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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…

WIZMnews.com The deaths of two people found in a river near Tomah are being investigated by Monroe County authorities. The sheriff’s office says the bodies were discovered Sunday in the East Fork Lemonweir River in Wyeville, east of Tomah. Investigators received a call from a person saying they had found a body in the water,…

WIZMnews.com A nationally-known artist who’s famous for designing murals has been invited to visit La Crosse, to work on a possible project for the city. During its monthly meeting for May on Tuesday, La Crosse’s arts board discussed a plan for Lettie Jane Rennekamp of Portland, Oregon to come to the city and produce a…

WIZMnews.com The conclave to elect a new leader of the Catholic Church begins at Vatican City, lasting until two-thirds of the participating cardinals agree on a successor to the late Pope Francis. The group of 133 voting cardinals includes Raymond Burke, the former bishop of the La Crosse Diocese, who issued a message to church…

WIZMnews.com VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signaling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. The cardinals participating in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history took just one…