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WIZMnews.com Thanksgiving is still three weeks away, but the holiday season has already started for many in the Coulee Region, with the ringing of bells at familiar kettles. The Salvation Army red kettle drive has begun for another year. The kettles will be at 21 locations in La Crosse County from now until Christmas. Major…

WIZMnews.com DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man shot and killed his wife and son, and his ex-partner and their son, before killing himself, authorities said Friday. Duluth police have not determined a motive, but Police Chief Mike Ceynowa said at a news conference that the shooter, 46-year-old Anthony Nephew, had a “pattern of mental…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Devin LeMahieu will return as the Republican majority leader of the Wisconsin Senate. The GOP caucus elected LeMahieu to the position during a meeting Thursday. LeMahieu said in a news release that the top issue for Republicans this legislative session will be returning the state’s funding surplus to families. LeMahieu,…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin pledged during her reelection victory speech Thursday to work with President-elect Donald Trump when possible, but she also vowed to fight him to protect the national health care law and abortion rights. Baldwin narrowly won reelection to a third term over Republican businessman Eric…

WIZMnews.com Kamala Harris is now calling for unity. Isn’t that adorable? This is the same party that turned Trump’s presidency into their own personal blood sport, dragging out every weapon in the federal arsenal, the FBI, the DOJ, the IRS. They used them, like it was their own political hit squad. Heck, if they could…

WIZMnews.com After I told my co-workers in Texas that I had accepted my current job here in La Crosse, the first response was “you know it snows a lot there”…and I replied, yes, I am aware of that.  Which was followed by…”do you have enough winter clothes”?  I grew up in Ohio so I know…

WIZMnews.com The campaigns may be over for this season, but the election issues in Wisconsin keep going. Area Assembly candidate Ryan Huebsch wants to see state lawmakers take action on certain priorities in the new session, including completion of a science center at UW-La Crosse. “One of the biggest issues that we’ve seen is that…

WIZMnews.com A day after the election, Democrats Steve Doyle and Tara Johnson, who both won on Tuesday, stopped in the WIZM studio for la Crosse Talk PM to discuss whether the new makeup of Wisconsin’s state Legislature means things getting done over the next two years. La Crosse Talk PM airs weekdays at 5:06 p.m.…

WIZMnews.com The jury in Adam Fravel’s Minnesota murder trial has received the case, following closing arguments Wednesday in Mankato. Fravel is accused of killing his former girlfriend, Madeline Kingsbury, in early 2023 and hiding her remains in the Winona area.  The trial, moved to Mankato because of extensive publicity around Winona, has lasted about three weeks.  The…

WIZMnews.com Members of a La Crosse city council committee have not been able to agree on a plan to study the possible need for a city administrator. A resolution to establish a working group to consider the administrator plan has failed on a 3-3 tie vote by the council judiciary committee on Wednesday. The study…