WAUTOMA, Wis. (WSAU - WAOW) - According to WAOW TV, Waushara County District Attorney Matthew Leusink has announced there will be no criminal charges for law enforcement involved in the death of Timothy Lehman on October 16, 2025. The incident happened during a domestic violence call near State Road 73 and County Road ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Marathon County will partially open up the Mountain Bay Trail for snowmobiles beginning on Saturday , December 13th at 8am, but conditions are listed as early season, so be careful when out. The trail will be open from CTH J, going east into Shawano County with access to The Store gas station being...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- When you tune into Green Bay Packers coverage on WSAU, you are hearing some of the best radio play-by-play in the NFL. That's according to the sports media blog Awful Announcing, whose annual "Local Radio Announcer Rankings" have placed Wayne Larrivee and Larry McCarren as the #1 team ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Chi Meng Xiong, a 21-year-old from Wausau, has been sentenced child sexual assault charges. The sentencing took place on Thursday in Marathon County. Xiong is ordered to serve 18 years in Wisconsin State Prison for the 2nd-degree sexual assault of a child. This includes 10 years of initial conf...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A Menasha man is behind bars for multiple felony charges in Marathon County. Court documents show Shawn James Lamoore, 49, allegedly used a computer to facilitate a child sex crime. He also faces charges of child enticement for exposing intimate parts and possession of methamphetamines, all thr...

WAUKESHA, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The Slenderman stabber, Morgan Geyser, is back in Wisconsin. Last weekend she cut off her monitoring device and fled from a group home in Madison. She and a 42-year-old took a bus to Illinois, and were caught at a truck stop near Chicago. Geyser, now 23, is being held in the Waukesha County ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Supreme Court will appoint two three-judge panels to determine if the state's congressional districts must be redrawn. The pending lawsuits claim the current maps are unconstitutional, and unfairly favor Republicans. 6 of Wisconsin's 8 seats in the House of Representatives are held by...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ) -- One of the women convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing in Waukesha, Morgan Geyser, has been found in Illinois after absconding from a Madison area group home. Madison police say Geyser cut off her GPS monitoring bracelet on Saturday night. Posen, Illinois Police confirmed to Madison's 12 News...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) - Charges have been brought against the mother of six-year-old Ruby Lehmann, who was the subject of a multi-day AMBER Alert last week. Chelsie Lehmann is accused of encouraging Jordan Coyle to have contact with Ruby, to the point of moving in with him at his home in Almond. Coyle, 34, wasn't al...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- As cold and flu season approaches, Gov. Tony Evers has signed an executive order aiming to ensure access to vaccines in Wisconsin. The order directs the state Department of Health Services to monitor medical evidence and guidance on the COVID-19 vaccines. If needed, the order instructs DHS to issue stand...

By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The windowless newsroom of The Phoenix, the Loyola University Chicago newspaper, hums like an old refrigerator. A coffee pot burbles in the corner as juniors Julia Pentasuglio and Ella Daugherty lean over...

By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative justices appear ready to endorse President Donald Trump's power to fire a regulatory agency official despite job protections given by Congress. But they have signaled rel...

Dec 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to eliminate as ‍many as 35,000 health care positions this month, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing an internal memo, Veterans Affairs ‌staffers and congressional ‌aides. R...

By Julia Harte Dec 13 - When Ron Dailey goes out to eat, he is shocked by prices on the menu. "Breakfast is $20 no matter how you slice it," said Dailey, 63, who voted for President Donald Trump in November 2024. Dailey, a Denver-area resident who work...

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 - California sued the Trump administration late on Friday for ‍withholding more than $33 million in federal funding after the U.S. Transportation Department said the state failed to comply with ‌rules requiring English proficiency ‌f...

By Emily Green TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Weeks before Honduras' November 30 presidential election, a test run exposed deep flaws in the vote-counting system: only 36% of practice ballots were processed, according to electoral council member Marlo...

By Ahmed Elumami Dec 12 (Reuters) - Libya's national museum, formerly known as As-Saraya Al-Hamra or the Red Castle, has reopened in Tripoli, allowing the public access to some of the country's finest historical treasures ‍for the first time since the...

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands rallied for the party of Nepal's ousted prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, on Saturday, in the largest gathering ‍in the Himalayan country since youth-led anti-graft protests forced him out ...

Dec 13 (Reuters) - International human rights groups on Saturday condemned the reported re-arrest of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi in Iran, with the Nobel committee calling on the Iranian authorities ‍to immediately clarify her whereabout...

KYIV, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Ukraine's southern port city of Odesa and the surrounding ‍region suffered major blackouts on Saturday after a large overnight Russian attack on the power grid across the country. President ‌Volodymyr Zelenskiy said ‌Russia had...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Thursday's scoreboard and today's schedule: Boys Basketball Pittsville 48 Almond-Bancroft 30 Amherst 63 Menominee Nation 53 Augusta 69 Gilman 38 Tigerton 85 Port Edwards 38 Marion 50 White Lake 41 Iola-Scandanavia 54 Weyauwega-Fremont 52 Pacelli 69 Wild Rose 54 Three La...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Boston Celtics came into Fiserv Forum Thursday night as one of the hottest teams in the NBA. They had won five straight and 10 of their last 12. But on this night, despite falling behind 21-8 in the early going, it was the Milwaukee Bucks who prevailed with a 116-101 win. The Bucks shot over...

LINCOLN, NEB (WSAU) -- The Wisconsin mens basketball team got hammered by 23rd ranked Nebraska 90-60 on Wednesday night in Lincoln. The Cornhuskers built a 16 point halftime lead and shot 54% in the second half to pull away. Nick Boyd led the Badgers with 20 points and Nolan Winter had 10. Wisconsin, now 7-3, 1-1 in Bi...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- The NFL and its media partners have finalized the Week 17 schedule, including the interconference showdown between the Packers and Baltimore Ravens. The game, which had been held for possible flex scheduling, will be played on Saturday, December 27th at Lambeau Field with kickoff at 7 PM. TV cov...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is the scoreboard of the high school games that were played Tuesday night. Many were postponed by the weather. Boys Basketball Tigerton 79 Tomahawk 40 Witt/Birn 49 Rhinelander 33 Rapids Assumption 60 Tri-County 50 Girls Basketball Almond-Bancroft 79 Port Edwards 20 Marion-Tigerton ...

Dec 13 (Reuters) - China's "Snow Princess" Eileen Gu won the first halfpipe World Cup of the 2025-26 season at the Secret Garden ‍venue on Saturday, strengthening her prospects of defending her title at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. Freestyl...

Donte DiVincenzo buried a pair of late 3-pointers, Julius Randle led the way in the absence of Anthony Edwards with 27 points, and the Minnesota Timberwolves spoiled Stephen Curry's 39-point return by defeating the Golden State Warriors 127-120 in San ...

Indiana defensive coordinator Bryant Haines was rewarded for overseeing the country's No. 2 ‍scoring defense, landing one of the biggest contracts among assistant coaches, multiple media outlets reported on Friday. Haines, 40, whose defense ranked ‌si...

Chicago Blackhawks star center Connor Bedard suffered an apparent right shoulder injury in Friday night's loss at the ‍St. Louis Blues and has been ruled out of Saturday's home matchup against the Detroit Red Wings. Bedard, 20, the No. 1 overall pick ...

Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza turned the 2025 College Football Awards ceremony into his own highlight reel Friday, sweeping the Maxwell Award for most outstanding player and the Davey O'Brien Award, given to the nation's top quarterback. Mendoz...

By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative justices appear ready to endorse President Donald Trump's power to fire a regulatory agency official despite job protections given by Congress. But they have signaled rel...

By Julia Harte Dec 13 - When Ron Dailey goes out to eat, he is shocked by prices on the menu. "Breakfast is $20 no matter how you slice it," said Dailey, 63, who voted for President Donald Trump in November 2024. Dailey, a Denver-area resident who work...

Dec 12 (Reuters) - The Kirin 9030, the chip that powers Huawei Technologies' latest ‍flagship Mate 80 series handset, has been manufactured by China's top foundry SMIC with an improved version of 7 ‌nanometres, which is still ‌behind TSMC and Samsung, ...

Dec 12 (Reuters) - SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale that values Elon Musk's company at about $800 billion as the rocket-maker prepares for its initial public ‍offering, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The company's move towards a public l...

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmaker John Moolenaar, the chair of the U.S. House of Representatives' bipartisan select committee focused on China, on ‍Friday asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to explain the details of...

By Mathieu Rosemain and Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Dec 13 (Reuters) - France will vaccinate 1 million head of cattle in the coming weeks against lumpy skin disease, Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard said ‍on Saturday, as protesting farmers blocked ...

By Diana Novak Jones Dec 12 (Reuters) - A California jury on Friday awarded $40 million to two women who said Johnson & Johnson's baby powder was to blame for their ovarian cancer. The jury in Los Angeles Superior Court awarded $18 million to Monica Ke...

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday presented a healthcare proposal that leaves unresolved steep health insurance premium ‍increases set to impact millio...

By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that a provision of U.S. President Donald Trump's signature tax and domestic policy bill that deprives Planned Parenthood and local affiliates that perform abortions of...

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers this week introduced bills that would require U.S. ‍firms to obtain a license before exporting sequences of synthetic DNA. DNA research is foundational to the biot...

By Joey Roulette, Ross Kerber and Echo Wang WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Investors eyeing SpaceX's potential blockbuster IPO may need to brace themselves as CEO Elon Musk balances his risky quest to reach Mars with growing the revenue-rich Starlink s...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' aerospace firm Blue Origin has been working for over a year on the necessary technology for artificial intelligence data centers ‍in space, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the ...

By Will Dunham Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago - revealing that this milest...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Chinese astronauts have installed protection against "space junk" aboard the permanently inhabited station Tiangong, according to China's manned spaceflight authorities, a ‍month after a docked vessel was...

By Will Dunham Dec 9 (Reuters) - Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, clarifying the ingredients and methods behind the durable se...

Dec 12 (Reuters) - The Kirin 9030, the chip that powers Huawei Technologies' latest ‍flagship Mate 80 series handset, has been manufactured by China's top foundry SMIC with an improved version of 7 ‌nanometres, which is still ‌behind TSMC and Samsung, ...

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmaker John Moolenaar, the chair of the U.S. House of Representatives' bipartisan select committee focused on China, on ‍Friday asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to explain the details of...

Dec 12 (Reuters) - Bitcoin hoarding giant Strategy clung to its place in the Nasdaq 100 on Friday, continuing its year-long ‍stint in the benchmark at a time where analysts have raised questions over its business model. Some market watchers have sugges...

Milan, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The Agnelli family has no intention of selling Juventus to crypto group Tether or anyone else, sources close to the family's holding company Exor said, ‍after Tether bid for Italy's most historically successful soccer club. Te...

By Jody Godoy Dec 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to bar state laws on artificial intelligence that he says slow innovation will face political and legal opposition from states seeking to preserve their right to reg...

By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A federal judge in California ruled on Friday that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster must face a class action on ‍behalf of millions of Americans for allegedly overcharging them for events at m...

Dec 12 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Zootopia 2" is on track to surpass $1 billion at the global box ‍office, the company said on Friday, as the sequel continues its strong run in international markets. The film, which revisits the bustli...

By Jody Godoy NEW YORK, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Netflix says it must acquire Warner Bros Discovery to compete with YouTube, but antitrust experts doubt regulators will buy that argument. The streaming giant's $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery's ...

BRUSSELS, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Universal Music said on Friday it has submitted a remedy to ‍address competition concerns from the European Commission over the group's $775-million takeover of Downtown Music. The Commission last month objected to the deal...

Dec 11 (Reuters) - Walt Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and will let the startup use characters from Star Wars, Pixar ‍and Marvel franchises in its Sora AI video and image generator, a crucial deal that could reshape how Hollywood makes conten...