WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Marathon County man once suspected of homicide by delivery of drugs has been sentenced for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Lamont Davis will serve four years in prison and four years on extended supervision after pleading no contest to the charge this week. The 37-year-old was arres...

LEOLA, WI (WSAU-WAOW) Officials in Adams County have released the name of a man who was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy Monday in the Town of Leola. The Adams County Sheriff's Office said Brian P. Conrad, 48, of Hancock, died after the confrontation. The sheriff's office said Conrad refused commands to drop his g...

VILLAGE OF MAINE, WI (WSAU) -- The Wood County Sheriff's Office has identified the subject of Tuesday's multi-county high-speed chase. John Wallace of Oregon, Wisconsin, was found dead in the vehicle following the chase, which began in Lincoln County and ended in the Marathon County Village of Maine. A preliminary auto...

WAUPACA, WI (WSAU) -- A Langlade County woman has entered a not guilty plea for one count of reckless homicide by delivery of drugs. Desiree Osman is accused of providing the drugs that led Jon "Jake" Morgan to overdose in 2020. She's also accused of hiding his body, a charge that carries a "party to the...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- The Wood County man accused of reckless homicide in the death of Sara Wilkinson has pleaded no contest. Paul Hardwick entered the plea on Wednesday. In exchange, several charges were dismissed but read into the record, including felony possession of cocaine and THC. The 55-year-old was ac...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Marquette University has released its latest political poll, and it shows that the race to be the Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor isn't currently close. According to the poll, which was released on Wednesday morning with a margin of error of 6.6%, Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong l...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) A lawyer representing the family of a man shot by police is calling for criminal charges against the officer who fired the fatal shot. Ben Crump, who represents the family of Corey Ruiz said, "They not only tackled him, not only tased him, not only kicked him, but you saw they shot him three ti...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - As Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley attempts to revive and rebrand his campaign following the financial scandal that led to Lt. Gov Sara Rodriguez ending her campaign, the latest betting odds show Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong remains the heavy favorite to the be the Democratic nomine...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez is no longer seeking the state's highest office. Rodriguez has suspended her campaign after a week of turmoil that began on Sunday with the firing of her campaign manager over irregularities in her finance reports. It was later discovered that some dona...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - A Wisconsin advocacy group has announced a complaint against Democratic gubernatorial candidate and sitting Lt. Gov Sara Rodriguez after an alleged donation to their organization was never received. According to a press release from the Wisconsin Federation of Republician Women, the Rodriguez campa...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - Walt Disney-owned ABC said on Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission's threat to revoke the network's broadcast licenses is part of an unprecedented campaign of intimidation over broadcas...

By Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani LES BRENETS, Switzerland, July 30 (Reuters) - Lake Brenets, a long, winding lake on the Swiss-French border, is all but drained and has been unnavigable for more ​than a week amid a prolonged drought that has hit...

By Juana Casas SANTIAGO, July 30 (Reuters) - Latin America is expected to experience a severe El Niño weather phenomenon from October to December, which ​is likely to worsen agricultural supply shocks ‌caused by conflict in the Strait of Hormuz, a seni...

LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - A wildfire in eastern England, one of the largest the region has seen, was not affecting nearby nuclear facilities and ​was not expected to spread towards them, ‌fire officials and operators said on Thursday. The facilities ...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth slowed in the second quarter amid a widening in the trade deficit, but robust consumer spending and business investment related to the buildout of artificial intelligence infrastruc...

BEIJING, July 30 (Reuters) - China's military and coast guard conducted patrols ​in the airspace ‌and waters near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on ‌Thursday, ​separate statements showed. Tensions ⁠have recently ⁠flared between C...

BEIJING, July 30 (Reuters) - A total of ​51 people ‌have been confirmed dead after a landslide ‌in ​southwestern ⁠China's Chongqing on ⁠July 17, while 10 are still missing, ​the local government ⁠said in ⁠a statement ​late on ​Thursday. Search efforts ...

By Charlotte Van Campenhout and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS, July 30 (Reuters) - Belgian authorities suspect a Canadian NATO intern arrested on suspicion of espionage was working for China, according to two sources with knowledge of the case. In announcing he...

LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's Supreme Court has said it will hear an appeal against a lower court ruling that ​Britain's decision to ban campaign group Palestine ‌Action as a terrorist organisation was lawful. London's Court of Appea...

By Timour Azhari and Mohammed Ghobari RIYADH, July 30 (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia this week from Iraqi territory in coordination with Iraqi armed groups, according to assessments by Saudi Arabia and regional partners,...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (WSAU) - The Giants blew-out the Brewers, 16-3, to take two-out-of-three games in San Francisco. Luis Arreas had 4 of the Giants 17 hits. He improved his batting average to .331, the best in the major leagues. Pitcher Logan Webb improved to 6-7 this season. He has a 6-0 career record against the Brewe...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers confirmed Wednesday that one of their top tight ends will be out indefinitely. According to GM Brian Gutekunst, Luke Musgrave is suffering from a neck injury, and the team's medical staff has yet to assess whether he will miss any regular-season games. Musgrave, 25, had 25 c...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (WSAU) - The better-rested Brewers beat the Giants Tuesday night, 8-2. A night earlier, the Brewers lost 3-0 after a 5-hour flight delay getting into San Francisco. In Tuesday's game Brice Turang had 3-hits and rookie Luis Lara had 3-RBI. Logan Henderson improved to 5-1 this season, allowing just 2 hi...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers may be without their top pass rusher for the first month and a half of 2026 while he recovers from a torn ACL. According to Matt Schneidman of the Athletic, the Packers plan to give Micah Parsons as much time as possible to heal before returning to the field for Green Bay's ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - According to reports, the Milwaukee Brewers and the New York Mets have discussed a trade that would return Freddy Peralta to Milwaukee. According to ESPN's Jeff Passan, the two sides have been in communication in recent days as New York attempts to sell at the trade deadline, as the team continue...

North Carolina football general manager Michael Lombardi could learn his fate with the program before the start of the 2026 season. UNC athletic director Steve ​Newmark said no hard timeline was in ‌place for the Office of University Counsel to comple...

ESPN and LeBron James are finalizing a deal to chronicle the NBA superstar's time with the Philadelphia ​76ers in a behind-the-scenes documentary, The ‌Athletic reported Thursday. A source said the talks are at the "1-yard line," with the project bein...

The Philadelphia Union agreed to transfer defender Olwethu Makhanya to Scotland's Rangers ​F.C. on Thursday. The ‌22-year-old South African center back had one goal in 42 MLS matches (36 starts) for the ‌Union ​from 2025-26. Makhanya ⁠was Philadelphi...

Green Bay Packers career rushing leader Ahman Green announced that he is dealing with Parkinson's disease. Green, 49, said he was diagnosed with early onset of the disease in January 2025. Per the Mayo Clinic, Parkinson's ​disease is a movement disor...

The NBA will not play any preseason games in the Middle East ​this year due ‌to the ongoing war in Iran, ESPN reported Thursday. As part of the NBA Global Games ‌series, ​the league ⁠played exhibition contests ⁠in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in e...

BEIJING, July 30 (Reuters) - China's Vice Premier He Lifeng had a video call on Thursday with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott ​Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson ‌Greer during which he raised concerns about recent U.S. restrictions on trade, ...

By Saeed Azhar NEW YORK, July 30 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs queried its former top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler in 2023, 2025 and 2026 about links to Jeffrey Epstein amid growing scrutiny of the late convicted sex offender's ties ​to the elite and wealthy, acc...

By Nora Eckert DETROIT, July 30 (Reuters) - Ford CEO Jim Farley told employees in a town hall Thursday that ​the company is preparing for ‌the possibility that Chinese automakers could enter the American market in the next five to ten years, even thoug...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - Walt Disney-owned ABC said on Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission's threat to revoke the network's broadcast licenses is part of an unprecedented campaign of intimidation over broadcas...

July 30 - Scale AI said on Thursday it had named former Google Cloud executive Francis DeSouza as chief executive officer, effective ​August 10, as the AI company looks ‌to expand its data and applications businesses. DeSouza will succeed Jason Droege,...

WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate health ​committee voted ‌on Thursday to advance the nomination of President Donald ‌Trump's ​pick ⁠for CDC Director ⁠Dr. Erica Schwartz, bringing her closer to confirmation ​by the whole Senate. If ⁠confi...

July 30 (Reuters) - Drugmaker Eli Lilly and privately held contract manufacturer Resilience will invest $750 million to expand pharmaceutical manufacturing ​capacity in the U.S. and ‌strengthen the domestic medicine supply chain, Resilience said on Thu...

By Christy Santhosh July 30 (Reuters) - Shares of Capricor Therapeutics fell 50% in morning trading on Thursday after the U.S. FDA's panel of experts voted against the effectiveness data of its ​cell therapy for a heart condition related to Duchenne ‌m...

July 30 (Reuters) - Regeneron on Thursday beat Wall Street estimates for second-quarter revenue and profit, helped by strong demand for ​its eczema drug Dupixent and a ‌high-dose version of its eye drug Eylea. Shares rose nearly 5% before the bell. Her...

July 30 (Reuters) - Pfizer said on Thursday its oral drug helped restore skin color in patients with a common form of vitiligo in two late-stage trials, ​paving the way for regulatory submissions seeking approval ‌in the autoimmune skin disease. Here a...

By Will Dunham July 30 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered a fossil in China of a long-necked marine reptile from 245 million years ago that is so well preserved that it reveals the animal's stomach, liver and intestines, providing an unparalleled l...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - SpaceX won $1.6 billion in orders from the U.S. Space Force on Wednesday to launch 18 Falcon 9 missions through 2027 carrying Pentagon satellites for detecting and targeting ​airborne objects, the servic...

SOFIA, July 29 (Reuters) - The remains of what is believed to be an ancient mammoth have been revealed in ​northern Bulgaria, after Danube River water ‌levels receded to a record low level, the BTA news agency reported on Wednesday, citing historians. ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - Betelgeuse is a superstar among the stars - one of the brightest in the night sky, a massive red supergiant in the constellation Orion that sometimes brightens and dims, and adds to its allure with the fac...

By Will Dunham July 28 (Reuters) - Footprints left on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya around 1.43 million years ago are providing new insight into the size and behavior of a species in the human evolutionary lineage that was the last of its kind, k...

BERLIN, July 30 (Reuters) - Germany's digital minister urged Europe on Thursday to speed up efforts to build its own AI industry after an OpenAI security test showed an AI agent breaching ​another system, raising concerns about control of increasingly ...

NEW YORK, July 30 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Asset Management has launched an artificial intelligence ​investing platform, AlphaAI, betting ‌that AI will become an important driver of investment returns across its public and private market businesses. L...

July 30 (Reuters) - Cloud infrastructure provider Nscale will buy AI software startup Anyscale to help clients better manage and run ​AI systems efficiently, the companies said ‌on Thursday. Bloomberg News first reported the news, saying the deal price...

By Utkarsh Shetti July 30 (Reuters) - Mastercard posted a second-quarter profit that surpassed Wall Street expectations on Thursday, boosted by robust transaction volumes driven by steady consumer spending. Despite fears that geopolitical tensions and ...

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - Alphabet-owned cybersecurity company Wiz said on Thursday it had found a sweeping flaw that could have compromised Microsoft and thousands of its cloud customers. Wiz said ​in a post on its website that...

PARIS, July 30 (Reuters) - Hollywood actor George Clooney and his British wife Amal, an international human rights lawyer, have ​evacuated their luxury home in Brignoles ‌as a result of the wildfires blazing in the southern French region, Clooney's pub...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, July 29 (Reuters) - K-pop group BTS said on Wednesday they will not submit any music for consideration at the 69th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2027, ​citing dissatisfaction with the academy's new category for best...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, July 29 (Reuters) - Oscar-winning American actor Jared Leto on Wednesday denied sexual misconduct claims made by four women who told the BBC ​that the Hollywood star assaulted them when they ‌were teenagers. "I have never ...

By Elvira Pollina and Amy-Jo Crowley MILAN/LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - Aser Ventures, the investment vehicle led by Italian businessman and former Leeds United ​owner Andrea Radrizzani, could sell part of ‌its minority stake in sports streaming platfor...

By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN, July 29 (Reuters) - Irish musician Glen Hansard, who won a Best Original Song Oscar in 2008 for the indie film "Once" and was lead singer for rock group The Frames, died in a motorcycle crash at the age of 56 early on Wednesda...