WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A 38-year-old Wausau man has been sentenced to prison time for providing the drugs that led to a fatal overdose back in 2023. Matthew Gesicki pleaded no contest to the charges as part of a deal earlier this year. On Tuesday, a judge sentenced him to 43 years in the state prison system, including 23...

ANTIGO, WI (WSAU-WAOW) John H. Bradley will be the name of the new consolidated elementary school, serving kids from preschool to 4th grade. The building was the largest priority of the Antigo School District's (ASD) $54 million capital referendum, which was approved by community members in the November 5, 2024 electi...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The NBA will release the complete 2025-'26 schedule on Thursday, but before then, some marquee matchups are leaking. That includes a January 19th matchup between the Bucks and Atlanta Hawks, which will stream exclusively on Peacock. The game will tip off at Noon from State Farm Arena in Atlanta....

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau City Council President Lisa Rasmussen says she was shocked by last weekend's death of Alder Gary Gisselman, who was working right through his last days. Gisselman just completed a run as Chair of the Council's Rules Review Committee, which recommended some changes to how the Council conducts...

WAUPACA, WI (WSAU) -- A Waupaca County man has been found not guilty in connection with a 1992 double murder. Court records show a 12-person jury returned a not guilty verdict for Tony Haase Monday morning. The case has been dismissed, and an acquittal will be prepared. The 54-year-old had been accused of killing Tanna...

(Reuters) -Pole vault sensation Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis said he was excited to be part of the growth of athletics after the two-time Olympic champion was handed an ambassadorial role for next year's inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship. Wor...

By Field Level Media Jo Adell bounced a single into left field to drive in Taylor Ward from third base in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Los Angeles Angels, who earlier turned the eighth triple play in team history, a wild 7-6 walk-off Freew...

Pete Alonso clubbed two of the Mets' six homers Tuesday night, breaking the franchise record for career long balls in the process, as New York routed the visiting Atlanta Braves 13-5. Alonso's first homer, a two-run shot to right-center in the bottom ...

Mets first baseman Pete Alonso broke the team's career home run record in the third inning of New York's Tuesday game against the visiting Atlanta Braves -- then went deep again in the sixth. The third-inning shot, a two-run homer against Spencer Stri...

The Philadelphia Flyers were within their rights to terminate Ryan Johansen's contract last summer and they don't have to pay the rest of the forward's contract, an arbitrator ruled on Tuesday, according to multiple media reports. The reported decisio...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A 38-year-old Wausau man has been sentenced to prison time for providing the drugs that led to a fatal overdose back in 2023. Matthew Gesicki pleaded no contest to the charges as part of a deal earlier this year. On Tuesday, a judge sentenced him to 43 years in the state prison system, including 23...

ANTIGO, WI (WSAU-WAOW) John H. Bradley will be the name of the new consolidated elementary school, serving kids from preschool to 4th grade. The building was the largest priority of the Antigo School District's (ASD) $54 million capital referendum, which was approved by community members in the November 5, 2024 electi...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The NBA will release the complete 2025-'26 schedule on Thursday, but before then, some marquee matchups are leaking. That includes a January 19th matchup between the Bucks and Atlanta Hawks, which will stream exclusively on Peacock. The game will tip off at Noon from State Farm Arena in Atlanta....

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau City Council President Lisa Rasmussen says she was shocked by last weekend's death of Alder Gary Gisselman, who was working right through his last days. Gisselman just completed a run as Chair of the Council's Rules Review Committee, which recommended some changes to how the Council conducts...

WAUPACA, WI (WSAU) -- A Waupaca County man has been found not guilty in connection with a 1992 double murder. Court records show a 12-person jury returned a not guilty verdict for Tony Haase Monday morning. The case has been dismissed, and an acquittal will be prepared. The 54-year-old had been accused of killing Tanna...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- While officials are assessing storm damage across state parks, trails, recreation and wildlife areas, they are asking visitors to stay away from posted closed areas. Recent storms damaged numerous state-managed properties, the DNR reports. With tens of thousands of acres of property and thousands of mile...

MERRILL, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Rian Nyblom was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for his role in the death of a counselor at a state youth prison. Nyblom, 18, was previously convicted of two counts of battery by a prisoner in connection with the June 24, 2024 death of Corey Proulx at Lincoln-Hills-Copper Lake Scho...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- A new report from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services shows school year vaccination rates remained steady for the 2024-25 school year. According to the report, 86.4% of students met the minimum immunization requirements, a slight decrease from the school year prior. The DHS says the unfamiliarity...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Wisconsin's newest Supreme Court justice was sworn in Friday during a public ceremony at the state capitol. Justice Susan Crawford, 60, defeated conservative Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel in the April 1 election to earn her 10-year term on the state's highest court. Theirs was th...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A Milwaukee man will spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering and dismembering a 19-year-old woman. Maxwell Anderson, 34, was sentenced Friday for killing Sade Robinson. In June, a jury found him guilty of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, hiding a corpse and...

PATRAS, Greece (Reuters) -Firefighters battled multiple wildfires across Greece on Wednesday, including blazes threatening villages and towns near the western city of Patras and on two tourist islands. Fires have burned houses, farms and factories and ...

By David Latona MADRID (Reuters) -A firefighting volunteer died from severe burns, while several people were hospitalised as dozens of wildfires fuelled by strong winds and scorching heat continued to rage across Spain on Wednesday. At least six large ...

By Kanishka Singh and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Tuesday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to restore a part of the federal grant funding that it recently suspended for the University of California, Los Angeles. U....

By Lizbeth Diaz (Reuters) -Yahir remembers growing up in Mexico without a bed or a stove. He didn't own a pair of shoes until he was 10, and in the mid-1990s - when he was 13 - he crossed with a group illegally into the U.S. in search of work. He settl...

SUCHITOTO, El Salvador (Reuters) -The proliferation of water lettuce on El Salvador's largest wetland reservoir, known as Lake Suchitlan, is jeopardizing a key source of the country's hydropower generation as well as local species and communities, auth...

(Reuters) -Myanmar's military chief has called for increased security for political party members and candidates as a newly formed interim government proceeds with a planned election in December and January that has been dismissed in the West as a sham...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Militant group Hamas' chief negotiator held talks with Egyptian mediators over a potential ceasefire in the Gaza war on Wednesday while Israel struck the territory's main city prior to a pl...

WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish prosecutors have charged a group of six people with offences including sabotage commissioned by foreign intelligence services, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. Poland says its role as a hub for aid to Ukraine has made it a tar...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran's parliament is ready to withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) should international sanctions be reimposed by the United Nations, Iranian lawmaker Manouchehr Mottaki told Defapress on Wednesday. This comment com...

PATRAS, Greece (Reuters) -Firefighters battled multiple wildfires across Greece on Wednesday, including blazes threatening villages and towns near the western city of Patras and on two tourist islands. Fires have burned houses, farms and factories and ...

(Reuters) -Standard Chartered raised its year-end target for ether to $7,500 from $4,000 on Wednesday, citing improvement in industry engagement in recent months and emergence of Ethereum treasury companies. The brokerage also raised its 2028 year-end ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African business confidence rose in July, helped by higher new vehicle sales, rising manufacturing output, strong precious metals prices and well-contained inflation, data showed on Wednesday. The South African Chamber of ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's new yuan loans contracted by 50 billion yuan ($6.97 billion) in July, falling well short of analysts' forecasts and plunging from 2.24 trillion yuan in June, according to Reuters calculations based on data released by the Peo...

By Rashika Singh (Reuters) -CoreWeave shares sank 10% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the Nvidia-backed company posted a bigger-than-expected loss, raising doubts about its ability to keep costs under check amid robust AI demand. Its results un...

By Md Manzer Hussain (Reuters) -Most Gulf equities rose on Wednesday, tracking a global stock market rally after a softer U.S. inflation data raised hopes of a Federal Reserve rate cut in September, while mixed earnings reports in the region weighed on...

(Reuters) -Eli Lilly launched the pre-filled injector pen of its blockbuster weight-loss drug Mounjaro for 14,000 rupees (nearly $160) for its starting dose of 2.5 mg in India on Wednesday, stepping up competition with rival Novo Nordisk. ($1 = 87.6650...

(Reuters) -Swiss dental implant maker Straumann on Wednesday reported organic sales growth of 10.2% for the first half of the year, citing sustained demand. Its sales grew to 1.35 billion Swiss francs in the January-June period, broadly in line with an...

By Dan Levine and Robin Respaut NEW YORK (Reuters) -Grappling with the aftermath of a shooting that killed a police officer and left nearly 100 shattered windows, leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held virtual meetings with empl...

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld an Arkansas law barring doctors from providing gender-affirming care including puberty blockers, hormones and surgery to transgender minors. The 8-2 decision by the St. Louis-based 8t...

By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump should block the U.S. House from limiting the regulation of pesticides and "forever chemicals" in its environmental appropriations bill or risk losing Republican support, more than 200 activi...

(Reuters) -Ukraine's largest mobile operator Kyivstar has successfully conducted the first field test of Elon Musk's Starlink direct-to-cell satellite technology in Eastern Europe, the company said on Tuesday. The pilot test took place in the Zhytomyr ...

By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Both new and familiar alien lifeforms lurk around in the Disney series "Alien: Earth," based on the original 1979 Ridley Scott "Alien" movie. "By bringing the story to Earth, we're shifting to,...

(Reuters) -India's space regulator has picked a consortium led by Google-backed startup PixxelSpace to build a commercial home-grown constellation of earth observation satellites, with an investment of more than 12 billion rupees (nearly $137 million) ...

SOPPENG, Indonesia (Reuters) -Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia's Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between Asia and Australia, the earliest known humans in the Wallacea ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Four astronauts from NASA's Crew-10 mission departed the International Space Station on Friday aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, heading for a splashdown off the U.S. West Coast on Saturday morning after a five-month crew rotation m...

(Reuters) -Standard Chartered raised its year-end target for ether to $7,500 from $4,000 on Wednesday, citing improvement in industry engagement in recent months and emergence of Ethereum treasury companies. The brokerage also raised its 2028 year-end ...

By Rashika Singh (Reuters) -CoreWeave shares sank 10% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the Nvidia-backed company posted a bigger-than-expected loss, raising doubts about its ability to keep costs under check amid robust AI demand. Its results un...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Tencent reported second-quarter revenue growth of 15% on Wednesday, driven by robust gaming performance and deployment of AI across services and platforms including WeChat. For the three months to June, the Chinese technology giant r...

By Jesus Calero (Reuters) -Norwegian chipmaker Nordic Semiconductor on Wednesday reported consensus-beating second-quarter results and gave a revenue guidance above market expectations for the third quarter, citing stronger demand from major customers...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bullish, a cryptocurrency exchange operator that counts billionaire Peter Thiel amongst its backers, said its U.S. initial public offering was priced above its indicated range at $37 per share. The offering raised $1.11 billion for ...

By Chandini Monnappa and Hritam Mukherjee (Reuters) -Radico Khaitan, the maker of "Magic Moments" vodka, will invest up to $4.56 million and team up with Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan and Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath to launch a premium tequila br...

By Renee Hickman (Reuters) -Michelle Miller stands in a field of corn, stalks stretching above her perfectly styled hair, holding a tiny microphone and addressing an audience online. She was farming genetically-modified corn in Iowa in 2017, she says, ...

By Chandni Shah (Reuters) -Superstar Taylor Swift on Tuesday announced her 12th studio album, "The Life of a Showgirl". Swift, who has won 14 Grammys including an unprecedented four trophies for album of the year, announced the album in a podcast episo...

(Reuters) -Paramount Skydance said on Monday that all Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) numbered events and fight nights will be streamed live on its Paramount+ streaming service. (Reporting by Kritika Lamba in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Walt Disney has resolved a legal dispute with actor Gina Carano over her firing from the "Star Wars" streaming TV series "The Mandalorian," a spokesperson for Disney unit Lucasfilm said on Thursday. Disney removed Carano from "Th...