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  • Neighbors, police pleased with Wausau bar's clean act

    WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – A Wausau bar owner has cleaned up his act, making 16 changes to security, noise levels and overall operations that neighbors say has led to quieter and more peaceful nights. An attorney for IC Willy's owner Tom Nowell detailed the changes ... More

  • New ventilator unit wins early county support

    WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – A Wausau nursing home may become only the fourth in the state to offer a unit for patients who need a ventilator to survive. The unit has yet to be built but won major backing from Marathon County's finance committee Monday ... More

  • Marshfield students to compete in national competition

    MARSHFIELD, Wis. (WSAU) - Marshfield High School will defend its championship at the National Ocean Sciences Bowl in April. Marshfield won its ninth consecutive state crown over the weekend at U-W Milwaukee, beating out students from 22 other schools. Scientists from the U-W-M Great Lakes Water ... More

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  • RTA Hires Schreiber To Lobby For Higher Taxes

    MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Midwest Communications) - The regional transit authority in southeast Wisconsin is hiring former Acting Governor Martin Schreiber to lobby for higher taxes, and more authority to pursue a new commuter rail line. The transit panel has approved an $18,000 contract to have Schreiber ... More

  • Court record access bill lacks political support

    MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) - The state Legislature’s top privacy advocate admits there’s not enough support to pass a bill to limit public access to the state’s popular Internet court records. But Assembly Democrat Marlin Schneider of Wisconsin Rapids said it will happen sometime ... More

  • Mayors call for Asian carp solution

    MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WSAU) - The Democrats’ top candidate for governor says Chicago’s shipping canal should be closed if it would keep the Asian carp out of Lake Michigan. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett joined the mayors of Kenosha and Cudahy at a news conference today – before ... More

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  • U.S. Asian carp remedies unsatisfactory-governors

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Obama administration is proposing a partial closing of locks to the Great Lakes as part of a $78 million plan to keep invasive Asian carp from moving into the lakes from rivers and canals, but the region's governors on Monday said ... More

  • Toyota sued in California by U.S. shareholders

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Toyota faced its first U.S. class-action lawsuits stemming from complaints of faulty brakes in its top-selling Prius hybrid car and from investors claiming they were misled about problems with unintended acceleration in a wide range of models. Litigation mounted as the ... More

  • U.S. missionary in Haiti says trusts God to free her

    PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A Haitian judge made no decision at a hearing on Monday whether to free or prosecute 10 U.S. missionaries accused of kidnapping children, and their leader said she trusted in God they would be cleared and released. The missionaries, most of whom ... More

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  • U.S. missionary in Haiti says trusts God to free her

    PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A Haitian judge made no decision at a hearing on Monday whether to free or prosecute 10 U.S. missionaries accused of kidnapping children, and their leader said she trusted in God they would be cleared and released. The missionaries, most of whom ... More

  • Obama's healthcare summit sets stage for end-game

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's call for a bipartisan healthcare summit sets the stage for a final push to get the stalled legislation through Congress, but skeptical Republicans said on Monday the only solution is to start over. Obama asked Republicans to bring their ... More

  • John Murtha, defense appropriations chair, dies

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Representative John Murtha, chairman of the House of Representatives defense appropriations subcommittee who exercised enormous influence on defense issues, died on Monday. Murtha, 77, died peacefully at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington with his family by his side, a statement from his ... More

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  • U.S., Mexico closer to resolving trucking dispute

    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Congress could be moving closer to allowing Mexican trucks to haul cargo through the United States, helping to end a trade dispute hurting some exporters, the U.S. Trade Representative said on Monday. In March 2009, U.S. lawmakers canceled funding for ... More

  • Obama's healthcare summit sets stage for end-game

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's call for a bipartisan healthcare summit sets the stage for a final push to get the stalled legislation through Congress, but skeptical Republicans said on Monday the only solution is to start over. Obama asked Republicans to bring their ... More

  • John Murtha, defense appropriations chair, dies

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Representative John Murtha, chairman of the House of Representatives defense appropriations subcommittee who exercised enormous influence on defense issues, died on Monday. Murtha, 77, died peacefully at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington with his family by his side, a statement from his ... More

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  • Macquarie cautious on outlook; shares down 6 percent

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Macquarie Group <MQG.AX>, Australia's top investment bank, spooked investors on Tuesday with a lukewarm outlook, warning them about weakening markets and sending its shares down 6 percent. Macquarie shares suffered their biggest intraday fall in more than eight months after the ... More

  • Fed's Dudley: Financial reform needs global scope

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A revamp of the financial system needs to be global in nature to prevent a repeat of the worst financial crisis in some 70 years, a top Federal Reserve policy maker said on Monday. "Although the raging crisis appears to be over, our ... More

  • JAL to stay with American, end Delta talks: source

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Airlines Corp <9205.T> has decided to maintain its partnership with American Airlines <AMR.N> in the Oneworld alliance and end talks with Delta Air Lines <DAL.N>, a source with knowledge of the matter said. JAL's new management team, led ... More

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  • Record Super Bowl telecast tops "M*A*S*H" record

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sunday's Super Bowl TV audience set a viewing record for the annual National Football League Championship and eclipsed the 1983 benchmark set by the comedy "M*A*S*H" to become the most watched U.S. telecast, according to early ratings ... More

  • Sheen charged with assaulting wife; they hug in court

    ASPEN, Colo (Reuters) - Actor Charlie Sheen was charged on Monday with assaulting and threatening his wife Brooke Mueller in a heated Christmas Day argument. But the couple left the court in the Colorado ski resort of Aspen hugging each other, hoping the charges will be ... More

  • Record 106.5 million Americans watch Super Bowl

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A record 106.5 million Americans watched the New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts in Sunday's Super Bowl game, setting a new high for any U.S. television broadcast, early ratings showed on Monday. The National Football League championship, broadcast ... More

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  • Drug shows promise against river blindness: study

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Closantel, an older drug used to treat a parasitic liver disease in animals, may prove effective at combating river blindness in humans, a major cause of infection-related blindness, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Transmitted by blackflies breeding along fast-flowing tropical waterways, river ... More

  • Popular antidepressant interferes with cancer drug

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The popular antidepressant drug Paxil may interfere with breast cancer treatments, making patients more likely to relapse and die, researchers in Canada reported on Monday. Women who took GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil while taking tamoxifen at the same time were more likely to die ... More

  • Even third-hand smoke carries carcinogens: study

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Old tobacco smoke does more than simply make a room smell stale -- it can leave cancer-causing toxins behind, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. They found cancer-causing agents called tobacco-specific nitrosamines stick to a variety of surfaces, where they can get into dust ... More

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  • Study shows why it is so scary to lose money

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People are afraid to lose money and an unusual study released on Monday explains why -- the brain's fear center controls the response to a gamble. The study of two women with brain lesions that made them unafraid to lose on a gamble ... More

  • Scientists find gene variant link to ageing cells

    LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found specific genetic variants which may explain why some people age earlier than others and say their findings have important implications for understanding cancer and age-related diseases. Dutch and British researchers analyzed more than 500,000 genetic variations from human gene ... More

  • Shuttle Endeavour blasts off for space station

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour bolted off its seaside launch pad in Florida on Monday, carrying six astronauts on a voyage to install the last two main pieces of the International Space Station. The 4:14 a.m. EST (0914 GMT) blastoff ... More

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  • Internet prompts the publishing itch in over-60s

    LONDON (Reuters) - The Internet is helping older British readers rekindle a love of books and writing, and an overwhelming majority of senior citizens see the medium as a positive development, according to a survey. Some 31 percent of people over 60 are keen to go ... More

  • Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader to hit stores

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc said on Monday that its Nook electronic reader would be available in most of its physical stores as of Wednesday, ahead of Valentine's Day, ending weeks of delays. The Nook e-reader, which Barnes & Noble launched in October ... More

  • Disney, Google eye stake in China bus media firm

    HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A consortium led by Walt Disney Co is in advanced talks to buy into China's largest in-bus digital media and advertising company, a deal that could offer the U.S. entertainment giant a new platform to promote Mickey Mouse in ... More

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  • Consider yourself warned, IOC's Rogge tells Russia

    VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Russia has been warned to get its anti-doping act together days before the start of the Vancouver Olympics after several of their athletes have been busted for taking banned drugs in the past months. Russia, who will host the next winter Games in ... More

  • Can Vancouver life get any better with Games?

    VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Cities that take on the gargantuan task of hosting Olympic Games contend that the costly investment leads to a better quality of life for its denizens for years to come. But the 2010 Winter Games host Vancouver is already ranked as one of ... More

  • For New Orleans, victory is about more than football

    NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - To many residents of this storm-battered city, the New Orleans Saints carried more than a trophy when they came home on Monday after winning the first Super Bowl in their 42-year history. "Our spirits are lifted," said Peggy Fuselier, one of thousands ... More

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