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Skipperliner Solution Still Slow
Wednesday, 01 September 2010 10:55 | 
Written by Brad Williams | 
All the people waiting to collect money from Skipperliner in La Crosse may have to keep waiting for a while...
The attorney for the town of Campbell, Brent Smith, says the appointment of a third receiver for Skipperliner does not make the settlement of company debts go faster than before. Campbell is owed 300-thousand dollars or more in loans paid to Skipperliner, before the factory closed in late April. One bank is suing to get back close to four million dollars from Skipperliner, which is still in the market for a new owner.
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Larsen Replacement Approved With ResistanceTuesday, 31 August 2010 21:30 | Written by Mitch Reynolds |
You almost believe that by the time Mike Larsen's temporary replacement's approved, she won't be needed. It seems to be going that way so far in the effort to fill the ailing Larsen's seventh district city council seat in La Crosse. First committee vote to approve Jacie Gamroth for the seat is split with a loud and almost angry 'no' vote coming from council member Andrea Richmond. She's essentially calling the temporary appointment a hijacking of democracy. She wants to instead refine city rules to define jsut when a temporary replacement is needed on the council and hold off on appointing anyone to Larsen's seat since he's supposed to return to the council in November.
Tomah Fugitive CapturedTuesday, 31 August 2010 21:10 | Written by Mitch Reynolds |
Tomah police have captured their fugitive. Friday, near midnight, 45
year-old Mark Page went on the run after a routine traffic stop brought out out the Tomah K9 unit and the dog apparently hit on some drugs in his car. Page was arrested but escaped. Cops tracked him to his apartment and thought they had him cornered but he slipped through their net and was on the lam for a couple of days, possibly in La Crosse, before turning himself in at the VA in Tomah yesterday afternoon. Police have dealings with Page in the past in which he brandished a weapon at them. |
K2 Ban Moves ForwardTuesday, 31 August 2010 21:25 | Written by Mitch Reynolds |
Synthetic cannabis, watch out; La Crosse has your number. A city council committee this week has approved a ban on the sale, possession, and use of synthetic marijuana. It goes by names like K2 and Spice but generally is considered to be similar in nature to marijuana. Municipal prosecutor Pete Kisken says the stuff is poison and, because it's unregulated, poses a significant danger to La Crosse and therefore needs to be regulated at least until the state of Wisconsin enacts a ban statewide.
Police: Shells, Gun, Car Link Woman to Both Sunday Night ShootingsTuesday, 31 August 2010 15:00 | Written by Mitch Reynolds |
La Crosse police have made ammunition matches in two separate shootings from Sunday. Police say they've collected spent shell casings from the area around a home at Ferry street in La Crosse, from the car of 19 year-old Youa Moua, and from the south side yard where Moua apparently took her own life. Police say all of the 9 millimeter ammo matches and they'll leave it to the state crime lab to determine if all the shells were fired from the same gun. Police also say that witnesses recall a car driven by Moua leaving the scene of the Ferry street shooting. It was where her former boyfriend apparently lived. Meanwhile, results from an autopsy on Moua are likely to take several weeks.
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