GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- The Amherst School District has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the Green Bay Packers to start a girls' flag football program. "We are excited to see high schools in Wisconsin developing and executing their own girls flag pilot leagues," said Packers Football Outreach Manager Ryan Fen...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has appointed an interim chancellor. According to a statement from the university, Pratima Gandhi, who is currently the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, will assume the position on July 14, saying, "Pratima Gandhi has a succes...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Ethics Board voted to conclude its investigation into Mayor Doug Diny's handling of a locked, unsecured municipal dropbox, finding probable cause that the move violated the city's ethics code. Board members met for more than 90 minutes on Thursday, determining that the Mayor knowingly we...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- Pixelle Specialty Solutions of Stevens Point has been acquired by Ahlstrom, according to a press release from the Finnish company. Ahlstrom has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the Stevens Point plant from Pixelle. Pending regulatory approval, the $600 million deal is expected to ...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- A Plover man has been sentenced to three years in prison for two counts of possessing child pornography. Hayden Witzel-Marr entered a no contest plea for two counts of possession of child pornography. Four additional counts were dismissed but read into the record in exchange for the plea. Th...

By David Morgan, Richard Cowan and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate approved a Republican budget blueprint early on Saturday that aims to extend trillions of dollars worth of President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts and sharply reduce go...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The death toll from Myanmar's devastating earthquake climbed to 3,354, with 4,850 injured and 220 missing, state media said on Saturday, as the visiting U.N. aid chief praised humanitarian and community groups for leading the ai...

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. customs agents began collecting President Donald Trump's unilateral 10% tariff on all imports from many countries on Saturday, with higher levies on goods from 57 larger trading partners due to start next...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's remarks were interrupted by a pro-Palestinian protesting employee during the technology company's 50th anniversary celebration on Friday over the firm's ties with Israel. "You are a ...

By Jack Queen (Reuters) - Former U.S. Representative George Santos, who was expelled from Congress after a brief and scandal-plagued tenure, should be sentenced to more than seven years in prison for fraud and identity theft, federal prosecutors in...

By Anna Koper, Marek Strzelecki, Filipp Lebedev and Andrius Sytas WARSAW (Reuters) - Fake cosmetics, massage pillows and sex toys. Crude homemade explosives. A Russian known as Warrior. A code word: Mary. These are among the key elements of a suspe...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The death toll from Myanmar's devastating earthquake climbed to 3,354, with 4,850 injured and 220 missing, state media said on Saturday, as the visiting U.N. aid chief praised humanitarian and community groups for leading the ai...

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. customs agents began collecting President Donald Trump's unilateral 10% tariff on all imports from many countries on Saturday, with higher levies on goods from 57 larger trading partners due to start next...

(Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau discussed on Friday with Panama's Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha the importance of an ongoing audit of Hutchison's management of concessions of two ports at either end of the Pana...

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed tariffs with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the State Department said in a readout of their conversation on Friday, in the aftermath of a sweeping new tariff policy announced by...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - For the second straight day, the Wisconsin Badgers have landed a transfer portal commitment as the team looks to continue to rebuild their roster for the 2025-2026 season. According to NBA Insider Sean Wright, former San Diego State guard Nick Boyd will announce his commitment to the Badgers on Fri...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers are set to host one of the 2025 NFL Draft's top wide receivers for an official visit. According to Sports Illustrated's Bill Huber, former Texas Longhorn star wide receiver Matthew Golden will be meeting with the Packers this weekend for an official Top 30 visit, marking the...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers got a splendid start from Nestor Cortes and the bullpen was stellar again in a 1-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday night at American Family Field. Cortes bounced back from his disastrous first start to toss six shutout innings giving up just one hit with six Ks and...

PHILADELPHIA, PA (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Bucks got a huge triple-double from Giannis Antetokounmpo in a 126-113 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday night in Pennsylvania. Giannis finished with 35 points, 17 rebounds and 20 assists in the win. He was 12-19 from the field and 10-11 from the free throw line. The B...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin Badgers star point guard John Blackwell has declared for the 2025 NBA draft but is not closing the door on returning to college for another season. According to a post on his X account, point guard John Blackwell spoke about his decision, saying, "After speaking with Coach Gard, the ...

KINGSTON (Reuters) -Olympic champions Gabby Thomas and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone stormed to victory on the first day of the inaugural Grand Slam Track event in Kingston, Jamaica on Friday. Three-time Olympic gold medallist Thomas beamed a big smile as ...

(Reuters) -Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin scored his 894th career National Hockey League goal on Friday, tying the all-time record set by Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky that was once considered unapproachable. Ovechkin's second goal of the game...

By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - First baseman Pete Alonso reminded the Mets - again - of his worth on Friday with his third home run in four games as New York beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-0 in their home opener. The four-time All-Star knocked a...

Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona will miss Friday's road game against the Milwaukee Brewers due to an illness going around the team. Reds president of baseball operations Nick Krall declined to identify which players the team sent back to the ho...

Wide receiver Julio Jones officially announced his retirement from the NFL via the social media app Squad on Friday. Jones is one of the most prolific pass-catchers of the modern era. He is a five-time All-Pro (twice selected to the first team) and a ...

By Antoni Slodkowski BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Saturday "the market has spoken" in rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, and called on Washington for "equal-footed consultation" after global markets' dramatic reaction to the trad...

By Tassilo Hummel COGNAC, France - Christophe Fillioux's family estate in the cognac region of southwest France has survived for five generations, through wars and financial crises. Now, though, he has started to tear up some of his vineyards by th...

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. customs agents began collecting President Donald Trump's unilateral 10% tariff on all imports from many countries on Saturday, with higher levies on goods from 57 larger trading partners due to start next...

By Jeffrey Dastin REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - As Microsoft CEOs past and present gathered here to celebrate the company's 50th birthday, one leader said he is targeting a particular metric's improvement to guide his strategy on artificial intel...

(Reuters) -U.S. pharmacy chain Rite Aid is weighing a possible repeat bankruptcy after its recent financial restructuring failed to put the drugstore chain on a sustainable path, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The company has also been pur...

(Reuters) -U.S. pharmacy chain Rite Aid is weighing a possible repeat bankruptcy after its recent financial restructuring failed to put the drugstore chain on a sustainable path, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The company has also been pur...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has detected its first human case of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday. The infection was confirmed on Tuesday in a three-year-old girl living in the northern state of Du...

(Reuters) -Peter Marks, the FDA's top vaccine official ousted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the U.S. health secretary's team sought nonexistent data to justify antivaccine narratives, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Kennedy, a well-known va...

(Reuters) -The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Friday that it did not move forward with a proposal put forth by the Biden administration on Medicare coverage of weight-loss drugs such as Novo Nordisk's Wegovy. (Reporting by Puyaan Sin...

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) -The Association of Public Health Laboratories sent a letter on Friday asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to restore two national laboratories that did testing for rare forms of hepatitis and ...

By Marisa Taylor and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a U.S. Space Force rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive ...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Four private astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Friday, after roughly four days orbiting Earth in a novel polar trajectory, capping the Elon Musk-led company's sixth fully private space mission. S...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the United States. But it has not always ...

(Reuters) - U.S. liquefied natural gas developer Venture Global exported 29 cargoes from its Plaquemines facility in Louisiana during the first quarter of 2025, the company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday. Venture Global realized an average...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -It is the site of a dramatic moment in Scottish history. The Isle of Skye's rocky shoreline is where Charles Edward Stuart - known as Bonnie Prince Charlie - arrived by boat disguised as a maid to hide from the English in 1746...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's remarks were interrupted by a pro-Palestinian protesting employee during the technology company's 50th anniversary celebration on Friday over the firm's ties with Israel. "You are a ...

By Jeffrey Dastin REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - As Microsoft CEOs past and present gathered here to celebrate the company's 50th birthday, one leader said he is targeting a particular metric's improvement to guide his strategy on artificial intel...

By Anna Tong OAKLAND (Reuters) - - Billionaire Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI will go to a jury trial in spring 2026, the federal judge presiding over the case decided on Friday. Last month, OpenAI and Musk agreed to fast-track a trial over Ope...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo said it is delaying the start of pre-orders for the Switch 2 gaming device in the United States as it examines the potential impact of tariffs. Pre-orders will not start on April 9 in the U.S. "in order to assess the pote...

(Reuters) -Tesla's vice president of software engineering, David Lau, has told people at the company he is stepping down, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Lau, who has been with the automaker for more than 12 y...

By Lisa Richwine and Rollo Ross LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -A half-century ago, in June 1975, "Jaws" swam into theaters, gave audiences a good scare and rewrote movie history. The shark thriller became the first summer blockbuster with a playbook that Hollywo...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean 'Diddy' Combs was hit with a new federal indictment on Friday charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts including racketeering and sex trafficking, court records showed. Combs, 55, had previously faced three criminal...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Audio streaming giant Spotify's royalty payments to artists from Nigeria and South Africa - its two biggest African markets - spiked to around $59 million last year as performers rode a wave of growing interest in music fro...

LONDON (Reuters) -British police charged actor-comedian Russell Brand with rape and a multiple counts of assault over a number of allegations between 1999 and 2005, a police statement on Friday said. Brand, 50, the former husband of U.S. pop singer Kat...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department will allow actor Mel Gibson to own guns again, despite his 2011 conviction on a domestic violence charge, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The Times, citing unnamed sources familiar with the Justice Depart...