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HURLEY - Cars in line wrap around block after block on the snowy streets of Hurley.
"Well, I got here at 11:15, and now I'm through the line, and it's 1:30," says Cindy Brannigan. "But it's worth it."
She calls this time of each month, the last week, "the hard time" for many families in the area. The next paycheck or Social Security check is a week away.
Sometimes, the food supply at home is almost gone.
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CRANDON - Prosecutors think a Forest County woman protected her boyfriend after he threw the woman's young son across a room in 2013.
Jennifer Shepard is charged with three felonies for abuse, neglect, and helping a felon. Her boyfriend Brandon Brunette was sentenced to fifteen years in prison in October for throwing the boy.
Shepard was in court today. She could face another felony.
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MADISON - Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has taken the first formal step toward running for president. He has formed a new tax-exempt group that can facilitate paying for his activities as he seriously eyes a 2016 White House bid.
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MADISON - Governor Scott Walker wants to cut state funding for the University of Wisconsin System by 13 percent.
At the same time he thinks campuses should have more freedom.
Walker told The Associated Press he will be proposing that future funding to the UW system be a block grant funded by sales tax revenue.
It would be adjusted annually for inflation.
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MADISON - One of the University of Wisconsin System's toughest critics in the Legislature is blasting Gov. Scott Walker's proposal give the system more autonomy.
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MADISON - A Republican state senator says he does not believe the state can force failing public schools to be converted into independent charter schools
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TOWN OF BREED - Wildlife experts say wolves have killed or seriously injured six dogs in Wisconsin this month.
That's double the highest number for January in recent years. Two dogs have been killed in Oconto County.
Department of Natural Resources wildlife supervisor Jeff Pritzl says the spike in incidents doesn't necessarily reflect any changes wolf population or behavior.
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