Basketball (boys): Lake City Tigers 61, Winona Cotter Ramblers 58

Basketball (girls): Dover-Eyoya Eagles 50, Lake City Tigers 31

Basketball (girls): Pine Island Panthers 61, Galesville Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Red Hawks 17

Basketball (girls): Houston Hurricanes 85, Randolph Rockets 46

Basketball (girls): Pine Island Panthers 61, Galesville Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Red Hawks 17

DRESBACH, Minn. – A Dresbach man was arrested inside a house on Oak Hill Lane, where police found his girlfriend beaten and the house in shambles. Arrested was Tyler James Schmitz, 36, who lives in the 26000 block. The girlfriend suffered bruises and scrapes but didn’t want n=medical attention, deputies said. The woman, age 30, said she had been grabbed,  thrown to the floor, and held down. She said she found it hard to breathe. This was about 8 p.m. Deputies said the house was a mess with furniture overturned. In the kitchen an oven had been torn off and a center island dislodged.

Schmitz. Arrested in the house without resistance.

Singing and dancing. Plus hot latkes, donuts and apple cider kept everyone warm. It was a time of community friendship and peace, where all were welcomed. Spinning dreidels, lit-up menorah necklaces, and other items were part of the Chanukah table giveaways. Image: Andy Frank

NEW LISBON, Wis.  – Acting on a tip, police found three people dead in a New Lisbon house. This was about 4:30 p.n.  New Lisbon, population 1.700, is off combined Interstate 90 and 94  between LaCrosse and Madison,

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota County Attorneys Association announced that Winona County’s attorney, Karin Sonneman, has been elected the organization’s president. The association membership includes 87 elected county attorneys and 800 assistants. Her responsibilities include lobbying legislators. Sonneman, age 67, was elected in 2010 as Winona county’s first female county attorney. She gained wide attention for the 2024 murder conviction of Adam Fravel. Her reputation also includes treatment court, re-entry and diversion reforms.

Sonneman. Holds an economics degree from the University of Minnesota and a law degree from  Mitchell-Hamline.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man slumped over his steering wheel at the pumps at an East End convenience store was arrested and booked for suspected drug impairment. Police said that Derek Adam Larue, 42, admitted to meth. A Kwik Trip clerk hd called police about 1:30 p.m. Officers said they found Larue passed out and his car running. Once rousted, he didn’t look good. Police cited rapid eye movement, the eyes bloodshot, his muscles rigid, his speech at an unusually fast gait. He failed on-scene tests for balance and dexterity, police said. At jail the officers drew blood and sent a sample to the state crime lab to determine what was in his system.

Larue. Car running at gas pumps but not responding.

Half-staff for 30 days. As suggested by President Biden and Governor Tim Walz. The body of Jimmy Carter will be at the Capitol rotunda in Washington for people to pay their respects beginning Tuesday. A state funeral will be January 9 at the Washington National Cathedral. Image: Steve Lunde

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PRESTON, Minn. — The woman who rear-ended an Amish buggy and injured three children and then drove off has been sentenced. Brittany Nicole Edgar, 33. ordered to 30 days in the Fillmore Cointy jail. She was told, also, to pay $20,600 in restitution to the Amish family — $13,600 for the carriage and $7,000 for the horse that  was injureed and no longer can draw a buggy. Edgar also was placed hree years of supervised probation. The senyennce was passwd down by Fillmore County Judge Jeremy Clinefelter. Edgar had pleaded guilty in November to criminal vehicular operation. Originally she faced six criminal charges but five were dropped in plea-bargaining. The hit-and-run accident hurt a man, woman, and seven children in the buggy. A 12-year-old suffered a concussion, a 3-year-old a broken arm, and a 1-year-old a skull fracture.

Remorse

Edgar told the judge: “From the bottom of my heart, I’m so sorry for what I did,” She said she had gone to the home of the Amish family and expressed regret. Judge Clinefelter commnded her for “the nice things.” The judge noted, however, that Edgar faces a raft of new charges last week involving drunken driving, faking a urine sample for alcohol testing,  and defying police. Such behavior, he said. “needs to change.”

NOTE: This case is unrelated to a separate Amish buggy accident in September near Spring Valley with two fatalities and charges against twin sisters

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Edgar. Has lived in Spring Valley. Investigators found  her damaged car at her house. She since moved two counties sway to Kasson.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Governor Tim Walz ordered flags to half-staff to honor of former President Jimmy Carter. Said Walz: “President Carter defined what it means to be a servant leader. He fought for our democracy, our climate, humanity, and civil rights around the world.” The flags will behalf-staff for 30 days. Among other tributes and recollections:

> Governor Tony Evers of Wisconsin. He ordered flags to half-staff. He called Carter a committed and dedicated advocate for peace, human rights, and treating others with dignity, decency, and respect—qualities that earned him respect and admiration across our country and around the world.”

 > Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. She remembered meeting Carter and watching him teach Sunday school in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. “We prayed together at Maranatha Baptist Church, and we shared pimento cheese sandwiches.” Klobuchar called his faith profound.

Earlier: When an unknown Jimmy Carter stumped in Winona

WINONA, Minn. – Fog was forecast to continue to obscure visibility in southeast Minnesota through Monday. For several days the fog has hidden blufftops, occasionally creeping also to lower elevations and reducing visibility sometimes.to a quarter mile or less. This bodes not well for commuters starting their work week. Forecasters said temperatures will drop as the week progresses and clear the fog.

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Basketball (men): UW-LaCrosse 70, Hamline 52

Basketball (women): McMurray 64, Saint Mary’s 50

Basketball (women): UW-LaCrosse 74, Mary Washington 43

Basketball (boys): Rochester Century Panthers 69, Armstrong Falcons 60

Basketball (girls): Grand Meadow Superlarks 57, Hayfield/Rochester Schaeffer 56

Hockey (boys): Rochester Century/Rochester Marshall 7, Kasson Dodge County Wildcats 2

ST. PAIL, Minn. – A Wisconsin teenage died, apparently instantly, when a car and a pickup collided head-on on a street that follows the Mississippi shoreline. Killed was Dylan James Severson, 18. He was driving the sedan, police said. A woman in the car was injured and taken to Regions Hospital. The driver of the pickup truck had life-threatening injuries and also went to the same hospital. His condition was describes first as critical but later stabilized, The accident was in he700 block of Shepard Road about 2:30 a.m. Police were unsure what happened pending a study to reconstruct the accident.

Severson. Recent Cochrane-Fountain City High School graduate.

WINONA, Minn. – A homeless man who sleeps in his car chose the wrong place to park. An oficer recognized the car of Anthony Martin Arreola, 37, parked near Fifth and South Baker streets. It so happened that te car was within 300 feet of an address from which Arreola was barred by from approaching. He was charged with violating a court protection order.

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Arreola. Police have come to recognize his car.

FARIBAULT, Minn. – A man riding a farm tractor survived a collision with a car north of Faribault, but the driver of the car was killed. The State Patrol identified the driver as Laura Jean Daily, 48, of Faribault. The accident was about 5 p.m. on State Highway 3. She was northbound in a 2015 Chevrolet Traverse, the tractor southbound and making a left turn, the Patrol said. The car went into the ditch and rolled onto one side. A passenger in the car, Brianna Ashlynn Daily, 30, of Faribault, was taken 10 miles to the Northfield hospital with less than life-threatening injuries. On the 2024 John Deer tractor was Myron John Reuvers, 64, of Faribault. He was unhurt.

NOTE: This article has been updated to include the name of the victim and to correct the direction the vehicles were traveling.

Basketball (women): Hardin-Simmons 83, Saint Mary’s 53

Basketball (women): UW-LaCrosse 76, Guilford 74

WINONA, Minn. – A former employee at Northland Breaks, a trading card shop, walked off with $1,000 in cards, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint lays out this scenario: The former employee, Ike Allen Erdmanczyk, 19, of Winona, had dropped by to chat with a current employee. While the current employee excused himself momentarily, Erdmanczyk left with 20 cartins of cards. Police got a call about 8:20 p.m. Confronted, Erdmanczyk admjtted the theft, police said. Why did he do it? Policc quoted Erdmanczyk that he was pissed off at his former boss.

Erdmanczyk. Booked for theft.

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Two bystanders rescued a man who fell through the ice at the pond at Foster Arend’s Park off the Zumbro River on he northeast side. The man was wet and cold but otherwise OIK. The incident was about 3 p.m.