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State Of Affairs Ep. 14 Former Lt. Gov Candidate David Varnam
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -State of Affairs episode fourteen is now available, featuring former Wisconsin Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor David Varnam joining the program to discuss life after his campaign and issues facing the state. When speaking about the issue of abortion and the role it may play in this year'...
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Fed's Powell says looming election won't sway rate decisions
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated Wednesday that political considerations around the looming presidential election will not affect the central bank's interest rate decisions. When it comes to the election, "we'r...
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Stevens Point Brewery Opens New Gift Shop, Taproom
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- The Stevens Point Brewery unveiled its new taproom and gift shop on Wednesday. The $1.1 million project adds seating for up to 99 people in two bar areas and up to 36 tap lines for beer, cider, and soda. Taproom Manager Melissa Wysocki says it also fills one of the brewery's biggest tourist ...
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Mountain Bay Police Department begins operations
ROTHSCHILD, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - May 1st was the first day that Everest Metro and Rothschild Police have joined, forming the Mountain Bay Metro Police Department. It marks the end of a long process that brought them together, and now their chief says they're ready to get to work. Chief Jeremy Hunt said, "We have two ...
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Marathon County Sheriff Employee Pleads Not Guilty to False Imprisonment Charges
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A behind-the-scenes worker in the Marathon County Sheriff's Office entered a not guilty plea for a felony count of false imprisonment on Wednesday. Michael Evon is accused of making advances towards a female supervisor at another job, then refusing to let her leave the office until she kissed him. ...
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State Of Affairs Ep. 14 Former Lt. Gov Candidate David Varnam
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -State of Affairs episode fourteen is now available, featuring former Wisconsin Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor David Varnam joining the program to discuss life after his campaign and issues facing the state. When speaking about the issue of abortion and the role it may play in this year'...
3h ago
Stevens Point Brewery Opens New Gift Shop, Taproom
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- The Stevens Point Brewery unveiled its new taproom and gift shop on Wednesday. The $1.1 million project adds seating for up to 99 people in two bar areas and up to 36 tap lines for beer, cider, and soda. Taproom Manager Melissa Wysocki says it also fills one of the brewery's biggest tourist ...
16h ago
Mountain Bay Police Department begins operations
ROTHSCHILD, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - May 1st was the first day that Everest Metro and Rothschild Police have joined, forming the Mountain Bay Metro Police Department. It marks the end of a long process that brought them together, and now their chief says they're ready to get to work. Chief Jeremy Hunt said, "We have two ...
16h ago
Marathon County Sheriff Employee Pleads Not Guilty to False Imprisonment Charges
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A behind-the-scenes worker in the Marathon County Sheriff's Office entered a not guilty plea for a felony count of false imprisonment on Wednesday. Michael Evon is accused of making advances towards a female supervisor at another job, then refusing to let her leave the office until she kissed him. ...
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Kronenewetter Asks Residents To Reduce Water Usage As Well Goes Through Updates
KRONENEWETTER, WI (WSAU) - Residents of Kronenwetter are being encouraged to use less water over the next week. According to a press release from the Village of Kronenwetter, residents are asked to reduce their water usage and refrain from outdoor watering from Monday, May 5, 2024, until Friday, May 10, 2024. During th...
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Sports
Brewers Handle Rays As Murphy Serves Suspension
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- Willy Adames stayed hot and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-1 on Wednesday afternoon at American Family Field. Adames homered for the second straight day, this time nailing two long balls including a three run blast in the 7th. He had four RBIs on the day. William Contreras had t...
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Brewers Manager Pat Murphy & Others Receive Suspensions Following Tuesday Night's Brawl With Rays
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers will be without their manager and two-star pitchers for the next few games after a fight broke out between the crew and the Tampa Bay Rays. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Curt Hogg, manager Pat Murphy will be suspended for the next two games, meaning assistant...
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Tuesday High School Scoreboard
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is today's scoreboard: Baseball Wausau East 6 Merrill 5 11 innings Wisconsin Rapids 5 Marshfield 3 Stevens Point 8 Wausau West 4 Marathon 2 Auburndale 1 Stratford 3 Edgar 1 DC Everest 8 Rhinelander 0 Medford 2 Antigo 0 Abbotsford/Colby 13 Prentice 2 Abbotsford/Colby 1...
May 01, 2024
Bucks Stay Alive With Impressive win
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- With both Giannis and Dame declared out for this elimination game the Bucks kept their season alive with a 115-94 win over the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum. Khris Middleton, Bobby Portis & Patrick Beverly all had double-doubles to lead Milwaukee. Middleton had 29 points an...
May 01, 2024
Brewers End Skid With Win Over Rays
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers offense came alive in an 8-2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night at American Family Field. Willy Adames had a three run homer and drove in four. Brice Turang had three RBIs and William Contreras had one. New call-up Tyler Black got two hits in his major league debu...
May 01, 2024
State News
Police and Protesters Clash at UW Madison
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- A chaotic confrontation between protesters and police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wednesday morning. After repeated warnings that the tents were there illegally, UW Madison police and other law enforcement agencies, including the State Patrol, moved onto the Library Mall and forcibl...
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Mt Horeb School Shooting Under Investigation
MT HOREB, WI (WTAQ-WRN) - The investigation is underway into Wednesday morning's school shooter incident in Dane County. Mount Horeb Police used deadly force when they responded to a report of a person with a weapon outside the middle school. "The subject in this case never gained entry to the school building duri...
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Trump Promises Mass Deportations at Waukesha Rally
WAUKESHA, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- On a break from his porn star hush money trial in New York, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a rally in Waukesha on Wednesday. Trump promises to get tough on the southern border, and said America will "have the largest deportation in the history of our country." &...
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Man Charged After Threat to Hovde Campaign Office
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- A Dane County man is charged with sending a threatening message to the campaign office of Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde. Authorities say the message from 72 year old Joseph Quade indicated the campaign office "might blow up". Quade admitted to police he sometimes gets "...
Apr 29, 2024
Pocan Concerned that Gaza is Hurting Biden with Wisconsin Voters
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- There's concern that Israel's actions in Gaza are hurting Joe Biden in Wisconsin. "And the reason is we're not just a purple state. I mean we're about as purple as you can get when whoever wins the White House by like 20,000 votes out of the entire state. That's razor thin margins," ...
Apr 25, 2024
National News
Olympics-Giant reservoir ready for service as Paris 2024 Games loom
By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo on Thursday inaugurated a colossal storage basin that will help reduce the risks of pollution in the Seine as the Olympics approach and make the river suitable for bathing. The primary goa...
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Insurer Chubb prepares to pay $350 million in Baltimore bridge collapse, WSJ reports
(Reuters) - Chubb, the insurer of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge that collapsed in March, is preparing to make a $350 million payout to the state of Maryland, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The payment is expected to be authori...
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India's Kerala shuts schools, colleges amid sweltering heat
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Kerala state has closed all schools and colleges until Monday due to scorching temperatures, urging people in the coastal region to limit exposure to the sun and take care to prevent wildfires. With most parts of India...
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Hailstorm ravages Chablis vineyards in French region of Burgundy
PARIS (Reuters) - A violent hailstorm ravaged vineyards on Wednesday in Chablis in the French region of Burgundy, with hailstones the size of ping pong balls slicing off leaves and damaging vines, winemakers said on Thursday. The storm that struck ...
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Trump hush-money trial judge to weigh more fines for defying gag order
By Jack Queen, Jody Godoy and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York prosecutors on Thursday will ask the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial to impose more fines on the former U.S. president for violating a gag order tha...
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World News
European court backs Italy in Greek statue dispute with Getty Museum
ROME (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled in favour of Italy's long-standing demand that the Getty Villa Museum in the United States return an ancient Greek statue which Rome claims was smuggled out of the country...
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Convicted leader of Greek far-right Golden Dawn party released on parole
ATHENS (Reuters) - The convicted leader and founder of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party, Nikos Mihaloliakos, has been released from prison on parole, a Greek police source and state television ERT said on Thursday. Mihaloliakos, 66, and other m...
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Xi's trip to Europe may lay bare West's divisions over China strategy
By Laurie Chen and Michel Rose BEIJING/PARIS (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping heads to Europe for the first time in five years next week in a visit that may lay bare European divisions over trade with Beijing and how the continent positions...
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India deports Myanmar refugees who fled 2021 coup
By Tora Agarwala GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - India on Thursday deported the first group of Myanmar refugees who had sought shelter after a 2021 military coup, a top state minister said, following weeks of efforts that were hampered by fighting betw...
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Residents fear for safety as Indonesia's Mount Ruang volcano erupts
TAGULANDANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Antelmus Paulus, 67, is in despair after the eruption on Tuesday of Indonesia's Ruang volcano rendered his home on Tagulandang island uninhabitable and prompted authorities to evacuate more than 12,000 people. Ant...
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Business News
Argentina budget cuts hitting nuclear energy ambitions, atomic body says
By Candelaria Grimberg and Horacio Soria BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's nuclear energy ambitions are coming under pressure from a tough austerity package and cost-cutting drive by libertarian President Javier Milei, the head of the National A...
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US trade deficit narrows slightly in March
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit narrowed slightly in March as a decline in imports was tempered somewhat by a plunge in exports. The trade deficit contracted 0.1% to $69.4 billion, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis...
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Quanta Services lifts annual forecasts on strong power demand
(Reuters) - Quanta Services raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts on Thursday, encouraged by strong demand for its construction and engineering services from the renewable energy and electric power industries. With companies increasingly t...
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NYSE-parent ICE's profit rises on record surge in energy market volatility
(Reuters) -Intercontinental Exchange reported a rise in adjusted profit for the first quarter on Thursday as volumes hit a record on surge in energy markets trading. The conflict in the Middle East has resulted in a reshaping of the global commodities ...
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WestRock beats quarterly profit estimates on rising prices
(Reuters) - WestRock beat quarterly profit expectations on Thursday, helped by higher prices, easing input costs and a recovery in demand for its paper packaging products, sending its shares up 6% premarket. The company, which is being acquired by ...
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Health News
Novo Nordisk: Wegovy, Ozempic prices in US fell in Q1
LONDON (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk has seen the price of its hugely popular weight-loss drug Wegovy and diabetes drug Ozempic fall in the United States as volumes and competition have increased, a senior executive said on Thursday. Wegovy prices in th...
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Cardinal Health lifts 2024 profit view on demand for costly specialty drugs
(Reuters) - Cardinal Health raised its annual profit forecast on Thursday, betting on strength in its pharmaceutical unit selling costly specialty drugs used to treat complex conditions such as cancer. Drug distributors, including rival Cencora, ha...
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Baxter raises annual profit forecast on strong demand for medical devices
(Reuters) - Medical device maker Baxter International raised its annual profit forecast and beat quarterly estimates on Thursday, banking on strong demand for its infusion pumps and dialysis products. Investor expectations around the performance of...
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Zimmer Biomet beats Q1 profit estimates on robust demand for knee, hip devices
(Reuters) - Medtech firm Zimmer Biomet Holdings beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Thursday, on the back of robust demand for its devices that are used in knee and hip reconstruction procedures. Zimmer's results extend a strong ...
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Zoetis beats profit estimates on strong demand for pet products
(Reuters) - Animal healthcare company Zoetis surpassed analysts' expectations for first-quarter profit on Thursday, helped by strong demand for its medicines and vaccines for pets. Zoetis deals with vaccines, medicines and diagnostic solutions for ...
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Science News
Scientists explore how to improve crop yields - on Mars
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - For future human bases or colonies on Mars to be self-sustaining, a reliable source of home-grown food will be a must. It simply would be too costly and risky to rely upon rocket deliveries to meet the food needs of colon...
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Explainer-The Eta Aquariid meteor shower: When is it and what to expect?
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Meteors will be streaking across the sky as Earth passes through dusty debris in space left by Halley's Comet in the annual Eta Aquariid meteor shower, with peak activity in early May. Here is an explanation of this meteo...
May 01, 2024
T. rex is at the center of a debate over dinosaur intelligence
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Surmising even the physical appearance of a dinosaur - or any extinct animal - based on its fossils is a tricky proposition, with so many uncertainties involved. Assessing a dinosaur's intelligence, considering...
Apr 30, 2024
What did people eat before agriculture? New study offers insight
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The advent of agriculture roughly 11,500 years ago in the Middle East was a milestone for humankind - a revolution in diet and lifestyle that moved beyond the way hunter-gatherers had existed since Homo sapiens...
Apr 29, 2024
Argentine scientists find speedy 90-million-year-old herbivore dinosaur
By Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Paleontologists from Argentina announced the discovery of a new medium-sized herbivorous dinosaur, which was a fast runner and lived about 90 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period in present da...
Apr 25, 2024
Technology News
Indian IT firm Coforge's Q4 revenue just short of estimates, contract wins double
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Indian IT company Coforge reported a marginally smaller-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue on Thursday amid overall tepid tech spending from clients. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT India's $254 billion IT sector has been struggling in r...
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Israeli cyber startup Apex gets initial investment from OpenAI's Altman
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli cyber security start-up Apex, which focuses on protecting the rapid use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, said on Thursday it received an undisclosed investment from OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Alt...
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Freshworks plunges after cutting annual revenue forecast, CEO transition
(Reuters) - Freshworks' shares plunged nearly 30% in premarket trading on Thursday after the CRM software maker cut its full-year revenue forecast and named a new CEO. The company now expects annual revenue between $695 million and $705 million, co...
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Ametek beats profit estimates on strong demand from aerospace, defense sectors
(Reuters) - Industrial technology solutions provider Ametek beat estimates for first-quarter profit on Thursday, as it benefited from a boom in the aerospace and defense sectors. Robust air travel demand and simmering geopolitical tensions have dri...
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Nigeria court adjourns Binance and execs trial to May 17
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian court on Thursday adjourned a money laundering trial against cryptocurrency exchange Binance and two of its executives to May 17 after a lawyer for the exchange said he had not been served with document...
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Entertainment News
Jewish community anxious ahead of Sweden Eurovision anti-Israel protests
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - Planned protests against Israel taking part in this year's Eurovision Song Contest have made members of the Jewish community in Swedish host city Malmo anxious, a representative of the community ...
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Universal Music Group reaches new licensing agreement with TikTok
By Dawn Chmielewski and David Shepardson (Reuters) - Universal Music Group and TikTok said on Thursday that they had reached a new licensing agreement that will restore the label's songs and artists to the social media platform. TikTok began removi...
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Harvey Weinstein expected in New York court after rape conviction overturned
By Brendan Pierson and Jack Queen (Reuters) - Harvey Weinstein is due to appear in state court in Manhattan on Wednesday for the first time since New York's highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction last week. The hearing before Judge Curtis...
May 01, 2024
Factbox-All you need to know about Eurovision 2024
By Isabelle Yr Carlsson MALMÖ, Sweden (Reuters) - The world's biggest live music event, Eurovision Song Contest, will take place in Sweden in the second week of May with 37 participating countries. Roughly 100,000 visitors from 89 countries are exp...
Apr 30, 2024
'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Stereophonic' tie for most 2024 Tony nominations
(Reuters) - Alicia Keys' musical "Hell's Kitchen" and 1970's rock inspired "Stereophonic" led the nominations for the 2024 Tony awards, American theater's highest honors, followed by "The Outsiders," "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club" and "Appropriate."...
Apr 30, 2024