Winter not surrendering easily: Snow due
WINONA, Minn. – An overnight storm began blowing in from the west with as [...]
Eleva man dies at rural T-intersection
AUGUSTA, Wis. -- An Eleva driver was died west of Augusta in a single-vehicle [...]
Winona coach denies guilt in sex cases
WINONA, Minn. -- Former Winona High School women’s track coach Eric Birth pleaded not [...]
No mere school scuffle: Boy’s nose possibly broken
WINONA, Minn. – A Winona High School student suffered a nose injury, possibly a [...]
Hog-carrying truck wrecks at I-90 border
DRESBACH, Minn. – A semi-truck hauling hogs crashed on its side approaching the Interstate [...]
News summary at mid-week: March 20, 2024
COLLEGES: WSU’s “laptop campus” guru named president POLICING: Prisoner starved for smearing shit in [...]
Prisoner starved for smearing shit in cell
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. – Jailers withheld six meals in a row to an inmate [...]
Rochester woman pinched for driving drunk
WINONA, Minn. – Police stopped a woman who made a jack-rabbit start and then [...]
Minnesota prep
Basketball (boys): Lake City Tigers 72, Pelican Rapids Vikings 61 Basketball (boys): Fridkey Totino-Grace [...]
Roadside spectacle: Balloonists survive impact
Basket after thud. Three balloon enthusiasts escaped from the basket after a 30-fiot drop [...]
WSU’s “laptop campus” guru named president
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Winona State University has found a new president in its [...]
Camera: Driver skips school bus stop arm
WINONA, Minn. – Those new cameras on school bus stop arms are working. Ask [...]
Pedestrian “still alive” after SUV hit
WINONA, Minn. – Police called in State Patrol cxperts to reconstruct a collision at [...]
Emergency, fire crews make 57 calls
WINONA, Minn. – The Fire Department reported 41 emergency medical calls plus 16 fire [...]
College scores
Baseball: Johns Hopkins 8, UW-LaCrosse 0
Dirt bike kids rip up Westfield golf course
WINONA, Minn. – Police chased and caught two teenagers, 17 and 15, who had [...]
Garbage trailer ablaze at Miller scrapyard
WINONA, Minn. – Firefighters used an aerial rig to take control of a fire [...]
Judge limits access to details in Fravel murder probe
WINONA, Minn. – The judge in the Adam Fravel murder case put a lid [...]
Garage squatter found? Maybe, maybe not
WINONA, Minn. – Police thought they had found the drug-injecting person shacked up unwanted [...]
New LaCrosse Catholic bishop from Detroit
LACROSSE, Wis. –Catholics in western Wisconsin woke up to two announcements about their ecclesiastic [...]
Winona’s Baby Angel update: Search warrant
Grave marker from 2013. Community donations went toward an angel adorned remembrance at Woodlawn [...]
College scores
Baseball: UW-LaCrosse 5, William Paterson 4
Vehicle flips on loose gavel; four injured
RED WING, Minn. – Four people, including children 12 and 5, were injured when [...]
6-year-old kid OK after auto encounter
WINONA, Minn. – A 6-year-old child suffered minor injuries – thank goodness it wasn’t [...]
Mystery remains in Huff tobacco theft
WINONA, Minn. – A tobacco heist from a Huff Street smoke shop last week [...]
Red Flag alert for wildfire danger
Heed the alert. At playground on U.S. Highway 35 outside the Fountain City fire [...]
Churning a vigorous farewell to Bass Camp
Next port ahoy. The motor vessel William Hank’s captain engages all 4,000 twin-screw horsepower [...]
Cop: Yes, three or four beers can do it
WINONA, Minn. – A Rollingstone driver on whom police smelled alcohol and who admitted [...]
College scores
Baseball: UW-LaCrosse 12, Washington and Jefferson 9 Softball: Central Oklahoma 7, Winona State 2 [...]
Store cops spot magnet-equipped thievery
WINONA, Minn. – Store detectives at the big-box Fleet Farm hardware store, monitoring cameras [...]
If it worked once, why not twice?
WINONA, Minn. – A Minnesota City man was cited for theft – two shoplifting [...]
$13,000 jewelry theft status: Ongoing
WINONA, Minn. – The next step in a home theft of gold jewelrylast week, [...]
Cop takes face blows, cuts in arrest
WINONA, Minn. – Displeased at the prospect of arrest, a Stewartville man punched an [...]
Fire consumes shed, leaps to tinder-dry flora
Lighting the night sky. Shed a total loss. Cause unknown. In 1300 block of [...]
UTV accident claims life near Sparta
SPARTA Wis. – A woman was killed and a man injured when a four-wheel [...]
Cop’s leg messed up in combative arrest
WINONA, Minn. – A police officer was injured attempting to take down a man [...]
College scores
Baseball: Winona State 9, Northern State of South Dakota 7 Baseball: Northern State of [...]
Minnesota prep
Basketball (girls): Alexandria Cardinals 69, Stewartville Tigers 44 Basketball (girls): Goodhue Wildcats 70, Mountain [...]
Pedestrian struck unconscious, badly hurt
WINONA, Minn. – A Winona woman was injured gravely when she was hit by [...]
Hood scoops and Hemis: Going, going, gone
Dealership lineup. These Dodge Charger and Challenger muscle cars, fresh off the assembly line, [...]
Pedestrian hit, injured on Mankato Avenue
WINONA, Minn. – A pedestrian was struck by a car and injured crossing a [...]
Meth left in Winona hotel room: Whose?
WINONA, Minn. – A pouch suspected of holding meth was found in a guest [...]
Commercial shipping resumes on Upper Mississippi
First tug-and-barge array. Parked with its empty barges across from Dick’s Marina at the [...]
Woman hiker reports deviant stranger at Perrot bluff
TREMPEALEAU, Wis. – A woman told rangers at Perrot State Park thar she was [...]
Missing woman’s cause of death elusive
ROCHESTER, Minn. – AN autopsy confirmed that a body found in southeast Rochester two [...]
Bar district assault reported; victim recalls little
WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man was found injured on a sidewalk near the [...]
A confluence of madness
Shamrocks and basketballs. This is the latest seasonal dress-up on Kelly and Mike [...]
Hello, Whitewater: Minnesota bears roaming south
PLAINVIEW, Minn. – Traffic in Carley State Park in the Whitewater River headwaters has [...]
College scores
Baseball: Northern State of South Dakota 11, Winona State 2 Baseball: Winona State 9, [...]
Minnesota prep
Basketball (girls): Rochester Lourdes Eagles 45, New London-Spicer Wildcats 38
Arcadia man arrested, facing extradition
WINONA, Minn. – A Wisconsin fugitive leaped out a bedroom window when Winona police [...]
Woman found dead in Rochester culvert
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Police found a woman’s body deep inside a culvert in southeast [...]
Her blood-alcohol at 0.10%, driver arrested
WINONA, Minn. --- A Wisconsin driver was arrested and charged with drunken driving. Police [...]
R.I.P.: Willard Prigge
LEWISTON, Minn. – Willard “Bill” Reuben Prigge, 85, who lived in the Silo area [...]
Truck parked at hotel burns up, destroyed
Only a hulk remains. The semi-truck rig was engulfed when firefighters arrived at the [...]
College scores
Baseball: Rowan 5, UW-LaCrosse 4 Softball: UW-LaCrosse 9, Salve Regina 1 Softball: Eastern Connecticut [...]
Minnesota prep
Basketball (boys): Lake City Tigers 80, Cannon Falls Bombers 46 Basketball (girls): Rochester Lourdes [...]
Wisconsin prep
Basketball (boys): Mineral Point Pointers 62, LaCrosse Aquinas BluGolds 61
Smoke shop burgled: Loss may be $20,000
WINONA, Minn. – Somebody reportedly stole $15,000 to $20,000 in tobacco products from a [...]
Police now know how Burnsville shooter got guns
Shot-out, boarded-over windows. This is the suburban Burnsvile house from which gunman Shannon Gooden [...]