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Fifty-six years ago Wednesday, I almost got kicked out of school for taping a “Kick Me” sign on my fourth-grade teacher’s back.

MADISON — A new state law is taking effect that greatly expands the collection of DNA samples by law enforcement officials.

HOLMEN — It was a small crowd that gathered Tuesday night at Holmen High School to learn more about the district’s proposed referendums.

WINONA, Minn. — April is National Poetry Month, and an event this month will give the poetically inclined a chance to celebrate one of poetry’s most well-known forms: the sonnet.

For every dollar invested in early childhood education, data show there is a $13 to $15 return on investment.

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Four people were injured Tuesday in two related crashes west of Coon Valley on Hwys. 14/61 in the town of Hamburg.

With tax deadlines approaching, those who haven’t filed returns might need a primer on how the Affordable Care Act affects that process.

The La Crosse County Conservation Alliance’s 39th annual awards and recognition banquet will be held April 9 at Drugan’s Castle Mound in rural Holmen.

You don’t have to have a sense of history to be pinching yourself about the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team going to back-to-back NCAA Final Fours, but it doesn’t hurt.

The American Red Cross is seeking donors of all blood types, and especially O negative, A negative and B negative, are needed.

The National Weather Service will hold a severe weather spotter training class at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, in the Marycrest Auditorium at Mayo Clinic Health System, 700 West Ave. S. The …

The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge Visitor Center will host a nature journaling program for children ages 8 and older from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Jesús Jambrina, associate professor of world languages and cultures and history, and coordinator of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at Viterbo University, has been internationall…

A La Crosse pastor resigned Tuesday afternoon in a controversy in which he was accused of sending an obscene email to a blogger who had written that society would be better without police.

Two incumbent La Crosse Common Council members square off in a District 10 race that is a replay of what voters saw on the ballot two years ago.

MADISON — Wisconsin voters will decide April 7 whether to amend the state constitution to let state Supreme Court justices choose their leader.

A La Crosse committee Tuesday narrowly rejected a proposed $300 a month pay raise that would not take effect until 2017, when the council will shrink by four seats.

A Freedom Honor Flight will take 80 veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit war memorials on May 2, marking the La Crosse organization's 15th flight.

The Franciscan Spirituality Center will host its annual Justice and Peace Stations of the Cross from 10 a.m. to noon Good Friday through downtown La Crosse.