Новости за 23.08.2015

MOSCOW (AP) — After spending more than a decade in the NBA, former All-Star Andrei Kirilenko is taking on what may be his biggest challenge yet — rescuing basketball in his native Russia.

Divorces granted in La Crosse County:

Peter Ostroushko marveled at the dream he recalled after a restless night battling a bout of pneumonia — that he had been jamming with the famed Bob Dylan.

Connectivity. In La Crosse and Winona, we’re blessed to have one of the world’s greatest rivers flowing past our doorstep. The Mississippi River connects us in so many ways.

I’ve finally figured out the problem with my baking-powder biscuits: They aren’t biscuits at all — they’re hardtack. I know this because Jackie Garvin says so in her newly released book: “Bisc…

In a recent column, I referred to “attachment parenting babble,” which is to say, I called a spade a spade.

Most people don’t stop to think about locally grown, seasonal foods. They may not even know what seasonal foods are, because Americans have become used to eating any type of fruit or vegetable…

During the morning rush before school or work, the bathroom can easily become a crowded war zone cluttered with toothbrushes and hair products.

Iced tea is a simplicist. After all, it requires only two ingredients, one of which is fresh water. The other, tea, could be black, green, white or herbal.

There’s a certain demographic in this country — it’s unseemly to mention the specific population by name — that has no sense of personal responsibility.

For the first 55 minutes of the first Republican primary presidential debate, it was easy to forget that Ben Carson was a participant.

We’ve heard for years about the hothouse conditions at Amazon’s warehouses. Now the New York Times reports that the company’s white-collar employees face a brutal work environment — long hours…

You are hungry.

Many times while traveling Wisconsin’s Great River Road, I’ve passed a plain brown “Rustic Road” sign along a narrow gravel lane just north of Maiden Rock.

The 2013 vintage New Zealand sauvignon blanc wines was declared one of the finest years, but that doesn’t mean that the country’s signature wine should not be on your summer drinking list as w…

Here are five food-storage facts that might surprise you:

CITY OF LA CROSSE

By law, some transfers are exempt from transfer fees; these properties are listed without prices.

ONALASKA — Carol Schonsberg, 84, of Onalaska died Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, at Onalaska Care Center.

Academics, scholars and river experts from more than 17 countries will descend on La Crosse beginning today to participate in the fourth biennial Symposium of the International Society for Riv…

“Someone’s gonna get killed.” That was heard over and over as police worked too many shooting scenes in La Crosse since Aug. 14. And then someone did. Mid-morning Friday, a sedan stopped in fr…

Wisconsin has made a “culture shift” in its use of solitary confinement in prisons, eliminating it as punishment for minor rule infractions and cutting the time inmates spend in isolation for …

Police on Saturday said the victim in Friday's fatal shooting on La Crosse's South Side was a 17-year-old Central High School student.

COON VALLEY — Joseph Haugen milked cows for 47 years and was proud that only once in all that time did he miss a milking (for jury duty). You could say he was steadfast in his work on the farm…

MADISON — Spending on lobbying during this year’s state budget debate rose 9 percent over the last budget cycle, a new state report shows.