MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - A Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge is reportedly under federal investigation after allegedly helping an illegal migrant hide from FBI and ICE agents who had come to the courthouse to make the arrest. According to sources who spoke to radio host Dan O'Donnell, the alleged incident happened las...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Central Wisconsin woman accused of starving a child and limiting her water intake will have a plea hearing for felony counts of child abuse and neglect. Court records show Brittany Hull faces a plea hearing on May 6th for chronic child neglect and child abuse, both causing great bodily harm. She'...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau Mayor Doug Diny has nominated four residents for the city's Ethics Board as the current group prepares to hold a hearing on his handling of a locked, unsecured municipal drop box, which the City Clerk had intended to install as a ballot dropbox for the last Presidential Election. In a press ...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Law enforcement, first responders, and a local school teamed up in Portage County on Monday for a new initiative. They put together first-aid bags for students and school staff in case the worst happens. Each kit contains multiple sets of gloves, tourniquets, chest seals, gauze, and band...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Police Department will hold an informational session Tuesday afternoon for groups interested in contributing to the department's temporary emergency night shelter. Police Chief Matthew Barnes says he's looking for help in all areas. "We're looking for those groups that have resource...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- Wisconsin's governor is pumped up about the NFL Draft happening in his state next week. With just seven days to go until the big event officially gets underway, Gov. Tony Evers delivered a radio address to celebrate the upcoming draft. He welcomed visitors who are coming to Titletown from all across the ...

JUNEAU, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A $2 million bond has been set for the man accused of abducting a pregnant teenager from Beaver Dam. Gary Day, 40, of Arkansas, made his initial appearance in a Dodge County courtroom Thursday afternoon. He faces two counts of child abduction and two counts of child enticement, to which he ple...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- The man accused of abducting a pregnant teenager from Beaver Dam has been extradited to Wisconsin after his arrest in Nebraska earlier this month. Gary Day, 40, is charged in Dodge County with child abduction and child enticement. According to WMTV, Wisconsin officials took custody of Day Wednesday morni...

APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Governor Tony Evers says as many as 25% of child care facilities in the state are in danger of closing. That is if funding for the Child Care Counts program is cut. The secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) says the future of childcare in the state remains unce...

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- State Democrats announced legislation addressing political contributions made in the April 1st Spring election. In total, $98 million was spent leading up to the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, making it the most expensive judicial race in American history. On Thursday, State Rep. Lee Sno...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House has no immediate plans to strip climate-focused non-profit organizations of their tax exempt status, a White House official said on Tuesday, as those groups marshalled efforts to prepare for a slew of executive ord...

By Sarah N. Lynch and Dan Levine WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is reassigning about a dozen senior career attorneys from its civil rights unit, four people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump's a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it is taking action to prevent collisions between helicopters and passenger planes around the busy Las Vegas airport and it is also reviewing air traffic between two Los Ang...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Yale University said on Tuesday it was exploring a sale of private equity fund interests and was being advised by investment banking firm Evercore. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT A Yale spokesperson's statement mentioned no ...

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk's drive to slash federal programs and the size of the federal workforce came under attack at a town hall meeting held by Representative Byron Donalds, as Republicans in the U.S. Congress find...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -A top hospital in Haiti is closing its doors due to worsening insecurity after gangs attacked the central city of Mirebalais, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Tuesday, marking another blow to the country's frag...

By Sarah N. Lynch and Dan Levine WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is reassigning about a dozen senior career attorneys from its civil rights unit, four people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump's a...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian lawmaker Pedro Lucas Fernandes rejected an invitation from President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to be minister for communications, a role that oversees areas including telecommunications and postal service, Fernandes s...

(Reuters) - The World Economic Forum announced on Tuesday that it has launched an investigation into its founder, Klaus Schwab, following a whistleblower letter alleging misconduct by the former chairman. The announcement came a day after the 87-ye...

By Olena Harmash and Yuliia Dysa KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday said he was prepared to negotiate with Russia "in any format" once a ceasefire takes hold while the Financial Times reported that Russian President...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Roseter-building for the inaugural Wausau Ignite Softball roster is moving forward. Mia Johnson, a Junior from Wisconsin-Parkside, has signed for the 2025 season. She becomes the first player signed in club history. The South Milwaukee product has been a mainstay in the Rangers' lineup and was rece...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Monday's scoreboard & today's schedule: Baseball Marshfield 6 Menominee 5 Witt/Birn 6 Mosinee 5 Port Edwards 11 Almond-Bancroft 5 Auburndale 11 Wausau Newman 1 Edgar 14 Rapids Assumption 0 Pacelli 3 Adams-Friendship 0 Softball Stevens Point 16 De Pere 6 Mosinee 7 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers dropped the opener of a ten game road trip with a 5-2 loss to the Giants in San Francisco on Monday night. The Brewers took a 2-0 lead on a second inning home run from Caleb Durbin but didnt score again in the game. Quinn Priester started and gave up two runs in four in...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Bucks are upgrading point guard Damian Lillard's injury designation for game two of their playoff series against the Indiana Pacers as the team looks to even the series at a game apiece on Tuesday. According to NBA Insider Chris Haynes, Lillard is now considered questionable for Tue...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - A new report indicates that the Milwaukee Brewers are expected to call up one of their top pitching prospects for their upcoming series against the San Francisco Giants. According to MLB insider Sean Wright, the Brewers are working on calling up closer Craig Yoho as the team looks to solidify th...

(Reuters) -The legions of Dallas Mavericks fans who shed tears after guard Luka Doncic was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in February included Gene Jones, the wife of longtime Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, he said on Tuesday. Mavericks general ma...

Former NBA Rookie of the Year Michael Carter-Williams has found a new arena, with the 33-year-old expected to make his amateur boxing debut May 29 in New York. A nine-year NBA veteran, Carter-Williams will square off with 36-year-old Sam Khativ in a t...

While it remains without a team name, the expansion Portland WNBA franchise broke ground Tuesday on a new training facility just west of the city. Hillsboro will be home to the $150 million project, which will serve both the Portland Thorns of the Nat...

The Buffalo Bills opened up their first week of their voluntary offseason workouts with one notable piece missing: starting running back James Cook. Buffalo general manager Brandon Beane noted that Cook was absent from the team workouts, although Bean...

The NBA has fined Anthony Edwards $50,000 for directing inappropriate language and making an obscene gesture toward a fan during the Minnesota Timberwolves' 117-95 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday. According to the league, the incident occu...

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. federal court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump's tariffs against a group of small businesses to remain in force for now, saying the businesses had not shown they would immediately be harmed by new ...

(Reuters) -The United States will aim for Britain to reduce its automotive tariff from 10% to 2.5%, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of a draft document circulated by the administration of President Donald Trump...

LONDON (Reuters) -Pay increases granted by British employers stayed at 3% in the three months to March, according to figures from human resources data firm Brightmine that are likely to be welcomed by the Bank of England. It marked the fourth consecuti...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian copper mine Antamina on Tuesday launched a full security shutdown after an operations manager was killed and another high-ranking employee was injured in an incident at a mining camp. Antamina said in a statement it was in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - France's central bank chief called on Tuesday for preserving the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, albeit with a narrower focus on matters such as financial stability and payments. The future of the IMF and Worl...

(Reuters) -Bristol Myers Squibb said on Tuesday its drug Cobenfy failed to show a statistically significant difference in a late-stage trial studying it as an add-on treatment for schizophrenia, sending its shares down nearly 7% in after-market trade. ...

(Reuters) -U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said on Tuesday the FDA plans to remove petroleum-based synthetic food dyes from the U.S. food supply, citing studies that have raised concerns about the link between dyes and healt...

(Reuters) -AstraZeneca has rejoined the main U.S. drug lobby group, roughly two years after leaving it, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) said on Tuesday. This decision follows the British drugmaker's announcement last ye...

(Reuters) -Intuitive Surgical raised concerns on Tuesday about the potential impact of tariffs on its annual results, despite exceeding Wall Street's first-quarter profit and revenue estimates. Shares of the Sunnyvale, California-based company fell 6% ...

(Reuters) -The Texas health department reported 624 cases of measles in the state on Tuesday, an increase of 27 from April 18, as the United States battles one of its worst outbreaks of the childhood disease. Cases in Gaines County, the center of the o...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of mineral dust up to about 5.6 mi...

(Reuters) -A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported on Sunday. "Its deorbiting and descent to Earth were normal...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have discovered worlds, cal...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient past when it boasted substantial bodies of wate...

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Harvard scientist Dr. Donald Ingber, who works where medicine and engineering meet, saw federal funding for some of his projects frozen this week as his university clashed with the administration of U.S. President Donald ...

By Suzanne McGee and Michelle Conlin (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's social media firm, Trump Media & Technology Group, said on Tuesday it had reached a binding agreement to roll out an array of retail investment products, including crypto, in...

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Florida sued Snap, the owner of photo-sharing app Snapchat, on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally employing features that addict children and opening accounts for children age 13 and younger. The complaint said Snapchat fe...

(Reuters) -German software maker SAP on Tuesday reported an adjusted operating profit of 2.5 billion euros ($2.86 billion) for the first quarter of the year that came in above analysts' estimates. Analysts had expected 2.22 billion euros in quarterly o...

(Reuters) -Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a long history of making ambitious promises and often delivering late. Many of his biggest ideas are still in the works. Musk has described himself as pathologically optimistic, saying he does deliver in the end, "whi...

(Reuters) -Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, rose 5.01% to $91,713.49, after earlier breaking through the $90,000 for the first time since March as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policies have rocked global markets. (Reporting by Hanna...

By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - Years of filming, often in extreme conditions, has provided new insights into the extraordinary challenges endured by penguins for a documentary series to be premiered on Monday, the eve of Earth Day. "Secrets of t...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean 'Diddy' Combs appeared in Manhattan federal court on Friday for a hearing over the hip-hop mogul's bid to delay his upcoming sex trafficking trial by two months. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to five criminal c...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling will star in a new "Star Wars" film that will reach movie theaters in May 2027, Walt Disney's Lucasfilm announced on Thursday. "Star Wars: Starfighter" will take place five year...

By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For actor Diego Luna, Season Two of the Disney Plus series "Andor," based on the "Star Wars" franchise, correlates with real-life sociopolitical issues that go beyond the show. "Oh my God,...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Drake expanded his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, saying more people were duped into believing he was a pedophile after rapper Kendrick Lamar performed "Not Like Us" during the Super Bowl halft...