WINONA, Minn. –A Winona woman was charged with drunken driving after a traffic stop on the East Side at Second and Liberty streets. This was about 12:30 a.m. Police quoted Susan Lorraine Jirsa, 68, that she had consumed alcohol. Two blood-alcohol tests, one on site and one at the jailhouse, were 0.20% — 2-1/2 times the legal limit. The original stop was for ignoring a stop sign, police said.

Minnesota delegation unanimous. In a roll call of the states at the Republican National convention, the party’s Minnesota chair, David Hann, pledged his delegates for Donald Trump for president. The nomination had already been sewed up by Forida in the alphabetical roll call. Nonetheless, every Minnesota delegate was riveted to the leaderboard.

WINONA, Minn. – Police called a snake-handler to remove a rattler from a residential yard on Edgewood Road – the third in a week on Edgewood. This was in the 1800 block. There also has been a fourth snake removed in recent days on the outskirts above the bluffs.

Earlier: Sunny driveways lure first rattlers

WINONA, Minn. – Two juveniles were charged with theft after Fleet Farm security agents stopped them outside the East End megastore. The boys, age 17 and 15, had taken airguns, the agents said. Later the agents told police they learned the two also hd stolen 40-calibr pistol ammunition.

MILWAUKEE, Wis.  – Twelve Rochester police officers are in Milwaukee to augment security at the Republican National convention. Their duties are primarily traffic control. Also from Minnesota are officers from Bloomington, Hennepin County and Ramsey County. Their expenses are being reimbursed by the State of Wisconsin. The mutual aid arrangements are involve officers from 24 states.  Forty-four Wisconsin communities are participating although none from western Wisconsin. Fiftern officers were sent from Fargo, North Dakota.

WINONA, Minn. –A Fountain City driver who police said admitted to one drink was booked for drunken driving after a blood-alcohol test showed .09%, roughly 15% more than legally permitted. Byron Ofni Talavera Irias, 20, had been stopped at Fifth and Hilbert streets near the Cotter Schools campus about 12:51 a.m.

Televera Irias. Charged also with no driver licence, no insurance.

LACROSSE, Wis. – A faculty committee that recommended that former UW-LaCrosse Chancellor  Joe Gow be denied a faculty position was flawed seriously, he said. Gow called the report lacking.  “I’ve read the full report several times,” he said. “It’s very confusing and fails to provide a solid reason to fire me from my tenured faculty position.” Attorneys for the five-member faculty committee were manipulated — his wording was “basically fooled” — into a vote to satisfy the UW system Board of Regents. The regents have been unfriendly to Gow over a sideline producing videos with his wife on improving sexual satisfaction.

Earlier: Faculty review to Gow: Leave, don’t come back

Trailer racing. It’s a variation of traditional American demolition derbies but instead with old beater trucks towing trailers. This image is from the county fair in Howard Lake in east-central Minnesota.

Victim to hospital emergency room

ST. CHARLES, Minn. — A grandstand spectator was struck by a tire that flew off a vehicle at the Winona County Fair trailer races. An ambulance took the victim to a hospital. Few details were available. Winona County Sheriff Ron Ganrude said that his deputies were not summoned to the accident and that his information was second hand. It was known that the accident was about 7 p.m. at the west end of the oval dirt track. A trailer hit a retaining wall. A tire flew off and went into the crowd. The event always draws a crowd as a finale at the Fair. The event is the spirit of demolition derbies but vehicles are junker pickups. The event began at 5 p.m. Tickets were $8 to $16 and pit access for $25.

Earlier: Police gear on display at County Fair gate

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona driver was booked at the county jail for showing signs of impairment in a speeding stop at Huff Street and Riverview Drive. At the jailhouse Hunter James Pickering, 27, did a breath test that showed his blood-alcohol at 0.13% — 1-1/2 times the legally allowed max. The speeding stop was about 10:55 p.m.

Pickering. On site he stumbled through standard field tests for impairment, police said.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona woman was booked for drunken driving after a couple wide turns near Broadway and Olmstead streets on the West Side. Police quoted Kim Teresa Polus, 71, that she had had two or three drinks. Her blood-alcohol level tested at 0.13%. The cut-off for impairment is 0.08%.  This was about 10:25 p.m.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Governor Tim Walz issued a statement condemning violence in politics in reaction to an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. “Violence has no place in American politics,” Walz said. “Praying for the safety of former President Trump and everyone at his rally in Pennsylvania.” Trump took a bullet through the fleshy upper part of his right ear – the pinna. This was at a rural rally 30 miles north of Pittsburgh. Trump survived. There were multiple shots fired at Trump’s stage from a barn roof 150 yards away. A supporter next to Trump was killed and two others wounded. The shooter himself was brought down fatally by a sharpshooter in Tump’s security detail.

WINONA, Minn. – Police ticketed a man who had been reported in a lewd act in the weeds in the alley behind the 150 block of West Second Street downtown. Police said they asked Brently Steven Johnson, 61, why he was naked. He explained he was hot so he took his clothes off. This was about 10:25 a.m. He denied the lewd act that a passerby had reported. Johnson, who was believed homeless, was ticketed for indecent exposure.

WILSON, Minn. – A wrong-way driver in a small car ran into an oncoming 18-wheeler on Interstate 90 and was injured . This was near the Houston exit ramps. The driver,  Isauro Itehua Isauro, 27, of Altura, was taken 17 miles to the Winona hospital. His injuries appeared non-life threatening. A Winona County deputy at the scene said alcohol was a factor. The collision was about 10:50 p.m. The 2010 Ford Edge was eastbound in the westbound lanes, the deputy said. The truck, driven by Kelvin Oghenekaro Alakpa, 39, of Plainfield, Illinois, was headed west toward Rochester. He was unhurt.

WITOKA, Minn. – A motorist, who was reported speeding north out of Houston County, was arrested on Interstate 90 by a Winona County deputy and charged with drunken driving. Jayne Marie Lovejoy, 61, of Stewartville, was taken 14 miles to the Winona jail. There her blood-alcohol level tested at triple the legal threshold for impairment. The traffic stop was about 8:20 p.m. near the I-90 ramps to State Highway 76.

Lovejoy. Test showed blood at 0.24% alcohol.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona woman was arrested after an attack on her mother in the parking lot outside the El Patron restaurant on the West End. As police pieced the incident together from witnesses, Erin Elizabeth Roberta, 26, became upset after her mother asked her to put on a less revealing shirt for dinner. The disturbance ensued. Roberts, outside the car, screamed profanities at her mother, who was still inside. She forced her way through the passenger window, landed on top of her mother, grabbed some ramen noodles that were in the car, chewed hem up, and spit them in her mother’s face. The mother told police she feared for her life.

Roberts. Charged wth assault, offensive and boisterous conduct.

WINONA, Minn. – A Wisconsin man who’s an unwanted customer at the McDonald’s fast food place on the West End keeps coming back, police said. After an incident earlier in the  week, police issued a don’t-come-back ticket to Douglas Claire De Narce, 80, of Nelson. But he did. Twice. He was issued a citation for trespass about 3:45 p.m. on his second visit. Police were called back two hours later.  This he was gone, so police mailed another citation.