Top News
Packers Coaches Rave About Rookie Running Back Marshawn Lloyd; Want Him On The Field As Much As Possible
GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - As the Green Bay Packers prepare for OTAs later this month, rookie 3rd round-pick running back Marshawn Lloyd has caught the eye of the team's coaching staff who believe he can do a lot in the Packers' young offense. "I would like to get him out there as much as possible," offensive coo...
28m ago
Wausau Economic Development Committee Approves RFI for South Riverfront Land
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Economic Development Committee has approved issuing a request for interest (RFI) for land in the Riverlife area near First and Fulton Streets. Economic Development Manager Randy Fifrick says this isn't a traditional request for proposals, or RFP, that the city has often used to fill vaca...
14h ago
Rothman says UW System will Cooperate with DEI Audit
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- An audit of diversity, equity and inclusion practices at state agencies and the UW System will proceed. UW System President Jay Rothman on Tuesday told the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee that he's not clear on what exactly will be audited. "So I'm struggling with what the standards...
16h ago
Joint Finance Committee Takes a Pass on Releasing PFAs Funds
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- At the Capitol, the legislature's budget committee met on Tuesday. But the committee's Republican majority did not take up "forever chemicals" or health care funding for western Wisconsin, as requested by Governor Tony Evers. "We will not be discussing PFAS or HSHS today," ...
17h ago
Grand Rapids police chief retiring
GRAND RAPIDS, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Police Chief Melvin Pedersen has more than 40 years of service. A decade of that time has been spent with the Grand Rapids Police Department. He's now retiring. A lot has changed since the 1970s when Pedersen first started his career in Law Enforcement with styles, music and culture chan...
18h ago
Local News
Wausau Economic Development Committee Approves RFI for South Riverfront Land
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Economic Development Committee has approved issuing a request for interest (RFI) for land in the Riverlife area near First and Fulton Streets. Economic Development Manager Randy Fifrick says this isn't a traditional request for proposals, or RFP, that the city has often used to fill vaca...
14h ago
Grand Rapids police chief retiring
GRAND RAPIDS, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Police Chief Melvin Pedersen has more than 40 years of service. A decade of that time has been spent with the Grand Rapids Police Department. He's now retiring. A lot has changed since the 1970s when Pedersen first started his career in Law Enforcement with styles, music and culture chan...
18h ago
Warrant Issued for Wausau Man Facing Child Enticement Charges After He Fails to Show for Court Hearing
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man accused of trying to lure a teen for drugs and sex failed to show up for a pre-trial motion hearing on Tuesday, resulting in a warrant for his arrest. Jason Olerich didn't show for Tuesday's appearance, leading Judge Scott Corbett to cancel his $7,500 signature bond and issue a bench w...
23h ago
Antigo Teacher Advances Into Quarter Finals In Race For America's Favorite Teacher
ANTIGO, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Kelly Kohler, a special education teacher at Antigo High School, has advanced to the quarterfinals of America's Favorite Teacher, where she will have the opportunity to appear in Reader's Digest, win a trip to Hawaii, and earn $25,000. As a former student of Antigo High School, Kohler has becom...
May 07, 2024
U.S. Senate Candidate Eric Hovde Talks Regulations While Touring Athens Miltrim Farm
ATHENS, WI (WSAU) - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde made a campaign stop in central Wisconsin on Monday afternoon to tour Athens Miltrim Farm. Hovde spent time with the business owners discussing the farms' history and the impacts of regulations, foreign trade, and how the cutback of 2% on whole milk produc...
May 07, 2024
Sports
Adames Blast Lifts Brewers Over Royals
KANSAS CITY, MO (WSAU) -- Willy Adames smashed a three-run homer in the 9th inning lifting the Milwaukee Brewers over the Kansas City Royals 6-5 Tuesday night at Kaufman Stadium. William Contreras doubled and with two outs Gary Sanchez walked to set up the Adames heroics. Rhys Hoskins and Joey Ortiz also had homers in ...
5h ago
Packers Decline Eric Stokes' Fifth Year Option Following Injury Filled 2023 Season
GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers are allowing a former first-round pick to earn a new deal following the upcoming 2024 NFL season. According to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network, the Green Bay Packers will not pick up cornerback Eric Stokes' fifth-year option. If Stokes' fifth-year option had been exercised by t...
May 03, 2024
Packers Coaches Rave About Rookie Running Back Marshawn Lloyd; Want Him On The Field As Much As Possible
GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - As the Green Bay Packers prepare for OTAs later this month, rookie 3rd round-pick running back Marshawn Lloyd has caught the eye of the team's coaching staff who believe he can do a lot in the Packers' young offense. "I would like to get him out there as much as possible," offensive coo...
28m ago
Milwaukee Bucks Top 2024 NBA Draft Fits As Franchise Looks To Get Younger
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - As the Milwaukee Bucks clean out their lockers and move into their off-season workout programs, the franchise owns two top 35 picks in the upcoming 2024 NBA draft, and they will have the opportunity to rebuild around Damian Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo for years to come. According to recent ...
23h ago
Monday High School Scoreboard
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Monday's scoreboard: Medford 1 Waunakee 0 Wausau East 2 Abbotsford/Colby 0 Marathon 3 Neillsville/Granton 0 Merrill 3 Rhinelander 2 DC Everest-Wisconsin Rapids no score reported Amherst 13 Iola-Scandanavia 1 Pittsville 17 Pacelli 7 Rosholt 12 Wild Rose 3 Rib Lake 5 P...
May 07, 2024
State News
Rothman says UW System will Cooperate with DEI Audit
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- An audit of diversity, equity and inclusion practices at state agencies and the UW System will proceed. UW System President Jay Rothman on Tuesday told the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee that he's not clear on what exactly will be audited. "So I'm struggling with what the standards...
16h ago
Biden in Racine Wednesday, Harris to Milwaukee Next Week
RACINE, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- President Joe Biden returns to Wisconsin Wednesday. Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks at Gateway Technical College in Sturtevant at noon. He's expected to highlight the scaled up Microsoft data center development in Mount Pleasant, and perhaps contrast that with the underperforming Foxconn ...
17h ago
Joint Finance Committee Approves Spending $36 Million on Opioid Settlement Funds
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- The Legislature's Joint Finance Committee on Tuesday approved spending $36 million in opioid settlement funds. Committee co-chair Senator Howard Marklein says that will include money for education and prevention. "Many of us can remember the public service campaigns like just say no. This...
17h ago
Joint Finance Committee Takes a Pass on Releasing PFAs Funds
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- At the Capitol, the legislature's budget committee met on Tuesday. But the committee's Republican majority did not take up "forever chemicals" or health care funding for western Wisconsin, as requested by Governor Tony Evers. "We will not be discussing PFAS or HSHS today," ...
17h ago
Wedding Barns Sue over New Liquor License Law
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- A pair of wedding barn owners is suing the state over its new liquor license laws. The barns, represented by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, say the new law unfairly targets their establishments by requiring them to get formal liquor licenses to host weddings with alc...
18h ago
National News
Climeworks opens world's largest plant to extract CO2 from air in Iceland
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) - Climeworks has opened the world's largest operational direct air capture (DAC) plant to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, with its Mammoth plant in Iceland almost ten times larger than the current reco...
18m ago
Georgia appeals court to hear Trump's bid to disqualify Fani Willis
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump notched another win on Wednesday in his campaign to slow the criminal cases against him when a Georgia appeals court agreed to hear his bid to disqualify the district attorney prosecuting him for t...
32m ago
Biden to unveil $3.3 billion Microsoft AI investment in battleground Wisconsin
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will visit the political battleground state of Wisconsin on Wednesday to announce plans by Microsoft Corp to build a $3.3 billion high-tech data center that will create thousands of jobs, ...
2h ago
Five takeaways from Stormy Daniels' testimony at Donald Trump's trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stormy Daniels took the witness stand on Tuesday at Donald Trump's criminal trial and described in lurid detail her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with the former U.S. president. Trump has pleaded not guilty to Manh...
3h ago
Isabelle Huppert to head Venice Film Festival jury
ROME (Reuters) - Isabelle Hubbert will head the main competition jury at this year's Venice Film Festival, organisers said on Wednesday. Hubbert won the best actress award in Venice in 1988 for her performance in "Story of Women" and in 1995 for "L...
3h ago
World News
Philippine military chief accuses China of 'malign influence effort'
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' military chief accused China of a "malign influence effort" on Wednesday, after a local newspaper reported a Filipino vice admiral had made a deal with Beijing to de-escalate tensions in the South China Sea. The ...
20m ago
Tamils faced torture in Sri Lanka long after war, rights group says
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in the South Asian island nation, a human rights group ...
31m ago
Estonia summons Russian embassy chief over GPS jamming
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Estonia's foreign ministry has summoned the head of the Russian embassy in Tallinn to protest the jamming of GPS signals, the Baltic country's Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said on X on Wednesday. "Today we summoned Russian c...
31m ago
Only three days of fuel for health services in south of Gaza, says WHO
LONDON (Reuters) -There is only enough fuel to run health services in the south of Gaza for three more days, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have sought refuge in the south of Gaza from combat furt...
32m ago
Britain says it will expel Russian defence attache
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday it would expel Russia's defence attache, remove diplomatic status from some properties and limit the length of Russian diplomatic visas. Home Secretary James Cleverly said the action followed a pattern o...
2h ago
Business News
Google fights $17 billion UK lawsuit over adtech practices
LONDON (Reuters) - Google parent Alphabet has urged a London tribunal to block a mass lawsuit which accuses it of abusing its dominance in the online advertising market, in the latest case to focus on the search giant's business practices. The laws...
19m ago
ECB can cut rates and should rethink how it sets policy, Wunsch says
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank can press ahead with interest rate cuts this year but needs to rethink how it forecasts inflation and sets policy based on these projections, Belgian policymaker Pierre Wunsch said on Wednesday. The E...
30m ago
Mercedes CEO speaks against restrictions on trade with China
BERLIN (Reuters) - Mercedes-Benz Chief Executive Ola Kaellenius on Wednesday spoke against imposing restrictions on trade with China, stressing that the country remains the group's most important market. "We are closely monitoring potential trade p...
30m ago
Mercedes rejects claims it prevented unionising at US plant
BERLIN (Reuters) - German premium carmaker Mercedes-Benz on Wednesday rejected claims that it has been trying to prevent the formation of a union at its Alabama plant. The group "respects the decision of the employees to establish a trade union org...
31m ago
US wholesale inventories drop by unrevised 0.4% in March
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. wholesale inventories fell in March, confirming that inventory investment was a drag on economic growth in the first quarter. The Commerce Department's Census Bureau said on Wednesday that wholesale inventories fell 0.4%...
31m ago
Health News
Google DeepMind unveils next generation of drug discovery AI model
By Martin Coulter LONDON (Reuters) - Google Deepmind has unveiled the third major version of its "AlphaFold" artificial intelligence model, designed to help scientists design drugs and target disease more effectively. In 2020, the company made a si...
19m ago
Teva Pharm Q1 profit misses estimates, revenue risea
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries reported a smaller than expected rise in first-quarter profit citing higher impairments of tangible assets, while sales of copycat medicines and its branded drugs to treat migrai...
33m ago
Pfizer agrees to settle over 10,000 Zantac lawsuits, Bloomberg News reports
(Reuters) -Pfizer has agreed to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits about cancer risks related to the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the deal. The agreements cover cases in U.S. st...
34m ago
Vitamin Shoppe's telehealth service to provide access to weight-loss drugs
(Reuters) - Health and wellness products retailer Vitamin Shoppe said on Wednesday that subscribers to its telehealth service would have access to weight-loss medications such as Ozempic, Mounjaro and Rybelsus. Monthly medication subscription to th...
2h ago
Thai PM says cannabis to be re-listed as narcotic by end of 2024
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Wednesday that cannabis would be re-listed as a narcotic by end of 2024, in a stunning U-turn for the country two years after it became the first in the region to decriminalise its re...
3h ago
Science News
SpaceX's unit Starlink secures Indonesia operating permit
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The satellite unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, has secured a permit to operate in Indonesia, its communications minister told Reuters on Wednesday. Starlink had obtained a permit to operate as an internet service provider f...
2h ago
Russia starts developing nuclear power unit for joint lunar station with China, RIA says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has started developing a nuclear power plant for its planned joint lunar station with China, the RIA news agency cited Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, as saying on Wednesday. In March, Borisov sa...
8h ago
First crewed test flight of Boeing Starliner capsule targeted for May 17
(Reuters) - The target launch date for the long-awaited first crewed test flight of Boeing Co's new Starliner Space capsule has been pushed back another week to no earlier than Friday, May 17, in order to replace a faulty pressure valve on its boos...
15h ago
Timeline: Boeing's new Starliner set for first crewed flight to space station
(Reuters) - Two years after its initial unmanned journey to the International Space Station (ISS), Boeing's new Starliner astronaut capsule is set for its first crewed test flight on Monday night, following numerous delays. Boeing's Crew Space Tran...
May 07, 2024
Boeing's new Starliner capsule set for first crewed flight to space station
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Boeing Co's new Starliner astronaut capsule was poised for a Monday night launch of its long-delayed inaugural crewed test flight to the International Space Station, two years af...
May 06, 2024
Technology News
Legislative roadmap for AI is coming in weeks, Schumer says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday he would provide a roadmap for artificial intelligence in the coming weeks that will be translated into legislation. "In a few weeks, we'll come up with a roadmap, and......
18m ago
US official says Chinese seizure of TSMC in Taiwan would be 'absolutely devastating'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Wednesday a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and seizure of chips producer TSMC would be "absolutely devastating" to the American economy. Asked at a U.S. House hearing about the impact, R...
18m ago
Turkey's competition board to fine Meta $37.2 million in data-sharing probe
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's competition board fined Meta Platforms 1.2 billion lira ($37.20 million) on Wednesday after concluding two separate investigations on data-sharing in its Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads platforms. The board l...
31m ago
Reddit shares soar as earnings show advertising, AI licensing revenue potential
(Reuters) - Reddit shares soared 14% on Wednesday after the social media firm floored investors with strong revenue growth and improving profitability in the first earnings since its market debut. The company surprised Wall Street late on Tuesday w...
31m ago
SpaceX's unit Starlink secures Indonesia operating permit
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The satellite unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, has secured a permit to operate in Indonesia, its communications minister told Reuters on Wednesday. Starlink had obtained a permit to operate as an internet service provider f...
2h ago
Entertainment News
Russia's last Eurovision singer, now 'cancelled', still seeks to spread hope
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) - The last singer to represent Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest before it was banned, now herself ostracised at home, hopes that a new track released on the eve of this year's final will give others ...
31m ago
Isabelle Huppert to head Venice Film Festival jury
ROME (Reuters) - Isabelle Hubbert will head the main competition jury at this year's Venice Film Festival, organisers said on Wednesday. Hubbert won the best actress award in Venice in 1988 for her performance in "Story of Women" and in 1995 for "L...
3h ago
SXSW festival to launch European edition in London next year
LONDON (Reuters) - South by Southwest, the music, technology and film festival (SXSW) held annually in Austin, Texas is coming to London next year in a new European edition. The inaugural SXSW London will take place in June 2025 in the English capi...
10h ago
Factbox-How to vote for your favourite in 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...
17h ago
Security guard wounded in shooting at rapper Drake's Toronto mansion, CBC reports
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Toronto police are investigating a shooting at Canadian rapper Drake's mansion that left a security guard badly injured, CBC News reported on Tuesday, citing a source. The shooting happened around 2:10 a.m. (0610 GMT), and early ...
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