Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Deputies had to put their skills to work on Friday morning when an erratic driver prompted emergency steps be taken to prevent head-on collisions. A deputy positioned in the Highway 151 median north of Highway 49 observed a southbound vehicle cross the median into the northbound lanes, con...

Traffic became jammed more than the already-slow pace through the I-43 construction zone on Friday around midday, causing backups and calling in emergency responders. The accident apparently happened shortly after 12:30 PM, and social media reports suggested that 4 persons needed treatment for their injuries. Among th...

A eruption of fire truck sirens and horns at around 6 Thursday evening was a dead-ringer for a village-wide emergency in Cedar Grove, but it was all celebration after the Cedar Grove-Belgium Rockets had won their first-ever Division-3 Baseball title by defeating Dodgeville 13-9. The ruckus was only the beginning of a ...

With unemployment rates in east central Wisconsin consistently below the national average, competition to attract workers is rising with the latest volley coming from Fond du Lac. That city has launched a new talent attraction program aimed at recruiting both remote workers and local workforce talent, becoming the fir...

A staple of Sheboygan summers launches its 2026 season when the John Michael Kohler Arts Center's Levitt Amp Music series of concerts returns next Thursday at City Green. The popular Thursday night concerts began in 2015 and, after several consecutive years of competition to get the concerts, the Levitt Foundation tha...

A eruption of fire truck sirens and horns at around 6 Thursday evening was a dead-ringer for a village-wide emergency in Cedar Grove, but it was all celebration after the Cedar Grove-Belgium Rockets had won their first-ever Division-3 Baseball title by defeating Dodgeville 13-9. The ruckus was only the beginning of a ...

By Iain Axon, Gabriel Araujo and Sebastian Rocandio KANSAS CITY, Missouri, June 19 (Reuters) - Kansas City on Friday sought to reassure fans after the smallest U.S. World Cup host city had plenty of action off the pitch in recent weeks, from a highway ...

CF Montreal extended goalkeeper Thomas Gillier's loan from Bologna FC ​through December 2026. The ‌transaction announced Friday includes an option to further extend the deal through June ‌2027. Gillier, ​22, has recorded ⁠three clean ⁠sheets in 14 st...

NEW YORK, June 19 (Reuters) - Japan and Tunisia will meet on Saturday in the 1,000th soccer ​World Cup match, FIFA ‌said, with the Group F game at Monterrey Stadium serving as each side's second fixture at the expanded 48-team ‌tournament. Japan ​drew ...

By Philip O'Connor and Pearl Josephine Nazare VANCOUVER, June 19 (Reuters) - As World Cup fever grips Vancouver, the tournament is proving a tale of two cities for local businesses - with some riding a wave of international customers while others find ...

By Nicole Fernandes TORONTO, June 19 (Reuters) - A tiny oranda goldfish named Swimbappe is making a big splash in Toronto with daily World Cup match predictions made from his own underwater pitch, capturing the curiosity and hearts of soccer fans ​in t...

By Trevor Stynes ATLANTA, June 19 (Reuters) - Fans arriving in the United States for the World Cup ​have fallen in love with ‌a popular American condiment, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has offered friendly advice to those wishin...

By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY, June 19 (Reuters) - A government-commissioned audit of First Quantum Minerals' shuttered Cobre Panama mine found the project broadly compliant with its environmental, legal and operational obligations, ​handing the company ...

PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - French weather agency Meteo France said on Monday the current heatwave, which is comparable to the ones in 2003 and 2019, ​will push temperatures to match record highs on ‌Monday. • "A widespread, prolonged, and intense heatw...

June 19 (Reuters) - Maine Democrats nominated state auditor Matthew Dunlap to run in the state's 2nd Congressional District, a closely watched race that could ​help decide control of the U.S. House ‌of Representatives in November, U.S. media projected ...

WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on ​Friday he will ‌go to Turkey and make another trip to China at some point ‌in ​2026. "We're ⁠doing a lot ⁠of trips. We'll be going to Turkey. We'll be going at ​some point during the ...

LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - British Transport Police said on Friday it was responding to reports of a collision ​involving two trains about 60 ‌miles north of London, with media reports saying the major incident had resulted in multiple injuries. A vid...

By Cassandra Garrison LA PAZ, June 19 - In the forests of Bolivia's Chapare region, Evo Morales is watching - and waiting. From his rural stronghold in a hidden location, the former president and leftist strongman remains a powerful force as 50 days of...

SANTIAGO, June 19 (Reuters) - Chile's foreign ministry said on Friday it was cooperating with a prosecutor's investigation into the entry of Haitian minors under family ​reunification permits, after authorities found that some ‌of the children later co...

June 19 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that a week should be enough for Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to remove equipment from his country used by Russia ​in its attacks on Ukraine, adding a threat of ‌Ukrai...

PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - The International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.N. food agency have launched a $1 million research project to ​help contain the screwworm outbreak in ‌the Americas, including efforts to address a shortage of sterile flies, t...

By Emma Farge NAIROBI, June 19 (Reuters) - A senior World Health Organization official said on Friday that 75 medics in the Democratic ​Republic of Congo had been infected with ‌Ebola and 17 of them had died since the current outbreak started there. Eb...

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays) By Nancy Lapid June 19 (Reuters) - We also report on new understanding of how Ebola infections may persist in the brain and other or...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, June 19 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is battling the worst outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever in years, with more than 44,000 cases and 28 deaths recorded ​since January, an official said on Friday, putting public ‌hospitals...

June 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and ​Drug ‌Administration's advisers on Thursday backed approval ‌of ​Moderna's ⁠flu vaccine ⁠in adults aged 50 and older, saying ​its benefits outweigh ⁠the ⁠risks. All nine ​panel members ​unanimously voted in ‌favor...

By Marta Serafinko June 19 (Reuters) - A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self-defense. Far below the ocean surface, some of its much larger relatives face a harder problem: how to stay alive when the next...

June 18 (Reuters) - SpaceX on Thursday landed investment-grade credit ratings from Moody's, Fitch and S&P Global ​Ratings, each assigning a "stable" outlook ‌after the Elon Musk-led company's high-profile initial public offering. The consensus signals ...

By Akash Sriram and Jemima Denham NEW YORK/LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Space companies have spoken with insurers about coverage for orbital AI data centers, a sign of early progress for an experimental industry backed by Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Be...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - While a city is not a living organism, it behaves very much like one. Its metabolic processes may be manifested in growth spurts, metamorphosis over time and even decay. Researchers using satellite imagery...

By Will Dunham June 17 (Reuters) - About 5,500 years ago, bands of hunter-gatherers inhabited the Lake Baikal region in Siberia, sustained by rich resources including prey such as elk, deer, moose, fish, seals and rodents called marmots. These people b...

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, June 19 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has signed a decree ​allowing the government to freeze ‌funds from companies operating illegal online betting platforms, with the money to be directed to public secur...

June 19 (Reuters) - UK-based private equity firm Pollen Street Capital on Friday said that it will acquire financial software ​company Finastra's global core banking software ‌business Universal Banking (UB). The firms did not disclose the terms of the...

By Solomon Cefai SINGAPORE, June 19 (Reuters) - China is stepping up scrutiny over exports of indium, leading some buyers to fear the niche metal, sought after for next-generation data centers, may be added to the ​export control regime that has become...

By Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI, June 19 (Reuters) - Telegram on Friday lost its bid to overturn an Indian government order temporarily banning the messaging app, with a New Delhi court ruling that the government's actions, aimed at preserving the integ...

BENGALURU, June 19 (Reuters) - India's Nifty IT index fell to a three-year low on Friday after bellwether Accenture forecast quarterly sales below Wall Street view, cut its annual revenue ​outlook and reported softer bookings in its managed services bu...

PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - Paris will hold its annual Fete de la Musique celebrations as planned on June 21 ​though outdoor sports events have been ‌cancelled in the French capital as a heatwave will intensify from Sunday, Interior Minister Laurent Nun...

By Laura Gottesdiener, Miguel Lo Bianco and Stef Haskins MONTERREY/GUADALAJARA, Mexico, June 18 (Reuters) - First came the factories, then came the food, and then the pop tunes took over. South Korean fervor in Mexico has been years in the making, grow...

By Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES, June 17 (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have cleared the $110 billion merger ​between Paramount Skydance and ‌Warner Bros Discovery, according to a source familiar with the decision. The antitrust ruling comes on the hee...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - Frank Sinatra's songs and life story come to the London stage in a new West End musical the crooner's daughter says captures the highs and lows of the man behind the myth. "Sinatra The Musical," which ​has i...

By Danielle Broadway EMERYVILLE, California, June 17 (Reuters) - For actor Joan Cusack, who voices the animated cowgirl Jessie in Disney's "Toy Story 5," it was important that the film tell a different kind of story - one centered on the experiences o...