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Winter Weather Awareness Week Begins Monday
You may not want to think about it right now, but thinking about Winter Weather is on the minds of state agencies charged with the health and safety of Wisconsinites. And so the Wisconsin Departments of Emergency Management, Health Services and Transportation are leading the observance of Winter Weather Awareness Week...
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Athena Awards Event is Tonight
The annual Sheboygan Chamber of Commerce Athena Leadership Awards Ceremony takes place at the Blue Harbor Resort this evening. The awards honor exceptional individuals who are making a difference in Sheboygan County by empowering female leaders and contributing their time and energy to improving our community's quality...
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Holiday Wish List for Foster Care Kids is Launched
Officials with Sheboygan County Foster Care say they still have just under 50 Foster Care Wish Lists waiting to be sponsored. If you're looking for a great way to give back and spread some joy this holiday season, consider sponsoring a wish list and help to make the holidays a bit brighter for a child in foster care. Y...
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"Stuff the Ambulance" Food Drive Begins Monday
It's time to Stuff the Ambo! Orange Cross Ambulance will be holding their annual food drive on Saturday December 12th from 10am until 2pm at Blatner's Piggly Wiggly in Sheboygan Falls, but if you can't make it to the event and would still like to help provide food for our neighbors in need, you can donate items beginn...
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Two Sheboygan County Entrepreneurs Advance in Pitch Competition
Two local entrepreneurs will be representing our area in Green Bay in a few weeks at the NEW Launch Alliance Regional Pitch Competition. They advanced after taking first and second prizes at the Accelerate Sheboygan County November Pitch Competition held last Tuesday at Jake's Café, A Lakeland University Commun...
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Sports News

The Brewers Win! Celebration Arrangements Announced
It's official-for the first time in the franchise's history, the Milwaukee Brewers are World Series Champs after beating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1. Starter Jacob Misiorowski gave up just 2 hits and no runs before exiting in the 6th inning due to an injury that turned out to be a right calf cramp...good news for the likely...
Oct 29, 2026

Brewers One Win Away From Trophy
The Milwaukee Brewers stand just one victory away from their first-ever World Series title after routing the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night by a score of ten-to-one. The game-3 win was fueled by an eight-run outburst in the fifth inning. Starter Robert Gasser delivered a stellar performance on the mound, facing the mi...
Oct 27, 2026

Prominent Sheboygan Sports Figure, "Coach" Kollath, Passes at 90
A man whose advice, ambition and inspiration touched thousands will be remembered by many of those simply as "Coach". Donald Harlan Kollath of Sheboygan died on Saturday at his home; he was 90 years old. The Appleton native was given a place on the Wall of Fame at UW-LaCrosse where he earned his BS and MS de...
Oct 1, 2026

Post puts cap on 2026 Plymouth campaign
(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) September 30, 2026 - The 2026 season drew to a conclusion for Randy Post and the members of his Randy Post Racing Team with the Akright Auto Plymouth Dirt Track Racing 360 Sprint Cars during the ninth annual Wisconsin Sprint Car Championships at The Plymouth Dirt Track in Plymouth, Wis. on Satur...
Sep 30, 2026

Hartmann takes home Plymouth top 10
(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) September 29, 2026 - Austin Hartmann and the 87A Hartmann Racing closed out the 2026 Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association 410 Sprint Car Series season with a pair of events at Outagamie Speedway in Seymour, Wis. on Friday, Sept. 25 and The Plymouth Dirt Track in Plymouth, Wis. on Satur...
Sep 29, 2026
National News
US forecaster says over 79% chance of strong-to-very strong El Niño in January to March
Nov 12 (Reuters) - El Niño is strengthening, with a greater than 79% chance of a strong-to-very strong event through January to March 2027, the US Climate Prediction Center said on Thursday. The forecaster added that such a strong event made impacts ...
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Speaker Johnson says Congress developing consensus on limiting chip exports to China
By David Morgan WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - US House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Thursday there was a growing consensus in Congress on limiting exports of semiconductor chips to China after a scandal forced out Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. "The expor...
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One person reported dead, multiple wounded in active shooting in Washington, DC
By Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - An active shooter was barricaded inside a Washington, DC, building on Thursday morning, police said, drawing large numbers of officers in tactical gear to the area. At least one person has been killed ...
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Trump's Commerce chief Lutnick criticized over chip exports after Nvidia CEO resignation
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - A growing number of lawmakers are criticizing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over the administration's refusal to add dozens of Chinese companies to a key US trade blacklist, and whether the govern...
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Richard Posner, prominent US judge who butted heads with Justice Scalia, dies at 87
By Nate Raymond and Jan Wolfe Nov 12 (Reuters) - Former US Circuit Judge Richard Posner, a prolific jurist who ranks as the country's most-cited legal scholar of the last century and was viewed as one of the most influential judges outside the US Supre...
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World News
European security should be decided with Europeans, around 40 countries expected to say
By John Irish PARIS, Nov 12 (Reuters) - A group of about 40 countries is expected to say on Thursday that any matter affecting European security should be decided with the Europeans, according to a draft declaration on key principles of European secur...
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Crowds fill Lima streets for Pope Leo's emotional return to Peru
By Joshua McElwee, Cassandra Garrison and Marco Aquino LIMA, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Crowds flooded Lima's streets on Thursday as Pope Leo, the first Peruvian citizen to lead the Catholic Church, opened the second day of an emotional visit home that has alr...
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Romanian prosecutors indict former presidential frontrunner on fraud charges
BUCHAREST, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Romanian prosecutors said on Thursday they had indicted Calin Georgescu, the pro-Russian former frontrunner in the country's 2024 canceled presidential election, on charges of orchestrating a €1.1 million ($1.2 million) ...
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UAE says 14 killed, 30 injured in Fujairah traffic accident
Nov 12 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' Interior Ministry said on Thursday that 14 people were killed and 30 others injured in a traffic accident involving 18 vehicles and 5 trucks in the emirate of Fujairah, according to preliminary i...
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One person reported dead, multiple wounded in active shooting in Washington, DC
By Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - An active shooter was barricaded inside a Washington, DC, building on Thursday morning, police said, drawing large numbers of officers in tactical gear to the area. At least one person has been killed ...
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Health News
Attacks on health workers hamper Congo Ebola fight, Africa CDC warns
DAKAR, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Attacks on health workers and facilities are increasingly hindering efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed more than 5,400 people, Africa's top public health agency said ...
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Swiss dental startup vVardis downsizes US IPO by more than 12%
Nov 12 (Reuters) - Dental health company vVardis on Thursday cut the size of its US initial public offering by more than 12%, seeking to raise up to $200 million, as a tech stock selloff heightened market volatility. The Zug, Switzerland-based firm i...
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Bristol Myers to merge scientific, clinical teams under new R&D structure
Nov 12 (Reuters) - Bristol Myers Squibb said on Thursday it will combine its scientific and clinical expertise teams into an end-to-end research and development department under current Chief Medical Officer Cristian Massacesi, effective January ...
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Takeda launches sleep disorder pill in the US after DEA clearance removes final hurdle
By Siddhi Mahatole and Sriparna Roy Nov 12 (Reuters) - Takeda said on Thursday its narcolepsy pill, the first treatment to target the underlying cause of the rare sleep disorder, is now available in the US after a Drug Enforcement Administration decis...
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American Cancer Society calls for routine prostate cancer screening in guideline change
By Nancy Lapid Nov 12 (Reuters) - Routine prostate cancer screening is now advised for many men, the American Cancer Society announced on Thursday in a major guideline change, saying it believes the possible benefits now outweigh potential harms given ...
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Science News
Euclid mission data release spans more than 900 million galaxies
By Will Dunham Nov 12 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency has released its first big collection of data from the orbiting Euclid telescope's mission to map the universe's large-scale structure, including observations of more than 900 million galaxies...
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Ghana discovers hydrocarbons in new type of offshore reservoir
ACCRA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Ghana has made its first hydrocarbon discovery in a carbonate reservoir system, opening new possibilities for future exploration, President John Dramani Mahama said on Tuesday. • Speaking at a conference in the Western Regio...
Nov 10, 2026
SpaceX plans $24 billion gas power plant, data center project in Texas
Nov 9 (Reuters) - SpaceX is planning a roughly $24 billion gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility in Starbase, Texas, according to a public hearing notice. The rockets-to-AI company's request comes as opposition to data centers grows, with ...
Nov 9, 2026
Russia may have rehearsed attack on satellite, specialist says, flagging another approach
(Corrects November 5 story, correcting entity that operates the X36 satellite in paragraph 3 and specifying it is ICEYE US that Stevens heads in paragraph 6) By Cassell Bryan-Low and Joey Roulette LONDON/WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A Russian military...
Nov 5, 2026
Pungent gas above Martian fissures hints at ongoing volcanism
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - An orbiting atmospheric research spacecraft has detected the pungent gas hydrogen chloride above surface fissures along a massive ancient volcano on Mars in a finding that suggests Earth's planetary neighbor...
Nov 4, 2026
Technology News
Speaker Johnson says Congress developing consensus on limiting chip exports to China
By David Morgan WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - US House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Thursday there was a growing consensus in Congress on limiting exports of semiconductor chips to China after a scandal forced out Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. "The expor...
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Trump's Commerce chief Lutnick criticized over chip exports after Nvidia CEO resignation
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - A growing number of lawmakers are criticizing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over the administration's refusal to add dozens of Chinese companies to a key US trade blacklist, and whether the govern...
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Warby Parker bets on Google AI glasses for growth, but privacy fears still loom
By Danielle Kaye NEW YORK, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Warby Parker is entering the smart glasses market in partnership with Google and Samsung, betting that demand for the artificial intelligence wearables will balloon in the coming years. But the New York-bas...
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Factbox-Who is Nvidia interim CEO Colette Kress?
Nov 12 (Reuters) - Nvidia finance chief Colette Kress is set to take over as interim CEO from Jensen Huang, the company said on Thursday, putting her in charge of the chipmaker whose processors power the world's most advanced supercomputers and AI dat...
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Singapore barred Alice Huang from re-entry following investigation
By Xinghui Kok and Rajasik Mukherjee SINGAPORE, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Alice Huang, the alleged Chinese spy at the heart of the scandal that brought down Nvidia's CEO, left Singapore in February and was barred from re-entering after an investigation into ...
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Entertainment News
Stock tips with a beat: Samsung Securities' AI K-pop group racks up views
By Joyce Lee SEOUL, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Stock brokerage Samsung Securities has found brand ambassadors who never skip rehearsal and are unlikely to make tabloid headlines: a four-member, AI-generated K-pop girl group called LUMINA. The band's debut musi...
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'The inner child in me is screaming': Jamie Campbell Bower on joining 'Lord of the Rings' series
By Francesca Halliwell LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - British actor Jamie Campbell Bower said joining "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" fulfilled a childhood dream as the cast gathered in London for the global premiere of the fantasy series' thir...
Nov 10, 2026
Actor Stacy Keach, known for playing Hammer, Hamlet and Hemingway, dead at 85
By Bill Trott Nov 10 (Reuters) - Actor Stacy Keach, who portrayed rugged characters such as fictional detective Mike Hammer and legendary American novelist Ernest Hemingway, died on Tuesday at the age of 85, his wife said in a statement to Hollywood tr...
Nov 10, 2026
Nicolas Cage transformed 'from within' for 'Madden,' co-star Kathryn Hahn says
By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Nicolas Cage so fully transformed himself into NFL legend John Madden for the new biopic "Madden" that co-star Kathryn Hahn says she spent an entire production with him without ever feeling she had...
Nov 10, 2026
UK children's author Walliams named as subject of sexual allegations by media
LONDON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Two media groups named British comedian and bestselling children's author David Walliams on Tuesday as the high-profile figure who had tried to prevent allegations of sexual misconduct being published by saying he would take ...
Nov 10, 2026



