HAMMEL, WI (WSAU) One person is dead and another is injured after a head-on collision in Hammel in Taylor County. The Wisconsin State Patrol says 83-year-old Edwin Emstrom of Medford was driving on Highway M at Knuth Road just after noon Monday when he veered into oncoming traffic. He struck an oncoming car driven by 3...

PINE LAKE, WI (WSAU) -- The Oneida County Sheriff's Office has identified the victim of Monday's fatal crash in the Town of Pine Lake. Mark E Carlson of Woodbury, Minnesota was killed when his Honda CRV crashed head-on into a GMC Sierra on Highway 17 near Mud Lake Road. Investigators believe Carlson's vehicle drifted a...

MANITOWOC, WI (WSAU) -- Police in Manitowoc are asking for the public's help after a Veteran went missing this week. Police say Jason R. Neumann went missing on Monday. Officers found his vehicle in shallow water in Lake Michigan near the Village of Cleveland a day later. Neumann wasn't home, and there was no sign of h...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - While most people hear the word cannabis and think of marijuana, which is illegal in Wisconsin, professors at UW-Stevens Point say the plant can be used for much more than creating a recreational drug, including being able to clean up PFAS in the soil. Biology Professor Brian Barringer ...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Lincoln County prosecutors have charged a Merrill woman with domestic battery for allegedly placing a firework under a toilet seat and injuring a man last Thursday. According to a news release from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, a deputy responded to an address on County Highway K just ...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- The Democrat leader in the Wisconsin Assembly will return to her post. Racine Representative Greta Neubauer was unanimously elected to another term as Assembly Minority Leader Tuesday. Neubauer has led Assembly Democrats since 2021. The Assembly Democratic Caucus gained 10 seats in the fall el...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- The agency in charge of monitoring Wisconsin lawyers accuses a former State Supreme Court justice of multiple ethics violations. Political watchdog group, LawForward, filed that complaint with The Office of Lawyer Regulation against Mike Gableman for his part in an investigation of the 2020 pr...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- An attorney who defended Jeffrey Damher has died. Gerald Boyle defended Milwaukee's infamous serial killer at his 1992 trial. His daughter Bridget posted to social media on Tuesday that her father died Sunday at age 88, writing that Boyle "dedicated his life to the relentless pursuit of...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- Wisconsin bear hunters saw a record harvest this fall with more than 4,000 bears taken. The Wisconsin DNR preliminary reports say 4,285 were harvested during the five-week season, a rebound from the below-average harvest of 2,922 bears taken during last fall's bear season. "Several factors likely le...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction published school and district accountability report cards for the 2023-24 school year Tuesday. The DPI publishes school and district report cards annually, as required by Wis. Stat. 115.385. Report cards include data for multiple school years across four pri...

By William James, Simon Jessop and Gloria Dickie BAKU (Reuters) -The United Nations climate body published on Thursday fresh options for the COP29 summit's primary goal of agreeing how much money richer countries should provide poorer ones to help them...

By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investment banker Howard Lutnick's exposure to China came into sharp relief on Wednesday, after Republican President-elect Donald Trump tapped him to lead the agencies that have become the tip of the spear ...

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - A piece of art that is little more than a banana duct-taped to a wall sold at auction for $6.2 million on Wednesday to cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun, Sotheby's said, furthering the universal conversation about ...

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said on Wednesday that 27,000 pounds (13.5 tons) of deadly hydrogen sulfide gas was released at Pemex's Deer Park, Texas, refinery on Oct. 10, causing the deaths of two contract...

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement on Wednesday arrested a homeless Florida man and charged him with plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange after an undercover employee recorded him saying, "I feel like Bin Laden," federal offi...

(Reuters) - John Prescott, a former British deputy prime minister in Tony Blair's Labour government, has died, PA Media reported on Thursday, citing his family. (Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill)

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday modified a ban on U.S. airlines operating in the Caribbean nation of Haiti, issuing a notice which permits flights over northern parts of the country, including the ci...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A 42-year-old father of five faces a public caning at a mosque in Malaysia after being convicted of the Islamic crime of 'khalwat', or close proximity between unmarried couples, for the third time, a state official and medi...

By William James, Simon Jessop and Gloria Dickie BAKU (Reuters) -The United Nations climate body published on Thursday fresh options for the COP29 summit's primary goal of agreeing how much money richer countries should provide poorer ones to help them...

By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's lower house of Congress approved on Wednesday a measure to abolish most of the autonomous bodies that regulate some economic sectors and ensure government transparency, a reform that could worsen tension wit...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Badgers have added another big-name recruit to their 2025 recruiting class as they continue to look toward seeing who will compete for starting jobs next season. According to Badgers Wire, 2025 four-star defensive lineman Jaylen Williams has changed his commitment from Michigan to Wis...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The hero of the Packers' 20-19 win over the Chicago Bears on Sunday has been named to the NFC's Player of the Week list. According to a post on X from the Packers, defensive lineman Karl Brooks, who blocked the Bears' 46-yard game-winning field goal attempt, has been named the NFC Special Teams P...

ROSEMONT, IL (WSAU) -- The bean counters at the Big Ten Conference Headquarters have determined that the Oregon Ducks have clinched a top-two finish in this year's football standings and will play in this year's conference championship game. According to a news release on Tuesday, no combination of results over the fin...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU-Milwaukee Brewers) -- Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy has been voted 2024 National League Manager of the Year as he bested fellow finalists Carlos Mendoza (New York) and Mike Shildt (San Diego). He is the first Brewers manager ever to earn the award. "Pat Murphy led our team with an undaun...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- The field is set for this week's WIAA high school football title games. The games will be played Thursday and Friday at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison. Central Wisconsin teams Stratford and Edgar will be looking to defend their state titles from last season. 2024 State Football Championships Thur...

The NFL's television ratings remained strong in the wake of the recent election season. An average of 17.5 million viewers have tuned in to an NFL game this season, which does not count international games carried by NFL Network or other exclusive bro...

Geno Auriemma became the all-time winningest coach in the history of NCAA Division I college basketball, men's or women's, on Wednesday night as No. 2 UConn beat Fairleigh Dickinson 85-41 in Storrs, Conn. Auriemma's 1,217th victory pushed him one win ...

Nelly Korda capped her best season by capturing the top two honors on Wednesday at the Rolex LPGA Awards in Naples, Fla. The 26-year-old Florida native received the Rolex Player of the Year Award and the Rolex Annika Major Award, which goes to the maj...

Geno Auriemma became the all-time winningest coach in the history of NCAA Division I college basketball, men's or women's, on Wednesday night as No. 2 UConn beat Fairleigh Dickinson 85-41 in Storrs, Conn. Auriemma's 1,217th victory pushed him one win ...

Paul George of the Philadelphia 76ers was injured in the opening seconds of the third quarter of Wednesday's game against host Memphis and taken to the locker room. George, 34, appeared to suffer a left leg injury with 11:21 left in the third after gr...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's economy is expected to grow 2.7% this year, helped by an anticipated annual rise of 28% in foreign visitors to 36 million, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Thursday. Southeast Asia's second-largest econom...

By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese government advisers are recommending that Beijing should maintain an economic growth target of around 5.0% for next year, pushing for stronger fiscal stimulus to mitigate the impact of expected U.S. tariff h...

(Reuters) - GQG Partners, which has a near 20% stake in India's Adani Group, saw its Australia-listed shares plunge 23% on Thursday after Gautam Adani, the conglomerate's chair, was indicted in the U.S. over charges of bribery and fraud. GQG owns a...

(Reuters) -Starbucks is exploring options for its Chinese operations, including the possibility of selling a stake in the business to a local partner, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The coffee chain ha...

By Sethuraman N R and Bharath Rajeswaran (Reuters) -Shares of Adani Group companies lost about $28 billion in market value in morning trade on Thursday after U.S. prosecutors charged the billionaire chairman of the Indian conglomerate in an alleged bri...

(Reuters) - Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. The brain chip star...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Jazz Pharmaceuticals' drug for the treatment of a type of biliary tract cancer, the company said on Wednesday. The drug zanidatamab-hrii, sold under the brand name Ziihera, is approved for use i...

By Stephanie Kelly and Nathan Layne (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will likely choose Johns Hopkins surgeon and writer Martin Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wedne...

(Reuters) - Kura Oncology said on Wednesday it will collaborate with Japan's Kyowa Kirin to develop and commercialize the blood cancer therapy ziftomenib. Kura will lead the development of the drug, which is currently being evaluated for the treatm...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - Hello Health Rounds Readers! Today we feature three more studies that were presented at one of the year's most important heart meetings, the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions that wrapped up this week in Chic...

(Reuters) - Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. The brain chip star...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as they make progress toward the goal of completing a biological atlas of every cell type in the body to better understand huma...

By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An unusual cluster of typhoons in the West Pacific and a series of powerful hurricanes in the Atlantic are raising questions about the impact that climate change is having on tropical storms across the globe. ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists working in an international collaboration have tracked how the structure of the cosmos has grown over the past 11 billion years, providing the most precise test to date of how gravity behaves at very...

(Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its sixth Starship test flight to space on Tuesday from Texas, eyeing an array of improvements on the rocket as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump watched in person. The roughly 400-foot-tall (122-meter-tall) ...

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with competitors and take a range of other measures to end its monopoly on searching the internet, U.S. prosecutors argued to a judge on Wednesd...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Thursday central banks must be mindful that technological advances, such as in the area of artificial intelligence (AI), could bring new risks to financial stability. The growin...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Bitcoin's march toward $100,000 made further ground on Thursday as investors bet a friendlier U.S. regulatory approach to cryptocurrencies under President-elect Donald Trump will unleash a boom era for the asset class. Bitcoin...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's centre-left government on Thursday introduced a bill in parliament that aims to ban social media for children under 16 and proposed fines of up to A$49.5 million ($32 million) for social media platforms ...

(Corrects to add Bengaluru to dateline) By Stephen Nellis and Aditya Soni SAN FRANCISCO/BENGALURU (Reuters) -Nvidia's revenue forecast on Wednesday disappointed Wall Street, raising questions over whether the artificial intelligence boom is waning. But...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Cirque du Soleil will kick off its first permanent European show next year in Berlin's central Potsdamer Platz, the Canadian circus company announced on Wednesday, promising a production that would push the boundaries of the imag...

(Reuters) -Comcast plans to divest the bulk of its once-coveted NBCUniversal cable TV assets, including MSNBC and CNBC, as the rising dominance of streaming platforms relegates legacy media businesses to the cutting room floor. Shares of the company r...

By Malgorzata Wojtunik TORUN, Poland (Reuters) - Alec Baldwin's Western "Rust" premiered at a low-key Polish film festival on Wednesday, three years after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died when Baldwin pointed a gun at her, in Hollywood's first ...

By Ben Makori AMERSHAM, England (Reuters) - The former members of boy band "One Direction" were among the mourners at the funeral of their band mate Liam Payne on Wednesday, just over a month after he died aged 31. Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall H...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is optimistic it can reach net zero emissions before 2050, a decade earlier than previously targeted, President Prabowo Subianto told a G20 forum, Prabowo also said Indonesia planned to retire all coal and fossil-fuel-...