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 Connie Feldman with this local news update.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died.
Cheney served two terms as the 46th Vice President alongside George W. Bush during his time
as Vice President.
Cheney was one of the deciding factors in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which was in response
to the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
Dick Cheney was 84.
We have two new inductees in the Packers' Hall of Fame.
The Packers just announced former players, Travon Williams and Earl Dotson will be inducted
at the 56th Hall of Fame induction banquet this summer.
Cornerback Travon Williams played a crucial role in the defense that helped lead the Packers
to a Super Bowl 45 victory.
He was ranked number one corner in the NFL that season.
Earl Dotson spent his entire NFL career with the Green Bay Packers.
From 1993 to 2002, Dotson served as a cornerstone of the team's offensive line during a highly
successful time in Packers' history.
In Dotson's time, the Packers saw the team achieve eight playoff births and a Super Bowl
victory.
The Gales of November are here and a Midwest legend lives on along the northern shores
of Wisconsin.
Fifty years after the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, a new memorial now stands
in Washburn to honor the crew.
All 29 men were killed in the notorious wreck.
The memorials built from pieces of Ashland or Doc and includes pellets from the ship's
final load.
The story still echoes through generations, kept alive by the famous song that tells of
that November storm.
After weeks of gas prices going down, the trend reversed recently in Northeast Wisconsin.
After the past week, average prices went up just over 15 cents a gallon for us, while
the rest of the state saw a drop.
Melissa K has more about the price at the bump.
Gas prices fell 4.7 cents over the last week for an average across the state of 275.
This is 4 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and 9.8 cents lower than this time last
year.
Officials at gas buddies say the drop in prices will be short-lived in the Great Lakes
states.
Refinery challenges will cause prices to rebound soon.
They say the national average should hover in the low $3 range due to a snag at a California
refinery and OPEC Plus announcing another boost to oil production for December.
The national average could potentially decline slightly once refinery issues are resolved.
The lowest prices for gas around Brown County are about $2.67 cents a gallon, which is
still below the state average.
Some SNAP benefits will come to Wisconsinites, but it seems they'll get less than they're
used to, much later than they're used to.
Civic media's Savannah Tome Olsen has details.
In previous government shutdowns under different administrations, the government has used emergency
funding to keep SNAP afloat, but this time the USDA chose to discontinue benefits.
42 million Americans rely on SNAP to put food on the table.
Modern Wisconsin nearly 700,000 people rely on food share.
Governor Tony Evers declared a state of emergency, and Wisconsin joined one of two lawsuits against
the Trump administration.
In both those cases, judges have ordered that the government must keep SNAP going.
Now, the Trump administration says they will use more than $4.5 billion in emergency funding,
and that's still only funding about half of what the program usually gets.
In court filings, USDA officials say it'll take weeks to months to process that emergency
money, leaving those almost 700,000 people here in Wisconsin still in limbo.
For Civic media news, I'm Savannah Tome Olsen.
On top of food share benefits that are in limbo, the federal government shutdown also led
to nine head start locations across our state closing their doors.
Locations in Grant, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, and Richland County's closed yesterday, Shiboyan
head start preschools are expected to close in 11 days.
That leaves hundreds of low-income families without childcare so they can work and without
the benefits that helped put food on their tables.
Here's Jenny Maurer, executive director of the Wisconsin Head Start Association.
For all families and particularly low-income families, the budget is tight.
There is not a lot of room for flex and you need to go to work.
So families are really being put into possible positions.
Here in the Badger State, 60% of households who use food share include children.
One in eight Wisconsinites faces food insecurity.
With news at the top and bottom of the hour all day and on-demand anytime at wgbw.fm,
I'm Connie Filman, 97.9 WGBW News.
A Bucks win at the buzzer, I am my Clemens with sports, NBA.
A Bucks victory thanks to a jump shot at the buzzer by Yana Santedicupo.
On 17-1-15 over the Pacers, Doc Rivers says though Yana is getting fouled every night
and not getting the calls.
The Bucks road trip continues tonight in Toronto against the Raptors.
College Hoops, 24th rank Wisconsin, over Campbell University, 96-64, Marquette Beat Albany,
80-53.
NFL.
For reports as Pacers defensive back Nate Hobbs, we'll now miss time with a spring knee
and tied in Tucker Crab, out for the season with a Torne ACL.
As Pacers head coach Matt Loflore, with sports on Mike Clemens.
It is going to be partly cloudy today with a high in the mid to upper fifties this afternoon.
Tonight mostly cloudy, we're going to drop down to around forty for an overnight
low tomorrow, mostly sunny, little breezy, with a high of fifty-three.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable.