Новости за 28.12.2015

WINONA, Minn. (AP) — When hunting season rolls around every fall, Cha Neng Vang is ready.

DENMARK, Wis. (AP) — It wasn't the enemy that killed Lt. Ronald Kielpikowski of Green Bay in Vietnam on Feb. 28, 1969.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — unless it’s not. I loathed the Christmas season so much a year ago that I made that mean one, Mr. Grinch, appear as cute as Shirley Temple singing “O…

CAMP DOUGLAS — Arthur “Art” J. Vinney, 72, of rural Camp Douglas died Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015, at his home surrounded by his family.

Gordon E. Oswald, 85, of Tomah passed away Dec. 25, 2015, at his home surrounded by his family.

SPARTA — Burton Wilson, 90, of Sparta passed away Dec. 25, 2015.

Alice Noer Leuthold, 88, of Tomah died Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015, at Agape Acres. Private family arrangements were made. Sonnenburg Family Funeral Home assisted the family.

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CHASEBURG — Ruth H. Schroeder, 92, of Chaseburg died Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015, at the Bethel Home in Viroqua. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Peter’s Evangelical Luthera…

WESTBY — Clayton Palmer Aarness, 89, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, at Westby Coon Prairie Lutheran Church. Visitation will be 10 a.m. to servic…

Roger Edward Knutson, 70, of La Crosse died Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, at Hillview Health Care Center in La Crosse. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Jandt-Fredrickson Funeral Home…

Glen W. Jones, 73, of La Crosse died at his home Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015. Services are pending and will be announced by Schumacher-Kish Funeral and Cremation Services of La Crosse.

TREMPEALEAU — Apolinary J. Kamrowski, 80, of Trempealeau died Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, at Franciscan Skemp-Mayo Clinic Health Care in La Crosse.

Glenn Christian Felsheim, 85, of La Crosse passed away peacefully Dec. 24, 2015, at the Bethany St. Joseph Health Care Center. He was born Mar 11, 1929 to Christian and Angela Felsheim. He mar…

ONALASKA — Pastor Merill Herder, 87, of Onalaska died Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, at the Benedictine Manor. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at First Lutheran Church, Onalaska. B…

WEST SALEM/BANGOR — Rose H. Berg (nee Wells), 95, of West Salem and formerly of Bangor died Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, at Bethany On Cass Assisted Living Facility. Memorial services will be at 11 …

SPARTA — Lillian B. Jensen, 95, of Sparta died Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, at Gundersen Health System, La Crosse. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Lanham-Schanhofer Funeral Home, Sparta.

Area public school districts will face new challenges in 2016 as educators prepare for the ripple effects of state and federal education policy, with some changes predictable, others less so.

NEW YORK — With a deeper-than-ever split between Republicans and Democrats over abortion, activists on both sides of the debate foresee a 2016 presidential campaign in which the nominees tackl…

The commute home today might be challenging, as a broad winter storm is expected to arrive late this morning or early this afternoon.

Minority students make up a quarter of the population in the School District of La Crosse and face significant barriers to educational achievement.

THE WAY IT WAS: Jack Hefti’s Orchestra, which was well-known in the La Crosse area from the 1930s to the 1980s, playing a tune at an unknown time and location in the Coulee Region. The man at …

Cross country ski and bike groups are calling on the state’s Natural Resources Board to deny a plan to allow snowmobiles back into Blue Mound State Park for the first time since the early 1990s.

MINNEAPOLIS — Protests against police treatment of African-Americans, a sudden twist in the unsolved kidnapping of Jacob Wetterling, a dentist condemned for killing a famed African lion, and a…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings didn't get the help they needed in the afternoon to secure their place in the postseason, so they ventured outside in the cold and took care of it them…