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For 97.9 WGBW News, I'm Lee Sahale. State lawmakers updated Alloway residents last night on the progress toward shuttering the 126-year-old Green Bay Correctional Institution.
State Senator Jamie Wall told attendees closing GBCI is in Governor Tony Evers by any old budget, but the process is stalled as the Joint Finance Committee members have not yet reviewed the corrections portion of that budget.
A retired Manitouac County Sheriff's Deputy pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction and was fined $500 plus court costs after being accused of improperly accounting for funds. The Brown County District Attorney...
The Brown County Assistant DA and the Defense Attorney both described 52-year-old David Remaker's crime as lacking criminal intent, but rather being one of inaction and disorganization. Remaker has already paid over $15,000 in restitution. He was a supervisor with the Metro Drug Unit before he retired.
While Washington DC will see a military parade on Saturday to celebrate the birthday of the U.S. Army and President Donald J. Trump, a truly patriotic and nonpartisan parade honoring the U.S. flag and the Marines in Navy will be held in Appleton.
The parade, which brings 50,000 spectators and visitors to the area, features almost 20 musical units, including military bands, high school bands, veteran organizations and tributes to the armed forces, patriotic floats and more.
The 74th Appleton Flag Day Parade takes to the streets 2 p.m. Saturday, Flag Day, June 14.
Advocates are pushing for greater funding for special education in Wisconsin. Here's Savannah, Tomay Olsen.
At least 15% of students in Wisconsin public schools have individualized education plans. That means they have some sort of special education needs. That's more than 120,000 kids statewide.
For every dollar spent on special item Wisconsin, the state only reimburses about 31 cents that's among the lowest in the nation.
Families filled a room in the capital yesterday advocating for more money and resources for special needs students.
A net for years daughter Maya has cerebral palsy and other diagnoses.
I asked for her bus staff to be trained in seizure response and I was told there's no funding.
Therefore, Maya's life is at risk for 45 minutes every morning and every afternoon because the people who are close to her can't keep her safe because there's no funding.
She has the medicine on her wheelchair if they were trained to use it they could. But there's no funding.
Right now, Wisconsin schools portion of the state budget is the smallest it's been in 30 years. For civic media news, I'm Savannah, Tomay Olsen.
These families were there because Republicans were expected to unveil their proposals for education funding yesterday.
This was one of the big sticking points between Republican leaders in the legislature and Governor Tony Evers.
Evers claims Republicans wouldn't compromise and fund education, child care and the UW system enough.
Republicans claim the state couldn't afford it. The hearing was set for one o'clock yesterday afternoon and was delayed three or four times throughout the day.
Finally, beginning last night after six o'clock. It continued later into the night and we will have more on their proposal later today.
Attorney General Josh Karl says President Donald Trump deploying the military to protest in California is unlawful.
Wisconsin has joined a group of states filing briefs pushing back against what Karl says is, quote, not normal and it must not become normalized.
Karl says the president's decree to call up the National Guard isn't specific to Los Angeles or California. It's authorizing the military anywhere for 60 days.
Karl's brief argues states need their National Guard units to be ready to act and responding to protesters could keep them from performing vital duties.
Meanwhile, a federal judge ruled Thursday afternoon that the Guard deployment was illegal and violated the 10th Amendment and exceeded Trump's statutory authority.
The judge ordered President Trump to return control of the National Guard troops to California.
But just hours later, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals locked that order and said it will hold a hearing on the matter.
Officials in Warsaw hope DNA science can identify the city's unknown soldier. Joanne Krulatz has details.
The unknown soldier died by suicide in 1930 leaving behind no identifying information just to note saying he was World War I veteran.
Efforts to identify him went nowhere and officials buried him with full military honors and a headstone marked unknown soldier.
But last week multiple agencies worked to dig up his remains with great care and respect. They now await DNA analysis to see if a living match can be found which could lead to identification and closure for his story.
Officials say the effort could take months with the University of Wisconsin missing in action recovery and identification project assisting the effort.
Meanwhile Attorney General Josh Kahl has announced Wisconsin will join a multi-state lawsuit seeking to block the DNA testing company 23 in me from selling personal genetic data.
The lawsuit argues that the highly sensitive genetic information including biological samples should not be sold without the consent of consumers who provided the samples.
The lawsuit was filed in Federal Bankruptcy Court as another company seeks to buy the struggling 23 in me company.
Experts are encouraging consumers to delete their 23 in me accounts before a potential say invasive species are bad for Wisconsin ecosystems.
A thousand islands environmental center in Cacana 25 goats from Mulberry Lane Farm have been brought in to eat control and remove invasive plant species such as butthorn without using a herbicide.
Goats have been used a thousand islands since 2018 can be seen from 8 until 5 30 through June 23.
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The brewers battle the cards. Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with sports baseball game two of the four games series tonight as the crew hosts the Cardinals Milwaukee with a six to nothing win last night thanks to the debut of 23 year old Jacob Mizorowski on the mound who lasted until the sixth before battling leg cramps.
Of course, I don't want to leave like that. I feel like I could have kept going, but you know, cramped up and stuff happens.
Manager Pat Murphy. I think it just came on in between innings there yet that long inning.
He thought it was okay. He went out there. It's in his thigh and in his calf and twisted his ankle a little bit on that started to lock up on him.
We just didn't want to chance anything, you know.
NFL Packers mini camp wrapping up in Green Bay. The thing that it's most positive I would say for the most part we had pretty good attendance.
We had the majority of our guys here for the duration and I think that it's been fun to kind of watch how these guys grow especially guys may be going in their second year.
There's so much further along than they were a year ago.
That's Packers head coach Matt LaFlor was sports on Mike Clemens.
On your entertainment beat, I'm Pete Schwabba. 62-year-old Tom Cruise said recently he wanted to act into his 100s.
It sounded crazy at first, but just yesterday 99-year-old Mel Brooks just announced he is bringing back space balls.
Brooks will produce the film with Josh Gad but will also be part of the cast and play a character called Yogurt parodying the Yoda character from Star Wars.
Brooks has not appeared on screen since 2005 when he appeared in the reboot of the producers.
Brooks wrote and also starred in the original space balls in 1987 alongside John Candy and Rick Moranis and a host of other hilarious people.
There is no supporting cast announced just yet for the new project, although Gad is expected to be one of the stars.
In the original, Brooks, who was just a spry 55-year-old, played General Scroobe.
The new script has no title as of yet, but Amazon MGM is planning a theatrical release for summer 2027 when Brooks will be the ripe young age of 101.
David Lynch was prepping a Netflix series before he passed away earlier this year at the age of 78.
According to IndieWire, he had assembled a cast of his favorites including Naomi Watts, Kyle McLaughlin and Laura Dern, for a show he was prepping called Unrecorded Night.
Lynch's daughter Jennifer, also a filmmaker, says there was a finished script that might now be released as a book, adding that she and her siblings would not try to make one of his ideas themselves.
Sources say the show was set in Los Angeles in Old Hollywood.
Would have been nice to see what he did with that.
Actor Harris Yulin has passed away at the age of 87.
Yulin's credits include films like Ghostbusters, Scarface, and Clear in Present Danger.
But recently, he was probably most recognizable for his role as Buddy in Ozark, the old tough guy who lived with the Bird family.
Yulin was nominated for an Emmy Award for his guest appearance on the show Frazier.
He was an old-school actor who had passion for the craft and was a solid addition to any cast he joined.
Glenn Powell's ex Gigi Paris says she was told not to visit the set of anyone but you by none other than her boyfriend Glenn Powell.
Paris appeared on the Too Much podcast on Tuesday.
Paris said that Powell and the producers of the film wanted people to think there was something going on between the two to help promote the movie.
That is when she drew the line and broke it off with Powell.
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a rom-com on or off screen.
Somehow David Letterman's Netflix show, My Next Guest, Needs No Introduction, is only getting an 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter because Letterman is a legend, and Netflix knows it too.
The streamer has renewed the critically acclaimed, at least 81%, show for a fifth season.
The show won a 2024 Emmy for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special.
Letterman is older, but still in rare form, and even a better interviewer on this show than he was on his late-night talker.
Check it out.
For more showbiz fun, tune in to Nightlight.
With me, Pete Schwabba, weeknights from 6-8pm on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Mostly cloudy with a few off-and-on showers possible today are high in the mid-60s this afternoon.
When few showers again tonight low of 52 tomorrow, partly to mostly cloudy 69 warmer Sunday,
still a few scattered showers with a high of 75.
I'm your neurologist Sean Cable. Outside now it's 55!
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