WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -- A new transitional housing program in Wausau is helping single mothers rebuild their lives after homelessness or domestic violence. Ruth's Home is an extension of the Hager House, offering mothers a more hands-off and realistic living experience as they prepare for independence. Hagar House E...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- For a second time in three weeks, Concerts on the Square are heading indoors. Tonight's performance with Johnny and the MoTones has been moved to the Rothschild Pavilion due to the threat of rain, according to a press release from Wausau Events. "Whenever weather may impact the event experienc...

WAUPACA, WI (WSAU) -- A 31-year-old woman has been bound over for trial in connection with the death of Jon "Jake" Morgan. Desiree Osman of Antigo is accused of providing the drugs that led the 23-year-old to overdose back in 2020. Police say she hid his body, which led to an extensive search effort involving...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man will serve prison time for firearms-related charges in connection with a 2023 shooting incident near the M and R Station. Joseph Slater will serve five years in prison and five years on extended supervision as part of a plea deal announced on Monday. The sentence comes after the 45-yea...

TOWN OF MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- A Merrill man is facing disorderly conduct, battery, and reckless endangerment charges after a report of someone shooting a nail gun at the Rock Island Resort. Witnesses said Daniel Zulliger was becoming obnoxious with a group of people on a boat, including pushing someone overboard. He wa...

WAUKESHA, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin and Waukesha County have lost a long-time political executive and leader. According to WISN, Waukesha County Executive Paul Farrow, 61, has passed away after a years-long fight with Stage 4 mucinous adenocarcinoma, a rare and incurable kind of stomach cancer thought to have begun in the ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - On Wednesday, a sentence was handed down in the case involving former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan. According to Fox News' Bill Melugin, Eastern District of Wisconsin Federal Judge Lynn Adelman rejected the prosecution's recommendation for a 15- to 21-month prison sentence, instead fining ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - To maintain, repair, and improve local roads and connecting highways, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) and Governor Tony Evers announced on Wednesday that counties and municipalities across the state received more than $180 million in the third quarterly payments for 2026 General...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - A new lawsuit filed by two prominent Wisconsin media organizations accuses the Evers administration of breaking open records laws. According to a post on X by Wisconsin Right Now, the outlet, along with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, filed the complaint on Tuesday after Gov. Tony Evers' administra...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - A new study on U.S. and statewide AI Data Center regulations has uncovered how foreign governments and companies are influencing voters and local lawmakers to reject AI Data Center construction in the United States, including in Wisconsin. According to the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a non-profit, non...

LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in Britain for the first ​time in nearly 1,000 ‌years ahead of a sell-out exhibition at the British Museum this year, travelling under police escort ‌during ​a meticulously choreographed ⁠jour...

TOKYO, July 10 (Reuters) - Japan's weather ​bureau ‌said on Friday that the ‌El ​Nino ⁠phenomenon has ⁠been observed since spring and that ​there was ⁠a ⁠100% chance ​it will ​continue through the ‌Northern Hemisphere autumn. El Nino ⁠is a warming of o...

By Joseph Campbell and Kim Kyung-Hoon ISHIGAKI, Japan, July 10 (Reuters) - A large and powerful typhoon approached a remote chain of islands in Japan's southwest on Friday, prompting authorities to warn of violent winds, torrential rain, landslides ​an...

By Bo Erickson and Erin Banco WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday terminated the last three members of the Election Assistance Commission, the independent, federal commission that assists election administration offic...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - A federal grand jury has indicted eight men over an alleged plot to attack the Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts ​event on the White House lawn in June, ‌the U.S. Department of Justice sa...

MOSCOW, July 10 (Reuters) - The International Energy Agency has downgraded its projections on Russian oil production because of Ukrainian attacks on the country's energy infrastructure, the agency said on ​Friday. Ukraine has stepped up the drone strik...

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, July 10 (Reuters) - At least one million women and girls have lost access to life-saving support within the last year due to global donor aid cuts, a new United Nations ​report on Friday found. Nearly nine in 10 women's or...

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI, July 10 (Reuters) - Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, facing a death sentence back home where her party is banned, told Reuters she and senior party colleagues plan to return from exile in India around Decemb...

By Michael Georgy DUBAI, July 10, (Reuters) - Preliminary investigations into the cell behind Tuesday's bombings in Damascus, near a hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron spent the night, indicate it was affiliated with Islamic State, a senior S...

By Marc Jones LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - UNESCO has urged governments and international lenders to expand debt-for-education swaps to help tackle a worsening education financing crisis, warning that 113 countries now spend more on servicing debt ​than...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers have their first player on the 2026 NFL Top 100 list. During Thursday morning's announcement, running back Josh Jacobs was ranked 74th in the league after rushing for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns for the Packers last season. Jacobs finished 33rd on the list for the 2024-2025 ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers will be without one of their top pitchers for an extended period of time. According to the team, an MRI revealed new damage to Brandon Woodruff's anterior capsule, which will be surgically corrected after the 2023 season. The Brewers intended to refer Woodruff to surgeon Dr....

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers have announced that one of their top young pitchers will be returning to the rotation this week to face the division rival Cardinals. According to Brewers insider Adam McCalvy, Logan Henderson, who has been on the injured list with a back strain since late May, will return t...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Bucks and five other teams have agreed to a deal sending a variety of picks and players to new teams. According to ClutchPoints Brett Siegel, the Bucks have acquired veteran guard Caris LeVert and two second-round picks from the Pistons, while also sending veteran players Taurean Pr...

ST. LOUIS, MO (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 in Game 1 of Tuesday's doubleheader, thanks to another outstanding performance by their ace, Jacob Misiorowski. Misiorowski, who earned his tenth win of the season, struggled to begin the game, allowing a two-run home run to Jordan Walker...

Framber Valdez threw seven innings of one-run ball to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 4-1 win over the visiting Athletics on Thursday night. Valdez (5-6) retired the first 11 hitters he faced and allowed just three hits, struck out nine and issued no wal...

Philadelphia Phillies interim manager Don Mattingly made it clear Thursday that he's open to staying on beyond this season. Talking to reporters after ESPN reported ​his interest on Wednesday, Mattingly confirmed the ‌possibility. "I like doing it," ...

One group from the Boston Celtics and another from the San Francisco 49ers are the leading candidates to buy the reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, Front Office Sports reported on Thursday. Current Celtics minority owner Aditya Mittal and ...

Amid a tough season for him and the New York Mets, Mark Vientos is expected to be placed on the injured list after fracturing ​a bone in his right hand on a ‌hit by pitch Thursday. In a 7-3 home win over the Kansas City Royals, Vientos was struck on t...

Five-star basketball recruit Marcus Spears Jr. will reclassify and has committed to Texas for the 2026-27 college season, he informed ESPN ​on Thursday. The 17-year-old Spears, a native of ‌Plano, Texas, is regarded as the nation's No. 1 prospect. He ...

July 10 (Reuters) - European shares were muted on Friday as broader gains were largely offset by declines ​in technology stocks while investors assessed ‌renewed Middle East tensions that put the benchmark on track for declines this week. The pan-Europ...

July 10 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is back to square one in its fight against high inflation ​in the euro zone after new ‌hostilities between the U.S. and Iran caused energy prices to rise again, ECB policymaker Yannis Stournaras said on Fri...

July 10 (Reuters) - Consumer prices in France ​rose ‌2.0% year-on-year in June on an ‌EU-harmonised ​basis, ⁠statistics office INSEE ⁠said on Friday, confirming a preliminary ​reading published earlier ⁠this ⁠month. The harmonised ​inflation rate in ​t...

BERLIN, July 10 (Reuters) - German ​inflation ‌eased to 2.4% in ‌June, ​the ⁠federal statistics ⁠office said on Friday, confirming ​preliminary data. Inflation, ⁠or ⁠the ​gain in ​consumer prices harmonised ‌to compare with ⁠other European Union countr...

July 10 (Reuters) - UAE telecoms operator E& Group said on ​Friday it would ‌sell its entire stake in Vodafone to a company owned by the ‌family ​group of ⁠French telecoms tycoon ⁠Xavier Niel for $5.95 billion. E& will divest its entire holding of ​16....

July 10 (Reuters) - Bayer said on Friday it had secured €3 billion ($3.4 billion) in equity from ​Apollo-managed funds in a deal ‌tied to its long-acting reversible contraceptives, or LARC, business, aiming to bolster its capital structure while prese...

By Christine Chen SYDNEY, July 10 (Reuters) - Australia on Friday confirmed the first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in a local seabird, raising concerns that the disease is beginning to spread more ​widely after it landed in the country last m...

July 9 (Reuters) - Bausch + Lomb said on Thursday its glaucoma eye drop had missed ​the main goal in a ‌mid-stage trial of replicating visual function improvements observed in a smaller study. The company said it will discontinue ‌development ​of the e...

By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG, July 9 (Reuters) - South African health regulators are recalling weight-loss medicines compounded by a local pharmacy group, iDexis, and have warned healthcare professionals that prescribing, dispensing or holding stock ...

By Julia Symmes Cobb July 9 (Reuters) - The biggest health risks following twin earthquakes that ripped across Venezuela's northern coast last month include interruptions to regular medical care, crowded shelters and lack of access to clean water, the ...

BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - China on Friday successfully tested an experimental rocket retrieval system using a net attached to a sea platform, state media reported, in the hope of breaking U.S. dominance in reusable rockets. The Long March 10B rocket...

By Steve Gorman July 9 (Reuters) - Wally Funk, the trailblazing aviator who became the oldest person to fly to space some 60 years after first undergoing astronaut training with 12 other American women at the dawn of the Space Age, has died in Texas at...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - In about 5 billion years, our sun will begin its death throes by expanding in size and engulfing the innermost planets - possibly including Earth - before expelling its outer layers and forming a stellar re...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - A quasar - among the universe's most luminous and energetic objects - is a supermassive black hole caught in the act of guzzling matter at the heart of a galaxy. Scientists have now found quasars dating to ...

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO, July 8 (Reuters) - Japanese moon transport company ispace said on Wednesday it would start a new, lower-cost lunar cargo business using the Starship heavy rocket and moon lander developed by ​Elon Musk's SpaceX. Tokyo-based is...

By Utkarsh Shetti July 10 (Reuters) - SK Hynix's U.S. trading debut on Friday following a $26.5 billion share sale will be a key test of investors' belief in the durability of the AI boom, coming after a recent pullback in semiconductor stocks. Chip st...

By Valentina Za and Elvira Pollina MILAN, July 10 (Reuters) - Italy has picked an unlikely champion to develop its technology infrastructure and protect digital sovereignty: its national postman. Poste Italiane, the postal service which pays out pensio...

By Fanny Potkin and Kane Wu SINGAPORE, July 9 (Reuters) - Chinese gaming and internet ​company Tencent is ‌in talks to become Manus' largest shareholder as investors seek alternatives after Beijing ordered Meta ‌to ​unwind its $2 billion ⁠acquisition o...

July 10 (Reuters) - Australian data center operator NEXTDC said on Friday it had signed ​new senior debt facilities ‌of A$2.3 billion ($1.60 billion) to support capital expenditure required for recent customer contract wins and ongoing data ‌center ​de...

(Corrects Fidji Simo's designation in headline and paragraph 1) July 9 (Reuters) - OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment ​Fidji Simo said on ‌Thursday she will step down from her full-time role and transition to a part-time advisory position at the ChatGPT ma...

July 9 (Reuters) - Streaming firm FuboTV on Thursday named Disney executive Alisa Bowen as CEO effective July 10, while ​removing company veteran David Gandler as ‌top boss. Bowen, 53, joins FuboTV from Walt Disney, where she served as president of the...

WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - IHeartMedia resolved a Federal Communications ​Commission probe ‌into allegations its radio stations pressured artists to ‌perform ​at ⁠station-hosted music ⁠shows or festivals in exchange for more favorable ​airtime f...

By Sarah Young LONDON, July 9 (Reuters) - The gravelly tone that made Bonnie Tyler's singing instantly recognisable was the result of an accident. After an operation to remove vocal cord nodules in 1977, she was ordered to rest her voice. But one day s...

LONDON, July 9 (Reuters) - Mick Jagger said the Rolling Stones hope to tour their new album "Foreign Tongues", as the veteran rockers launched their latest record ​with a starry drone lights show in London ‌on Wednesday night. "Foreign Tongues" is set ...

By Dawn Chmielewski and Jody Godoy July 8 (Reuters) - U.S. states concerned that Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery will hurt competition could sue to block the deal as soon as next week, two sources familiar with the ​matte...