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WIZMnews.com After a group photo at the Marine Corps Memorial, it was back on the bus for the flight home.  Weather delayed the departure from Washington. The flight landed about an hour late.  It didn’t dampen the enthusiasm shown by family, friends, and the community to the veterans as they got off the plane and…

WIZMnews.com An officer is on administrative assignment after shooting a person early Monday morning near Hixton. The Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is in charge of the investigation that happened on Sand Prairie Road North in the Town of Hixton. In a statement from the DCI, the incident began when Jackson…

WIZMnews.com After a group photo at the Marine Corps Memorial, it was back on the bus for the flight home.  Weather delayed the departure from Washington. The flight landed about an hour late.  It didn’t dampen the enthusiasm shown by family, friends, and the community to the veterans as they got off the plane and…

WIZMnews.com An officer is on administrative assignment after shooting a person early Monday morning near Hixton. The Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is in charge of the investigation that happened on Sand Prairie Road North in the Town of Hixton. In a statement from the DCI, the incident began when Jackson…

WIZMnews.com A Tomah man gets 17 years in prison after his conviction on charges related to child sex crimes two years ago. Monroe County District Attorney Kevin Croninger said 23-year-old Daimon Verken also received 23 years of extended supervision following his release from prison. Verken was also placed on the sex offender registry for life.…

WIZMnews.com An elevated risk of wildfires continues for a second straight day in the Upper Midwest. The National Weather Service office in La Crosse said that what developed on Sunday-low relative humidity, warm temperatures, southerly winds, and dry conditions, remains in the area on Monday afternoon. This includes southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin-areas along and…

WIZMnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. or face new limits over what the government will pay. The order calls on the health department, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to broker new price tags…

WIZMnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s “ big, beautiful bill ” late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks. Tallying hundreds of pages, the legislation is touching off the biggest political fight over…

WIZMnews.com A busy day at the La Crosse Post Office on Saturday as vehicle after vehicle brought what they collected in.  It wasn’t mail though. It was food donations made as part of the annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive.   Every year, letter carriers help organize drives nationwide drive collecting food and personal care…

WIZMnews.com VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a message of unity in a polarized Catholic Church. “I, too, address the world’s great powers by repeating the ever-present call ‘never again war,’”…