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WIZMnews.com On the day before the 2024 presidential election, both major party candidates for vice president brought their campaigns to downtown La Crosse for separate rallies. Republican J.D. Vance spoke to about 300 people at the La Crosse Center, while Democrat Tim Walz addressed a crowd about half that size at the Main, an entertainment…

WIZMnews.com Restaurant chain TGI Fridays filed for bankruptcy protection Saturday, saying it is looking for ways to “ensure the long-term viability” of the casual dining brand after closing many of its branches this year. Friday’s had a location across from the Valley View Mall in Onalaska for several years. That restaurant closed five years ago.…

WIZMnews.com A Venezuelan man pleads not guilty to charges of sexual assault and child abuse in a Crawford County court case. Alejandro Coronel Zarate appeared in a Prairie du Chien courtroom on Monday. Six criminal counts were filed against him in September, for allegedly attacking a woman and her daughter. Coronel Zarate has been accused…

WIZMnews.com On the day before the 2024 presidential election, both major party candidates for vice president brought their campaigns to downtown La Crosse for separate rallies. Republican J.D. Vance spoke to about 300 people at the La Crosse Center, while Democrat Tim Walz addressed a crowd about half that size at the Main, an entertainment…

WIZMnews.com Restaurant chain TGI Fridays filed for bankruptcy protection Saturday, saying it is looking for ways to “ensure the long-term viability” of the casual dining brand after closing many of its branches this year. Friday’s had a location across from the Valley View Mall in Onalaska for several years. That restaurant closed five years ago.…

WIZMnews.com If you’re inside a city-run parking ramp in La Crosse, you should be parking a vehicle or getting ready to leave the ramp. Doing anything else there might be considered trespassing, under a proposal going before the city council this month, beginning Wednesday. City police are trying to put added limits on activities such…

WIZMnews.com One non-political item La Crosse School District voters will see on ballots today is a $53.5 million referendum. The plan: — $53.5 million referendum question on November ballot for new schools / 8 classrooms, new gym at State Road Elementary— Build a new elementary school at the Hogan Administrative site, while tearing down that building.—…

WIZMnews.com As I See It…I’m Brad Williams. During this campaign season in Wisconsin, I’ve been seeing ads criticizing some candidates…like a U.S. Senator, and a state legislator…for being in office too long. The message is, a politician who stays on the job too many years just cares about themselves, and not about you, so replace…

WIZMnews.com Just hours after she left La Crosse with her husband, Gwen Walz called back into La Crosse Talk PM. The wife of Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz joined to talk about education, her husband and his advocacy for women and the underprivileged. La Crosse Talk PM airs weekdays at 5:06 p.m. Listen on…

WIZMnews.com Actor Scarlett Johansson joined WIZM’s La Crosse Talk on Monday to promote a “get out the vote” effort and discuss women’s health care rights, among other — sillier — things. Johansson has been an actor nearly her entire life. She’s also married to Colin Jost, the anchor of Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live,…