WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man accused of providing the drugs that led to an overdose death in 2020 will go to trial on Monday. Otha Franklin will face a week-long jury trial for reckless homicide by delivery of drugs and manufacturing or delivering heroin. Investigators say Franklin was snorting pills with the vict...

WAUTOMA, WI (WAOW-WSAU) - A Wautoma man was arrested Thursday for possessing child pornography. Wautoma police say the investigation began with a cyber-tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, revealing images of child sexual abuse material. Authorities conducted a search in the 300 block of Mt....

MERRILL, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A Merrill man has pleaded not guilty to nearly 50 counts in an animal abuse case. Matthew J. Krautkramer, 34, was charged on January 8 after 16 dead cats were found abandoned in his home. Krautkramer waived his preliminary hearing Friday morning in Lincoln County Court. A judge found probable ...

FRIENDSHIP, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A cougar that was seen on a trail-cam in Weston earlier this month was found dead in Adams County. The animal had been struck by a train, and was reported by railroad crews on February 9th. The DNR plans to conduct a necropsy to gather more information. The young male cougar was collared in...

COLUMBUS, OH (WSAU) - The Badger's hockey team couldn't hold a 1-goal lead in the third period in a 3-2 loss to Ohio State. Simon Tassy and Vasily Zelenow had power play goals for the Badgers, but Ohio State scored twice in the third period for the come from behind win. The Badgers fall to 11-9 in the Big Ten amd 18-10...

Ashlon Jackson and Taina Mair each scored 14 points and Riley Nelson provided 13 points as No. 11 Duke fended off No. 21 North Carolina for a 72-68 home victory Sunday in Durham, N.C., winning its 16th game in a row. The Blue Devils (19-6, 14-0 Atlant...

By Aadi Nair CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Canadian men's skip Brad Jacobs launched a blistering attack on curling officials on Sunday, calling it "despicable" that women's team counterpart Rachel Homan had a stone removed for double tou...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Ben Shelton fought back from a set down to beat compatriot Taylor Fritz 3-6 6-3 7-5 on Sunday, claiming his fourth career ​ATP title at the Dallas Open in a ‌thrilling all-American final. The 23-year-old left-hander saved three match...

Giannis Antetokounmpo is once again a committed Milwaukee Buck. For now. "As of today, I'm committed to the Milwaukee Bucks," Antetokounmpo told ESPN in an interview that aired Sunday. "I'm committed to the people that I work with, my teammates, the ...

By Amy Tennery and Trevor Stynes MILAN, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Canada walloped France 10-2 as they chased the top seeding from the preliminary stage of the men's Olympic ice hockey tournament on Sunday, Switzerland beat Czech Republic 4-3 in overtime to f...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man accused of providing the drugs that led to an overdose death in 2020 will go to trial on Monday. Otha Franklin will face a week-long jury trial for reckless homicide by delivery of drugs and manufacturing or delivering heroin. Investigators say Franklin was snorting pills with the vict...

WAUTOMA, WI (WAOW-WSAU) - A Wautoma man was arrested Thursday for possessing child pornography. Wautoma police say the investigation began with a cyber-tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, revealing images of child sexual abuse material. Authorities conducted a search in the 300 block of Mt....

MERRILL, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A Merrill man has pleaded not guilty to nearly 50 counts in an animal abuse case. Matthew J. Krautkramer, 34, was charged on January 8 after 16 dead cats were found abandoned in his home. Krautkramer waived his preliminary hearing Friday morning in Lincoln County Court. A judge found probable ...

FRIENDSHIP, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A cougar that was seen on a trail-cam in Weston earlier this month was found dead in Adams County. The animal had been struck by a train, and was reported by railroad crews on February 9th. The DNR plans to conduct a necropsy to gather more information. The young male cougar was collared in...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- The state has rested its case in the Randall Harris Jr homicide trial. Court records show that the state ended its portion of the trial on Thursday at 4:30 PM. Jurors were then excused and reminded not to discuss the case with anyone else. The defense began its portion of the trial on Fri...

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...

MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) A $4.25 million multistate settlement has been reached with Menards, over allegations of deceptive marketing practices. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and Attorney General Josh Kaul announced the settlement, which resolves claims related to Menards' mercha...

(Adds dropped word 'of' in paragraph 4) By Herbert Villarraga and Steve Gorman TUCSON, Arizona, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Investigators have obtained a DNA sample from a discarded glove that was found near Nancy Guthrie's Arizona home and appears to match the...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - John Hurley, the ​U.S. ‌government's top sanctions official, ‌is ​set ⁠to leave ⁠his post as the Treasury under-secretary ​for terrorism ⁠and ⁠financial ​intelligence after ​friction with Treasury ‌Secretary Scott Bessent, Bloomberg ...

BERLIN, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Oscar-nominated German actor Sandra Hueller said on Sunday that the stigmatisation of gender nonconformity depicted in her new period piece "Rose" is increasing ​again today. Hueller plays the titular character of the ‌black-...

By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Reuters) - White House border czar Tom Homan on Sunday brushed off Democratic demands to reform ICE amid mounting backlash over the agency's tactics and ​a partisan deadlock over homeland security funding. Meanwhile, D...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - A ​magnitude ‌6 earthquake struck ‌in ​waters ⁠off ⁠Russia's Kuril Islands on ​Sunday, ⁠the ⁠German ​Research Centre ​for Geosciences (GFZ) ‌said. The quake ⁠was at a depth ⁠of ‌10 ⁠km (6.21 ​miles), ‌GFZ ​said. (Reporting by ⁠Preet...

SEOUL, Feb 16 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over the completion ceremony of a new housing ​district in Pyongyang for families of ‌troops who died in overseas military operations, state media KCNA said on Monday. In a speech, Kim ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald ​Trump told ‌Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during ‌their ​meeting ⁠in Florida ⁠in December that he would support ​Israeli strikes on ⁠Iran's ⁠ballistic missile ​program if the ​U.S. and Iran ‌could n...

By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he told U.S. President Donald Trump last week that any U.S. deal with Iran must include ​the dismantling of Iran's nuclear infrastructure, not just ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - A contract worker died following an incident at Rio Tinto's SimFer mine at the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea, the world's largest ​producer of iron ore said late on Sunday, ‌without providing further details. The miner said wor...

TUNIS, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Tunisian police detained opposition figure Olfa Hamdi as she arrived at the country's main airport ​on Sunday, local media reported, in ‌the latest move against a critic of President Kais Saied. Hamdi, leader of the Third Repu...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI, and the open-source bot is becoming a foundation, ​OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on ‌Sunday. "Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal ag...

Feb 16 (Reuters) - Australian takeover target BlueScope Steel on Monday forecast higher earnings in the second-half and beat profit estimates in the first six months of ​the year on stronger U.S. spreads, higher volumes ‌across key markets, and good co...

Feb 16 (Reuters) - Australia's Treasury Wine Estates' first-half underlying profit nearly halved on Monday, and it temporarily suspended the distribution of its ​interim dividend to preserve cash and reduce ‌leverage. The result underscores a reset in ...

SYDNEY, Feb 16 (Reuters) - New Zealand home prices dipped in January as seasonal ​holiday patterns dampened demand ‌and unusual severe weather across parts of the North Island disrupted activity, the Real Estate ‌Institute ​of New Zealand (REINZ) ⁠said...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Warner Bros Discovery is considering reopening sale talks with rival Hollywood studio Paramount Skydance after receiving its hostile suitor's most recent amended ​offer, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people ‌with knowledg...

Feb 14 (Reuters) - U.S. officials investigated a previously unreported experiment ​in Norway in ‌which a government scientist tested a microwave device and developed neurological symptoms ‌similar ​to so-called ⁠Havana syndrome, the ⁠Washington Post re...

Feb 14 (Reuters) - Medecins Sans Frontieres has halted "non-critical" medical activities at a major hospital in southern Gaza following reports from patients and its own staff of armed men inside the facility and concerns over the movement of weapons w...

Feb 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary, in an interview on Friday, urged Americans to get vaccinated for measles, ​as the country faces its largest measles ‌surge in more than three decades. "When we hear about ...

By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Major U.S. medical groups urged a judge on Friday to block the Trump administration from implementing new guidance cutting the number of vaccines routinely recommended for children and bar Health and Human ​Se...

By Sneha S K Feb 13 (Reuters) - Disc Medicine said on Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve its drug to treat a rare genetic disorder. The drug, ​bitopertin, was being reviewed under the FDA's national priority ‌voucher prog...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous neighbors, possibly after much of the planet-...

BEIJING, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Chinese officials on Thursday handed over a satellite ground station to Namibia outside the southern African nation's capital ​Windhoek, Chinese state media reported, marking another ‌step forward in China's expanding space ...

By Will Dunham Feb 13 (Reuters) - An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other elephants to eating and drinking. And the roughly 1,000 whiskers covering the trunk are centr...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The space race between U.S. billionaires is heating up, with Elon Musk's SpaceX planning to build a lunar base and Jeff Bezos pushing Blue Origin's ambitions as both companies aim to return humans to the ...

By Steve Nesius and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit from Florida early on Friday with a crew of two U.S. NASA astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut headed to the International ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Warner Bros Discovery is considering reopening sale talks with rival Hollywood studio Paramount Skydance after receiving its hostile suitor's most recent amended ​offer, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people ‌with knowledg...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Uber plans to roll out its delivery business into seven new European ​countries this year, as ‌tech groups ramp up their efforts in the multibillion-euro food-delivery market, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The U.S.-based ‌c...

Feb 14 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is considering ending its relationship with artificial intelligence company Anthropic over its insistence on keeping some restrictions on ​how the U.S. military uses its models, ‌Axios reported on Saturday, citing an adm...

Feb 14 (Reuters) - Vietnam's government has allowed SpaceX to launch its Starlink satellite internet service in the country, state ​media reported on Saturday. The report said ‌the Ministry of Science and Technology granted Starlink's local unit a lice...

(Adds dropped letter in headline.) NEW DELHI, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Nvidia ​CEO Jensen Huang ‌will not be travelling to India next week for a India AI ‌Impact ​Summit, which ⁠global technology industry ⁠and political leaders are likely to attend, the comp...

BERLIN, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Oscar-nominated German actor Sandra Hueller said on Sunday that the stigmatisation of gender nonconformity depicted in her new period piece "Rose" is increasing ​again today. Hueller plays the titular character of the ‌black-...

BERLIN, Feb 14 (Reuters) - British pop star Charli xcx was everywhere in 2024, when the "brat summer" cultural phenomenon her album unleashed even made its way into U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris' campaign. Some two years ​since the neon-gre...

By Miranda Murray and Hanna Rantala BERLIN, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Brazilian director Karim Ainouz's new drama "Rosebush Pruning" delves into patriarchy and trauma within an insular wealthy family, approaching the material with what actor ​Jamie Bell on Sa...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Feb 14 (Reuters) - An immersive new exhibit devoted to "Ponyo," Hayao Miyazaki's hand-drawn 2008 fantasy film about a goldfish-like girl yearning to be human, invites visitors, especially ​children, into his world thro...

By Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Laid-off and sidelined by last year's production slowdown, Hollywood visual‑effects veteran Michael Eng discovered a gap in his resume while perusing job listings in Los Angeles -- experience in machi...