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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…

WIZMnews.com In November of 1974, Wisconsin Governor Patrick Lucey spoke in the new North Hall of UW-L, now called Wimberly Hall. Democrat Lucey was seeking a second term, and told students he could not support a tuition cut approved by the Board of Regents, because that would put more burden on taxpayers to fund the…

WIZMnews.com Adam Fravel was found guilty Thursday on all four counts in the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Madeline Kingsbury. The jury in the Fravel trial announced the verdict Thursday morning in Mankato, Minn., where the trial was moved because of publicity in Winona County. Fravel faces the possibility of life in prison. Minnesota state court…

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 In November of 1974, Wisconsin Governor Patrick Lucey spoke in the new North Hall of UW-L, now called Wimberly Hall. Democrat Lucey was seeking a second term, and told students he could not support a tuition cut approved by the Board of Regents, because that would put more burden on taxpayers to fund the…

WIZMnews.com Adam Fravel was found guilty Thursday on all four counts in the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Madeline Kingsbury. The jury in the Fravel trial announced the verdict Thursday morning in Mankato, Minn., where the trial was moved because of publicity in Winona County. Fravel faces the possibility of life in prison. Minnesota state court…

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 Republican Rep. Brad Finstad won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing all of southern Minnesota on Tuesday. Finstad defeated Democrat Rachel Bohman with about 60% of the vote. Finstad is a New Ulm native, who was running for his second full term in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District. Bohman is a Rochester native, who…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats came out of Tuesday’s elections with substantial gains in the Wisconsin Legislature under new district boundaries, setting them up for a run for a majority in two years. Democrats had high hopes that the maps would enable them to get control of the state Assembly for the first time…