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WIZMnews.com A coalition of 15 states is suing over President Donald Trump’s efforts to fast-track energy-related projects, saying the administration is bypassing environmental protection laws and threatening endangered species, critical habitat and cultural resources. Trump issued an executive order declaring a “national energy emergency ” on the first day of his presidency. The order urges oil and gas expansion…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature voted Thursday to kill most of the top spending priorities of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, including legalizing marijuana, even as both sides negotiate a tax cut. The Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee voted along party lines to kill more than 600 budget proposals put forward by Evers,…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic voters on Thursday asked the liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the battleground state’s current congressional district boundaries after a similar request was rejected last year. Republicans currently hold six of the state’s eight U.S. House seats — but only two of those districts are considered competitive. The petition…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The father of a Wisconsin teenage girl who killed a teacher and fellow student in a school shooting was charged with felonies Thursday in connection with the case, police said. The shooting occurred at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison last December. The shooter’s father, Jeffrey Rupnow, 42, of Madison, was taken…

WIZMnews.com VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, the American Robert Prevost, said “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a message of peace and dialogue “without fear.” From the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, history’s first American pope recalled he was an Augustinian priest, but that he was above all…

WIZMnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has agreed to cut tariffs on U.K. autos, steel and aluminum in a planned trade deal with Britain, which would buy more American beef and streamline its customs process for goods from the United States. The symbolically resonant agreement still has yet to be finalized, but it suggested…

WIZMnews.com UPDATE (5:35 p.m.): La Crosse Police said Curt Grinde has been found. The department thanks the public for their help in finding him. No other details were immediately available. La Crosse Police are looking for a 63-year-old man they consider endangered. Curt Grinde had phone contact with his family on Wednesday evening at 9…

WIZMnews.com The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office provided more information on the deaths of two people found in the East Fork of the Lemonweir River on Sunday. The victims are Leath Lambert and Heather Larsen. Both were last seen at the Backwater Bar & Grill in Wyeville the night before. The East Fork of the Lemonweir…

WIZMnews.com The city administrator idea comes before the La Crosse city council again on Thursday night, during the council’s regular May meeting. A proposal to hire an administrator was brought up last October, when the council voted to postpone the idea until spring to allow study by a special committee. Last week, the city judiciary…

WIZMnews.com Your local mail carrier will be busier than usual this Saturday. That’s the day of the annual Letter Carriers’ food drive, called “Stamp Out Hunger.” Postal workers in the region will pick up food donations when they deliver the mail on Saturday, May 10th. Last year, 31,000 pounds of donations were collected in the…