Новости за 13.04.2016

The Black River Falls Public Library’s Jackson County History Room, along with the Tomah Area Historical Society and the Monroe-Juneau-Jackson Genealogy Workshop, will co-host three genealogy mini sessions on Saturday, April 30.

A company that is working to start a frac sand mine in the towns of Alma and Adams filed for bankruptcy last week.

Asked what he built, Chippewa Valley Technical College student Thad Kramas had to think about it before coming up with the name “Frequency Drive Blower” with the help of an instructor. But the Automation Engineering Technology student, who lives in…

The Tomah High School boys tennis team evened its dual record at 1-1 with a 6-1 victory over Black River Falls last week.

While we were out for a ride one evening last week, before it got dark, we saw several cows running and chasing each other in a field. It brought back a lot of memories.

A trio of errors in the sixth inning helped propel Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau to three runs and a 3-1 win over Black River Falls.

Houston County hopes improvements at Wildcat Park and Landing will service even more campers as soon as Memorial Day.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a strike by tens of thousands of Verizon landline and cable workers whose contract expired in August (all times local):

MADRID (AP) — Spain's Interior Ministry says police have arrested a Frenchman they believe supplied the arms to Paris attacker Amedy Coulibaly for use in the January 2015 attacks in the French capital.

Winners in the school board races for Black River Falls and Alma Center-Humbird-Merrillan have been announced after results weren’t immediately available after last week’s election.

Bike or walk to beat cystic fibrosis

Black River Falls recently inducted two more alumni athletes into its Hall of Fame.

The Melrose-Mindoro softball team got its season under way with a pair of home games but found itself on the losing end of both.

Former Winona County deputy sentenced in prostitution case

TOWN OF BRISTOL, Wis. — A La Crosse man reportedly found passed out in his crashed car early Tuesday morning was arrested for his sixth drunken driving offense.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian health authorities say they are searching for two women who left Guinea after having had contact with a recent Ebola case.

LONDON (AP) — In a dramatic change that could lead to numerous doping cases being thrown out, athletes who tested positive for meldonium may be able to avoid sanctions because of a lack of scientific evidence on how long the…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian civil war (all times local):

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lawyers for Bill Cosby are urging a court to reseal the actor's deposition testimony about extramarital affairs, quaaludes and payments to women.

CHANGSHA, China (AP) — For years, Chen Tiantian could only read about the gay rights movement in faraway places. She knew that there were activists in Beijing and a vibrant community in Shanghai, and that in San Francisco, a distant…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. producer prices fell in March for the fifth time in the past eight months, reflecting a drop in food prices which offset the biggest increase in energy prices in 10 months. Even with the increase in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Peabody Energy, the nation's largest coal miner, has filed for bankruptcy protection as a crosscurrent of environmental, technological and economic changes wreak havoc across the industry.

IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — More than 100 migrants engaged in running battles Wednesday with Macedonian police on the other side of a fence on Greece's border with the country, in clashes that sent clouds of tear gas wafting over a…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrians in government-controlled areas cast ballots Wednesday for a new 250-member parliament that is expected to serve as a rubber stamp for President Bashar Assad in a vote which Western leaders and members of Syria's opposition…

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — A World War II-era bazooka rocket shut down streets around the government center in Fond du Lac before bomb experts determined it did not pose a risk.