La Crosse Tribune Local News

HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — St. Croix County authorities say two 22-year-old men have died after their car went off the road and crashed in Hudson.

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has received reports of moose sightings in the Chippewa Valley — a rare occurrence in that part of the state.

TOWN OF SPARTA -- One person was killed and another seriously injured Sunday afternoon when a car and a semi collided on Hwy. 27, three-tenths of a mile south of Eagle Avenue.

ASHLAND, Wis. (AP) — Ashland police sergeant Michelle Tutor is a woman who has never been one to give in to adversity or a challenge.

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Ellen Rorman is both a pageant queen and a dialysis patient. She wears her scars as proudly as she wears her tiaras and sashes.

HOUSTON, Minn. -- The Moonlight Hoot Scoot nature run will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, at Trailhead Park.

SPARTA -- The third annual Star Wars Reads Day will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Deke Slayton Museum gallery. 

THE WAY IT WAS: This postcard view, from a card mailed 55 years ago, in October 1959, shows the old Town House Motel which was located at 122 N. Seventh St., next to Burns Park. The Town House…

Basic training

Kathy Moen invented her job as she went along at the United Fund for the Arts and Humanities, and now she’s set her sights on the next adventure.

GREEN BAY (AP) — The wife of Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr said in a statement Sunday that her husband is recovering from two strokes and a mild heart attack and is making progress in re…

MADISON — Candidates for Wisconsin governor are trying to win over women, with first lady Michelle Obama making two stops in eight days to boost Democrat Mary Burke's campaign and Gov. Scott W…

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — Mavis Schroeder and her family have enjoyed driving past Darold Mayer’s farm, largely because of its massive display of lawn ornaments.

Last month’s sexual assault charge against a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student might be the most recent publicized incident of sexual assault on the campus, but sexual violence has lon…

The monarch butterfly resting in a blue-lidded peanut butter jar last week at North Woods International School may have looked innocuous, but the work Stacy Yellick and her second-grade studen…

ONALASKA — When it comes to his plans after graduating from Onalaska High School, senior Asher Freybler is setting his sights high. Literally.

RICE, Minn. — You can tell the anecdotes have been passed from parent to child, told and retold again. They have the ring of family stories that have become folktales.

Snoopy

Participants in Saturday morning’s Big Muddy Run awoke to a dusting of snow, followed by a drizzly, gray skies and temperatures in the 40s.

MADISON — When Festival Foods opens next August on East Washington Avenue, shoppers will be introduced to a new grocer and a new way in which to build a store.