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...

By Amit Dave AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Huddled over piles of colourful paper, Mohammad Yunus is one among thousands of workers in India's western state of Gujarat who make kites by hand that are used during a major harvest festival. People in Gu...

By Richard Cowan, Bo Erickson, Andy Sullivan and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress has two days to avert a partial government shutdown after Republican President-elect Donald Trump rejected a bipartisan deal late on Wednesd...

(Reuters) - Luigi Mangione, the suspect indicted on murder charges in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson, will now face federal charges that could attract the death penalty, the New York Times reported late on Wednesday. It w...

By Juarawee Kittisilpa BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (Reuters) - Banlue Choosin has been monitoring the seas around Thailand's southern Phang Nga province for signs of abnormality for nearly two decades. The 59-year-old is a former fisherman, and his expe...

(Reuters) - Thousands of Amazon.com workers will walk off the job on Thursday at 6 a.m. ET (1100 GMT), in the crucial final days before Christmas, after union officials said the retailer failed to come to the bargaining table. The International Br...

BEIJING (Reuters) - There are no so-called "secret police stations", China's foreign ministry said on Thursday, after a New York resident who prosecutors say operated such a station pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign age...

By Ashley Tang KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's High Court on Thursday acquitted Rosmah Mansor, the wife of jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak, of money laundering and tax evasion, citing insufficient grounds to charge her. Najib and Rosma...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The suspect in the killing of top Russian general Igor Kirillov has been taken to the crime scene in Moscow, state media said on Thursday. Lieutenant General Kirillov, who was the chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Pro...

By Djaffar Al Katanty DHENDRO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Under a scorching sun in Democratic Republic of Congo, many of the farmers tending to their fields in the troubled eastern region are guarded by United Nations peacekeepers. Th...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The foreign minister of Myanmar on Thursday informed a regional meeting of its neighbours of its progress towards holding elections next year in the war-torn country, Thailand's foreign minister said. Maris Sangiampongsa told a ...

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...

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...

The NBA, where a Big Three combination of players often proves successful on the floor, has a Big Three in terms of franchise value, too. The Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers are the league's most valuable franchises by a ...

Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia is eligible to play another season of college football in 2025 after being granted a temporary injunction, according to a court ruling released Wednesday. Pavia's request for a temporary restraining order that would ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Investors reduced further their bets on how quickly the Bank of England will cut interest rates next year after the U.S. Federal Reserve signalled it would move slowly with reducing borrowing costs. Interest rate futures on Thurs...

By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) - Fewer German companies than in the previous year are struggling to fill vacancies due to labour shortages, the DIHK Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Thursday, in what shows a resilient labour market that...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is widely expected to leave its benchmark lending rates unchanged on Friday, a Reuters poll showed, as falling yields, shrinking net interest margins and a weakening yuan create limits for immediate monetary easing. Yield...

(Reuters) -The Bank of Japan kept interest rates unchanged on Thursday but one dissenting board member's proposal to push up borrowing costs showed the central bank remains on track to tighten policy early next year. As widely expected, the nine-member...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German consumer sentiment is expected to improve slightly at the start of next year but at a low level as high food and energy prices and job insecurity weigh on households, a survey showed on Thursday. The consumer sentiment ind...

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) -The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced a lawsuit accusing CVS of filling and billing federal health insurance programs for illegal opioid prescriptions, contributing to a nationwide epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose. T...

By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare spending rose by 7.5% in 2023 from 4.6% the year prior to reach $4.9 trillion, driven by increased use of medical services and as enrollment climbed for private health plans, particularly in plan...

(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...

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's competition watchdog AGCM closed an investigation into Booking.com as it found commitments offered by the online travel platform sufficient to address the competition concerns it had raised, it said on Thursday. AGCM opene...

(Reuters) -Swiss technology firm SoftwareOne Holding on Thursday announced a deal to acquire Crayon Group Holding in a stock and cash offer that valued its Norwegian competitor at around $1.34 billion. SoftwareOne said it would launch a recommended vol...

By Liam Mo and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - Apple is in talks with Tencent and TikTok owner ByteDance about integrating their artificial intelligence models into iPhones sold in China, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The U.S....

(Reuters) - Thousands of Amazon.com workers will walk off the job on Thursday at 6 a.m. ET (1100 GMT), in the crucial final days before Christmas, after union officials said the retailer failed to come to the bargaining table. The International Br...

BEIJING (Reuters) - TuSimple Holdings said on Thursday it would rebrand as CreateAI and pivot from autonomous trucking to AI gaming technology, marking an attempt by the once-prominent self-driving truck startup to make a comeback. CEO Cheng Lu tol...

(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...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Dave Wilson feared there would be hesitation from Hollywood surrounding the idea for the video game anthology TV series "Secret Level." "It's difficult to convince people in this town [Hollywood...

By Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Spanish director Pedro Almodovar entered new territory with his drama film "The Room Next Door" alongside Oscar-winning actors Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. The 75-year-old director is known for his Spanish...

By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence takes a new twist in Nick Park's latest "Wallace & Gromit" film, which features a "smart gnome" who goes rogue and offers what the Oscar-winning film-maker said is a lighthearted look at the...