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LA CRESCENT -- There's a new addition to the La Crescent Fire Department, and it's a hard one to miss.

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Administered by La Crosse County, the For Goodness’ Sake program provides donated household goods to the needy.

WEST SALEM — Scientists gave a local forest famous for its chestnuts an annual checkup of sorts earlier this month, and the numbers alone wouldn’t tell the whole story.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When many people think of getting a tattoo, they likely expect to go to a shop run by men.

ONALASKA — J.R. Salzman and Gretchen Greene won the men’s and women’s titles, respectively, Saturday at the Three Rivers Roleo.

TOWN OF TREMPEALEAU -- One person was killed and three injured early Saturday in a head-on collision in Trempealeau County.

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota teenager says he drifted in and out of consciousness as rescuers worked to free him after his canoe capsized and pinned him to the rocks near the crest of a…

MADISON -- Bankers, insurance firms and groups representing low-income people are calling on Gov. Scott Walker to veto an item in the state budget that would give payday lenders a broad, new r…

WISCONSIN DELLS — A Wisconsin Dells theme park began removing a thrill ride early Friday after a mechanical failure earlier this week led to a close call with two riders and attracted national…

MADISON (AP) --€” About 40 people --€” toddlers, divorcees, young couples and teenagers --€” crowd into a massive dining room, where enticing smells drift out of a restaurant-grade kitchen.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Doug Hamilton is just fine with plans to put a woman's portrait on U.S. paper money, but he'd prefer that the Treasury Department leave the $10 bill alone — particularly the p…

With $4.8 billion in sales in 2014, Kwik Trip Inc. has grown to be a much larger company than he expected when it began 50 years ago, company President and CEO Don Zietlow said Friday.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Three Midwestern sisters said Friday faith helped them survive for more than four days while lost in a Wyoming wilderness area, and they were grateful searchers didn’t give up.

FREEBURG, Ill. — As with many small towns, the biggest source of bragging rights in this agrarian outpost in southern Illinois are its high school athletes — the Freeburg Midgets.

CHICAGO (AP) — Water levels in Lake Michigan have been replenishing at an unprecedented rate since receding by 4 feet in the late 1990s and hitting a record low two years ago, according to gov…

For many, this T-shirt is merely another walking advertisement, a boxy green shirt with “The Friendship Program” printed in a thin white font running across the chest, with Hmong and Lao trans…

Let this news boost the spirits of senior men everywhere: Just because something is old and smelly doesn’t mean it’s worthless.

WINONA, Minn. — There is a scene in the Great River Shakespeare Festival’s staging of the Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie” — Laura is kneeling and lit by a row of candles, mother…

CHICAGO (TNS) — Inside a suburban Milwaukee convention hall in June 2012, Wisconsin’s Scott Walker had just learned he’d become the first U.S. governor to survive a recall election when his ol…