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  • Overnight Shooting in Sheboygan

    Sheboygan, Wis. (WHBL) -  The Sheboygan Police Department is investigating an overnight shooting, and a news conference is scheduled for 11 o’clock this morning at the Sheboygan Police Department.  Lt. Tim Eirich said it happened about 1:25 this morning during a traffic stop at ... More

  • Man Seriously Injured in Bike Accident

    Sheboygan, Wis. (WHBL) -  A Sheboygan man was seriously injured Thursday afternoon in a bicycle accident in Sheboygan.  According to Captain Steve Cobb, 32 year old Julian Ortigoza crashed around noon while biking northbound on Eighth Street when he went over the handlebars for no apparent ... More

  • Greenbush Shooter Formally Charged

    Sheboygan, Wis. (WHBL) -  A Greenbush man has now been formally charged with first degree murder in a shooting which occurred Tuesday night at Racers Hall near Plymouth.  63 year old Frank Hvizdak appeared by video conference before Court Commission Rebecca Persick in the murder of ... More

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  • Report: 1/4 of Law Enforcement Using Justice Gateway System

    MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Only a quarter of Wisconsin’s police and sheriff’s departments are using a statewide data-sharing system. The Justice Gateway system went online in 2007, with the help of almost $6.5 million in federal funding. The Legislative Audit Bureau said today ... More

  • New Foreclosures Up Nearly 14% in August

    MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - The number of new foreclosure cases in Wisconsin rose in August for the first time in three months. ForeclosureAlarm.Com of Madison said there were just over 2,500 new court cases last month that accused homeowners of getting too far behind ... More

  • Most School Teachers Starting Year Minus Contracts

    MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Teachers in most Wisconsin school districts are starting the year without contracts. Just under half of the 425 school systems have settlements for the two-year period which began in the fall of last year. Barry Forbes of the school boards’ association says ... More

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  • Bumpy economy cited as helping improve U.S. roads

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One upside of the worst U.S. economic slump since the Great Depression is that with fewer motorists on the road, the nation's highways are less congested and in better shape, a study said on Thursday. The condition of urban interstate ... More

  • Jury hits Ford Motor Co with $131 million verdict

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Mississippi jury ordered Ford Motor Co to pay $131 million to the family of a man who died while driving an Explorer, an attorney for the family said on Thursday. The trial centered on a 2001 accident involving Brian Cole, who ... More

  • S.Korea Kia recalls some Soul, Sorento vehicles

    SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's No. 2 automaker Kia Motors said on Friday that it had started a recall of some Soul and Sorento vehicles sold worldwide because of a fire hazard. The recall, which began on September 1, would affect a combined 35,000 ... More

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  • Banks admit better disclosure on bonuses needed

    LONDON (Reuters) - Banks have acknowledged they need to be more open about the size of their bonus pools and the methodology for paying star bankers after making progress in other areas of reforming pay structures. More policy changes are needed to reduce the excessive risk ... More

  • BOJ to stand pat next week, eyes easing next month

    TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is expected to hold off on easing monetary policy next week but is gearing up for further action in October as the strong yen threatens to derail its forecast of a moderate economic recovery, sources said. Having just loosened ... More

  • Drug shootout with army kills 25 in Mexico

    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 25 suspected drug gang members were killed in an army raid in rural northeastern Mexico on Thursday, the army said in a press release. Soldiers were sent to the location after an airborne patrol sighted armed men outside a building ... More

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  • U.S. offshore oil fire may delay lift of drill ban

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama Administration is likely to stay focused on toughening regulatory oversight of the U.S. offshore oil industry and may push back lifting a ban on deepwater drilling after the latest accident in the Gulf of Mexico, analysts said on Thursday. The ... More

  • Obama adviser Summers to visit China September 4

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Thursday that President Barack Obama's top economic adviser will visit China from Saturday for three days of meetings. The White House said in a statement that National Economic Council Director Larry Summers and Deputy National Security Adviser ... More

  • 28% of Voters Likely to Cast Ballot in Primary

    MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Almost three of every 10 Wisconsin voters are expected to cast ballots in the fall primaries in 12 days – and that would be a record turnout for September. The Government Accountability Board said today that 28 percent of eligible voters are likely ... More

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  • Service sector spotlight shines on Germany, China

    LONDON (Reuters) - Global service sector surveys highlighted a growing divergence in economic recovery on Friday with a pick up in growth in China and Germany but slowdowns in Britain and Spain and an expected deceleration in the United States. The data follows sister surveys which ... More

  • Banks admit better disclosure on bonuses needed

    LONDON (Reuters) - Banks have acknowledged they need to be more open about the size of their bonus pools and the methodology for paying star bankers after making progress in other areas of reforming pay structures. More policy changes are needed to reduce the excessive risk ... More

  • Canada's Goldcorp to buy Andean for $3.4 billion

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Canada's Goldcorp Inc agreed to buy Argentina-focused gold miner Andean Resources Ltd for C$3.6 billion ($3.4 billion), trumping a competing offer from rival Eldorado Gold Corp. The takeover is the latest in a series of gold mining deals this ... More

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  • I Spy a New Spy

    When it comes to recurring on-screen protagonists, I don't think there's any archetype more enviable than the globe-trotting superspy. They engage in all of the larger-than-life, world-saving heroics that superheroes and cops do, but aren't emasculated by colorful spandex or hampered by ... More

  • Gabor released from hospital

    The 93 year old was admitted to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, found her ""unresponsive"" at home. She was stabilised in the facility and a family spokeswoman revealed Gabor was ""not in a life-threatening situation"". The ... More

  • Harvey Keitel to Be Next Head of Dunder Mifflin?

    Harvey Keitel to Dunder Mifflin? The Office executive producer Paul Lieberstein has told E! that he thinks the Oscar winner is ""Probably the only guy who can do it, and he's doing TV now."" No talks have commenced but he is seriously being considered ... More

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  Top Stories in Health

  • MN Has 2 Confirmed Cases of West Nile Virus

    ST. PAUL, Minn. (WTAQ) - Neighboring Minnesota has two confirmed human cases of West Nile Virus. And Wisconsin had not recorded any cases this year as of August 11th. Minnesota health officials said a person in the St. Paul area and a man in Yellow Medicine ... More

  • Over 50 Companies Getting Fed Money to Keep Retirees Insured

    APPLETON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Over 50 Wisconsin companies will get money from the national health reform law, so they can keep giving insurance to their retired employees. Governor Jim Doyle says the law firm of Foley and Lardner, Appleton papers, and Racine County are among those ... More

  • Abbott's diet drug study renews calls for U.S. ban

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A study funded by Abbott Laboratories offered more detailed evidence that its weight-loss drug Meridia increases heart risks, prompting renewed calls by consumer advocates and others to pull the drug from the market. Final data from the so-called SCOUT study, published on Wednesday ... More

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  • U.N. climate panel urged to reform, stick to science

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. climate panel should only make predictions when it has solid evidence and should avoid policy advocacy, scientists said in a report on Monday that called for thorough reform of the body. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... More

  • Study finds first genetic link to common migraine

    LONDON (Reuters) - An international scientific team has identified for the first time a genetic risk factor associated with common migraines and say their research could open the way for new treatments to prevent migraine attacks. Researchers who looked at genetic data from 50,000 people ... More

  • Scientists crack through wheat's genetic code

    LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have cracked and published almost all of the highly complex genetic code of wheat -- a staple food for more than a third of the world's people -- and say breeders can now use their findings to improve yields. The draft gene map ... More

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  • Gameworld: Tween players impacting online game development

    BURBANK, California (Reuters) - A booming market of tweens is changing the landscape of online games. This audience of boys and girls aged 8 to 11 has game publishers launching new games like Disney Online's "World of Cars Online" and Sony Online Entertainment's "Star ... More

  • Baidu to focus mobile Internet investment on search

    HONG KONG (Reuters) - Baidu Inc, operator of China's dominant search engine, said on Thursday that it will focus its future mobile Internet investments on its core search business as it takes aim at the next big Internet space. Baidu CFO Jennifer Li, speaking at ... More

  • Nokia to close down data access service Ovi Files

    BERLIN (Reuters) - Nokia has decided to close down its Ovi Files service which allows consumers to access their computer data remotely, the world's top cellphone maker said in an e-mail to users of the service. "Nokia is discontinuing the Ovi Files service, effective October ... More

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  Top Stories in Sports

  • Pistorius expects to comfortably make London

    ROVERETO, Italy (Reuters) - A woman carrying pole vaults in a purpose-built bag struggles to make her way through a crowd of screaming children at an athletics meeting in northern Italy. Caster Semenya, the women's 800 meters world champion is alongside 2004 Olympic men's ... More

  • Battered Blake hopes tap energy from rowdy Open crowd

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rejuvenated by the familiar surroundings of the U.S. Open, New Yorker James Blake promised to deliver some inspired tennis if his broken-down body will allow him to compete at a higher level. Blake, who defied a host of ailments to beat ... More

  • Underdogs gets their chance in limelight at U.S. Open

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - It looms as a mismatch of classic proportions. Andy Murray, the world number four and one of the favorites to win the U.S. Open title against Dustin Brown, a dreadlocked Jamaican ranked 123rd in the world. When they enter Arthur Ashe ... More

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