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The Vernon County Censor

The Viroqua cooperative girls high school team is four games into its 2016-17 season and there is plenty to like so far. The Blackhawks have recorded two wins and two losses, while outscoring and outshooting their opponents overall.

Kyle Hall didn’t mince words.

If the Viroqua High School boys basketball team last season was a dining room table, then Zach Drake was the centerpiece.

After a fourth-place finish at the WIAA Division 2 state meet last year and losing three seniors, the Viroqua cooperative gymnastics team is in a rebuilding mode.

Black River Falls/Lincoln wrestler Sam Rogstad didn’t start the season in the manner he would have liked, but he’s certainly done a reversal since.

TOMAH — A deadly mixture of several drugs caused the death of 54-year-old Linda Purcell in the Veterans Assistance Foundation’s area of Tomah VA Medical Center, Tomah police said Tuesday.

The La Crosse County jail’s annual Wisconsin Department of Corrections inspection showed improvements compared with last year and turned up no violations.

It’s been 75 years, but for David Russell, the memories of the more than 400 fellow sailors — many of them close friends — who died on Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, are vivid.

A coalition of nonprofit environmental organizations has asked some 150 taxing districts to consider opting out of Linn County’s $1.4 billion class action lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Forestry.

The new Ford GT is so aerodynamic that its chassis was designed to be as narrow as possible and still hold a driver and passenger, according to Road & Track.

They hired firms to tell them who to target for more money.

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Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables was named the winner of the Broyles Award, which goes to college football's top assistant coach.

Despite their reputation as a peace-loving nation, non-violent nation, Norwegians have been found to be much more tolerant to the use of torture than the population in war-torn Yemen.

In Arabic, the word 'Ummah' means 'community' and is a historical reference to Muslims worldwide being bound together by ties of the religion. According to a UK-based academic in Islamic studies, "all interpretations of solidarity need proper guidance" as the concept can be turned into "a kind of populist propaganda tool" by those in power.

A powerful earthquake has rocked northern Indonesia leaving as many as 97 people dead and several hundred injured. The magnitude 6.5 quake struck off the coast of Sumatra Island in the early hours of Wednesday, where dozens of buildings have collapsed and many people are feared trapped under rubble. The US Geological Survey said the quake struck just offshore at 05:03 local time (22:03 GMT Tuesday) at a depth of 8km. A rescue operation is under way in the Aceh province and the casualty count is expected to increase. Читать дальше...

Uber Technologies Inc. and Sears Holdings Corp. have teamed up to allow passengers and drivers to earn Sears' Shop Your Way rewards points on Uber rides. Riders can link their accounts with Shop YOur Way to earn up to $2 in points for every Uber trip and new drivers can earn up to $1,000 in points for signing up. Shares of Sears were up 2% Wednesday. Shares of Sears have gained 3.5% in the past month, compared to the S&P 500's gain of 4%.

He was on the plane with one of his three wives.

WILSON, N.Y. — Authorities have seized 100 snakes, lots of rats, two miniature pigs and a few dozen birds from a New York home where dozens of creatures were found dead.

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Former Heisman Trophy winner and Chicago Bears running back Rashaan Salaam has died. He was 42.

Ben Hooper
WOFFORD HEIGHTS, Calif., Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A California man had a tense morning encounter with a bear that has chosen the space under his house as its new home.

A 6.5-magnitude quake in Aceh province left 97 people dead and over 500 injuries, local media reported Wednesday.