Wis. town struggles to prevent drownings (AP)

by Populux | October 22, 2006 at 12:52 pm
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LA CROSSE, Wis. - Searchers combing the Mississippi River this month pulled out the body of basketball player Luke Homan — the eighth college-age man in nine years to disappear from a city tavern and turn up dead in a river. La Crosse officials have debated for years how to keep drunken students safe, but some say there may be no answer for a town with three colleges, three rivers and $3 pitchers of beer. "I'm not sure anything we do can prevent a future tragedy," Mayor Mark Johnsrud said ...

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