STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -- A Marshfield man accused of sexually assaulting an underage employee at the Plover Pizza Hut will go to trial next spring. WAOW TV reports that Kyle Elkins will face a jury from May 12th to the 15th for multiple counts of sexual assault, along with child enticement and strangulation. Ac...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- Reports indicate Milwaukee Bucks F Giannis Antetokounmpo will be out for two to four weeks after suffering a calf strain in the team's 113-109 win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday. The non-contact injury occurred in the first quarter of Wednesday's game and came hours after it was reported ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- If you have a special connection to a barstool or booth from the Great Dane Brewpub in Wausau, now's your chance to bring that fixture home. The closed establishment is auctioning off items, including light fixtures, tables, booths, coat hooks, and high chairs. Commercial kitchen items like mixing ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison on drug trafficking charges, according to a press release from the US District Court in Madison. Christopher Harter pleaded guilty to the charges on Tuesday and was sentenced by Judge William Conley on Wednesday. The 49-year-old was ...

NEKOOSA, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Residents continue to voice their opposition to a proposed solar farm in the town of Rome, located in rural Adams County. The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin held a public hearing session on Wednesday, at the Nekoosa Community Center, despite the town of Rome's request to host the meeti...

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 Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court restored the 58-month prison sentence for Norman Seabrook, the former head of New York City's correction officers union who was convicted of bribery, saying a trial judge should no...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - Congressional lawmakers on Thursday voted to repeal a Biden-era policy that limited the amount of land in an Alaska wildlife refuge that could be leased for oil and gas development. The U.S. Senate voted 49-45 to approve a resolution ...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. agency said on Thursday it has asked Waymo to answer more questions after Texas officials said the Alphabet unit's self-driving vehicles had illegally passed school buses 19 times since the start...

By Daniel Wiessner Dec 4 (Reuters) - Unions representing U.S. State Department employees have asked a federal judge to block the agency from laying off more than 1,300 workers on Friday, the latest legal battle over mass job cuts by President Donald Tr...

By Andrew Hay and Brad Brooks Dec 4 (Reuters) - The United States Geological Survey said on Thursday its automatic earthquake detection system had erroneously sent out a report earlier in the day that a 5.9 magnitude temblor had struck in Nevada, sayin...

DUBLIN, Dec 4 (Reuters) - An Irish navy ship spotted up to five drones operating near the flight path of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's aircraft as he arrived for a state visit to Ireland on Monday, local media reported on Thursday. The sigh...

By Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said on Thursday he hopes to have a "fruitful discussion" with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday about an EU plan to use Russian frozen assets to supp...

(Removes extraneous word from headline, no changes to text) PRAGUE, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Czech election winner and populist ANO party chief Andrej Babis said on Thursday he would move his Agrofert business group to an independently governed trust structur...

By Andrew Hay and Brad Brooks Dec 4 (Reuters) - The United States Geological Survey said on Thursday its automatic earthquake detection system had erroneously sent out a report earlier in the day that a 5.9 magnitude temblor had struck in Nevada, sayin...

MONS, Belgium, Dec 4 (Reuters) - NATO must be ready to respond to increasing hybrid threats in order to defend its member states' territory, the alliance's top military commander said on Thursday. Hybrid threats refer to both military and non-military ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- Reports indicate Milwaukee Bucks F Giannis Antetokounmpo will be out for two to four weeks after suffering a calf strain in the team's 113-109 win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday. The non-contact injury occurred in the first quarter of Wednesday's game and came hours after it was reported ...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- Quarterback Jordan Love has been named the Green Bay Packers' nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award. "We are pleased to name Jordan Love as our club winner for the prestigious Walter Payton Man of the Year Award," said Packers President and CEO Ed Policy. "It's b...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- The Wisconsin mens basketball team won their Big Ten opener with an 85-73 win over Northwestern on Wednesday night at the Kohl Center. The Badgers built a 23-point halftime lead, scoring 55 points before the break. John Blackwell led the Badgers with 26 points and 11 rebounds. Nick Boyd had 20, Au...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- On a night when Giannis Antetokounmpo went out early with an injury, the Milwaukee Bucks battled back from a big deficit and knocked off the first-place Detroit Pistons 113-109 on Wednesday night at Fiserv Forum. The Bucks trailed by 18 in the first quarter and Giannis went down with a calf inju...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Tuesday's high school scoreboard: Boys Basketball DC Everest 76 Ashwaubenon 57 Bay Port 62 Stevens Point 59 Wausau West 56 Prentice 47 Antigo 76 Clintonville 61 Chippewa Falls 65 Medford 58 Appleton Xavier 59 Mosinee 56 Marshfield 81 Appleton East 59 Onalaska 83 Wisco...

Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter will sit out the game on Monday against the host Los Angeles Chargers after undergoing a procedure earlier this week to repair his shoulders, ESPN reported on Thursday. Per the report, Carter is consid...

Mountain West Conference commissioner Gloria Nevarez received a four-year contract extension on Thursday, keeping her on the job through Dec. 31, 2030. She started as commissioner on Jan. 1, 2023, amid upheaval in college sports, and the Mountain West...

Arkansas State and Missouri State accepted bids to play in the inaugural Xbox Bowl in Frisco, Texas, on Dec. 18. Missouri State played in the FBS ranks for the first time in 2025 and, along with Conference USA newcomer Delaware, received the final two...

Former Florida coach Billy Napier is a "person of interest" for the vacancy at James Madison, On3 reported Thursday. The job at JMU came open this week when Bob Chesney was hired to be the new head coach at UCLA. Napier, 46, also is reportedly one of...

Bay FC named Emma Coates, most recently the leader of England's Women's Under-23 national team, as its head coach on Thursday. She replaces Albertin Montoya, who was the coach of the expansion team when it entered the National Women's Soccer League tw...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - Bank of America will begin allowing its wealth advisers to recommend allocations to crypto in client portfolios from next month, the U.S. lending giant said on Thursday, in a landmark moment for the digital assets sector. Starting Jan...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - Activist investor Elliott Management is close to striking a settlement agreement with PepsiCo, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Details of the settlement could not be learned, accor...

By Susan Heavey and Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Younger shoppers are helping to drive growth in some consumer products like Honest Co diapers and Kate Spade handbags despite higher prices from tariffs and other economic pressures, whil...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su on Thursday said the company has licenses to ship some of its MI 308 chips to China and is prepared to pay a 15% tax to the U.S. government if it ships them. Su made the remarks at a c...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is examining whether router maker TP-Link Systems Inc. may have deceived consumers by allegedly concealing its connections to China since its restructuring last year, a source familiar with the matter...

By Nancy Lapid Dec 4 (Reuters) - Vaccine advisers to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were expected to vote on Thursday on whether to scrap a broad recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine for children, a move that would leave the choice t...

By Nolan D. McCaskill and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats will demand votes next week on a three-year extension of an enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidy that is set to expire this month for 24 million people, Minorit...

By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON, Dec 4 - The U.S. will provide more than $1.6 billion to Kenya's health system under a new five-year agreement signed on Thursday, the first such agreement reached under the Trump administration's overhaul of foreign aid. The ...

By Nancy Lapid Dec 4 (Reuters) - Women at average risk for cervical cancer can avoid unpleasant tests in doctors' offices and instead safely test themselves at home for the virus that causes nearly all cases of the disease, the American Cancer Society ...

PARIS, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The European Union has reached a preliminary deal on how to regulate gene-edited crops in a move that could ease the development of new varieties in a region long wary of biotech innovations in food. The EU has debated for year...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Paleontologists for decades debated whether meat-eating dinosaur Nanotyrannus was actually just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus. But within a span of five weeks, the matter seems to have been definitively resolved ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications including broadband access in rural and remote areas worldwide. It also has caused a s...

By Joey Roulette and David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead NASA and an ally of Elon Musk, will face his second confirmation hearing on Wednesday before a Se...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Dec 3 (Reuters) - LandSpace has become China's most advanced private rocket company and the country's closest equivalent to Elon Musk's SpaceX, following U.S. rivals in betting its future on rockets that can fly more than o...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Dec 3 (Reuters) - China's Zhuque-3 reusable rocket, developed by private firm LandSpace, failed to make a successful landing on Wednesday, but its debut launch has thrust the global race for reusable rockets into the spotli...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - Bank of America will begin allowing its wealth advisers to recommend allocations to crypto in client portfolios from next month, the U.S. lending giant said on Thursday, in a landmark moment for the digital assets sector. Starting Jan...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su on Thursday said the company has licenses to ship some of its MI 308 chips to China and is prepared to pay a 15% tax to the U.S. government if it ships them. Su made the remarks at a c...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is examining whether router maker TP-Link Systems Inc. may have deceived consumers by allegedly concealing its connections to China since its restructuring last year, a source familiar with the matter...

MILAN, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Italy's Economy Ministry has ordered an in-depth review of existing safeguards against cryptocurrency risks, which are seen potentially rising, the Bank of Italy and other financial regulators said on Thursday. "An in-depth rev...

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it has approved AT&T's deal to buy some wireless spectrum licenses from U.S. Cellular in a $1.02 billion deal after the Texas-based carrier committed to end DEI programs....

GENEVA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Israel will be able to enter the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after European Broadcasting Union members on Thursday decided not to call a vote on its participation, despite boycott threats from some countries, sources at two E...

PRAGUE, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Painter and costume designer Theodor Pistek, who won an Oscar in 1985 for his work on fellow Czech Milos Forman's film "Amadeus", has died at the age of 93, CTK news agency reported on Thursday, citing his family. Pistek was b...

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Members of the body that organises the Eurovision Song Contest will meet on Thursday to discuss and potentially vote on whether Israel can compete next year, as some countries threaten to withdraw if it i...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, Dec 3 (Reuters) - A California doctor was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison on Wednesday for illegally supplying "Friends" sitcom star Matthew Perry with ketamine, the powerful sedative that caused the actor's drug overdo...

By Brad Brooks Dec 3 (Reuters) - Steve Cropper, a storied guitarist, songwriter and producer who helped define the Southern soul sound at legendary Memphis music label Stax Records, died on Wednesday in Nashville, according to a post on his social medi...