Local News
Police Looking For Help From Public To Find Missing Wisconsin Dells Teen
WISCONSIN DELLS, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Dells Police Department said on Friday that it is seeking the public's help to find missing 16-year-old Griffin Clark. Clark was last seen by police on Friday at 4:45 p.m., leaving his father's car off of 420 State Highway 13 wearing a green hooded sweatshirt, tan pants, and b...
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Portion Of I-94 Closed Near Black River Falls Following Semi Fire
BLACK RIVER FALLS, WI (WSAUWAOW) - I-94 has been closed in Black River Falls after a semi crashed and caught fire early Friday morning. According to the Wisconsin State Patrol, it occurred shortly after 3 a.m. Officials did not specify what caused the incident but stated no one was injured. I-94 is closed in both the e...
May 10, 2024
Judge Dismisses Wisconsin Democrats Lawsuit Hoping To Overturn State Absentee Voting Law
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - A lawsuit filed by the National Democratic law firm Elias Law Group contesting Wisconsin's witness requirements for absentee voting was dismissed by a federal judge on Friday. According to the Associated Press, U.S. District Court Judge James Peterson dismissed the complaint on Thursday, stating th...
May 10, 2024
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Wausau Conservatory Of Music To Start Rose Sale On Friday
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - It is the 35th year that the Wausau Conservatory of Music has held its annual Rose Sale the weekend before Mother's Day, and organizers hope to sell over 300 dozen roses and raise over $9,000. All of the money goes toward student scholarships and activities, which assist the school in realizing...
May 10, 2024
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New school superintedent named for Wisconsin Rapids schools
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - New leadership is coming to Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools. Current superintendent Craig Broeren is stepping down at the end of June and current Lincoln High School principal Ronald Rasmussen will be taking over as superintendent. Broeren announced earlier this year that he would be...
May 10, 2024
State News
Pro-Palestinian Protesters to Clear Encampment after Reaching Agreement with UW-Madison
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Nearly two weeks after demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war began at the University of Wisconsin, a resolution has been reached between campus leaders and protest organizers. On Friday, the university announced details of the agreement that will end the encampment on Library Mall which be...
May 10, 2024
Chrystul Kizer Pleads Guilty to Reduced Charge in 2018 Murder
KENOSHA, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- A woman reaches a plea deal in the death of a man she claims sex trafficked her. Chrystul Kizer avoids a life sentence after pleading guilty to a charge of second degree reckless homicide in Kenosha County Court Thursday. Four other charges are dismissed. The 23-year-old Milwaukee woman was ch...
May 09, 2024
UW Leaders Meet with Madison Anti-War Protestors
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and anti-war protestors met once again on Thursday. Administrators say UW has limited ability to divest from certain investments as protestors are requesting but did agree to set up meetings between the protestors and directors of university endowment fun...
May 09, 2024
Names of Fallen Wisconsin Law Enforcement Officers to be Added to National Memorial
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Five fallen Wisconsin law enforcement officers will be remembered next week. Those officers will be among the 282 names placed on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. They include Chetek Police officer Emily Breidenbach, Milwaukee police officer Peter Jervin...
May 09, 2024
Study Ranks Wisconsin Worst in Nation for Black Residents
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- A new study again ranks Wisconsin worst in the nation for its Black residents. The study from 24/7 Wall St. analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other sources. According to the study, the median household income for Black individuals in Wisconsin of just over $38,000 is only 51% of th...
May 08, 2024
National News
Body camera video captures first reactions to Baltimore bridge collapse
(This story contains explicit language in paragraph 3) (Reuters) - Body camera video captured the shocked reactions of first responders in the aftermath of the collapse of a Baltimore bridge in March in which six men were killed. The recordings, ob...
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Auroras dazzle in Latin America as solar storm causes rare displays
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The biggest geomagnetic storm in two decades, sparked by solar flares, caused dazzling lights displays in parts of Latin America overnight on Friday, including a rare appearance in Mexico. In Mexicali, a desert city on Mexic...
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Billionaire investor Ken Griffin calls on Harvard to embrace 'western values'
(Reuters) - Billionaire investor Kenneth Griffin called on his alma mater Harvard University on Saturday to embrace "western values", saying that the turmoil across college campuses was the product of a "cultural revolution" in U.S. education. Grif...
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Death toll from floods in Brazil's south climbs to 136
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state has climbed to 136, local civil defense said on Saturday, up from 126 in the previous day, while another 125 people remain unaccounted for. Storms and fl...
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Nikki Haley under active consideration by Trump campaign to be running mate, Axios reports
(Reuters) - Nikki Haley is under active consideration by Donald Trump's campaign to be his running mate, Axios reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the dynamic. Trump could pick Haley if he were convinced she could help him win the pre...
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World News
Catalans vote in election that offers new chance to exiled separatist leader
By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalans go to the polls on Sunday in a regional vote which offers the choice of an exiled separatist politician who led a breakaway push in 2017, or an anti-independence government led by the Socialist Party. Opi...
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Canadian police arrest fourth man for murder of Sikh leader Nijjar
TORONTO (Reuters) - A fourth person has been arrested and charged with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year, Canadian police said on Saturday, in a case that strained diplomatic relations with India. Canadian police e...
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Switzerland wins Eurovision Song Contest 2024
MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - Swiss rapper and singer Nemo won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with "The Code", a drum-and-bass, opera, rap and rock tune about Nemo's journey of self-discovery as a non-binary person. (Reporting by Jacob Gronholt-P...
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Protesters return to streets across Israel, demanding hostage release
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Saturday demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government do more to secure the release of hostages being held in the Gaza Strip by Islamist group Hamas. Family members ...
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Russia's Belgorod governor says Ukraine shelling kills one, wounds 29
(Reuters) - The governor of Russia's Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, said on Saturday that one woman was killed and 29 people were wounded, including a child, in shelling by Ukraine's armed forces. "The city of Belgorod and Belgorod region ...
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Local Sports
Robert Gasser Earns First Career Major League Win As Brewers Beat Cardinals 11-2
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers continued their winning streak against the St. Louis Cardinals this season after their 11-2 victory on Friday night. Top prospect Robert Gasser was the star of the game, allowing no runs, no walks, and just two hits in six innings pitched. With that performance, Gasser becam...
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Badgers Receive Commitment From Former Boston College Star Receiver Joseph Griffin Jr.
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Badgers will be receiving much-needed help for the upcoming 2024 season after they landed a key transfer portal commitment on Friday night. According to ESPN's Pete Thamel, transfer wide receiver Joseph Griffin Jr. from the Boston College Golden Eagles has committed to the Wisconsin B...
May 10, 2024
Thursday High School Scoreboard
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Thursday's scoreboard: Baseball Wausau East 9 Rhinelander 1 Stevens Point 4 Marshfield 3 Wausau West 3 Merrill 2 DC Everest 5 Wisconsin Rapids 1 Medford 9 Lakeland 5 Witt/Birn 8 Manawa 5 Stratford 16 Rapids Assumption 0 Auburndale 6 Edgar 1 Auburndale 14 Edgar 10 ...
May 10, 2024
Brewers Roll Over Cardinals
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers hit three home runs in a 7-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night at American Family Field. Rhys Hoskins, Jake Bauers and Joey Ortiz all went deep for the Brewers. William Contreras was 3-4 with two runs scored and an RBI. Tobias Meyers started and gave up one...
May 10, 2024
Brewers Set To Call Up Top Five Prospect LHP Robert Gasser To Start Friday vs Cardinals
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers are preparing to call up one of their top five prospects as they look to fill spots in their starting rotation due to ace Freddy Peralta serving a suspension and Wade Miley on the IL due to a UCL injury. According to Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Brewers w...
May 09, 2024
National Sports
Broncos first-round QB Bo Nix signs rookie contract
Denver Broncos first-round draft pick Bo Nix signed his four-year rookie contract. The team announced the signing but not the terms for the quarterback, who was selected with the 12th overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft. Multiple reports said the fully...
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Tennis-Nadal unclear on French Open participation after Rome exit
ROME (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal said he was still in two minds about whether he will play in the French Open starting this month after he was eliminated from the Italian Open in straight sets by seventh seed Hubert Hurkacz on Saturday. Poland's Hurkacz...
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MLB roundup: Padres walk off, halt Dodgers' win streak
Luis Arraez lined a game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth inning Friday night as the San Diego Padres snapped the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers' seven-game winning streak with a 2-1 decision. Luis Campusano started the inning with his and the ...
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Triathlon-France's Periault clinches gold at Yokohoma to secure Olympic berth
(Reuters) - Leonie Periault claimed a stunning victory at the Yokohama World Triathlon Championship Series on Saturday, finishing 36 seconds clear of the U.S.'s Taylor Knibb in second place and 40 seconds ahead of fellow Frenchwoman Emma Lombardi, ...
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Cavaliers out to gain upper hand against top-seeded Celtics
The Cleveland Cavaliers have wrestled home-court advantage away from the top-seeded Boston Celtics. The next task is not giving it right back. After splitting two games in Boston, the fourth-seeded Cavaliers look to make a big statement when they hos...
May 10, 2024
Business News
Arm Holdings plans to launch AI chips in 2025, Nikkei reports
(Reuters) - SoftBank Group's Arm Holdings plans to develop artificial-intelligence chips, seeking to launch the first products in 2025, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday. UK-based Arm will set up an AI chip division and aim to build a prototype by spr...
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Chinese companies win licensing bids to explore Iraq oil and gas fields
By Moayed Kenany, Timour Azhari and Adam Makary BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Chinese companies won bids to explore five Iraqi oil and gas fields on Saturday in a licensing round for hydrocarbon exploration that was primarily aimed at ramping up gas production fo...
7h ago
In the Market: Financiers fret over 'leverage on leverage' in private credit
By Paritosh Bansal (Reuters) - To some elite financiers who gathered in Los Angeles for the Milken Institute conference, a debt binge in private markets is reminding them of the go-go days of risk-taking before the 2008 financial crisis. In the hal...
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China's Country Garden repays onshore coupons within grace period
BEIJING (Reuters) - Embattled Chinese property developer Country Garden said in a statement on Saturday it had repaid two onshore bond coupons before the expiry of a five-day grace period, following missed payments last week. Country Garden, which ...
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Starlink experiencing degraded service, Musk says satellites under pressure
(Reuters) - Starlink, the satellite unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is experiencing a degraded service, its website showed on Saturday, adding that the team is investigating the issue. Musk in a post on X earlier said that Starlink satellites were unde...
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Health News
Fresenius Medical sees up to 2% US dialysis growth by year-end
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The number of kidney dialysis sessions provided by Fresenius Medical Care in its top market, the United States, could rise by as much as 2% by the end of the year, its CEO said, as the impact of the pandemic on patients fades....
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Final tests of US dairy samples are negative for bird flu virus, US FDA says
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Final testing of U.S. retail dairy samples came back negative for viable H5N1 bird flu virus, the Food and Drug Administration said on Friday. The FDA said it finished its laboratory research into 297 retail dairy samples tested...
May 10, 2024
Roughly 1 in 8 US adults have taken GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, poll shows
(Reuters) - About one in eight adults have taken a drug belonging to the GLP-1 class of medications for weight loss and related conditions, a poll by Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) showed on Friday. The data also showed that 6% of those polled said...
May 10, 2024
US to provide nearly $200 million to contain bird flu spread on dairy farms
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration said on Friday it will provide nearly $200 million to fight the spread of avian flu among dairy cows, in the government's latest bid to contain outbreaks that have fueled concerns abou...
May 10, 2024
Italy updates IVF rules to allow access for widowed or separated women
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Health Ministry has updated its guidelines on medically assisted reproduction, allowing access for women who requested the procedure with their male partner but who have since become separated or widowed. Predominantly Roma...
May 10, 2024
Science News
Musk sees fourth flight of SpaceX's Starship in 3-5 weeks
(Reuters) -SpaceX's Starship rocket, a futuristic vehicle designed to eventually carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, will probably have its fourth flight in 3-5 weeks, the company's Chief Executive Elon Musk said in a post on social media platform...
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Astronomers finally detect a rocky planet with an atmosphere
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere - a trait considered essential for any possibility of harboring life. Well, they finally seem to have located one...
May 08, 2024
SpaceX's unit Starlink secures Indonesia operating permit
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The satellite unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, has secured a permit to operate in Indonesia, its communications minister told Reuters on Wednesday. Starlink had obtained a permit to operate as an internet service provider f...
May 08, 2024
Russia starts developing nuclear power unit for joint lunar station with China, RIA says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has started developing a nuclear power plant for its planned joint lunar station with China, the RIA news agency cited Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, as saying on Wednesday. In March, Borisov sa...
May 08, 2024
First crewed test flight of Boeing Starliner capsule targeted for May 17
(Reuters) - The target launch date for the long-awaited first crewed test flight of Boeing Co's new Starliner Space capsule has been pushed back another week to no earlier than Friday, May 17, in order to replace a faulty pressure valve on its boos...
May 08, 2024
Technology News
Apple's New Jersey store workers vote against unionizing, Bloomberg reports
(Reuters) - Workers at Apple's store in Short Hills, New Jersey, have voted against unionizing, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. (Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mallard)
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Arm Holdings plans to launch AI chips in 2025, Nikkei reports
(Reuters) - SoftBank Group's Arm Holdings plans to develop artificial-intelligence chips, seeking to launch the first products in 2025, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday. UK-based Arm will set up an AI chip division and aim to build a prototype by spr...
1h ago
Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social...
May 10, 2024
Elon Musk says Tesla will spend $500 million to expand charging network
(Reuters) - Tesla will spend more than $500 million to expand its fast-charging network, CEO Elon Musk said on Friday, days after abruptly laying off employees who were running the business. "That's just on new sites and expansions, not counting op...
May 10, 2024
US bill to restrict WuXi AppTec, Chinese biotechs revised to give more time to cut ties
By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -A new version of a bill that would restrict U.S. business with certain Chinese biotechnology companies including WuXi AppTec and BGI would give U.S. companies until 2032 to end work with the firms, extending the amount of t...
May 10, 2024
Entertainment News
Factbox-Switzerland won Eurovision's jury vote, while viewers favoured Croatia, Israel
MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - Swiss artist Nemo won the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, beating 24 rivals with the song "The Code", while Israel's Eden Golan finished fifth despite calls for a boycott over the war in Gaza. The w...
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Swedish host city braces for Eurovision final and fresh protest
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - Swedish host city Malmo geared up for the Eurovision grand final on Saturday as excitement mingled with the tension of heightened security threats and political protests over Israel's participati...
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Dutch artist misses Eurovision rehearsal after 'incident', organisers say
MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - Dutch singer Joost Klein was missing from Friday's rehearsals of the Eurovision Song Contest following an "incident", the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organises the event, said in a statement. "We are currently...
May 10, 2024
Beach Boys book covers 60 years of sun, surf and Good Vibrations
By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - The Beach Boys share their story in a new book chronicling their rise from a small garage band formed in a Los Angeles suburb in the early 1960s to one of the world's greatest groups. "The Beach Boys by The Beach B...
May 10, 2024
Italy's public TV apologises for mistakenly publishing Eurovision results
ROME (Reuters) - Italian public broadcaster RAI apologised on Friday for mistakenly revealing domestic voting results for the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming it on a technical glitch. The Eurovision Song Contest is the world's bi...
May 10, 2024