WINONA, Minn. – A Winona County jail inmate was beaten badly by a fellow inmate and rushed to the hospital. Sheriff Ron Ganrude said the injured inmate suffered a one-inch cut on his left ear, bleeding on his left cheek, and a swelled eye. The attack occurred about 4:40 p.m. in an open cell bock where inmates can mingle. Jailers ended the attack by pulling the assailant off the victim. The victim, a 55-year-oLd Winona man, had arrived at the jail the day before on a parole violation. The man said he didn’t know his assailant — not even his name. The victim said he had been standing at a sink when the assailant, who had been pacing between his cell a and the open cell block area, punched him to the floor and kept punching. The victim never lost consciousness. Jailers said the assailant was Nicholas John Deppe, 27, who had been in custody since September 27 for assault and several other serious charges. After the jail assault Deppe was charged with assault and disorderly conduct.

Earlier: Woman: He wielded knife, demanded wallet back

Deppe. Now isolated to cell. New assault charge added to earlier assault charge.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona High School student and a buddy were found in a dark classroom with a vape pen and a bottle of oil. The teacher who found them said the room smelled like marijuana. At the principal’s office, one boy, age 15, admitted that the vape pen was his. Police were called. The boy was cited for possession of a vape pen in school. This was about 2:40 p.m.

WINONA, Minn. – The Fire Department reported 29 emergency medical calls plus 15 fire calls in recent days:

> Tuesday, October 29: 2 medical calls plus 3 fire calls.

> Monday, October 28: 2 medical calls plus no fire calls.

> Sunday, October 27: 3 medical calls plus 2 fire calls.

> Saturday, October 26: 3 medical calls plus 6 fire calls.

> Friday, October 25: 3 medical calls plus 1 fire call.

> Thursday, October 24: 3 medical calls plus 1 fire call.

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

> Tuesday, October 22: 7 medical calls plus 1 fire call.

Earlier: Emergency, fire crews make 46 calls

ROCHESTER, Minn. – An Elgin trucker was injured when his Peterbilt truck and trailer tipped over on its side in a ditch. Adam Mark Schroeder, 42, was taken to a Rochester hospital with sustainable injuries. The accident was about 7:10 a.m. at the Highway U.S. 63 ramp onto U.S. Highway 52 north of Rochester.

WINONA, Minn. – A mother who reportedly chased her 15-year-old son around their apartment and who, when he barricaded himself in a bedroom, pounded on door and stabbed a knife into the door five times. Police found the woman nearby, sitting on the sidewalk and smoking a cigarette. Christina Ann Pacheco, 42, admitted to the situation, police said.  She was booked for domestic assault and terroristic threats. The boy was unhurt, police said. This was about 2:50 a.m. in the 450 block of West Sanborn Street. This, according to the boy, was what happened

> The mother came home drunk from a bar. An argument ensued.

> To separate himself, the boy ran to his bedroom and closed the door.

> The mother tried to enter, but the boy pressed himself against the bedroom door to keep her out.

> She retreated to the kitchen, where the boy, through his bedroom door, could hear her rustling through silverware.

> She returned to the boy’s door with a steak knife.

> The boy kept pushing against his bedroom door to keep it closed.

> The mother again pounded at the door and stabbed  the knife into the wood.

> The mother slammed her way out of the apartment.

Police found the steak knife embedded in the son’s door. There was other damage to the door too, police ad. The boy was picked by relatives for at least the rest of the night. He told police that he and his mother generally had a god relationship but sometimes argued.

Pacheco. In jail on charge of terrorizing.

ROCHESTER, Minn. – The State Patrol logged 71 motorcycle accidents in its 11-county southeast Minnesota district this season. Sergeant Troy Christianson, who tracks such thigs, said there 62 accidents jn the corresponding period a year earlier. He said that 80% of motorcycle crashes in Minnesota involve a single bike.

 LYNXILLE, Wis. — A mother and her two teenage sons were pronounced dead after a head-on collision with a semi-trailer rig on State Highway 35. The victims, in a sport utility van:

> Heather Kramer, 45, in the front passenger seat. She succumbed at a hospital.

> Benjamin Kramer, 16, the driver. He died apparently on impact.

> Simon Kramer, 13, in the backseat. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Crawford County Sheriff Dale McCullick said the Kramer vehicle crossed the centerline, colliding head-on with the northbound semi. This was about 11:36 p.m. just north of Lynxvlle. The truck driver, Jaswant Hahi, 44, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, was unhurt. It was believed that the Kramers were heading home to Eastman, about eight miles away. A seven-mile stretch if Highway 35, the main route along the Mississippi River on the Wisconsin side, was closed seven hours between Lynxville and State Highway 171.

Mother. A nurse with a Prairie du Chien midwifery clinic.

Soccer (women): UW-LaCrosse 6, Concordia of Mequon 2

WINONA, Minn. – Two sheriff’s deputies were convinced during a traffic stop that a Winona driver was high on drugs and took her to jail. Blood was drawn from Nicki Renae Hennessy, 37, and sent for analysis to the state crime lab. Meanwhile, an impaired driving charge was pending. The deputies said they observed erratic driving on Highway 61 near the Black Horse tavern about 7:20 p.m. and made the stop at Parks Avenue. Hennessy’s speech was slow and awkward, as was her balance and dexterity, the deputies said.

MANKATO, Minn. – A Winona man in a romantic relationship with Maddi Kingsbury in early 2023, Spencer Sullivan, testified that they celebrated his birthday the day before she went missing. The last he heard from her was a good-night text message, Sullivan said. Kingsbury went missing the following day. Weeks later she was found slain in a culvert on a forest trail 40 miles away. Sullivan’s account of his relationship with Kingsbury came in the third week of the murder trial of Adam Fravel, who had been Kingsbury’s live-in companion for seven years. Sullivan, whom police cleared early as a suspect, said he was aware that Kingsbury and Fravel had had been together for seven years and had two children. Sullivan also said he was aware to that Maddi’s relationship with Fravel was breaking up.

Acquaintances from college

Sullivan’s testimony began with a recitation of his background. He joined the Army in 2009 and deployed to Afghanistan and Kuwait. After 12 years in the Army, he studied computer science at Winona State University. He met Maddi Kingsbury on campus but, he said, they never hung out.

Connecting in 2021

Sullivan testified that he encountered Kingsbury again in December 2021 through a dating app but she stopped talking to him within a couple weeks.  She wanted to work on her relationship with Fravel, Sullivan said. But by the summer of 2022, they resumed on Instagram. In the early fall Sullivan said he saw Kingsbury in-person once again but they didn’t talk much. Later, he said, they started doing things together — “grabbing a coffee” or “taking a walk around the lake.” Their conversations included Kingsbury’s accounts of trying to patch up her relationship with Fravel, Sullivan said. By the end of 2022, Kingsbury had ended things with Fravel, he said. Sullivan admitted that he felt both sorry for her and excited about exploring a relationship. Yes, he said, he was falling in love. Not long thereafter, as Fravel and Maddi were ending things, he and Maddi became more romantically involved, he said.

The disappearance

On March 31, Sullivan said. Maddi’s friend Katie Kolka texted to ask if he had heard from Maddi. He had not, he said. Once Kingsbury was declared missing, Sullivan said police asked him for tissue samples, including a cheek swab. He cooperated, he said. He also joined several massive citizen searches for Kingsbury over a tri-county area.

Earlier: Fravel trial /33: Judge disallows Maddi diary

Sullivan. A web developer in Winona. In dating relationship with Maddi Kingsbury. Grew up in the south Twin Cities suburb of Rosemount. A Winona State University graduate. Birth name: Spence F. Sullivan. Age 34.

Another perfect fall day. In the 70s at the 100-acre Amundson Falls Park at the Perch lake outlet. Image: Andy Frank

Volleyball (girls): Goodhue Wildcats 3, Spring Grove Lions 2

Volleyball (girls): Harmony Fillmore Central Falcons 3, Alden-Conger Knights 2

Volleyball (girls): Mabel-Canton Cougars 3, Grand Meadow Superlarks 0

WINONA, Minn. – A homeowner is stymied — police too — why someone pulled siding off an outside wall of his house and punched a hole through the wall. The homeowner had heory for police: A thief may have wanted to steal a computer router and wi-fi unit through the hole. This was on Lenox Street on the Far West End, across the Canadian Pacific tracks from the Madison Silo gravel pit. The damage was repotted to police about 3 p.m.

WINONA, Minn. – Police began hunting for a truck with a semi-trailer that turned wide and scraped a car at Main and Sarnia streets. The truck driver kept on going. It’s possible, police said, that the driver was unaware of what happened. There were no injuries. The incident was about 12:15. p.m.

MANKATO, Minn. – The judge rejected Maddi Kingsbury’s diary as evidence in the trial of Adam Favel, her live-in companion and the father of their children, who is accused of her murder. Judge Nancy Buytendorp sided with an argument that the diary was irrelevant. The diary also had been challenged as perhaps not even being Kingsbury’s – even though it was found in her bedroom and contained several pages written to her pre-school daughter, apparently intended to be read some years int the future. Doubts were cast about whether the diary legally was hearsay. Anoter argument was that the diary had nil value for ourposes of the of the trial. In the diary, according to sources, Kingsbury talked about her relationship with Fravel and expressed jealousy of couples in loving relationships. The diary, according to one side, offered “a full picture of Kingsbury and who she was.” The debate over the diary, called Evidence Z. took 45 minutes. The debate mirrored motions last week over search histories on Kingsbury’s phone to pornographic sites. Judge Buytendrop allowed the phone histories into evidence for the jury to consider.

Earlier: Fravel trial /32: Kingburys testimony due next