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This is your WGBW Daily News Roundup for the talk of Green Bay, 97.9 FM and 50.90 AM.
From the 97.9 WGBW Newsroom, I'm Lisa Hale with this local news update.
As students head back to school, high schoolers at the Green Bay Area Public Schools who are enrolled in advanced placement classes have some work to do. Nearly 66% of high schoolers in the Green Bay District taking the AP exam scored a three or above in the 2023-24 school year.
That's over a 2.8% decline from the previous school year. The statewide average is 71% which ticked upward from the previous year. A three or above on an AP exam is usually enough to qualify for college credit.
The data comes from the school data tool from the Wisconsin Policy Forum which offers data on a variety of school metrics like student teacher demographics and testing results. Find more at wispolicyforum.org.
The college board which administrates the AP exams recently recalibrated at scoring for generally higher passing rates.
Gas prices made a significant jump in the last week. Melissa K has the latest.
The price at the pump rose 23.8 cents in one week with the average across the state landing at 306 on Monday.
This is 16.8 cents higher than a month ago but still over 15 cents per gallon lower than this time last year.
Officials at gas buddies say last week's storms knocked the Midwest's largest refinery in Indiana offline which caused the sharp jumps in gas prices across Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan.
With the refinery restarting there was some late week relief in wholesale prices.
There are currently no major hurricanes threatening the US and overall oil prices remain relatively stable.
This said the biggest wildcard prices would be any shifts in Russia's war on Ukraine.
In Green Bay a gallon of gas is up 34.3 cents a gallon for an average of 3.10 in Appleton and Oshkosh.
Gas is averaging about 305 a gallon.
Students on track to become dental hygienists have new state-of-the-art labs, classrooms and sterilization rooms at Fox Valley Technical College.
The trade school recently unveiled its 3400 square foot and 2.1 million dollar expansion that includes 12 dental simulators.
Fox Valley technical expects to see about a 6% increase in enrollment in the fall semester.
This year marks the opening of the Mung American Immersion School at Johnston Elementary in Appleton.
The school is designed to blend language, culture and community for Mung students.
The HAIS is the first Mung Immersion School in Northeast Wisconsin.
Madison has a Mung bilingual program and Milwaukee has the Mung American Peace Academy at charter school.
Wisconsin boasts the third largest Mung population in the US.
Classes at HAIS begin Tuesday, September 2nd.
The final report from the National Transportation Safety Board on a fatal plane crash in Lake Winnebago during EAA Air Venture 2023 says pilot error was to blame for the accident.
The pilot, 30-year-old Devon Riley and her 20-year-old passenger, Zach, Kohli Morena, were killed when the plane crashed and broke apart in the lake on July 29th of 2023, just eight minutes after takeoff.
A Wisconsin judge will not dismiss felony charges against two attorneys and a former aide to President Donald Trump, who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican party had won the party.
Dane County Circuit Judge John Highland on Friday rejected the motions to dismiss the 11 felony charges filed against the three defendants.
The charges are for using forgery in an attempt to defraud each of the 10 Republican electors who cast their ballots for Trump that year.
Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 and 2024, but lost in 2020 and tried unsuccessfully to overturn his defeat.
How's the housing market doing in Wisconsin? Joanne Krulotz has the answer.
The Wisconsin Relators Association released its July Wisconsin Real Estate report revealing that total statewide listings improved 7.3% from July 2024.
Meanwhile, the statewide median home price rose 4.5% to $322,500.
Affordability remained low, improving just 1.7% since July 2024, and the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell slightly from 6.85% in July 2024 to 6.72% in July 2025.
News at the top and bottom of the hour all day and on-demand anytime at WGBW.FM.
I'm Lisa Hale for 97.9 WGBW News.
It's the Brewers and the D-Backs.
Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with Sports, Baseball, Game 2 tonight of the Brewers and Arizona Diamondbacks in Milwaukee.
Last night, their crew with a 7-5 win over Arizona.
It was a close call. The Diamondbacks with a 5 run rally in the 6th.
Still, Brewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff got the win.
It was a good night. I think way too many positives. Outweigh the outcome of the outing.
Look, the main thing is we won the game, which is huge for us.
But yeah, the 6th inning, you know, that's just one of those endings.
You kind of chalk up to kind of be in a baseball inning, and I haven't had one of those up until this point.
Woodruff, now 5-1 for the season.
NFL, the Packers, reducing their roster from 90 to 53 players today.
Yesterday, the team confirmed that they traded for Eagles offense alignment, daring and canard.
The Badgers getting ready for their season opener in Madison.
Senator Jake Renfrow expected to play after suffering a leg injury during training camp.
Wisconsin hosts the Miami of Ohio Red Hawks, 8 o'clock, Thursday night at Camp Randall Stadium,
with Sports on Mike Clemens.
On your entertainment beat, I'm Conrad Krieger.
True Detective fans, are you ready for Nick Cage?
According to Deadline, season 5 is in development, and Nick Cage is in talks to headline the HBO's
Emmy-winning crime series.
He's a Lopez writer of season 4 is returning as a showrunner.
True Detective season 4 received high-critic ratings, achieving a 92% certified fresh score on runs,
Meadows, and 81 out of 100 on Metacritic.
The show is expected to return sometime in 2027.
Kieran Shipka is the latest to join the cast of the upcoming comedy,
F*** heads.
Yes, that's the name.
Dave Franco, O'Shea Jackson Jr., and Peter Dinklage are the first to join the cast.
The script is a hilarious comedy about a road trip that develops into chaos and insanity.
Maycon Blair has joined to write and direct.
Blair's worked on projects such as Logan Lucky, Rebel Ridge, and The Toxic Adventure.
There is no official release date, just yet.
After one month of the Coldplay concert, Kiss Camp Scandal, Chris Barnes helps fan propose.
The fan was seen on the jumbo-tron holiness sign that read,
I want to propose with an arrow pointing to his presumed girlfriend.
My brother, I need you to know it as I do some very basic security checks, okay?
Is this person your partner?
Yes, no one else is partner, okay?
Are you cousins or siblings or anything weird like that?
No, okay.
Are you AI or made from a real people?
Okay, okay.
And I think we could see it.
Fine.
Martin then breaking into song that ended with a man dropping on one knee and proposing.
The woman said yes, and the couple sealed the moment with the kiss.
A new box office champ has been crowned.
Netflix Sony Pictures K-Pop Demon Hunter has surpassed last week's winner,
Weapons with an estimated 18 million two-day opening.
Weapons stays in second with 15.6 million.
Third goes to Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis's Freakier Friday with 9.2 million.
And the fourth is Marvel Films Fantastic Four, first steps with 5.9 million.
So grab some popcorn and get to the theaters.
If you're looking for a new movie to watch at home, here's a couple new films.
Ini Mini follows Edie.
Now Teenage Getaway Driver, who is dragged back into her unsavory past,
when a former employee offers her an opportunity to save the life of her chronically unreliable ex-boyfriend.
Another movie is The Map that leads to you, which follows Heather, Matt on Klein,
a young woman setting off on an adventure across Europe with her best friend before setting into her perfectly planned life.
Once she crosses Pathwood Jack, K.J.Hapa, a magnetic and mysterious stranger.
For more, showbiz fun tuning to Nightlight with Pete Schwabba, weeknights from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Civic Media Radio Network.
It is going to be another beautiful day today, mostly sunny with a high in the low to mid seventies this afternoon,
and just a light breeze.
Tonight, mostly clear, we're going to drop into the upper forties to low fifties tomorrow, sunny,
and just a little warmer with a high in the mid to upper seventies.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable, outside now it's 53.
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