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The coworkers of a Greenfield man killed in the Sri Lanka terror attacks say he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Dieter Kowalski’s boss yesterday told his coworkers that Kowalski died in Sunday’s attack on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka’s capital.  Kowalski is from Greenfield and graduated from the University of Wisconsin.  He was in Sri Lanka on business when bombers attacked his hotel. 

You may soon not be allowed to light up in a city park in La Crosse. The city’s park board already approved a ban on cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and vape products.  The full city council will vote next.  Parks Director Jay Odegaard says the idea is to both promote a healthy lifestyle, and to save money by not having to clean-up cigarette butts in every park in the city. 

The Mississippi River will top out just short of major flood stage in La Crosse.  The National Weather Service yesterday said the river should crest at just over 14-and-a-half feet tomorrow.  That’s about a foot below major flood stage.  Forecasters though say it will be a while before the river is back inside it’s banks.  They don’t expect the Mississippi River to fall below 12-feet in La Crosse till some time in May.

Folks in Eau Claire will get a chance to see if an electric vehicle may be in their future.  Managers at the Eau Clare Energy and Chippewa Valley Electric Cooperatives are hosting an electric vehicle preview this weekend.  The idea is to show what new electric vehicles can do, and perhaps get some folks in western Wisconsin excited about trying one for themselves. Wanna plug in to more info? WE MAKE IT EASY TO GET MORE INFO-JUST CLICK HERE!

Wisconsin has the most confirmed cases of Chronic Wasting Disease in the Midwest.  The CDC last month said that 270 counties in 24 states are battling the disease.  CWD is most prevalent in Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado.  But researchers say Wisconsin is the hot spot in the Midwest.  The CDC says it fears the disease could jump from deer to people at some point. 

A man was injured after a parachute malfunctioned over the weekend. It was on Sunday afternoon when the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office responded to an EMS call of a reported sky diving accident at CTH K in Chippewa Falls. 42-year-old Chad R Prichett, from Somerset, is an experienced parachutist and an instructor who was near the Bateman Airport and deployed the main chute. While descending, Pritchett’s secondary chute opened, tangling with the main chute causing him to descended at a

A 42-year-old man was taken to the hospital after a motorcycle accident in the town of Waumandee. It was just before 4:30 on Saturday afternoon when responders were called to a single motorcycle accident on County Road E near Harmonia Park. Driving the Harley was Brian Gonyo-he was awake and able to answer questions. Witnesses reported that the cycle lost control while n a curve, went into the ditch and crashed.

Attorney General Josh Kaul is reminding people to get rid of their unused prescription medications safely.  Drug Take-Back Day is this Saturday and there are a lot of locations available for people to turn in old and unused prescriptions.  Drug take-back locations can be found HERE. JUST CLICK AND GET YOUR INFO!  

Truckers in Wisconsin are training themselves on how to spot signs of human trafficking.  Reports say truckers from all over the state have reported incidents where they’ve witnessed human trafficking and now there’s a program where they can learn how to respond.  Truckers Against Trafficking is a program where truckers are trained by video to spot the signs of trafficking.  There’s currently a bill in the State Assembly that would require truckers to go through some kind of trafficking training. 

Firefighters say the fire broke out just before 4:00 yesterday afternoon and they saw heavy smoke and flames coming from a window when they arrived.  It took crews about 35 minutes to put the fire out, but not before it caused about 75-thousand-dollars worth of damage.  The cause of the fire is unknown, but a pet cat was lost in the blaze.