WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -The city of Wausau still has about 4,000 lead water service lines left to replace at an estimated cost of $10,000 per line. With grant funding covering only part of the cost through 2028, city leaders are looking at how to pay for the rest. For the past three years, the city has been replacing l...

MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A Minnesota man was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for traveling to Wisconsin to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. Creighton Mithaugen, 38, of Faribault, Minnesota, received a 97-month sentence from U.S. District Judge William M. Conley. He will also face a l...

UNDATED (WSAU) - In a battle of ranked teams, Amherst beat Stratford, 35-21. In other games: SPASH 30 - Marshfield 22 Medford 35 - Mosinee 0 Wausau East 25 - Rhinelander 21 Edgar 49 - Auburndale 0 D.C. Everest 28 - Eau Claire Memorial 6 Eau Claire North 28 - Wisconsin Rapids 3 Rib Lake 40 - Phillips 34 Owen Withee 36 -...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- A fire in a downtown Stevens Point mixed-use building is under investigation as potentially criminal. Fire crews were called to 920 Main Street for smoke and fire coming from an upper-level apartment. By the time they arrived, many residents and shoppers from the first-floor restaurant had e...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- A Lincoln County mother has pleaded no contest to child neglect stemming from the death of her daughter last fall. Katelyn Nardi entered the plea Friday morning and was found guilty by a Lincoln County Judge. In exchange for the plea, one count of felony reckless homicide was dismissed. The 27-yea...

By Field Level Media Oct 10 (Field Level Media) - The Athletics will continue their search ​for a president ‌of baseball operations after Sam Fuld declined an offer for the position, ESPN reported Saturday. Fuld is the ‌current ​president of business ⁠...

By Field Level Media Oct 10 (Field Level Media) - The Indianapolis Colts placed defensive end ​Arden Key on injured ‌reserve Saturday with a hamstring injury. Key sustained the injury during Indianapolis' 30-13 victory over the Washington Commanders la...

By Field Level Media Oct 10 (Field Level Media) - The FBI intends to award ​the UFC an exclusive ‌contract to train agents in hand-to-hand combat, according to The Athletic. The report cites a "Sole Source Justification" ‌document ​filed on September ⁠...

Oct 10 (Reuters) - Cristiano Ronaldo has been provisionally suspended by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) after disciplinary proceedings were opened over the forward's departure from the national team camp, ​Portuguese media reported on Saturda...

By Field Level Media Oct 10 (Field Level Media) - Jessica Korda is proud ​to be a "girl mom." The ‌LPGA golfer and husband Johnny DelPrete recently announced the birth of their second child, Olivia ‌Regina ​DelPrete. The ⁠middle name carries ⁠a special...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -The city of Wausau still has about 4,000 lead water service lines left to replace at an estimated cost of $10,000 per line. With grant funding covering only part of the cost through 2028, city leaders are looking at how to pay for the rest. For the past three years, the city has been replacing l...

MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A Minnesota man was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for traveling to Wisconsin to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. Creighton Mithaugen, 38, of Faribault, Minnesota, received a 97-month sentence from U.S. District Judge William M. Conley. He will also face a l...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- A fire in a downtown Stevens Point mixed-use building is under investigation as potentially criminal. Fire crews were called to 920 Main Street for smoke and fire coming from an upper-level apartment. By the time they arrived, many residents and shoppers from the first-floor restaurant had e...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- A Lincoln County mother has pleaded no contest to child neglect stemming from the death of her daughter last fall. Katelyn Nardi entered the plea Friday morning and was found guilty by a Lincoln County Judge. In exchange for the plea, one count of felony reckless homicide was dismissed. The 27-yea...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU) - An Antigo man has been arrested after law enforcement officers say he stole multiple vehicles and led deputies on high-speed chases across several counties on Thursday. Joshua D. Micke, 44, was taken into custody in Merrill following a multi-county crime spree. According to the Lincoln County Sheri...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- Another big-time concert is coming to the UW Madison campus as Metallica brings the M72 World Tour to Camp Randall on Saturday, June 12th. Tickets will go on sale next week, with presales beginning Monday, September 21st. General on sale is Friday, September 25th. The announcement was part of a No...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - Josh Jacobs, the star starting running back of the Green Bay Packers, appeared in Brown County court on Thursday morning to plead no contest to misdemeanor battery and property damage charges stemming from a May domestic altercation with his now-ex-girlfriend. According to ESPN's Rob Demovsky, th...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany is explaining why his campaign declined to participate in this cycle's Wisconsin Broadcasters Association debate. In an interview with "The Dan O'Donnell Show" on Tuesday, Tiffany said, "I think one debate will be sufficient to cover the ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association gubernatorial debate will no longer take place after one of the candidates failed to accept the invitation. According to a press release from the WBA, "Two invitations were sent, and both had to be accepted to have a debate. That did not happen." The...

FOND du LAC, WI (WSAU) Additional charges have been filed against Benjamin Larson after several human skulls and bones were found inside his home. He was initially charged last month with felony stalking. Investigators said he repeatedly changed his story about the human remains that were discovered. It's now believed...

Oct 10 (Reuters) - A 45-year-old man shot and killed eight people, including a pregnant woman and two children, then apparently shot himself ​to death in Erie, Pennsylvania, authorities said ‌on Saturday at a press conference where they revealed detail...

By Daniel Becerril and Alberto Fajardo MANZANILLO, Mexico, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Hurricane Simon strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast on Saturday, threatening destructive winds, storm surges and potentially deadly flood...

ROME, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Pope Leo renewed his condemnation of the death penalty on Saturday, saying it violates the sanctity of human life and deprives people ​of the chance of redemption, days after the ‌Pentagon said it planned to livestream an execu...

By Rhea Rose Abraham, Rajveer Pardesi and Marianna Parraga Oct 10 (Reuters) - Four people died after Hurricane Isaias made landfall early on Saturday, and about 670,000 residents in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi were still without power as...

By Andrew Chung Oct 9 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to revive his dismissed lawsuit against his 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton accusing her of conspiring along with former FBI Director James Comey and ot...

WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday vowed to cooperate with Japanese authorities investigating allegations that a ​US Marine murdered a woman in Okinawa, ‌a case that sparked protests and prompted a US military ...

Oct 10 (Reuters) - Death row inmate Christa Pike was released from a US hospital on Saturday and sent back to prison where she will ​continue receiving medical care following her botched ‌execution attempt in Tennessee, her attorneys said. Pike was dis...

Oct 10 (Reuters) - A 45-year-old man shot and killed eight people, including a pregnant woman and two children, then apparently shot himself ​to death in Erie, Pennsylvania, authorities said ‌on Saturday at a press conference where they revealed detail...

Oct 10 (Reuters) - Infosys, India's second-largest IT firm, said on ​Saturday that it ‌does not anticipate a material impact from the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) ‌application ​suspension announced ⁠by the US ⁠government. The US government said...

By Daniel Becerril and Alberto Fajardo MANZANILLO, Mexico, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Hurricane Simon strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast on Saturday, threatening destructive winds, storm surges and potentially deadly flood...

Oct 10 (Reuters) - Nvidia is in talks to deepen its investment in open-source startup Reflection AI or acquire it, the Financial Times reported ​on Saturday, citing people with direct ‌knowledge of the matter. • Talks are at an early stage and a deal ...

By Jan Strupczewski and Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, Oct 10 (Reuters) - The Irish EU presidency proposed on Saturday an 8% cut in the European Commission's budget plan for the period 2028 to 2034 to €1.6 trillion ($1.79 trillion), drawing criticism from more...

BEIJING, Oct 10 (Reuters) - China added 10.52 million urban jobs in the first nine months of the ​year, meeting 87.7% of its ‌annual target, the labour ministry said on Saturday. The ministry is also planning new measures to boost hiring in the service...

CARACAS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez ​has authorized ‌Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk's ‌SpaceX, ​to operate ⁠in the ⁠Latin American country. The authorization is part of an agreement ​...

By Kalea Hall DETROIT, Oct 9 (Reuters) - United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain declared victory on Friday in a race to maintain his position as head of the 400,000-member union. Fain, 57, who rose to national prominence during a 2023 strike against ...

Oct 10 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Saturday that it still does not know what caused the pneumonia that killed a Russian ​lab worker at an anti-plague research center ‌in Siberia this month, and that no case of plague had been regi...

AMSTERDAM, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A Dutch court on Saturday dismissed demands by shareholders of health technology company Philips for an investigation into ​allegations of misleading disclosures and management failures ‌linked to the company's recall of s...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - GSK will invest more than $800 million to expand its Upper Merion, Pennsylvania site into a ​new biopharmaceutical manufacturing and research hub, ‌creating more than 300 jobs over the next five years, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapi...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - The US FDA on Friday approved Japan's Asahi Kasei's drug for persistent herpes simplex virus sores in ​certain patients with weakened immune systems ‌who have not responded to available antiviral treatments. • The oral drug, called pr...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - The US CDC on Friday reported 4,080 confirmed measles cases in the country as of October 8, up ​193 from a week earlier. Here are ‌key details: • Twenty-six cases were identified among international visitors, according to the Centers ...

By Cassell Bryan-Low and John Irish PARIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The shadowing of a Western satellite supporting Ukraine by a cluster of Russian military satellites earlier this year demonstrates capabilities that could threaten commercial constellations s...

By Kate Abnett and Sudarshan Varadhan BRUSSELS/SINGAPORE, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The decision was expected to take minutes. But after nearly three years of debate, members of the world's leading authority on climate change still can't agree on a timeline to...

By Will Dunham Oct 8 (Reuters) - About 165 million years ago, a furry critter that swam like a platypus, hunted like an otter and had a tail similar to a beaver's frolicked in the lakes and rivers of what is now China pursuing fish and salamanders, the...

Oct 8 (Reuters) - American Airlines said on Thursday it now intends to install SpaceX's ​Starlink satellite internet service ‌on its entire primary fleet of over 1,000 aircraft from next year, extending a plan already in ‌place ​for roughly ⁠half of th...

By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump will speak at a White House event on scientific ​discovery on Thursday, according to a ‌social media post from his tech adviser Michael Kratsios. The event will highlight the Tru...

Oct 10 (Reuters) - Infosys, India's second-largest IT firm, said on ​Saturday that it ‌does not anticipate a material impact from the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) ‌application ​suspension announced ⁠by the US ⁠government. The US government said...

By Max A. Cherney and Krystal Hu SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Six-month-old microchip startup Nuvacore, which does not yet have a product, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars at a roughly $2.5 billion valuation to develop a new central proce...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Patriot Mobile disclosed a 21% increase in first-half revenue in its paperwork for ​a US initial public offering ‌on Friday. • Revenue rose to $53.4 million in the six months ended June 30, from $44 million a year earlier. Net loss ‌w...

By Karen Freifeld and Jaspreet Singh NEW YORK, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A contractor linked to Super Micro Computer has pleaded guilty in a scheme to illegally export computer servers containing advanced Nvidia AI chips to China, a ​federal court filing showe...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Prediction market Kalshi has launched an investigation into suspicious trades tied to the selection of ​Katie Zacharia as U.S. President ‌Donald Trump's new White House press secretary, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citi...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Country music star Ella Langley's Friday night performance in Oklahoma was canceled shortly before it was scheduled to start over what the singer called a "serious ​security threat." Police said they cond...

By Danielle Broadway and Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES, Oct 9 (Reuters) - It was not until Catherine Zeta-Jones began working on the Prime Video series "Kill Jackie" that she had an epiphany: ​for the first time in her career, she would ‌be playing a characte...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The world of successful TV franchise "Avatar: The Last Airbender" is expanding once again, with ​a new prequel series that will follow ‌the story of a rebellious teenager Avatar - a being who controls...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action film set in the universe of CD Projekt ​RED's video game "Cyberpunk 2077" alongside ‌producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, entertainment outlet Deadline reported on Thursday, which sent the Po...

By Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo TORONTO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Poet and writer Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, spurring celebrations in her native Canada, a country that has long lived in the shadow of its southern ​neighbor but is en...