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WIZMnews.com Who would you pick, if you could choose the Person of the Year? Time magazine is famous for designating a Person of the Year honor for almost a century, starting as Man of the Year in the 1920s, with Charles Lindbergh being the first winner, for flying solo across the Atlantic. I’ve found that…

WIZMnews.com It’s an unusual, one-of-a-kind landmark on La Crosse’s Main Street, just a block from the library. An apartment complex painted pink, which bears the nickname the Pink Palace, was approved for demolition by the city council, to be replaced by new housing. This week, staffers from Habitat for Humanity for the Greater La Crosse…

WIZMnews.com It’s an unusual, one-of-a-kind landmark on La Crosse’s Main Street, just a block from the library. An apartment complex painted pink, which bears the nickname the Pink Palace, was approved for demolition by the city council, to be replaced by new housing. This week, staffers from Habitat for Humanity for the Greater La Crosse…

WIZMnews.com Christmas is a special time and as our family situation changes, so do the memories and challenges and obligations. Where once we might have had to dress up and attend parties for our parents’ sake, now we may be the ones hosting those parties.   Besides giving and receiving presents, ‘Tis the season of giving —…

WIZMnews.com Christmas is a special time and as our family situation changes, so do the memories and challenges and obligations. Where once we might have had to dress up and attend parties for our parents’ sake, now we may be the ones hosting those parties.   Besides giving and receiving presents, ‘Tis the season of giving —…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When the Wisconsin Legislature returns to work in January, after nine months out of session, Republicans will still be in charge but will have the narrowest majorities since taking control in 2011. That’s giving Democrats, including Gov. Tony Evers, optimism that both sides will be able to work together better than they…

WIZMnews.com Hundreds of people in the U.S. have died in shootings over the past 25 years in places like offices, stores and theaters, but the carnage perhaps hits hardest when it happens in schools and colleges. In those cases, the victims are children who still have some of their baby teeth, newly adult students with…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The motive for a shooting that killed a teacher and a student and wounded others at a Wisconsin school appears to be a “combination of factors,” a police chief said Tuesday as he appealed to the public to share what they might know about the 15-year-old girl who attacked a…

WIZMnews.com Adam Fravel has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2023 murder of his former girlfriend, Madeline Kingsbury. Fravel received the mandatory life sentence from Winona County Judge Nancy Buytendorp during a hearing in Winona on Tuesday. In November, a jury in Mankato convicted Fravel in the killing of Kingsbury, who was reported…

WIZMnews.com Carol Abrahamzon, executive director Mississippi Valley Conservancy, in the WIZM studio highlighting the work they do, how they do it and how we can take advantage. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM / 1410 AM / 106.7 FM (north of Onalaska). Find…