WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- A La Farge man accused of attempted homicide and arson in connection with a house fire in Wisconsin Rapids appears to have a plea deal with the state. Court records show a plea and sentencing hearing is scheduled for Michael Vandenberg, who is accused of setting fire to a home on 17th Ave...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSAU) - The Iranian government has reportedly targeted both President Trump's and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's families' lives for assassination as the war in the Middle East continues. According to a graphic Iranian state media video titled "Where to Kill Barron Trump" that w...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A former Priest with the Catholic Diocese of Madison is being held on a $15,000 cash bond, accused of attempting to groom an underage girl for sexual activity. Andrew Showers faces one felony count of grooming and two counts of bail jumping after he was caught communicating with an undercover offic...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers got good news after outfielder Garrett Mitchell left Sunday's game at the Little League World Series against the Braves. According to Mitchell, who spoke to the media on Sunday night after he was hit by a pitch in his forearm, confirmed that he's not expecting a stint on the...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man will serve prison time after pleading guilty to his 6th OWI. Timothy Mischock will serve three years in prison and four years on extended supervision as part of a seven-year sentence handed down by Judge Michael Moran. The 47-year-old will also have his driver's license revoked and pay...

By Field Level Media Aug 25 (Field Level Media) - Ketel Marte could be back in the Arizona lineup early next week, Diamondbacksmanager Torey Lovullo said Monday. Marte hasn't played since failing to ​show up for the team's game in Boston onAug. 17. ‌Lo...

By Field Level Media Aug 25 (Field Level Media) - UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier believes Max Holloway, Paddy Pimblett andGable Steveson should be ​able to celebrate their victories without riskingpart ‌of their fight purses. The three UFC 329 winner...

By Field Level Media Aug 25 (Field Level Media) - Former Jacksonville Jaguars and Chicago Bears star wide receiver AllenRobinson announced his ​retirement from football on Monday, his 33rd ‌birthday. Robinson did not play in the NFL last season. Most r...

By Field Level Media Aug 24 (Field Level Media) - After several postponements, Tiger Woods is scheduled ​to appear before a judgein ‌person for the first time since his car accident on March 27. Woods will appear in court at 8:30 a.m. ‌ET ​on Tuesday, ...

By Field Level Media Aug 24 (Field Level Media) - Former FCS star Braden Atkinson beat out incumbent Maalik Murphy and fellowtransfer Brady Jones to earn ​the Oregon State starting quarterback gig. The Beavers named ‌Atkinson the starter on Monday afte...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- A La Farge man accused of attempted homicide and arson in connection with a house fire in Wisconsin Rapids appears to have a plea deal with the state. Court records show a plea and sentencing hearing is scheduled for Michael Vandenberg, who is accused of setting fire to a home on 17th Ave...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A former Priest with the Catholic Diocese of Madison is being held on a $15,000 cash bond, accused of attempting to groom an underage girl for sexual activity. Andrew Showers faces one felony count of grooming and two counts of bail jumping after he was caught communicating with an undercover offic...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man will serve prison time after pleading guilty to his 6th OWI. Timothy Mischock will serve three years in prison and four years on extended supervision as part of a seven-year sentence handed down by Judge Michael Moran. The 47-year-old will also have his driver's license revoked and pay...

KRONENWETTER, WI (WSAU) -- Kronenwetter Administrator James Davel is the subject of this week's Mayors Monday. Items he discussed with WSAU's Mike Leischner include: Start of video- Village-wide revaulation 3:20- 2027 budget 7:30- New development 12:44- New Marathon County Highway Dept facility update

MERRILL, WI (WAOW-WSAU) -- Authorities in Lincoln County have made an arrest in connection with a hit-and-run on Sunday. WAOW TV reports that 28-year-old Brandon Karlen is facing a felony count for hit-and-run causing serious injury. He appeared in Lincoln County court on Friday and was released on a $10,000 signature ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The federal government has opened an investigation into Wisconsin's largest public school system after reports surfaced that the district considers race when disciplining students. According to WISN, Milwaukee Public Schools was notified of the investigation earlier this week by the Department of...

OAK CREEK, WI (WSAU) - A popular southern gas station chain is officially coming to Wisconsin. According to WISN, on Tuesday evening, The Oak Creek Common Council voted unanimously to approve a deal with Buc-ee's to not just open its first location in Wisconsin but to rename the road it will be located on from "El...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The 2026 Wisconsin State Fair had an abrupt ending this year after police were called to break up multiple fights that involved dozens of participants. According to the Milwaukee police department and videos posted online by onlookers at the fair, the fights broke out around 10 p.m. on Sunday, wh...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - The first poll of the 2026 Wisconsin general election cycle is out, and it shows that the race between Democrat David Crowley and Republican Tom Tiffany may be a toss-up come election day. According to the newly released Badger Battleground poll on Sunday, Crowley leads Tom Tiffany 48% to 44% with 5...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley is the Democratic nominee for Governor. With nearly 99% of the vote counted, Crowley was leading Madison-area State Representative Francesca Hong by about .5%, or just under 4,000 votes. Crowley held an event in Milwaukee at 9:00 AM to formally accept the n...

TOKYO/TAIPEI, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Medium-strength Typhoon Saudel moved towards southern Japan and northern Taiwan on Tuesday where it is expected to bring heavy rain, as Taiwan ​reported one dead and four missing from a ‌separate weather system over its...

RENO, Nevada, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Firefighters logged major gains on Monday against a wind-driven blaze that threatened the city of Reno, Nevada, over the weekend, destroying dozens of houses and chasing tens of thousands of people from their homes. As ...

By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Nevada sued the Trump administration on Monday to block its plans for slashing water supplies from the drought-stricken Colorado River, saying it could devastate the state and would violate ​the laws...

By Amy Tennery NEW YORK, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Two former NBA players who sought to enter the 2027 WNBA draft are not eligible to participate in the women's basketball league, according to sources around ​the league on Monday. Enes Kanter Freedom, who pla...

By Andrew Chung Aug 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted one court order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from implementing an executive order restricting the use of mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm electi...

By Kanishka Singh and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday postponed the trial of the man authorities allege built the bomb that blew New York-bound Pan Am flight 103 out of ​the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, killin...

BEIJING, Aug 25 (Reuters) - China has proposed adding a dedicated ​chapter on ‌autonomous vehicles to its Road Traffic Safety Law, according to the ‌state-run ​Xinhua news ⁠agency. The draft ⁠amendment, submitted to the country's top legislature for an...

By Yasmine Ghania and David Lawder CAIRO/WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Iran promised to retaliate against expanded U.S. economic sanctions that the Americans said would cut off Iran's economic lifeline, with Tehran expressing confidence that major tra...

By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke on Monday, and Seoul said they agreed to maintain close communication and cooperation on resolving the North Korean ...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration said on Monday it planned to revoke the non-immigrant visas of foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the U.S., ​marking its lat...

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A roughly 45% slump in the shares of Unitree, China's best-known humanoid robot maker, since a more than fivefold jump on its Shanghai debut has triggered concerns about bubble risk, retail investor losses and fla...

By Jiaxing Li HONG KONG, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar struggled to hold onto gains against major peers on Tuesday, as investors parsed Washington's expanded Iran-related sanctions and renewed efforts to ease pressure on longer-dated Treasury yiel...

SYDNEY, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The nine-member policy board of Australia's central bank was divided on whether to raise interest rates at its August policy meeting, with "several" judging a hike might be necessary given upside risks to inflation. Minutes o...

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Asia shares slipped on Tuesday while oil prices extended losses, after threats from the U.S. for an "economic D-Day" of sanctions on Iran turned out to be a damp squib. U.S. Treasury yields were off their recent...

By Ishaan Arora Aug 25 (Reuters) - Oil prices steadied on Tuesday, after falling more than 2% in the previous session, as investors assessed the impact of harsher U.S. secondary sanctions against Iran. Brent crude futures were down 9 cents, or ​0.1%, a...

By Kunal Das and Padmanabhan Ananthan Aug 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the expanded use of Johnson & Johnson's drug to treat a rare blood disorder, ​the company said on Monday. The approval makes Imaavy the ‌first t...

By Kamal Choudhury Aug 24 (Reuters) - Capricor Therapeutics said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had extended the review period for its experimental cell therapy for Duchenne ​muscular dystrophy by three months. The delay follows Capric...

Aug 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared Roche and partner Eli Lilly's blood test to help identify signs ​of Alzheimer's disease in people aged ‌55 and older with cognitive decline. The test, Elecsys pTau217, is a biomarker ...

Aug 24 (Reuters) - Regenxbio said on Monday the U.S. FDA has placed its experimental gene therapy for a rare inherited disorder on clinical hold after spinal scans ​found abnormalities in five study participants, sending its ‌shares down more than 24% ...

Aug 24 (Reuters) - A U.S. court has ordered Guardant Health to pay more than $245.2 million to TwinStrand Biosciences and the University of Washington after finding that the company infringed patents ​covering DNA sequencing technology, TwinStrand said...

BEIJING, Aug 23 (Reuters) - China said on Sunday it has ​postponed its Chang'e-7 ‌lunar mission after a "comprehensive assessment", according to state-run Xinhua news agency. • ‌The ​uncrewed ⁠Chang'e-7 mission "does not ⁠meet the conditions for launch...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The moon is, to put it mildly, an inhospitable place for people and other living organisms from Earth, with its lack of breathable air, extreme temperatures and exposure to relentless space radiation and en...

By Ethan Wang, Shi Bu and Ryan Woo BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) - China is poised to launch Chang'e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in its search for frozen stores of water in permanently shadowed craters near the moon's south p...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a memo to help drastically increase the number of U.S. commercial space launches, including directing government agencies to look at federal land for new ...

By Will Dunham Aug 20 (Reuters) - In the Middle Ages, narwhal tusks were sold as unicorn horns blessed with magical powers such as neutralizing poisons and curing diseases - prized possessions of monarchs and nobles worth more than their weight in gold...

SEOUL, Aug 25 (Reuters) - South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix's union members narrowly rejected a tentative wage agreement on Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the matter. A total of 50.08% of the ​15,045 workers who cast ballots voted against ...

Aug 24 (Reuters) - Michael Saylor's Strategy set aside about $1.6 billion in cash to fund future treasury operations, including potential bitcoin purchases ​and share buybacks, the company disclosed ‌in a regulatory filing on Monday. The world's larges...

By Jody Godoy Aug 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and a group of states settled with Zillow ahead of trial on Monday, ending claims the online real estate platform illegally paid Rocket Companies' Redfin $100 million to ​stop competing...

Aug 24 (Reuters) - RUM Group, which hosts U.S. President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform, said on Monday it has signed a ​contract with an unnamed U.S.-based cloud ‌customer worth about $13.7 billion to supply AI chips. Shares of RUM Group rose mo...

By Hannah Lang Aug 24 (Reuters) - Stand With Crypto, an advocacy group backed by crypto giant Coinbase, on Monday endorsed 32 incumbent congressional candidates for the November midterm elections, as the industry cements influence in Washington. The en...

(Refiles to remove extraneous text in paragraph two) By Jody Godoy Aug 24 (Reuters) - California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled a meeting with Paramount Skydance representatives scheduled for Monday to begin settlement talks over the state's lawsu...

ROME, Aug 24 (Reuters) - A documentary examining Israel's killing of civilians in Gaza was added to the Venice Film Festival line-up on Monday, the second year running that a highly charged work about ​the conflict has competed for the prestigious Gold...

AMSTERDAM, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Dutch public broadcaster AvroTros said on Monday it ​would boycott the ‌2027 Eurovision Song Contest for a second year in protest at the presence of ‌Israel ​in light ⁠of the situation ⁠in Gaza and what it called a lack of...

LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Meghan, the wife of Britain's Prince Harry, may be returning to acting with a ​role in the Netflix series "The Gentlemen," ‌according to media reports on Friday. The Hollywood Reporter said the duchess was in advanced talks t...

Aug 20 (Reuters) - Prime Video said on Thursday it plans to invest more than $2 billion in Latin America between ​2027 and 2030, as it expands ‌its original programming and sports offerings across Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Chile. Here are...