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Call for updating hate crime laws after man charged in Copeland Park assault
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Travis D. Crawford
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) - The mayor of La Crosse is asking for changes in the state s hate crime laws after an assault on a transgender couple in Copeland Park.
Travis D. Crawford faces charges of Substantial Battery and Felony Bail Jumping-New Crimes for the incident Tuesday evening.
The criminal complaint said the couple was in the park when they said Crawford confronted them, accused them of stealing his bike, then called them derogatory names.
When told to leave, Crawford punched one person in the face. After falling to the ground, Crawford then kicked that person in the face.
Sixteen people who registered to vote using the address of a UPS Store in western Wisconsin will not be charged with voter fraud because the prosecutor said
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MADISON - Sixteen people who registered to vote using the address of a UPS Store in La Crosse will not be charged with voter fraud.
La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke said he determined the people were legitimate Wisconsin voters who did not intend to break the law when they used the UPS Store as their voting address.
Wisconsin law requires people to register at the address where they live and not necessarily where they receive mail.
The issue with voters registered at the wrong address surfaced in a report last week from the state Elections Commission that identified 41 instances of potential voter fraud since August 2020. That represents a fraction of a percentage point of the millions of ballots cast last fall and this spring.
Guilty plea entered in fatal shooting of La Crosse bouncer Follow Us
Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Friday, March 12, 2021
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) - A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a bouncer at a downtown La Crosse bar after he was denied entry to the establishment.
Timothy Young, 32, appeared in La Crosse County Circuit Court Thursday where he entered the plea to first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Anthony Fimple.
According to a criminal complaint, Fimple wouldn’t let Young in the the La Crosse Bierhaus, formerly the Twisted Moose, during the early morning hours of June 27.