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Fire destroys condemned bar
La Crosse firefighters weren’t about to enter TD’s on Fourth on Sunday morning with heavy fire coming from the front door engulfing the first floor.

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TRIBUNE BASEBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Central's Warren proved at the plate, on the mound and in the field that he is ‘a player with all the intangibles’
Lucas Warren is someone former Central baseball coach Gregg Erickson couldn’t resist throwing into the fire right away. He had a lot to learn, but Warren has spent the last four seasons soaking up everything he can about the game. “He’s a player with all the intangibles,” Central coach Kent Van Egtern said. “He consistently outworked everybody, and it shows.” He displayed those intangibles in impressive fashion this spring, and that’s why Warren’s been selected from a deep pool of candidates as the Tribune Baseball Player of the Year.

2009 All-Tribune Baseball Team

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Guy R. Jewett | David H. Ranzenberger | Connie “Constance” Slaby | Elizabeth A. Von

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Obama’s health plan has failed before
President Barack Obama’s health plan is modeled after the failed Massachusetts plan, which was supposed to make health insurance affordable but has increased costs, wasted taxpayers’ money, hurt small businesses, limited patients’ choices and created shortages and long waiting lists. The Cato Institute reports health insurance in Massachusetts costs an average of $16,897 for a family of four, compared with a national average of $12,700.

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Twitterature’ recasts campus classics into 140-character bites
Did you struggle to make it past page 20 of “Moby Dick“?

The Bookworm: ‘Miracle Worker’ Sullivan was more than a famous teacher

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“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to others?” — English novelist George Eliot.

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(2009/07/05)
Thirty-one years after they started one of La Crosse’s best-known restaurants, John Rieder and Barney Sweeney have sold the Freighthouse Restaurant at 107 Vine St. to three longtime employees.

(2009/07/05)
I’ve gotten some phone calls and e-mails from readers in the past few weeks, asking whether the Walgreens drug store chain still plans to open its third La Crosse store at Losey Boulevard and Mormon Coulee Road. The old buildings at the site were demolished several months ago, but there’s been little activity there since then.

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COME ON BABY: Tara Candahl of La Crescent tries to coax her 9-month old son, Jordan, far right, with keys and a rootbeer bottle Sunday during the baby races at Riverfest. PETER THOMSON photo

CRIME MAP: The Tribune now offers a daily map of crimes reported in La Crosse County. To check it out, click here. We continue to provide a longer list of calls handled by La Crosse County Dispatch at this police blotter link.

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(2009/07/05)
WINONA, Minn. — Thomas Hampson, a leading American baritone, has chosen the Minnesota Beethoven Festival in Winona to open his 2009 Song of America recital tour.

(2009/07/05)
LA CRESCENT, Minn. — “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”

(2009/07/05)
The La Crosse Concert Band returns Wednesday to Riverside Park after a Fourth of July break for another summer concert.