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...

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...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant returned to the U.S. in early June after being wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador, reported severe mistreatment in a high-security prison in the Latin American nation,...

By Nate Raymond and Christian Martinez (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was nominating Maine attorney Joshua Dunlap for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, a federal court currently dominated ...

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -The north of New Zealand's South Island was bracing for more heavy rains on Thursday, with a few homes evacuated and local authorities warning of landslides and surface flooding. New Zealand's Nelson and Tasman reg...

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...

(Reuters) -A woman in her 70s was killed, and two other people injured, by falling debris from a destroyed Ukrainian drone in Russia's southwestern region of Lipetsk, regional governor Igor Artamonov said early on Thursday. The debris fell on a residen...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said its A$2 billion ($1.3 billion) purchase of supersonic missiles from the United States underscores its commitment to defence spending, though Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has resisted U.S. calls to agree to a target o...

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...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant returned to the U.S. in early June after being wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador, reported severe mistreatment in a high-security prison in the Latin American nation,...

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...

Daniel Suarez, the only Mexican-born driver to win a national series race in a NASCAR event, will not return to Trackhouse Racing in 2026. Trackhouse and Suarez have called the parting a "mutual decision" that allows the veteran driver the chance to p...

The Colorado Avalanche announced Wednesday they have agreed to terms with veteran defenseman Brent Burns on a one-year deal. Terms were not disclosed. Burns, 40, played in 246 regular-season contests and 41 playoff games over the last three seasons wi...

(Reuters) -The United States booked their place in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final with a 2-1 win over Guatemala on Wednesday thanks to a first-half double from Diego Luna at Energizer Park in St. Louis. Luna opened the scoring just four minutes in, pounci...

Major League Baseball's top teams, the Detroit Tigers and Los Angeles Dodgers, each will have three representatives starting the 2025 MLB All-Star Game next Tuesday at Atlanta's Truist Park. The Tigers of the American League and Dodgers of the Nationa...

By Martyn Herman and Shrivathsa Sridhar LONDON (Reuters) -Carlos Alcaraz, Aryna Sabalenka and the end of London's tropical heatwave ensured that a sense of normality returned to the lawns of Wimbledon on Wednesday after two sweat-soaked days of shocks,...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan should resume interest rate hikes following a temporary pause to evaluate the impact of U.S. tariffs, board member Hajime Takata said, signalling optimism the country was on track to durably achieve th...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Tesla's electric vehicle sales in June rose 3.7% from a year earlier, according to Tesla China on Thursday. The U.S. automaker's EV sales rose 59% from May to 61,000 vehicles in China last month. (Reporting by Qiaoyi Li and Brenda G...

By Rajasik Mukherjee and Selena Li (Reuters) -Barclays announced on Thursday a series of executive appointments within its Asia Pacific investment banking division, aiming to drive regional growth even as it globally reviews capital allocation to the ...

By Nicole Jao (Reuters) -Oil prices eased on Thursday, reversing gains from the previous session, on concerns over weak U.S. demand after government data showed a surprise build in inventories in the world's biggest crude consumer. Brent crude futures ...

By Liangping Gao and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -China's services activity expanded at the slowest pace in nine months in June, as demand weakened and new export orders declined amid a fragile trade truce with the United States, a private-sector survey...

(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...

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -Insulin-producing human pancreas cells can be manufactured with 3D printers, researchers reported at the ...

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) -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...

(Reuters) -OpenAI said on Wednesday it has not partnered with Robinhood for the stock tokens the trading platform unveiled earlier this week. Robinhood said on Monday it had launched tokens that would allow its customers in the European Union to get ex...

(Reuters) -Crypto firm Ripple is applying for a national bank charter in the U.S., its CEO Brad Garlinghouse wrote in a social media post on Wednesday, shortly after a similar step by stablecoin giant Circle. The move reflects a broader push by crypto ...

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...