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For 97.9 WGBW News, I'm Lisa Hale.
A round of severe thunderstorms rocked Northeast Wisconsin Wednesday.
Tornado warnings were issued in Outagami, Wapaka, O'Conto and Menominee counties.
Two tornadoes were reported in Clintonville and Lena.
Trees and power lines were downed in Kishina.
The National Weather Service will dispatch storm survey crews to investigate further.
The body of a missing Hortonville High School graduate in La Crosse has been found.
22-year-old Elliott Hines was last seen Sunday morning.
Police in Houston County, Minnesota found her body in the Mississippi River Wednesday.
Police continue to investigate and are awaiting autopsy reports for the official cause of death.
The buildings at the former Badger Sheet Medal site are coming down.
This week, Green Bay Mayor Eric Gennrick and other community leaders kicked off the demolition to make way for a new fire station.
Something that Green Bay Metro Fire Chief Matthew Not says is a long time coming.
This is a very place to buildings that we have that are currently 100 years old and 88 years old.
Both of those buildings have numerous challenges, as you could imagine, from pre-instructors at old.
This brings modern safety features, modern equipment and really things that make our firefighters work much easier and much safer.
The development on South Broadway near the Shipyard District will transform a 5.25 acre brown field site into a vibrant, mixed-use development featuring the new Green Bay Metro Fire Station, 85 affordable housing units, and ground floor retail space.
The publicly-owned Green Bay Packers saw a 10% increase in revenue for the fiscal year ending in March of 2025.
However, net income dropped by $12.5 million.
CEO Mark Murphy says the discrepancy stems from a decline in non-operating income, which includes things like investments.
Months after emerging victorious in the most expensive state Supreme Court race in American history,
Justice-elect Susan Crawford is finally set to be sworn in. Crawford will officially take her seat on the court for a 10-year term on August 1st, with a ceremony in the state-capital rotunda at 4.30pm.
Her victory in the April election preserved a 4-3 liberal majority on the state's highest court.
State Appeals Court Judge Chris Taylor has announced her candidacy for the 2026 election, which could further solidify the liberal majority.
A Wisconsin farmer is slamming efforts underway to protect the weed killer Roundup.
If a law is passed, thousands of claims linking the product to cancer would be tossed out.
Here's Civic Media's Terry Bar.
Hands Brighton Moser is speaking openly about the moves by bear, the owner of Roundup, to be legally protected from lawsuits filed against the company.
More than 90% of the corn and soybean crops in the state are treated with a weed killer, and the Lincoln County farmer believes people have the right to hold a product accountable if there are health issues associated with it.
There are more than 180,000 claims across the country, including Wisconsin, alleging Roundup caused cancer.
If you're producing a product and there's hazards with it, then you have to be able to step up and defend it.
But to try and change the rules on how the referee operates so that you don't have to defend it is total BS, and we should be calling BS on that.
Brighton Moser also believes bear's lobbying is a part of a growing problem, the use of corporate money to influence state agriculture policy.
Now two states signed a bill this month to shield bear from these Roundup lawsuits. A similar bill is being discussed in six other states.
We're waiting to see what Wisconsin decides to do.
The average payout for settling a Roundup lawsuit is around $150,000.
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was at the EAA Air Venture in Ashkosh this week, where he said the recently passed big beautiful bill includes $12.5 billion for modernization of the federal aviation administration's air traffic control system.
Duffy said that will include updating the FAA's telecom system and replacing aging radar. Duffy, a former Wisconsin Congressman who's also serving as interim director of NASA, also announced a new FAA rule that removes what he called outdated regulations that have impeded innovation and safety in the recreational light sport aviation sector.
Speaking of EAA, our Brittany Merlot is on the grounds.
It's Air Venture Week in Ashkosh, an EAA stands for Experimental Aircraft Association, which means building your own plane.
Built by individuals for education and recreation, it's called home built.
Then I decided I wanted to go faster and so I decided I was going to build this.
That's Kent Ingram. He's from Nebraska and started flying back in 82 while he was still in high school between his junior and senior year.
Now, his bucket list is fulfilled. He built his own airplane.
I always wanted to build one. I'm very mechanically minded in purchasing his kit from Rans about 90 miles away from him.
He started building it during COVID in 2020.
An airplane is just like a house. You make it look like a house really quick, but then the finished work takes a long time.
And any time you do something like an airplane project, it's just like going to college on a, you're just intensely learning on a project of how to, how the system, and I have a brother as an AMP.
So I'm pretty familiar with it, but I still did a lot of learning and building and it's just, I like hands on stuff.
A lot of work, time and money. I asked him, was it worth it?
Actually, the most difficult part is the electronic, the, the, the panel part because I'm flying a PA 11 cup, which has an airspeed indicator and a compass and an altimeter.
To a glass panel with an autopilot and I still haven't tackled all that yet.
A Texas music nut. He said he'll be headed south soon with it.
It's a lot of fun. It'll be a good travel and airplane.
Hosting plenty of home built exhibits right here in Ashkosh this week.
I guess it's retirement eventually.
For civic media news, I'm Braymore Low.
I'm Lisa Hale, 97.9 WGBW news. For news anytime, log on to WGBW.FM.
The brewers coming home. Hi, I'm Mike Clements with sports baseball. A good West Coast trip for the brewers.
From five of their six games yesterday, 17 hits in a 10 to two victory over the Mariners.
Bryce Tarrang went three out of five with three runs batted in, manager Pat Murphy.
Tarrang, you know, responded with some hits and a lot of good performances or teas.
It's really a play good defense. Relentless kind of stayed with it, scoring a bunch of different innings.
That's what it takes.
The brewers at home tomorrow night against the Marlins.
NFL, the Packers training camp underway. The players getting their first look at their new state of the art locker room.
Oh, man. I was amazed.
Obviously, we, you know, knew all throughout OTAs.
They've been building this new locker room and putting a lot of work into it.
I mean, this is completely different than obviously the locker room we're in before.
And it's very cool. So very high tech and everything's very nice in here.
So we're definitely blessed being here.
That's Packers quarterback Jordan Love with sports on Mike Clements.
The music industry is mourning the death of Ozzy Osborne.
Attributes for fellow musicians, including his former band Black Sabbath.
The band Osborne helped found but was also asked to leave due to substance abuse issues in 1979.
Osborne later joined the band for reunion tours about 10 years ago.
And they played together just a few weeks ago, which was Osborne's final show.
Ozzy passed away Tuesday at the age of 76 after struggling with health issues for years.
More music news, Stevie Nix and Lindsey Buckingham are obviously up to something.
Last week, they both posted on Instagram the lyrics to the song Frozen Love,
with Nix posting, and if you go forward and Buckingham finishing the lyric, I'll meet you there.
Speculation according to Yahoo Entertainment is that they are re-releasing Buckingham Nix.
Their album from 1973, a prior work to them joining Fleetwood Mac.
More rumors have been fueled now that a billboard is up on Sunset Boulevard near the studio
where the album was recorded, subtle stuff.
Another potential big-time blockbuster hits the big screen this weekend at your local theaters.
Fantastic Four, for steps, is the latest mega-movie summer release and reviews are pretty good.
The film, which stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, and the Bears, Ebon Moss Backrack,
is currently pulling an 87% certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
If you're wondering about the plot, well, I don't want to spoil it, but let's just say there's a lot of superhero-type stuff happening.
If you're tired of franchise or superhero films and want a good scare, you have two options this weekend.
The first has only one review, and it is negative.
It stars Pete Davidson, and the early buzz is, it wouldn't surprise me if the movie poster read,
don't get your hopes up.
The second is called Together, and it is pulling a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Together stars Dave Franco and Alison Brie, and follows the story of a couple who decide to move to the country,
which sounds great in real life, but in the movies, it is never a good idea.
Let's go to the movies.
One of the biggest films of the summer is Lilo and Stitch.
The film broke a record with a memorial-day opening of 183 million of the box office.
It made over 4 million domestically, and a billion dollars worldwide.
The film is now available to stream on Amazon Prime.
You can purchase the film for 30 bucks or rent it for 25.
That's how they get you.
Lilo and Stitch is certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with audience scores in the 90%.
Fun for the whole family.
It's been said that imitation is the highest form of flattery.
We'll see if Elon Musk is flattered now that Luca Guadadino has reportedly found an actor to play musk
in his new film, Artificial.
According to Variety, actor Ike Barrenholz, star of Apple TV's The Studio,
will play the former Trump chump in the film,
which has been called a comedic drama set in the world of Artificial Intelligence.
Amazon MGM is the studio behind the project, which is still in development.
For more showbiz fun, tune in to Nightlight with me, Peach Waba,
weeknights from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Civic Media, radio network.
Partly to mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms today are high right around 84 this afternoon.
Tonight 65 tomorrow, partly cloudy 83, the heat and humidity will return
with 80s to low 90s by the weekend and a few scattered thunderstorms,
especially on Saturday.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable.
Currently it's 74.
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