(8/30/10-WRN) Authorities in La Crosse say a fire that caused extensive damage to a baseball field might have been set on purpose. It happened early yesterday at Copeland Park, a city-owned facility used by the La Crosse Loggers of the Northwoods League. The third base dugout was heavily damaged, along with a large part of the grandstand along the third base line. A fire-fighter injured a shoulder and was taken treated at a La Crosse hospital and later released. Investigators believe the fire was started in a corner of the dugout where paper, plastic, and a towel were started on fire. Police said they found footprints that went from the dug-out to the pitchers’ mound – and the same footprints indicated that the person had run around the bases. A fire-fighter reported seeing a man walk near the stadium’s beer garden as units arrived. The Loggers are a summer team made up of college baseball players. Their general manager, Chris Goodell, said the team is devastated – and the community and youth baseball teams that also used Copeland Park suffered as well.

(8-30-10)  Police in La Crosse will say more today about a woman who was shot to death, and another shooting incident that appears to be related. Police say 4-to-6 shots were fired just before 10:30 Sunday night in La Crosse. No injuries were reported in that incident. However, a woman died in the second shooting just after 11:10 p-m. An autopsy on the woman was scheduled for later today in Hastings Minnesota.

(8-30-10)  Officials with the La Crosse Logger baseball team say there are devestated.  This after an early morning fire at Copeland Park which officials say is suspicious.

Firefighters were called to the scene early Sunday monring.

They found the 3rd base dugout and grandstand on fire.

Firefighters entered through a locked gate and brought in a hose line to put the fire out.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the La Crosse Police Department and the La Crosse Fire Department Investigation Bureau.

One firefighter wasinjured and taken to Gunderson Lutheran Medical Center with a right shoulder injury. He has since been treated and released.

(8/17/10-WRN) Republican U-S House candidate Dan Kapanke has admitted taking twice as much as originally reported from his charitable foundation, to help pay back a loan connected with his baseball team. Kapanke, a state senator from La Crosse, told the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram that he had the La Crosse Loggers Foundation pay back 32-thousand-dollars on a loan for stadium lights where the Loggers play in the Northwoods League. It was originally reported that the foundation has used almost 17-thousand in donations for the lights – donations that partially came from groups that have lobbyists at the State Capitol. It’s against the law for legislators to take anything of value from lobbyists. And state Democrats filed a complaint this week asking the Government Accountability Board to seek charges against Kapanke, one of two G-O-P candidates for the House seat now held by Democrat Ron Kind of La Crosse. Kapanke said the payments were a mistake, but he said the stadium is used by many other people beside his baseball team. The Accountability Board has not said what it would do about the case. State Democratic spokesman Graeme Zielinski said Kapanke was trying to both justify his actions and admit they were wrong. Zielinski calls it a “crime” and not an innocent mistake.