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La Crosse County campgrounds improve on their start from last summer
WIZMnews.com Summer vacation season has just started, but already revenue from camping and outdoor activity at La Crosse County parks is ahead of last year’s pace. County park officials tell the La Crosse County Board that revenue at Goose Island, south of La Crosse, is up 25 per cent from the level in early June…
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St. Junious homicide trial begins in La Crosse, six years after a deadly stabbing on 7th Street
WIZMnews.com A jury in La Crosse has begun hearing witnesses in the homicide trial of Anquin St. Junious. The 45-year-old St. Junious is accused of fatally stabbing Virgil Stewart inside a taxi six years ago on South 7th Street, in January of 2019. St. Junious was charged a week after Stewart was killed, but various…
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St. Junious found guilty in 2019 stabbing death, but acquitted on two lesser charges
WIZMnews.com Anquin St. Junious has been found guilty of reckless homicide, in the fatal stabbing of another man which occurred in La Crosse six years ago. A La Crosse County jury reached a verdict on the 2nd degree homicide charge after two hours of deliberations on Tuesday afternoon. St. Junious also was convicted of making…
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Tourism generates record $25.8B for Wisconsin’s economy
WIZMnews.com For the third year in a row, the impact of tourism on the state’s economy has set a record. Figures released by the state’s Department of Tourism for 2024 show another rise in economic impact, visits, and tax revenue. Overall, the numbers reveal that $25.8 billion dollars were generated as a result of the…
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62 pounds of marijuana seized at Town of Campbell residence
WIZMnews.com A Town of Campbell man is facing several drug charges after a search at his home finds 62 pounds of marijuana. Police Chief Trisha Stratman said Steven Harter, 40, was arrested on June 5 at a residence at 909 Hanson Road. Harter’s arrest was the result of an investigation that began in Colorado in…
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St. Junious found guilty in 2019 stabbing death, but acquitted on two lesser charges
WIZMnews.com Anquin St. Junious has been found guilty of reckless homicide, in the fatal stabbing of another man which occurred in La Crosse six years ago. A La Crosse County jury reached a verdict on the 2nd degree homicide charge after two hours of deliberations on Tuesday afternoon. St. Junious also was convicted of making…
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Tourism generates record $25.8B for Wisconsin’s economy
WIZMnews.com For the third year in a row, the impact of tourism on the state’s economy has set a record. Figures released by the state’s Department of Tourism for 2024 show another rise in economic impact, visits, and tax revenue. Overall, the numbers reveal that $25.8 billion dollars were generated as a result of the…
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62 pounds of marijuana seized at Town of Campbell residence
WIZMnews.com A Town of Campbell man is facing several drug charges after a search at his home finds 62 pounds of marijuana. Police Chief Trisha Stratman said Steven Harter, 40, was arrested on June 5 at a residence at 909 Hanson Road. Harter’s arrest was the result of an investigation that began in Colorado in…
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New leadership coming to Salvation Army
WIZMnews.com New leadership begins in a few weeks at the Salvation Army in La Crosse. Majors Jeff and Dawn Russell are replacing Majors Alan and Kim Hellstrom, who are moving to lead the Traverse City, Michigan corps in their home state. The Russells are moving from Appleton. La Crosse is their tenth appointment in the 23…
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An immigrant Wisconsin man falsely accused of threatening Trump can be released on bond
WIZMnews.com CHICAGO (AP) — An immigrant man who was falsely accused of threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump can be released from a Wisconsin prison on bond, an immigration judge determined Tuesday. Ramón Morales Reyes was accused of a writing a letter threatening Trump in a blistering social media post by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The post…