Новости за 10.11.2015

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota judge has dismissed charges against organizers of a Black Lives Matter protest that drew thousands of demonstrators to the Mall of America.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota hunters registered over 68,400 deer on the first three days of the state's firearms deer season.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Playboy Enterprises has settled a lawsuit by a model who claimed she was hurt when an employee whacked her in the buttocks with a golf club during a Southern California event.

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 70 years ago scientists working in secret created the atomic bomb that ended World War II and ushered the world into the nuclear age.

NEW YORK (AP) — It's as red as Santa's suit, a poinsettia or your neighbor's ugly Christmas sweater. Yet Starbucks' stark new holiday coffee cup has set off complaints that the chain is making…

BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa has canceled 930 flights scheduled for Wednesday at three hubs in Germany after efforts failed to halt an ongoing strike by flight attendants.

The Viroqua Police Department is warning the community about an automated telephone calling scam in which people are told they owe money to the Internal Revenue Service.

With all the furor over the Tomah Veterans Affairs Hospital, we are compelled to add honest input.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Neel Kashkari, a prominent business executive and unsuccessful candidate for California governor, has been chosen as head of the Federal Reserve's regional bank in Minneapolis.

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney waited all season for Syracuse week so he could name Tigers long snapper Jim Brown a captain and pay homage to the great Orange and Pro Football…

Breanna Stewart is now part of an elite group — just the fourth player to be chosen as a unanimous preseason Associated Press All-American twice.

The Wisconsin Athletic Directors Association honored De Soto’s Scott King as the 2015 District 3 Athletic Director of the Year at the annual conference awards banquet, which was held Monday, Nov. 9.

I’d like to recognize some veteran friends of mine this Veterans Day. We are truly a Band of Brothers. They’ve been here for me in various ways since they found out I have brain cancer.

Train traffic resumed Tuesday morning on BNSF Railway tracks through western Wisconsin as crews continue cleanup of about 20,000 gallons of ethanol spilled into Mississippi River backwaters wh…

A group of landowners is looking to put a stop to all proposed frac sand mining operations in Jackson County.

When one drives on N. Water Street in Black River Falls, one of the first things to catch your eye is the Jackson County Republican Party Headquarters, and in their window is a lit sign that t…

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse English professor Bradley Butterfield will present a reading from his book “Idiot Boys” at 7 p.m. Friday at Pearl Street Books at 323 Pearl St.

The effort to build a new Melrose dam and restore Douglas Mill Pond appears to have cleared a key hurdle and now will look for final state approval to get construction under way.

It was Friday night at 5 p.m.

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred remains hopeful that a big league team will play an exhibition game in Cuba during spring training next year.

Melrose-Mindoro High School junior quarterback Sam Boone may be too young to remember former Packers quarterback Don Majkowski, but he soon may also earn the nickname “The Magic Man.”

A study to gauge the economic impact of all-terrain vehicle trails in Jackson County will move ahead despite receiving fewer participants than originally hoped.

Black River Memorial Hospital is launching a program to improve quality of life for people grappling with serious chronic illnesses.

Black River Falls enjoyed success on its boys and girls squads this year.

The Veterans Administration would get another tool to address staffing shortages under a bill proposed by U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-La Crosse.