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This is your WGBW Daily News Roundup for the talk of Green Bay, 97.9 FM and 50.90 AM.
For 97.9 WGBW News, I'm Lisa Hale.
Two Green Bay men have been arrested in connection with the suspicious death of a child in Green Bay.
Green Bay Police say they responded to a call on Alpine Drive on June 22nd for a two-year-old child with life-threatening injuries.
The boy died two days later. Authorities from Florence County, Forest County and Marinette County all helped take a 21-year-old man and a 48-year-old man into custody Friday night.
The investigation continues and charges are pending.
A 16-year-old Green Bay boy died after crashing his motorcycle into a ditch in the Marinette County town of Grover Saturday morning.
Marinette County Sheriff's Officials say Jared Beep Butcher lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into the ditch.
He was wearing a helmet but sustained fatal injuries. Police believe speed was a factor in the accident which remains under investigation.
U.S. Senators are working to pass the Big Beautiful Bill that contains cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. Melissa K reports.
Now these potential cuts are around $211 billion. Jackie Anderson is the Executive Director of Feeding Wisconsin.
She said the important thing to keep in focus here in the Badger State is the number of people who will be affected by these cuts.
In Wisconsin there's about 705,000 people who participate in the SNAP program of which 270,000 are children and 108,000 are seniors.
So that means the most vulnerable folks are going to be impacted by these SNAP cuts.
Anderson said another thing to consider are the economic impacts, especially in rural areas.
She said grocery stores will suffer because people who usually spend their SNAP benefits there won't be able to.
Farmers markets are going to be impacted, you know, local stores where you like Walmart's targets like they will be impacted.
Some federal funding has already been cut.
Three of the six feeding America food banks lost 30% of federal emergency food and will now have to purchase that on their own.
Another cut federal funding stream is called LFPA or local food purchasing agreement.
It helped farmers buy seed and purchase equipment to produce food.
About 254 pantries benefited from that program alone and they received about $4.2 million of food from the local farmers to go directly to their pantries.
These cuts were unexpected and food banks are already scrambling to make up for the loss.
The need is increasing and the resources are decreasing.
Senators hope to pass the bill before the July 4th house.
OSHA is investigating a business connected to Robin Voss. Stuart J. Wattles has more.
A worker at a Racine County food packaging plant co-owned by assembly speaker Robin Voss lost a fingertip in a workplace accident earlier this year.
JS Online reports that has led to a federal safety investigation.
A spokesperson for TS food packaging told the paper they prioritize worker safety and will address any issues OSHA identifies.
The report indicates the injured employee in another former employee dispute that safety protocols are always followed.
This is the second OSHA complaint at the plant on a year.
It's good news for the health of Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has announced another year of decreased tobacco and vape sales to underage customers.
According to a DHS report, the rate of tobacco and vape sales to underage customers drop nearly 2% from 2023 to 2024.
Agency officials say the jump in underage tobacco and vape sales aligned with raising the federal legal tobacco sales age from 18 to 21 in 2019.
Prior to that change, the underage sales rate was about 5.5% and jumped over 14% in 2021.
The state legislature voted to advance a bill that would classify drivers for delivery and ride share apps as independent contractors.
The legislation is aimed at allowing those drivers to access a statewide benefits portal through which employers could contribute to health care and retirement accounts.
Critics of the bill said those companies are not required to make contributions to the portal so the included benefits for the drivers aren't guaranteed.
Union officials also oppose the bill saying drivers deserve baseline employment standards like minimum wage.
A group of lawyers that help people facing deportation wants to grow amid increased deportations from the Trump administration.
Savannah Tomay Olsen has this story.
Grand Sovereign is the president of the board of the Community Immigration Law Center.
Essentially, the people there work like public defenders for folks who need immigration lawyers.
Technically, immigration offenses are civil, not criminal.
We all know what a public defender is. If you can't afford one, you certainly shouldn't go to jail simply because you can't afford a lawyer.
But that's exactly what happens in the immigration context is you can sit in detention, which is a jail for six months, a year, 18 months.
They've been busy since the Trump administration ramped up efforts to deport people and deport them quickly.
The only ice detention facility in Wisconsin is in Juneau.
All of their 200 beds seem to be full with immigrants these days.
Silk exists to make sure everyone gets due process.
We have rules. We all want the rules to apply to everybody.
But we all want those rules to apply evenly and not just because you can afford a lawyer.
You can't afford a lawyer or there aren't enough available in Wisconsin.
There's probably maybe 10 or 15 lawyers who know how to do deportation defense because it hasn't been an issue before.
Now, Silk wants to expand and be able to help more people.
We would like to be a public defender service for the whole state.
We have six lawyers now who spend weekends and nights trying to help people.
The Community Immigration Law Center is holding a fundraiser with a matching grant from the Madison Community Foundation.
The goal is to raise $100,000 in June. We'll have a link at civicmedia.us.
For civic media news, I'm Savannah Tome Olsen.
I'm Lisa Hale, 97.9 WGBW News.
For news anytime, log on to WGBW.FM.
A new deal for Bobby.
Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with Sports Basketball.
The Milwaukee Bucks offering Bobby Portis Jr.
A three-year contract extension worth $44 million.
Portis asks why he's grateful Doc Rivers is his head coach.
Sometimes you get put in a box and not get to display what you can really do.
So I'm thankful for Doc just letting me just play ball.
And it's been the game come to me and it's been easier to go out there and just play the game that we all know how to play.
Meanwhile, Kevin Porter Jr. has declined the Bucks offer to stay in Milwaukee and is instead headed to free agency.
Baseball Brewers have the day off.
They traveled to New York where they'll face the Mets tomorrow night.
The crew losing an extra innings yesterday to the struggling Colorado Rockies.
Four to three.
Not enough production at the plates at Pat Murphy.
We're three hits through the ninth inning, I believe.
And one was a bloop and one was an infield hit.
We have four hits and two homers that were timely and great.
More and more we couldn't finish the job.
That's Brewers manager Pat Murphy with sports on Mike Clemens.
On your entertainment beat, I'm Peach Wava.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have many fans, both individually and as a team.
The duo through their company, Actors Equity, will be making more films as they are partnering with Sony Pictures.
Artists' equity has produced such films as Air, the Accountant 2, and small things like these.
And we'll continue to have the option to produce side projects.
Artists' equity is also the creative force behind the upcoming animals, which Affleck will direct and star in opposite Julian Anderson.
The film is currently in post-production with no release date as of yet.
Attention Rock and Rollers, there is a new biopic on the way about the band, the Scorpions, according to therap.com.
Wind of Change, stars the wires Dominic West, David Cross, and Luke Brandon Field as a couple members of the band.
Wind of Change became an anthem for the end of the Cold War back in the early 90s.
How do Actors cope with being part of a really dark horror film?
Violet McGraw and Alison Williams, stars of Megan 2.0, made themselves happy when the cameras weren't rolling by singing Taylor Swift's songs.
The 37-year-old Williams and 14-year-old McGraw are both Swifties.
McGraw, who plays Williams' niece in the film, says the two bonded due to the dark material and the way they ended up coping with it was by pretending to be Taylor.
Megan 2.0 is raiding fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and is currently in theaters.
If Mystery and Horror isn't your thing, how about Mystery and Comedy?
Peacocks remake of the 1989 Tom Hanks film The Burbs is gaining steam.
The reboot is not a movie, but rather a series, and the cast is headlined by Kiki Palmer, whose credits include Nope and the recent surprise hit One of Them Days.
Palmer is also executive producing.
If you're feeling nostalgic for the movie, you might dig the show as it is filmed on the same street on the Universal Backlot as the movie.
Attention, avid readers. If there are still any left, you can never have enough psychological thrillers as far as I'm concerned, and thanks to Amazon, there is a new one on the way based on a best-selling book.
The streamer has purchased rights to Freedom McFadden's The Tenant, which has been a top-the-New York Times best-seller chart for seven weeks.
The story follows Blake Porter, a marketing executive who loses his job and takes an aborder to help make ends meet.
You can imagine how that goes. Tough to find a good roommate, much less one who won't try to kill you.
If you haven't been to Summer Fest yet, but have been meaning to go, you still have time. One more weekend to be specific.
The third and final weekend of one of the world's biggest music festivals kicks off again this Thursday, July 3rd.
This upcoming weekend's music lineup includes Benson Boone, Fountains of Wayne, Social Distortion, John Oats, Without Hall.
That doesn't seem right. Ever clear and the luminers. Hot fun in the summertime.
For more showbiz fun, tune in to Nightlight with me, Peach Wabe, weeknights from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Civic Media Radio Network.
I'm Meteorologist Brandon Bormons. A few scattered showers and thunderstorms around this afternoon,
otherwise partly sunny with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. For tonight, Sky's becoming mostly clear with lows in the lower 60s.
First day July on Tuesday looks great, sunny, a high 82. Right now, it's 71.
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