1410 WIZM

A La Crosse police officer has taken his training to another level. Lieutenant Shawn Kudron is just the fourth ever from the department to graduate from the FBI national academy in Quantico, Virginia. The national academy has graduated about 45 thousand cops since 1935. Training at the academy involves a number of graduate and undergraduate courses and admission is highly selective. Kudron and La Crosse police lieutenant Pat Hogan are the only current officers on the force to have graduated from the academy.

It just took passing one law to give Wisconsin something the state has never had before: an "A" grade from the American Lung Association. On the group's latest smoking report card survey of the nation, Wisconsin gains its first "A" grade ever for smokefree air. That grade comes after the enactment of the state's workplace smoking ban. Wisconsin also gets a "B" for cigarette taxes, which are now some of the highest in the nation. But it is two F's for the state in the areas of money spent on non-smoking cessation and control programs. The Lung Association also marks Minnesota and Iowa with A's for smokefree air but both states also do poorly in smoking prevention and quit efforts.

They suspended programs including dental hygienist ....instructional assistant....interior design and mechanical design technology. And for Western Technical College....it's a good thing according to their President.

Lee Rasch says they have suspended programs in the past with good results. The reason for it? Building a stronger curriculum with those programs and a huge cost savings for the college.

The suspensions will only last one cycle...and Rasch strongly believes that they will find the same, if not better, result from temporarily shutting down the 5 programs

What caused 20-year-old Shelby Perkins to die last May?

The pathologist who performed an autopsy on Perkins said in court today there was no other clear cause of death besides heroin use.  Dr. Susan Roe testified this morning at the La Crosse County trial of Shelby's boyfriend, Mitchell Perner, who's charged with reckless homicide. Perner is accused of buying the heroin which led to Shelby's overdose.  The trial began this morning, and should last through Friday.