MERRILL, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A wanted man in Central Wisconsin was caught Wednesday night. The Merrill Police Department says Ty Hanson was safely captured following a search warrant. Authorities say he has several pending charges, including First Degree Assault of a Child, Child Neglect, Felony Bail Jumping, and more. Po...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man is facing federal drug and gun charges after an indictment handed down on Wednesday. Johntay Johnson is accused of using his home to store, manufacture, and deliver illegal drugs including cocaine. Investigators say he distributed the drug on at least nine occasions in 2024. He's also...

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted 56-42 to confirm former Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, tasked with rolling back climate rules from former President Joe Biden ...

DODGE COUNTY, WI (WSAU) - The Dodge County Sheriff's Department took a suspected illegal migrant into custody on Sunday following a deadly drunk driving crash that injured six people and killed one. According to department sources who spoke to radio host Dan O'Donnell, the migrant has been identified as 32-year-old Hec...

NEILLSVILLE, WI (WSAU) -- The man accused of killing his children and then stabbing his wife before turning the knife on himself will go to trial for two counts of homicide and a third count for attempted homicide. Victor Manuel Gomez Acosta waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Wednesday before changing his ple...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A wanted man in Central Wisconsin was caught Wednesday night. The Merrill Police Department says Ty Hanson was safely captured following a search warrant. Authorities say he has several pending charges, including First Degree Assault of a Child, Child Neglect, Felony Bail Jumping, and more. Po...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man is facing federal drug and gun charges after an indictment handed down on Wednesday. Johntay Johnson is accused of using his home to store, manufacture, and deliver illegal drugs including cocaine. Investigators say he distributed the drug on at least nine occasions in 2024. He's also...

DODGE COUNTY, WI (WSAU) - The Dodge County Sheriff's Department took a suspected illegal migrant into custody on Sunday following a deadly drunk driving crash that injured six people and killed one. According to department sources who spoke to radio host Dan O'Donnell, the migrant has been identified as 32-year-old Hec...

NEILLSVILLE, WI (WSAU) -- The man accused of killing his children and then stabbing his wife before turning the knife on himself will go to trial for two counts of homicide and a third count for attempted homicide. Victor Manuel Gomez Acosta waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Wednesday before changing his ple...

TOWN OF GRAFTON, WI (WSAU) -- More than 70 cats have been taken from a Milwaukee-area home deemed unsafe for people or animals. It all started with a well-being check on a home that had no running water, gas, or heat. Officers determined that the person could not care for themselves or the animals, and called in the Wi...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Bucks have announced new start dates for a handful of upcoming games. The Bucks game in New Orleans, which was postponed by snow last week, will now be on April 6th. Additionally, the Bucks home game against the Pelicans originally scheduled for April 9th will now be played on the ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is tonight's schedule: Boys Hockey Shawano at Medford Stevens Point at DC Everest Rhinelander at Lakeland Wausau West at Eau Claire North Pacelli at Baraboo/Portage Marshfield at Wisconsin Rapids Boys Basketball Bowler at Northland Lutheran Lakeland at Wausau West Tri-County at Wausau Newman W...

COLLEGE PARK, MD (WSAU) -- The unranked Maryland Terrapins upset the Wisconsin Badgers 76-68 on Wednesday night. The Terps hit seven three pointers in the second half and had five players score in double figures. John Tonje led the Badgers with 23 points and six rebounds. John Blackwell and Steven Crowl had 10 apiece w...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Bucks trade rumors are continuing to heat up as a new report shows they may be the most motivated team to make a deal during the league's upcoming trade deadline. According to NBA Insider Marc Stein, the Bucks are "as determined as any team on the NBA map" to make a trade,...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Tuesday's scoreboard: Boys Hockey Lakeland 2 Kingsford Mich 2 Stevens Point 5 Neenah/Menasha/Hortonville 4 Antigo 9 Waupaca 6 Tomahawk 6 Northland Pines 0 Wisconsin Rapids 5 Pacelli 0 Mosinee-Medford no score reported Girls Hockey CW Storm 7 Wisc Valley Union 1 Boys Baske...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Wisconsin is joining a coalition of states in suing to "immediately stop" an order from President Donald Trump pausing federal aid and grants to programs around the country. The announcement from Governor Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul, both Democrats, came minutes after ...

WASHINGTON (WTAQ-WLUK) -- President Donald Trump is poised to sign the Laken Riley Act into law next week in what will be the first legislative victory of his second term in office. The bill is heading to the White House after it was approved by the Senate and House with bipartisan support. The vote was 263 to 156 in t...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- The average house in Wisconsin sold for more than $300,000 in December, while overall sales increased 9.2% compared to a year earlier. The Wisconsin Realtors Association released its monthly report on Thursday. It found a growth in sales that was the largest since May. The median price rose to $305,000, ...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Tony Evers laid out his plans for this year at the Capitol Wednesday night. In his State of the State Address, Evers said he wants to enact what he calls common sense gun legislation in Wisconsin, and that wouldn't interfere with Wisconsin's culture of hunting....

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- Gov. Tony Evers and state Democrats have set their sights on reducing gun violence in Wisconsin. Part of that push is proposing sweeping gun safety reform, like a red flag law and more background checks. "We've been doing thoughts and prayers for a long time," said Evers during a visit to Green...

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said it had submitted details of its plan to cut carbon emissions to the United Nations climate body on Thursday, detailing how it would hit the ambitious targets announced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer last year. Starmer rai...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's nominee for FBI director, will face probing questions from U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Thursday about his credentials and history of making false claims ...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's choice to be Director of National Intelligence, will face tough questioning on Russia, Syria and surveillance at what is expected to be c...

By Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr, President Donald Trump's pick to run the top U.S. health agency, heads to the Senate Health committee on Thursday after being grilled by Democrats on a different committee over his past comments ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean state-owned miner Codelco said on Thursday it would use grinding balls made from recycled material in its flagship El Teniente mine, allowing it to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT The move, which inv...

By Simon Lewis and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Donald Trump's secretary of state, he'll find a region reeling from the new administration's shock-and-awe...

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's military deportation flight to Guatemala on Monday likely cost at least $4,675 per migrant, according to data provided by U.S. and Guatemalan officials. That is more than five tim...

OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's eurosceptic Centre Party will resign from the government on Thursday due to a disagreement with coalition partner Labour over the adoption of EU energy policies, public broadcaster NRK and daily VG reported, citing anonymous so...

PARIS (Reuters) - Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani will attend a conference in Paris on Feb. 13 aimed at coordinating regional and international action in support of his country's transitional process, a document sent to invitees sho...

By Jonathan Landay and Aram Roston WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small U.S. security firm is hiring nearly 100 U.S. special forces veterans to help run a checkpoint in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas truce, according to a company spokesperson and a recruit...

(Reuters) - Tesla expects capital expenditure to exceed $11 billion this year and in each of the following two fiscal years, the electric automaker said in a filing on Thursday. The company had said in October it expected spending to be between $8 ...

(Reuters) - U.S. budget carrier Southwest Airlines' fourth-quarter profit surpassed Wall Street estimates on Thursday, helped by robust travel demand and improved airfares. The airline also forecast better-than-expected unit revenue (RASM), a proxy...

(Reuters) -Caterpillar reported a decline in fourth-quarter profit on Thursday, as dealers scaled back equipment restocking due to weak demand, driven by high borrowing costs and persistent inflation. Contractors are adopting a wait-and-see approach to...

(Reuters) -Investment bank Lazard reported a rise in fourth-quarter profit on Thursday, helped by a strong performance in its advisory business. Interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve and expectations of a friendlier regulatory environment for deals...

(Reuters) - Refiner Valero Energy beat fourth-quarter profit estimates on Thursday. The San Antonio, Texas-based refiner reported an adjusted net income of 64 cents per share for the three months ended Dec. 31, beating analysts' average estimate of...

(Reuters) - Merck plans to stop a late-stage study testing its drug to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) ahead of time based on strong efficacy shown in previous studies, the drugmaker said on Thursday. The therapy, branded Winrevair, is ...

(Reuters) - Thermo Fisher Scientific on Thursday beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter profit and revenue, helped by improved demand for its products and services used in developing therapies. Contract drug manufacturers witnessed reduced s...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the capital Kampala, the health ministry said on Thursday. (Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by Bate Felix)

By Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr, President Donald Trump's pick to run the top U.S. health agency, heads to the Senate Health committee on Thursday after being grilled by Democrats on a different committee over his past comments ...

(Reuters) -Cigna forecast annual profit below Wall Street expectations on Thursday and missed estimates for the fourth quarter, hurt by higher medical costs for a type of employer-sponsored healthcare plan. Shares of the company fell 6% to $284.99 befo...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such space rocks ...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said Tuesday night he had asked Elon Musk's SpaceX to return two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station, who were already scheduled to fly back on a SpaceX capsule in Marc...

By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) - India successfully launched into orbit on Wednesday a new navigation satellite aboard a home-grown rocket, strengthening its independent satellite positioning system at a time when space-based technol...

(Reuters) - About 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 became the first privately funded airplane to break the sound barrier during a test flight on Tuesday. "She was real happy supers...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Scientists in China have manipulated embryonic stem cells to create laboratory mice with two male parents that managed to live to adulthood - though with significant developmental abnormalities - in what they are calling ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Check Point Software Technologies beat fourth-quarter profit expectations on Thursday with revenue exceeding $2.5 billion in 2024. The Israeli-based network security company reported $2.70 per diluted share excluding one-off i...

(Reuters) - Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo, on Thursday announced a 862 million euro ($896.9 million) order from the European Space Agency for the development of the Argonaut lunar lander. The lander, designed for ...

By Munsif Vengattil and Nandan Mandayam (Reuters) - India's IT minister has praised Chinese startup DeepSeek for shaking up the sector with its low-cost AI assistant, likening its frugal approach to his government's efforts to build a localized AI ...

(Reuters) -Britain's Sage Group on Thursday maintained its full-year forecasts after the software firm posted a 10% growth in underlying revenue for the first quarter, buoyed by higher demand, especially in North America, its fastest growing region. Sa...

LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - Microsoft shares fell in Europe on Thursday after it issued a downbeat forecast for its cloud business, while Facebook parent Meta shares rose after beating expectations, as investors scrutinised the companies' spending on ...

By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - Renee Zellweger said her character Bridget Jones "feels like an old friend" as she and the cast of "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy" attended the film's world premiere in London on Wednesday. Over two decades afte...

By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) - Netflix is expanding its presence in the toy business, striking its first master licensing deal with the company behind the popular Squishmallows plush toys to develop a product line inspired by its...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A white house in a quiet corner of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has been attracting a stream of visitors in recent weeks. They are eager to see the family home portrayed in the Academy Awards nominee film "I'm Stil...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Thirty years on from its creation, members of the Irish boy band Boyzone reunite to recount their journey to fame in a new documentary series. The three-part "Boyzone: No Matter What" tracks the group's beginning...

By Isabel Teles and Janaina Quinet SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The role of a mother who rebuilds her life after her husband goes missing during Brazil's military regime in the 1970s, portrayed in "I'm Still Here," earned actor Fernanda Torres her first A...