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One Injured in Stevens Point Motorcycle Crash
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A 44-year-old man was airlifted to a hospital after crashing his motorcycle in Stevens Point on Thursday. Stevens Point Police Department officers and Stevens Point Fire Department crews responded to the area of Fremont Street and Jefferson Street around 5:30 PM. They found the man, who ...
33m ago

New Transitional Housing Program in Wausau
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -- A new transitional housing program in Wausau is helping single mothers rebuild their lives after homelessness or domestic violence. Ruth's Home is an extension of the Hager House, offering mothers a more hands-off and realistic living experience as they prepare for independence. Hagar House E...
18h ago

Packers Running Back Josh Jacobs Named 74th Best Player On 2026 NFL Top 100 List
GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers have their first player on the 2026 NFL Top 100 list. During Thursday morning's announcement, running back Josh Jacobs was ranked 74th in the league after rushing for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns for the Packers last season. Jacobs finished 33rd on the list for the 2024-2025 ...
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MRI Reveals New Brandon Woodruff Injury, No Timetable Provided For Him To Return To Rotation
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers will be without one of their top pitchers for an extended period of time. According to the team, an MRI revealed new damage to Brandon Woodruff's anterior capsule, which will be surgically corrected after the 2023 season. The Brewers intended to refer Woodruff to surgeon Dr....
Jul 09, 2026

Waukesha Co. Executive & Former Republican Party of Wisconsin Chairman Paul Farrow, 61, Passes Away From Cancer
WAUKESHA, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin and Waukesha County have lost a long-time political executive and leader. According to WISN, Waukesha County Executive Paul Farrow, 61, has passed away after a years-long fight with Stage 4 mucinous adenocarcinoma, a rare and incurable kind of stomach cancer thought to have begun in the ...
Jul 08, 2026
Sports
Swimming-Olympic champion McKeown to miss Pan Pacs, Commonwealth Games due to illness
July 10 (Reuters) - Kaylee McKeown has withdrawn from this year's Pan Pacific Championships and Commonwealth Games due to medical issues, saying she has struggled with fatigue, shortness of breath and a loss of appetite for several months. The 24-yea...
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MLB roundup: Framber Valdez fans 9 as Tigers win 5th straight
Framber Valdez threw seven innings of one-run ball to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 4-1 win over the visiting Athletics on Thursday night. Valdez (5-6) retired the first 11 hitters he faced and allowed just three hits, struck out nine and issued no wal...
5h ago
Don Mattingly open to becoming Phillies' full-time manager
Philadelphia Phillies interim manager Don Mattingly made it clear Thursday that he's open to staying on beyond this season. Talking to reporters after ESPN reported his interest on Wednesday, Mattingly confirmed the possibility. "I like doing it," ...
9h ago
Report: Two groups emerge as favorites in Seahawks' sale process
One group from the Boston Celtics and another from the San Francisco 49ers are the leading candidates to buy the reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, Front Office Sports reported on Thursday. Current Celtics minority owner Aditya Mittal and ...
10h ago
Mets' Mark Vientos fractures hand on HBP, likely IL-bound
Amid a tough season for him and the New York Mets, Mark Vientos is expected to be placed on the injured list after fracturing a bone in his right hand on a hit by pitch Thursday. In a 7-3 home win over the Kansas City Royals, Vientos was struck on t...
11h ago
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One Injured in Stevens Point Motorcycle Crash
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A 44-year-old man was airlifted to a hospital after crashing his motorcycle in Stevens Point on Thursday. Stevens Point Police Department officers and Stevens Point Fire Department crews responded to the area of Fremont Street and Jefferson Street around 5:30 PM. They found the man, who ...
33m ago

New Transitional Housing Program in Wausau
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -- A new transitional housing program in Wausau is helping single mothers rebuild their lives after homelessness or domestic violence. Ruth's Home is an extension of the Hager House, offering mothers a more hands-off and realistic living experience as they prepare for independence. Hagar House E...
18h ago

Wednesday's Concert on the Square Moved Indoors
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- For a second time in three weeks, Concerts on the Square are heading indoors. Tonight's performance with Johnny and the MoTones has been moved to the Rothschild Pavilion due to the threat of rain, according to a press release from Wausau Events. "Whenever weather may impact the event experienc...
Jul 08, 2026

Osman Bound Over for Trial for Homicide, Hiding a Corpse
WAUPACA, WI (WSAU) -- A 31-year-old woman has been bound over for trial in connection with the death of Jon "Jake" Morgan. Desiree Osman of Antigo is accused of providing the drugs that led the 23-year-old to overdose back in 2020. Police say she hid his body, which led to an extensive search effort involving...
Jul 07, 2026

Slater Sentenced for Firearms Charges Related to 2023 Shooting Outside Wausau Bar
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man will serve prison time for firearms-related charges in connection with a 2023 shooting incident near the M and R Station. Joseph Slater will serve five years in prison and five years on extended supervision as part of a plea deal announced on Monday. The sentence comes after the 45-yea...
Jul 07, 2026
State News

Waukesha Co. Executive & Former Republican Party of Wisconsin Chairman Paul Farrow, 61, Passes Away From Cancer
WAUKESHA, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin and Waukesha County have lost a long-time political executive and leader. According to WISN, Waukesha County Executive Paul Farrow, 61, has passed away after a years-long fight with Stage 4 mucinous adenocarcinoma, a rare and incurable kind of stomach cancer thought to have begun in the ...
Jul 08, 2026

Former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan Found Guilty on Obstruction Charge, Will Receive No Prison Time
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - On Wednesday, a sentence was handed down in the case involving former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan. According to Fox News' Bill Melugin, Eastern District of Wisconsin Federal Judge Lynn Adelman rejected the prosecution's recommendation for a 15- to 21-month prison sentence, instead fining ...
Jul 08, 2026

Gov. Evers, WisDOT Announce Over $180 Million to Improve Local Roads Statewide
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - To maintain, repair, and improve local roads and connecting highways, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) and Governor Tony Evers announced on Wednesday that counties and municipalities across the state received more than $180 million in the third quarterly payments for 2026 General...
Jul 08, 2026

Wisconsin Media Outlets Announce Lawsuit Against Evers Administration For Violating Open Records Laws
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - A new lawsuit filed by two prominent Wisconsin media organizations accuses the Evers administration of breaking open records laws. According to a post on X by Wisconsin Right Now, the outlet, along with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, filed the complaint on Tuesday after Gov. Tony Evers' administra...
Jul 07, 2026
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Study: Foreign Influence Found To Be Heavily Impacting U.S. & Wisconsin Data Center Views
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - A new study on U.S. and statewide AI Data Center regulations has uncovered how foreign governments and companies are influencing voters and local lawmakers to reject AI Data Center construction in the United States, including in Wisconsin. According to the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a non-profit, non...
Jul 01, 2026
National News
Analysis-Trump makes the stock market his scoreboard, but many Americans aren't even in the game
By Jacob Bogage WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump began this week with an Oval Office first: ringing the stock market's opening bell. The moment captured a defining feature of his second term. Trump has increasingly cast Wall ...
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Fed officials fret over inflation risk, weigh rate hikes
By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - The leanest readout of a Federal Reserve policy meeting in years still made clear how concerned U.S. central bank officials remain about inflation and how they will likely...
37m ago
China and US-Mexico border experienced record dust storms in 2025, UN agency says
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, July 10 (Reuters) - Record-breaking sand and dust storms battered parts of China and the U.S.-Mexico border region during 2025, disrupting transport, damaging health and the environment, the World Meteorological Organiza...
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Chinese zoo locked animals in cages to prevent escape as typhoon-related floodwaters rose
BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - A zoo in southwestern China locked lions, bears and wolves in their cages as deadly flooding triggered by Typhoon Maysak swept through the region, a decision that the animal rights group PETA on Friday called "unconscionab...
56m ago
Bayeux Tapestry returns to Britain for first time in nearly 1,000 years
By William James and Muvija M LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in Britain for the first time in nearly 1,000 years ahead of a sell-out exhibition at the British Museum, travelling under police escort during a meticulously ch...
3h ago
World News
Sudan's cholera outbreak may get worse due to conflict and rains, WHO warns
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, July 10 (Reuters) - A cholera outbreak in Sudan could get worse as war, displacement and the onset of the rainy season threaten to exacerbate a humanitarian crisis in the country, the World Health Organization warned on ...
34m ago
UK's Clacton by-election, triggered by Farage, to take place on August 13
LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - The election to decide if Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's populist Reform UK Party, will return to parliament after quitting earlier this week will take place on August 13, the local authority said on Friday. Farage,...
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Andy Burnham poised to become Britain's next PM after most Labour lawmakers support him
LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - Andy Burnham is on the brink of becoming Britain's next prime minister after an overwhelming show of support from Labour lawmakers left him all but certain to replace Keir Starmer. Burnham said he had received nominations ...
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Thai court to consider damages sought by crew of ship attacked in Strait of Hormuz
BANGKOK, July 10 (Reuters) - Thailand's Labour Court on Friday accepted a petition from three Thai sailors seeking damages after a deadly attack on their cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz in March, during the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, their lawyer ...
1h ago
Senegal's top court calls parliament-backed reform 'unconstitutional'
DAKAR, July 10 (Reuters) - Senegal's top court has struck down changes to the country's constitution that would have altered the balance of power in government, ruling against an amendment adopted by parliament last month. • Thursday's Constitutional...
1h ago
Business News
Rare earths startup ReElement no longer seeking $80 million Pentagon loan, administration sources say
By Ernest Scheyder and Jarrett Renshaw NOBLESVILLE, Indiana, July 10 (Reuters) - Rare earths startup ReElement Technologies has stopped seeking an $80 million Pentagon loan that was part of a broader push by the Trump administration to jump-start domes...
34m ago
Analysis-Trump makes the stock market his scoreboard, but many Americans aren't even in the game
By Jacob Bogage WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump began this week with an Oval Office first: ringing the stock market's opening bell. The moment captured a defining feature of his second term. Trump has increasingly cast Wall ...
37m ago
Fed officials fret over inflation risk, weigh rate hikes
By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - The leanest readout of a Federal Reserve policy meeting in years still made clear how concerned U.S. central bank officials remain about inflation and how they will likely...
37m ago
SoftBank, PayPay in talks to invest in Seven & i, Bloomberg reports
TOKYO, July 10 (Reuters) - SoftBank Corp and mobile payments operator PayPay are in talks to invest in retail giant Seven & i Holdings, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The investment will likely total several hundred billion yen and Sumitomo Mitsu...
51m ago
SK Hynix's marquee US debut to test AI appetite
By Utkarsh Shetti July 10 (Reuters) - SK Hynix's U.S. trading debut on Friday following a $26.5 billion share sale will be a key test of investors' belief in the durability of the AI boom, coming after a recent pullback in semiconductor stocks. Chip st...
52m ago
Health News
Congo Ebola outbreak still spreading largely undetected, WHO official says
By Clement Bonnerot BUNIA, July 10 (Reuters) - Four out of every five new Ebola cases in parts of Democratic Republic of Congo have no known link to existing patients, a senior World Health Organization official said, warning that the true scale of th...
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Germany's lower house of parliament passes healthcare reform
By Andreas Rinke and Maria Martinez BERLIN, July 10 (Reuters) - Germany's lower house of parliament on Friday approved a bill to overhaul the creaking health insurance system that has drawn fierce opposition from drugs companies which fear tougher pr...
1h ago
Philippines reports bird flu outbreak among backyard birds, WOAH says
PARIS, July 10 (Reuters) - The Philippines has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu among backyard birds in its Oriental Mindoro province, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Friday. The spread of avian infl...
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Bayer gets €3 billion in Apollo deal for contraceptives unit
July 10 (Reuters) - Bayer said on Friday it had secured €3 billion ($3.4 billion) in equity from Apollo-managed funds in a deal tied to its long-acting reversible contraceptives, or LARC, business, aiming to bolster its capital structure while prese...
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Australia confirms first H5N1 bird flu case in local seabird
By Christine Chen SYDNEY, July 10 (Reuters) - Australia on Friday confirmed the first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in a local seabird, raising concerns that the disease is beginning to spread more widely after it landed in the country last m...
8h ago
Science News
China successfully tests sea-based rocket booster recovery system
BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - China on Friday successfully tested an experimental rocket retrieval system using a net attached to a sea platform, state media reported, in the hope of breaking U.S. dominance in reusable rockets. The Long March 10B rocket...
5h ago
Pioneering aviator and astronaut trainee Wally Funk dead at 87
By Steve Gorman July 9 (Reuters) - Wally Funk, the trailblazing aviator who became the oldest person to fly to space some 60 years after first undergoing astronaut training with 12 other American women at the dawn of the Space Age, has died in Texas at...
9h ago
Astronomers scrutinize exoplanet that survived the death of its star
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - In about 5 billion years, our sun will begin its death throes by expanding in size and engulfing the innermost planets - possibly including Earth - before expelling its outer layers and forming a stellar re...
Jul 09, 2026
Ancient quasars add to a 'major unsolved problem' in astrophysics
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - A quasar - among the universe's most luminous and energetic objects - is a supermassive black hole caught in the act of guzzling matter at the heart of a galaxy. Scientists have now found quasars dating to ...
Jul 08, 2026
With SpaceX Starship, Japan's ispace provides ride-share to the moon
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO, July 8 (Reuters) - Japanese moon transport company ispace said on Wednesday it would start a new, lower-cost lunar cargo business using the Starship heavy rocket and moon lander developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX. Tokyo-based is...
Jul 08, 2026
Technology News
SoftBank, PayPay in talks to invest in Seven & i, Bloomberg reports
TOKYO, July 10 (Reuters) - SoftBank Corp and mobile payments operator PayPay are in talks to invest in retail giant Seven & i Holdings, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The investment will likely total several hundred billion yen and Sumitomo Mitsu...
51m ago
Taiwanese chipmaker Nanya plans $6 billion in spending in 2027, riding AI boom
By Wen-Yee Lee TAIPEI, July 10 (Reuters) - Taiwanese memory chipmaker Nanya Technology said on Friday it plans capital spending of more than T$200 billion ($6.2 billion) next year, roughly four times this year's figure, amid soaring demand for memory...
1h ago
SK Hynix's US listing sparks rush of single-stock ETF filings
By Gregor Stuart Hunter SINGAPORE, July 10 (Reuters) - At least 10 fund managers, including major issuers Direxion and ProShares, have filed registrations to list single-stock exchange-traded funds tracking SK Hynix soon after the chipmaker begins tr...
1h ago
SK Hynix set for marquee US debut in test for AI appetite
(Corrects SK Hynix and Micron's price per forward earnings in paragraph 14) By Utkarsh Shetti July 10 (Reuters) - SK Hynix's U.S. trading debut on Friday following a $26.5 billion share sale will be a key test of investors' belief in the durability of ...
4h ago
Special delivery: Italy's postman joins the AI infrastructure race
By Valentina Za and Elvira Pollina MILAN, July 10 (Reuters) - Italy has picked an unlikely champion to develop its technology infrastructure and protect digital sovereignty: its national postman. Poste Italiane, the postal service which pays out pensio...
5h ago
Entertainment News
FuboTV names Disney's Bowen CEO, removes veteran Gandler
July 9 (Reuters) - Streaming firm FuboTV on Thursday named Disney executive Alisa Bowen as CEO effective July 10, while removing company veteran David Gandler as top boss. Bowen, 53, joins FuboTV from Walt Disney, where she served as president of the...
13h ago
iHeart agrees to resolve US probe into airplay practices
WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - IHeartMedia resolved a Federal Communications Commission probe into allegations its radio stations pressured artists to perform at station-hosted music shows or festivals in exchange for more favorable airtime f...
16h ago
Bonnie Tyler, singer of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart', dies at 75
By Sarah Young LONDON, July 9 (Reuters) - The gravelly tone that made Bonnie Tyler's singing instantly recognisable was the result of an accident. After an operation to remove vocal cord nodules in 1977, she was ordered to rest her voice. But one day s...
Jul 09, 2026
Mick Jagger says Rolling Stones hope to tour new album 'Foreign Tongues'
LONDON, July 9 (Reuters) - Mick Jagger said the Rolling Stones hope to tour their new album "Foreign Tongues", as the veteran rockers launched their latest record with a starry drone lights show in London on Wednesday night. "Foreign Tongues" is set ...
Jul 09, 2026
US states could sue next week to block Paramount-Warner Bros deal, sources say
By Dawn Chmielewski and Jody Godoy July 8 (Reuters) - U.S. states concerned that Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery will hurt competition could sue to block the deal as soon as next week, two sources familiar with the matte...
Jul 08, 2026

