UWL men win ninth straight WIAC cross country title with five in the top eight
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UWL men win ninth straight WIAC cross country title with five in the top eight
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UW-La Crosse's men's cross country team won its ninth straight WIAC championship Saturday at Whitewater, scoring 27 points with all five scoring runners in the top eight for the program's league-record 41st title.
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UW-La Crosse's women's soccer team finished its regular season Saturday with a 1-0 win at UW-Whitewater, scoring late in the first half and holding off the Warhawks the rest of the way.

Viroqua police say a 58-year-old local man was taken into custody for criminal trespassing after a report that he entered Mayor Krista Browne's home without permission during daylight hours on Oct. 26.

UW-La Crosse will try for its 15th WIAC women's cross country championship, and its sixth in a row, on Saturday at UW-Whitewater.

UW-La Crosse was picked second in the WIAC women's basketball preseason poll after a 21-10 season that included the program's first conference tournament title and its first Elite Eight trip.

La Crosse Logan and West Salem won their WIAA second-round playoff games Friday night, while Melrose-Mindoro lost by three points to Glenwood City in Division 7.

Volleyball and soccer sectional finals, the next round of the football playoffs and the WIAA state cross country meet all fall on the same weekend across western Wisconsin.




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Crews will start lane, pavement marking and traffic signal work next week on Hwy 2 in Superior and on the Hwy 2 ramps with I-35 in Duluth as work prepares for the Blatnik Bridge closure in early 2027.

The Nov. 3 midterm ballot in the Chippewa Valley includes an open race for governor, a rematch for the 3rd Congressional District, three statewide referendum questions and a City of Eau Claire healthcare committee question.

Neighborhood trick-or-treating runs Saturday evening, Oct. 31, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in Eau Claire and Altoona, 5 to 7 p.m. in Chippewa Falls and Menomonie, and 4 to 7 p.m. in Augusta and Arcadia.

Superior Public Library says Libby users whose library cards have expired can no longer check out or place holds until they renew, and patrons can check their expiration date online or in the NWLN Libraries app.

A 38-year-old man faces a negligent homicide charge in Douglas County Court after a June ATV crash that killed a 71-year-old Minnesota man.

Superior's school board approved a balanced $59.6 million budget that lowers the levy by 2.12% and cuts the tax rate by 86 cents per $1,000.



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Neenah scored 96 points to edge Mount Horeb by two points for the Division 1 girls title at the WIAA state cross-country meet Oct. 31 at The Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids.

The Oct. 31 central Wisconsin scoreboard rounds up WIAA playoff football, college results and the WIAA state cross-country finals in Wisconsin Rapids, and lists schedules for local college athletes.

Police records released Friday show three other women accused Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs of abusive behavior during the investigation into his May arrest, and the NFL says its review remains open.

Officials from the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance will be at the federal disaster recovery center in Menasha this week to help Fox Cities residents with insurance questions from the July 27 tornado.

The Wisconsin DNR has allocated $3.3 million to one City of Sheboygan project for private-side lead service line replacement costs, though the decision does not by itself open household applications.

Polls in the Marshfield area are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3, for a partisan general election topped by open races for governor and Congress, plus three statewide referenda.










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Democrat Mitchell Berman, a 40-year-old emergency room nurse from rural Racine County, is challenging Republican Rep. Bryan Steil for the southeastern Wisconsin seat once held by Paul Ryan.

A surge in in-person early voting has pushed Wisconsin's returned absentee ballots past the 2022 midterm pace, with Racine County returns up 13.5% from four years ago.

Frank Elementary students celebrated Halloween Friday afternoon with an after-school trunk-or-treat joined by a Kenosha police officer and the school dean dressed as Scooby-Doo.

Congregations United to Serve Humanity drew a packed banquet hall in Kenosha on Thursday evening for its annual dinner, honoring advocates for the homeless and State Senator Bob Wirch.

Mount Pleasant trustees voted Oct. 26 to hold off on final approval of the Sanctuary at Pike River plat for two weeks so the developer can make requested revisions.

Running the Racine County Jail would cost $21.1 million in 2027, and property taxpayers would cover $17.2 million of that under County Executive Ralph Malicki's proposed budget.
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