the devastation Israel unleashed in response to the October 7,...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, March 1 (Reuters) - Supernatural thriller "Sinners" claimed the Actor Award for best movie cast on Sunday, a victory that sets up a face-off with "One Battle After Another" for the prestigious Best Picture prize at the upc...

By Elisa Anzolin MILAN, March 1 (Reuters) - Silvana Armani, the niece of the late designer, unveiled a collection of soft yet ​elegant looks for the Giorgio Armani ‌brand, in her first line conceived solely under her direction. Presented on the final d...