This is your WORT local news for Tuesday, May 9.

• Health care workers are calling on Republican lawmakers to give them more support in this year's state budget…
• Scammers are using new technology to trick people into sending them cash…
• A horse at UW Madison is getting more parental leave than many of the university's human employees…
• And we check in with the Daily Cardinal as the UW spring semester ends and ponder why some animals have more friends than others.