ROTHSCHILD, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - This year marks 10 years since Mackenzie Marken was reported missing. Next week, April 18th, will mark Mackenzie's 24th birthday. She was only 14 when she was reported missing on October 12th of 2015. The Mountain Bay Metropolitan Police Department is currently investigating the case, and i...

GILMAN, WI (WSAU) -- A GoFundMe has been established for the family of Becky and Joshua Mann, the victims of last week's Taylor County homicide. The couple had four children, aged 16 to 25, who "face a future without their guiding presence. The family needs resources in place for this period while the investigatio...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A portion of Washington Street is closed to traffic while crews work on the infrastructure around the Foundry on 3rd development. Crews have shut down the western portion of Washington Street as of Monday morning. The only open portion is the access to the JC Penny parking ramp. Washington does rem...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau Mayor Doug Diny has high praise for Wausau Woodchucks Owner Mark MacDonald and the Northwoods League. Diny participated in the unveiling of the Ignite logo last Wednesday and says he's impressed with how the branding turned out. "I thought it was pretty cool and it will be a great addit...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The first Never Forgotten Honor Flight mission of 2025 will take off from the Central Wisconsin Airport Monday morning. A total of 104 Veterans will board the flight from Mosinee to Washington, DC, where they will spend the day visiting the memorials crafted in their honor. The flight departs at 6:...

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...

JUNEAU, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Criminal charges have been dropped against one of the nine former Waupun Correctional Institution employees who were charged as a result of an investigation into inmate deaths. Jeramie Chalker, 41, was charged with misconduct in public office. Last week, Dodge County district attorney Andrea W...

GREENVILLE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- It's just one month until REAL ID enforcement begins. The Wisconsin DMV and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) hosted a joint news conference Monday at the Appleton International Airport (ATW) to discuss the latest information on the upcoming deadline, impact on travelers and how...

SARPY COUNTY, Neb. (WTAQ-WLUK) - Gary Day, the man who was traveling with a pregnant Beaver Dam girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert, pleaded not guilty to two charges Friday and is expected back in court later today. Day, 40, was arrested this week at a truck stop near Omaha with Sophia Franklin, who was reporte...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday that relief is being considered for farmers, who face lower prices and high inventories as a trade war between China and the United States continues. "Relief is being considered. The Secretary ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Tuesday plans to sign a memorandum that the White House said would be aimed at stopping ineligible people from claiming Social Security benefits. "The memorandum will direct the administration to ensure i...

By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A whistleblower complaint says that Elon Musk's team of technologists may have been responsible for a "significant cybersecurity breach," likely of sensitive case files, at America's federal la...

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Columbia University said it was holding "good faith" negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to regain federal funding, hours after Harvard rejected the administration's demands to audit the ...

By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - Arkansas on Tuesday became the first state to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow it to ban soda and candy from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps. Agriculture Secretary ...

By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A whistleblower complaint says that Elon Musk's team of technologists may have been responsible for a "significant cybersecurity breach," likely of sensitive case files, at America's federal la...

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Columbia University said it was holding "good faith" negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to regain federal funding, hours after Harvard rejected the administration's demands to audit the ...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian, British, French and Turkish representatives will discuss Black Sea security in Turkey on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. "This is a military meeting on security in the Black Sea, first of all, a co...

By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is heading to the White House for a meeting on Thursday with President Donald Trump, seeking to ease tensions over U.S. tariffs on European goods and position herself as a brid...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia, the most senior members of India's Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, have been accused in a money laundering case by the country's financial crimes agency, news agency ANI rep...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Badgers will be without one of their starting offensive linemen for the 2025 season after he suffered a season-ending knee injury during spring practice last Thursday. During his media availability on Tuesday, head coach Luke Fickell confirmed that starting left tackle Kevin Heywood s...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers are not yet done scouting 2025 NFL draft prospects, as several notable players are set to visit Lambeau Field in the coming days before the draft gets underway next weekend. According to Matt Schneidman of The Athletic, former Ole Miss defensive tackle and projected first-ro...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Bucks will be without star point guard Damian Lillard for at least the start of the team's playoff series against the Indiana Pacers as he continues to deal with health concerns. According to ESPN's Shams Charania, Lillard is expected to miss the team's first game against the Pacers...

(LEARFIELD-WSAU) - A Netflix series streaming next month will put the spotlight on former Packers quarterback Brett Favre. It won't be a positive look, and that's shown by the title, "The Fall of Favre," which will be the latest presentation in the network's "Untold" sports documentary series airing...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Monday's scoreboard & today's schedule: Baseball Marshfield 12 Medford 7 Mosinee 12 Antigo 2 Rhinelander 7 Northland Pines 6 Nekoosa 5 Athens 3 Pacelli 23 Almond-Bancroft 1 Pittsville 12 Tri-County 2 Iola-Scandanavia 13 Weyauwega-Fremont 3 Rosholt 12 Wild Rose 0 ...

(Reuters) -The venues for the 2028 Summer Olympics were announced on Tuesday with baseball being staged at Dodger Stadium and triathlon to be held at Venice Beach. In the Greater Los Angeles region, Anaheim will host volleyball, while squash will make...

Repeating his earlier stance on moving down, Panthers general manager Dan Morgan again invited any general manager shopping for a top-10 pick to call Carolina about the No. 8 overall selection in the first round. With nine days to go before the 2025 N...

Left tackle Tyron Smith will sign a one-day contract with the Dallas Cowboys and retire after 14 NFL seasons, NFL Network reported Tuesday. Smith, 34, played 13 seasons in Dallas before spending last year with the New York Jets. He is an eight-time P...

New England is back in the top five for the second consecutive draft after a stretch of 15 years between top-10 selections ended with third overall pick Drake Maye in 2024. With the quarterback position apparently locked down, all the Patriots have to...

The Pittsburgh Pirates are placing catcher/first baseman Endy Rodriguez on the 10-day injured list with a finger laceration, MLB.com reported Tuesday. Rodriguez, 24, required stitches after taking a deflected pitch off his right index finger during Mo...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is open to making a trade deal with China but Beijing should make the first move, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday, citing a statement from the president earlier in the ...

(Reuters) - Private equity firm KKR is close to acquiring Frankfurt-listed IT services provider Datagroup, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. U.S.-based KKR is in advanced discussions to make an offer for Datagroup and an anno...

PARIS (Reuters) -Nearly three dozen global pharmaceutical companies, in a letter to the head of the European Commission, demanded help to maintain operations in the EU despite threatened U.S. tariffs on imports, including measures to compensate them fo...

(Reuters) - Citi forecast on Tuesday a slower drop in copper prices over the next three months, noting that U.S. President Donald Trump relaxed tariffs over the past week, China has bought on dips, and scrap supply remains tight due to U.S. stockpi...

By Luciana Magalhaes and Alberto Alerigi Jr SAO PAULO (Reuters) - When Brazil hiked trade barriers in its auto market over a decade ago, the government promised more local manufacturing, reliable jobs and better cars. Instead, carmakers opened and ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Nearly three dozen global pharmaceutical companies, in a letter to the head of the European Commission, demanded help to maintain operations in the EU despite threatened U.S. tariffs on imports, including measures to compensate them fo...

(Reuters) -The European Commission on Tuesday authorized the use of Eisai and Biogen's drug to treat mild cognitive impairment in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, but with strict conditions. The move makes Leqembi the first drug in the European...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -Rates of autism spectrum disorder among U.S. children reached a record level in 2022, continuing a recent trend of increasing prevalence, according to data released on Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preven...

(Reuters) -The Texas health department reported 561 cases of measles in the state on Tuesday, an increase of 20 cases from its previous count on April 11, as the United States battles an outbreak of the childhood disease. (Reporting by Mariam Sunny in...

(Corrects day in paragraph 1) (Reuters) -A U.S. House committee on Tuesday asked 23andMe's co-founder to testify next month as it launched an investigation into the risk of genetic data being transferred to potential buyers amid the DNA testing company...

(Reuters) - Pop star Katy Perry and five other women launched into space on a Blue Origin rocket and successfully returned to Earth on Monday, marking the first all-female spaceflight in more than 60 years. The crew lifted off from West Texas at 9:...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in its lifespan, beco...

By Akash Sriram (Reuters) -U.S. federal budget cuts have started to have some early impact on space startups after funding for such companies dropped 12.5% in the first quarter, according to investment firm Seraphim Space. Elon Musk-led Department of G...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this enigmatic lineage of archaic humans once inhabited a vast expanse in eastern Eurasia in environments rangin...

(Reuters) -Atmospheric rivers are storms akin to rivers in the sky that dump massive amounts of rain and can cause flooding, trigger mudslides and result in loss of life and enormous property damage. Here's an explanation of how they form, their size a...

(Reuters) - British gambling technology firm Playtech is set to name former DAZN executive John Gleasure as its next chairman, Sky News reported on Tuesday. Gleasure, who will succeed Brian Mattingley, is executive chairman of U.S.-based The Sporti...

By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A whistleblower complaint says that Elon Musk's team of technologists may have been responsible for a "significant cybersecurity breach," likely of sensitive case files, at America's federal la...

(Reuters) -OpenAI is working on its own X-like social media network, the Verge reported on Tuesday, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter. There is an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT's image generation that has a social feed, the repor...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a key confession at a U.S. antitrust trial on Tuesday, saying he bought Instagram because it had a "better" camera than the one his company was trying to build for flagship app Facebook at the ti...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A German media company has complained to EU antitrust regulators following Alphabet unit Google's crackdown against companies gaming its search algorithm to push up rankings for other sites. In its complaint to ...

KYOTO, Japan (Reuters) - Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri showed her fall fashion collection of loose, minimalist styles in the garden of the Toji Temple in Kyoto on Tuesday night. Models walked down a broad, pebbled path and over a footb...

By Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Harvey Weinstein is set to stand trial on rape and sexual assault charges in Manhattan on Tuesday, a year after a state appeals court overturned the former movie mogul's 2020 conviction. Weinstein, 73, faces one rape c...

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - J-pop star Kenshin Kamimura pleaded not guilty to a charge of indecent assault before a Hong Kong court on Tuesday, after he was accused of assaulting a woman at a Hong Kong restaurant in March. Kamimura, 25, is...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Actor Michael B. Jordan says he needed no convincing to tackle two lead roles in supernatural action thriller "Sinners", which reunites him with "Creed" and "Black Panther" director Ryan Coogler. Set in Mississip...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Filming on location in Los Angeles dropped 22% in the first three months of 2025 from a year earlier, according to statistics released on Monday, as Hollywood grappled with overseas competition and a contraction ...