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Six months after a car crash killed three teenage girls in Winona County, a 17-year-old boy is being charged with causing their deaths.

Since the crash last April near Lewiston, there has been speculation that a second car somehow was involved in the accident. The county attorney's office now says there's evidence that two cars were racing before one of them rolled over. Now, Adam Greden is suspected of driving the other car which did not crash. The charges are filed in Winona County juvenile court, but the prosecutor will attempt to have Greden tried as an adult. A fourth girl was hurt seriously in the rollover.

Issues of smoke and fire are settled by the La Crosse City Council on Thursday night...

By a two-vote margin, the council decides to decriminalize marijuana use in the city. But on a more lopsided vote, council members approve the hiring of seven new firefighters for next year. Even though Mayor Matt Harter has objected to hiring new workers at this time, a compromise was reached with the mayor's office hours before the council meeting. On the marijuana vote, councilman Dick Swantz changed his previous vote in opposition to decriminalization, after talking to past and present judges in the area who approve of the law change.

 

Blame the usual suspect...a squirrel.

A furry animal tripped a few power lines in south La Crosse this morning, cutting off electricity to 51-hundred Xcel Energy customers. That was around 20 minutes to 10. Xcel spokeswoman Liz Wolf Green says more than half those customers got their power back by 10 o'clock, and the rest were back to normal after another 15 minutes. The outage messed up traffic on some busy streets, when the signal lights shut down.

Power is out on much of La Crosse's southside. As a result, a number of traffic lights aren't working. Intersections including Losey and Main and Losey and State are out. La Crosse police are sending crews out to help direct traffic. The power could be out until at least 10:30