Local News

Cost Overruns on Plymouth Reliability Project Filed with Public Service Commission
Cost overruns have been noted by American Transmission Company in a filing with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin. The new 138 kV transmission line, intended to serve expanding demand near Plymouth, has been under construction since October following years of planning and debate. A quarterly progress report f...
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Final Open House Scheduled at Urban Middle School Prior to Construction
If you'd like one last look at Urban Middle School before it undergoes reconstruction, then you'll want to attend an upcoming open house. The historic school building on North Avenue, built more than 90 years ago, is schedule for reconstruction beginning at the end of this school year. Initial work will include removal...
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City of Fond du Lac Aims to Help Pollinators
It's time to help the pollinators in Fond Du Lac by not working so hard on the yard. Officials with the city of Fond Du Lac are inviting the public to participate in Slow Mow May, an initiative that encourages residents to mow lawns less frequently during the month of May, in an effort to support pollinators like bees ...
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SPD Seeks Help Solving Hit & Run
Sheboygan Police are asking for your help in identifying the driver responsible for a hit and run accident last month. Police say a child riding a bicycle was struck as they were crossing North 14th St at St Clair Avenue, when they were struck by a person driving a dark colored Honda Odyssey minivan that was driving no...
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Sheboygan to Consider Temporary Halt on Data Centers
The Sheboygan Common Council is set to consider a proposal which would put a temporary halt to data centers greater than 10,000 square feet. According to the proposal, the purpose is to allow officials adequate time to create reasonable regulations and to respond by regulation amendments reflecting anticipated changes ...
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Sports
Magic fire Jamahl Mosley after first-round collapse
Head coach Jamahl Mosley was fired by the Magic on Monday, one day after a Game 7 loss to the Detroit Pistons in a first-round series that Orlando led 3-1. The Magic lost in the first round of the playoffs for the third consecutive season. They had ...
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Collin Morikawa withdraws from Truist Championship
World No. 6 Collin Morikawa has withdrawn from this week's Truist Championship, the PGA Tour said Monday. Andrew Putnam takes his place in the field for the Signature Event at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C. No reason was provided. Morikawa...
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Longtime Yankees broadcaster John Sterling dies at 87
Legendary New York Yankees radio broadcaster John Sterling has died at 87. Sterling joined the team in 1989 and spent 36 years in the booth, calling 5,420 regular-season games and 211 playoff games before retiring in April 2024. He worked 5,060 conse...
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Motor racing-Mercedes up for Formula One returning to V8 engines in 2030, says Wolff
By Alan Baldwin MIAMI, May 4 (Reuters) - Mercedes would be "absolutely up for" Formula One switching to V8 engines from 2030 or 2031 but the sport must remain connected to the real world, according to motorsport director and team boss Toto Wolff. The h...
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Motor racing-FIA boss divided on multi-team ownership, expects Horner to return to F1
By Alan Baldwin MIAMI, May 4 (Reuters) - Formula One's governing body is looking into whether multi-team ownership should be allowed after Mercedes were linked to a minority stake in Renault-owned Alpine. Mohammed Ben Sulayem, the president of the Inte...
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National News
Earthquake hits southern Mexico, no victims reported
MEXICO CITY, May 4 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 hit southern Mexico on Monday morning, Mexico's National Seismological Institute said, while authorities reported no initial fatalities or damages. The earthquake struck 24 kilometers (...
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US Supreme Court lets abortion pill mail delivery restart for now
By Andrew Chung May 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily reinstated on Monday a federal rule allowing the abortion pill to be prescribed through telemedicine and dispensed through the mail, lifting a judicial decision that had blocked the r...
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DOJ taking aim at food prices, acting AG says
By Jody Godoy May 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice will use every law enforcement tool available to address rising food prices, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Monday. Prosecutors have reviewed more than 3 million documen...
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Rubio to travel to Italy May 6-8, State Dept says after tensions with pope
WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary Of State Marco Rubio will travel to Rome from Wednesday to Friday to advance relations with Italy and the Vatican, a State Department spokesperson said on Monday, after recent criticism of the pope by Pres...
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Trump family's crypto project sues billionaire backer Justin Sun
By Tom Wilson, David Gauthier-Villars and Elizabeth Howcroft May 4 (Reuters) - World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture co-founded by U.S. President Donald Trump and his sons, said on Monday it had filed a defamation lawsuit against Hong Kong-base...
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World News
Germany's Merz marks a year in office facing deep transatlantic crisis
By James Mackenzie BERLIN, May 4 (Reuters) - Chancellor Friedrich Merz marks a year in office this week facing the biggest crisis with Washington in decades, after President Donald Trump said he would hit European auto imports with 25% tariffs and pull...
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UAE's Fujairah says fire breaks out at petroleum complex after Iranian drone attack
May 4 (Reuters) - Authorities in the United Arab Emirates' Fujairah said on Monday that a fire broke out at the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone following what they described as a drone attack originating from Iran. Civil defence teams were deploy...
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Brazil's Lula to travel to US for talks with Trump this week, sources say
(Fixes typo) BRASILIA, May 4 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will travel to the United States in the coming days to meet with his counterpart Donald Trump, two sources in the Brazilian government told Reuters on Monday. ...
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Earthquake hits southern Mexico, no victims reported
MEXICO CITY, May 4 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 hit southern Mexico on Monday morning, Mexico's National Seismological Institute said, while authorities reported no initial fatalities or damages. The earthquake struck 24 kilometers (...
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Two dead after car runs into crowd in German city of Leipzig, reports local broadcaster
BERLIN, May 4 (Reuters) - Two people were killed and two severely injured when a car ran into a crowd in the centre of the eastern German city of Leipzig on Monday, local broadcaster MDR reported, citing police. Leipzig police confirmed to Reuter...
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Health News
Weight-loss revolution sparks new appetite for aesthetics firms
By Siddhi Mahatole May 4 (Reuters) - Aesthetic firms are betting that a growing pool of patients experiencing loose skin and facial volume loss from GLP-1 obesity drugs will fuel a new wave of demand, as the sector heads into first-quarter earnings thi...
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US Supreme Court lets abortion pill mail delivery restart for now
By Andrew Chung May 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily reinstated on Monday a federal rule allowing the abortion pill to be prescribed through telemedicine and dispensed through the mail, lifting a judicial decision that had blocked the r...
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Amgen to invest additional $300 million to boost US manufacturing footprint
May 4 (Reuters) - Amgen said on Monday it was investing an additional $300 million in Puerto Rico to expand its U.S. manufacturing network. Global drugmakers have been boosting manufacturing in the country in response to President Donald Trump's tari...
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Zambia says US health deal must be uncoupled from minerals access
LUSAKA, May 4 (Reuters) - Zambia's government said on Monday that it opposed a U.S. attempt to tie health funding to access to critical minerals, giving details for the first time about why negotiations with Washington over two proposed agreements ha...
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Takeda's next-gen experimental immune drug comparable to approved treatment in study
May 4 (Reuters) - Takeda Pharmaceutical said on Monday its experimental drug for primary immunodeficiency disease showed comparable immune protection to its approved therapy HyQvia in a mid-to late-stage trial, potentially offering a more convenient ...
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Science News
Atmosphere detected on celestial body in solar system's far reaches
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - In the far reaches of our solar system - beyond the outermost planet Neptune - resides a host of icy and desolate celestial bodies. Among these objects, only the dwarf planet Pluto was known to possess an at...
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Foxconn launches second-generation satellites via SpaceX Falcon 9
TAIPEI, May 3 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn said on Sunday its second-generation low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites were launched via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California, marking the electronics manufacturer's latest push into space technology...
May 03, 2026
South Korea launches next-generation satellite on SpaceX Falcon 9, Yonhap says
(Corrected location of launch from Kennedy Space Station to Vandenberg Space Force Base) SEOUL, May 3 (Reuters) - South Korea launched its next-generation mid-sized Earth observation satellite No. 2 aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from the Van...
May 03, 2026
Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time
By Marta Serafinko May 1 (Reuters) - Deep beneath the ocean surface, sperm whales swim through the dark waters, clicking to each other in bursts of sound that can travel for kilometres. Now, scientists say they are beginning to follow those exchanges i...
May 01, 2026
Exclusive-SpaceX spending on Starship tops $15 billion in rush for airline-like rocketry
By Joey Roulette and Echo Wang WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion developing its next-generation Starship rocket, according to the company's IPO registration reviewed by Reuters, a sum that dwarfs the cost of its workh...
May 01, 2026
Technology News
Trump family's crypto project sues billionaire backer Justin Sun
By Tom Wilson, David Gauthier-Villars and Elizabeth Howcroft May 4 (Reuters) - World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture co-founded by U.S. President Donald Trump and his sons, said on Monday it had filed a defamation lawsuit against Hong Kong-base...
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Blackstone vehicle aims to raise over $1.7 billion in US IPO to fund data center bet
May 4 (Reuters) - A newly minted Blackstone investment vehicle is aiming to raise slightly over $1.7 billion in an initial public offering in the United States to capitalize on booming demand in the data center sector. Blackstone Digital Infrastructu...
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Musk sought settlement with OpenAI before Oakland trial, filing shows
(Removes extraneous text in paragraph 3) May 4 (Reuters) - Elon Musk contacted OpenAI President Greg Brockman to gauge interest in a settlement two days before their high-stakes trial got underway in Oakland federal court, according to a new court fi...
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Soccer-FIFA faces World Cup broadcast crisis as India's Reliance offers $20 million, China deal unannounced
By Aditya Kalra, Munsif Vengattil and Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI, May 4 (Reuters) - Millions of soccer fans in the world's two most populous nations may not be able to watch the World Cup that starts next month, due to a deadlock over broadcast rights...
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EU recommends member states to not use Huwaei, ZTE in connectivity infrastructure
BRUSSELS, May 4 (Reuters) - The European Commission has recommended that member states exclude Huwaei and ZTE gears from local telecom operators' connectivity infrastructure, a spokesperson said on Monday. The new cybersecurity rules being approv...
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Entertainment News
Britney Spears DUI case goes to court on Monday
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, May 4 (Reuters) - Lawyers for musician Britney Spears are expected to appear in a California courtroom on Monday to respond to a charge that the pop superstar drove her BMW while under the influence of drugs and alcohol. ...
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Hits don't lie: Shakira concert draws 2 million fans in Rio
By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO, May 3 (Reuters) - Some 2 million people packed Copacabana Beach on Saturday for a free concert by Shakira, Rio de Janeiro city officials said early on Sunday, marking the biggest show of the Colombian pop star's ...
May 03, 2026
Netflix to give Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia' wide theatrical release, marking a first
By Dawn Chmielewski May 1 (Reuters) - Netflix on Friday said it would put filmmaker Greta Gerwig's "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" movie in wide theatrical release next year, where it will play exclusively for more than 45 days - a first for the strea...
May 01, 2026
Motor racing-Apple's Cue expects F1 movie sequel, hopes for more global TV expansion
By Alan Baldwin MIAMI, May 1 (Reuters) - A sequel to Brad Pitt's successful F1 Movie is likely and Apple are also hoping to expand their Formula One involvement globally after securing the U.S. broadcast rights, Senior Vice-President of Services Eddy...
May 01, 2026
AI actors and writers will be ineligible for Oscars
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, May 1 (Reuters) - Academy Awards organizers issued new rules on Friday to clarify that acting and writing must be performed by humans and not artificial intelligence to be eligible for the movie industry's highest honors...
May 01, 2026


