Yes, they are...most all of Southwest Wisconsin is one incredible view.
Yes, they do. So many drunken college kids have drowned in the Mississippi that people think a serial killer is on the lose (a conspiracy theory with some weirdo believability considering this area is Ed Gein country). The only serial killer though is our 10,000 bartenders and a cocktail of naivity and retardation.
We had a big headline earlier this year where a moron shot at a neighbor, had a lengthy standoff with police, and was then found to have been keeping his dead moms body in a freezer for years.
Also this year La Crosse made national news after some guy proposed a hunting season for domestic cats.