Local News
Road America Hosts Art on Wheels Vintage Weekend
Nearly 300 vintage and historic race cars are rolling into Sheboygan County this weekend for Road America's Art on Wheels Vintage Weekend. The event runs today through Sunday and features 11 racing classes, including a tribute to the 60th anniversary of Trans-Am. Visitors can also explore the open paddock, karting, aut...
Sep 18, 2026
Wade House Site Reforestation Project Underway
A major reforestation project is getting underway at the Wade House Historic Site. The Sheboygan Rotary Club's ROOTS initiative, Wisconsin DNR and volunteers through the Sheboygan County United Way Day of Caring, National Exchange Bank & Trust, Johnsonville and the Kohler Company will plant a diverse mixture of 49 ...
Sep 18, 2026
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Humane Society Closure Due to Disease Extended
According to the Humane Society of Sheboygan County Facebook page, the shelter closure has been extended through Sunday as staff respond to an outbreak of feline panleukopenia. The shelter had planned to reopen September 17th, but says the extra time is needed for monitoring, cleaning and disease prevention. A full pub...
Sep 18, 2026
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Forecasts of Rainy Weather Prompt "Weekend Abroad" to be Held Sunday Only at Christopher Farm & Gardens
The Mayor's International Committee has decided to avoid a likely washout on Saturday, and will now condense their Weekend Abroad fundraiser into a one day only event. The gathering will be held on Sunday from 10 AM - 5 PM at Christopher Farm and Gardens. Eventgoers will be able to experience Japanese and German cult...
Sep 18, 2026
Substantial Rain Predicted Saturday, but Flood Watch Doesn't Affect Sheboygan County
The National Weather Service is getting more confident in where trouble from heavy rain will be found in Wisconsin, and that's giving a breather to Sheboygan County. The long-duration rain event begins tonight and will last into Sunday, but the heaviest rain is expected to fall between midnight tonight and noon on Satu...
Sep 18, 2026
Sports News
Heat G Pelle Larsson agrees to 4-year, $60M extension
By Field Level Media Sep 19 (Field Level Media) - Miami Heat guard Pelle Larsson has agreed to terms on a four-year, $60 million contract extension. The 2024 second-round draft pick's agents at CAA Sports confirmed the deal's details with ESPN o...
28m ago
No. 1 pick Gavin McKenna ready for Maple Leafs' debut
By Field Level Media Sep 19 (Field Level Media) - No. 1 overall draft pick Gavin McKenna is expected to make his NHL debut Saturday night when his Toronto Maple Leafs host the Montreal Canadiens in a preseason game. He was Toronto's first No. 1 overa...
1h ago
Motorcycling-Martin recovers from early setback to win Austrian sprint and retake championship lead
SPIELBERG, Austria, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Aprilia's Jorge Martin made an extraordinary recovery from a chaotic opening-lap battle with world championship rival Marc Marquez to win the Austrian Grand Prix sprint from pole position on Saturday and reclai...
2h ago
Egypt's Orfi to become youngest-ever women's world No 1
By Ashraf Hamed Atta Sept 19 (Reuters) - Egypt's Amina Orfi will become the youngest-ever women's world number one in squash when rankings are released on Monday, capping a rise that has made the 19-year-old the leading figure in the sport just as it...
8h ago
Top 25 roundup: No. 13 Texas Tech holds off No. 22 Houston
By Field Level Media Sep 19 (Field Level Media) - Will Hammond passed for 257 yards and one touchdown and No. 13 Texas Tech stymied a last-minute two-point conversion to notch a 28-26 victory over No. 22 Houston in the Big 12 opener for both teams on ...
8h ago
National News
US judge signals rejection of part of TikTok privacy settlement
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - TikTok and ByteDance's proposed $400 million settlement with the US Justice Department hit a hurdle on Friday after a federal judge indicated he would reject part of the agreement. TikTok and its Chi...
2h ago
Lingering feuds threaten Democrats' bid to reclaim US Congress
By Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Democrats are seeking to reclaim Congress, but lingering divisions from a bruising run-up to the November election threaten to imperil the party's attempt to claw back power from President Donald Tr...
6h ago
Indigenous, civil-society groups sue Prabowo over forest fire response
JAKARTA, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A group of indigenous and civil-society organisations in Indonesia's West Kalimantan has filed a class-action lawsuit against President Prabowo Subianto and other authorities over their handling of forest fires in the reg...
13h ago
Foreign hackers targeted Colorado water systems in August, governor's office says
By AJ Vicens Sept 18 (Reuters) - Foreign hackers targeted and manipulated equipment in two local Colorado water systems last month, a spokesperson for Colorado Governor Jared Polis said on Friday. The incidents occurred at two privately owned utiliti...
16h ago
Trump declines to say whether he will tear down Kennedy Center
By Jacob Bogage and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday refused to say whether he would attempt to demolish the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the iconic facility on Washington's Potoma...
17h ago
World News
White House turns away CNN, MS NOW, Politico reporters after Trump announces ban
By Waylon Cunningham Sept 19 (Reuters) - The White House on Saturday denied access to journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, following through with US President Donald Trump's announcement that he would ban them from the building's grounds. All th...
55m ago
German general Breuer elected to head top NATO military body
BRUSSELS, Sept 19 (Reuters) - General Carsten Breuer, Germany's chief of defence, was chosen on Saturday as the next head of NATO's military committee, the alliance's top military authority and a key advisory body for its political leaders. Military c...
1h ago
Israeli strikes kill three people in Gaza, medics say
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Israeli airstrikes killed at least three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, health officials said. One strike near Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza killed Basir Al-Bursh, the son of Munir A...
2h ago
UN peacekeeping chief in Lebanon says smooth transition is critical before pull-out
By Maya Gebeily NEAR MANSOURI, Lebanon, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The head of United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon said on Saturday it was critical to ensure other UN agencies and Lebanese troops could assume the tasks carried out by the force before it be...
2h ago
Russia-backed South Ossetia elects leader close to Moscow
By Lucy Papachristou TBILISI, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A former Russian federal official has been elected president of South Ossetia, a Russia-backed breakaway region of Georgia, in a vote Moscow hailed on Saturday as a sign of the territory's desire for c...
3h ago
Health News
Two hospital systems settle US probe over transgender care billing for $9.5 million
By Steve Gorman Sept 18 (Reuters) - Two major US hospital systems have agreed to pay nearly $9.5 million combined to settle a US Department of Justice probe into claims that the medical centers were improperly billing for gender-affirming care provided...
17h ago
Retension Pharmaceuticals, TRex Bio file for US IPO as biotech momentum continues
Sept 18 (Reuters) - Drug developers Retension Pharmaceuticals and TRex Bio filed their paperwork for U.S. initial public offerings on Friday, reinforcing the biotech pipeline for the fall IPO window. The listings would be the latest in a string of bi...
18h ago
Trump says he will demand some childhood vaccines be split into five shots
Sept 18 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said on Friday that his administration plans to demand vaccine makers split certain childhood shots into five separate doses, which he believes will result in a massive reduction in autism, an idea repeat...
20h ago
Exclusive-Kennedy names new chair for US autism advisory panel
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named an ally, Dr. John Gaitanis, to lead a key federal advisory panel on autism on Friday, replacing a chair who had just steered through a new strategic pla...
21h ago
US FDA approves Lilly's breast cancer drug combo
Sept 18 (Reuters) - The US FDA has approved Eli Lilly's drug combination to treat adults with a type of advanced breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, the drugmaker said on Friday. Here are some details: • The combination, Inluriy...
21h ago
Science News
NASA in talks for Boeing's Starliner to handle new missions, WSJ reports
Sept 18 (Reuters) - NASA is in talks with Boeing about using the aerospace manufacturer's Starliner vehicle to handle new missions, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The discussion pertains to Starliner handling 10 or more new flights in th...
21h ago
SpaceX to fly more NASA crews to space station under expanded $5.92 billion deal
Sept 18 (Reuters) - NASA said Friday that the agency had given SpaceX a $946 million contract to fly three more astronaut missions to the International Space Station, extending the company's crewed flights to the station through 2030. The deal brings...
23h ago
Exclusive-Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program
By Jeffrey Dastin and Michael Erman SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. At a time when fears of AI a...
Sep 18, 2026
New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century
By Marta Serafinko Sept 17 (Reuters) - A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described in more than a ...
Sep 17, 2026
NASA says new Roman telescope's lifespan could more than double, to 22 years
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Even before the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached its planned orbital position, NASA says its newest flagship observatory's potential operational lifespan may reach 22 years - more than double ...
Sep 17, 2026
Technology News
IMF tells EU ministers AI could boost growth but increase economic strains
By Jan Strupczewski DUBLIN, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence could lift European productivity by about 1% over five years, but risks widening inequality, straining power networks and increasing dependence on foreign technology unless govern...
5h ago
China central bank adviser says AI could deepen supply-demand imbalance
BEIJING, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence could deepen and prolong China's strong supply and weak demand imbalance, a central bank adviser said on Saturday, adding to calls for policies that bolster consumption and repair balance sheets ac...
6h ago
Ten days that changed the course of AI
By Greg Bensinger and Deepa Seetharaman SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - For years, the race to build ever-more powerful artificial intelligence followed a well-worn Silicon Valley principle: move fast and break things. But in a series of cascading ...
6h ago
Democrats try to ride data center backlash to election victory in rural US Midwest
By Valerie Volcovici Sept 19 (Reuters) - No company has announced plans for a data center in Defiance, a city of 17,000 people surrounded by soybean fields in northwestern Ohio. But people in the aptly named community are not taking any chances. After ...
6h ago
OpenAI expects to burn through almost $280 billion by 2030, FT reports
Sept 18 (Reuters) - OpenAI projects it will burn through almost $280 billion by the end of 2030, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. (Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Mexico City; Edi...
18h ago
Entertainment News
US fashion council CEO Kolb resigns after clash with runway show protesters
By Ruchika Khanna Sept 18 (Reuters) - Steven Kolb resigned as head of the Council of Fashion Designers of America on Friday, days after coming under fire for physically restraining animal rights activists at a New York Fashion Week runway show. "Afte...
13h ago
Duncan Sheik, Tony-winning composer of 'Spring Awakening,' dies at 56
By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Duncan Sheik, the Tony-winning Broadway composer who transitioned from chart-topping singer-songwriter to the creative force behind the Broadway musical "Spring Awakening", died on Thursday at age 5...
23h ago
Mural of rapper Macklemore painted in Gaza after Sheeran tour furore
(Corrects quote in paragraph 13 to 'keep funding' from 'keep fighting') By Dawoud Abu Alkas and Pesha Magid GAZA/JERUSALEM, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Artists in Gaza have painted a mural of Macklemore wrapped in a Palestinian flag on a huge slab of concrete ...
Sep 18, 2026
British director says Canada can be global filmmaking hub with support for local talent
By Wa Lone TORONTO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - British director Andrew Haigh said Canada has the talent, landscapes and production infrastructure to be a major filmmaking hub, but Canadian filmmakers need more support to create internationally competitive pr...
Sep 17, 2026
Ireland will boycott Eurovision 2027, RTE says
LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Ireland will not participate in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest for the second year in a row, broadcaster RTE said on Thursday, citing the ongoing loss of life in Gaza. Ireland was one of five countries to not take part i...
Sep 17, 2026
Sheboygan News
Road America Hosts Art on Wheels Vintage Weekend
Nearly 300 vintage and historic race cars are rolling into Sheboygan County this weekend for Road America's Art on Wheels Vintage Weekend. The event runs today through Sunday and features 11 racing classes, including a tribute to the 60th anniversary of Trans-Am. Visitors can also explore the open paddock, karting, aut...
Sep 18, 2026
Wade House Site Reforestation Project Underway
A major reforestation project is getting underway at the Wade House Historic Site. The Sheboygan Rotary Club's ROOTS initiative, Wisconsin DNR and volunteers through the Sheboygan County United Way Day of Caring, National Exchange Bank & Trust, Johnsonville and the Kohler Company will plant a diverse mixture of 49 ...
Sep 18, 2026
engin akyurt / Unsplash
Humane Society Closure Due to Disease Extended
According to the Humane Society of Sheboygan County Facebook page, the shelter closure has been extended through Sunday as staff respond to an outbreak of feline panleukopenia. The shelter had planned to reopen September 17th, but says the extra time is needed for monitoring, cleaning and disease prevention. A full pub...
Sep 18, 2026
adogslifephoto / Depositphotos.com
Forecasts of Rainy Weather Prompt "Weekend Abroad" to be Held Sunday Only at Christopher Farm & Gardens
The Mayor's International Committee has decided to avoid a likely washout on Saturday, and will now condense their Weekend Abroad fundraiser into a one day only event. The gathering will be held on Sunday from 10 AM - 5 PM at Christopher Farm and Gardens. Eventgoers will be able to experience Japanese and German cult...
Sep 18, 2026
Substantial Rain Predicted Saturday, but Flood Watch Doesn't Affect Sheboygan County
The National Weather Service is getting more confident in where trouble from heavy rain will be found in Wisconsin, and that's giving a breather to Sheboygan County. The long-duration rain event begins tonight and will last into Sunday, but the heaviest rain is expected to fall between midnight tonight and noon on Satu...
Sep 18, 2026
