(2008/08/27)
A pit bull that escaped from a South Side yard and attacked two CenturyTel technicians last week will be euthanized, La Crosse County health officials said Tuesday.
(2008/08/27)
City officials and even some members of the public made their pitch Tuesday that their projects should take priority in the 2009-13 capital improvement budget.
(2008/08/27)
Leslie Pheasant said she met her husband, Terry, at Harley-Davidson’s 100th anniversary celebration in 2003.
(2008/08/27)
McDonald’s restaurants sell a variety of wholesome foods and have strict quality and safety requirements for its suppliers which include the Great Lakes Cheese plant in La Crosse, two McDonald’s USA officials said Tuesday during a media day at the plant.
(2008/08/27)
BLACK RIVER FALLS A vehicular homicide charge was filed Tuesday against a 23-year-old accused of driving drunk when he struck and killed a woman riding an ATV on Saturday in the town of Knapp.
(2008/08/27)
MADISON For the first time, a state agency is working exclusively on issues related to children and families.
(2008/08/27)
WINONA, Minn. An 83-year-old La Crosse woman died Tuesday after the vehicle she was riding in was struck broadside in Winona, authorities said.
(2008/08/27)
The Black River Falls School District has received a $50,000 grant as part of $4.3 million in federal charter school money distributed among Wisconsin public schools for 2008-09.
(2008/08/27)
The following appeared in La Crosse County Circuit Court:
(2008/08/27)
If you want to peel away the years and get back to life as it was in the past, it will cost you.
(2008/08/27)
WINONA, Minn. Police have referred a Winona man to the county attorney’s office for felony theft charges regarding an alleged rent scheme.
(2008/08/27)
She survived 91 days crouched on a bathroom floor alongside seven other women.
(2008/08/27)
TOMAH A new form of public transportation may soon be available for Tomah residents. A special council meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. today to approve bringing a Shared Ride Transit Service to Tomah.
(2008/08/27)
Winona County employees might work four instead of five days a week next year to save energy or salary costs, under one option being considered by county leaders to bridge a 2009 budget shortfall of more than $700,000.
(2008/08/26)
A plan that would combine a potential referendum and $3 million in cash reserves to address most of La Crosse School District’s building needs gained the backing of the school board majority Monday.
(2008/08/26)
The La Crosse School District served 4,300 more free breakfasts and lunches this summer than last, a school nutrition official said Monday.
(2008/08/26)
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse junior Maggie McCracken met her boyfriend, senior Nick Klug, on Stop Light Day at band camp two years ago.
(2008/08/26)
Criminal drug charges will be filed Wednesday against four men, with one facing additional charges for firing two shots outside an Onalaska apartment building late Saturday, police said.
(2008/08/26)
A 29-year-old La Crosse man told police he was attacked and robbed early Saturday.
(2008/08/26)
A pair of Monroe County teens were found safe in a Los Angeles home after they reportedly ran away early Wednesday.
(2008/08/26)
ONALASKA The Onalaska School Board approved a $35.5 million budget for 2008-09 Monday night that is about 6 percent higher than the current budget but calls for a slightly lower tax rate.
(2008/08/26)
HOLMEN, Wis. The school tax levy would go up even as the tax rate goes down under the proposed Holmen School District budget for 2008-09.
(2008/08/26)
HOLMEN The area’s newest elementary school is starting to look like a building that has the potential to house students at the start of the 2009-10 school year.
(2008/08/26)
VIROQUA Viroqua residents who are having a hard time getting along now have a way to work things out without getting the police or the courts involved.
(2008/08/26)
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. Felony sexual assault charges have been filed against a former La Crosse County Jail physician accused of having inappropriate contact with inmates at the Stanley Correctional Facility.
(2008/08/26)
TOWN OF KNAPP Charges are pending against a 23-year-old Warrens man who authorities said was driving drunk when he struck and killed a 60-year-old woman on an ATV Saturday afternoon, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department.
(2008/08/26)
TOWN OF MARIETTA Two drivers were hospitalized after a two-vehicle crash Saturday night in the town of Marietta, according to the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department.
(2008/08/26)
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN An Eastman woman had to be extricated from her vehicle Monday after her brakes failed on a steep hill, according to the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department.
(2008/08/26)
La Crosse police Sgt. Cary Joholski of the department’s investigative bureau was presented Thursday with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Wisconsin Narcotics Officers Association.
(2008/08/26)
The following appeared in La Crosse County Circuit Court:
(2008/08/26)
MADISON When Senate Democrats unsuccessfully pushed a plan to give health coverage to every person in the state last year, they all voted for it together.
(2008/08/25)
Terry Hicks retired in 2001 from his job as a city bus driver.
(2008/08/25)
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama stood beneath a giant oak tree at a Sunday picnic and promised a tax cut for 95 percent of Americans while characterizing Republican rival John McCain as being out of touch with average folks with an economic plan of “four more years of the same.”
(2008/08/25)
The Associated Press Twenty things you might not know about Barack Obama:
(2008/08/25)
TOMAH, Wis. When the Democratic Party officially chooses a nominee presumably Illinois Sen. Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention this week, Kurt Randorf of Tomah will be there.
(2008/08/25)
All swimmers for this pool party must have four legs, fur and current vaccinations.
(2008/08/25)
Classes haven’t even started yet, but Michelle Rudig is learning about everything from fire safety to foodborne illnesses. Those are just a couple of topics she needs to be familiar with as a resident assistant at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse this year.
(2008/08/25)
On Aug. 29, 1937, the La Crosse Junior Association of Commerce sponsored a “Tin Lizzie Sweepstakes” at the InterState Fairgrounds, then located on the current site of Veterans Memorial Stadium. The sweepstakes was a 75-mile race featuring stock Model-T Fords. Junior Chamber groups had been successfully staging such races all over the Midwest since the idea was conceived by the St. Cloud, Minn., Junior Chamber in 1935.
(2008/08/25)
An out-of-control underage party sent some police officers to the hospital for treatment and will likely end up with charges for some of the partiers.
(2008/08/24)
Sixty years ago this week, on Aug. 29, 1948, a Northwest airliner plunged from the sky between Winona and Fountain City, killing all 37 people aboard. It was the deadliest crash in the airline’s 22 years and remains the deadliest day in local history. Six decades later, the hillside still coughs up bits of the plane, and those born before 1935 still recall the day people fell from the sky.
(2008/08/24)
It cost the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse $164,000 over the past two years to absorb fees when students paid tuition with a credit or debit card, a charge other four-year University of Wisconsin schools avoid.
(2008/08/24)
The La Crosse School Board will meet Monday to continue discussing the district’s needs and a potential fall referendum. The special meeting will be at 6 p.m. at the Hogan Administrative Center, 807 East Ave. S.
(2008/08/24)
La Crosse County is days away from soliciting bids for the addition to its Law Enforcement Center, and county administrator Steve O’Malley is urging the county board to prepare for higher-than-expected costs.
(2008/08/24)
Some folk songs never go out of style. Others do, like John McCutcheon’s “Hail to the Chief,” which highlights George W. Bush’s various flubs and misspeaks.
(2008/08/24)
LANCASTER, Pa. The Amish are expanding their presence in states far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country as they search for affordable farmland to accommodate a population that has nearly doubled in the past 16 years, a new study found.
(2008/08/24)
Voters in Houston County will have plenty of candidates to choose from in the primary race for county commissioners.
(2008/08/24)
The La Crosse Community Foundation awarded $107,427 to community agencies during the third quarter.
(2008/08/23)
A local funeral home owner convicted of fraud for collecting thousands in state funeral assistance funds while also charging families for the services was sentenced Friday to three days in jail.
(2008/08/23)
VIROQUA, Wis. A 29-year-old La Crosse man was arrested Thursday afternoon in Viroqua after what authorities have deemed an “extreme case of road rage.”
(2008/08/23)
LA FARGE, Wis. Organic Valley has slowed down its planning for an addition for its headquarters in La Farge.
(2008/08/23)
Five years ago, when his teenage son was getting into trouble, Richard Hanson decided hunting for gold would be something they could do together.
(2008/08/23)
MADISON The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Friday gave the final approval necessary for a collaborative associate of science degree between Western Technical College and the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
(2008/08/23)
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. Prairie du Chien’s mayor has been charged in Iowa with second-offense operating while intoxicated after authorities said he drove his car into a ditch Wednesday in Marquette, Iowa.
(2008/08/23)
Participation in La Crosse area back-to-school drives is higher this year than in 2007, but donations of certain items are falling short, organizers said.
(2008/08/23)
VIROQUA, Wis. The Vernon County Land and Water Conservation Department has received $214,000 from the federal government to do some of the highest-priority repairs on six Vernon County dams in the wake of two major floods in the past year.
(2008/08/23)
WEST SALEM, Wis. Neil Sanders has spent much of his life helping others, but now he needs a little help in return.
(2008/08/23)
WINONA, Minn. The city of Winona has received a $337,500 grant for environmentally friendly changes to its wastewater treatment plant that also could save the city money.
(2008/08/23)
Authorities are searching for a teenage Monroe County couple that reportedly ran away early Wednesday.
(2008/08/22)
The La Crosse County Board on Thursday evening narrowly voted to establish a temporary home for women jail inmates on La Crosse’s North Side after approving a measure adding more supervision during evening and overnight hours and weekends.
(2008/08/22)
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse once again has been named one of the best universities in the Midwest.
(2008/08/22)
TOWN OF CAMPBELL, Wis. A bomb squad had to be called from Madison after an appraiser found a grenade in a vacant French Island home Thursday morning, officials said.
(2008/08/22)
Myrick Hixon EcoPark will break ground on the new Hixon Forest Nature Center despite bids for the building coming in $360,000 over projected.
(2008/08/22)
TAYLOR, Wis. Authorities are trying to determine what caused a partial failure of a pond levee at Badger Mining Corp. near Taylor early Thursday, forcing a number of area residents to evacuate.
(2008/08/22)
WINONA, Minn. About 40 more workers at Winona’s TRW Automotive plant will lose their jobs, and 100 more could be laid off within seven months, TRW officials announced Thursday, less than a month after eliminating more than 60 other jobs at the plant.
(2008/08/22)
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. A citizen group’s effort to force a public referendum on having traffic roundabouts in the city has suffered a legal setback.
(2008/08/22)
WINONA, Minn. Rep. Tim Walz, DFL-Minn., and his GOP-endorsed challenger Brian Davis were polite guests at Thursday afternoon’s Winona Women in Business forum, adhering to the “no finger-pointing” ground rules.
(2008/08/22)
INDEPENDENCE, Wis. A 28-year-old motorcyclist was hospitalized after colliding
(2008/08/21)
The actions of a La Crosse woman accused of letting her newborn daughter die do not support the intent needed for first-degree intentional homicide, according to her attorney.
(2008/08/21)
Many La Crosse area schools have turned to clipping box tops, collecting milk caps, tallying receipts and saving soup labels to fund those student extras that times of tight budgets have taken away.
(2008/08/21)
Hoping to post crossing guards only where they are needed, the La Crosse Police Department has removed guards from seven intersections and added them to two others.
(2008/08/21)
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. The death of a Black River Falls infant nearly a year ago now is under review by the Jackson County District Attorney’s office for possible charges.
(2008/08/21)
MADISON A man sentenced this year in La Crosse County Circuit Court to 15 years in prison for using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to possessing child pornography on his computer.
(2008/08/21)
The La Crosse County Board will decide tonight whether to join other Wisconsin counties in placing a health care referendum on the November ballot.
(2008/08/21)
Kathy Witzke didn’t leave the La Crosse Public Library with one book, but with an armload.
(2008/08/21)
The following appeared in La Crosse County Circuit Court:
(2008/08/20)
The nation and Wisconsin are expected to have their second-largest cranberry harvests ever this fall, the National Agricultural Statistics Service said Tuesday.
(2008/08/20)
In summer, a few select La Crosse public parks become an oasis for all-day drinkers, who come early and stay late, officials say.
(2008/08/20)
The flush of a toilet may be the key to preserving Madison’s precious water aquifers.
(2008/08/20)
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center will receive $300,000 in federal funds to help develop an information system that eventually could link all health care facilities in the tri-state area, Sen. Herb Kohl said Tuesday.
(2008/08/20)
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) A new report shows Wausau police issued more than 16,000 parking tickets in 2007, a 71 percent increase from the previous year.
(2008/08/20)
David Peters runs his motorized scooter over loose gravel and sand as he crosses at West Avenue and Main Street in La Crosse.
(2008/08/20)
I had lunch with Evan Osnos, the Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune for the past three years.
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TAPESTRY OF PRODUCE: William Mormann, right, of Tapestry Enchanted Gardens in rural La Crescent, Minn., speaks to a customer Tuesday at the farmers market in La Crescent, one of five farmers markets Mormann sells his produce at during the week. The market, La Crescent's first in years, is from 3 to 7 p.m on Tuesdays in the Church of the Crucifixion parking lot at the corner of South Second Street and South Oak Street. Peter Thomson photo |
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