WINONA, Minn. — February frigidity won’t let go. The National Weather Service forecast highs Thursday in the single digits below zero — yes, below zero. With winds, some chill factors could be as wicked as minus-35. Cloud cover was expected after midnight with snow Friday and Friday night, perhaps three inches although more likely one to two. Bitter cold returns Sunday and Sunday night with some areas dropping to 20 below.

Basketball (men): Augsburg 95, Saint Mary’s 64

Basketball (men): UW-LaCrosse 70, UW-Whitewater 56

Basketball (men): Rochester Community 90, Ridgewater 79

Basketball (women): Saint Mary’s 79, Augsburg 58

Hockey (boys): Albert Lea Tigers 4, LaCrescent-Hokah Lancers 1

LACROSSE, Wis. – A motorist slammed into another car, the impact catapulting the second car onto its side and then itself crashing into a North Side house. Police said that the occupant of one car required hospitalization but that the injuries weren’t life-threatening. An occupant of the house was shaken but unhurt, police said. The accident was about 1:30 p.m. near LaCrosse and Ninth Street.

DRESBACH, Minn. – Separate car crashes blocked Interstate 90 near the Wisconsin border. One crash stopped westbound traffic entering Minnesota. This was in the spaghetti interchange near Lock and Dam 7. The other crash, near Dakota, stopped eastbound traffic heading into Wisconsin between Exit 270 and Exit 272. An ambulance was called, but the regional State Patrol headquarters in Rochester didn’t log injury details. The first accident was about 12:55 p.m., the other a few minutes later.

ROCHESTER, Minn. – The Rochester Police Department  confirmed that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were massing in Rochester. This almost surely means that mass raids were in final stages. to round up Latinos in southeast Minnesota or northern Iowa for deportation. Rochester police are neither participating nor enabling any ICE initiative, the department emphasized.

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In a major raid on Postville, Iowa, in 2008, masked ICE agents in black vehicles swarmed a meat-packing plant unannounced after dark. By design, their storm-trooper tactics instilled panic to facilitate arrests. Many arrests were at private homes. In all 400 people were cuffed and taken away. The terrorist tactics were widely condemned by civil rights organizations. Roughly 100 pf the egainees later were found to have been wrongly arrested. Many such raids under the new Trump presidency, like the Postville raid, have been without search warrants. The single commonality of  Trump raids has been the brown skin of detainees, not evidence of violating criminal law.

WINONA, Minn. – The Fire Department reported 46 emergency medical calls plus 24 fire calls in recent days:

> Tuesday, February 11: 4 medical calls plus 3 fire call.

> Monday, February10: 3 medical calls plus 10 fire call.

> Sunday, February 9: 7 medical calls plus no fire calls.

> Saturday, February 8: 3 medical calls plus 2 fire calls.

> Friday, February 7: 5 medical calls plus 3 fire calls.

> Thursday, February 6: 12 medical calls plus 3 fire calls.

> Wednesday, February 5: 6 medical call plus 1 fire call.

> Tuesday, February 4: 6 medical call plus 4 fire call.

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ZUMBROTA, Minn. – A driver crashed into a Zumbrota residence about 2:30 a.m. and then left the scene. No one was injured. Police began checking doorbell and surveillance cameras around Mill and West Fifth streets for clues to the driver.

WINONA, Minn. – Fire destroyed a detached  residential garage in which two collector cars were stored. This was in the 24000 block of East Burns Valley Road about 1:40 a.m. No one was injured. Fire crews from Wilson and Ridgeway were called, as was a water tank truck from Winona. The burned-out hulks of the cars appeared to a Jeep and a Corvette. Tentatively a wood stove toward the rear of the garage was blamed.

Damage mostly inside. At dawn the outward evidence was broken-out windows and scorched metal. Image: Amdy Frank 

Softball: Winona State 3, Grand View of Iowa 1

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man told police that a woman-friend assaulted him at the Lake Winona fishing pier behind the hospital after he refused to give her money for drugs. Based on the man’s account and his obvious injuries, police arrested Breanna Rose Burt, 39, of Winona. She was booked for domestic c assault. As police reconstructed what happened, the assault was preceded by an argument at a residence in the 550 block of Hamilton Street. The woman wanted money to buy drugs, and the man  wouldn’t give her any. The woman was ordered out of the house. Later the man, age 60, left to pick her up — where isn’t clear —  and he drove them to the fishing pier. In the car, according to the man’s account, the woman swung at him. He caught the swing, at which point she she flung a plastic cup of soda into his face. As he swiped the soda off, she clenched a fist and punched him in the face. He called the cops. This was about 6:30 p.m.

Burt. Charged with assaulting man-friend in desperation for drug money.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona driver was taken to the hospital, dizzy and complaining of chest pain, after a two-vehicle collision at Broadway and Lafayette streets on the East Side. The injuries to Herman Barrios-Sandoval, 30, were not life-threatening, police said. The other driver, Mark Wayne Nelson, 65, of LaCrosse, was not hurt. The crash was about 6:20 p.m. Barrios-Sandoval was cited for failure to yield.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona driver was cited for failure to yield after a three-car pile-up at Mark and Grand streets on the West Side. One driver was taken to the hospital with sustainable injuries. Cited was Judith Arlene Dickson, 76. Police said Dickson admitted to slowing but not stopping at the intersection. Dickson’s 2005 Dodge Caravan hit a 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe, which then struck a 2024 Audi. This was about 2:50 p.m.

STOCKTON, Minn. – A motorist told deputies he was verbally attacked by a semi-truck driver after a traffic incident at the gas station corner in Stockton. The motorist said he was at a stop sign when the truck driver turned wide off U.S. Highway 14. The motorist said he backed up to give girth to the truck, but the driver gestured and shouted at him and then climbed down from the cab and, yelling, called him stupid and dumb. The motorist said he was frightened and drove away. Deputies began a search for the truck driver for his side of the story.

WINONA, Minn. – A semi-truck hit two parked cars on Mankato Avenue overnight and kept on moving, police said. The damage was discovered at dawn.  Police began a search for surveillance video on the Far East End to identify the truck. There was no doubt, police said, that it was a semi. This was in the 400 block near the Washington-Kosciusko school..

ZUMBROTA, Minn. — Zumbrota Police confirmed they know who crashed a car into a Zumbrota home and fled the scene. Charges were being drafted against the 25-year-old man from rural Mazeppa, police said. He was in custody and had signed a cknfession, police said.

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WINONA, Minn. – Morning will feel like minus-15 degrees, maybe minus-25. The National Weather Service projected winds from the north will send wind chills into a danger zone from 7 to 9 a.m. both Monday and Tuesday.  Highs could reach plus-10 in actual temperatures Monday afternoon, perhaps with light snow.