Dropping a hook. For perhaps the last time this season from the Lake Winona fishing on Huff Stret. The fall afternoon was lovely with thermometers dancing into the  70s Image: Steve Lunde

GLENVILLE, Minn.  – A St. Charles man was injured when his motorcycle left U.S. Highway 62 on Glenville’s North Side near the Canadian Pacific rail  crossing. Robert Allen Markwardt, 6o, was treated seven miles away at the Albert Lea hospital for sustainable injuries. Alcohol was involved, police said. The accident was about 5:20 p.m. Neither Markwardt nor a passenger, Monica Jean Fairchild, 6o, of Lyle, was wearing a helmet, police said. They were on a 2007 Harley Davidson heading south into Glenville.

LANESBORO, Minn.  – The driver of a pickup truck was hurt in a collision and taken 42 miles to a Rochester hospital. Injuries to Theresa Marie Doerr, 26, of Preston, appeared sustainable, police said.  The collision was about 4:25 p.m. on Highway 250 through Lanesboro at Elmwood Street. Police said Doerr was southbound in a 2013 Chevy Silverado. The other driver, Ann Marie Aney, 47, of Rochester, in a 2015 Ford Expedition, was unhurt. Aney was heading west on Elmwood, police said.

DUMFRIES, Minn.  – An injured motorcyclist was airlifted 36 miles to a Rochester hospital from a wreck west of Wabasha along Trout Creek near Dumfries. It was believed that injuries to Goutham Balu Narayanan, 32, of Naperville, Illinois, were sustainable. Narayanan was eastbound on a 2004 Yamaha toward Wabasha. This was on State Highway 60 at County Road about 3:30 p.m.

PILOT MOUND, Minn.  – A motorcyclist out for a fall run was injured when he lost control and crashed near Pilot Mound in northern Fillmore County. Matthew Richard Keefe, 73, of Dover, was airlifted 32 miles to a Rochester hospital. His injuries, said police, appeared to be non-life threatening. Keefe was riding a 2001 Yamaha westward on U.S. Highway 30 between Rushford and Chatfield. The crash was about 2:10 p.m. Keefe was solo on the bike and wearing a helmet, police said.

LACROSSE, Wis. – Thanks to a squirrel, the southside of LaCrosse was without powe  6-1/2 hours. The utility company Xcel confirmed that 11,5000 customers were affected, some as far south as Stoddard. A squirrel shorted out a substation, Xcel said. This was about 815 a.m. The squirrel did not survive

ALTOONA, Wis.  – A rural driver cashed into a power pole, downing several trees and starting a grass fire. John Bauer, age 76, who has an Eau Claire address, was taken to a hospital. He also was charged with drunken driving. The accident was about 1:50 p.m. in the 10000 block of County Highway Q east of Altoona. Bauer was alone in the vehicle. Crews brought the fire under control and restored power. Police said Bauer was westbound in a oickup truck and failed to negotiate curve. The vehicle crossed the centerline, went through the oncoming lane, entered the ditch, and rolled.

Not a spared body panel. Driver expected to survive. Through the brush you see red firefighting equipment whose crew caught the grass fire early. Image: Eau Claire County sheriff

WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested a Minnesota City man three blocks from the East End Walmart store, where a man had been seen on store video wheeling a cart out the door without paying. Store detectives said that they confronted the man in the parking lot and that he abandoned the cart and fled on foot. This was about 12:40 p.m. When police stopped David Dwain Pipkin, age 48, shortly thereafter, he was on foot. He admitted the theft, police said. This was on Mankato Avenue at Shives Road The store valued the stolen goods at $690. Included were several boxes of Lego toys and two air-purifiers.

Pipkin. Accused of skipping check-out stop at Walmart.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man was booked for drunken driving after his car crashed into a vehicle in parking lot in the 800 block of West King Street. A witness had called police, who found Gabriel John Penic, 20, still at the scene. He smelled of alcohol and showed signs of impairment, police said. His blood-alcohol level tested at 0.20% — 2-1/2 times what the law defines as impaired. Penic was unhurt in the crash, police said. The struck car was parked and unoccupied. This was about 1:25 a.m.

Penic. Unhurt in crash.

A maple’s adieu to summer. Even at 55 mph it’s hard for motorists on U.S. Highway 14 to miss this fiery display. Image Steve Lunde

Fear not. Concern has been allayed that the new Masterpiece concert hall would overwhelm the Neo-classic beauty Winona’s next-door 1899 library. Architecturally it looks to be  a beautiful fit. The concert hall is expected to be competed for its inaugural concert in May. Image: Steve Lunde

Earlier: Composing a masterpiece: Topping the new concert hall

Football: Augustana 31, Winona State 0

Football: UW-LaCrosse 34, UW-Eau Claire 7

Soccer (men): Saint Mary’s 3, St. Scholastica 2

Soccer (women): Saint Mary’s 3, St. Scholastica 0

Softball: Rochester Community 31, Minnesota West 28

Volleyball (women): UW-Whitewater 3, Saint Mary’s 0

Volleyball (women): Rochester Community 3, Minnesota State Community 0

RED WING, Minn.  – A Wisconsin driver was injured in a two-car collision on the State Highway 316 short-cut between Red Wing and Hastings. John William Makepeace, 53, of Holmen, was taken 14 miles to the Red Wing hospital with sustainable injuries. The other driver, Ellen Marie Benson, 74, of Wabasha, was unhurt. Police said Makepeace, in a 2018 Subaru Outback, and Benson, in a 2013 Chevy Equinox, were both north bound toward Hastings This was about 4:35 p.m. near the 230th Street East crossroad.

DAKOTA Minn. — A Minnesota City woman died after her motorcycle crashed into the median at Interstate 90’s complicated interchange at Dakota. Marsha Kay Durham, age 64, was southbound from Winona on U.S.  Highway 61. She lost control on an I-90 entry ramp. This was about 12:30 p.m. She was alone on her 2006 Harley Davidson FXDL.

PRESTON, Minn. — The defense attorney for one of the twins in a fatal 2023 crash with an Amish buggy, Samantha Petersen, asked that 18 of the 21 charges be dropped. Probable cause is lacking, said attorney Carson Heefer. In a 22-page brief to the judge, Heefer said the search warrant to collect a blood sample was 37 hours after the crash –far  too late to be meaningful. Heefer also asked the judge to throw out an audio recording between Samantha and her twin Sarah in a sheriff deputy’s vehicle at the scene. The twins did not know they were being recorded, Heefer said.

Earlier: Twins: Evidence flawed in Amish buggy deaths

Earlier: Twins: Evidence flawed in Amish buggy deaths

Earlier: First twin arraigned on fatal Amish buggy crash

WINONA, Minn. – Halloween may be a bit less ghoulish at the home of Corey Michael Comero than he intended. Comero, 39, of Cochrane, Wisconsin, was arrested at the Target retail store on the East End End and accused of shoplifting $270 worth of Halloween decorations. This about 11 a.m.

Landmark Winona drive-in. The only car on the lot on Sarnia Strret is a used Jeep for sale. The bustle will be back when the snow melts. So too the root beer. Image: Steve Lunde

WINONA, Minn. – A LaCrosse man, somewhat less than sober, was arrested a couple blocks down the block from the No Name Bar on East Third Street, where a patron had smashed out the window in a door while leaving. This was about 11 p.m. Charges were pending against the 25-year-old man. Police quoted the man that he didn’t know anything about any window but that he had been the victim an assault. Pressed for detail, the man didn’t know where or who did it, police said. He showed no sign of injury, police said.

Volleyball (women): Winona State 3, Southwest Minnesota State 1

Volleyball (women): Carthage 3, Saint Mary’s 0

Volleyball (women): Rochester Community 3, Ridgewater 0