Local News

DA, County Administrator React to County Clerk Dolson Actions
Sheboygan County Clerk Jon Dolson has notified the County Board of Supervisors that he has been suspended by the Wisconsin Elections Commission over actions he took to help to resolve a neighborhood dispute. In a letter to the County Board released yesterday, Dolson said that a complaint had been filed against him wit...
Oct 23, 2026

Dense Fog Advisory In Effect Until 10 AM
Drivers should plan on a longer commute this morning as the National Weather Service has issued a Dense Fog Advisory for reduced visibilities until 10 AM. Visibility was down to a quarter-mile at the Sheboygan County Airport as of 4 AM, and Wisconsin DOT webcams showed even worse conditions along I-43. After fog lifts ...
Oct 23, 2026

Wisconsin Realtors Association Reports September Home Sales Drop
The Wisconsin Realtors Association blames several factors for a general decline in the volume of Wisconsin home sales during September. They say the combination of flat income growth and 30-year mortgage rates now averaging 6.86% are behind a 5-1/2 percent decline in housing affordability over the past 12 months, slo...
Oct 23, 2026

Ground Broken for Scholar's Ridge Development in Plymouth
Governor Tony Evers joined community leaders, business partners, and local and state officials last Friday to celebrate the groundbreaking of Scholar's Ridge. The new residential development in Plymouth is located on South Pleasant View Road, and will create 102 single-family homes, expanding opportunities for attaina...
Oct 23, 2026

Last Day of Annual Fundraiser for Humane Society is Approaching
Get ready for the holidays and support the Humane Society of Sheboygan County with the annual Pies for Paws & Claws fundraiser, hosted by The Wreath Factory at Otter Creek! Funds are raised through the sale of pies, available online, but act now as pre-orders close on Sunday. Each delicious, homemade 9-inch take-a...
Oct 23, 2026
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Sports News
Valkyries shut down Dream in Game 4 to square WNBA Finals
By Field Level Media Oct 24 (Field Level Media) - ATLANTA -- Discipline and defense were two of the major talking points for Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase entering Game 4 of the WNBA Finals on Saturday afternoon. Golden State excelle...
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Ravens change course, rule out QB Lamar Jackson vs. Bengals
By Field Level Media Oct 24 (Field Level Media) - Lamar Jackson practiced and said he was ready to return from a two-week absence caused by a high-ankle sprain, but the Ravens are going a different direction against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday...
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A'ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart headline All-WNBA teams
By Field Level Media Oct 24 (Field Level Media) - Las Vegas' A'ja Wilson and New York's Breanna Stewart headline the 2026 All- WNBA teams, as announced by the league on Saturday. Indiana's Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell as well as Minnesota's Oliv...
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Report: Yankees running it back with pitching coach Matt Blake
By Field Level Media Oct 24 (Field Level Media) - It was not a banner year for the New York Yankees, but the organization appears prepared to stay with the same coaching group for 2027. In their latest move, the Yankees have agreed to sign pitching c...
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Cooper Flagg (shoulder) out vs. Spurs, to be reevaluated next week
By Field Level Media Oct 24 (Field Level Media) - Dallas Mavericks star Cooper Flagg will miss Saturday's home game against the San Antonio Spurs because of a mild left shoulder sprain. Flagg, last season's NBA Rookie of the Year, left the Mavericks'...
2h ago
National News
Inside the Trump-administration campaign to return Brazil's Bolsonaro clan to power
By Gabriel Stargardter SAO PAULO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Two US State Department officials led a campaign to restore the right-wing Bolsonaro clan to power in Brazil and successfully pushed for sanctions aimed at tilting the election in their favor, accord...
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Trump administration demands county election officials identify noncitizen voters in California
By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Less than two weeks before US midterm elections, the Department of Justice has warned election officials across California they could be targets of federal "scrutiny" if they refuse to help identify su...
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Accuser in Cornell rape allegations can stay anonymous, judge rules
(Refiles to remove headline tag) By Milana Vinn NEW YORK, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The woman at the center of rape allegations against Cornell University students can keep using a pseudonym in her lawsuit, a judge ruled. • New York state Judge Phaedra Perr...
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Mona Lisa off limits as Paris shuts museums over protest fears
By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Disappointed tourists poked their heads through the Louvre's locked gates on Saturday, shut off from the Mona Lisa as galleries and museums across Paris closed as a precaution ahead of fresh demonstra...
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As winter nears, heating oil emerges as hurdle for Republicans in US Senate races
By Tim McLaughlin, Nichola Groom, Timothy Gardner and Leah Douglas KINGSTON, New Hampshire, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Eighty-year-old Rick Russman of New Hampshire spent five decades as a Republican. This year, as his state braces for a winter of soaring heat...
11h ago
World News
Gunmen kill at least 40 people in northeastern Nigeria, Amnesty International says
By Ahmed Kingimi and Adewale Kolawole MAIDUGURI, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least 40 people in an attack on a village in Nigeria's northeastern Taraba state on Friday afternoon, Amnesty International said. • A large group of gunmen carrie...
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Protests sweep Italian cities amid heavy security presence, some violence reported
MILAN, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Protests against war and rising living costs took place in major Italian cities on Saturday, with some incidents of violence, a week after unrest erupted across the country. Authorities deployed a heavy police presence and m...
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Nigeria's Tinubu launches re-election campaign as economic pain tests support
By Camillus Eboh and Ben Ezeamalu KADUNA, Oct 24 (Reuters) - President Bola Tinubu formally launched his campaign for a second term on Saturday in the northern city of Kaduna, where he sought to convince voters that painful economic reforms are beginn...
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Houthis say they attacked Saudi oil sites; strikes reported in Aden
Oct 24 (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis said they launched attacks on Saudi oil facilities and airports on Saturday, and the Saudi-led coalition fighting the group said it downed two missiles, as clashes between the two sides intensified. On ano...
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Albanian police fire tear gas as anti-government student protests turn violent
TIRANA, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Albanian riot police used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who threw rocks at officers and started a fire at the door of the agriculture ministry in the capital, Tirana, on Saturday. Student...
4h ago
Health News
Amgen drug combined with immunotherapy extends survival in lung cancer trial
By Deena Beasley Oct 24 (Reuters) - Amgen's Imdelltra used in combination with AstraZeneca's immunotherapy Imfinzi reduced the risk of death by 58% compared to the Astra drug alone in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, according to d...
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Johnson & Johnson's prostate cancer drug shrinks tumors in early-stage trial
Oct 24 (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson on Saturday said its experimental once-daily oral prostate cancer drug caused tumors to disappear or shrink in an early-stage trial. J&J had gained access to the drug through its $3.05 billion deal to buy Halda Th...
13h ago
Nigeria Ebola case linked to virus found in Kenya index case, health minister says
By Camillus Eboh and George Obulutsa ABUJA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Genomic analysis of Nigeria's only confirmed Ebola case shows the virus is closely related to the strain detected in Kenya's index case, Nigeria's health minister Muhammad Ali Pate said o...
Oct 23, 2026
Swiss drug developer Windward Bio files for US IPO
Oct 23 (Reuters) - Windward Bio filed for a US initial public offering on Friday, becoming the latest drug developer seeking to capitalize on renewed investor interest in biotech listings. Biotech has been one of the more active sectors in this year'...
Oct 23, 2026
Kenya reports second death from Ebola
NAIROBI, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Kenya has recorded a second Ebola death, the health ministry said late on Friday, adding that the 65-year-old woman had developed symptoms during quarantine and was a close relative of a Kenyan man who died of Ebola earlie...
Oct 23, 2026
Science News
New 'Scentronic' technology can detect and transmit aromas remotely
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - People can readily share images and sounds digitally, as evidenced by the billions of smartphones in use globally that often overload the human senses of sight and hearing. But smell generally remains missing from remote ...
Oct 23, 2026
Young giant manta rays stay close to home while adults roam more widely
By Marta Serafinko Oct 22 (Reuters) - Anyone who has watched a manta ray glide over a reef knows how unhurried these marine animals can look. Yet researchers working off Costa Rica found their movements are varied, with juveniles staying nearby and clo...
Oct 22, 2026
An affinity for warm climes has helped crocs thrive for eons
By Will Dunham Oct 21 (Reuters) - Crocodilians - today's crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials and their many extinct relatives - have been a roaring success since debuting more than 240 million years ago. And new research identifies one importa...
Oct 21, 2026
Feared extinct, Bangka slow loris primate rediscovered in Indonesia
By Will Dunham Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Bangka slow loris is one of Earth's most exotic primates, a slow-moving tree dweller that happens to be venomous. It was listed as critically endangered and possibly extinct, last scientifically documented in the 1...
Oct 20, 2026
Japan launches mission to return samples from Mars moon
MINAMITANE, Japan, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Japan launched an uncrewed spacecraft toward the Martian moon Phobos on Tuesday on a mission intended to become the first to collect samples from the small rocky body and return them to Earth for analysis. The Ja...
Oct 19, 2026
Technology News
Ukraine says Starlink back to normal, Musk accuses Kyiv of violations
By Yuliia Dysa KYIV, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Saturday the Starlink satellite system and its military version Starshield were now fully functional after over a week of restrictions that disrupted military operations and intensified tensions ...
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Moonshot curbs hacking ability in new Kimi model as fears grow over AI-powered cyberattacks
By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Moonshot AI has reduced the cyber-offensive capabilities of its newest model, the Chinese startup said on Saturday, as fears grow that increasingly autonomous AI could turbocharge hacking. Beijing-based M...
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Exclusive-US has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine, Middle East, sources say
By Erin Banco and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Well before the throttling this month of Ukraine's military access to Elon Musk's satellite communications system, the Biden and Trump administrations had several times asked SpaceX to turn...
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UK government sets out $800 million of AI security funding
LONDON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Britain's government set out around £600 million ($800 million)of funding on Saturday largely geared towards defending against health and security threats from artificial intelligence. The biggest chunk of funding will go to...
22h ago
PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says
By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The discovery of two serious flaws in PHP this week set off a global scramble to keep websites safe from hackers, showing just how critical the three-decade-old open-source programming language is to the...
23h ago
Entertainment News
Prince William, wannabe DJ and film-lover, appears on UK chat show
LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Prince William talked about his love of Christopher Nolan films and how he once wanted to be a DJ as he appeared on a British television chat show on Friday to promote his annual award for climate change innovation. The heir...
Oct 23, 2026
Singer Raye wins Mercury Prize for 'This Music May Contain Hope'
LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Singer Raye won the Mercury Prize for her second studio album "This Music May Contain Hope" on Thursday, beating the likes of veteran Paul McCartney, rock band Suede and rapper Dave for the British music award. Judges prais...
Oct 22, 2026
The whimsical world of 'Wildwood' comes to life in Laika's most ambitious stop-motion film
By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Oct 22 (Reuters) - What began as a visit to a forest on the outskirts of Portland blossomed into the magical world of the stop-motion film "Wildwood," Laika Studios' most ambitious project to date. "The beginning was ...
Oct 22, 2026
Soccer-FIFA opens bidding for 2030 and 2034 World Cup media rights covering US and Puerto Rico
By Frank Pingue Oct 22 (Reuters) - FIFA opened the bidding process for US media rights to the 2030 World Cup on Thursday along with an option to secure the 2034 edition, adding that it has yet to decide whether to keep the controversial hydration brea...
Oct 22, 2026
Judi Dench says worsening eyesight means she can no longer act
LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - British actress Judi Dench said her eyesight had deteriorated to the point that she could no longer act on stage or in films. Dench, 91, has had macular degeneration for more than a decade. "I can't be on stage, I can't do ...
Oct 22, 2026



