STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A Stevens Point man was sentenced to 20 years in prison and 15 years of extended supervision after pleading guilty to sexual assault and child pornography charges. Stephen Decker was sentenced on April 1 by Portage County Circuit Court Judge Louis Molepske after pleading guilty to multip...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Brewers have owned the late innings in their 5-1 start to the new season. A 6-run rally in the 8th powered the Crew past the Tampa Rays, 8-2 on Wednesday afternoon. Christian Yelich sparked the rally with a go-ahead two run single. Garrett Mitchell tacked on a two-run double. David Hamilton a...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A 37-year-old Antigo man has been arrested in connection with a fatal crash that killed two people last September in the Town of Wausau. Adam H. Borchardt was taken into custody on Tuesday, according to WAOW TV, and is being held in the Marathon County Jail on two counts of homicide by intoxica...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- A 59-year-old man has been arrested after officers found multiple pieces of child pornography in his possession on Wednesday. According to a press release from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, officers received a tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force about the potential acti...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Two local lawmakers will run for re-election this fall. Brent Jacobson and Pat Snyder have announced that they will run for another term in the state Assembly. In a press release, Jacobson said, "I am proud of the great work I was able to be a part of this past session both within the Republic...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A Stevens Point man was sentenced to 20 years in prison and 15 years of extended supervision after pleading guilty to sexual assault and child pornography charges. Stephen Decker was sentenced on April 1 by Portage County Circuit Court Judge Louis Molepske after pleading guilty to multip...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A 37-year-old Antigo man has been arrested in connection with a fatal crash that killed two people last September in the Town of Wausau. Adam H. Borchardt was taken into custody on Tuesday, according to WAOW TV, and is being held in the Marathon County Jail on two counts of homicide by intoxica...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- A 59-year-old man has been arrested after officers found multiple pieces of child pornography in his possession on Wednesday. According to a press release from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, officers received a tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force about the potential acti...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Two local lawmakers will run for re-election this fall. Brent Jacobson and Pat Snyder have announced that they will run for another term in the state Assembly. In a press release, Jacobson said, "I am proud of the great work I was able to be a part of this past session both within the Republic...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -- Katelyn Nardi pleaded not guilty to first-degree reckless homicide and neglecting a child at a preliminary hearing in Lincoln County court. The charges stem from the drowning of Nardi's 5-year-old daughter in a bathtub at a Merrill residence. Merrill police and fire department ambulance crews...

HOUSTON, TX (WSAU) - The Bucks were bested on the road. Milwaukee lost 119-113 to the Houston Rockets. Ousmane Dieng led the Bucks with 36 points in the setback. Cormac Ryan added 25 points off the bench, while Pete Nance finished with 23 points. The Bucks will return home Friday to face off with the Boston Celtics.

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Brewers have owned the late innings in their 5-1 start to the new season. A 6-run rally in the 8th powered the Crew past the Tampa Rays, 8-2 on Wednesday afternoon. Christian Yelich sparked the rally with a go-ahead two run single. Garrett Mitchell tacked on a two-run double. David Hamilton a...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Bucks ended their four-game losing streak. Milwaukee beat the Dallas Mavericks 123-99 at home. Ryan Rollins posted 24 points, seven rebounds and nine assists in the win and Kyle Kuzma added 20 points of his own. The Bucks will be on the road to play the Houston Rockets tonight at 6:30pm on WS...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - One night after their first loss of the season, the Brewers bounced back with a 6-2 win on Tuesday. Trailing 2-0, the Brewers got two RBI from Brice Turang and home runs from Gary Sanches and Jake Bauers. Rays starter Shane McClanahan was making his first major league start since 2023. He lasted ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Brewers have lost for the first time this season, falling 3-2 to the Tampa Bay Rays. Nick Fortes doubled in the winning run in the 9th off Trevor Meginn to bring in the winning run. The Brewers had a baserunner in the bottom of the 9th, but failed to get a game-tying hit. William Contrares ga...

MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Governor Tony Evers took action on a bill Friday that addresses the crime of grooming a child for sexual activity. Evers signed Assembly Bill 677, now known as the 2025 Wisconsin Act 88, into law. The bill, introduced in November 2025, received bipartisan support. The new law establishes the ...

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...

WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday ​that he would ‌soon sign an order to pay all employees at the Department of ‌Homeland ​Security. "I will ⁠soon sign an ⁠order to pay ALL of the incredible employees at the De...

WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit widened in February as a rebound in imports offset strong growth in exports, which increased to a record high, potentially keeping trade on track to subtract from economic growth in the first quart...

AMSTERDAM, April 2 (Reuters) - A 2,500-year-old golden helmet and two other ancient Romanian treasures stolen from a museum in the Netherlands have been recovered with the help of information ​from the suspected thieves, Dutch prosecutors said on Thurs...

By Purvi Agarwal, Rashika Singh and Johann M Cherian April 1 (Reuters) - U.S. defense stocks have declined even as the Iran war drags on, indicating that the typical "buy-on-conflict" trade had largely peaked in the weeks before in anticipation of toug...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - New applications for U.S. unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week amid low layoffs, suggesting labor market conditions remained calm in March, though economists warned that a prolonged war in ...

WARSAW, April 2 (Reuters) - Polish prosecutors have opened an investigation into a bomb ​attack that wounded ‌a Polish soldier who was part of a U.N. peacekeeping patrol in Lebanon, the District ‌Prosecutor's ​Office in Warsaw ⁠said on Thursday. The ⁠M...

BUENOS AIRES, April 2 (Reuters) - Argentina's government declared Iran's charge d'affaires, Mohsen ​Tehrani, "persona non grata" and ‌expelled him from the country, Argentina's Foreign Minister said in a statement on Thursday. The ‌measure ​orders Tehr...

WARSAW, April 2 (Reuters) - Three men will go on trial in Poland over a series of arson attacks in Warsaw and the Baltic States that officials say were ​part of a Russian-orchestrated sabotage campaign, Polish prosecutors said ‌on Thursday. Poland has ...

MOSCOW, April 2 (Reuters) - Russia will ask the United States and Israel ​to ensure a ‌ceasefire while it evacuates more Russian staff from the Bushehr nuclear power plant in ‌Iran, ​RIA news agency ⁠reported on Thursday. "The ⁠travel routes will be co...

April 2 (Reuters) - Sudan has appointed General Yassir al-Atta, a member of the country's Sovereign Council ​and assistant to the ‌commander-in-chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chief of staff of the country's Armed Forces, a military spokesman told Reuter...

By Michael S. Derby April 2 (Reuters) - Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan on Thursday laid out paths and options for the U.S. central bank to reduce the size of its balance sheet, in remarks that noted the current system works well and offer...

April 2 (Reuters) - Starbucks will move to weekly pay for all U.S. store workers and roll out a program that adds bonuses and expands ​tips, it said on Thursday, as concerns persist ‌over its stalled talks with the union representing some U.S. baristas...

April 2 (Reuters) - Russia's Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, one of country's largest export gateways, lost at least 40% of its storage facilities in Ukrainian drone attacks last month, U.S. commercial satellite ​images seen by Reuters showed on Thursday....

April 2 (Reuters) - McDonald's said on Thursday it was introducing menu items priced at $3 or less and offering a $4 ​breakfast meal deal in the ‌U.S., as restaurants aim to attract price-conscious diners worn down by economic uncertainties. Here are s...

WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit widened in February as a rebound in imports offset strong growth in exports, which increased to a record high, potentially keeping trade on track to subtract from economic growth in the first quart...

April 2 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly's newly approved weight-loss pill is expected to generate billions in sales as soon as this year, with analysts betting it will quickly narrow Novo Nordisk's ​head start in the oral market. Brokerages estimate 2026 sales ‌...

April 2 (Reuters) - AstraZeneca said on Thursday that a combination treatment with its cancer drug Imfinzi showed significant improvement in how long patients with a ​common liver cancer lived before their disease worsened, ‌in a late-stage trial. Here...

By Sneha S K April 2 (Reuters) - Immunovant said on Thursday that its therapy failed to reduce eye bulging when tested in patients with ​moderate-to-severe thyroid eye disease in two late-stage ‌studies. Shares of the company were down 4.8% at $23.89. ...

BEIJING, April 2 (Reuters) - The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture ​has reported outbreaks ‌of foot-and-mouth disease in two herds of cattle in its ‌northwestern ​province ⁠of Gansu and ⁠the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. (Reporting by Daphne Zhang ...

April 1 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is set to announce tariffs as soon as Thursday ​on drugmakers that have ‌not struck deals guaranteeing low prices in the U.S., Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the ‌plan. The...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, April 2 (Reuters) - NASA sent four astronauts on the world's first crewed lunar mission in half a century on Wednesday, in preparation for a first-ever manned landing on the moon's South Pole in 2028, as a space race betwee...

April 1 (Reuters) - Four astronauts blasted off from Florida on Wednesday on NASA's Artemis II mission, a 10-day trip around the moon that would be the farthest humans have ever traveled and a major step toward returning people to ​the lunar surface th...

April 1 (Reuters) - All three NASA astronauts on the Artemis II lunar mission are veterans of Earth-orbit science expeditions to the International Space Station, while the lone Canadian joining them on ​a voyage around the moon and back is a spacefligh...

By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, ​April ‌1 (Reuters) - Four astronauts blasted off ‌from ​Florida ⁠on Wednesday ⁠on NASA's Artemis II mission, a ​high‑stakes 10-day ⁠trip ⁠around the ​moon that ​marks the United ‌States' boldest step yet ⁠towa...

By Akash Sriram and Joey Roulette April 1 (Reuters) - NASA's Artemis II mission is shaping up to be more than just the next step in returning humans to the moon - it is a key test of whether the agency's traditional contractor-built systems can remain ...

BEIJING, April 2 (Reuters) - China's central bank has expanded its digital yuan programme by adding a dozen additional banks as operators, confirming ​a Reuters report last month. The 12 new ‌banks allowed to handle the digital yuan include China CITIC...

By Lefteris Papadimas and Renee Maltezou ATHENS, April 2 (Reuters) - Greek mother Georgia Efstathiou has tried everything to loosen the grip that social media has on her 14-year-old son: heart-to-heart talks; internet-free time; confiscating his phone....

PARIS, April 2 (Reuters) - French Finance ​Minister ‌Roland Lescure said on Thursday ‌his ​government ⁠expects to ⁠announce in the coming weeks ​new measures ⁠to ⁠encourage setting ​up data ​centres in the ‌country. He added investors ⁠in Japan are loo...

BEIJING, April 2 (Reuters) - The Chinese government supports companies ​with transnational ‌operations and technology cooperation deals according to needs and the ‌law, ​commerce ⁠ministry spokesperson He ⁠Yadong said on Thursday. He's remarks were in ...

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, April 2 (Reuters) - People who show violent extremist tendencies on ChatGPT will be directed to human and chatbot‑based deradicalisation support through a new tool in development in New Zealand, the people behind it said. The init...

By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, April 2 (Reuters) - After losing its bid for Warner Bros Discovery's rich trove of characters and stories, Netflix is forging ahead with the challenging work of building culture-defining franchises on ...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, April 1 (Reuters) - American rapper and songwriter Megan Thee Stallion shared an update with fans on Instagram on Wednesday after being hospitalized the night before, saying she fell ​ill during her performance in the ...

By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, March 31 (Reuters) - Icelandic-Chinese jazz singer-songwriter Laufey says her mission is simple: get young people to fall in love with jazz. "It's literally all I care ​about as an artist - having people...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, March 31 (Reuters) - American actor Jon Hamm said Season 2 of the Apple TV+ dark comedy "Your Friends and Neighbors" will focus on the consequences ​facing his character after beginning a life of ‌crime in Season 1. "S...

PARIS, March 30 (Reuters) - Canadian singer Celine Dion announced on Monday, her birthday, that she will return to the stage this fall with 10 concerts scheduled in Paris, ​spread out over September and October. The much‑anticipated announcement follow...