MARSHFIELD, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The Marshfield Police Department is investigating after tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from a "jackpotted" ATM over the weekend. According to a police investigation, robbers put a malicious hard drive on the ATM at Simplicity Credit Union, allowing them to withdraw signi...

MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - To honor the victims of the shooting at a Christian school earlier this week, the Madison community gathered for multiple candlelight vigils on Tuesday night while police continue to investigate what led the shooter to carry out the attack. One of the vigils was held next door to Abundant Life...

MARSHFIELD, WI (WSAU) -- Firefighters in Marshfield say working smoke detectors likely prevented a house fire from becoming much larger than it was on Tuesday. Crews were called to a home on North Maple Avenue at about 1:00 PM for a report of heavy smoke coming from the basement. One crew worked to extinguish the flame...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The state of Wisconsin has finalized its 2024 general election process, and all 10 of the Badger state's electoral college votes will be going to President-Elect Donald Trump and Vice President-Elect JD Vance. In 2024, President-Elect Trump became only the second Republican presidential candidate t...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - The Wausau School District has found their next Superintendent. According to a press release from the district, Cale Bushman has had his interim tag removed and will become the district's next Superintendent replacing Dr. Keith Hilts who retired earlier this year. In the release, Bushman said his fo...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) - According to Triple-A, nearly 2.4 million Wisconsinites will travel 50 miles or more from home between December 21st and New Year's Day, breaking the previous all-time high set last year by over 76-thousand. Nearly 90% of those travelers will drive to their destinations. Nationally, Triple-A fo...

GREEN LAKE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A Wisconsin man who allegedly faked his death on Green Lake and traveled to Europe is in custody, according to online records. VINELink says Ryan Borgwardt is being held at the Green Lake County Jail. VINELink is a service that victims of crime can use to search for information regarding t...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- There are new state charges against three men connected to a slate of false electors in the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced charges on Tuesday against Attorney Jim Troupis, and Trump administration advisors Ken Chesebro and Michael Roman....

CHIPPEWA COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- The teen who allegedly assaulted and killed Lily Peters was in court Tuesday. The 16-year-old, identified as C P-B in court documents, stood mute at his arraignment in Chippewa County Court. Not guilty pleas to intentional homicide, sexual assault and child sexual assault were entered ...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- Governor Tony Evers says he won't send National Guard troops to assist in President Elect Trump's mass deportation plan. Evers says he has some doubts yet on whether such plans will come to fruition. "I'm not sure they will get that far, so I don't want a pre-judge that I'm gonna stand on...

MADRID (Reuters) - Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar accounted for a record 56% of Spain's electricity production in 2024, according to estimates by power grid operator Red Electrica, published on Thursday. The country has set ambitio...

(Reuters) - Amazon.com workers at seven U.S. facilities walked off the job early on Thursday during the holiday shopping rush, aiming to pressure the retailer into contract talks with their union. Warehouse workers in cities including New York, Atl...

By Danielle Broadway SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Director Barry Jenkins believes it was important to revisit the Disney classic "The Lion King" with the prequel "Mufasa: The Lion King" for audiences to understand that the protagonist lion Mufasa was neve...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Timothee Chalamet likened his journey to playing music legend Bob Dylan to an athletic feat. It turned into a marathon that stretched longer than the actor had expected. Chalamet signed up to play Dylan in 2...

By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The script for the biblical epic "Mary," which tells the story of the Nativity from the perspective of Mary of Nazareth, languished in Hollywood for some 15 years before entering product...

By Gleb Bryanski and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian economy is showing signs of overheating which is stoking worryingly high inflation, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. Addressing Russians in his annual phone-in, Putin ...

By Philip Blenkinsop and Lili Bayer BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Donald Trump on Thursday to ally with Europe to stop Russia and save his country amid fears the NATO sceptic U.S. President-elect could deal a se...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had not been defeated in Syria and that Moscow had made proposals to the new rulers in Damascus over Russia's military bases there. Putin said he had not yet met with ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was ready to talk to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, and said Russia was getting stronger. When asked at his annual press-conference what he was going to offer to Trump...

By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Donald Trump has said he plans to end birthright citizenship as part of his promised crackdown on immigration when he becomes president on Jan. 20. Below is a look at U.S. birthright citizenship and Trump's legal authority t...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Less than a day after Will Pauling and C.J. Williams announced that they had entered the NCAA transfer portal, the Badgers earned a commitment from one of the top receivers on the market. According to 247 Sports Evan Flood, former Ohio State wide receiver and top 50 recruit in the 2021 class Jayden...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin Badgers' former offensive coordinator, Phil Longo, has accepted an offer to return to coaching after being fired from the program earlier this fall. According to Mike Craven of Texas Football, Sam Houston State is hiring Phil Longo as its next head coach, marking his second stint as a hea...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers are officially staying in Wisconsin for at least another two decades after a new lease agreement on American Family Field was signed by Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday. The agreement states that the newly established Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District will ...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - For the second time this season, The NFC's Defensive Player of the Week for Week 15 of the 2024 season went to Edgerrin Cooper, a rookie linebacker for the Green Bay Packers. According to the Packers, Cooper, who previously won the title in Week 8, is the first rookie to earn NFC Defensive Player...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Tuesday's scoreboard: Boys Hockey Mosinee 3 DC Everest 2 Wausau West 13 Wausau East/Merrill 0 Kingsford Mich 7 Lakeland 3 Marshfield 3 Northland Pines 1 Pacelli-Rhinelander no score reported Medford-Shawano no score reported Girls Hockey Wisc Valley Union 3 Arrowhead 2 Nort...

LONDON (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has published the manifestos of the seven candidates to succeed Thomas Bach as president in March. Below is a selection of some of the key manifesto points of three of the candidates. The...

Jeremiah Fears converted a four-point play with 11.5 seconds remaining to lift No. 14 Oklahoma over No. 24 Michigan 87-86 at the Jumpman Invitational on Wednesday in Charlotte, N.C. Fears, the Sooners' freshman sensation, finished with a career-high 3...

A week after the St. Louis Cardinals announced their intention to trade Nolan Arenado, the All-Star third baseman invoked his no-trade clause to veto a potential deal with the Houston Astros, multiple media outlets reported Wednesday. Arenado is owed ...

Mikhail Sergachev scored with 11.4 seconds left in overtime for the Utah Hockey Club, who scored three unanswered goals to rally for a 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night in Salt Lake City. Sergachev backhanded a crossing pass fr...

(Reuters) - The ATP distributed $1.3 million to 26 players as part of its on-trial financial security programme in 2024 and will step up its commitment by boosting minimum wage figures for next year, the governing body of men's tennis said. Launche...

By Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK (Reuters) - Retailers including Target and Walmart are stocking shelves with more toys and gifts such as Barbies that cost less than $10 this holiday season, a strategy aimed at attracting cash-strapped shoppers. For ...

(Reuters) - The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson is due to appear in a Pennsylvania court on Thursday morning for a hearing on a request by New York to extradite him to Manhattan to face murder charges. Luigi Ma...

By Balazs Koranyi FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should keep cutting interest rates by small increments and there is no need to ease policy to a level that starts stimulating economic growth, Cypriot policymaker Christodoulos Patsa...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis is winding up the German biotech company Morphosys, which it acquired at the beginning of the year, German news outlet WirtschaftsWoche reported on Thursday, saying 330 jobs would be affected. ...

By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is preparing for possible trade talks with the United States, aiming for increased investments from U.S. companies and higher exports once President-elect Donald Trump takes office. While aiming to protect...

(Reuters) -Vertex Pharmaceuticals said on Thursday its experimental non-opioid drug in a mid-stage study helped reduce pain tied to a condition caused by a pinched nerve in the spine. Shares of the company, however, fell nearly 4% premarket as Vertex s...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis is winding up the German biotech company Morphosys, which it acquired at the beginning of the year, German news outlet WirtschaftsWoche reported on Thursday, saying 330 jobs would be affected. ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France has declared itself to be free of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the absence of new outbreaks for more than a month, though the country remains on high alert for the virus that has been spreading rapidly in Europe, th...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday classified a recall of Boston Scientific's catheters used in a type of minimally invasive surgery as "most serious". The recall involves updating instructions for use rather than removi...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Mesoblast's cell therapy for treating a type of complication that occurs after a stem cell or bone marrow transplant called graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The therapy, brand...

(Reuters) - NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's return to Earth will be further delayed until at least late March, the agency said, taking what should have been an eight-day stay on the International Space Station to more than nine mo...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A giant frog species that hopped alongside dinosaurs and is considered a "living fossil" is now losing ground in its native Chile as climate change and human intervention damage its habitat. The Calyptocephallela gayi, or Helme...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Space One said it terminated the flight of its Kairos small rocket after launch on Wednesday, aborting its second bid to become the country's first company to deliver a satellite to the Earth's orbit. The rocket ended the ...

By Marisa Taylor and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - A September power outage at a California facility of SpaceX, the space venture of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, caused a loss of ground control for at least an hour during a mission th...

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) - Space startups in Japan and India said on Tuesday they had agreed to jointly study using laser-equipped satellites to remove debris from orbit, an experimental approach to the increasingly imminent problem of or...

By Mrinalika Roy and Seher Dareen (Reuters) - Geothermal energy startups are on the upswing with Big Tech companies looking to feed their power-intensive AI data centers, but long-term investments remain uncertain as oil majors double down on natur...

(Reuters) - Amazon.com workers at seven U.S. facilities walked off the job early on Thursday during the holiday shopping rush, aiming to pressure the retailer into contract talks with their union. Warehouse workers in cities including New York, Atl...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government on Thursday said it aimed to add technologies such as biotech and AI to its investment screening law, through which it can block potential takeovers on national security grounds. "The international securit...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department on Thursday finalized an award to SK Hynix of up to $458 million in government grants to help fund an advanced chip packaging plant and research and development facility for ar...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Group said on Thursday it will invest about 50 billion yen ($320 million) to acquire new shares of Kadokawa, raising its stake in the Japanese media powerhouse to around 10% and becoming Kadokawa's top shareholder. Through th...

By Danielle Broadway SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Director Barry Jenkins believes it was important to revisit the Disney classic "The Lion King" with the prequel "Mufasa: The Lion King" for audiences to understand that the protagonist lion Mufasa was neve...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Timothee Chalamet likened his journey to playing music legend Bob Dylan to an athletic feat. It turned into a marathon that stretched longer than the actor had expected. Chalamet signed up to play Dylan in 2...

By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The script for the biblical epic "Mary," which tells the story of the Nativity from the perspective of Mary of Nazareth, languished in Hollywood for some 15 years before entering product...

(Reuters) - Warner Bros Discovery on Wednesday named key members of the executive team for its U.S. Networks business, which will be headed by Channing Dungey, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros Television Group. Dungey, who previously held the role o...

By Luciana Magalhaes and Manuela Andreoni RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A judge in Rio de Janeiro has ordered the global removal of a 2015 song by British singer Adele due to a plagiarism claim by a Brazilian musician, which Universal Music is fightin...