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Wisconsin Timber Rattlers get new owners
(TIMBER RATTLERS) GRAND CHUTE - Third Base Ventures, led by Craig Dickman, Rob Zerjav and Brad Raaths, announced today that i...
12h ago
Milwaukee Bucks' Lillard cleared for full basketball activity
(MILWAUKEE BUCKS) - Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard has been cleared for full basketball activity as the deep vein throm...
12h ago
NBA Play-In Tournament, Bulls and Kings done
(247NEWSSOURCE) - The final round of the Play-In Tournament is set. The Miami Heat prevailed over the Chicago Bulls 109-90 to...
20h ago
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Wisconsin Badgers volleyball takes down Marquette
(UW ATHLETICS) MADISON, WIS. - The Wisconsin volleyball team defeated Marquette 25-13, 25-19, 25-21 at the UW Field House on ...
20h ago
MIlwaukee Bucks prepping for Pacers
(LEARFIELD) - The Milwaukee Bucks open the NBA playoffs at noon on Saturday when they face the Indiana Pacers on the road in ...
20h ago
Local
Appleton bank robber who would 'rather be in jail than be homeless' sentenced to prison
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Martin Schiedermayer was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for robbing an Appleton bank i...
10h ago
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers' leadership stays as DBH takes ownership
GRAND CHUTE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers have a new owner. Third Base Ventures, led by Craig Dickman, Rob...
12h ago
Waupaca County soybean farmer concerned about impact of U.S.-China tariff battle
WAUPACA COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The back-and-forth tariff battle between the United States and China is impacting soybean f...
13h ago
Manitowoc County opens public health vending machine to counter rising overdose deaths
MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- It's now easier than ever to help solve a rising problem in Manitowoc County. The Northeastern W...
13h ago
Keepsake bricks from Oshkosh's Merrill school building available to the public
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Oshkosh Area School District is giving the community a chance to hold onto a piece of the city...
13h ago
State
Bond set at $2 million for man accused of abducting pregnant Beaver Dam teenager
JUNEAU, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A $2 million bond has been set for the man accused of abducting a pregnant teenager from Beaver Dam...
11h ago
Man charged with abducting pregnant Beaver Dam teenager is extradited to Wisconsin
(WTAQ-WLUK) -- The man accused of abducting a pregnant teenager from Beaver Dam has been extradited to Wisconsin after his ar...
Apr 16, 2025
Evers warns up to 25% of Wisconsin child care facilities may close without continued funds
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Governor Tony Evers says as many as 25% of child care facilities in the state are in danger of cl...
Apr 15, 2025
Democrats propose bill to curb election spending in Wisconsin
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- State Democrats announced legislation addressing political contributions made in the April 1st S...
Apr 10, 2025
Charges dropped against 1 of 9 former Waupun prison employees
JUNEAU, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Criminal charges have been dropped against one of the nine former Waupun Correctional Institution e...
Apr 09, 2025
Local Sports
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers get new owners
(TIMBER RATTLERS) GRAND CHUTE - Third Base Ventures, led by Craig Dickman, Rob Zerjav and Brad Raaths, announced today that i...
12h ago
Wisconsin Badgers volleyball details Opening Spike Classic
(UW ATHLETICS) - The Wisconsin volleyball team will kick off the 2025 season with the Opening Spike Classic over Labor Day We...
12h ago
Milwaukee Bucks' Lillard cleared for full basketball activity
(MILWAUKEE BUCKS) - Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard has been cleared for full basketball activity as the deep vein throm...
12h ago
Wisconsin Badgers volleyball takes down Marquette
(UW ATHLETICS) MADISON, WIS. - The Wisconsin volleyball team defeated Marquette 25-13, 25-19, 25-21 at the UW Field House on ...
20h ago
Wisconsin Badgers softball handles North Dakota State
(UW ATHLETICS) MADISON - The Wisconsin softball team (28-16, 8-8) swept its Wednesday double-header against North Dakota Sta...
20h ago
National Sports
NHL roundup: Sabres coach Lindy Ruff logs 900th win
Ryan McLeod collected a goal and two assists to help lift Buffalo to a 5-4 victory over the visiting Philadelphia Flyers on T...
1h ago
MLB roundup: Kumar Rocker gets first career win for streaking Rangers
Kumar Rocker put together a solid outing to earn his first career win as the Texas Rangers downed the slumping Los Angeles An...
1h ago
Florida State cancels home sporting events after on-campus shooting
Florida State University canceled all home athletic events through Sunday following a shooting Thursday on the Tallahassee ca...
1h ago
Kings, GM Monte McNair part ways after play-in loss
The Sacramento Kings and general manager Monte McNair mutually agreed to part ways after the team's play-in loss to the Dalla...
1h ago
Ex-Texas Tech G Kevin Overton joining Auburn
Former Texas Tech guard Kevin Overton is transferring to Auburn, which will be his third team in three seasons. Overton ackno...
6h ago
National
Judge extends ban on Musk's DOGE access to private Social Security data
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday that extends a ban on billionaire El...
1h ago
New 'Star Wars' movie with Ryan Gosling set for 2027
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling will star in a new "Star Wars" film that...
3h ago
US Senator Van Hollen says he met wrongly deported man in El Salvador
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday he met Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man wrongly de...
4h ago
Earthquake of magnitude 5.7 strikes northern Chile, GFZ says
(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck northern Chile on Thursday, German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) sai...
6h ago
Trump administration orders Gaza-linked social media vetting for visa applicants
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration on Thursday ordered a social media vetting for all U.S. visa ...
7h ago
World
Uganda plans law to allow military prosecution of civilians
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - The Ugandan government intends to introduce a law to allow military tribunals to try...
22m ago
Analysis-With his promises of peace unmet in Gaza and Ukraine, Trump may find Iran just as tough
By Matt Spetalnick and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With his campaign promises unfulfilled to quickly bring peace to ...
59m ago
Russian missile attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv kills one, injures 57 more, officials say
KYIV (Reuters) - A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv killed one person and injured 57 more on ...
59m ago
Judge extends ban on Musk's DOGE access to private Social Security data
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday that extends a ban on billionaire El...
1h ago
Malaysia PM to hold talks with Myanmar opposition after meeting junta chief
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will hold talks with a key Myanmar opposition group on Friday, a d...
4h ago
Business
Carlyle in white knight talks with Makino, say sources, as Nidec takeover battle heats up
By Anton Bridge, Makiko Yamazaki, Ritsuko Shimizu and Miho Uranaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Private equity giant Carlyle is in talks...
27m ago
Exclusive-India plans to ease nuclear liability laws to attract foreign firms, sources say
By Sarita Chaganti Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is planning to ease its nuclear liability laws to cap accident-related p...
55m ago
Malaysia's economy grew 4.4% y/y in Q1, exports to U.S. surge in March
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's economy grew 4.4% in the first quarter of 2025 from a year earlier and the country's expo...
56m ago
China set to leave lending rates steady, but tariffs raise easing bets
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is widely expected to leave its benchmark lending rates unchanged at the monthly fixing on...
56m ago
Japan does not manipulate FX to weaken the yen, Finance Minister says
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan does not manipulate the currency market to weaken the yen, Finance Minister Katsunobu...
3h ago
Politics
Judge extends ban on Musk's DOGE access to private Social Security data
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday that extends a ban on billionaire El...
1h ago
US Senator Van Hollen says he met wrongly deported man in El Salvador
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday he met Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man wrongly de...
4h ago
Trump administration orders Gaza-linked social media vetting for visa applicants
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration on Thursday ordered a social media vetting for all U.S. visa ...
7h ago
As demonstrators accuse Trump of undermining universities, he calls Harvard 'a disgrace'
By Nathan Frandino BERKELEY, California (Reuters) -Hundreds of students, faculty and community members on a California campus...
7h ago
Suspect charged with hate crime in attack on two Jewish students in Chicago
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A suspect was charged with a hate crime for a November attack on two Jewish students...
7h ago
Health
Exclusive-FDA fires most negotiators for pharma user fee talks, sources say
By Maggie Fick and Marisa Taylor LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's mass layoffs included s...
8h ago
UnitedHealth was a reliable earnings performer - until its shocking Thursday results
By Sriparna Roy (Reuters) -UnitedHealth has traditionally been a company investors saw as reliable, having not missed earning...
9h ago
US FDA limits industry employees from roles in its advisory committees
(Reuters) -U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary announced on Thursday a policy to limit employees of ...
9h ago
Michigan reports first confirmed outbreak of measles since 2019
(Reuters) -The Michigan health department confirmed a measles outbreak in Montcalm County on Thursday, marking the first such...
9h ago
US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food ...
10h ago
Science
NASA rover finds fresh evidence of the warm and wet past of Mars
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surfac...
12h ago
Science caught in crossfire of Trump's fight with universities
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Harvard scientist Dr. Donald Ingber, who works where medicine and engineering meet, saw federal fu...
20h ago
Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have ...
Apr 17, 2025
The Bahamas suspends SpaceX landings, pending post-launch probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The government of The Bahamas said on Tuesday it is suspending all SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket landings, pen...
Apr 16, 2025
Katy Perry launches into space with all-female crew on Blue Origin rocket
(Reuters) - Pop star Katy Perry and five other women launched into space on a Blue Origin rocket and successfully returned to...
Apr 14, 2025
Technology
China's Q1 smartphone shipments rise 3.3% from a year earlier, IDC says
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's smartphone shipments in the first quarter by 3.3% from a year earlier, research firm IDC said. Ap...
4h ago
Exclusive-Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan streamlines leadership team, names new technology chief, memo says
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, is streamlining the semiconductor giant's leadership...
7h ago
Fed proposes averaging large bank stress test results to reduce volatility
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve kicked off a sweeping effort to overhaul its annual stress tests...
9h ago
Trump says China has reached out on tariffs, TikTok deal may wait
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday that China has reached out to talk since the U.S. imposed tari...
9h ago
Kraken lays off hundreds to streamline business ahead of IPO, Coindesk reports
(Reuters) -Kraken, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has laid off hundreds of employees in the past severa...
10h ago
Entertainment
New 'Star Wars' movie with Ryan Gosling set for 2027
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling will star in a new "Star Wars" film that...
3h ago
Diego Luna feels he will need therapy after farewell to 'Andor' show
By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For actor Diego Luna, Season Two of the Disney Plus series "...
8h ago
Drake attacks Lamar's Super Bowl performance in lawsuit against record label
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Drake expanded his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, saying more peop...
15h ago
Musical 'The Great Gatsby' brings 1920s glamour to London's West End
By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - A musical incarnation of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel "The Great Ga...
Apr 17, 2025
US game show host Wink Martindale dies at 91
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wink Martindale, a longtime fixture on U.S. television as the host of "Tic-Tac-Dough," &quo...
Apr 16, 2025
