WABASHA, Minn. – The Army Corps invited citizens to a meeting Tuesday for updates on Mississippi river projects stretching 80 miles from Red Wing to Dresbach. Time: 5:30 to 7;30 p.m. at the Wabasha Kellogg High School. Locals in Wabasha have a rocky history with the Corps, although most issues have been resolved through discussion and negotiation. On the new meeting agenda: Lock and dam operations and upcoming projects, dredged materials management, shoreline management and other environmental activities, recreation activities, environmental engineering and flood risk reduction, and water management activities in backwaters behind dams at Alma, Minneiska, Fountain City, Trempealeau and Dresbach.

Earlier: Wabasha city-Army Corps muck deal working

Baseball: St. Cloud State 5, Winona State 4

Baseball: Winona State 17, St. Cloud State 13

Softball: Rochester Community and Riverland Community, cancelled (doubleheader)

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended a Milwaukee judge who has been accused by the FBI of abetting the escape of an alien immigrant. The Court said Judge Hannah Dugan had undermined public confidence in the Wisconsin judiciary. According to the FBI, Dugan headed off federal agents who wanted access to her courtroom to arrest an immigrant whose state-level case she was hearing. After holding the agents at bay outside her courtroom, Judge Dugan went back inside and told the immigrant how to escape through a back door, according to the FBI agents. Judge Dugan’s arrest by federal agents, on Friday, several days after the confrontation, became a cause célèbre in escalating tension over aggressive anti-immigrant Trump policies that interfere with judiciary proceedings. Nobody complained formally to the state Supreme Court about Judge Dugan. The Court acted on its own prerogative without hearing any defense from Dugan – an unusual procedure. The Court split 4-3.

Earlier: Arrested Milwaukee judge is cast as Trump victim

Earlier: Thousands take to street backing Milwaukee judge

Earlier: Fellow judge on Dugan arrest: Trump bullying

Earlier: Wisconsin judge arrested for thwarting federal agents

EAGAN, Minn. – Four-term Minnesota Congress member Angie Craig declared her candidacy to succeed Tina Smith in the U.S. Senate. Smith is retiring. Craig, age 53, said her candidacy means she is giving up the possibility of a fifth term in the House. Craig’s Senate intentions put her in a three-way race for the Democratic nomination against Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan and former state Senate Minority Leader Melisa López-Franzen. A theme in Craig’s script: “Fight.” She played up personal grit:

Image: Steve Lunde

Max Conrad Field bears the name of the legendary Winona-born aviator. The aerodrome’s greeting heralds from atop the main hangar. The aerodrome has about 10,000 take-offs and landings a year. The greeting is marred somewhat confusingly by the battered silhouette of the name of a historic Florida manufacturer of light airplanes. Piper has had good and bad times. Since 2009 Piper has struggled toward revival under the ownership of the southeast Asia sultanate of Brunei.

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Human remains found south of St. Cloud have been identified as those of a Wisconsin woman who disappeared eight years ago. The woman, Shannah Boiteau, 23 at the time, was from Chippewa Falls – 160 miles away. A witness at the time told police of seeing Boiteau running from a car. That was in June 2016 on Stearns County Road 74 just off the Interstate 94 exit to St. Cloud and Kimball. The car was driven by Boiteau’s boyfriend, investigators said. There was never an arrest. The bones were found three days ago by a property owner. It has taken since then for the regional medical examiner to confirm the identity. Investigators have been tight-lipped about the case, It is believed, however, that Boiteau may have been fleeing Wisconsin to avoid a probation violation arrest.

WINONA, Minn. – Police have exhausted their immediate leads for the second man in a brutal beating April 17 at Lake Park. The next step, a police spokesperson said, has been search warrants to social media companies, including Snapchat, Gmail and Discord, for communications that could be useful. It usually takes one to four weeks for these companied to comply with search warrants. Meanwhile, the investigation is at a standstill. No further black garb or masks or weapons have been located, the police spokesperson said.  The man arrested the night of the assault, Elias Thang Workman, 19, of Winona, has retained an attorney and has refused to help, the spokesperson said. Workman has posted bail and been released. The charges against him include assault with a deadly weapon and false imprisonment.

Earlier: Manhunt in fifth day for Lake Park beating

Earlier: Police hunt scond man in Lake Park attack

Earlier: Thugs hog-tie man at park, pound with him with pipe

WINONA, Minn. – The Fire Department reported  24 emergency medical calls plus 10 fire calls in recent days:

> Monday, April 28: 4 medical calls plus 1 fire cals.

> Sunday, April 27: 1 medical calls plus no fire calls.

> Saturday, April 26: 5 medical calls plus 4  fire calls.

> Friday, April 25: 5 medical call plus 2 fire calls.

> Thursday, April 24: 3 medical calls plus 2 fire calls.

> Wednesday, April 23: 6 medical calls plus 1 fire call.

Earlier: Emergency, fire crews make 47 calls

WINONA, Minn. – Police found a woman standing outside a damaged car after it had sideswiped a parked vehicle on the Near West Sude.  The woman told police that she had been a passenger in the moving car. After impact, she said, the driver got out and ran away. This was about 1:40 a.m. in the 450 block of Wilson Street. Police went to the driver’s home, saw a light inside, and knocked. No one answered. There will be a follow-up, police said. There were no injuries. Damage to both cars was moderate.

American Heritage.  The 150-passenger river cruise b-vessel has loads of trimmings of yore — gingerbread trim, twin steam stacks and, yes, a paddle wheel. Truth be told, the paddlewheel is for looks only. American Heritage was built in 2015 and has latter-day diesel power. Even so, the 19th century touches evoke vintage charm – what the cruise line calls “a paddle aesthetic.”

Tourism agency updates 2025 dockings

WINONA, Minn. – A paddlewheel riverboat has been added to American Cruise Lines’ 2025 ports of call on the Upper Mississippi. The American Heritage will dock September 11 in Winona alongside the company’s contemporary-styled and sleek American Serenade. The visit will be the paddlewheeler’s only Winona visit this year. Normally the vessel tours up the Ohio River. Here is the entire 2025 Winona schedule, 13 boats in 12 dates, as revised and confirmed by the tourism agency VisitWinona:

> June 11-12 (Wednesday): 1 p.m. to 8:00 a,m.:  American Melody.

> July 2-3 (Wednesday): 1 p.m.to 8 a.m.: American Serenade.

> July 17 (Thursday,): 1 p.m. to 6: American Serenade.

> July 31 (Thursday): 1 p.m. to 6: American Serenade.

> August 14 (Thursday): 1 p.m. to 6: American Serenade.

> August 28 (Thursday): 1 p.m. to 6: American Serenade.

> September 4 (Thursday: 1 p.m. to 6: American Melody.

> September 11 (Thursday): 1 p.m. to 6:  American Heritage and American Serenade.

> September 18 (Thursday): 1 p.m. to 6: American Melody.

> September 25 (Thursday): 1 p.m. to 6: American Serenade.

B October 2 (Thursday): 1 p.m. to 6: American Melody.

> October 16 (Thursday): 1 p.m.to 6: American Melody.

Earlier: Paring down the Mississippi cruise fleet

WINONA, Minn. – A woman drove a mile to the police station to complain she was spooked by another driver who had been tail-gating her. Police found Samantha Ann Bundy, 43, in the trailing vehicle right there in the police station parking lot. In the vehicle, officers said, were 600 milligrams of cannabis-infused candy, multiple bottles of prescription drugs, and a baggy with a green leafy substance. As for Bundy herself, officers said her pupils were constricted, her eyelids wide open, and her body movements rigid and odd. Sobriety exercises also suggested Bundy was high. This was about 7:15 p.m. Bundy was booked for suspicion of drunken driving. Charges will depend on a blood draw that has been sent to the state crime lab for analysis. The driver of the other car said Bundy almost ran her off the road near the Gundersen clinic off U.S. Highway 61 and then began tailing her. Bundy countered to police that the other driver triggered the road rage. The women didn’t know each other, police said.

Cannabis ropes. Nerds brand THC-infused medicated rope bites. $2 to $3 a rope.

CALEDONIA, Minn. — A Caledonia driver, Adrian Christophe Pedrin, 34, was injured un a two-vehicle collision and taken 22 miles to a LaCrosse hospital. His injuries appeared sustainable, police said. The other driver, Harold William Fruechte. 78, of Naperville, Illinois, didn’t require medical attention. The crash was about 10:55 a.m. at the State Highway 76 and State Highway 44 “Y” on the Caledonia north side. Pedrin was in a 2018 Mazda CX9, Fruechte in a 1998 Chrysler Sebring.

HAYFIELD, Minn. – A truck with a semi-trailer hauling 170 hogs to market overturned on State Highway 56 1about 10 miles south of Dodge Center. Injured so badly they needed to be euthanized were 43 animals. The carcasses were loaded on a roll-off dumpster. The driver was uninjured. The surviving hogs were transferred to another trailer to continue their trip. Yhis was about 4:25 p.m. near the 680th Street intersection. About eight gallons of diesel fuel was lost and needed cleaned up. State troopers closed both lanes to clear debris. The trailer was operated by Masching Transport of Hayfield for Sleepy Eye-based Schwarts Farms.

STILLWATER, Minn. – The man who murdered the Winona mother of his two children in 2023, Adam Favel, has been transferred to the Stillwater state prison at nearby Oak Park Heights, the state Corrections Department confirmed. This likely is where Adams, now 41 years old, will die. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in December. The Stillwater prison has 1,200 inmates. The prison has state’s highest level of security. Visitors are allowed, although not in groups larger than four and only for one hour. Physical contact is limited to a hug and a handshake. Originally Fravel was assigned to the St. Cloud prison, which is routine to acclimate inmates to rules and regimens in the state orisons.

Earlier: Fravel has new cell in state prison system

Earlirr: Judge: Life sentence to Fravel for murder

Across river from Red Wing. This spring’s primary Flood Run sponsor was Harbor Bar on the Mississippi main channel on the Wisconsin side at Hager City.

Now a twice-annual fund-raising congregation

RED WING, Minn. — Hundreds of bikers revved their way up and down the Mississippi River on both sides in the ritual spring Flood Run. It was a three-day event. also with a branch route up the St. Croix. The Run dates to 1965 when bikers from the Twin Cities  arrived in convoy after convoy to help rescue Winona from a devastating flood. They’ ve been making the circuit ever since with lots of convivial mass stops at taverns along the way. In recent years the event has become a fund-raiser for Gillette Children’s Hospital in St. Paul. Ten-dollar wristbands have generated $350,000 the past seven years. The event’s chief 2025 sponsor, the Harbor Bar, conducted a finale drawing for – you guessed it – a motorcycle.

End points: Twin Cities and bridges at Winona and Hudson.

Earlier: Almanac: Winona’s 1965 flood to remember

WEST ALBANY, Minn. – A Wilmar motorcyclist lost control into a guardrail and was injured on Highway 60 between Wabasha and Zumbro Falls. Troy Roger Rutz. 56, was taken 34 miles to a Rochester hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The accident was about 4:30 p.m. near the County Road 13 intersection. Rutz was alone on the 2007 Harley Davidson. Wabasha County deputies said the injuries could have been worse were it not that Rutz was wearing a helmet.