Local News
Sheboygan County's Haunted History
(The following is an essay originally presented in 2018. Like a ghost, it seems to never grow old - KZ) It's All-Hallow's Eve weekend...that's Halloween to most of us, and today, we shine an eerie spotlight on a few spooky things right here in our neighborhood. Ask any kid and they'll probably tell you that Halloween ...
21h ago
Wrong Way Driver ID'd but Not Found After 34-Mile Chase in Fond du Lac County
Fond du Lac County authorities are trying to locate a driver that took officers on a 34-mile chase through that county on Thursday night. It was about 10:25 PM when several callers reported a vehicle traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of US Highway 151 in the Town of Lamartine. A State Patrol Trooper joined ...
21h ago
Brewers, Milwaukee to Celebrate Championship Today
There's gonna be a lot of cases of the Brew Crew Flu reported today-the Milwaukee Brewers are set to celebrate their first ever world series championship with the parade of champions this morning. The Championship Celebration kicks off at 10 a.m. at the intersection of N. 4th Street and W. Wisconsin Avenue and goes thr...
21h ago
Wisconsin's 10th Safe Haven Baby Box Installed in Manitowoc
Wisconsin's 10th Safe Haven Baby Box is now installed at Manitowoc Fire Station Number 3, near Interstate 43. The climate-controlled box gives mothers who can't care for a newborn a safe, anonymous way to surrender their baby to emergency responders. Wisconsin's Safe Haven law allows mothers to surrender a newborn at a...
21h ago
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Family Resource Center Offering Car Seat Safety Check
The Family Resource Center of Sheboygan County is hosting a car seat safety check event. Certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians will check your child's car seat and installation and answer your questions. Just Bring your vehicle and car seat; your child does not need to be present. The event is November 9th from ...
21h ago
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Sports News
Motorcycling-Acosta wins Malaysian Grand Prix sprint ahead of Marc Marquez
SEPANG, Malaysia, Oct 31 (Reuters) - KTM's Pedro Acosta won a thrilling Malaysian MotoGP sprint at the Sepang International Circuit on Saturday, with rain threatening to play spoil sport. Ducati's Marc Marquez finished second in the Malaysian Gran...
5m ago
NBA roundup: LeBron James delivers late as Sixers get by Knicks
By Field Level Media Oct 31 (Field Level Media) - LeBron James converted a key putback and finished with 20 points, nine rebounds and eight assists as the Philadelphia 76ers edged the visiting New York Knicks 98-93 on Friday. On a night when all NBA ga...
36m ago
Warriors escape 25-point hole behind Stephen Curry's 31, top Lakers
By Field Level Media Oct 31 (Field Level Media) - Stephen Curry bombed in 31 points, the Golden State bench chipped in with 50 more and the Warriors exacted a measure of revenge from an opening-night loss with a 112-95 triumph over the Los Angeles Lak...
1h ago
NHL roundup: Anton Lundell's first hat trick powers Panthers past Jets
By Field Level Media Oct 31 (Field Level Media) - Anton Lundell scored his first career hat trick and Seth Jones added one goal and two assists to lead the Florida Panthers to a 5-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Friday night in Sunrise, Fla. The ...
1h ago
Motorcycling-MotoGP title 'already lost' after Sepang withdrawal, says Martin
SEPANG, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Aprilia's Jorge Martin said on Saturday his MotoGP title challenge was effectively over after withdrawing from the Malaysian Grand Prix to continue his recovery from a wrist fracture. The 2024 champion pulled out before qua...
2h ago
National News
Trump administration plans to deport some Afghan immigrants to Afghanistan
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration plans to deport some Afghan immigrants to Afghanistan, a US official and a coalition of veterans and advocacy groups said on Friday. • Many facing removal fled A...
6h ago
US court lifts ruling requiring Idaho to allow some abortions to protect women's health
By Daniel Wiessner Oct 30 (Reuters) - A US appeals court on Friday paused a judge's ruling that said Idaho's near-total ban on abortion is unconstitutional because it does not provide exceptions for when pregnancies pose risks to women's health. The Sa...
9h ago
Justice Department files request for preliminary injunction in Alaska election case
Oct 30 (Reuters) - The US Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction that would block Alaska from certifying its Senate election result if Republican Senator Dan Sullivan loses and votes cast for a...
10h ago
McDonald's must face lawsuit over McRib, US judge rules
By Jonathan Stempel Oct 30 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday rejected McDonald's request to dismiss a proposed class action accusing it of defrauding consumers about the content of its McRib sandwich. The plaintiffs accused McDonald's of intentio...
11h ago
Tennessee execution survivor says she is isolated, in constant pain
Oct 30 (Reuters) - Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike, in her first statement after she survived a botched execution a month ago, said she was in constant physical and mental pain and largely isolated from other people in a prison hospital ward. P...
11h ago
World News
After Louvre heist and string of thefts, Europe's smaller museums are on guard
By Giselda Vagnoni, Gabriel Stargardter, Javi West Larrañaga and Jemima Denham PARMA, Italy, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Two men wearing head torches climbed through a forced-open window at the Fondazione Magnani Rocca museum near Parma on the night of March 2...
1h ago
Poland's Sikorski calls for rapid ceasefire in Black Sea to allow food shipments
By Andrea Shalal ATLANTA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on Friday called for a rapid ceasefire in the Black Sea that would allow safe passage for grain shipments from both Ukraine and Russia and said Moscow must end its ...
7h ago
Gen Z protests reach Germany as over 160,000 expected at Halloween rallies
By Miranda Murray BERLIN, Oct 31 (Reuters) - More than 160,000 people across Germany are expected to join demonstrations on Saturday, organisers say, as a youth-led movement inspired by protests elsewhere in Europe takes to the streets to demand better...
7h ago
France braces for fresh unrest, government vows tough response
By Dominique Vidalon and Noemie Olive PARIS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - France will deploy a 70,000-strong police presence to contain a widely expected bout of fresh unrest on Saturday in the latest nationwide protests driven by anger over living costs, public...
7h ago
Lavrov says Zelenskiy comments are unhelpful, Russia's position is unchanged
Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was cited as saying on Friday that Russia's position on the Ukraine conflict was unchanged and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's comments on maintaining strikes on Russian targets were ...
8h ago
Health News
US FDA approves Inovio's treatment for rare throat disease; shares surge
By Sahil Pandey and Christy Santhosh Oct 30 (Reuters) - The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Inovio Pharmaceuticals' treatment for a rare respiratory condition, marking the company's first approved product. Shares of Inovio were up ...
11h ago
Congo Ebola outbreak kills more than 5,000
Oct 30 (Reuters) - The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 5,000, government data showed on Friday, as authorities had yet to find a way to control the country's deadliest Ebola epidemic on record. There a...
11h ago
US measles cases rise to 4,852, CDC says
Oct 30 (Reuters) - The US CDC on Friday reported 4,852 measles cases in the country as of October 29, up 264 cases from the previous update. Here are key details: • Nationwide, hospitalizations linked to measles this year stood at 511, representing 1...
15h ago
US health department to remove broad black box warning from three estrogen patch products
Oct 30 (Reuters) - The US health department on Friday approved the removal of the strictest "black box" warnings from the labels of three estradiol transdermal patches, the hormone therapies used to treat menopause symptoms. Women in the United State...
16h ago
EMA to review Lundbeck's depression, anxiety drug Deanxit after serious side effects reported
Oct 30 (Reuters) - The European Medicines Agency's risk-monitoring committee said on Friday it had begun reviewing Deanxit, a depression and anxiety medicine by Danish drugmaker H Lundbeck, following reports of serious neurological and psychiatric s...
19h ago
Science News
Strange beaked 'hell chicken' is the first fruit-eating dinosaur
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - While dinosaurs ate a lot of different things, including each other, fruit long seemed to have been absent from their menu. But scientists now have found fossils of a turkey-sized and toothless dinosaur pos...
17h ago
Long-distance flights can interfere with the internal clocks of seabirds
By Marta Serafinko Oct 30 (Reuters) - People who travel across many time zones, like a trip from London to Tokyo, may experience jet lag, with the body's internal 24-hour clock - the circadian rhythm - thrown out of sync with the local time at the arri...
22h ago
Martian meteorite found in the Sahara is 4.1 billion years old
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - A meteorite found in 2022 in the Sahara in Mali formed in the Martian crust at least 4.1 billion years ago, according to scientists, making the reddish igneous rock perhaps the oldest of the 435 meteorites ...
Oct 29, 2026
Eutelsat expects $11 billion revenue after EU's Starlink rival comes online
By Gianluca Lo Nostro Oct 29 (Reuters) - Eutelsat expects commercial services revenue of more than €10 billion ($11.1 billion) between 2032 and 2040 as it takes a leading role in the European Union's planned alternative to Elon Musk's Starlink satell...
Oct 29, 2026
Possible new dwarf planet identified orbiting beyond Pluto
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Scientists using a Chile-based telescope have identified an icy object orbiting beyond Pluto that may join our solar system's small roster of dwarf planets. Researchers said the candidate, named 2026 ED138,...
Oct 28, 2026
Technology News
OpenAI cuts funding target by $10 billion, FT reports
Oct 30 (Reuters) - OpenAI has slashed the target for its latest funding round by $10 billion and is now seeking to raise $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Th...
7h ago
S&P Global revises Meta's outlook to 'negative' on AI spending, cash flow worries
Oct 30 (Reuters) - S&P Global Ratings on Friday revised its outlook on Meta Platforms to "negative" from "stable", citing significant uncertainty around the social media giant's capital spending and free operating cash flow. Big Tech has historically s...
10h ago
US SEC's top cop says agency is monitoring AI corporate disclosures
By Chris Prentice NEW YORK, Oct 30(Reuters) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission is examining artificial intelligence companies' corporate disclosures as investor worries mount over a potential AI bubble that may have been fueled by circular d...
13h ago
Alliant targets 1 GW of new data-center contracts in six months as power demand surges
By Varun Sahay and Tyakshi Singh Oct 30 (Reuters) - Alliant Energy expects to sign contracts for about 1 gigawatt of additional data-center demand within six months, its finance chief said on Friday, as rising AI use and growing electrification push ...
13h ago
OpenAI to limit weapons information for teens on ChatGPT in violence-prevention push
Oct 30 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Friday it is tightening limits on the weapons-related information ChatGPT provides to teens, even when a question appears harmless, as part of new safeguards aimed at preventing real-world violence. The move comes as...
14h ago
Entertainment News
Indian broadcaster Zee's profit falls as FIFA-related costs weigh
Oct 30 (Reuters) - India's Zee Entertainment Enterprises reported a 38% drop in quarterly profit on Friday, as costs related to the FIFA World Cup broadcast and other initiatives offset gains from subscription growth. Here are some details: • The bro...
10h ago
A century on, Budapest circus revives Houdini's daring escapes
BUDAPEST, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Bound in chains, plunged upside down into a water-filled tank and flirting with death, Harry Houdini returned to the stage in Budapest on Friday as a new circus production celebrated the legendary escape artist a century ...
14h ago
Patrick Stewart, Shakespearean actor turned 'Star Trek' and 'X-Men' star, dies at 86
By Will Dunham Oct 29 (Reuters) - Patrick Stewart, who rose from poverty in England to become an accomplished Shakespearean stage actor and then achieved global stardom as the erudite Captain Jean-Luc Picard in TV's "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and...
Oct 29, 2026
Empathy and purpose drive Los Javis' Oscar hopeful 'La Bola Negra'
By Hanna Rantala LONDON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Spanish filmmakers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi said their sophomore feature "La Bola Negra", which has emerged as an Oscar contender, took them on the journey of their lives and left them with many more ...
Oct 28, 2026
36 countries to compete in Eurovision 2027 as Ireland, Netherlands stay out over Israel
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Canada will make its Eurovision debut alongside at least 35 other countries at next year's contest, organisers said on Wednesday, with Ireland and the Netherlands boycotting over Israel's participation...
Oct 28, 2026
Sheboygan News
Sheboygan County's Haunted History
(The following is an essay originally presented in 2018. Like a ghost, it seems to never grow old - KZ) It's All-Hallow's Eve weekend...that's Halloween to most of us, and today, we shine an eerie spotlight on a few spooky things right here in our neighborhood. Ask any kid and they'll probably tell you that Halloween ...
21h ago
Wrong Way Driver ID'd but Not Found After 34-Mile Chase in Fond du Lac County
Fond du Lac County authorities are trying to locate a driver that took officers on a 34-mile chase through that county on Thursday night. It was about 10:25 PM when several callers reported a vehicle traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of US Highway 151 in the Town of Lamartine. A State Patrol Trooper joined ...
21h ago
Brewers, Milwaukee to Celebrate Championship Today
There's gonna be a lot of cases of the Brew Crew Flu reported today-the Milwaukee Brewers are set to celebrate their first ever world series championship with the parade of champions this morning. The Championship Celebration kicks off at 10 a.m. at the intersection of N. 4th Street and W. Wisconsin Avenue and goes thr...
21h ago
Wisconsin's 10th Safe Haven Baby Box Installed in Manitowoc
Wisconsin's 10th Safe Haven Baby Box is now installed at Manitowoc Fire Station Number 3, near Interstate 43. The climate-controlled box gives mothers who can't care for a newborn a safe, anonymous way to surrender their baby to emergency responders. Wisconsin's Safe Haven law allows mothers to surrender a newborn at a...
21h ago
NewAfrica / Depositphotos.com
Family Resource Center Offering Car Seat Safety Check
The Family Resource Center of Sheboygan County is hosting a car seat safety check event. Certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians will check your child's car seat and installation and answer your questions. Just Bring your vehicle and car seat; your child does not need to be present. The event is November 9th from ...
21h ago
antiksu / Depositphotos.com
