A project to complete the full reconstruction of South 20th Street on Sheboygan's south side will once again require residents in that neighborhood to detour for several weeks. That area has seen multiple street projects over the past few years. Although those living on the street will still have access, South 20th St...

A bill that extends Medicaid coverage for new moms from the current 60 days to a full year has cleared the State Senate with support of the Republican Leadership. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) said after its passage on Tuesday that: "Extending postpartum coverage to twelve months improves heal...

What began as a traffic stop for a moving violation resulted in the seizure of a quantity of dangerous drugs and the issuance of charges against the driver. The Ozaukee County Sheriff's Deputy making the stop was monitoring Highway 33 near I-43 when a moving violation was observed. The driver told the deputy that he a...

Two local high school seniors have been selected along with 30 others as finalists for the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association's Statewide Scholar Athlete Award, presented by the We Energies Foundation and the Wisconsin Public Service Foundation. The selections were made from a pool of more than 806 nominat...

An independent investigation has determined that an inmate in the Ozaukee County Jail accidentally overdosed, causing his death while in custody last June. The investigation was conducted by the Washington County Sheriff's Office and the Chief Medical Examiner for Milwaukee County. Nelson Javier Torres Morales was tak...

Two local high school seniors have been selected along with 30 others as finalists for the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association's Statewide Scholar Athlete Award, presented by the We Energies Foundation and the Wisconsin Public Service Foundation. The selections were made from a pool of more than 806 nominat...

By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Euroleague CEO Paulius Motiejunas said he wants to preserve the spirit of European basketball as his organisation faces potential competition from the ultra-powerful NBA. The National Basketball Association is ex...

By Ian Ransom (Reuters) - Less than three months after former rugby league player Jordan Mailata barged his way to Super Bowl glory with the Philadelphia Eagles, Australians will watch the NFL draft with interest to see where the next homegrown tal...

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (WHBL) - The Pacers are in the driver's seat of their East opening round playoff series after taking down the Milwaukee Bucks 123-115 in Game Two from Indianapolis on Tuesday night. Pascal Siakam led the Pacers in scoring with 24 points and Tyrese Haliburton chipped in with 21 points. Giannis Antetokou...

(WHBL) - Christian Yelich hit a sixth-inning grand slam to propel the Milwaukee Brewers to an 11-3 win over the Giants in San Francisco on Tuesday night. Yelich drove-in a team-high four runs while Jake Bauers finished 3-for-5 with a home run, two runs scored and two RBI. Jose Quintana earned the win and moved to 3-0 t...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- Wisconsin's governor is pumped up about the NFL Draft happening in his state next week. With just seven days to go until the big event officially gets underway, Gov. Tony Evers delivered a radio address to celebrate the upcoming draft. He welcomed visitors who are coming to Titletown from all across the ...

JUNEAU, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A $2 million bond has been set for the man accused of abducting a pregnant teenager from Beaver Dam. Gary Day, 40, of Arkansas, made his initial appearance in a Dodge County courtroom Thursday afternoon. He faces two counts of child abduction and two counts of child enticement, to which he ple...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- The man accused of abducting a pregnant teenager from Beaver Dam has been extradited to Wisconsin after his arrest in Nebraska earlier this month. Gary Day, 40, is charged in Dodge County with child abduction and child enticement. According to WMTV, Wisconsin officials took custody of Day Wednesday morni...

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...

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) - French violinist Esther Abrami puts female composers in focus on her new album "Women", paying tribute to their often-overlooked contributions to classical music. From Oscar winners Rachel Portman and An...

By Ned Randolph and Daniel Trotta LAPLACE, Louisiana (Reuters) -From her home on Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," Lydia Gerard looks down at her 8-month-old great-granddaughter and wonders if she will one day suffer the same fate as her many friends and rel...

By Dan Levine, Chad Terhune -Dr. Ali Sherif normally gives about 50 doses of the measles vaccine to children each month at his clinic in Hobbs, New Mexico, near the Texas state line. The number of shots at his clinic has surged about 25%, however, in r...

(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 6.02 struck Turkey, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said on Wednesday. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) GFZ said. (Reporting by Devika Nair in BengaluruEditing by Peter Graff)

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans elected President Donald Trump in hopes that he would fight inflation and boost the U.S. economy, but as he approaches his 100th day in office they are giving the Republican poor marks for his handlin...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund has appointed Ron van Rooden as head of its mission to Syria, Syria's Finance Minister Mohammed Yosr Bernieh said in a written statement, making him the first country mission chief since war erupte...

By Ali Sawafta and Nidal al-Mughrabi RAMALLAH (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the Hamas militant group Hamas on Wednesday to cede responsibility for the Gaza Strip, hand over its arms to the Palestinian Authority and turn ...

By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine priest Guillermo Marcó, a close ally to Pope Francis and his spokesman for years when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, is confident that the pontiff's drive to open up and modernize the Catholic ...

By Aigerim Turgunbaeva BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz security services have detained four people, including an employee of a Russian government agency, on suspicion of recruiting Kyrgyz citizens to fight in the Russian army, officials said on Wednesda...

By Elena Fabrichnaya and Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian central bank chief Elvira Nabiullina is safe in her job for two more years with President Vladimir Putin's personal support but the Kremlin will face a succession dilemma when her re...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -(To receive the full newsletter in your inbox for free sign up here)Obstetricians and gynecologists are not fleeing from U.S. states where abortions have become illegal, a new study shows. Since June 2022, when the U.S. Suprem...

(Reuters) -Thermo Fisher Scientific reported better-than-expected profit and revenue for the first quarter on Wednesday, helped by resilient demand for its products and services used for developing therapies. The Waltham, Massachusetts-based company pr...

LONDON (Reuters) -AstraZeneca Chief Executive Officer Pascal Soriot said on Wednesday that Europe has stepped up its defence spending and now must protect its health sovereignty amid a shifting world order. "Europe spends a substantially lower share of...

By Ned Randolph and Daniel Trotta LAPLACE, Louisiana (Reuters) -From her home on Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," Lydia Gerard looks down at her 8-month-old great-granddaughter and wonders if she will one day suffer the same fate as her many friends and rel...

By Dan Levine, Chad Terhune -Dr. Ali Sherif normally gives about 50 doses of the measles vaccine to children each month at his clinic in Hobbs, New Mexico, near the Texas state line. The number of shots at his clinic has surged about 25%, however, in r...

BEIJING (Reuters) -The chief designer of China's lunar exploration programme accused the United States on Wednesday of interfering in Beijing's pushes to cooperate with Europe and other foreign partners in space programmes. Wu Weiren told Reuters that ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Preliminary plans for the China and Russia-led International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) include building a nuclear power plant on the moon's surface, a presentation by a Chinese space official on Wednesday showed. (Reporting by ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China has set the launch for its Shenzhou-20 mission that will carry three astronauts to the Chinese space station for Thursday at 5.17 p.m. local time (0917 GMT), state media said on Wednesday. The main purpose of the mission is to ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of mineral dust up to about 5.6 mi...

(Reuters) -A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported on Sunday. "Its deorbiting and descent to Earth were normal...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Nintendo said on Wednesday it has received 2.2 million applications in the lottery for its Switch 2 gaming device in Japan but cannot fulfil all the demand. There were far more applications on the My Nintendo Store than expected and th...

By Marleen Kaesebier (Reuters) -Swiss banking software company Temenos had some deals delayed last month because of U.S. President Donald Trump's April 2 tariff announcement, but they were coming through now and the group's U.S. growth plans were on tr...

By Aditya Soni (Reuters) - Corporate America's artificial intelligence investment frenzy has shrugged off fears of slow returns and doubts fueled by AI models built cheaply by China's DeepSeek. But a global trade war started by the Trump administra...

(Reuters) -AT&T beat Wall Street estimates for wireless subscriber additions in the first quarter on Wednesday, driven by steady demand for its plans that bundled high-speed fiber services and 5G mobile offerings. The U.S. wireless carrier's focus on b...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Alphabet's Google and Elon Musk's X may be the next to face fines from European regulators, as they stay tough on Big Tech despite concerns of retaliatory U.S. tariffs, according to three sources with direct knowledg...

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) - French violinist Esther Abrami puts female composers in focus on her new album "Women", paying tribute to their often-overlooked contributions to classical music. From Oscar winners Rachel Portman and An...

By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Harvey Weinstein's retrial on rape and sexual assault charges is set to proceed Wednesday with opening statements before a Manhattan jury, a year after New York's highest state appeals court overturned the disgraced movie mogul...

By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - Years of filming, often in extreme conditions, has provided new insights into the extraordinary challenges endured by penguins for a documentary series to be premiered on Monday, the eve of Earth Day. "Secrets of t...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean 'Diddy' Combs appeared in Manhattan federal court on Friday for a hearing over the hip-hop mogul's bid to delay his upcoming sex trafficking trial by two months. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to five criminal c...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling will star in a new "Star Wars" film that will reach movie theaters in May 2027, Walt Disney's Lucasfilm announced on Thursday. "Star Wars: Starfighter" will take place five year...