If you heard a loud boom and your power went out last night, you're not alone. The apparent failure of a power transformer near South Business Drive and Union Avenue in Sheboygan caused an explosion that, according to witness reports, set fire to the power pole holding it. The noise was heard for many blocks around th...

The expert speaker slated to address the City of Sheboygan on data center issues cancelled out on Monday, but tomorrow's meeting will still be held. From 6-7 PM Wednesday at Uptown Social there will be a review of the previous three speakers and a question-and-answer session. In previous sessions the meetings included...

More than 1400 people joined in last week's United Way Day of Caring. According to officials with the United Way of Sheboygan County, the volunteers were dispatched to 42 different locations across the county, participating in manual labor, mowing lawns, planting trees and even hauling gravel. While the organization is...

A Manitowoc County sheriff's lieutenant has pleaded not guilty following a dispute over his daughter's cell phone. According to a criminal complaint, Andrew Beck's juvenile daughter said her father became angry after discovering she had an iPhone, which she wasn't allowed to have at his home. She said that Beck threw t...

The City of Manitowoc is the latest community to cut ties with Flock Safety and its license plate-reading cameras. Mayor Justin Nickels announced the city will not be renewing the contract when it expires early next year. Nickels is asking Flock to remove privately-owned cameras across the city. Manitowoc deactivated i...

(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) September 29, 2026 - As a highly driven competitor who has piled up race victories and championships in each division he has raced in, Travis Arenz entered the world of Winged 410 Sprint Car racing four years ago with the goal of becoming a Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association champion...

Armitage, Uttech, Crane claim Wisconsin Sprint Car Championships victories - Arenz, Sivia, Richards crowned champs (PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) September 26, 2026 - The curtain closed on the 2026 Plymouth Dirt Track Racing season with Brandon Berth of Cascade parking in victory lane and Ben Schmidt of Plymouth sealing his t...

(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) September 15, 2026 - As the 2026 season begins to cool down, Travis Arenz and the members of Travis Arenz Motorsports are heating up. The team paid a visit to victory lane for the fourth time this season, while sealing its second straight Wilmot Raceway 410 Sprint Car track championship during a...

(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) September 15, 2026 - Austin Hartmann and the 87A Hartmann Racing crew turned in their third top-five A-main showing of the 2026 campaign with a solid fourth-place finish in open 410 Sprint Car action during the third annual Fall Classic Natalie Klemko Memorial at Wilmot Raceway in Wilmot, Wis. o...

(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) September 15, 2026 - Alex Pokorski equaled his best career finish behind the wheel of a 410 Sprint Car with a strong runner-up showing in open 410 Sprint Car competition as part of the third annual Fall Classic Natalie Klemko Memorial at Wilmot Raceway in Wilmot, Wis. on Friday, Sept. 11. The We...

By Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The US Senate passed legislation this week to regulate college sports, a multibillion-dollar industry that has been upended in recent years by increased earning opportunities for student athletes. H...

By Dawn Kopecki and Helen Coster NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Taxpayer-funded television ads featuring President Donald Trump drew fresh scrutiny on Tuesday after the recording artist behind a song used in one spot demanded the White ​House stop using...

By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - A US Justice Department lawyer asked an appeals court on Tuesday to terminate a judge's inquiry into whether Trump administration officials willfully violated a judicial order directing them to stop deportat...

By Julia Harte Sept 29 (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration agent on September 20 in Austin, Texas, appeared in federal court on Tuesday after being charged with assaulting, resisting, interfering, ​and impeding a federal officer,...

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20% cut in the number of positions for generals and admirals when ​he speaks with hundreds of junior service members at Quantico, ‌Vir...

By Doyinsola Oladipo UNITED NATIONS, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Developing nations are demanding a greater role in shaping the rules governing artificial intelligence, warning that a technology poised to transform economies could instead deepen global inequal...

By Julia Harte Sept 29 (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration agent on September 20 in Austin, Texas, appeared in federal court on Tuesday after being charged with assaulting, resisting, interfering, ​and impeding a federal officer,...

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 - The United States has sanctioned 10 individuals and entities including some ​based in China, Hong ‌Kong and Pakistan, for helping Iran's Ministry of Defense procure weapons and components, the US Treasury Department said Tuesday. ...

By Sarah Morland Sept 29 (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday extended by six months the mandate of an international security force in Haiti intended to fight powerful armed groups that have ​taken control of much of the country. ...

LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Britain's counter-terrorism police said on Tuesday that no improvised explosive devices ​had been found as ‌part of an investigation into a suspected plot targeting a British airbase used by US forces to strike Iran. Police ...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - The US pharmaceutical lobby group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America said ​on Tuesday it had ‌named former US House Majority Leader Eric Cantor as its next president and chief executive officer. Cantor, who served ...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Danish drugmaker H Lundbeck A/S has expressed interest in acquiring Chicago-based Xeris Biopharma, Bloomberg ​News reported on Tuesday, citing people ‌familiar with the matter. Lundbeck has been working with advisers to explore a ta...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimates the weighted average premium for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to fall more than 16% next year. The weighted average monthly ​premium across all MA plans, which include MA presc...

By Siddhi Mahatole Sept 29 (Reuters) - The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed a second measles-related death in the country this year, as cases continue ​to rise across the United States. The confirmation, posted on ‌the...

By Christy Santhosh Sept 29 (Reuters) - UniQure said its gene therapy for Huntington's disease fell short of the goal of slowing disease progression significantly after four years, sending ​its US-listed shares plummeting 40% on Tuesday. The Dutch ‌com...

By Emma Farge AVENCHES, Switzerland, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Archaeologists are redrawing Roman maps of Switzerland after traces of long-buried ruins emerged as the country endured the hottest summer on record. Drought ​can reveal hidden archaeological sit...

By Steve Gorman, Akash Sriram and Joey Roulette LOS ANGELES, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The Starship engine failure that nearly foiled the orbital debut of SpaceX's next-generation spacecraft on its 14th uncrewed test flight may complicate NASA's ability to m...

Sept 28 (Reuters) - NASA chief Jared Isaacman said ​on Monday ‌that parts of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will be ‌redesigned ​ahead ⁠of a crewed ⁠flight in 2028, and he added in a ​briefing that Starliner ⁠will fly ⁠up to ​five crewed missions ​to th...

By Joey Roulette and Steve Nesius STARBASE, Texas, Sept 28 (Reuters) - SpaceX's giant Starship rocket reached orbit for the first time on Monday and deployed new Starlink satellites, achieving milestones in its 14th test flight despite an engine failur...

By Joey Roulette STARBASE, Texas, Sept 28 (Reuters) - - SpaceX's next-generation Starship rocket lifted off from Texas on Monday for its debut flight ​to orbit and first operational release ‌of satellites, marking its 14th launch ahead of a routine ser...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - OpenAI aims to raise at least $30 billion in a funding round and is ​seeking a valuation of about $1.4 ‌trillion, not including the money raised, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Here are m...

By Blake Brittain Sept 29 (Reuters) - A US appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling for information services company Thomson Reuters in its copyright dispute with former legal-research rival Ross Intelligence over Ross' alleged misuse ​of copyrighted m...

By Deepa Seetharaman and Aditya Soni SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled always-on agents called Dots that chase user goals across apps on their own, deepening its push into the lucrative enterprise market and pitting it agai...

By Echo Wang and Jody Godoy Sept 29 (Reuters) - Anthropic could face legal claims from customers and users over the actions of rogue artificial intelligence agents, though the legal framework is uncertain, the company said in the prospectus for its sto...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Europe's mobile telecoms operators could get more time to phase out equipment from suppliers deemed high risk, according ​to a proposal by EU governments seen by ‌Reuters, after the sector complained replac...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Walt Disney is laying off a few hundred employees across human resources and technology departments, a ​source familiar with the matter ‌told Reuters on Tuesday. Disney has seen several C-suite changes since Josh D'Amaro took charge...

By Helen Reid PARIS, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Dior creative director Jonathan Anderson showed metallic trousers, structured jackets and sheer feathered skirts in Paris on Tuesday, one year ​on from his womenswear debut at the storied ‌Parisian brand owned b...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Spotify and Anthropic's Claude recovered after brief outages ​in the US ‌on Tuesday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. The Spotify outage began around 9:30 a.m. ‌ET, ​with user-reported ⁠issues peaking at ⁠more ...

LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Britain's Channel 4 has ruled out merging with the BBC but is open ​to sharing content on the ‌BBC's iPlayer streaming service, the broadcaster's chief executive Priya Dogra told the Royal Television Society's London Convent...

By Ryan Patrick Jones TORONTO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Three generations of an Armenian-Christian family were driving home in Baghdad in April 2003 when US Marines in a firefight with Iraqi forces fired on their cars, killing three men. Almost ​a decade la...