> When can you expect he concert at the Masterpiece Hall in Winona? Clue

> What’s happened to Bremer bank? Clue

> How many horses were saved fromthe Minnnesota Equestriaan Center fire? How many died? Clue

> Why did President Biden choose Prach and Blossom as names for the Thanksgivingt turkeys from Minnesota that he pardoned? Clue

> What caused the devastating fire at the Minnesota Equestruan Center? Clue

> What is the rationale behind ina ew  federal lawsuit against the Minneestoa law protectug abortiin as a woman’s option? Clue

Lawsuit challenges Minnesota abortion protections

Earlier: Quiz for Winona news hounds /13

Classy address. With her new downtown lounge, Jessica Harvey is steering clear — way clear — of the sports bar exuberance and boisterous racket elsewhere in the Third street bar district. Her classy Lafayette is a quiet, casual-yet-upscale place to relax and enjoy conversation and a drink, she says. No big-screen football. No dart boards. No drunks. A mixologist is on duty afternoons into the evenings. Image: Steve Lunde

WINONA, Minn. — Police have chosen the Two Fathoms micro-brewery and beer parlor for a training session on compliance with liquor laws. Anyone who serves alcohol is invited. The training is free. Reservations required. The session will be December 9 at 2 p.m. in the old freighthouse at 65 East Front Street. The session precedes a new round of surprise compliance checks at licensed alcohol purveyors later in the month. The last compliance checks were in April 2023.

Earlier: One night in Winona: Bar service to minors

Earlier: 10 Winona bars pass compliance check; 6 fail

Event sponsor. State pbhlic safety agency.

PICKWICK, Minn. – A Pickwick woman’s cat-and-mouse saga with police ended with her arrest. Cayla Jean Sandven, 40, was stopped on the main street out of Pickwick and taken into custody. This ended repeated attempts by deputies to arrest Sandven over the past couple weeks on an assault warrant from Willmar. This time her son had asked for a check on whether she was OK. As a deputy was driving to her place in Pickwick, she was backing out of the driveway. The deputy spun around and activated his flashers. Sandven kept driving, albeit slowly as if oblivious to the deputy on her tail. Finally she pulled over on County Road 17 and was arrested. Deputies had been trying since mid-November to deliver the Willmar warrant. They were sure that Sandven was inside but not answering their knocks. Through an intermediary on November 17 she said she would surrender in Wilmar the next day. She didn’t. On November 23 she said she would surrender Monday in Winona. She didn’t.

Living the sovereignty lie

A continuing theme in Sandven’s erratic communications was confusion between a country and a county. Repeatedly she claimed that Winona County lacked any arrest jurisdiction over an assault case 200 miles away in Willmar. Evidently she believed in a myth called the “sovereignty rule,” that fleeing to another county means escaping justice. Such a rule applies between countries. But applied to counties it’s a legally flawed nonsense that lives on and on – a half-baked urban legend in some ill-informed quarters.

Sandven.  She can expect a Civics 101 lecture from the judge about the sovereignty myth.

Her legal woes compounded

Now that Sandven has been jailed in Winona County, she is facing new charges, besides the original Kandiyohi County charge from Willmar. The new charges from her Pickwick arrest

> Fleeing police in a motor vehicle.

> Perilous driving.

> Obstructing the legal process

Earlier: Fugitive: “Ain’t from Winona, cain’t touch me”

Basketball (women): UW-LaCrosse 62, Concordia of Moorhead 58

Football:  Saint John’s 24, UW-LaCrosse 13

Hockey (women): Saint Mary’s 5, Dubuque 3

Basketball (boys): Onalaska Hilltoppers 69, DeForest Huskies 58

UTICA, Minn.  — A driver missed a tricky pair of 90-degree turns on a backroad and ended up in the ditch. Deputies said the driver was unhurt. The accident was south of the railroad tracks where County Road 18 turns into Burt Road. The zig-zag is problematic and perhaps the most dangerous crossroads in the county.

Earlier: Another wreck at notorious Utica junction

DAKOTA, Minn. – Deputies began reviewing video surveillance of a thief who took three signs from Great River Bluffs State Park over the holidayweekend. Why or what for has park rangers scratching their heads. The signs:

> Office closed.

> Parking fee permit required.

> No collecting firewood.

Her trophy buck. Emily Scholl bagged her deer of the season. Off the field she puts down her hunting rifle as a dispatcher with the  sheriff’s office in Alma. Other sheriff’s officers, Sergeant Mitchell Zastrow and Deputy Emily Rebarczyk, also brought deer home during the Wisconsin deer season.

ROLLINGSTONE, Minn. – A landlord who tacked an eviction notice on a tenant’s door found herself in hot water. It turns out that Amanda Jo Lee, age 39, was supposed to be bound by a court restraining order against her hassling the tenant. He had gone to court some time earlier claiming harassment. Both the man and woman had living quarters in same building in the 100 block of Cleveland Street. The man called the sheriff’s office about 4:10 p.m. about the eviction notice, and the woman was arrested.

Lee. She wanted him evicted. He wanted her out of his hair.

TOMAH, Wis. –A Tomah man was arrested and booked for the stabbing of a woman Thanksgiving night at a Tomah address. Armed with a search warrant for Justin T. Novak, 33, police established a perimeter at a house on Kay Street in the afternoon and called in a sharp-shooter team. Novak surrendered. Tentative charges against Nivak included:

> Attempted first-degree homicide.

> Reckless injury.

> Recklessly endangering safety.

> Battery.

> Disorderly conduct.

Additional arrests may be forthcoming, said Police Chief Scott Holum.

Earlier: Stabbing victim dumped at Tomah hospital door

Novak. Held at Monroe County jail in Sparta.

LACRESCENT, Minn. – A $45,000 project has begun to wipe out invasive brambles that have taken over the long-abandoned Stoney Point orchard on La Crescent’s west side. Conservationist Erik Thomsen said that the overgrown hill now is on its way to becoming a hardwood forest of hackberry, hickory, maple, and oak. The city acquired the orchard in the 1950s for hiking trails but failed to maintain grooming. Soon invasive buckthorn, honeysuckle and round-leaf bittersweet squeezed out everything else. Step One to establish a hardware forest began last week with what’s called “forestry mowing” to cut off the weeds and truck away the debris. Next will be hand-cutting and herbicide treatment, then the planting of hardwood seedlings. The new forest of 600 hardwoods will be in place, albeit very young, by the Spring 2026, Thomsen said.  The project was jumpstarted with a $41,000 grant from the state Natural Resources Department.

LaCrescent’s eco-disaster site. After years of neglect, the city finally is getting its act together with reforestation project.

Rogue’s gallery of invasive species

Broad leaf bittersweet vine.

Amur honeysuckle shrub.

Small buckhorn tree.

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RED WING, Minn. – Three people were injured in an automobile collision on Red Wing’s north end near the historic pottery factory. Taken to the Red Wing hospital with sustainable injuries:

> Brady Charles Lorentz, age 20, of Ellsworth, Wisconsin, driving a 2008 Dodge Challenger.

> Kiarra Robbie Revland, 19, of Cannon Falls, his passenger.

> Emory Carl Mullins, 74, of  Bay City, Wisconsin, driving a 2012 Subaru Outback.

The accident was about 1:30 p.m. Police said the Dodge was southbound on Highway 61, and the Subaru Outback northbound. This was at Withers Harbor Drive.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A 28-year-old man was shot fatally in northwest Rochester about 1:10 a.m. First-responders were unable to revive the victim. An arrest was made, police said. Police learned of the shooting in a 911 call frm a who said he had shot an acquaintance who was intruding in his place. The shooting was on residential Manor Woods Drive Northwest.

WINONA, Minn. – Somebody, we probably never will know who, plugged Sean Duffy’s name into the Saint Mary’s entry on the Wikipedia online reference site as a graduate of the university. The Wiki site is edited anonymously by readers. In the revised Saint Mary’s entry, Duffy is ncluded  correctly but spartanly in a list of notable alums: “Former congressman from Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District.” There is no mention that Duffy has been a Washington lobbyist since leaving Congress in 2010. Nor, curiously, does the entry note that he was nominated two weeks ago by President-elect Donald Trump to head the U.S. Transportation Department. Also curiously, Saint Mary’s has never considered Duffy  for Distinguished Alumni honors — even 13 years after he was first elected to Congress. In some respects Duffy is a hot potato. Politically he’s a right-wing extremist. As a Trump cabinet nominee Duffy finds himself in a group chosen by Trump to rid the nation of his critics and to the “destruction of the Deep State.” Trump has promised drastic cuts in federal programs and services and even the total elimination of several cabinet-level agencies.

Earlier: Trump proffers SMU grad for cabinet

Earlier: Duffy: Not seeking Wisconsin governorship

WINONA, Minn. – Somebody messed up the Busy Bee self-service laundry on the West End. Video tape suggested the vandal was Marshawn Devon Leverscon, age, 32, of Winona, police said. He was found and arrested. Police could not ascertain a motive. Glass was broken, mirrors ripped off, plumbing pulled apart, and a fire extinguisher used to spray all around. Police were called to investigate the vandalism about 10:55 p.m. The laundry is in the 450 block West Wabasha Street.

Hockey (women): Saint Mary’s 4, Lake Forest 2

Basketball (boys): Mayer Lutheran Crusaders 63, Planview-Elgin-Millvillle Bulldogs 48

Basketball (girls): Rochester Mayo Spartans 94, St. Louis Park Orioles 27

Hockey (boys): Woodbury East Ridge Raptors 4, Rochester Mayo Spartans 2

> Why the current rush for vasectomies and IUDs from Minnesota healthcare providers? Clue

> How many passenger trains stop daily in Winona? Clue

> What is the alma mater of President-elect Donald Trump for secretary of Transportation? Clue

> Cash-short Viterbo University has laid off faculty and staff again. How many? Clue

> Kwik Trip fueling statins are installing charge stations for two kinds  of e-cars? What are these two hook-up standards? Clue

Earlier: Quiz for Winona news hounds /11

ELLSWORTH, Wis. — Two persons riding a four-wheeler were injured when the vehicle overturned six miles east of Ellsworth. Lonnie Huppert, age 55. and Bret Welty, 27, both of Ellsworth. were taken to the hospital. The accident was about 6:30 p.m. on State Road 72 near 530th Streets.

Cattywampus UTV. Post-sundown rescue was under first-responders’ emergency lights. Image: Pierce County sheriff

WILSON, Minn. – A $25,000 online scam was reported by man who said he had been told that a computer company had misbilled him $250 and was sending him a refund. Moments later, in a second call, the caller said in another mistake that the refund check had just been written for $25,000 and, please, please, would he return overage. He did as instructed and sent $24,759 — only to realize later that the supposed $250 refund was never delivered to his bank in the first place, nor had been the $25,000. The man, who lives on Honey Locust Lane between Wilson and Winona, called the sheriff’s office about 4:50 p.m. It would be a long shot if the scammer wer ever identified or the money returned, a sheriff’s investigator said.