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...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man has pleaded guilty to chronic child neglect, avoiding a jury trial. Tristan Hull made the plea in a Marathon County courtroom on Monday morning. A judge then dismissed a second charge of child abuse-intentionally causing great bodily harm. The 40-year-old, along with his partner, is ac...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man accused of wire fraud and money laundering has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Stanley Pophal faces 10 total counts, seven for wire fraud and three for money laundering. Investigators say he took money from others, saying he would invest it in various business ventures, includi...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Mayor Doug Diny says he still plans to assemble a task force to examine a change in city leadership. "We'll maybe have a former Mayor, some legal people. It'll be a cross-section (of people) probably slanted towards municipal expertise," said Diny. He wants the group to go into the matter...

Olympic gold medal sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson said she plans to seek help following her July 27 arrest, which stemmed from a physical confrontation with her boyfriend, U.S. sprinter Christian Coleman, at an airport. "I'm taking this time to not onl...

Offensive line insurance policy Kenyon Green is out for multiple weeks with a shoulder injury and could miss the rest of the preseason for the Philadelphia Eagles. With Pro Bowl guard Landon Dickerson expected to be sidelined while recovering from a k...

(Reuters) -The disturbance caused by a crying child in the stands proved too much to handle for Emma Raducanu during her Cincinnati Open defeat by Aryna Sabalenka on Monday when the Briton appealed to a bemused chair umpire for action. Raducanu was pre...

Brice Turang and Christian Yelich homered and Jose Quintana allowed one run over six innings to lead Milwaukee to its 10th consecutive victory, a 7-1 decision over the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday. The National League Central-leading Brewers ...

Houston closer Josh Hader underwent testing on a sore shoulder that kept him out of the Astros' 7-6 win over the visiting Boston Red Sox on Monday. The ailment arose three days after Hader threw a season-high 36 pitches while getting a win as the Astr...

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...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man has pleaded guilty to chronic child neglect, avoiding a jury trial. Tristan Hull made the plea in a Marathon County courtroom on Monday morning. A judge then dismissed a second charge of child abuse-intentionally causing great bodily harm. The 40-year-old, along with his partner, is ac...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man accused of wire fraud and money laundering has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Stanley Pophal faces 10 total counts, seven for wire fraud and three for money laundering. Investigators say he took money from others, saying he would invest it in various business ventures, includi...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Mayor Doug Diny says he still plans to assemble a task force to examine a change in city leadership. "We'll maybe have a former Mayor, some legal people. It'll be a cross-section (of people) probably slanted towards municipal expertise," said Diny. He wants the group to go into the matter...

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...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- One of the women convicted in the Slender Man stabbing case will not be released in Northeast Wisconsin. Waukesha County Judge Scott Wagner approved placing Morgan Geyser in a group home in Sun Prairie, near Madison. The release plan includes GPS monitoring. Her attorney, Anthony Cotton, said she would h...

SUVA PLANINA, Serbia (Reuters) -A prolonged drought and sweltering heat are taking their toll on villagers, livestock and crops in the mountains of southeastern Serbia, with animals starting to die. Lack of rainfall since May has caused water shortages...

By Ateev Bhandari (Reuters) -Cash allocations by U.S. corporations have halved since 2021 as elevated interest rates prompt a shift to higher-yielding treasury bills, data from Clearwater Analytics showed on Tuesday. Median allocations to cash - which ...

(Reuters) -Former St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard on Tuesday said he spoke with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week in connection with the White House search for a new Fed chair, and told Bessent that he'd be "happy t...

By Aaron Ross MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE, Kenya (Reuters) -When Ritz-Carlton opens its first safari lodge on Friday in Kenya's Maasai Mara reserve, guests will pay nightly rates starting from $3,500 per person for tented suites with private decks ove...

By Mariana Hernandez MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) -He walks, he talks, he runs and he plays. He's "Waldog," an AI-powered robot that is making the rounds in the northern city of Monterrey, Mexico to raise awareness about animal abuse and welfare. With a...

LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached "unimaginable levels", Britain, Canada, Australia and several of their European allies said on Tuesday, calling on Israel to allow unrestricted aid into the war-torn Palestinian enc...

WARSAW (Reuters) -The Polish prime minister said on Tuesday that Russia was seeking to drive a wedge between Warsaw and Kyiv ahead of peace talks, after an outcry over a spectator waving a Ukrainian nationalist flag at a concert in Poland's national st...

(Corrects spelling of interior minister's first name in paragraph 8 to Paulo from Palo) PRAIA (Reuters) -At least eight people were killed after flooding on Cape Verde's Sao Vicente island overwhelmed emergency services and cut key roads, a regional ci...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian police arrested as many as 21,000 "suspects" during the country's 12-day war with Israel in June, a law enforcement spokesperson said on Tuesday, according to state media. Following Israeli air strikes that began on June 13, Ir...

DUBAI (Reuters) -A Syrian government soldier was killed in clashes with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the northern governorate of Aleppo on Tuesday, Syria's state news agency SANA said, citing the Defence Ministry. In March the SDF agreed...

(Reuters) -The U.S. central bank should not take tariffs' muted effect on inflation so far as an opportunity to cut interest rates, but rather as a sign that monetary policy is "appropriately calibrated," Kansas City Federal Reserve President Jeffrey S...

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Four major truckmakers, including Daimler and Volvo, sued California to block the state from enforcing strict emissions standards that U.S. President Donald Trump declared void in June. Daimler, Volvo, Paccar, and Interna...

(Reuters) -The United States exported about 30% of its domestic primary energy production last year, a significant increase over recent decades, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Tuesday. Of the record 103 quadrillion British thermal ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated his call for the U.S. Federal Reserve to lower benchmark rates, and cited "a major lawsuit" against Fed Chair Jerome Powell over renovations of the central bank's buildings. "Jerom...

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Aggressive shopping by consumers may mute the impact of tariffs on inflation but could also lead to a cycle of falling demand and rising unemployment, Richmond Fed president Tom Barkin said on Tuesday, while a...

(Reuters) -China-headquartered medical device maker Kangji Medical said on Tuesday it had received a go-private offer from Knight Bidco offering HK$9.25 per share, valuing the firm at HK$11.17 billion ($1.42 billion). ($1 = 7.8495 Hong Kong dollars) (...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey's largest hospital operator Acibadem has agreed to buy an 80% stake in Bayindir Hospitals from Is Bankasi for $55 million, Acibadem's Chairman Mehmet Ali Aydinlar said on Tuesday. The deal, which involves three Bayindir hospi...

HYDERABAD (Reuters) -India's Apollo Hospitals Enterprise reported its fifth straight quarterly profit rise on Tuesday, beating estimates, on higher demand for its healthcare services. The hospital chain operator reported a consolidated net profit that ...

(Reuters) -Cardinal Health said on Tuesday its unit would buy Solaris Health and the company would provide about $1.9 billion in cash for the deal, as the drug distributor looks to expand its specialty business. Cardinal's specialty business includes c...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Sanofi said on Tuesday it had stopped supplying Praluent, a popular cholesterol drug jointly developed by the French pharmaceuticals firm and its partner Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, in China due to limited availability. "The surge in...

(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...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, is planning to plead guilty on Tuesday to two charges of conspiracy to defraud and wire fr...

By Wen-Yee Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) will phase out its 6-inch wafer manufacturing business over the next two years and continue consolidating its 8-inch wafer production capacity to improve efficiency, the com...

(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 Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Smartphone startup Unplugged said on Tuesday it will start assembling its privacy-focused "UP Phone" in Nevada this fall, marking a strategic pivot toward onshore production as the Trump administration pushes to expand domest...

(Reuters) -Amazon.com-backed Anthropic said on Tuesday it will offer its Claude AI model to the U.S. government for $1, joining a growing list of artificial intelligence startups proposing lucrative deals to win federal contracts. This comes days after...

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...

(Reuters) -Paramount Global and Skydance Media have completed their $8.4 billion merger that was announced more than a year ago, the companies said, capping a long-drawn deal process marked by political scrutiny and shareholder concerns. Renamed "Param...