MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- The teen accused of attacking a Lincoln Hills Correctional Officer who died from his injuries will go to trial next February. Javarius Hurd has been scheduled for a three-week trial, February 2nd through 20th, for reckless homicide and battery by prisoners. He's accused of beating 49-year-old Core...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A plea and sentencing hearing for Donte Eubanks was delayed Wednesday. The 25-year-old is facing multiple felony counts stemming from a complaint by his girlfriend's daughter, who said he was sexually assaulting her. While looking into the sexual assault allegations, they found multiple firearms an...

NEILLSVILLE, WI (WSAU) -- An Athens man accused of sexually assaulting his girlfriend's child entered a not guilty plea to the charge on Tuesday. Erick Antonio Ruiz Cortez was arraigned on Tuesday, where he waived a reading of the complaint and entered a plea. Investigators say the 37-year-old sexually assaulted the ch...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - After months of hard work and restoration, a local hangout in town has finally re-opened it's doors. Day's Bowl-a-Dome is back in business after a fire last February rendered the building uninhabitable. After a challenging cleanup, with help from NorthStar Restoration, owner Dean Day's dreams o...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Economic Development Committee approved an 8.5-week extension to the completion deadline for the Foundry on 3rd development at the former Wausau Center Mall site. Economic Development Manager Andrew Lynch says T Wall Enterprises has run into complications beyond its control. That include...

(WTAQ-WRN) -- Republican co-chairs of the Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Finance Committee are satisfied with the state budget compromise containing tax cuts. The deal reached with Democratic Governor Tony Evers cleared the committee on Tuesday. "Every budget is different, but this one was by far the most difficult...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A Milwaukee man has been charged in a shooting that killed one police officer and wounded another. Tremaine Jones, 22, faces one count of first-degree intentional homicide, one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and one count of first-degree recklessly endangering safety. ...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- Wisconsin's two U.S. senators have opposing views on the budget bill passed Tuesday. The bill, which President Donald Trump dubbed the "One Big, Beautiful Bill," passed after an all-night session. Vice President J.D. Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. Three Republican senators -- Thom Tillis of ...

(WTAQ-WRN) -- A 32-year-old Milwaukee police officer critically injured in a shooting last week has died. Officer Kendall Corder was shot several times in his arm and chest, causing severe internal injuries that led to him being put on life support. Corder, who died Sunday, was one of two officers shot while responding...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided unanimously Wednesday that Governor Tony Evers overstepped his veto powers. The case is specifically referring to a bill that would fund new literacy programs designed to improve K-12 students' reading performance. Now, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (D...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday advanced President Donald Trump's sweeping tax-cut and spending bill, a procedural step setting the stage for possible passage of the legislation in a vote expect...

By David Shepardson (Reuters) -Boeing and the Justice Department on Wednesday asked a U.S. judge to approve an agreement that allows the company to avoid prosecution despite objections from relatives of some of the 346 people killed in two 737 MAX cras...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. labor market likely slowed further in June, with the unemployment rate expected to have edged up to more than a 3-1/2-year high of 4.3%, as economic uncertainty stemming from the Trump administration's p...

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Seven people were missing after a fire and powerful explosion leveled a commercial fireworks facility in rural northern California, authorities said on Wednesday. Aerial footage from local news media showed the large warehous...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's north and west braced for flash floods and landslides on Thursday as annual 'Plum Rains' left a trail of destruction and prompted the mobilisation of thousands of rescue workers to pull people from floodwaters. Red alerts wer...

BERLIN (Reuters) -German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt wants to negotiate a direct agreement with the Taliban on receiving Afghan migrants deported from Germany, he told Focus magazine in an interview. In August, Germany resumed flying convicted...

(Reuters) -Four pro-Palestinian activists have been charged after breaking into a military air base in central England last month and damaging two planes in protest against Britain's support for Israel. Counter-terrorism police said the charges were fo...

BEIJING (Reuters) -The Chinese military's Southern Theatre Command said its naval and air forces have carried out a combat readiness patrol around the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Thursday. It said in a statement that its forces...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China firmly supports establishing a Southeast Asia nuclear weapon free zone and has made clear its willingness to take the lead in signing the treaty, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday. "We stand ready to stay...

By Joyce Zhou and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -China's first domestically built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, sailed into Hong Kong waters on Thursday in its first visit to the Asian financial hub, accompanied by three People's Liberation Army v...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Tuesday's Legion Baseball scoreboard & today's schedule: Tuesday Wausau 9 Stevens Point 0 Marshfield 11 DC Everest 3 Plover 3 Merrill 1 Today Wausau at DC Everest 8pm at Mark Simon Field Stevens Point at Merrill Wisconsin Rapids at Plover Marinette at Antigo

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- For the second time in three days, Dom Rodriguez had a game-winning hit for the Wausau Woodchucks. With two outs in the 9th inning Rodriguez lined a single that scored Max Galvin from second with the winning run in a 7-6 victory over the Kalamazoo Growlers at Athletic Park. Rodriguez was 4-5 with a...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Lillard and Giannis era is over in Milwaukee. The Bucks are releasing Damian Lillard less than two years after the team acquired him in a blockbuster deal that sent Jrue Holiday to Portland along with a 2029 first-round draft pick. Lillard, 34, is owed $113 million, which the Bucks will defe...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is the American Legion baseball scoreboard & today's schedule: Friday Eau Claire 7 Wausau 2 Wausau 7 Chippewa Falls 4 Marshfield 12 Stevens Point 2 Kaukauna 5 Stevens Point 3 Wisconsin Rapids 8 Menominee 4 Merrill 10 Rhinelander 6 Saturday Holmen 10 Wausau 6 Wausau 8 ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Woodchucks beat the Kenosha Kingfish 7-4 on Monday at Athletic Park. The Chucks rallied from a 2-0 deficit scoring all seven runs over the 5th and 6th innings. Max Soliz drove in three runs and Noah Malone two. Jake Berkland and Dom Rodriguez added an RBI each. Mosinee native Keegan Jirs...

The Los Angeles Dodgers had a full night Wednesday, watching Clayton Kershaw record his 3,000th career strikeout before Freddie Freeman capped a three-run ninth-inning rally with a game-ending single in a 5-4 victory over the visiting Chicago White Sox...

The Los Angeles Dodgers had a full night Wednesday, watching Clayton Kershaw record his 3,000th career strikeout before Freddie Freeman capped a three-run ninth-inning rally with a game-ending single in a 5-4 victory over the visiting Chicago White Sox...

Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw became the 20th pitcher in major league history to register 3,000 career strikeouts when he set down the Chicago White Sox's Vinny Capra to end the sixth inning on Wednesday in Los Angeles. Kershaw, 37, became just ...

(Reuters) -Mexico will face the United States in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final after a second-half strike by Raul Jimenez earned the defending champions a 1-0 win over Honduras at the Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on Wednesday. Mexico had th...

Popular halftime performer Rong "Krystal" Niu -- better known by her stage name, Red Panda -- fractured her left wrist in a fall less than a minute into her halftime act in Tuesday night's WNBA Commissioner's Cup championship game between the Indiana F...

PARIS/SEOUL (Reuters) -Budget airline AirAsia is in negotiations with Airbus to convert some existing narrow-body plane orders to the long-range A321XLR model as it sets a path out of restructuring, two industry sources said on Thursday. Tony Fernandes...

(Reuters) -China's tech giants JD.com and Alibaba affiliate Ant Group are urging the central bank to authorise yuan-based stablecoins to counter the growing sway of U.S. dollar-linked cryptocurrencies, people with direct knowledge of the discussions sa...

(Reuters) -Dulux paint maker Akzo Nobel said on Thursday it had appointed Fredrik Westin as its chief financial officer from January 1, 2026. Westin will succeed Maarten de Vries, who is completing his second four-year term as finance chief and will re...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African private sector activity held steady in June, while business confidence slipped to its lowest level in nearly four years, a survey showed on Thursday. The S&P Global South Africa Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fel...

By Makiko Yamazaki and Kentaro Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese companies agreed to raise wages by 5.25% this year, marking the biggest pay hike in 34 years, the country's largest labour union group Rengo said on Thursday, as inflation and labour sho...

ZURICH (Reuters) -Novartis said on Thursday that its Cosentyx drug had failed in a late-stage trial on adults with giant cell arteritis (GCA), a condition characterised by inflammation of the arteries. The drug failed to show an improvement in sustaine...

(Reuters) -Packaged food maker Kraft Heinz is recalling about 367,812 pounds of Oscar Mayer turkey bacon following concerns that the products may be contaminated with Listeria bacteria, the U.S. food safety regulator said on Wednesday. The recall will ...

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday will launch a 10-year strategy to save a National Health Service he said was in crisis, as he aims to alleviate the burden on overstrained hospitals and provide care closer to people's h...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has accepted recommendations made by an advisory panel in April on the use of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines in adults aged between 50 and 59 years who are at an increased risk of sev...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived part of a lawsuit accusing the Federal Reserve Bank of New York of illegally firing two longtime employees who claimed religious objections against COVID-19 vaccinatio...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing evidence of the ties between two great cultures of the period, with a fifth of his genetic ancestry t...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times the mass of our sun that exhausts its nuclear fuel and undergoes a core collapse, triggeri...

By Christine Soares (Reuters) -Well-known AI chatbots can be configured to routinely answer health queries with false information that appears authoritative, complete with fake citations from real medical journals, Australian researchers have found. Wi...

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos that detected oil and gas industry's emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane has been lost in space, the group that operates it told Reuters o...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of the cosmos, allowing astronomers to figure out how the solar system formed and even whether an asteroid pos...

(Reuters) -Shares of Synopsys and Cadence Design Systems surged in premarket trade on Thursday after the United States lifted export restrictions on chip design software to China, signaling a thaw in trade tensions between the world's top two economies...

(Reuters) -China's tech giants JD.com and Alibaba affiliate Ant Group are urging the central bank to authorise yuan-based stablecoins to counter the growing sway of U.S. dollar-linked cryptocurrencies, people with direct knowledge of the discussions sa...

(Reuters) -Siemens AG has received a notice from the U.S. government saying that export restrictions on chip design software for China have been lifted, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. (Reporting by Surbhi Misra in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Bar...

(Reuters) -Activist investor Starboard Value has built an over 9% stake in online travel firm Tripadvisor, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Shares of Tripadvisor rose over 10% in extended trade after the news. According to the report, the...

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited has agreed to pay $4.25 million to settle with the U.S. Department of Commerce for shipping items to China's Huawei Technologies in violation of export regulations, according to a depar...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) -Donning the famous red cape for the first time in the new "Superman" movie gave actor David Corenswet a big confidence boost. A relative newcomer, Corenswet follows in the footsteps of Christopher Reeve and more recen...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Wednesday denied Sean "Diddy" Combs' bid to be released from jail ahead of his sentencing, after the music mogul was convicted on prostitution-related offenses but cleared of more serious charges of racketeering cons...

By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Brad Pitt's F1 movie is topping the box office charts worldwide but the Hollywood A-lister is not done with Formula One, or racing. Like his fictional big screen character Sonny Hayes, Pitt has been offered a sec...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean "Diddy" Combs was found guilty on Wednesday of prostitution-related offenses but cleared of more serious charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. Combs, 55, had pleaded not guilty to all five felony ...

By Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Shareholders of Paramount Global, which is waiting for regulatory approval to merge with Skydance Media, will decide Wednesday whether to re-elect four directors, following a recommendation to oppose their ret...