1 injured in Madison mall shooting on busy shopping day
MADISON (AP) — Gunfire erupted during a dispute inside a large Wisconsin mall Saturday, leaving one man wounded in the leg and sending thousands of people scrambling for cover on one of the bu…
MADISON (AP) — Gunfire erupted during a dispute inside a large Wisconsin mall Saturday, leaving one man wounded in the leg and sending thousands of people scrambling for cover on one of the bu…
PRAGUE (AP) — Prague Zoo says it likely has the longest Chinese giant salamander now on Earth.
MOXEE, Wash. (AP) — Demand from craft beer brewers led to an 11 percent increase in U.S. hop production in 2015 compared to the previous year.
The following people have filed for a marriage license in La Crosse County:
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Ryan Fitzpatrick lacked the efficiency he showed in propelling the New York Jets to three straight wins. Randy Bullock missed an extra point and a field goal. The offen…
“Turn-about is fair play!” “What goes around comes around!” And “revenge is sweet!”
Sure, 10 is an arbitrary number. If we were to add an 11th show, it might very well be HBO’s sublimely shrewd comedy “Silicon Valley,” or ABC’s unbridled melodrama “Scandal,” or Fox’s noir thr…
When politicians try and try and try again to make the proceedings of our government secret, it raises a terribly obvious question: What the heck are they hoping to hide?
A new 126-room Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton hotel opened Thursday at 511 N. Third St., the second of four hotels slated to make their debut in downtown La Crosse within a year.
According to Wikipedia, a meme is “an idea ... that spreads from person to person within a culture.” A meme is analogous to a mental virus — although not necessarily bad — that “catches on” re…
As 2015 winds down, I’m privileged to make some year-end observations about the work of my bosses on the La Crosse County Board. This year will be remembered for their collective vision and fo…
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth.” These first words of Genesis suggest the heavens and Earth are the same age, but science tells us the universe is three times older t…
Firefighters Credit Union opened its new branch office last week at 2707 Midwest Drive in Onalaska, between Globe University and Allergy Associates of La Crosse.
A pet will fill your home with love, but it will also fill your home with fur, odors and lots of mess.
The cocktail renaissance has transformed happy hours across the country. Now, it’s time to raise your home bar game. No more slapping a bottle of bottom-shelf vodka and a six-pack of tonic on …
Sweet potato pie stole the show before Thanksgiving — all thanks to a viral video review of Patti LaBelle-brand sweet potato pie sold at Walmart.
For baritone Steven Marking and his wife, jazz singer and pianist JoAnn Funk, their Deck the Halls Christmas concert this week at the Weber Center for the Performing Arts marks a return to the…
The recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., have caused Americans to reassess the country’s safety, with fear approaching levels not seen since right after 9/11: Polling shows that…
If there’s any lesson from Tuesday’s debate, it’s that six months after his entry into the Republican presidential race, no one has any better idea of how to handle Donald Trump than when he f…
The Federal Reserve’s decision this week to raise interest rates — for the first time in nearly a decade — was fraught with controversy.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan police official says an Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris has been forced to land in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa after a device suspected to be a …
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Official: Suspected bomb forces Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris to land in Kenya.
BEIRUT (AP) — Samir Kantar, the longest-held Lebanese prisoner in Israel, has been killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential building near the Syrian capital, the Lebanese Shi…
If you were a guest for the Who-ville Christmas dinner, what wine would you bring to pair with the rare Who roast-beast?
We’ve heard it before: The average person gains one pound during the holidays. Many of us know all too well we gain weight over this season, yet most of us make unconscious decisions to accept…