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The Hudson Home and Garden Club is planning to publish a 2010 calendar and is seeking photo submissions for the calendar from photographers in the area. The focus of the calendar will be on the Hudson area with photos featuring local rivers, parks and landmarks. The club is asking...

A La Crosse teenager has admitted putting nude photos of a 16-year-old girl on his MySpace Web page because he wanted to "vent" at her. The case of Alex Phillips, 18, made national news when he was first charged last year. Monday, he struck a deal with prosecutors in which he...

A St. Croix County judge ordered a former security guard and his employer to pay $1.4 million to women whose employee badge photos the man altered and posted on pornographic Web sites. In a lengthy decision filed June 6, Judge Eric Lundell ordered Troy C. Schmidt, 666 W. 4th St.,...

A La Crosse boy has pleaded innocent to charges that he posted two nude pictures of a 16-year-old girl on his MySpace Internet page. Alex Phillips, 17, was ordered to stand trial Wednesday on charges of possessing child pornography, child sexual exploitation and defamation. Phillips...

There are a number of things that disturb us about the distribution of nude photos of a Hudson High School girl as reported in last week's Star-Observer. The incident itself is disturbing, but secondly what is most disturbing is the conclusion that "this is what teens do these days."...

The information age took an ugly turn recently at Hudson High School when a so-called collage of partially naked pictures of a female student turned up in a boys locker room. A copy of the photos was found by a teacher, and school administrators and police began an investigation. The...