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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…

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…

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…

WIZMnews.com A jury is scheduled to be chosen Monday in La Crosse, for the trial in a local homicide case that happened before the COVID pandemic, and during Donald Trump’s first term as president. Anquin St. Junious was arrested for allegedly stabbing another man during a fight inside a taxi. Virgil Stewart was killed during…

WIZMnews.com As Monday gets underway, so do several road projects-either continuing or just starting-in La Crosse County. The Highway Department has work planned at three locations that will slow drivers or force them to take a detour. Reconstruction of County Highway B betweenI-90 and CTH J resumes on Monday. They caution that the work zone…

WIZMnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. “Dissent,” he said, ”is the very essence of science.” That commitment is being put to the test. On Monday, scores of scientists at the agency sent their Trump-appointed leader…

WIZMnews.com LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he planned to file a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump in response to the administration’s extraordinary deployment of the National Guard to confront immigration protesters who took to the streets in Los Angeles. “Commandeering a state’s National Guard without consulting the Governor of that state is illegal and immoral,” Newsom,…

WIZMnews.com The Mississippi River crossing between Lansing, Iowa and Wisconsin is open once again, for a while at least. In a release from the Iowa Department of Transportation, it said the Black Hawk Bridge reopened for traffic around 10 a.m. Monday morning. WATCH: Live camera of the bridge The bridge closed on May 17 after…

WIZMnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. “Dissent,” he said, ”is the very essence of science.” That commitment is being put to the test. On Monday, scores of scientists at the agency sent their Trump-appointed leader…

WIZMnews.com LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he planned to file a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump in response to the administration’s extraordinary deployment of the National Guard to confront immigration protesters who took to the streets in Los Angeles. “Commandeering a state’s National Guard without consulting the Governor of that state is illegal and immoral,” Newsom,…